From The Final Call Newspaper

America—on the wrong side of history

By Askia Muhammad, Senior Editor
- August 24, 2021

U.S. Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Crisis Response - Central Command, provide assistance during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 20. U.S. service members are assisting the Department of State with an orderly drawdown of designated personnel in Afghanistan. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps/Lance Cpl. Nicholas Guevara


WASHINGTON—As 21st Century politics would have it, the questions which should be answered about the failed, 20-year-long U.S. invasion/occupation of Afghanistan have been ignored in the fuss about the chaotic evacuation of the last U.S. military forces from Kabul. Had the evacuation gone smoothly, with no desperate Afghans clinging to the skin of a departing aircraft for example, there would have been little criticism of President Joe Biden’s removal of this country’s troops from the “Graveyard of Empires” and from America’s longest war.

Indeed, this was “the last dusk of empire,” China’s official news agency said, a lesson in “reckless military adventures.” Comparisons to the Vietnam War are also common. The U.S. lost again, just as in Korea (a cessation of hostilities and an armistice without a peace treaty) ended fighting there, just as in Iraq.

In 2021 as in time after time before, when the U.S. attempts to save a country, that place ends up instead, resembling an insane asylum or a cemetery.

“Wherever the United States sets foot, be it Iraq, Syria or Afghanistan, we see turbulence, division, broken families, deaths and other scars,” Hua Chunying, a spokeswoman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told a news briefing.

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The United States, the leader of the Caucasian world, is decidedly on the wrong side of history.

Decades before, Britain, which controlled neighboring India, invaded Afghanistan three times—in 1839, 1879 and 1919—but could never keep a colonial regime in power there. Each time, popular uprisings drove out the British troops.

In the 1970s, the United States secretly funded a rebellion against a pro-Soviet Afghan government. In 1979, 30,000 Soviet troops invaded to prop up the government. But in 1989, the Soviets withdrew, defeated, as had been the Mongol Empire, as had Alexander the Great, as would the United States and a NATO Coalition: The Graveyard of Empires.

Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981

Since World War II, the U.S. has been fighting endless wars, with troops today in 150 countries.

The United States and her “Western” allies have been driven by the same vices: greed, avarice, White supremacy, a path which has led only to defeat after defeat.

U.S. involvement in Afghanistan began long before the 2001 invasion. “On July 3, 1979, President Jimmy Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul,” Deirdre Griswold, wrote in The Workers World, June 5, 2017. “And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.”

Former President George W. Bush

The Taliban seized power in 1996. After September 11, 2001, the George W. Bush administration, was looking for added justifications for its war. They argued there was evidence that Al Qaeda, which carried out the attack, had been given safe haven in Afghanistan.

The Bush administration also grasped on to a campaign being voiced by White feminists, which is now being repeated in today’s outrage over Afghanistan: “Save the women and the girls.” By November, 2001 first lady Laura Bush was arguing that the reason for the war was to “liberate Afghan women.”

Taliban fighters seen near Kabul Thursday, Oct. 3, 1996. The Taliban, an Islamic fundamentalist army, took over Kabul and drove out forces loyal to President Burhanuddin Rabbani a week ago. Taliban forces now control most of Afghanistan. In the first new reports of fresh fighting since Taliban rebels took over Kabul on Sept. 28, witnesses said they saw hundreds of the fighters clamboring up the rugged mountains overlooking the Panjshir Valley.(AP Photo/Hurriyet) — TURKEY OUT —

Soon, the leaders of the Feminist Majority—including Ellie Smeal, the former head of the National Organization for Women—were attending events at the State Department and meeting with administration officials. The spring 2002 issue of Ms. magazine called the invasion a “coalition of hope.” White feminists supported the Afghan invasion. The Feminist Majority Foundation’s campaign to “End Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan,” highlighted conditions of women living under Taliban rule.

Before long, actresses like Susan Sarandon and Meryl Streep, along with First Lady Laura Bush signed on and made the issue a cause célèbre. There was one lone member of Congress, who foresaw the dangers, and voted against the war resolution.

As a member of the clergy so eloquently said, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) said on the House Floor on Sept. 14, 2001, “as we act, let us not become the evil that we deplore. A rush to launch precipitous military counterattacks runs too great a risk that more innocent men, women, children will be killed. I could not vote for a resolution that I believe could lead to such an outcome.”

And, so it was. The outcome could have hardly been worse for the U.S., another humiliating defeat for the world’s most belligerent military machine.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said: “America will not win another war,” Minister Louis Farrakhan said in an address “Accepting Responsibility to Build Our Community,” at Mosque Maryam on March 8, 2009. “She will not win another war, and foreign wars and the plagues that are hitting America and the world is destroying the American economy and the American way of life.”

Rather than examine this country’s addiction to war, and the lies which have been told to justify U.S. involvement, instead, today’s conversation is shifted back to the Taliban. “They are Islamic extremists who repress women.”

Hundreds of people run alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane, some climbing on the plane, as it moves down a runway of the international airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug.16. 2021. Thousands of Afghans have rushed onto the tarmac at the airport, some so desperate to escape the Taliban capture of their country that they held onto the American military jet as it took off and plunged to death. (AP Photo)

But the Taliban has promised to be different this time in power. During a press conference, Aug. 17 the Taliban vowed to respect women’s rights; to forgive those who fought them; and to ensure Afghanistan does not become a haven for terrorists.

It was part of a campaign aimed at reassuring world powers and their own fearful population. The threat no longer remains in Afghanistan because the threat is the ambition to dominate the region by the United States.

The fact of the matter is that this country is in grave peril, and will ultimately have to face a divine reckoning for her evil and her love of war and love of intervening in the affairs of others.

“After this, America will never rise to be an independent nation again,” Minister Farrakhan stated in a lecture titled the “Divine Destruction of America, Can She Avert it?” “Come out of her, my people,” the book says, the Muslim leader said in another address, “and be ye not partakers of her sins and her plagues, for her sins have reached unto heaven.

“Well, where you going? It don’t mean, go here, go there. It means come out of the way of life that you are living under the guidance of an enemy of God. You can come out of that. You can stop doing the thing that you’re doing that makes you an enemy of God.”

From The Final Call Newspaper

Evil America is under judgement: She cannot escape Allah’s (God’s) accountability

By FCN News Post
- August 10, 2021

A demonstrator is taken into custody by police after a curfew took effect during a protest over the death of George Floyd, Monday, June 1, 2020, near the White House in Washington. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)


by Naba’a Muhammad, Michael Z. Muhammad and Brian Muhammad

When the document came out, it was historic but also fell in line with calls for justice from the United Nations and protecting human rights. However, this time UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet’s calls for action and measures to end systemic racism and racial violence against Blacks and people of African descent were aimed at the United States of America.

Instead of balking, the White House and State Dept. said looking at America’s shortcomings was welcomed and having UN experts and investigators, known as special rapporteurs, visit would be fine.

The UN official had presented a series of recommendations to address existing problems in a report to the UN Human Rights Council. But while the United Nations may be only able to point out America’s wrong, there is a real power in the world who can, will and is punishing America: The Great Madhi, Master Fard Muhammad, who taught the Hon.

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Elijah Muhammad and backs the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan in a bold mission give full and complete freedom to Black people and is delivering the divine destruction and fall of America.

Demetric Muhammad, a Memphis-based Nation of Islam student minister, likened the United Nations to a body that documents right and wrong from a spiritual perspective.

“We know that the God of the Bible and the Qur’an is in favor of such because scripturally God has always been on the side of the oppressed against the oppressive. The problem is the UN has no teeth as far as enforcement,” he said.

“So you’re talking about ending injustice, ending racial profiling, ending the abuse of Black people in America, in Europe, then you’re talking about a resolution that the powers inside of America will view as in conflict with her purposes and goals. And so what the UN does not have power to do, God is well able.”

Honorable Elijah Muhammad, patriarch of the Nation of Islam, and his top helper, Minister Farrakhan, have repeated a divine warning of God’s judgement against America, a judgement that mirrors God’s chastisement against the wicked found in scripture.

God’s power to punish the powerful who are wicked and save what appears to be a defenseless people are recurring messages and promises from the Divine Supreme Being, promises that are binding on Him and the beneficiary of those promises today, in particular, are the descendants of former slaves in America and the native people destroyed by Whites in this country.

Ajamu Baraka (Photo – Black Alliance for Peace)

The UN Human Rights Office action was mandated by a June 2020 Human Rights Council resolution. In the aftermath of the videotaped murder of George Floyd, a Black man, by an American police officer in Minnesota, the resolution called for a comprehensive report on systemic racism, violations of international human rights law against Blacks and people of African descent by law enforcement agencies, government responses to peaceful anti-racism protests, as well as accountability and redress for victims.

But the United Nations can’t punish the last superpower. Even criticisms on paper have often been shunned, shelved and avoided because of the power and the Security Council veto the U.S. wields at the international body headquartered in New York.

Ajamu Baraka, a longtime human rights advocate and critic of U.S. domestic and foreign policy, described the Biden administration position as a “slick one.” The White House wants to “give the impression” that it’s open to any critique or criticism that may come from these special rapporteurs, Mr. Baraka said.

And, he continued, American officials feel confident they can contain any threat and any critique that may come from the UN Human Rights Council and benefit from positive public relations. So there’s no real threat, he noted.

The Human Rights Council document was titled “Promotion and protection of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of Africans and of people of African descent against excessive use of force and other human rights violations by law enforcement officers.” It was released June 9.

Justice For Breonna DSC_6854 (Photo JA Salaam)

“The objectives of this transformative agenda are to reverse cultures of denial, dismantle systemic racism and accelerate the pace of action; end impunity for human rights violations by law enforcement officials and close trust deficits in this area; ensure that the voices of people of African descent and those who stand up against racism are heard and that their concerns are acted upon; and acknowledge and confront legacies, including through accountability and redress,” said the document.

If the U.S. is really open to UN scrutiny, the country should submit reports on conditions in the country to the UN human rights structures or conventions it is part of, such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and ratify other conventions it has refused to back, Mr. Baraka said.

True seriousness would mean the U.S. immediately ratifying UN human rights pacts, such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which says housing, health care, education and the ability to practice one’s culture are fundamental human rights.

A demonstrator carries a sign as he joins others rallying outside of the Atlanta City Detention Center in Atlanta on Sunday, June 14, 2020. Rayshard Brooks died after a confrontation with police officers at a fast food restaurant in Atlanta on Friday. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

The U.S. does not recognize any of those things as fundamental human rights, he said.

The United Nations’ public position matters, which is why the U.S. is trying to manage the perception, Mr. Baraka argued. “That’s why it’s important victims of U.S. hypocrisy demand accountability within those UN structures,” he said.

Blacks should engage with the UN and demand accountability, he continued. “But not have any illusions about what the UN is really able to do to affect the material condition of our people in the United States. We will only be liberated through our own agency,” the activist declared.

Former President Donald J. Trump left the Human Rights Council in 2018 and President Biden wants to rejoin the body this year.

Many reparations advocates saw the report’s findings and recommendations as giving strong support for reparations. Kamm Howard of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America and reparations commissioner, said online,

“The report reinforces the push for Congress or the President to pass or enact HR 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans Act. HR 40’s Commission has as its mandate to develop reparations remedies ‘that include full reparations and special measures,’ which is echoed here with the recommendations in this latest UN report.”

Photo UN News Shirin Yaseen Anti-police brutality protests were held in New York and other cities

Human rights attorney Roger Wareham of the International Secretariat of the New York-based December 12 Movement told The Final Call while the United Nations has no enforceability power against the U.S., documenting a country’s human rights responses becomes a moral record.

Periodic reviews of a country’s human rights record are based on these reports and become a mechanism to expose that country to the world on its “adherence or violation” of human rights, he said. Special Rapporteurs are key for the process of accountability, particularly for nations like the United States that usually skirt accountability, the attorney continued. When they gather information through hearings concerning a country, a report is done that becomes part of the permanent record at the United Nations, he said.

But America’s record is already written in her bloody history and was foretold of in scripture with Blacks fulfilling the prophecy of Abraham’s seed in the bible who would serve and be afflicted by a strange people in a strange land for 400 years but afterward God would come, judge their tormentors and oppressors and give them a land of their own. That is the future of the United States and Black people.

“America is Falling Her Doom is Sealed” declared the Hon. Elijah Muhammad in his monumental book, “The Fall of America,” originally published in 1965. His words ring with supreme truth today: “This people has gone to the limit in doing evil; as God dealt with ancient people, so will He deal with the modern Babylon (America).

As God says: ‘Son of Man, when the land (people) sinneth against Me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out Mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it’ (Ezekiel 14:13).

Justice For Breonna DSC_6972 (Photo JA Salaam)

“We see with our own eyes—but, the wicked Americans are too proud to confess that they see the bread of America gradually being cut off. Take a look into the southwest and Middle West, see the hand of Allah (God) at work against modern Babylon—to break the whole staff of her bread for her evils done against His people (the so-called Negroes).”

And, he adds, “Allah (God) has found His people (the so-called Negroes), and is angry with the slave-masters for the evil done by them to His people (the so-called Negroes). Allah (God) is going to repay them according to their doings.”

“America is falling; she is a habitation of devils and every uncleanness and hateful people of the righteous. Forsake her and fly to your own before it is too late,” warned the Hon. Elijah Muhammad.

“America, you owe us something. We don’t want you to dole it out in welfare checks. If you give us what you owe us, we’ll take it from there,” said Min. Farrakhan in a message titled “A Case for Reparations: Add It Up!”

“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if America said, ‘We ask the Blacks of the world to forgive us? We ask the Black people of America to forgive us for our hypocrisy and the hostility of official United States policy toward Black people, and for the persecution and degradation of Black people even after 1863 when we called them citizens and said they were free,’ ” said the Minister. “ ‘And we (the government of America) declare our willingness to contribute as much as possible to the healing of mental and physical suffering of any survivors and to provide just compensation for material losses.’ ”

He continued: “Well, if a hundred million of us lost our lives in the Middle Passage, add it up. What is one Black life worth? Three hundred years working from ‘can’t see morning to can’t see night’ for no pay. Three hundred years working millions of slaves for nothing. Add it up! Add it up! Add it up!

“The killing of our fathers and mothers after mating them like animals, then taking the children and naming us after the slave master, stripping us of our language, our God, our religion, our minds. Add it up! Add it up.”

Blacks fought in every war but Blacks were denied justice, Black leaders and organizations were set upon by the government and decimated, Blacks were mentally and physically destroyed, he said.

“Now what does justice look like? If you add it up … if you add it up White folks, you are going to have to give us the whole country,” said Min. Farrakhan. “We’re not asking for the whole thing, but we do deserve the whole thing. Just give us some of it and let us go to build a nation for ourselves. Since you don’t want us, don’t keep us here and kill us. Let us go and let us build a new reality in the name of God. Let us build for God.”

Protesters march from a Wendy’s restaurant to a police precinct at Grant Park on Sunday, June 14, 2020, in Atlanta. Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old black man, was fatally shot by a white Atlanta police officer outside the Wendy’s Friday night. (Ben Gray/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

“You don’t have to give us anything, but God said He’s the Power today, and He’ll take the Kingdom from whom He pleases, and He will give it to whom He pleases. When I ask for reparations, I’m asking you to save your life. But if you don’t want to save your life, then leave it to God. He’ll settle it,” said Min. Farrakhan.

“If it’s a life for a life, then God is justified in killing everything that refuses to submit, as He killed Pharaoh and his people, as He destroyed Babylon, and Sodom and Gomorrah,” the Minister explained.

Ava Muhammad, the national student spokesperson for Min. Farrakhan, said, “We know that we are in the time of judgment and that Allah (God) is actively engaged in what the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan referred to in 2020 as the unraveling of America.”

“When will we stand up and face the reality of the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, which is that the U.S. government with its policies is an enemy of the Lord of the Worlds and this effort to constantly integrate and assimilate and find a place is crazy. Lastly, I would say a perfect example of the integration effort is the results of the voting rights struggle. We’re going around on a merry-go-round. We’re fighting in 2021 for what we obtained in 1965 and have been fighting for since we were brought here in chains.”

“The power is in the unity first and foremost of the Black man and the woman in America. Once we get up and find the courage and follow the Muslim Program and establish a functional nation within a nation, then we will have the ability to advocate for Black and indigenous people around the world and be able to impose those beautiful things cited in the UN resolution,” Minister Ava Muhammad said.

From The Final Call Newspaper

Coercion, force, intimidation Federal government, major corporations, institutions force use of experimental vaccines
By Anisah Muhammad, Contributing Writer
- August 3, 2021

Anti-vaccination, New normals, Against, Rejection, Refusing, Protest


Since the roll out of the Covid-19 vaccine in Dec. 2020, the American people had been faced with a choice of getting vaccinated or not. Now, despite the rise in Covid-19 vaccine-related injuries and deaths, the federal government has begun a crusade against “the unvaccinated,” with major corporations on the same coercive path.

One of the early strategies lawmakers and corporations used to get people vaccinated were vaccine incentives. Incentives included money, lottery tickets, free food, and free entrance to local attractions. Now, there is a new strategy at play: take the vaccine or risk losing your job.

President Joe Biden confirmed July 29 that his administration is mandating the Covid-19 vaccine for federal workers and on-site contractors. Those who do not get the vaccine will have to submit to regular coronavirus testing. They may also have to pay for the federally required testing.

The president also announced that his administration is urging state and local governments to provide $100 payments to newly vaccinated residents. California and New York City have already enacted similar policies.

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“It started that way. Trusted messengers. You can enter a lottery and possibly win a million dollars. They were offering people incentives to get vaccinated. Even President Biden in his statement said he was encouraging states to give people $100 if they get vaccinated, asking them to give them leave, paid leave, to go get vaccinated. These are incentives, but now they’re tightening it into more of a demand and insistence, through coercion and force and intimidation,” Nation of Islam General Counsel Abdul Arif Muhammad told The Final Call.

“Now, prove that you’ve been vaccinated. If you work for the federal government, you have to prove that you have been vaccinated before you can come in,” he continued. “And if you have not and if you don’t take the vaccine, then we’re going to be rigorously testing you once a week or twice a week and you’re going to have to wear a mask and you’re going to have to be socially distant and you’re going to have to be limited in how you travel. That’s how it starts.”

The vaccine mandate affects the over 378,000 Black people who work as federal civilian non-postal employees.

Some corporations preceded the federal government in requiring the Covid-19 vaccine for employees. Others instituted their own vaccine requirement after the federal mandate. Among the list of companies requiring employees to take the vaccine are Google, Facebook, Netflix, BlackRock, Morgan Stanley’s New York office, Saks Fifth Avenue, The Washington Post, Ascension Health, Lyft and Twitter.

Danny Meyer, founder of the restaurant Shake Shack, told CNBC that his company will require Covid-19 vaccinations for all employees and customers at his restaurants. Billionaire Ken Langone told CNBC that once the FDA fully approves of the vaccines, which officials say is expected in September, all of his businesses will mandate that employees be vaccinated; if they don’t, they will be fired.

College students are also facing vaccine mandates, with over 600 universities announcing mandates for students or employees, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

In May, the CDC told the American public that vaccinated people no longer had to wear masks or socially distance. Because of the Delta variant, the CDC reversed that recommendation on July 27, saying fully vaccinated people should begin to wear masks indoors again. On that same day, President Biden was asked if the CDC’s mask guidance could sow confusion. He falsely declared there was “a pandemic because of the unvaccinated.”

“Really, it’s almost creating a class of unvaccinated versus vaccinated. And of course, now you hear them saying that this is the ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated,’ so all of this is the pressure and coercion, as we call it. To coerce people, and to coerce is ‘to compel by force, intimidation or authority.’ So they are attempting to force, intimidate people into compliance,” Atty. Arif Muhammad said.

Social media influencer Rizza Islam called President Biden’s words “another label to justify White supremacy’s insatiable thirst for blood.”

His words hint at the toxic relationship America’s medical and pharmaceutical industries have with Black people, which has caused Black people to be “hesitant” or opposed to accepting the Covid-19 vaccine. A March 24 study published in the Elsevier Public Health Emergency Collection found that 32 percent of Black people had a substantially lower intent to get vaccinated.

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“What did the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan say to us in terms of the Black and Hispanic community and other communities of color and the oppressed? To let us now look at the history of the treachery against us when it came to medical experimentation on Black and Brown people. And we can never forget the history. It’s more than just the Tuskegee Experiment,” Atty.

Arif Muhammad said, lifting words from Minister Farrakhan’s July 4, 2020, lecture, titled “The Criterion.” Atty. Arif Muhammad also brought up the books “Medical Apartheid” by Harriet A. Washington, which details the dark history of medical experimentation on Black people, and “Acres of Skin” by Allen M. Hornblum, which goes into medical experiments done on largely Black inmates.

“When the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan talked to us about the National Security Study Memorandum 200, where it said they had a plan to cull the population by two to three billion people, you have to ask yourself who is the target of that? It is the Original People. It is the Black and Brown and Native American and the oppressed non-White. That is the target,” Atty. Arif Muhammad said.

He questioned why there was such great concern for Black people now.

“Denial of medical care to Black people, discrimination, all of this that we’ve endured, police killings, denied employment, housing, and we just run all of the things that we’ve suffered over these years. And all of a sudden, there’s such a great concern about us? You have to ask the question why,” he said. “What did the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan warn us that this was? He said, ‘Do not take this vaccine; it’s death.’ ”


The Biden administration is also attempting to increase vaccinations among adolescents, as children return to school. The Children’s Health Defense, an activist group founded by attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., released a statement on July 29 in response to the federal government’s mandates. The organization declared that the mandates violate both the U.S. Constitution and the Nuremberg Code, which states that informed consent is essential in medical experimentation.

“This type of coercion would be unthinkable to the Founding Fathers of this nation and it should be unthinkable to all Americans today who value freedom from tyrannical governments,” said CHD board chair Kennedy. “Coerced medical interventions have been abhorrent to advocates of liberty and human dignity in every age. The fact that these vaccines are shoddily tested, experimental, unapproved and so risky that their manufacturers can neither obtain insurance coverage nor indemnify users against grave injuries or death should magnify our ethical revulsion.”

According to the federal government’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, there had been 491,217 reports of suffering and death caused by the Covid-19 vaccine, as of July 16. There are 11,405 reports of deaths.

In a July 29 Instagram post, Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, founder of the Abundant Life Health Attainment Center in Washington, D.C., accused Covid-19 vaccine-maker and pharmaceutical company Pfizer of being a “criminal corporation.”

“Pfizer itself is the number one criminal corporation in the history of the world. They have paid more criminal fines than any corporation in the history of the world,” he said. “And they will have been criminally negligent, bribing doctors, falsifying research data. See, this is what they pleaded guilty to and paid fines for.”

A May 2010 study published in the journal Healthcare Policy says Pfizer has been a habitual offender, persistently engaging in illegal and corrupt marketing practices, bribing physicians, and suppressing adverse trial results.

Female patient refusing the coronavirus vaccine offered by her doctor

“Since 2002 the company and its subsidiaries have been assessed $3 billion in criminal convictions, civil penalties and jury awards. The $2.3-billion settlement in September 2009 set a new record for both criminal fines and total penalties,” the report reads.

Abdul Arif Muhammad said by calling the Covid-19 vaccine “safe and effective,” the deaths and injuries caused by the vaccine are being ignored. “And people’s voices are being silenced. Doctors’ voices are being silenced,” he said.

One of the first people to discuss mandatory vaccines was attorney Alan Dershowitz. In a May 2020 interview, he said, “If you refuse to be vaccinated, the state has the power to literally take you to a doctor’s office and plunge a needle into your arm. If there’s a disease that will kill you, you have the right to refuse that, but you have no right to refuse to be vaccinated against a contagious disease for public health.”

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam condemned the Dershowitz pronouncement in “The Criterion.”

“So Mr. Dershowitz, if you bring the vaccine and say you’re going to bring your army to force us to take it, once you try to force us, that’s a declaration of war on all of us,” the Minister said. “You only have this one life. Fight like hell to keep it, and fight like hell to destroy those whose heart and mind is to destroy you and take your life from you.”

Jennifer Bridges, left, leads people marching past protest Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital to protest against the hospital system’s rule of firing any employee who is not immunized by Monday, June 7, 2021, in Baytown, Texas. Public and Houston Methodist staff who have refused the COVID-19 vaccine so far participated a gathering and march. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Atty. Arif Muhammad said the war doesn’t start physically. “It always starts with these other means. Using the media, building up public sentiment, as you see they’re creating, now, the pandemic of the unvaccinated. Literally pitting the vaccinated against the unvaccinated. So, they’re starting to create those conditions of tension. The physical part of war is after all of the other elements have been put in place,” he said.

Mr. Islam explained that because incentives didn’t work and because other bribes didn’t work, the last option is force. “It is to use threats. To threat: ‘to take away family; to take away money; to take away housing; to take away the necessities of life that we need to live every day.’ And then of course finally after that, the last two options would be to imprison and or put to death,” he said.

He believes the U.S. government will move to imprisoning those who refuse to take the Covid-19 vaccine. “Their characterizing label will be that these are the people who are causing lives to be lost. That’s how they’re going to characterize it. They’re going to characterize people who refuse to be vaccinated as domestic terrorists, as those who are a threat to national security,” he said.

Atty. Arif Muhammad said the best advice he could give to those who are under the threat of taking the Covid-19 vaccine is to stand up for what they believe in. “People have rights. You have a God-given right over your own body. And no one has the right to intrude on you. And of course, people have individual rights under the Constitution, to not be subjected to government intrusion and force and intimidation. But you have to make a decision.

You have to stand up. What does your conscience tell you in terms of the morality of this type of behavior by the government to force and oppress and use force and intimidation?” Atty. Arif Muhammad asked. “You have to be willing to say that I’m one that will not submit to this coercion, to this force and intimidation, based upon your conviction and concern over taking an experimental vaccine.”

Mr. Islam said Black people should get prepared. He lifted words from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Minister Farrakhan on having emergency kits, water stored and food to last two to three months. He also said both children and adults should know basic survival training.