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(viewed best with Firefox, Google Chrome)Wisdom House Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12805439406753743723noreply@blogger.comBlogger430125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956583853727789183.post-38459474630698393702024-03-05T12:36:00.003-06:002024-03-05T12:36:33.206-06:00From The Final Call Newspaper<p> <span style="font-size: xx-large;">Global protests intensify and demands to ‘Free Palestine’ grow</span></p>By <a href="https://new.finalcall.com/author/finalcall/">The Final Call</a><br />- March 5, 2024<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2024%2F03%2F05%2Fglobal-protests-intensify-and-demands-to-free-palestine-grow%2F"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Global+protests+intensify+and+demands+to+%E2%80%98Free+Palestine%E2%80%99+grow&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2024%2F03%2F05%2Fglobal-protests-intensify-and-demands-to-free-palestine-grow%2F&via=thefinalcall"></a><a href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/03/05/global-protests-intensify-and-demands-to-free-palestine-grow/&media=https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/GettyImages-2046571057.jpg&description=Global+protests+intensify+and+demands+to+%E2%80%98Free+Palestine%E2%80%99+grow"></a><a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=Global+protests+intensify+and+demands+to+%E2%80%98Free+Palestine%E2%80%99+grow%20%0A%0A%20https://new.finalcall.com/2024/03/05/global-protests-intensify-and-demands-to-free-palestine-grow/"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/03/05/global-protests-intensify-and-demands-to-free-palestine-grow/&title=Global+protests+intensify+and+demands+to+%E2%80%98Free+Palestine%E2%80%99+grow"></a><a href="https://reddit.com/submit?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/03/05/global-protests-intensify-and-demands-to-free-palestine-grow/&title=Global+protests+intensify+and+demands+to+%E2%80%98Free+Palestine%E2%80%99+grow"></a><a href="mailto:?subject=Global%20protests%20intensify%20and%20demands%20to%20%E2%80%98Free%20Palestine%E2%80%99%20grow&body=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/03/05/global-protests-intensify-and-demands-to-free-palestine-grow/"></a><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/share/link?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/03/05/global-protests-intensify-and-demands-to-free-palestine-grow/&name=Global%20protests%20intensify%20and%20demands%20to%20%E2%80%98Free%20Palestine%E2%80%99%20grow"></a><a href="https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/03/05/global-protests-intensify-and-demands-to-free-palestine-grow/&text=Global+protests+intensify+and+demands+to+%E2%80%98Free+Palestine%E2%80%99+grow"></a><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/GettyImages-2046571057.jpg"><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/GettyImages-2046571057-681x454.jpg" width="400" /></a><div><i>Demonstrators gather outside the Israeli Embassy to demand a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip in Washington, D.C., on March 2. Protesters also commemorated the U.S. service member Aaron Bushnell who self-immolated outside the embassy. Photo: Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images</i><br /><br /><br />by Nisa Islam Muhammad and Charlene Muhammad<br /><br />The Final Call @TheFinalCall<br /><br />WASHINGTON, D.C.—Thousands gathered at the Israeli Embassy in the nation’s capital and in cities across the U.S. and abroad as part of another global day of protest to demand no invasion of Rafah, a ceasefire to end the Israeli killing spree on Palestinians and the lifting of the siege of Gaza. Rafah is in the south of the Gaza Strip which shares a border with Egypt.<br /><br />An estimated 1.5 million internally displaced Palestinians taking refuge there are facing famine, and Israel has threatened a last-ditch effort to destroy Hamas with a ground invasion of Rafah.<br /><a href="https://noi.org/sd2024/"><img src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/SD2024-728x90_banner.png" /></a>›<br /><br />“Our request was for a ceasefire, but we’re 140 days in,” Hazami Baramada, told the media. She is an activist, global strategy consultant, and international public speaker.<br /><br />“You have a majority of Gaza destroyed, demolished schools, infrastructure, hospitals, all civilian infrastructure is completely demolished. You have 14,000 children who’ve been killed, over 40,000 according to Euro Med (Human Rights Monitor). People have been killed, including civilian populations. There are 20-plus thousand orphans.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="185" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_5213-edited.jpeg" width="400" /><br /><br />The numbers are so staggering and so disgusting and so inhumane that a ceasefire is no longer enough. We demand a change in the U.S. relationship with Israel. We demand accountability,” she continued. Gaza’s health ministry said the number of Palestinians killed in the war has surpassed 30,000.<br /><br />“We demand answers on why the United States is constantly allowing war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes against international law, violations of just basic human dignity to continue to happen. And the hypocrisy! You call out what’s happening in Russia and Ukraine and you’re not willing to hold the same standards to Israel and Palestine. It is atrocious. The American taxpayer dollars are not only paying for this, but our military has normalized it.”<br /><br />Ms. Baramada argued that misinformation and lies are being peddled and that one of the objectives of the March 2 mass mobilization was for citizens to hold the U.S. and Israeli governments accountable for their actions.<br /><br />“We can’t hold Israel accountable as individual citizens, but what we can do is expose what they’re doing. We can educate the average American and put pressure on our administration to cut the relationship, to stop unconditional aid, and to start holding Israel accountable for its war crimes.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/GettyImages-2046571966-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Protesters rally in front of Los Angeles City Hall during a “Global Day of Protest” in support of Palestinians in Los Angeles, California, on March 2, 2024. (Photo by Katie McTiernan / AFP) (Photo by KATIE MCTIERNAN/AFP via Getty Images)</i><br /><br />We have for far too long, regardless of the administration, used our political, social, and economic power to sanction what is happening, but then also to support it. We are actively part of a genocide. We are not just enabling it. We are part of the genocide and this needs to stop.”<br /><br />Madge Henderson is a White American middle-class woman. After the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas, she said she supported Israel’s right to defend itself. However, after hearing about the tens of thousands of murdered Palestinian women and children she later changed her mind. Ms. Henderson traveled with her family from Fredericksburg, Virginia, to D.C. to participate in the demonstration.<br /><br />“I’m here to protest the genocide going on in Gaza. Babies (limbs) are being amputated without any anesthesia, people are starving and dying. I can’t believe my government of the United States is using my taxpayer dollars to pay for this atrocity,” she told The Final Call. “I’ve never protested anything in my life. I love all people. I grew up traveling the world with my parents. I love Palestinians and I also love Jewish people. I love Muslims. But today love is not enough. Something has to be done to stop the massacres.”<br /><br />D.C. was one of more than 120 cities across the United States and dozens of others around the globe engaged in mass actions, on March 2, to protest the continued genocide in Palestine. Israel has threatened to invade Rafah on March 10 coinciding with the beginning of the Islamic Holy Month of Ramadan. More than 300 organizations supported the protests.</div><div><br /></div><div> <br /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/AP24055467344806-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>A Palestinian woman reacts after an Israeli strike on Shaheen family house in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)</i><br /><br />“The Palestinian people of Gaza have been faced with months of nonstop bombardment, mass killing, and forced starvation. Even as the occupation army targets various quarters of Rafah, even as it continues its relentless campaigns of annihilation in Shuja’iyya, Nuseirat, Khan Younis, and Jabalia, the colonial regime is additionally threatening to carry a full-scale ground invasion of Rafah. The world must rise up to stop this brutality,” said Jamil Madbak, of the Palestinian Youth Movement, one of the event’s organizers.<br /><br />More than 50,000 marched in New York City, 15,000 in San Francisco, and many thousands more in mass actions in Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago and many others cities. Hundreds gathered in downtown Syracuse for the “Hands Off Rafah” protest.<br /><br />Event organizers included members of the Syracuse chapters of Jewish Voice for Peace and Veterans for Peace. International sites included Havana, Cuba, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Nanaimo, British Columbia (Canada), São Paulo, Brazil and Seoul, South Korea.<br /><br />Despite moderate to heavy rains, thousands of activists and residents gathered for the #HandsOffRafah demonstration in downtown Los Angeles on March 2. Approximately eight hours before the ANSWER Coalition’s Global Day of Action, themed “Shut It Down For Palestine” began, at least 11 were killed and 50 wounded after an Israeli air attack on a tent housing displaced people next to the entrance of a hospital in Rafah City, according to Al Jazeera.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/AP24054451430930-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Palestinians pray over the bodies of their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardments of the Gaza Strip in front of the morgue to pray over them at Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)</i><br /><br />Representatives from the Palestinian Youth Movement’s Los Angeles, Orange County and Inland Empire chapters participated in and coordinated the gathering. The transnational, independent, grassroots movement of young Palestinians in Palestine and those in exile worldwide exist as a result of the ongoing occupation of their homeland, organizers stated.<br /><br />The only recourse to justice for their people is the dismantling of Zionism, its genocidal war machine, and its political institutions, said a LA-based Palestinian American youth activist. “Here in the U.S., we not only have a role, but an obligation, a duty to dismantle Zionism.<br /><br />Our mobilizations have ruined the Occupation’s image and have left Zionism in ruins! We will continue to organize, and we won’t stop until this racist, genocidal project is defeated once and for all!” she added.<br /><br />She then summarized the atrocities of the genocidal war and nearly 20-year-long siege, pointing out the bombing by Israeli forces of civilians seeking shelter along aid routes in the Gaza Strip. “Shame!” she declared.<br /><br />“Shame,” roared the demonstrators, many still joining the protest in droves. They filled corners and crosswalks, sloshing through the rain and mud puddles saturating City Park, just across from City Hall. Demonstrators filled the building’s steps, up to the iron barricades protecting entry to the doorway. They nearly spanned the entire block within an hour after the protest began.<br /><br />‘Genocide is happening’<br /><br />Global activism against Israeli genocide on the Palestinian people has continued since the October 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel by Hamas fighters emerging from Gaza. That act killed almost 1,200 people and led to Israel’s massive military response, backed by the U.S. government. News reports state the Israeli bombardment has displaced 1.8 million of the 2.3 million Palestinians living in Gaza and turned much of the besieged territory bordering Israel, the Mediterranean Sea and Egypt into rubble and dust.<br /><br />The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan addressed the conflict during his highly anticipated Saviours’ Day 2024 message, entitled, “What does Allah The Great Mahdi and The Great Messiah Have to Say About the War in the Middle East?”<br /><br />The Muslim leader explained that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a second Nakba (catastrophe) in mind for the Palestinian people. The first Nakba on the Palestinians was in 1948 when Israel became a state. More than 700,000 Palestinians were exiled at that time and made “like vagabonds in the earth,” he said.<br /><br />Mr. Netanyahu wanted to use the pain of the loss of Jewish lives to destroy the whole Palestinian community, not only in Gaza and the West Bank, but also in East Jerusalem, Minister Farrakhan charged. “It was a genocidal attack that he knew would preserve his place as a great Jewish leader,” he explained.<br /><br />“Who could do to another human being what is being done to our Palestinian family and not think of a humanitarian crisis?” stated Minister Farrakhan, continuing, “Who will pay for the killing of Palestinians—men, women and children? Who will pay for the destruction of Palestinian life and culture?”<br /><br />The bold leader also expressed sympathy for families who lost loved ones in the Hamas attack. He expressed support for Tal Mitnick, an 18-year-old conscript to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) who refused to serve and was sentenced to a 30-day prison term. The Minister asked Allah (God) to sear the young man’s image into his mind.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/DSC_0984-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br />U.S. Airman Aaron Bushnell was so conflicted by the war that he went to the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. and set himself on fire. The 25-year-old dressed in his U.S. Air Force uniform and said he would “no longer be complicit in genocide.” He shouted “Free Palestine” as he burned, until he collapsed to the ground dying hours later in the hospital. Officer Bushnell live-streamed his ultimate sacrifice, ensuring that his actions — which he described as an “extreme act of protest” — were seen worldwide.<br /><br />“The decision by U.S. Airman Aaron Bushnell to set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy while condemning the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide being carried out against the people of Gaza was a desperate act designed to arouse public outrage. He made the ultimate personal sacrifice to end a genocide that the entire world has been witnessing for the past months,” explained Brian Becker, national director of ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism). “This was an act of martyrdom by a U.S. service member who was outraged by the actions of a government that speaks in his name.”<br /><br />“People all over the United States, in the millions, have been involved in mass actions to protest the U.S. support for Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people in recent months. People have also engaged in civil disobedience actions of many types. Many have been arrested and are facing trial, including many whose constitutional rights were violated by violent police repression.”<br /><br />“The United States government and Israel are killing babies,” said Nazaro Aguero of Peru, pointing to his children who were at the Los Angeles demonstration. “We don’t want any more kids to die! Every kid deserves to live. If you touch a kid, you are not a good person. Palestine deserves to be free.”<br /><br />His truck included a flatbed covered with flags of Latin America—Argentina, Chile, etc. “We want peace in the world. That’s why from everywhere we are here. Latin America stands with Palestine, always,” Mr. Aguero said.<br /><br />Sarah and Affan Tareen said their liberation, safety, and dignity of life is interconnected, and they believe that the Palestinians are their brothers and sisters just as much as those of Jewish descent. They came to the L.A. gathering with their young children, ages 6 and 4. “Genocide is happening, and we cannot rest until that is stopped. We will not rest,” stated Mrs. Tareen. She said she’s outraged that U.S. dollars are being used to penetrate this war.<br /><br />“I am outraged that President (Joe) Biden bypassed Congressional approval in the first place to send aid to Israel. I am angry. I feel that democracy is talked about being attacked by the Republican Party and I see it not being upheld and prioritized by the Democratic Party and I am angry at this country for not living up to its values and the principles it says that we are built on. We have a lot reckoning to do with our own past and moving forward we must change our ways,” she added.<br /><br />Maaz Bajwa of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community drove from San Diego to L.A. with his children, son Isa and daughter Anisah.<br /><br />“We see this as a prayer, as congregational salat. We see this as everybody praying, ‘Free, free Palestine!’ as a prayer that we’re all praying together, not just Muslims but all people of faith, who just believe in any bit of morality,” he told The Final Call.<br /><br />“We have a chance, an opportunity to stop a real-live genocide from occurring, something rare in history. And our so-called elected officials and the people that are supposed to represent us continue to stand idle while this keeps going on,” said Javier Guerrero, an organizer with the ANSWER Coalition.<br /><br />He noted predictions that if the impending massacre is not stopped, up to 90,000 innocent Palestinians could die, and called it “nothing short of a blood bath,” poised to be one of the worst human atrocities in world history.<br /><br />Final Call Staff Writer Nisa Islam Muhammad reported from Washington, D.C. and National Correspondent Charlene Muhammad reported from Los Angeles.<ul class="archive-list"><script type="text/javascript">
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Fard Muhammad and the fulfillment of Divine Prophecy</span></b><br />By <a href="https://new.finalcall.com/author/demetric/">Demetric Muhammad, Guest Columnist</a><br /> - February 20, 2024<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2024%2F02%2F20%2Fthe-reason-for-the-season-master-w-fard-muhammad-and-the-fulfillment-of-divine-prophecy%2F"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=The+reason+for+the+season+Master+W.+Fard+Muhammad+and+the+fulfillment+of+Divine+Prophecy&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2024%2F02%2F20%2Fthe-reason-for-the-season-master-w-fard-muhammad-and-the-fulfillment-of-divine-prophecy%2F&via=thefinalcall"></a><a href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/02/20/the-reason-for-the-season-master-w-fard-muhammad-and-the-fulfillment-of-divine-prophecy/&media=https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/HEM-MFM-MLF-bdrop.jpg&description=The+reason+for+the+season+Master+W.+Fard+Muhammad+and+the+fulfillment+of+Divine+Prophecy"></a><a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=The+reason+for+the+season+Master+W.+Fard+Muhammad+and+the+fulfillment+of+Divine+Prophecy%20%0A%0A%20https://new.finalcall.com/2024/02/20/the-reason-for-the-season-master-w-fard-muhammad-and-the-fulfillment-of-divine-prophecy/"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/02/20/the-reason-for-the-season-master-w-fard-muhammad-and-the-fulfillment-of-divine-prophecy/&title=The+reason+for+the+season+Master+W.+Fard+Muhammad+and+the+fulfillment+of+Divine+Prophecy"></a><a href="https://reddit.com/submit?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/02/20/the-reason-for-the-season-master-w-fard-muhammad-and-the-fulfillment-of-divine-prophecy/&title=The+reason+for+the+season+Master+W.+Fard+Muhammad+and+the+fulfillment+of+Divine+Prophecy"></a><a href="mailto:?subject=The%20reason%20for%20the%20season%20Master%20W.%20Fard%20Muhammad%20and%20the%20fulfillment%20of%20Divine%20Prophecy&body=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/02/20/the-reason-for-the-season-master-w-fard-muhammad-and-the-fulfillment-of-divine-prophecy/"></a><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/share/link?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/02/20/the-reason-for-the-season-master-w-fard-muhammad-and-the-fulfillment-of-divine-prophecy/&name=The%20reason%20for%20the%20season%20Master%20W.%20Fard%20Muhammad%20and%20the%20fulfillment%20of%20Divine%20Prophecy"></a><a href="https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/02/20/the-reason-for-the-season-master-w-fard-muhammad-and-the-fulfillment-of-divine-prophecy/&text=The+reason+for+the+season+Master+W.+Fard+Muhammad+and+the+fulfillment+of+Divine+Prophecy"></a><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/HEM-MFM-MLF-bdrop.jpg"><img height="159" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/HEM-MFM-MLF-bdrop-681x270.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><br />We have been blessed by Allah (God) to have lived another year that we might celebrate and express our deep and profound gratitude for the most significant event in at least 66 trillion years!<br /><br />The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad has taught us that for trillions of years, people worshipped their own ideas of God, but the true reality of God remained a carefully guarded secret. But it is unto the Black people of America that the great blessing of Allah’s (God’s) own self-revelation has been bestowed. For we believe that on July 4, 1930, Allah (God) appeared to us in the person of Master W. Fard Muhammad! All Praise Belongs To Allah!<br /><br />So as many of us students of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan journey to the city of Detroit for our annual Saviours’ Day convention, let us pause to reflect and consider what might be dubbed our “reason for the season.”<br /><br />For we are journeying on something of an annual pilgrimage to celebrate the February 26 birth of the founder of the Nation of Islam in America, the man whom the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us fits the Biblical description of “the Saviour”—Master W. Fard Muhammad. Minister Farrakhan has made us also see that what used to be referred to as “Saviour’s Day” should now be known as “Saviours’ Day,” because the work of Master W. Fard Muhammad fulfills another scriptural prophecy, the one described in Nehemiah 9:27 wherein God promised to send “saviours”—plural—to deliver his people from their wicked tormentors.<div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://noi.org/sd2024/"><img src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/SD2024-728x90_banner.png" /></a>›<br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/MASTER-FARD-MUHAMMAD-F-5-1024x1024.png" width="400" /><br /><br />The suffering of a people justifies a visitation from God<br /><br />As a student in the ministry class of Minister Farrakhan, the theology of the Nation of Islam is quite possibly my favorite area to study, for it is the area where the divine message of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes the boldest, most significant, and inspiring claims! And there is no more bolder, and at the same time life-affirming and ameliorating claim made by the Messenger Muhammad than his claim that Allah (God) has visited the Black man and woman of America, to rescue us and to begin the process of our restoration, salvation, redemption and resurrection.<br /><br />In a conversation with my brother and friend Jason R. Muhammad of Rochester, New York, he revealed to me an important passage contained within the “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.” A shortened version of this quote is below. Douglass states:<br /><br />“If any one thing in my experience, more than another, served to deepen my conviction of the infernal character of slavery, and to fill me with unutterable loathing of slaveholders, it was their base ingratitude to my poor old grandmother. She had served my old master faithfully from youth to old age.<br /><br />She had been the source of all his wealth; she had peopled his plantation with slaves; she had become a great-grandmother in his service. She had rocked him in infancy, attended him in childhood, served him through life, and at his death wiped from his icy brow the cold death-sweat, and closed his eyes forever. She was nevertheless left a slave—a slave for life—a slave in the hands of strangers;<br /><br />And in their hands she saw her children, her grandchildren, and her great-grandchildren, divided, like so many sheep, without being gratified with the small privilege of a single word, as to their or her own destiny. And, to cap the climax of their base ingratitude and fiendish barbarity, my grandmother, who was now very old, having outlived my old master and all his children.<br /><br />Having seen the beginning and end of all of them, and her present owners finding she was of but little value, her frame already racked with the pains of old age, and complete helplessness fast stealing over her once active limbs, they took her to the woods, built her a little hut, put up a little mud-chimney, and then made her welcome to the privilege of supporting herself there in perfect loneliness; thus virtually turning her out to die!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="255" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/untitled-photo-possibly-related-to-slums-near-the-capitol-washington-dc-with-1-640-fade.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br />Will not a righteous God visit for these things?”<br /><br />This very powerful and emotionally moving passage draws from the treasury of the Black struggle for freedom, justice, and equality a frame and context that is ultimately supportive and vindicates in its own way the bold theological claim of Allah’s (God’s) Divine Servant, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. <br /><br />Frederick Douglass’ lamentations over the fate of his beloved grandmother and her victimization in the moribund peculiar institution of American chattel slavery help to make the profound reality easy to see, and that is said succinctly, “the suffering of a people produces the intervention of God.” Consider some scriptural support:<br /><br />“They wait for naught but that Allah should come to them in the shadows of the clouds with angels, and the matter has (already) been decided. And to Allah are (all) matters returned.”<br /><br />—Holy Qur’an, 2:210<br /><br />The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey… And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them … .” Bible—Exodus 3:7-9</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Soft-Cover-Bible.E16.2k-1-1024x1024.png" width="400" /><br /><br />In the very excellent book written by Dr. Wesley Muhammad entitled “Take Another Look,” he cites scholars whose study of the Bible places an exclamation point on the idea that the Bible communicates and creates the expectation in the mind of the reader that God would one day visit his people!<br /><br />“The decisive element in the theophany descriptions of the Old Testament … is the concept of the coming of God; the descriptions of the accompanying phenomena in the natural order are to be viewed as parabolic … but the supremely important matter is that God comes into the world … in the future.”—G.R. Beasley-Murray, “Jesus, and The Kingdom of God”<br /><br />“The faith of the Old Testament rests on two certainties, equally profound and indissolubly bound together. The first is that God has come in the past, and that he has intervened in favor of his people. The other … is the hope that God will come anew in the future.”<br /><br />—Quoting Georges Pidoux from, “Jesus, and The Kingdom of God”<br /><br />The Honorable Muhammad teaches God is a man<br /><br />The theology that Saviours’ Day celebrates is bold in that it strikes the prevailing concept of God maintained by many of the world’s religious adherents that God is a shapeless, formless, and immaterial spirit. And yet, despite the later theological developments advanced by rulers and religious authorities to make the belief in a “spook”<br /><br />Or spirit God the dominant belief in the world today, a close look at what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Minister Farrakhan teach about the reality of God, harmonizes perfectly with the actual text of the scriptures. Consider how the most integral and important figures within the scriptures had interactions with God in human form. Such encounters have been dubbed by religious scholars by the word “theophany.”<br /><br />Adam (the first man)—“And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.”—Genesis 3:8<br /><br />Abraham (father of righteous)—“The LORD appeared again to Abraham near the oak grove belonging to Mamre. One day Abraham was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest part of the day. He looked up and noticed three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran to meet them and welcomed them, bowing low to the ground. My lord,” he said, “if it pleases you, stop here for a while. Rest in the shade of this tree while water is brought to wash your feet. And since you’ve honored your servant with this visit, let me prepare some food to refresh you before you continue on your journey.”—Genesis 18:1-3<br /><br />Moses (liberator of the slaves)—“When there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams. But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house. With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses … .”<br /><br />Jesus (Messiah)— “It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true. I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.”<br /><br />—John 8:17-18<br /><br />Prophet Muhammad (last of the prophets)—“And there endures for ever the person of thy Lord, the Lord of glory and honour.”—Holy Qur’an Surah 55:27<br /><br />Vern Pythress in his “Theophany: A Biblical Theology Of God’s Appearing” has stated: <br /><br />“The appearances in human form have part of their basis in the fact that God created man ‘in the image of God’ (Gen. 1:27). On the level of the Creator, God acts in a way analogous to human action, and his nature is fittingly represented in human form, rather than the form of an animal or a plant.<br /><br />He speaks, he thinks, he knows, he hears, and he acts in power. Human beings through their bodily actions imitate his actions. Their imitation is fitting, because God’s action is the archetype or original pattern for human action. In addition, human appearances of God have a special weight. Even though in the Old Testament such appearances are temporary, they anticipate the permanent coming of God in permanent human form … .”<br /><br />Compare the words of Mr. Pythress with what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad wrote in his illuminating book, “Message To The Blackman in America”:<br /><br />“The Christians do not believe in God as being a human being, yet they believe in Him as being the Father of all human beings. They also refer to God as He, Him, Man, King, and The Ruler. They teach that God sees, hears, talks, walks, stands, sits, rides, and flies; that He grieves or sorrows; and that He is interested in the affairs of human beings. They also teach that once upon a time He made the first man like Himself in the image and likeness of Himself, but yet they believe that He, Himself, is not a man or human.”<br /><br />Master W. Fard Muhammad’s demonstration of love for the Black man and woman<br /><br />Master W. Fard Muhammad stayed among us for a little over three years, but the Nation of Islam has continued for the past 93 years operating from the foundation He laid in those three years and the continued guidance that He provides the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Minister Farrakhan. <br /><br />In fact, in my opinion, it is what He produced for us in the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Minister Farrakhan that is Master W. Fard Muhammad’s greatest demonstration of His love and power. <br /><br />For the Bible states that the people of God, those who suffered and were tormented, have a glorious destiny to hope for; a destiny that involves divine transformation. And among us, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan have been the first to undergo such transformation into the divine. <br /><br />The Bible in 1 John 3:1-3 describes it like this:<br /><br />“Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him. Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself … .”<br /><br />As the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has articulated:<br /><br />“God came ‘wearing three hats,’ one for Himself, the power in which He would not reveal, and hats for two men from the people whom Whites had destroyed.”<br /><br />Those who wish to falsify the history and purpose of Master W. Fard Muhammad frequently occupy mainstream spaces and enjoy a wide audience. And despite this unfortunate reality, it should be known that the true authority on the Coming of Allah (God) in the Person of Master W. Fard Muhammad is the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the man whom he trained for three years and four months personally; and his servant that he trained for 20 years and has guided for the past 47 years, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.<br /><br />I close this writing with some important quotes and passages from the treasury of truths about Master W. Fard Muhammad expressed by the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad:<br /><br />“HE GREATLY rejoiced over us and was real happy that He had found us. He said that He would make a new people out of us who submit to Him by causing us to grow into a new growth, not an entirely new body but a reversal of the old decayed body into a new growth, which He said would make us all as we were at the age of 16.”—June 9, 1956, Pittsburgh Courier<br /><br />“No civilized Nation wants the uncivilized Negroes, but Allah, our Loving and Most Merciful God, Who came in the person of Master Fard Muhammad in 1930. It was not until 1933 did He begin revealing His true self; I knew Him at first sight in 1931, for I was expecting Him.”—February 8, 1958, Pittsburgh Courier<br /><br />“You are alright today if you just will accept your own religion. And no getting on knees to ask for forgiveness for your past. All of that is forgiven. God told me to tell you that He will forgive us all the past; just accept your own, now. Go from here and not think over what happened in the past. You did not know who you were nor the enemy.<br /><br />So that is right and just that you should be forgiven for that which you had no knowledge of. So this is what He told me to tell you. And since we don’t have to go on our knees for yesterday, be sure that we go on our knees for today. A people that have did everything that the devil did and tried to beat him at some of it, get forgiven for all of that evil. You certainly should be happy… .”—August 27, 1972, Theology of Time Lecture Series<br /><br />“This is what He wants to make out of you and me, not just Believers but gods. Every one of you, according to what He has taught me, will be gods.”—October 8, 1972, Theology of Time lecture series<br /><br />“So God and I love you so well that He sent me to tell you these things to make gods out of you. That’s what it’s for––make gods out of you. You say, ‘I know I will never be a god.’ Yes, you already is a god. So I thank you, thank you, thank you.”—July 2, 1972, Theology of Time lecture series<br /><br />And a special excerpt from a letter written by Master W. Fard Muhammad to the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad on September 7, 1933:<br /><br />“I have treasured all my life love for the lost-found nation of Islam …”<br /><br />HAPPY SAVIOURS’ DAY!<br /><br />Brother Demetric Muhammad is a Memphis-based author and student minister in the Nation of Islam and a member of the Nation of Islam Research Group. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter @BrotherDemetric. Read more at <a href="https://new.finalcall.com/2023/02/21/master-w-fard-muhammad-the-proof-of-the-message-is-the-proof-of-the-man/www.researchminister.com">www.researchminister.com</a>.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Wisdom House Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12805439406753743723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956583853727789183.post-37872962874371147192024-01-30T12:00:00.001-06:002024-01-30T12:00:21.325-06:00From The Final Call Newspaper<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Court decision on Israel-Gaza war a first step, but much more must be done, observers argue</b></span><br />By <a href="https://new.finalcall.com/author/brian/">Brian E. Muhammad, Staff Writer</a><br /> - January 30, 2024<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2024%2F01%2F30%2Fcourt-decision-on-israel-gaza-war-a-first-step-but-much-more-must-be-done-observers-argue%2F"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Court+decision+on+Israel-Gaza+war+a+first+step%2C+but+much+more+must+be+done%2C+observers+argue&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2024%2F01%2F30%2Fcourt-decision-on-israel-gaza-war-a-first-step-but-much-more-must-be-done-observers-argue%2F&via=thefinalcall"></a><a href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/30/court-decision-on-israel-gaza-war-a-first-step-but-much-more-must-be-done-observers-argue/&media=https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AP24012390071651-scaled.jpg&description=Court+decision+on+Israel-Gaza+war+a+first+step%2C+but+much+more+must+be+done%2C+observers+argue"></a><a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=Court+decision+on+Israel-Gaza+war+a+first+step%2C+but+much+more+must+be+done%2C+observers+argue%20%0A%0A%20https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/30/court-decision-on-israel-gaza-war-a-first-step-but-much-more-must-be-done-observers-argue/"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/30/court-decision-on-israel-gaza-war-a-first-step-but-much-more-must-be-done-observers-argue/&title=Court+decision+on+Israel-Gaza+war+a+first+step%2C+but+much+more+must+be+done%2C+observers+argue"></a><a href="https://reddit.com/submit?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/30/court-decision-on-israel-gaza-war-a-first-step-but-much-more-must-be-done-observers-argue/&title=Court+decision+on+Israel-Gaza+war+a+first+step%2C+but+much+more+must+be+done%2C+observers+argue"></a><a href="mailto:?subject=Court%20decision%20on%20Israel-Gaza%20war%20a%20first%20step,%20but%20much%20more%20must%20be%20done,%20observers%20argue&body=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/30/court-decision-on-israel-gaza-war-a-first-step-but-much-more-must-be-done-observers-argue/"></a><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/share/link?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/30/court-decision-on-israel-gaza-war-a-first-step-but-much-more-must-be-done-observers-argue/&name=Court%20decision%20on%20Israel-Gaza%20war%20a%20first%20step,%20but%20much%20more%20must%20be%20done,%20observers%20argue"></a><a href="https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/30/court-decision-on-israel-gaza-war-a-first-step-but-much-more-must-be-done-observers-argue/&text=Court+decision+on+Israel-Gaza+war+a+first+step%2C+but+much+more+must+be+done%2C+observers+argue"></a><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AP24012390071651-scaled.jpg"><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AP24012390071651-681x454.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br />The International Court of Justice (ICJ) decided on an important provisional measure in the much-watched case of the Republic of South Africa versus the Zionist State of Israel. The world paid close attention on January 26 as 17 judges ordered six provisional measures to protect Palestinians in Gaza. These measures were agreed to by an overwhelming majority of the judges.<br /><br />An Israeli judge voted in favor of two of the six, and a Ugandan judge voted against all the measures. The ruling is part of a case South Africa brought to the ICJ on Dec. 29, charging Israel with genocide, concerning the Palestinian people.<br /><br />The president of the court, Judge Joan E. Donoghue, said that South Africa has the right to bring the lawsuit and that Israel’s request for its dismissal cannot be accepted. “We have the authority to rule on emergency measures in the case of genocide against Israel,” she added.<br /><br />A provisional measure is a temporary order issued by a court to protect the rights of the parties pending a final decision in a dispute. In this case, it is to ensure no irreparable harm is inflicted upon the Palestinians pending the conclusion of the full trial. Justice advocates lauded the outcome as a historical milestone, although some noted the court did not clearly call for an immediate ceasefire.<div><br /><a href="https://noi.org/sd2024/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/SD2024-728x90_banner.png" width="400" /></a>›<br /><br />“First and foremost, it is historic,” said Eugene Puryear, investigative journalist and commentator. “It’s the first time there’s even really been a potentially enforceable legal action against Israel for any of its crimes over the 75 years of occupation,” he added. <br /><br />South Africa vs. Israel initially opened on January 11 and can ultimately take years to conclude. In a 15-2 vote the ICJ ordered Israel to do everything possible to prevent genocide of the Palestinian people in its war raging since October 2023 and ensure its military commits no acts constituting genocide. <br /><br />Also, to take all measures to “prevent and punish” the direct and public incitement of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. And, allow urgently needed humanitarian assistance into Gaza. Finally, to submit a report on its compliance 30 days after January 26, the date of the order.<br /><br />Mr. Puryear said the nature of the provisional measures makes it “highly unlikely” any real compliance could take place without a ceasefire and believes Israel will continue its genocidal path. That will not only build on the case against Israel but “more importantly” open a new phase of struggle around Palestine for any country or third-party entities to take action against the Zionist state.<br /><br />“Now, without a doubt, there is a strong legal basis—you might even call it legal cover—for some individuals to take direct action sanctioning Israel,” said Mr. Puryear. “Now, any country will be able to cite the ICJ provisional measures,” he added.<br /><br />The case also opens the way for other actions against Israel, such as a supercharging of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) efforts, “because there’s a new legal framework that I think will speak very directly to the urgency of the moment,” reasoned Mr. Puryear. <br /><br />South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke about the urgency of the moment and why his government had to step up against Israel’s atrocities. “This marks an important first in our quest to secure justice for the people of Gaza,” President Ramaphosa said hours after the hearing.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="277" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AP24017521030668-1024x710.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Pro-Palestinian supporters picket outside the High Court in Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. South Africa’s genocide case against Israel opened last week at the International Court of Justice at The Hague. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht, File)</i><br /><br />“Some have told us that we should mind our own business and not get involved in the affairs of other countries. Others have said it was not our place, and yet it is very much our place as a people who know too well the pain of dispossession, discrimination, [and] state-sponsored violence,” he said. “We are also a people who were the victims of the crime of apartheid. We know what apartheid looks like. We experienced and lived through it,” said Mr. Ramaphosa.<br /><br />“We, as South Africans will not be passive bystanders and watch the crimes that were visited upon us being perpetrated upon other people elsewhere. We stand on the side of freedom for all. We stand on the side of justice,” said Mr. Ramaphosa.<br /><br />Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lambasted the ruling as a “vile attempt to deny Israel” a right to defend itself and a “blatant discrimination” against the Jewish state. “The charge of genocide leveled against Israel is not only false, it’s outrageous, and decent people everywhere should reject it,” he said.<br /><br />Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al Maliki said, “The ICJ judges assessed the facts and the law, they ruled in favor of humanity and international law.”<br /><br />“The ICJ order is an important reminder that no state is above the law. It should serve as a wake-up call for Israel and actors who enabled its entrenched impunity,” he said.<br /><br />The United States said it continues to believe that allegations of genocide are “unfounded,” a State Department spokesperson said.<br /><br />Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter: “Today, the authorities of the fake Israeli regime … must be brought to justice immediately for committing genocide and unprecedented war crimes against the Palestinians.”<br /><br />Other leaders around the world also reacted to the court’s ruling. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomed the interim ruling by the ICJ on the genocide case against Israel, describing the provisional measures as “valuable.”<br /><br />The ongoing push for accountability <br /><br />However, in the moments in which the ICJ was issuing the order, destruction rained down in Gaza taking death tolls past 26,000 Palestinians. Famine and desperation are not strong enough to describe what people faced on the ground on the very day of the decision. One Palestinian among the thousands displaced told Al Jazeera that he came out to meet death just for a parcel of food.<br /><br />Reactions from around the globe were mixed and consistent in calling on nations to hold the Zionist state accountable.<br /><br />Sally Abi-Khalil, Oxfam International Regional Director for the Middle East, said all States—particularly those supporting Israel with military weapons despite the clear risk of them being used to commit war crimes—must respect the court’s ruling and refrain from any actions that undermine it.<br /><br />“Palestinians should not have to endure another day of this suffering. We urge all countries to do all in their power to ensure an immediate ceasefire,” said Ms. Abi-Khalil. “Ensuring those responsible for violations on both sides are held accountable, and to end Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian territory,” she said.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AP24025589817699-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>An injured Palestinian boy cries as rescuers try to pull him from the rubble of a destroyed building following an Israeli airstrike in Bureij refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman, File)</i><br /><br />Al Mayadeen English quoted reactions from resistance organizations in the region. Hamas welcomed the decision, considering it as substantiating the accusations of genocide being committed in Gaza.<br /><br />The group emphasized the decision “opens the door for holding the enemy’s leaders accountable for these crimes before the International Criminal Court, affirming the rights of our Palestinian people to determine their destiny, establish their independent state, and return to their land and homes from which they were forcibly displaced, under international resolutions on this matter.”<br /><br />Hamas also declared its appreciation for the “genuine stance” of South Africa.<br /><br />The Palestinian Islamic Jihad viewed the ICJ measures “as falling short” for not demanding a ceasefire. It is “evidence that global evil powers dominate the international legal system and organizations to serve their interests at the expense of the oppressed,” the group’s statement read.<br /><br />Progressive organizations and coalition groups also applauded the ruling but implored that pressure must remain on Israel and its chief political backer the United States.<br /><br />“We welcome the ruling,” said Ajamu Baraka, national organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP), speaking on behalf of the group.<br /><br />It is quite clear that the court, even under significant pressure on the judges from the countries they represent like the US, saw the evidence and argument South Africa advanced as so overwhelming that it had no other options than to at least concede in its provisional opinion that Israel is involved in genocidal activity, observers note.<br /><br />“What this provisional decision reveals, is the true nature of the Israeli settler colonial project,” said Mr. Baraka. “People need to be reminded that not only are we dealing with the assault right now in Gaza, but that the Israelis have used their military technology … weapons … training, to back repressive right-wing governments around the world,” he said.<br /><br />“That Israeli training of police forces in the US is directly responsible for the enhanced ability of those police forces to repress and to murder Black people in the US,” he continued, stating the importance of Israeli accountability. “So, this provisional ruling, should help people to understand that objectively, the Israeli government along with its enabler the US government, stands as an enemy to all colonized and oppressed people around the world,” said Mr. Baraka.<br /><br />BAP is a founding member of The International Coalition to Stop Genocide in Palestine (ICSGP), which sees the court’s order as a crucial first step toward forcing Israel and its strongest political ally—the United States—to end the months-long brutal assault on Gaza, and the decades-long denial to Palestinians of their rights to self-determination and return.<br /><br />“The ICSGP calls upon social movements to demand that world governments uphold international law and protect the integrity of the United Nations by ensuring that the ICJ’s provisional measures are immediately enforced, and to hold Israeli war criminals and their powerful U.S. accomplices accountable for genocide,” they said in a Jan. 26 statement.<br /><br />A significant ruling<br /><br />Dr. Luqa AbuFarah, North America coordinator for the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), an ICSGP member organization, stated:<br /><br />“It’s clear we have a moral obligation to take action and end our government’s complicity with Israel’s Gaza genocide. We must have the courage to speak out and take action to advance the struggle for justice. We must end US military funding to Israel, which at $3.8 billion a year could instead provide more than 450,000 households with public housing for a year or pay for 41,490 elementary school teachers.<br /><br />I also hope that every person outraged with the blatant disregard for Palestinian life will join and escalate our BDS campaigns and make sure companies know that complicity with Israeli apartheid and genocide is unacceptable. We must take action now more than ever!”<br /><br />The provisional hearing happened one day before the International Holocaust Remembrance Day recognized every January 27. Some noted the ironic significance of Israel being on the court docket for genocide. “That is huge,” said Mouin Rabbani, analyst and co-editor of Jadaliyya, an electronic publication of the Arab Studies Institute. <br /><br />“That’s what this issue is really about. Because for 75 years since 1948, Israel has instrumentalized, two words: ‘never again’ to justify everything that it’s doing,” said Mr. Rabbani. “It has managed to transform the definition of ‘never again,’ as applying exclusively to Israel,” he pointed out. <br /><br />“That is no longer the case. Today ‘never again,’ the meaning of that has been transformed; never again shall any people be the victims of genocide, even if those seeking their destruction is Israel—many of whose people were victims of genocide themselves.<br /><br />The Palestinian intellectual Edward Said often referred to Palestinians as the “victims of the victims,” and has talked about the uniquely difficult situation this puts the Palestinians in because the Jews are the victims with a capital “V,” so how can Israel possibly be guilty of crimes against the Palestinian people? Mr. Rabbani asked rhetorically. “That all changed today. Israel can no longer shield itself from accusations of crimes against the Palestinian people, by pointing a finger at the Nazis,” he reasoned.</div><div><br /></div><div><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AP24012343856199-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Protesters carry flags and banners outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Jan. 12, 2024. The United Nations’ top court opened hearings Thursday into South Africa’s allegation that Israel’s war with Hamas amounts to genocide against Palestinians, a claim that Israel strongly denies. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)</i><br /><br />“The historical irony of the Jews who’ve been subjected to European anti-semitism and experience what they experienced in Germany in World War II are now one of the first major governments ever to be exposed as a government engaged in genocide,” added Mr. Baraka. “This is significant.”<br /><br />Around the world the pain anguish and cries of oppressed populations at the hands of unjust rulers is being seen, heard and felt.<br /><br />According to the New York Times, more than 1,000 Black pastors representing hundreds of thousands of congregants nationwide have called on for a ceasefire.<br /><br />“In sit-down meetings with White House officials, and through open letters and advertisements, ministers have made a moral case for President Biden and his administration to press Israel to stop its offensive operations in Gaza, which have killed thousands of civilians,” the New York Times reported in a Jan. 28 article.<br /><br />The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, National Representative of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad of the Nation of Islam, has described this world demand as an intensifying “universal cry for justice,” and he warned that all tyrants will be removed today by God Himself. The Minister spent decades calling the nations to a posture of balance and warning about the consequences of unbridled oppression.<br /><br />Echoing his teacher, Minister Farrakhan stated that justice will ultimately come from the God of justice and cautioned tyrannical nations will be requited for their deeds and every nation will be called to its record.<br /><br />On that day everyone will be requited for what they did, Minister Farrakhan pointed out in Part 15 of a yearlong lecture series called, “The Time And What Must Be Done,” in 2013. “So as the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that ‘the principle of justice’ will be ‘the weapon’ that God will use in ‘the Day of Requital,’ or, ‘the Day of Judgment,’ then this is ‘a bad day,’ then, for the wicked—a very bad day,” said Minister Farrakhan.<br /><br />“What is the recompense for those who administer ‘suffering’ and ‘loss’? Jesus mentioned this ‘Law of Requital’ in these words found in the Book of Galatians, Chapter 6, verse 7: ‘Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap,’” said Minister Farrakhan.<br /><br />From the Bible Book of Hosea, Chapter 8, verse 7, Jesus said if you “sow the wind” you will “reap the whirlwind”—because nature never gives you “exactly” what you gave,” the Minister continued. “Nature always gives you more; so, if you’ve done ‘good,’ God will give you more than the good that you have done,” explained the Minister. “But for the ‘evildoer’: God will bring recompense on your head. And for the wicked who persist in evil: Oh, this ‘whirlwind’ is now blowing at your door!” he warned.<br /><br />On February 25, Minister Farrakhan will address the subject, “What does Allah The Great Mahdi and The Great Messiah Have to Say About the War In the Middle East?” in Detroit, Michigan, at the Nation of Islam Saviours’ Day Convention. For more information, visit noi.org.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://store.finalcall.com/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/store-default_ad_728x90.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /></div>Wisdom House Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12805439406753743723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956583853727789183.post-65728643864564696702024-01-24T17:31:00.001-06:002024-01-24T17:31:17.167-06:00From The Final Call Newspaper<div class="g-single a-5" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>U.S. push and shove with Yemen is not slowing down</i></span></b></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>By <a href="https://new.finalcall.com/author/brian/">Brian E. Muhammad, Staff Writer</a></i></div><div><i>- January 23, 2024</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2024%2F01%2F23%2Fu-s-push-and-shove-with-yemen-is-not-slowing-down%2F" style="color: black;"><i><br /></i></a></div><div><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/8206382-scaled.jpg"><i><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/8206382-681x454.jpg" width="400" /></i></a></div><div><i>Photo: U.S. Navy photo</i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Antiwar protesters rallying against the devastation and bloodshed in the Gaza Strip from over 100 days of war by the Zionist State of Israel are also mobilizing to condemn the United States’ bombing of Yemen and to demand the “U.S. get out of the Middle East.” The military forces of America and the United Kingdom, along with Canada, Australia, Bahrain and the Netherlands, began striking cities in the small country of Yemen on Jan.12. Observers and analysts say it is a major rise of hostilities that can spiral to regional fighting.</div><div><br /></div><div>“It’s clearly a major escalation on the part of the U.S. as part of this war … genocidal campaign waged by Israel against the people of Gaza,” said Brian Becker, executive director of the Act Now to End Racism (A.N.S.W.E.R.) Coalition.</div><div><br /></div><div>“Because the people in Yemen are standing up and saying no to genocide … the U.S. is now bombing them. So, it marks a major escalation, even if the airstrikes turn out to be limited,” he told The Final Call.</div><div><br /></div><div>The ANSWER Coalition mobilized a large gathering of anti-war advocates at the gates of the White House within hours after the initial strikes hit the cities of Sana’a, Hudaydah, Sa’ada and Dhamaremen. “We should acknowledge that this is a major escalation on the part of the U.S.,” he reiterated.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://noi.org/sd2024/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/SD2024-728x90_banner.png" width="400" /></a>›</div><div><br /></div><div>As the conflict heated up, more than 400,000 people embarked on the streets of Washington, D.C., on Jan. 13 in a Global Day of Action calling for ceasefire in Gaza that also included messages denouncing U.S. war in Yemen. On Jan 15, the Yemen based Ansar-Allah (Houthi) movement waged counter-attacks striking a U.S.-owned commercial ship off the coast of Yemen.</div><div><br /></div><div>The strike on the Gibraltar Eagle owned by Connecticut based Eagle Bulk Shipping was one day after the Houthis fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea. In a televised address the same night, Houthi military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree claimed the attack.</div><div><br /></div><div>“The Yemeni armed forces consider all American and British ships and warships participating in the aggression against our country as hostile targets,” he said.</div><div><br /></div><div>Paired with Gen. Saree’s shoving back against what he calls “American” and “British” aggression on Yemen, are earlier words by Houthi leaders saying the targeting of commercial ships won’t cease until the Israeli aggression in Palestine ceases. Regional tension heightened since the October 2023 bombardment of Gaza began, that has by presstime killed nearly 25,000 mostly women and children. Growing numbers of critics deem the carnage as genocide perpetrated by the occupying power of Israel, backed by America and Western collaborators.</div><div><br /></div><div>Joining what some call an “axis of resistance,” the Houthis entered the mix by attacking global merchant ships in the Red Sea, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, and the Gulf of Aden.</div><div><br /></div><div>The U.S. contends that bombing the turmoil tattered Yemen is about the money and defending global trade lines. However, the Houthis say targeting shipping lines is about resistance, and placing pressure on America’s and Israel’s blocking global ceasefire demands.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Yemeni Armed Forces declared in a Jan. 17 statement posted on X, a response to the U.S./British attacks on Yemeni soil is inevitably forthcoming. The statement said shipping traffic will continue undeterred to all destinations except the ports of occupied Palestine.</div><div><br /></div><div>“Operations against Israeli ships or those heading to the ports of occupied Palestine will not stop until the aggression stops and the siege imposed on the steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is lifted,” said the statement.</div><div><br /></div><div>The strategy ties up a crucial corridor linking Asian and Mideast energy and cargo shipments to the Suez Canal, destined for Europe. Egypt’s Suez Canal connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea and is the fastest way to ship fuel, food and consumer goods from Asia and the Middle East to Europe, said Reuters. Up to 30 percent of cargo that arrives at the U.S. East Coast travels through the Suez Canal.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img height="225" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AP24012273735203-1024x576.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>The U.S. and British militaries bombed more than a dozen sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen on Jan. 11, in a massive retaliatory strike using war-ship- and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets, U.S. officials said. Photo: Sgt Lee Goddard, UK Ministry of Defence via AP</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Since the American and British bombing of Yemen, multiple attacks on shipping vessels were reported to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), a British Naval security agency that receives reports of specific attacks and threats on ships in the region. It announced on Jan. 17 that, “Naval ships will conduct depth charge firing with live ammunition” in the waters. A depth charge is a type of anti-submarine weapon that explodes at a chosen depth.</div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile, America continued bombing Yemeni sites as well as redesignated the Houthis a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” group, effective Feb.17, 2024. The Biden administration previously removed the designation to help access to humanitarian aid into Yemen, during the U.S. backed Saudi Arabian-led coalition war against the Houthis.</div><div><br /></div><div>The impact of the war which largely subsided in 2023, left Yemen in a dire humanitarian crisis. In a December 2023 country update, UNICEF noted after eight years of conflict, the national socio-economic systems of Yemen remain on the edge of total collapse, while conflict, large-scale displacement and recurring climate shocks.</div><div><br /></div><div>“We demand an immediate end to this bombing campaign and all U.S. war threats,” said Mr. Becker. “We need a ceasefire now to end the genocide in Gaza, not an escalation to a regional war,” he said.</div><div><br /></div><div>The firefights are happening amid amplified fear of a broader war in the explosive region involving America as a declining power but with formidable fire power. For the Houthis to chest bump with Washington, say observers, indicates the weakening teeth of America and its losing hand in the Middle East.</div><div><br /></div><div>Months of war in Gaza, U.S.-driven conflicts around the region, and calls for America to leave—as requested by Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani in an interview on Jan.17 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Devos, Switzerland, where he said the U.S.-led Military Coalition in Iraq should leave—shows weakness in U.S. influence. The request is an ongoing demand that accelerated in the recent attacks on American military personnel and coalition soldiers and American counterattacks into Iraq and Syria.</div><div><br /></div><div>According to the Pentagon, between Oct. 17, 2023, and Jan. 11, 2024, there were 130 attacks, including 53 in Iraq and 77 in Syria. Mr. al-Sudani condemned the attacks and U.S. counterattacks.</div><div><br /></div><div>“The sooner we withdraw the coalition, it is a necessity for the security and stability of Iraq,” Mr. al-Sudani said at the televised WEF event. He told the interviewer it is the desire of the Iraqi people that the foreign forces leave. “It is also a necessity for preserving constructive bilateral relations between Iraq and the coalition countries.”</div><div><br /></div><div>The pushback on America from Iraq as well as the Islamic Republic of Iran, heightened rhetoric, and threats by resistance groups throughout the region, and bold antiwar resistance on her own streets can be seen as America reaping what it has sown.</div><div><br /></div><div>Such sentiment has been long warned of by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and his teacher, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad of the Nation of Islam. They cautioned America would lose in the Middle East.</div><div><br /></div><div>The warnings of Messenger Muhammad and Minister Farrakhan are proving true. In His illuminating book, “The Fall of America,” Messenger Muhammad warned of terrible consequences of imposing Israel on Palestine. “America and England deposited their little brother, Israel, on foreign soil, Palestine, which is Arab land. They deprived the Arabs of their own land and sent them into exile,” wrote Messenger Muhammad.</div><div><br /></div><div>“This injustice against the Arabs is now costing America the power and authority that she once exercised in the East. She is on her way out of the Near East,” He added. “This means bloodshed and plenty of it,” Messenger Muhammad warned.</div></div><div class="g-single a-5" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div><div class="g-single a-5" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div><br /></div><div><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/store-default_ad_728x90.png" width="400" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><p> </p>Wisdom House Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12805439406753743723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956583853727789183.post-90291447466772331072024-01-17T13:20:00.000-06:002024-01-17T13:20:18.207-06:00From The Final Call Newspaper<p><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Dr. King in context: A revolutionary and visionary for freedom, justice, equality</span></b></p>By <a href="https://new.finalcall.com/author/charlene/">Charlene Muhammad, National Correspondent</a><br /> - January 16, 2024<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2024%2F01%2F16%2Fdr-king-in-context-a-revolutionary-and-visionary-for-freedom-justice-equality%2F"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Dr.+King+in+context%3A+A+revolutionary+and+visionary+for+freedom%2C+justice%2C+equality&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2024%2F01%2F16%2Fdr-king-in-context-a-revolutionary-and-visionary-for-freedom-justice-equality%2F&via=thefinalcall"></a><a href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/16/dr-king-in-context-a-revolutionary-and-visionary-for-freedom-justice-equality/&media=https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AP9906070777.jpg&description=Dr.+King+in+context%3A+A+revolutionary+and+visionary+for+freedom%2C+justice%2C+equality"></a><a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=Dr.+King+in+context%3A+A+revolutionary+and+visionary+for+freedom%2C+justice%2C+equality%20%0A%0A%20https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/16/dr-king-in-context-a-revolutionary-and-visionary-for-freedom-justice-equality/"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/16/dr-king-in-context-a-revolutionary-and-visionary-for-freedom-justice-equality/&title=Dr.+King+in+context%3A+A+revolutionary+and+visionary+for+freedom%2C+justice%2C+equality"></a><a href="https://reddit.com/submit?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/16/dr-king-in-context-a-revolutionary-and-visionary-for-freedom-justice-equality/&title=Dr.+King+in+context%3A+A+revolutionary+and+visionary+for+freedom%2C+justice%2C+equality"></a><a href="mailto:?subject=Dr.%20King%20in%20context:%20A%20revolutionary%20and%20visionary%20for%20freedom,%20justice,%20equality&body=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/16/dr-king-in-context-a-revolutionary-and-visionary-for-freedom-justice-equality/"></a><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/share/link?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/16/dr-king-in-context-a-revolutionary-and-visionary-for-freedom-justice-equality/&name=Dr.%20King%20in%20context:%20A%20revolutionary%20and%20visionary%20for%20freedom,%20justice,%20equality"></a><a href="https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/16/dr-king-in-context-a-revolutionary-and-visionary-for-freedom-justice-equality/&text=Dr.+King+in+context%3A+A+revolutionary+and+visionary+for+freedom%2C+justice%2C+equality"></a><br />The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., speaking in Alabama on February 1968. Photo: AP Photo/Charles Kelly<br /><br /><br />Over the years, humanitarian and civil rights champion, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., his mission, narrative and work have been gentrified, watered down, white-washed, hijacked and blatantly misquoted, but he was a revolutionary who truly fought for freedom, justice and equality.<br /><br />As the nation prepares to honor and reflect on Dr. King with activities and events on the U.S. federal holiday marking his birth—observed the third Monday in January—it is important to understand and unpack his true legacy and impact.<br /><br />His mission, his daughter, Reverend Dr. Bernice King, CEO of Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, made clear after stand-up comedian/actor Amy Schumer posted soundbites in an edited clip on some of his remarks about Israel’s right to exist, antisemitism and bigotry towards Catholics on X (Twitter) on October 30, 2023.<div><br /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AP6308280269-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>The crowds seen at the march on Washington, D.C. in which Dr. Martin Luther King gave his eloquent “I have a dream…” speech to a million – thronged mall on August 28, 1963. (AP Photo)</i><br /><br />“Certainly, my father was against antisemitism, as am I. He also believed militarism (along with racism and poverty) to be among the interconnected Triple Evils. I am certain he would call for Israel’s bombing of Palestinians to cease, for hostages to be released …,” Dr. Bernice King tweeted directly to Ms. Schumer the next day.</div><div><br /><br /><a href="https://noi.org/sd2024/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/SD2024-728x90_banner.png" width="400" /></a>›</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="300" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/MGN_1280x960_80404B00-KFAQP-1024x768.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br />She continued, “and for us to work for true peace, which includes justice.” He said, ‘“Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love. We have much to correct.”’<br /><br />Dr. Bernice King then continued with a clip of her father talking about withdrawing from the Vietnam War and “moral power,” and #MLK.<br /><br />Two years ago, Dr. Bernice King issued a similar call:<br /><br />“Please stop using out of context quotes from my father to excuse not working to eradicate racism. His ‘content of their character’ quote lies within a full speech, ‘I Have A Dream,’ in which he talks about ending racist police brutality and economic injustice,” she posted.<br /><br />“The handling of Dr. King in mainstream spaces, there has been an exercise in reductionism and this has been the case with so many of our great Black luminaries, the heroes and heroines of our struggle,” stated Student Minister Demetric Muhammad of Mosque No. 55 in Memphis.<br /><br />They are reduced to slogans and more softer aspects of their legacies, such as with Dr. King and his famous August 28, 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech, he added. It is most times referenced, yet Dr. King continued to live for five more years, and people never hear about his 1966 meeting with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Eternal Leader of the Nation of Islam.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AP6308280194-705x1024.jpg" width="275" /></div><div><i>The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. acknowledges the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial for his “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963. The march was organized to support proposed civil rights legislation and end segregation. King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, advocating nonviolent action against America’s racial inequality. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, King was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., in 1968. (AP Photo)</i><br /><br /><br /></div><div>There is silence about Dr. King’s saying that he thought that temporary separation of Blacks and Whites might be a good idea or what he experienced when he left the South and he went to cities like Chicago, and thousands of Whites came out and protested against him, said Student Minister Demetric Muhammad, an author and member of the Nation of Islam Research Group.<br /><br />Dr. King was somewhat amazed to see that the racism in the North was not different than the racism of the South, but there are so many aspects of him that often time is hidden if the information source is a mainstream media outlet or some corporate sponsor, he noted.<br /><br />“And this is why the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s choice, for example, to make the Million Man March a march that did not have funding from corporate America is so important, because as the old saying goes, whoever pays the piper calls the tune, in other words, whoever finances you can dictate how the program is going to go and how you will spend their money,” said Student Minister Demetric Muhammad.<br /><br />“King has been sanitized,” stated Attorney Nkechi Taifa, director of the Reparations Education Project. However, he was in the process of moving out of the mythological, sanitized box people put him in, as exhibited in his April 16, 1963, “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” stated Atty. Taifa.<br /><br />In it, Dr. King called for action, for freedom now, but people keep waiting for the ideal time or set of conditions before they move, she told The Final Call.<br /><br />“I would like to hear more about what King was talking about when he said we’re coming to Washington to get our check … because that ties right into the reparations,” stated Atty. Taifa. She interpreted that in many ways; not just getting a check, but there’s a whole panoply of remedies that should have improved since the enslavement period, she continued.<br /><br />She would have loved to hear more about Dr. King in his early years, for example, he was a contemporary of Black nationalist matriarch Queen Mother Ali Moore, she said. “There’s a lot about King that has not been out there as part of the public discourse that we really deserve to have known more about and not have them just paint it inside a box with the lid on. Let’s have the lid come off and hear all that he was about,” added Atty. Taifa.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="382" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AP640608054-1024x977.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is accompanied by his wife, Coretta Scott King, as he appears at a press conference on the occasion of the release of his book “Why We Can’t Wait,” in New York , on June 8, 1964. (Jacob Harris/AP Photo)</i><br /><br />To ensure that Dr. King is portrayed as the true revolutionary that he is, Black writers, historians and periodicals, must conduct their own independent research into his life and then present him to Black people, and subsequently to the world through their eyes and lens, recommended Student Minister Demetric Muhammad.<br /><br />“As the old saying goes, ‘The oppressor sees the freedom fighter as a threat, but the oppressed sees the freedom fighter as a freedom fighter,’ and so should not the oppressed take control of the history of their own freedom fighter,” he questioned.<br /><br />“We see Dr. King as a freedom fighter and we have to arrest control of his history, his legal, his narrative, away from those who are the oppressors who he was fighting against on our behalf. In addition to that, we have to seek and create opportunity to share the truth of Dr. King and other great Black leaders to young people.”<br /><br />It is what Minister Farrakhan did when he brought Dr. King to the world through his preparation leading up to the 20th Anniversary of the Million Man March (Justice Or Else!), October 10, 2015, in Washington, D.C. The Minister lifted up the Dr. King who called for Blacks to redistribute the pain of injustice and brutality suffered at the hands of Whites in America by waging an economic boycott of U.S. corporations.<br /><br />Minister Farrakhan explained that Dr. King was a man evolving toward a common goal for his people but that he was assassinated before he reached it.<br /><br />Minister Farrakhan asked and encouraged the world to study Dr. King’s last speeches, and reflect on the evolution of his message, which moved from one of an integrationist “dreamer” in 1963, to one of a true wide awake revolutionary in 1968 when he was murdered.<br /><br />“When I read it, I said, this man, you must know the reality of Dr. King. He’s more than a dreamer and don’t you let them throw the ‘Dream’ speech on you from ’63,” Minister Farrakhan instructed during his August 2015 lecture in Memphis, Tenn., as part of a tour to promote Justice Or Else!<br /><br />“Let them play for you the speech that he made in New York City when he condemned the hypocrisy of the Johnson government that’s fighting a war in Vietnam against poor people there and practicing violence, then want Dr. King to preach nonviolence to us, while they’re training you to kill people that never did nothing to you overseas,” Min. Farrakhan said.<br /><br />In addition to lifting Dr. King’s words, Minister Farrakhan resurrected Dr. King’s desire to retaliate after White supremacists bombed 16th Street Baptist Church in Alabama which killed four little Black girls.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="317" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AP17016604343313-1024x811.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>In this Aug. 28, 1963, file photo, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, addresses marchers during his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. As civil rights leaders and activists gather Monday, Jan. 16, 2017, at sites across the country to celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., the slain civil rights leader’s daughter Bernice King is encouraging Americans to fight for his vision of love and justice “no matter who is in the White House.” (AP Photo, File)</i><br /><br />“He wanted to do all-out war, not violence. But shut it down, but he didn’t have the support. He wanted to boycott Christmas. So, today, so, today, I’m asking us, all of us, let’s boycott Christmas,” in Dr. King’s name, Minister Farrakhan said.<br /><br />And some young people got it, that is, an understanding of the true essence of Dr. King, as indicated by some of their writings:<br /><br />“… I don’t need Your watered down King; the Dr. King you make simple, the King you only mention with subtleties as if he was meek, minor, minute. Of a champion’s truth, Dr. King is more than worthy. Call him a lion. His accomplishments should roar loudly in history books, on talk segments where we are identifying, describing, the man, the humanitarian, the preacher, the fighter, writer, speaker, teacher, reacher, leader, word warrior,” writes Christopher Sims in “I Don’t Need Your Watered-Down King: A Poem.”<br /><br />The poem continues, “I need the revolutionary Dr. King who was educated by various religious truths, leanings; the never afraid King who moved his family into a housing project in Chicago; the mighty King who challenged economic inequity years ago at the White House lawn with the Poor People’s Campaign!”<br /><br />Aleeya Alam, a Los Angeles Times high school contributor wrote in a 2021 op-ed, “MLK’s peaceful rhetoric has been weaponized as a way to wrongfully critique the Black Lives Matter movement. …”<br /><br />Ms. Alam went on to note that in the summer of 2020, while Black Lives Matter protests were taking place in hundreds of cities nationwide, Dr. King’s son, Martin Luther King III, tweeted his father’s words, “A riot is the voice of the unheard,” and “was met with extreme backlash, many stating he was taking his own father’s words out of context. The legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. has been politicized in a way to silence the outrage of the same people MLK would have given a platform to.”<br /><br />“Dr. King died with an extremely high disapproval rate. He would be shocked to see how popular he has become. He would be even more shocked to see how his rhetoric was being used today,” continued Ms. Alam.<br /><br />It is the Minister’s loving heart and respect for all of his people, regardless of their ideology, theology or philosophy, that has caused him, as a follower of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to take a second look at Dr. King, stated Student Minister Abdul Haleem Muhammad, Southwest Regional Representative of the Nation of Islam.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="264" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AP6407210175-1024x675.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., right, chats with Greenwood, Mississippi African Americans on their front porch on July 21, 1964, during his door-to-door campaign, telling all them to register to vote and support his Mississippi Freedom Democratic party. (AP Photo/Jim Bourdier)</i><br /><br />“King was not a dreamer. Dr. King was a visionary, who was evolving towards understanding and recognizing the reality of life in America and the world she created post-World War II,” stated Student Minister Abdul Haleem Muhammad. Another sermon from which Dr. King is taken out of context is “The Drum Major Instinct,” delivered February 4, 1968.<br /><br />“But, in truth, he said some things that, if I didn’t tell you it was Dr. King, you would think it was the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan,” stated Student Minister Abdul Haleem Muhammad, who proceeded to quote an excerpt from that message:<br /><br />“God didn’t call America to do what she’s doing in the world now. God didn’t call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war as the war in Vietnam. And we are criminals in that war. We’ve committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world, and I’m going to continue to say it. And we won’t stop it because of our pride and our arrogance as a nation,” he stated from Dr. King’s message.<br /><br />He continued Dr. King’s quote stating: “But God has a way of even putting nations in their place. The God that I worship has a way of saying, ‘Don’t play with me.’ He has a way of saying, as the God of the Old Testament used to say to the Hebrews, ‘Don’t play with me, Israel. Don’t play with me, Babylon. Be still and know that I’m God.<br /><br />And if you don’t stop your reckless course, I’ll rise up and break the backbone of your power.’ And that can happen to America. Every now and then I go back and read Gibbons’ Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. And when I come and look at America, I say to myself, the parallels are frightening.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Wisdom House Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12805439406753743723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956583853727789183.post-2525433537607307772024-01-02T19:08:00.000-06:002024-01-02T19:08:02.769-06:00From The Final Call Newspaper<p> <b style="font-size: xx-large;">Is the new law enforcement accountability database symbolism or substance?</b></p>By <a href="https://new.finalcall.com/author/charlene/">Charlene Muhammad, National Correspondent</a><br />- January 2, 2024<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2024%2F01%2F02%2Fis-the-new-law-enforcement-accountability-database-symbolism-or-substance%2F"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Is+the+new+law+enforcement+accountability+database+symbolism+or+substance%3F&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2024%2F01%2F02%2Fis-the-new-law-enforcement-accountability-database-symbolism-or-substance%2F&via=thefinalcall"></a><a href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/02/is-the-new-law-enforcement-accountability-database-symbolism-or-substance/&media=https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AdobeStock_603356520-scaled.jpeg&description=Is+the+new+law+enforcement+accountability+database+symbolism+or+substance%3F"></a><a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=Is+the+new+law+enforcement+accountability+database+symbolism+or+substance%3F%20%0A%0A%20https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/02/is-the-new-law-enforcement-accountability-database-symbolism-or-substance/"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/02/is-the-new-law-enforcement-accountability-database-symbolism-or-substance/&title=Is+the+new+law+enforcement+accountability+database+symbolism+or+substance%3F"></a><a href="https://reddit.com/submit?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/02/is-the-new-law-enforcement-accountability-database-symbolism-or-substance/&title=Is+the+new+law+enforcement+accountability+database+symbolism+or+substance%3F"></a><a href="mailto:?subject=Is%20the%20new%20law%20enforcement%20accountability%20database%20symbolism%20or%20substance?&body=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/02/is-the-new-law-enforcement-accountability-database-symbolism-or-substance/"></a><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/share/link?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/02/is-the-new-law-enforcement-accountability-database-symbolism-or-substance/&name=Is%20the%20new%20law%20enforcement%20accountability%20database%20symbolism%20or%20substance?"></a><a href="https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/02/is-the-new-law-enforcement-accountability-database-symbolism-or-substance/&text=Is+the+new+law+enforcement+accountability+database+symbolism+or+substance%3F"></a><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AdobeStock_603356520-scaled.jpeg"><img height="211" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AdobeStock_603356520-681x359.jpeg" width="400" /></a><div><i>The Biden-Harris administration launched a new National Law Enforcement Accountability Database to help advance police reform and build community trust, but is it just more symbolism over substance?</i><br /><br /><br />We want an immediate end to the police brutality and mob attacks against the so-called Negro throughout the United States. We believe that the Federal government should intercede to see that Black men and women tried in White courts receive justice in accordance with the laws of the land—or allow us to build a new nation for ourselves, dedicated to justice, freedom and liberty.—What the Muslims Want / The Muslim Program<br /><br />The recently launched National Law Enforcement Accountability Database aims to address the profound fear and trauma that Black Americans in particular have experienced for generations. But the new federal database is “dangerous symbolism,” argued human rights attorney Nana Gyamfi. It “keeps policing alive under the guise that it can be reformed. It cannot,” she told The Final Call.<br /><br />“As part of my Administration’s executive order on policing, we committed to create a first of its kind database to track records of law enforcement misconduct so that agencies are able to hire the best personnel. Today, I am fulfilling that promise by launching the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database,” read a White House statement issued December 18.<br /><br />“This database will ensure that records of serious misconduct by federal law enforcement officers are readily available to agencies considering hiring those officers. We are also working to allow and encourage state, Tribal, local, and territorial law enforcement agencies to make available and access similar records as part of their hiring processes,” the statement continued in part.</div><div><br /><br /><a href="https://noi.org/sd2024/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/SD2024-728x90_banner.png" width="400" /></a>›<br /><br />Some advocates and legal experts feel the new accountability database issued by President Joe Biden’s executive order he signed on May 2022 is a step in the right direction, but it is not enough, they point out.<br /><br />“What people have to recognize, first and foremost, is you ain’t gonna change the system. The system has been in existence for over 400 years, and it was designed to be exactly the way it is,” stated Lieutenant Charles Wilson, who is retired and is the new chairman of the National Association of Black Law Enforcement Officers, Inc.<br /><br />“It is inherently biased against people of color and low income,” he said. Reform mandates changing the culture of the profession, who and how people are hired, and what and how officers are trained.<br /><br />We have habitually trained people to be warriors in the community, not guardians of the community,” Lt. Wilson told The Final Call. Further changes must be made in the management of supervisors and placement of policies and procedures, then there can be true police reform, he said.<br /><br />“I tell people religiously, there’s over a million law enforcement officers out there on the street— Black, White and indifferent, male and female. The vast majority of cops, all they want to do is go to work, do their job, if possible, help people along the way, get off—no complaint, no bruises, no injuries; go home, see mama, the dog, and have dinner,” stated Lt. Wilson.<br /><br />According to the White House statement, Lt. Wilson argued that police accountability, whether it is a federal or local mandate, must be bolstered by encouraging those within the profession to actively stand up and speak out about those who abuse their oaths of office because they are a danger to the community and a danger to those who attempt to truly serve the community.<br /><br />“When you work next to them and do not report their abuses, you are equally complicit in the abuse. And there must be better measures taken to protect those who speak up and report these offenses,” he added.<br /><br />The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) posted a statement on its website applauding the measure while also addressing its shortcomings.<br /><br />“The database documents instances of federal law enforcement misconduct, including criminal convictions, suspensions and terminations, civil judgments, resignations while under investigation, and sustained disciplinary action based on serious misconduct.<br /><br />It requires federal law enforcement agencies to provide information about misconduct, but would not bar an individual with a record of misconduct from being hired or penalize agencies for hiring them.<br /><br />Also, the database is not available to the public, only includes the last seven years of records, and is entirely voluntary for state and local law enforcement agencies to participate,” noted aclu.org in a Dec. 18 news release.<br /><br />However, civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump said the database is what he and others have wanted, ever since the deaths of 18-year-old Michael Brown, Jr.’s in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014, Terrence Crutcher, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in September 2016, and 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio. All three were killed by police.<br /><br />Officer Timothy Loehmann shot Tamir, who was playing with a toy gun in a park. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty announced in December 2015 that a grand jury had decided not to charge either Mr. Loehmann or his partner Frank Garmback.<br /><br />According to Ohio news site <a href="http://cleveland.com/">cleveland.com</a>, Cleveland city officials decided to fire Mr. Loehmann more than two-and-a-half years after he shot Tamir because he failed to disclose that he would have been fired from a previous job if he had not quit.<br /><br />Less than five months after being hired by the Independent Police Department on July 11, 2012, Deputy Chief Jim Polak said in an assessment that “He could not follow simple directions, could not communicate clear thoughts nor recollections, and his handgun performance was dismal,” continued <a href="http://cleveland.com/">cleveland.com</a>.<br /><br />All of those young, Black men were killed by officers who had been fired from one department and walked across the street to another municipality or another county and got a job in law enforcement without anything being on their jacket or probed by their future employer, said Atty. Crump.<br /><br />“This hopefully will be a clarion call to employers in law enforcement to check and see if that potential employee’s name shows up in the federal accountability database for law enforcement,” he told The Final Call.<br /><br />“With everything as it is now, 2000-soon-to-be-24 and the information age, there’s no reason that you hire an officer who has a pattern and practice of engaging in excessive force and brutality against Black people and others,” he argued.<br /><br />That the new database came through executive order means it could be stripped by a new president, he continued. “It’s troublesome that it and the other components of the George Floyd Policing Act could not pass the United States Congress and be signed into the law by the president and be the law forever. We have to rely on executive orders now until we can build a consensus in this very divided country,” said Atty. Crump.<br /><br />Except perhaps in New Jersey. In September 2022, the Garden State launched its Law Enforcement Internal Affairs Investigations website, which displays data from internal affairs investigations of its over 500 police agencies.<br /><br />In addition, most police departments have gone to National Internet Based Reporting System (NIBRS), which includes officer-involved shootings and preceded the new federal database. As of January 1, 2002, it became the national standard for law enforcement crime data reporting in the United States, according to Bureau of Justice Statistics.<br /><br />There are over 18,000 policing agencies in the country, and there is no federal law mandating that they report acts of misconduct, use of force, etc. to that accountability database, noted Cephus “Uncle Bobby” X Johnson, a California-based police reform advocate and co-founder of the Love Not Blood Campaign and Families United 4 Justice.<br /><br />Per President Biden, his administration will encourage state, Tribal and territorial agencies to make available and access similar records in the new database as part of their hiring processes.<br /><br />“We have a national database that is not being used to the fullest right now called the National Decertification Index (NDI). This database is supposed to capture every decertified police officer in this database. But because there is no national federal law that requires it to be done, agencies are not sending that information to The NDI database,” argued Mr. Johnson.<br /><br />Donnell Walters, president of the Ethical Society of Police, thinks the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database forces agencies to deal with the problem of police misconduct versus allowing officers to transfer from agency to agency.<br /><br />For example, it will help eliminate or at least reduce instances such as former Louisville police officer Myles Cosgrove, who fatally shot Breonna Taylor in March 2020, but who was hired by the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office, after he was fired from the Louisville Metro Police Department in January 2021.<br /><br />“It’s a start and it’s incumbent upon the people, upon organizations, to really stay on top of it so that it doesn’t fall by the wayside, because quite often you find that stuff falls by the wayside, because it makes news today, but then the next thing will come up and this gets pushed to the back burner,” Mr. Walters told The Final Call.<br /><br />“I am a 100 percent believer of transparency, good or bad, because people in my opinion will respect you telling the truth and you made a mistake then you trying to lie and cover it up. We’re human, and that’s what people have to understand,” he stated.<br /><br />The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam pointed out in a message titled “Justifiable Homicide: Black Youth in Peril,” delivered on October 28, 2007, from Mosque Maryam in Chicago, that since Black people have been in America, “we have been under the domination of a power that during slavery did not have to justify the murder of our fathers.”<br /><br />“They didn’t have any group of people to look at facts. The slave-master had the power of life and death on every Black person outside of the principle of justice, with no regard for the life of the Black male or female that was being put to death,” stated the Minister.<br /><br />The Minister urged Black youth to hear his message, pointing out to them that police authorities are the same today as they were during slavery. “In fact, this is how policing began. Police were formed to catch runaway slaves, bring them back to their masters and make examples of them to throw fear into other slaves. It’s the same today. Police authorities are trained to kill, as well as to protect,” Minister Farrakhan continued.<br /><br />“But where Black people are concerned, police legitimize their mob attacks under the name of ‘back up.’ Police back up is often no different than the lynch mobs 100 years ago. The killing of our people, shooting them with many bullets when one would have done the job. And then, that deliberative body which is to discuss the brutal murder of our people by looking into the facts, comes away calling it justifiable homicide,” the Minister said.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://noi.org/sd2024/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/SD2024-728x90_banner.png" width="400" /></a>›</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Wisdom House Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12805439406753743723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956583853727789183.post-13184768823557557122023-12-26T18:56:00.003-06:002023-12-26T18:56:43.684-06:00From The Final Call Newspaper<p> <b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Racism, police violence, homelessness and hip-hop’s 50th among top stories for Blacks in 2023</span></b></p>By <a href="https://new.finalcall.com/author/charlene/">Charlene Muhammad, National Correspondent</a><br />- December 26, 2023<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F12%2F26%2Fracism-police-violence-homelessness-and-hip-hops-50th-among-top-stories-for-blacks-in-2023%2F"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Racism%2C+police+violence%2C+homelessness+and+hip-hop%E2%80%99s+50th+among+top+stories+for+Blacks+in+2023&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F12%2F26%2Fracism-police-violence-homelessness-and-hip-hops-50th-among-top-stories-for-blacks-in-2023%2F&via=thefinalcall"></a><a href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/12/26/racism-police-violence-homelessness-and-hip-hops-50th-among-top-stories-for-blacks-in-2023/&media=https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/AP23031705422085-1.jpg&description=Racism%2C+police+violence%2C+homelessness+and+hip-hop%E2%80%99s+50th+among+top+stories+for+Blacks+in+2023"></a><a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=Racism%2C+police+violence%2C+homelessness+and+hip-hop%E2%80%99s+50th+among+top+stories+for+Blacks+in+2023%20%0A%0A%20https://new.finalcall.com/2023/12/26/racism-police-violence-homelessness-and-hip-hops-50th-among-top-stories-for-blacks-in-2023/"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/12/26/racism-police-violence-homelessness-and-hip-hops-50th-among-top-stories-for-blacks-in-2023/&title=Racism%2C+police+violence%2C+homelessness+and+hip-hop%E2%80%99s+50th+among+top+stories+for+Blacks+in+2023"></a><a href="https://reddit.com/submit?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/12/26/racism-police-violence-homelessness-and-hip-hops-50th-among-top-stories-for-blacks-in-2023/&title=Racism%2C+police+violence%2C+homelessness+and+hip-hop%E2%80%99s+50th+among+top+stories+for+Blacks+in+2023"></a><a href="mailto:?subject=Racism,%20police%20violence,%20homelessness%20and%20hip-hop%E2%80%99s%2050th%20among%20top%20stories%20for%20Blacks%20in%202023&body=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/12/26/racism-police-violence-homelessness-and-hip-hops-50th-among-top-stories-for-blacks-in-2023/"></a><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/share/link?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/12/26/racism-police-violence-homelessness-and-hip-hops-50th-among-top-stories-for-blacks-in-2023/&name=Racism,%20police%20violence,%20homelessness%20and%20hip-hop%E2%80%99s%2050th%20among%20top%20stories%20for%20Blacks%20in%202023"></a><a href="https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/12/26/racism-police-violence-homelessness-and-hip-hops-50th-among-top-stories-for-blacks-in-2023/&text=Racism%2C+police+violence%2C+homelessness+and+hip-hop%E2%80%99s+50th+among+top+stories+for+Blacks+in+2023"></a><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/AP23031705422085-1.jpg"><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/AP23031705422085-1-681x454.jpg" width="400" /></a><div><i>Demonstrators hold signs during a protest at Washington Square Park in New York on Jan. 28, 2023, in response to the death of Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by Memphis police during a traffic stop. The beating and death of Nichols by members of a plainclothes anti-crime task force has renewed scrutiny on the squads often involved in a disproportionate number of use of force incidents and civilian complaints. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)</i><br /><br /><br />A year plagued with racism, police violence, mass shootings and attacks on Black people in America, rounded out with high figures of homelessness, and threats to voting rights in 2023.<br /><br />The year 2024 may be more of the same, unless Blacks unite and do for self, according to political scientists, educators, activists, and spiritual leaders.<br /><br />“Oh, 2023 was heightened, of course,” emphasized Cephus “Uncle Bobby” X Johnson. He is the uncle of Oscar Grant, III, the young, Black man who was fatally shot in the back by then Bay Area Rapid Transit officer Johannes Mehserle on the Fruitvale station platform on Jan. 1, 2009, in Oakland, Calif.<br /><br />“We’re all over the country, working with families concerning this egregious act of police violence and even more extremely, the failure to be transparent and accountable, especially in the Black Belt states,” said Mr. Johnson. But California, thought to be one of the more progressive states, was one of four other states that just got decertification legislation passed.</div><div><br /><br /><a href="https://noi.org/sd2024/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/SD2024-728x90_banner.png" width="400" /></a>›</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="300" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/MGN_1280x960_30515B00-FJRCT-1024x768.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br />Every state except for 46 has some form of decertification, meaning not only may rogue police officers be terminated, but they are prohibited from ever getting hired in that particular state again, according to Mr. Johnson, who is also co-founder of the Love Not Blood Campaign, Families United 4 Justice, and newly appointed member of California’s Peace Officer Standards Accountability Advisory Board.<br /><br />He predicted that the future of policing in 2024 requires a review of technological advances, such as lapel cameras and the fact that police turn them on and off at will. Plus, they have a delay mechanism that starts video or audio 30 seconds after they’re turned on, he noted.<br /><br />“I don’t want to be pessimistic about it, but we can expect this act to get more egregious, especially as we find out how important it is that we unify ourselves whether through legislation, protests, whatever it is we have to do to stop it,” he added.<br /><br />Los Angeles certainly saw an increase in police, according to Dr. Melina Abdullah, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in July. It has been a year of struggle, challenge, and pushing back against the backlash, she told The Final Call.</div><div><br /></div><div> <br /><img height="225" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/MGN_1280x720_30814P00-EYMCQ-1024x576.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Clarence Avant Photo: MGN Online</i><br /><br />“2023 has been a year where White supremacy has come back with a vengeance and Black people and people who say they love Black people are challenged to really put in work,” said Dr. Abdullah, who is also a professor of Pan-African Studies at California State University Los Angeles.<br /><br />Los Angeles Police Department officers began 2023 killing three people in less than 24 hours, and they have shot 11 people since Aug. 1, twice the number of people shot by officers during the same period in 2022. However, police data indicates the total number of police shootings year-to-date in 2023 was still below last year at this time, according to news reports.<br /><br />She has also seen a surge in White supremacist violence against Black people, stated Dr. Abdullah. “2023 calls into question do we really believe in our own freedom and if we do, then what kind of work are we willing to put in,” she said. “Getting through 2023 reminds us that we can get through, we can make it, and it takes work. It takes struggle.”<br /><br />Whether through attacks on voters’ rights or Black history, activists say Black people must unite to survive in the next decade much less 2024.<br /><br />Legacies remembered<br /><br />The year was also one in which several important luminaries passed away, leaving tremendous legacies and memories. There was no stopping Clarence Avant. He was a force of nature. He came from a poor family in the Carolinas and made his way in the music business. He paved the way for many acts and was called “The Godfather of Black Music.”<br /><br />Avant won several awards, such as the NAACP Image Award – Hall of Fame Award and the BET Honors Entrepreneur Award. He started Sussex Records and Tabu Productions. Mr. Avant helped singers like Michael Jackson get big record deals and was the head of the Motown Records board.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="225" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/MGN_1280x720_10223P00-VGZOQ-1024x576.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Harry Belafonte Photo: MGN Online</i><br /><br />Music icon Tina Turner and football Hall of Famer and activist Jim Brown also passed away in 2023.<br /><br />William Edward Spriggs was an American economist who dedicated his life to fighting for economic justice and equality. Throughout his distinguished career, he wore many hats: Professor of Economics at Howard University, Chief Economist for the AFL-CIO, and Assistant Secretary of Labor for Policy in the Obama Administration. During this critical period, Dr. Spriggs played a key role in shaping economic policy responses to the Great Recession.<br /><br />Roslyn Pope, born in the 1940s segregated South, grew up immersed in racial injustice. She was impacted during a Girl Scout trip to Wyoming where she surprisingly witnessed a society free from segregation. This fueled her early commitment to equality.<br /><br />She enjoyed a fulfilling career as a college professor, sharing her knowledge and inspiring new generations. Moreover, she remained a vital voice in the ongoing pursuit of social justice, participating in marches, speaking engagements, and advocacy efforts.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="300" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/MGN_1280x960_20705P00-VOXEJ-1024x768.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br />The year also saw the loss of Harry Belafonte. Mr. Belafonte was a Renaissance man, captivating audiences with his music, acting, and activism. He broke barriers, paved the way for future generations of artists, and used his platform to champion social justice. His legacy continues to inspire and resonate today.<br /><br />The Nation of Islam experienced the loss of two powerful helpers in the cause of Allah (God), Minister Jabril Muhammad and Brother Joshua Nasir Farrakhan, the second oldest son of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and Mother Khadijah Farrakhan.<br /><br />Attacks on multiple fronts<br /><br />Dr. Kathie Stromile Golden, executive director of the National Association of Black Political Scientists, also has been concerned about the attack on what has been termed Critical Race Theory. “Critical Race Theory” is the name of a slogan right-wingers attached to schools teaching about this country’s true racial past, or a rejection of education reforms, such as accurate teaching of the treatment of Black people in this society for nearly 500 years.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="382" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/clock01-1150.png" width="400" /><br /><br />People don’t really understand it, and a lot of the things that were fought hard for are being rolled back, according to Dr. Golden. “It’s just so incredibly disheartening in terms of the Congress, decision-makers, divisiveness,” she told The Final Call.<br /><br />“Higher education is a mess. The whole notion of not being able to teach history, I see this attack as revisionist and the powers that be, particularly White men, attempts to rule at any cost, have no concern for democracy and how it should work,” argued Dr. Golden.<br /><br />In June, according to the Associated Press, within hours of a U.S. Supreme Court decision dismantling a key provision of the Voting Rights Act—the requirement that all or parts of 15 states with a history of discrimination in voting, mainly in the South, get Washington’s approval before changing the way they hold elections—Texas lawmakers announced plans to implement a strict voter ID law that had been blocked by a federal court. Lawmakers in Alabama said they would press forward with a similar law that had been on hold.<br /><br />“In my opinion, African Americans, people of color, are just being attacked at every point. It is really troubling,” said Dr. Golden. From her perspective, Blacks and other non-Whites are not as organized and united to combat some of these attacks.<br /><br />Other violent attacks include mass shootings, such as when a 21-year-old White man used his assault-style rifle to kill three Black people at a Jacksonville, Fla., Dollar Store. The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the Jacksonville shooting, which happened August 26, as a hate crime and an act of racially motivated violent extremism, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.<br /><br />The gunman, identified as Ryan Christopher Palmeter, shot and killed Anolt Joseph “AJ” Laguerre Jr., 19; Jerrald Gallion, 29; and Angela Michelle Carr, 52, before he killed himself.<br /><br />Also, six White former officers pleaded guilty on Aug. 3 to torturing two Black men in Rankin County, Mississippi, among other atrocities.<br /><br />In the Jan. 7 beating death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee, five Black officers were terminated and charged with second-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct and official oppression; one White officer was relieved of duty but not terminated.<br /><br />In Florida, Susan Lorincz, a White woman, was charged with one count of manslaughter with a firearm and one count of assault in the shooting death of a 35-year-old Black mother, Ajike Owens on June 2. Ms. Owens had walked with her son to 58-year-old Ms. Lorincz’s front door, to confront her after she allegedly took an iPad from one of Ms. Owens’ children and threw roller skates at them.<br /><br />And in Akron, Ohio, despite findings by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation that police fired a total of 94 rounds, including a combined 70 shots from four officers, striking 25-year-old Jayland Walker a total of 46 times both before and after his body fell to the ground, a grand jury failed to return an indictment April 17, against any of the eight Akron police officers involved.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="225" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/AP23351840354757-1024x576.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>This image from video released by the City of Memphis shows Tyre Nichols leaning against a car after a brutal attack by five police officers on Jan. 7, 2023, in Memphis, Tenn. Nichols died three days later. The five police officers, all of whom are also Black, were fired and later charged with various state felonies, including second-degree murder. (City of Memphis via AP)</i><br /><br />Mr. Walker was shot down, unarmed, in a hail of gunfire after the young, Black man exited and ran away from his vehicle during a car chase on June 27, 2022.<br /><br />Damien Pickett a Riverboat co-captain in Alabama, was attacked by a group of White people who refused to move from a designated docking area. Mr. Pickett was attacked by several members of the private boat. Then, several Black passengers of the Harriott II (another riverboat) came to Mr. Pickett’s defense, resulting in what’s been termed a brawl, riot, melee, and by some intellectuals, “a cathartic release for Black folks.”<br /><br />“The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us that one of the things that must be done, in this time, is that we must be separated from our former slave masters and their children—because time will prove that they will become more and more disagreeable to live with in peace,” stated the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan during Part 39 of his 2013, 58-week lecture series “The Time and What Must Be Done.”<br /><br />“Unfortunately, race relations will continue to get worse because the government just cannot provide enough food, clothing, shelter and jobs, or justice, for us. And as we sit around, waiting for somebody else to do this for us—and demanding what we feel are our basic rights as so-called citizens—we are making our former slave masters and their children more angry with us; and thus, they are becoming more disagreeable to live with in peace.<br /><br />That’s why the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, ‘We must be separated if we don’t want to continue to suffer great loss,’ continued Minister Farrakhan.</div><div><br /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/AP23031705422085-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Demonstrators hold signs during a protest at Washington Square Park in New York on Jan. 28, 2023, in response to the death of Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by Memphis police during a traffic stop. The beating and death of Nichols by members of a plainclothes anti-crime task force has renewed scrutiny on the squads often involved in a disproportionate number of use of force incidents and civilian complaints. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)</i><br /><br />Progress amid challenges<br /><br />“The educational system is still failing. Prison beds are still being built. Culturally, we are still suffering with these digital wars between Black men and Black women, creating such toxic narratives that are causing the breakup of the family and, ultimately, it is our children who suffer,” said Deric Muhammad, a Houston, Texas-based activist who founded “Smart’n Up” Black Male Summit. The community-based motivational and educational summit is designed to address the unique needs of Black men and boys.<br /><br />Constant attacks by the government of America against Black youth have shaped their environment and thus their condition, according to Deric Muhammad. The year, though trying, has seen some victories, he noted. “But 2023 was what we made it and I believe 2024 will be the same, what we make it,” he stated.<br /><br />He has witnessed a lot of young people make progress in business and believes they have completely given up on the notion or idea that the American educational system is one for them to live up to their highest potential. He also believes that the failure of the system has caused a mere total rejection of it from Black youth, which has played into their favor.<br /><br />“I see a trend among our young people of them wanting to do for self, and the more they want to do for self, the more they are willing to take a risk and try to do for self, the more they see how capable they are of doing for self, and in that they begin to find their God power,” said Deric Muhammad. He believes the entrepreneurial spirit, even young rappers, is something to be applauded.<br /><br />Speaking of rappers, Black people, worldwide, celebrated the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, which grew from Bronx block parties to global domination. Hip-hop’s influence has endured for half a century. In 2023, the world celebrated a genre that has not only shaped music but also impacted fashion, art, and social activism.<br /><br />One of the key challenges for Black people in 2023 is to have paid close attention to Minister Farrakhan’s Saviours’ Day lecture, “The War of Armageddon Has Begun,” stated Student Minister Abdul Haleem Muhammad, Southwest Regional Representative of the Nation of Islam.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/AP23028095129210-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Protesters take over a bridge Friday, Jan. 27, 2023, in Memphis, Tenn., as authorities release police video depicting five Memphis officers beating Tyre Nichols, whose death resulted in murder charges and provoked outrage at the country’s latest instance of police brutality. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)</i><br /><br />From that lecture, the Minister laid out in a global sense the war to end all wars had begun and pointed out its initial stages, he said. The second thing was Minister Farrakhan speaking of the unconstitutional function of the Federal Reserve and the stranglehold that the International bankers have on the country and American taxpayers, and most importantly, Minister Farrakhan warning Black people of their need to be pleasing in the eyes of Allah (God), so that Allah would not have to chastise them out of love for them, and a desire that they make a full break from Satan, and inherit the kingdom of God, said Student Minister Abdul Haleem Muhammad.<br /><br />He highlighted housing, or the lack thereof, as another key challenge for Black people in America in 2023. According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, homelessness in the U.S. hit a record high last year as pandemic aid ran out.<br /><br />Its 2023 Annual Homeless Assessment Report, an annual snapshot of the number of individuals in shelters, temporary housing, and in unsheltered settings, found more than 650,000 people were experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2023, a 12 percent increase from 2022.<br /><br />According to the report, nearly four in 10 people experiencing homelessness identified as Black, African American, or African. People who identify as Black made up just 13 percent of the total U.S. population but comprised 37 percent of all people experiencing homelessness.<br /><br />It goes back to the Federal Reserve and the raising of interest rates, the inability of people to purchase and sell homes, the rise in rental rates and the slowdown in house construction, and, the overall change in the economy, noted Student Minister Abdul Haleem Muhammad.<br /><br />People are working two and three jobs, that can barely pay rent in certain urban areas, which therefore increases those that are considered homeless or the “unhoused.”<br /><br />“Black people are often on the top of all of the bad statistics, and on the bottom of all the good ones, in terms of wealth, income, health disparities, and anytime America catches a cold, Black people catch pneumonia,” he said.<br /><br />Final Call Staff Writer Nisa Islam Muhammad and Final Call Staff contributed to this report.<br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Wisdom House Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12805439406753743723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956583853727789183.post-26350257867589400272023-12-19T15:55:00.003-06:002023-12-19T15:55:37.180-06:00From The Final Call Newspaper<p><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Redistributing the pain and redirecting our dollars</span></b></p>By <a href="https://new.finalcall.com/author/charlene/">Charlene Muhammad, National Correspondent</a><br /> - December 19, 2023<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F12%2F19%2Fredistributing-the-pain-and-redirecting-our-dollars%2F"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Redistributing+the+pain+and+redirecting+our+dollars&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F12%2F19%2Fredistributing-the-pain-and-redirecting-our-dollars%2F&via=thefinalcall"></a><a href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/12/19/redistributing-the-pain-and-redirecting-our-dollars/&media=https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Santa-behind-bars-scaled.jpeg&description=Redistributing+the+pain+and+redirecting+our+dollars"></a><a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=Redistributing+the+pain+and+redirecting+our+dollars%20%0A%0A%20https://new.finalcall.com/2023/12/19/redistributing-the-pain-and-redirecting-our-dollars/"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/12/19/redistributing-the-pain-and-redirecting-our-dollars/&title=Redistributing+the+pain+and+redirecting+our+dollars"></a><a href="https://reddit.com/submit?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/12/19/redistributing-the-pain-and-redirecting-our-dollars/&title=Redistributing+the+pain+and+redirecting+our+dollars"></a><a href="mailto:?subject=Redistributing%20the%20pain%20and%20redirecting%20our%20dollars&body=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/12/19/redistributing-the-pain-and-redirecting-our-dollars/"></a><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/share/link?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/12/19/redistributing-the-pain-and-redirecting-our-dollars/&name=Redistributing%20the%20pain%20and%20redirecting%20our%20dollars"></a><a href="https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/12/19/redistributing-the-pain-and-redirecting-our-dollars/&text=Redistributing+the+pain+and+redirecting+our+dollars"></a><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Santa-behind-bars-scaled.jpeg"><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Santa-behind-bars-681x454.jpeg" width="400" /></a><div><br /></div><div>It has been nine years since the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan issued the clarion call to withhold our frivolous spending during the holiday season as a strategy in the fight for justice and to direct our dollars to Black-owned businesses. Read about the importance of this ongoing campaign.<br /><br /><br />Price-gouging merchants that have taken Christ out of Christmas—which is supposed to be about Jesus, joy, love and happiness—saw a “lot quieter” Black Friday this year.<br /><br />According to Reuters, “Shoppers took to stores across the world on a Black Friday that appeared subdued compared with prior years, looking for discounted electronics, clothing and household goods in the kickoff to the holiday shopping season crucial to big retailers.”<br /><br />“Brokerage TD Cowen lowered its U.S. holiday spending estimate to two percent to three percent growth, from four percent to five percent, as it forecast flat Black Friday traffic, attributing discounts in October and November removed the excitement and urgency of Black Friday,” continued Reuters.<br /><br />According to NIQ (Nielsen Global Connect), which provides analytical data about the habits of consumers, the Black population’s influence will continue to grow as their buying power does—which is projected to reach $1.8 trillion by 2024. In 2019, that amount was $1.4 trillion, higher than the gross domestic product of Mexico, according to the Selig Center for Economic Growth.</div><div><br /><br /><a href="https://store.finalcall.com/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/store-default_ad_728x90.png" width="400" /></a><br /><br />As retailers strategize on how to tap into Black pocketbooks, Black people continue to heed the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s call for a revolution in thinking and action, to put “Christ back into Christ-mas.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="329" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/CxPc4j3XEAEEZN2-1024x843.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br />“The word ‘holiday’ is another way of saying ‘holy day’; and a ‘holiday,’ or holy day, is a day that carries great significance with the people who celebrate it,” stated Minister Farrakhan, during his “Death: The Rider of The Pale Horse” lecture at Mosque Maryam on December 17, 1989.<br /><br />“If we are talking about a simple holiday such as ‘Valentine’s Day,’ or this one’s birthday or that one’s birthday, we might expect some frivolity; or really, maybe some light insanity going on in the celebration. But when you talk about the birthday of the man Jesus:<br /><br />That should be one of the holiest days; not only in the history of America, but it should be one of the holiest days in the history of all humanity—shouldn’t it?” the Minister questioned.<br /><br />What does a “Merry Christmas” have to do with Jesus Christ, the Minister further questioned. “And when you turn on your television, you’re bombarded with ‘buy the new car,’ ‘buy the refrigerator,’ ‘buy the diamond,’ buy this and that. But what does that have to do with Jesus Christ? These things are ‘commercial.’ I saw a pale horse whose rider is death and hell followed closely behind.<br /><br />You have to watch any ‘holy day’ that The Pale Horse sets up because it’s a mockery of The Holy One because The Pale Horse cannot show respect for Divine,” the Minister added.<br /><br />His teacher, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, encouraged Black people to pool their resources, start businesses and enter into international trade and commerce as a nation within a nation.<br /><br />During the historic 1995 Million Man March called by Minister Farrakhan, a glimpse of peace reigned on Monday, Oct. 16, 1995. Nearly two million men gathered in Washington, D.C., and not one arrest or crime was reported.<br /><br />When he encouraged those with money to find a Black business, spend with their own, and keep the money circulating in their neighborhood, Delxino Wilson de Briano was present.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/BBM-Inside-1024x1024.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br />The year before, he had started TAG TEAM Marketing, which operates the powerful Buy Black Movement program. Mr. Wilson de Briano told The Final Call that the Minister’s call for an economic boycott from 2015 on has been right on time.<br /><br />“Our race currently is giving away almost everything we spend. We generate $1.8 trillion in buying power. That’s not just what we earn, but after we pay our taxes, that’s what’s left in spending money,” Mr. de Briano said. Black people hand over 97 percent of that to other racial groups by the latest statistics issued by Nielsen and other sources, he said.<br /><br />“When you look at that pattern, it tells a story that’s devastating. Every other race is spending the majority of their money with their own race, and we’re the only ones that spend the vast majority of every dollar we spend with Walmart, Amazon, Target, at the mall with non-Black retailers,” stated Mr. de Briano.<br /><br />It is devastating because Black people are left with a tiny fraction of the money they work for, and when 50 million Black people in America must split a few percentages of their hard-earned money, that leaves a bleak picture, he argued.<br /><br />“From my view, poverty, underemployment or lack of businesses, all of that is a direct result of our spending,” continued Mr. de Briano. “Where Minister Farrakhan is so on point is that he provides for us direction. He brings these important points to the forefront of our minds. He makes it relevant and he makes it timely; he brings these issues to us in present time,” he added.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="268" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/bigstock-Chained-Up-Money-5-edited.png" width="400" /><br /><br />Mr. de Briano said he’s come to realize that buying during the holidays is going to continue, but Blacks need to redirect that money as much as possible to their people, which he and TAG TEAM Marketing do as a Black-owned and operated company that specializes in marketing and distributing the products and services of Black-owned businesses to Black consumers.<br /><br />“My wife, Debbie, once famously said, ‘It’s not how much money we earn that makes our community rich. It’s where we spend our money that makes our community rich or poor,’” he added.<br /><br />Throughout Minister Farrakhan’s 2015 nationwide “Justice or Else” tour leading up to the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March, he called for “Up With Jesus, Down With Santa,” a boycott of major department stores and the Black people have responded, noted Abdul Qiyam Muhammad, social media director for the Minister.<br /><br />He highlighted that the Minister’s research team known as the Nation of Islam Research Group found that at that time over $600 billion is spent in America on Christmas and Thanksgiving holidays, noted Abdul Qiyam Muhammad. The Minister also called for spending and support with Brown communities as well, he continued.<br /><br />“What we saw as a result of that reality was the spirit of people to participate because during that time there were so many back-to-back killings of us at the hands of the United States police departments across the country,” he continued.<br /><br />According to national analytics and data shared by the Minister during Saviours’ Day 2016, major department stores and outlets, including Apple, Best Buy, Macy’s and others, took a major hit based upon the command that God delivered through the Minister.<br /><br />At least 20 major retailers have said they’re closing U.S. stores in 2023, amounting to 2,847 locations, according to Business Insider.<br /><br />“It’s not exactly the retail apocalypse of prior years, but it’s a shake-up nonetheless,” stated Dominick Reuter in an online article dated October 18. For example, more than 9,300 stores were closing in 2019, including Sears, Kmart, Party City, Walgreens, and Barneys. Payless planned then to close all of its 2,500 stores in what could be the largest retail liquidation in history, reported Business Insider.<br /><br />Recent Capitol One Shopping Research indicates that the United States is home to an estimated 1,150 malls and some sources project that by 2032, there may be as few as 150 malls still in operation.<br /><br />For example, it reported:By some estimates, there were as few as 700 large shopping malls left in the U.S. in 2022.<br />Malls had an 8.7 percent vacancy rate at the end of 2022.<br />An average of 1,170 shopping malls closed every year between 2017 and 2022.<br />The average vacant mall sells at 43 percent below its acquisition price.<br /><br />“Many major retail companies have closed tens of thousands of their locations around the country and naturally, they won’t credit God, through His Messiah, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, for calling forth this, and they’re reaping the pain of it. For those of us who have witnessed and know the call and where it came from, we’re still seeing the residual effects, coupled with all of the other things that the God caused, including the weather,” stated Abdul Qiyam Muhammad.<br /><br />“It was a powerful calling and it united the community,” stated Rev. Nailah Nelson of the Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural and Events Center (the Shrine) in Houston. Together, Black people can win in any situation, and determine who they are and what they do with their money, she told The Final Call.</div><div><br /><img height="229" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Mosque-Invite-half-page-ad-1024x585.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br />The Shrine started its original “Buy Black” marketplace when others were protesting police brutality, the killing of Michael Brown, Jr. in Ferguson, Mo., and all of the deaths that occurred at that time, following the Justice Or Else! movement with Minister Farrakhan. They collaborated with other organizations, including Muhammad Mosque No. 45, the Southwest Regional headquarters of the Nation of Islam, and SHAPE Community Center, to start a movement of withholding Black dollars.<br /><br />The mission of every First Saturday Marketplace was to not only protest and stop all spending, from gas to groceries, with Black dollars, but to give opportunity for local, small Black entrepreneurs a place to showcase their products, explained Rev. Nelson.<br /><br />“It’s not about spending money and we’ve got it all wrong. It’s about sharing and giving, being generous, the act of kindness. It’s not about capitalism,” she stated.<br /><br />She thinks that during the holiday season, it’s very important to rethink what the holiday really means. As a Christian, she said, if people are following those footsteps, their responsibility is to bond closely with friends, family, neighbors and community, and make a positive change in each other’s life.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/cropped-7355da0e-83d4-44a3-.png" width="400" /><br /><br />“I think it’s very important for us to remember that we are a communal people and as we are in this season of Christmas, let us be more like Jesus and spread the love. That is more important and it is something that money cannot buy. However, if you go to buy gifts, by all means, buy Black! Support the Black businesses because in order for them to survive, they need our support,” she added.<br /><br />Black Lives Matter, (now Black Lives Matter Grassroots) in Los Angeles initiated its annual campaign called Black Xmas in 2015 in collaboration with the Nation of Islam. <br /><br />“The Minister, in that call, was actually one of the inspirations for one of the major campaigns of Black Lives Matter Grassroots,” stated Dr. Melina Abdullah, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles and professor of Pan-African Studies at California State University Los Angeles.<br /><br />Black Lives Matter made the connection between the Minister’s call and White supremacist capitalism and police violence, Dr. Abdullah explained. That focus came after the 2014 fatal shooting of 22-year-old John Crawford by police in a Beaver Creek, Ohio, Walmart, after an employee called the police when he was simply looking at merchandise, she noted.<br /><br />“The Minister was absolutely right. We have to be intentional with our economic resources. That’s one of the ways that we exercise power and begin to build ourselves as a community,” Dr. Abdullah told The Final Call.<br /><br />Since then, during Black XMAS (from Black Friday to January 1) is when Black Lives Matter Grassroots works to “build Black” instead of being whipped into a consumer frenzy. They strategize on how to invest their dollars in Black-led organizations that uplift Black people, said Dr. Abdullah.<br /><br />“We also say that this is a period where we should all be moving our money out of corporate banks that finance things like the horror, the genocide, that’s happening in Palestine and move our money out of those banks and into Black-owned banks like One United.<br /><br />So Black XMAS is a period where we say ‘Build Black, Buy Black, Bank Black,’ and we are indebted to the Minister for really prompting us to move forward in that way and we’ve been moving forward since 2015, since that initial call.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="td-pb-row" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; position: relative; width: 1021px;"><div class="td-pb-span8 td-main-content" role="main" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 1px; position: relative; 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She also met with more than 80 civil society groups working on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance affecting Black people, Latinos, Asians, Jewish communities, Indigenous people, migrants, Muslims and Arab communities. Her visit was from Oct. 31 to Nov. 14.<br /><br />“ … it was abundantly clear throughout my visit that many continue to face persistent, multi-faceted and mutually reinforcing forms of systemic racism and racial discrimination,” Ms. K.P. wrote in her 11-page report. “I have heard that initiatives taken by the Government have not yet translated into significant improvements in the lived experiences of the most excluded individuals and do not adequately address the white supremacy, underlying power imbalances and historical drivers which underpin contemporary forms of racism and racial discrimination.”<div><br /><br /><a href="https://store.finalcall.com/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/store-default_ad_728x90.png" width="400" /></a><br /><br />She expressed her concern about the limits of the federal government’s power to address racial discrimination, the coordinated pushbacks against racial justice initiatives and the federal government’s failure to truly commit to key international racial justice standards. She observed that Black communities, in particular, experience persistent systemic racism with roots in colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.</div><div><br /><img src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image350x235cropped.jpg" /></div><div><i>Special Rapporteur Ashwini K.P. Photo: UN News/Pauline Batista</i><br /><br />“One individual I met with described systemic racism in the United States of America as ‘being in the air we breathe,’” she said.<br /><br />Issues found include voter disenfranchisement; racial discrimination in education, food systems, law enforcement and the criminal justice system, migration governance and digital technologies; the elimination of affirmative action in college admissions; poverty and economic inequality; redlining, the lack of affordable quality housing and homelessness, in particular amongst Black and Indigenous populations;<br /><br />Environmental racism, including “sacrifice zones” like cancer alley along the Mississippi River and “Cop City,” the large-scale police training facility being built in Atlanta; inequitable health care and health outcomes; gun violence and hate speech and hate crimes, particularly, anti-Black hate, anti-Asian hate and Islamophobia.<br /><br />The report listed very few recommendations. On the issue of voter disenfranchisement, Ms. K.P. wrote, “I call upon the United States of America to urgently implement the recent recommendations of both the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the Human Rights Committee on this issue, including the full and urgent restoration of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.”<br /><br />On the issue of racially discriminatory food systems, she recommended that the government “takes urgent action to address racially discriminatory food systems and their impact, including racial inequities in food insecurity.”<br /><br />Ms. K.P. will detail a fuller list of concerns and recommendations to the U.S. government in her report to the 56th session of the Human Rights Council in June 2024. Her recommendations will include suggestions on how the listed issues can be addressed, “as well as on how an overarching reparatory justice approach should be taken to address and transform systemic forms of racism that were established by past injustices.”</div><div><br /><img height="300" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/MGN_1280x960_10611P00-BKAXX-1024x768.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>“You can never achieve unity, or E Pluribus Unum, in this country under the doctrine of White supremacy,” Minister Farrakhan writes in his book, “A Torchlight for America.”</i><br /><br />The U.S. allows White supremacy to rule<br /><br />“There’s nothing new in the report that we didn’t already know, nor is there anything new in the solutions,” Student Minister Dr. Abdul Haleem Muhammad, the Southwest Regional Student Minister of the Nation of Islam, said to The Final Call. <br /><br />He quoted from the book, “A Torchlight for America,” written by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, National Representative of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. <br /><br />“The Founding Fathers upheld obedience to God as their symbol while practicing genocide, colonialism and slavery among the native population and our forebears,” Minister Farrakhan writes. “This is not a democracy in the fullest meaning of the word. Racism has to be overcome in order to gain a full expression of E Pluribus Unum (out of the many, one).”<br /><br />“The current American way of life can only produce an apparent unity among Caucasians, because it negates the diversity and beauty of the non-White population. You can never achieve unity, or E Pluribus Unum, in this country under the doctrine of White supremacy,” Minister Farrakhan further writes.<br /><br />“As long as that mindset exists and America does not reject the vision of the Founding Fathers, then America is doomed to failure and the judgment of God,” Dr. Muhammad added.<br /><br />Just a month before Ms. K.P.’s visit, UN international experts on advancing racial justice and equality in the context of law enforcement issued a 32-page report based on an earlier visit in the spring. They listed 29 recommendations at the end of the report.<br /><br />During that spring 2023 visit, Cephus X Johnson and Beatrice X Johnson, affectionately known as “Uncle Bobby” and “Auntie Bee,” respectively, provided testimony to the experts, based on their 14-year experience fighting for justice and advocating for reform, after the killing of their nephew, Oscar Grant III, by a police officer in Oakland, California.<br /><br />They have witnessed three UN visits so far: one in 2010, one in 2015 and the recent one in the spring.<br /><br />“These out-of-country folks come to the United States. They see, they witness, they hear and they take back this information to the United Nations and then they condemn the United States, and yet, nothing changed,” Mr. Johnson said to The Final Call via Zoom.<br /><br />“It’s telling us that the United States is still taking the position to allow White supremacy to rule,” he added.</div><div><br /><img height="300" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/MGN_1280x960_30915P00-JKFRH-1024x768.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>The Congress of Racial Equality conducting a march in memory of the children killed in the Birmingham church bombing in 1963. Photo: MGN Online</i><br /><br />Ms. Johnson only has one question regarding the recent report.<br /><br />“What will be done? We know this. We know everything that’s in that report. We know it; we live it,” she said. “They make these reports, but what will be done?”<br /><br />She spoke to The Final Call from Phoenix, Arizona, where she was on the ground fighting for justice for her sister and her sister’s companion, both of whom were hit by a Caucasian man while they were crossing the street. She accused the police department of helping the man escape accountability and used the situation as an example of blatant injustice in the U.S.<br /><br />“I was told he was never even supposed to see a day in court, because that’s what they do. But if you’re Black or Brown here and if you kill someone, and it could be an accident by vehicular homicide. They’ll try to give you six years off the top,” she said. “So that’s the injustice. That’s the criminal, racial injustice here and all over the country.”<br /><br />Mr. Johnson acknowledged that the UN reports do give exposure to the issues plaguing Black people in the U.S. He urged Black people to continue to stand and fight for change, to make life better for future generations.<br /><br />“What we’re doing is planting a seed in our generation to come that this fight is real, and that you are a human being and you have a right to life, freedom and justice, and that you have to fight for it, because this system does not want to really give it to you,” he said. <br /><br />He described the impending death of White supremacy and how it will fight back like a dying animal, causing many to die in order to bring real freedom, justice and equality to the U.S.<br /><br />“I believe we will win. It’s not going to happen tomorrow, but White supremacy is dying. This racist system is dying,” Mr. Johnson said. “They’re going to do everything they can to try to maintain their power, but it’s going to go. And so we just have to be ready for the war that we’re going to face.”<br /><br />The divine solution<br /><br />The UN, along with countless domestic organizations within the U.S., has issued report after report telling America what she should do to solve the problems within her borders. Despite her own human rights violations, America still parades as the moral police on the world stage. Her hypocrisy is causing a global loss of friendship, as foretold of by the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Eternal Leader of the Nation of Islam.</div><div><br /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/AP20190462039044-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>In this June 19, 2020, file photo, people demonstrate in Chicago, to mark Juneteenth. A national coalition of labor unions, along with racial and social justice organizations, will stage a mass walkout from work July 20, as part of an ongoing reckoning on systemic racism and police brutality in the U.S. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)</i><br /><br />“America has done the worst work of deceiving other peoples and making false friendships with them. Now her turn has come. No one wants to trust her for friendship, for she has deceived many nations,” the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad writes in his book, “The Fall of America.” <br /><br />“America wants everyone to help her bemoan all of her set-backs; but when she causes others to fall … breaks up the countries of other peoples and destroys their independence and freedom, she laughs and prides herself as doing a great thing. She puts her feet upon their economic neck and destroys their independence as a nation,” He adds. “All this now returns to America. The little nations are now awake. They had looked for true friendship from America but instead America deceived them.”<br /><br />The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad pleads with Black people in America to separate from White America. “The Black slave children are victimized by the White slavemaster, because of the condition the White slave-master brought our Black slave-fathers up in. They do not readily hear the right answer to the problem. Regardless, to how I cry in their midst, they are poisoned and mentally dead,” He writes.<br /><br />In analyzing Ms. K.P.’s report, Student Minister Dr. Haleem Muhammad expressed that “instead of becoming an ‘egalitarian kingdom structured on truth, where each of us will be treated with fairness and justice,’ America is devolving into a habitation of devils, a hole of every foul spirit and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.”<br /><br />“And instead of America attempting the uphill road, as outlined in Surah 90 (of the Holy Qur’an), day by day it’s becoming apparent that the best and only answer to the problem is separation, the solution offered by Allah through the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan,” he said.<br /><br />Ms. Johnson agreed that the best solution for Black people in America is to activate in their communities the guidance given by the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.<br /><br />“The solution is in “Message to the Blackman.” … The solution? We have been given the solution as a people. The solution is for us to come together and come out of that White man’s world and his system by building our own nation. That is the solution. There is no other solution,” she said. “And yes, accountability. We should demand accountability while we are building our nation. We should hold police accountable while we are building our nation, but we must be building our nation. We must be separating; we must.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Wisdom House Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12805439406753743723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956583853727789183.post-12563905813129845422023-11-29T14:13:00.001-06:002023-11-29T14:22:55.876-06:00From The Final Call Newspaper<p><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">A beacon of love and laughter Family – Friends gather to honor ‘Brother Josh’</span></b></p>By <a href="https://new.finalcall.com/author/finalcall/">The Final Call</a><br /> - November 28, 2023<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F11%2F28%2Fa-beacon-of-love-and-laughter-family-friends-gather-to-honor-brother-josh%2F"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=A+beacon+of+love+and+laughter+Family+%E2%80%93+Friends+gather+to+honor+%E2%80%98Brother+Josh%E2%80%99&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F11%2F28%2Fa-beacon-of-love-and-laughter-family-friends-gather-to-honor-brother-josh%2F&via=thefinalcall"></a><a href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/11/28/a-beacon-of-love-and-laughter-family-friends-gather-to-honor-brother-josh/&media=https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Brother-Joshua-Farrakhan.jpg&description=A+beacon+of+love+and+laughter+Family+%E2%80%93+Friends+gather+to+honor+%E2%80%98Brother+Josh%E2%80%99"></a><a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=A+beacon+of+love+and+laughter+Family+%E2%80%93+Friends+gather+to+honor+%E2%80%98Brother+Josh%E2%80%99%20%0A%0A%20https://new.finalcall.com/2023/11/28/a-beacon-of-love-and-laughter-family-friends-gather-to-honor-brother-josh/"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/11/28/a-beacon-of-love-and-laughter-family-friends-gather-to-honor-brother-josh/&title=A+beacon+of+love+and+laughter+Family+%E2%80%93+Friends+gather+to+honor+%E2%80%98Brother+Josh%E2%80%99"></a><a href="https://reddit.com/submit?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/11/28/a-beacon-of-love-and-laughter-family-friends-gather-to-honor-brother-josh/&title=A+beacon+of+love+and+laughter+Family+%E2%80%93+Friends+gather+to+honor+%E2%80%98Brother+Josh%E2%80%99"></a><a href="mailto:?subject=A%20beacon%20of%20love%20and%20laughter%20Family%20%E2%80%93%20Friends%20gather%20to%20honor%20%E2%80%98Brother%20Josh%E2%80%99&body=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/11/28/a-beacon-of-love-and-laughter-family-friends-gather-to-honor-brother-josh/"></a><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/share/link?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/11/28/a-beacon-of-love-and-laughter-family-friends-gather-to-honor-brother-josh/&name=A%20beacon%20of%20love%20and%20laughter%20Family%20%E2%80%93%20Friends%20gather%20to%20honor%20%E2%80%98Brother%20Josh%E2%80%99"></a><a href="https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/11/28/a-beacon-of-love-and-laughter-family-friends-gather-to-honor-brother-josh/&text=A+beacon+of+love+and+laughter+Family+%E2%80%93+Friends+gather+to+honor+%E2%80%98Brother+Josh%E2%80%99"></a><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Brother-Joshua-Farrakhan.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Brother-Joshua-Farrakhan-681x770.jpg" width="354" /></a><br /><br /><br />by Toure Muhammad and Shawntell Muhammad<br /><br />CHICAGO—People traveled near and far to commemorate the life of Brother Joshua Nasir Farrakhan, the fifth child of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and Mother Khadijah Farrakhan. The Nation of Islam, family and friends gathered on Nov. 25 with his beloved parents and to celebrate the foresight, commitment and contributions of Bro. Joshua to the Nation of Islam. Bro. Joshua returned to Allah on Nov. 18 at the age of 64.<br /><br />The service, which was also streamed online included words of comfort and the janazah (Islamic funeral service) held at Mosque Maryam in Chicago. Student Minister Ishmael Muhammad, the National Assistant to Minister Farrakhan, delivered a beautiful, reflective message to the hundreds gathered in the sanctuary and the countless others that tuned in via internet webcast.<div><br /><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Brother-Joshua-F-Janazah-Photos-by-Abdul-K-Muhammad-66-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Muhammad Farrakhan shares a moment with his grandfather. Photo: Abdul K. Muhammad</i><br /><br />With words that seemed to resonate with everyone’s sentiment in attendance, Stevie Wonder, who attended the service said he came “because I love him.”</div><div><br /><br /><a href="https://store.finalcall.com/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/store-default_ad_728x90.png" width="400" /></a><br /><br />Attendees included local and national notables such as Rev. Jesse Jackson and his son U.S. Congressman Jonathan L. Jackson (D-Ill.), Muhammad Ali’s aide, companion and friend Gene Kilroy, hip hop pioneers Doug E. Fresh, Chuck D and Eric B, activist Afrika Porter, activist Wallace “Gator” Bradley and Father Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina Catholic Church who thanked God for knowing Bro. Joshua.<br /><br />Father Pfleger said Bro. Joshua had “a heart the size of Soldiers’ Field.”<br /><br />“He’d always tell you exactly what he thought,” Father Pfleger reminisced on a man he said was unapologetically genuine. “He was consistent, always faithful and just a strong brother. I thank God I got to know him. The deposit he made in my life was his commitment, his faithfulness, his love of his father and the love of his father’s work,” he told The Final Call.<br /><br />“We thank God for his blessing, his earnestness, his care, his compassion, and we celebrate him today,” said Rep. Jackson.<br /><br />Mr. Kilroy attributed Joshua Farrakhan with saving his life. Ten years ago, the doctors gave him three months to live. Bro. Joshua called him and less than an hour after the diagnosis, “I got the call from Minister Farrakhan who said, ‘The angel of death isn’t coming for you. You got too much to do.’ I believe in all my heart that if Joshua didn’t make that call, I wouldn’t be here today,” Mr. Kilroy said.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Bro-Joshua-F-jazazah-funeral-photos-by-Donna-Muhammad-54-683x1024.jpg" width="267" /></div><div><i>The legendary Stevie Wonder, Min. Farrakhan and Bro. Mustapha Farrakhan after the janazah service. photos by Donna Muhammad</i><br /><br />Doug E. Fresh, the legendary entertainer and hip hop pioneer, spoke with a heavy heart, remembering Bro. Joshua as a brother beyond titles. “(He was) just a beautiful person. Great heart,” he reflected. “I had to come. There was no way I wasn’t going to make this.”<br /><br />A message for the living<br /><br />Activist Afrika Porter told The Final Call that she grew up with members of the Farrakhan family and she shared countless childhood memories about their Hyde Park memories in the city.<br /><br />“What stands out about Brother Joshua for me was his infectious smile, laughter, and jokes,” recalled Ms. Porter.<br /><br />During his remarks Student Min. Ishmael Muhammad fondly reflected on the many monikers of Bro. Joshua, including “Josh” and “Joshi,” something Ms. Porter could relate to.<br /><br />“Like many of us, I’ve had multiple names over the years, transitioning from Jeri, Jamilah to Afrika, a fact he playfully reminded me of whenever we met. ‘Afrika, who are you today?’ I’m all three of us, I’d respond. I appreciate the impactful program delivery, its style, and the profound takeaways from today. I firmly believe the service isn’t for the dead but for those of us present.”<br /><br />Student Minister Daniel Muhammad of Chicago agreed, calling the janazah service “beautiful.” “Minister Ishmael did a wonderful job lifting the spirits of all the believers, but really giving us a lot of context as to how we should perceive one another as believers but especially the family of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan,” he told The Final Call.<br /><br />Lazette Muhammad of Chicago stated, “It was so much beauty in the words of Brother Ishmael; reminders of the way we live our lives, reminders about how much work that still needs to be done and the beautiful works of the shoulders that we stand on.”<br /><br />Student Minister Joseph Makhandal is the Nation of Islam’s representative to Haiti. He first met Bro. Joshua years ago in the small Caribbean nation as part of a N.O.I. delegation. Student Min. Makhandal translated for the Minister and shared: “Everywhere we would go, Brother Joshua would be there ensuring that the place is secured and that the Minister is drinking his water and really monitoring his pace. It’s almost like he was a doctor to the Minister.”</div><div><br /><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Brother-Joshua-F-Janazah-Photos-by-Abdul-K-Muhammad-Mosque-282-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Min. Farrakhan and Mother Khadijah</i><br /><br />He continued, “This janazah has given me a stronger sense of the mission and also encouraged me and inspired me to do more so that I, personally, can continue the legacy that he has left off in terms of showing care and love to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan in our own ways.”<br /><br />Student Minister Abdul Hakeem Muhammad, the N.O.I. European region representative, expressed his gratitude for the message delivered by Student Min. Ishmael. Having known Bro. Joshua for many years, Student Min. Abdul Hakeem was deeply moved by the heartfelt words he expressed.<br /><br />“The janazah was an incredibly emotional experience, resonating with me,” he said. “I thanked the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and Mother Khadijah for raising such a wonderful son who treated members of the Nation of Islam as family, regardless of their location in the world.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/FCN-Joshua-Farrakhan-Janazah-Repass-Nov.25th-2023-Photos-By-Haroon-Rajaee-135-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Bro. Joshua’s son Muhammad and his family, Jessica, Juan, Muhammad Jr., Louis, Awenasa and Ezekiel. Photos: Haroon Rajaee</i><br /><br />A favorite uncle, friend and helper in the cause<br /><br />Student National Imam Sultan Rahman Muhammad is a great-grandson of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and also serves on the Nation of Islam Shura Executive Council. He recited the janazah prayers in Arabic at the close of the service.<br /><br />“Brother Joshua Farrakhan, may Allah be pleased with him, was named ‘Nasir, the helper, the supporter,’ and he always was that to all he engaged. Everyone who was in his presence received some sort of assistance, whether it was to help them to facilitate any activity or even [his] spirit of joy or happiness, he always has been a helper in that way, of course as well to his father, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan,” Student Imam Sultan stated.<br /><br />He referred to Joshua Farrakhan fondly as “the favorite uncle.”<br /><br />“He would let us get away with almost anything we wanted to. It was time to have fun when Uncle Josh was around. He always had the candy, the music, he always had the vibe of joy with him,” he reflected.</div><div><br /></div><div> <br /><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/FCN-Joshua-Farrakhan-Janazah-Repass-Nov.25th-2023-Photos-By-Haroon-Rajaee-137-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Bro. Joshua Jr. and his children, Nasir, JJ, Issa, Azia and Jalil. Photo: Haroon Rajaee</i><br /><br />Sister Aminah Bayyinah Muhammad serves as the executive administrative assistant to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and also serves on the Shura Executive Council. <br /><br />“I was blessed to have a close working relationship with Brother Joshua in service to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. Since Brother Joshua and Brother Mustapha knew my biological brother, before I knew them, because they went to high school together; he said I was like his little sister, and he endearingly called me, ‘Kimbo.’ There will never be another one like him and I will truly miss him,” Sister Aminah Bayyinah Muhammad shared. <br /><br />Bro. Joshua Muhammad is a son of Student Southern Regional Minister Abdul Sharrieff Muhammad and the host of a popular podcast. He was named after Bro. Joshua Farrakhan. “He was a phenomenal human being. He brought so much transparency to the People’s Podcast. He did seven interviews.<br /><br />He was very honest, he told things that we had never heard before. Not only was he on post for the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad in 1975 when He departed, but there’s so much history with Brother Joshua during the rebuilding phase. It is an honor to know him, and I pray that the Nation and the world begin to know his heart. (He was a) beautiful human being.”</div><div><br /><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/FCN-Joshua-Farrakhan-Janazah-Repass-Nov.25th-2023-Photos-By-Haroon-Rajaee-138-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Sis. Marie Muhammad with her and four of Bro. Joshua’s sons, from left, Joshua Jr., Fard, Muhammad, Louis, and her brother, Student Min. Ishmael.</i><br /><br />Student Min. Abdul Rasul Muhammad is the Final Call General Manager. “Brother Joshua Nasir Farrakhan was one of the most genuine, sincere, beautiful brothers that I ever had the honor to know personally. He loved me tremendously and we had an expression with one another: he called me his little brother or baby brother for the last three decades.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Bro-Joshua-F-jazazah-funeral-photos-by-Donna-Muhammad-33-683x1024.jpg" width="267" /></div><div><i>Hip hop legend Eric B Photo: Donna Muhammad</i><br /><br />Even in tough times, we labored together on multiple projects at The Final Call. We never lost our brotherhood; we never lost our sincere love and appreciation for one another. I treasure him, I thank Allah (God) for him, and I am going to miss him tremendously,” he shared.<br /><br />“I am honored to be a brother who stands on his shoulders, as he was the brother who introduced the audio department to the Final Call Administration Building. Long live the spirit of our brother, Joshua Nasir Farrakhan.”<br /><br />Student Minister Arthur Muhammad of Mosque No. 7 in New York said that Bro. Joshua was a good friend. “To me, he brought the entertainment world, hip-hop in particular—he befriended a lot of them and introduced them to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.<br /><br />He was resourceful, very loving fierce defender of the Teachings, and a caring brother. Student Minister Ishmael hit the nail on the head in terms of Brother Joshua’s contributions by spreading the message through video and audio.”<br /><br />Bro. Arron Muhammad is a longtime member of the Minister’s Executive Team (E-Team) and reflected on his first interaction with Bro. Joshua, which occurred in Chicago during the early days of the rebuilding of the Nation of Islam.<br /><br />“During Saviour’s Day 1981, I worked at the hotel that was across the street from the venue where Saviour’s Day was held and the Muslims stayed at,” explained Bro. Arron Muhammad. That year was the first annual convention held since Min. Farrakhan began rebuilding and restoring the Nation of Islam.</div><div> <br /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Bro-Joshua-F-jazazah-funeral-photos-by-Donna-Muhammad-47-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Father Pfleger greets Student Min. Ishmael Muhammad Photos: Donna Muhammad</i><br /><br />“Prior to this, I had never heard the name ‘Farrakhan.’ I attended Saviour’s Day that year, and when the lecture was over, I saw Brother Joshua at a table duplicating tapes.”<br /><br />He continued, “I ordered books and tapes from Brother Joshua, and I worked graveyard at the hotel. He brought what I ordered and books that I had not ordered to me at my job. My first Holy Qur’an was from Brother Joshua, along with several of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s books and tapes, Brother Jabril Muhammad’s books, and the Honorable Minister Farrakhan’s tapes. I worked graveyard, so I was taking in all this information,” he added.<br /><br />“Brother Joshua and I stayed close since then, and he picked me up from my house and took me to my first Wednesday night study group. I became registered not too long after. I started spending a lot of time, at his house, duplicating tapes. I would take my daughter Cristel, who was about five years old at the time to his house and she played with his daughter, Melia,” recalled Bro. Arron Muhammad.</div><div><br /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Bro-Joshua-F-jazazah-funeral-photos-by-Donna-Muhammad-49-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Hip hop legend Chuck D of Public Enemy greets Min. Farrakhan.</i><br /><br />Yousef Ben Israel, is the son of the late Nasik (Prince) Asiel Ben-Israel, who was the Prime Minister and International Ambassador of The Original African Hebrew Israelite Nation Worldwide. Prince Asiel was longtime friends with Min. Farrakhan.<br /><br />Yousef Ben Israel discussed his first encounter with Bro. Joshua as a teenager. “He definitely represented his father in the very best of ways. My first impression of Brother Joshua is that this man truly has his father’s charisma, spirit and love.<br /><br />He greeted my father with the biggest, warmest hug and kiss on the cheek and said, ‘my big brother, my uncle prince, it’s so good to see you.’ And then he went to greet me and said, ‘that means you are my little brother and don’t you ever forget that. If you need anything, you let me know,’” he reflected.<br /><br />“I’m so grateful for the 64 years to have him in the midst of us to spread the truth, to spread love, to spread peace and to be an example for us.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Bro-Joshua-F-jazazah-funeral-photos-by-Donna-Muhammad-55-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Hip hop pioneer Doug E. Fresh greets Mother Khadijah Farra- khan and Sister Maria Farrakhan. Photos: Donna Muhammad</i><br /><br />Mandene Muhammad is from the Coalition for the Remembrance of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad (CROE). He reflected on Bro. Joshua’s foresight in preserving his father’s teachings. “He had the wherewithal and foresight to get those high-speed recorders and duplicate his father’s lectures,” Mandene Muhammad recounted. “I didn’t have a close relationship with him, but every time I saw him, he made me feel like we did. I thank Allah that I was able to encounter him. He was always personable.”<br /><br />Brother Joshua was also a visionary. Among other things, he encouraged his father to produce the historic 58-part series, “The Time and What Must be Done,” in 2013 and the Minister’s documentary project “My Life’s Journey Through Music,” in 2018.<br /><br />Amidst the tributes, a familiar voice joined the chorus. “Josh was instrumental in pushing the boundaries,” Chuck D, head of the legendary rap group Public Enemy, declared. “He moved us into the era of DVDs and online platforms,” said the iconic emcee.</div><div><br /><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Brother-Joshua-F-Janazah-Photos-by-Abdul-K-Muhammad-Mosque-107-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Father Michael Pfleger bows his head in prayer. Photo: Abdul K. Muhammad</i><br /><br />“Public Enemy doesn’t go around the world without the Nation of Islam and Josh was a big part of that culturally. If a (music) tape goes out there, Josh would say, a tape of the Minister could go. Josh was the first to go into the realm of DVD. Josh was also to bring along the sensibility of maybe this all can go online and not even have to deal with the TV channels. He was thinking like that in the 90s,” Chuck D said.<br /><br />From the infectious smiles of childhood to the foresight that propelled Minister Farrakhan’s teachings into the digital age, the commemorative service stood as a testament to a life well-lived and a legacy that transcended generations, religions and ethnicity.<br /><br />Final Call Staff Writer Tariqah Muhammad and Contributing Writer Michael Z. Muhammad contributed to this report.</div><div><br /></div><div><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Brother-Joshua-F-Janazah-Photos-by-Abdul-K-Muhammad-Mosque-275-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /><br /><i>Bro. Joshua Farrakhan was a great helper to his father and the Nation of Islam.</i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Brother-Joshua-F-Janazah-Photos-by-Abdul-K-Muhammad-Mosque-278-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Bro. Joshua’s niece reads program.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Brother-Joshua-F-Janazah-Photos-by-Abdul-K-Muhammad-Mosque-282-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Brother Joshua F Janazah Photos by Abdul K Muhammad (Mosque)</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IMG_4176-786x1024.jpg" width="307" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img height="225" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IMG_9690-Andrea-1024x575.jpg" width="400" /><br /><i>The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson was in attendance at the service honoring Bro. Joshua Farrakhan. Photo: Andrea Muhammad</i><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://store.finalcall.com/collections/how-to-eat-to-live"></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><br /></div></div>Wisdom House Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12805439406753743723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956583853727789183.post-9634751063647253872023-11-14T09:35:00.003-06:002023-11-14T09:35:57.616-06:00From The Final Call Newspaper<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">‘This is a textbook case of genocide As the slaughter of Palestinians continues, demands grow to hold Israel and the West accountable</span></b><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span>By <a href="https://new.finalcall.com/author/brian/">Brian E. Muhammad, Staff Writer</a><br /> - November 14, 2023<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F11%2F14%2Fthis-is-a-textbook-case-of-genocide-as-the-slaughter-of-palestinians-continues-demands-grow-to-hold-israel-and-the-west-accountable%2F"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=%E2%80%98This+is+a+textbook+case+of+genocide+As+the+slaughter+of+Palestinians+continues%2C+demands+grow+to+hold+Israel+and+the+West+accountable&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F11%2F14%2Fthis-is-a-textbook-case-of-genocide-as-the-slaughter-of-palestinians-continues-demands-grow-to-hold-israel-and-the-west-accountable%2F&via=thefinalcall"></a><a href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/11/14/this-is-a-textbook-case-of-genocide-as-the-slaughter-of-palestinians-continues-demands-grow-to-hold-israel-and-the-west-accountable/&media=https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/AP23311522622495.jpg&description=%E2%80%98This+is+a+textbook+case+of+genocide+As+the+slaughter+of+Palestinians+continues%2C+demands+grow+to+hold+Israel+and+the+West+accountable"></a><a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=%E2%80%98This+is+a+textbook+case+of+genocide+As+the+slaughter+of+Palestinians+continues%2C+demands+grow+to+hold+Israel+and+the+West+accountable%20%0A%0A%20https://new.finalcall.com/2023/11/14/this-is-a-textbook-case-of-genocide-as-the-slaughter-of-palestinians-continues-demands-grow-to-hold-israel-and-the-west-accountable/"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/11/14/this-is-a-textbook-case-of-genocide-as-the-slaughter-of-palestinians-continues-demands-grow-to-hold-israel-and-the-west-accountable/&title=%E2%80%98This+is+a+textbook+case+of+genocide+As+the+slaughter+of+Palestinians+continues%2C+demands+grow+to+hold+Israel+and+the+West+accountable"></a><a href="https://reddit.com/submit?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/11/14/this-is-a-textbook-case-of-genocide-as-the-slaughter-of-palestinians-continues-demands-grow-to-hold-israel-and-the-west-accountable/&title=%E2%80%98This+is+a+textbook+case+of+genocide+As+the+slaughter+of+Palestinians+continues%2C+demands+grow+to+hold+Israel+and+the+West+accountable"></a><a href="mailto:?subject=%E2%80%98This%20is%20a%20textbook%20case%20of%20genocide%20As%20the%20slaughter%20of%20Palestinians%20continues,%20demands%20grow%20to%20hold%20Israel%20and%20the%20West%20accountable&body=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/11/14/this-is-a-textbook-case-of-genocide-as-the-slaughter-of-palestinians-continues-demands-grow-to-hold-israel-and-the-west-accountable/"></a><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/share/link?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/11/14/this-is-a-textbook-case-of-genocide-as-the-slaughter-of-palestinians-continues-demands-grow-to-hold-israel-and-the-west-accountable/&name=%E2%80%98This%20is%20a%20textbook%20case%20of%20genocide%20As%20the%20slaughter%20of%20Palestinians%20continues,%20demands%20grow%20to%20hold%20Israel%20and%20the%20West%20accountable"></a><a href="https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/11/14/this-is-a-textbook-case-of-genocide-as-the-slaughter-of-palestinians-continues-demands-grow-to-hold-israel-and-the-west-accountable/&text=%E2%80%98This+is+a+textbook+case+of+genocide+As+the+slaughter+of+Palestinians+continues%2C+demands+grow+to+hold+Israel+and+the+West+accountable"></a><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/AP23311522622495.jpg"><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/AP23311522622495-681x454.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><i>Palestinians evacuate survivors after Israeli airstrikes on buildings in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Nov. 7. Photo: AP Photo/Adel Hana</i><br /><br /><br />The Zionist State of Israel continues to exact excruciating collective punishment, ethnic cleansing, and genocide on the Palestinian people, charge human rights advocates, global activists, and international experts. As rivers of blood flow in Gaza and the West Bank at the hands of the occupying army and roguish Jewish settlers, legal experts have presented a legal brief showing how the U.S., Britain, and members of the collective West can face charges of complicity for aiding and abetting genocide, and not involving processes to stop it.<br /><br />An emergency legal briefing paper titled “Israel’s Unfolding Crime of Genocide of the Palestinian People & U.S. Failure to Prevent and Complicity in Genocide” was issued on October 18 by The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR).<br /><br />“There is a plausible and credible case, based on powerful factual evidence, that Israel is attempting to commit, if not actively committing, the crime of genocide in the occupied Palestinian territory, and specifically against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip,” said the document’s introduction.<br /><br />Some analysts said that whether Israel is actively or intending to engage in genocide, over the month of the current war, Israeli leaders’ rhetoric expressed an intention for it.</div><div> <br /><br /><a href="https://store.finalcall.com/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/store-default_ad_728x90.png" width="400" /></a><br /><br />“You’ve had numerous statements from the most senior levels of the Israeli government … Israeli military … leading politicians from across the Israeli political spectrum … of parliament …. which are all indisputably genocidal in nature,” said Mouin Rabbani, a Middle East analyst. <br /><br />“Regarding what Israel is actually doing, I think there is sufficient evidence to at least warrant an investigation by, for example, the International Criminal Court,” said Mr. Rabbani. He expressed doubt in the virility of the ICC which has been the focus of resentment and disappointment in the slowness of its chief Prosecutor Karim Khan to assertively act on the Palestinian question.<br /><br />“But there does appear to be a growing number of authoritative specialists in not only international law, but specifically in genocide, who have been making statements, either that Israel is conducting itself with genocidal intent, or actually is already guilty of the crime,” said Mr. Rabbani.<br /><br />Since the start of the present war, Israeli forces killed over 11,000 Palestinians under the pretext of completely obliterating Hamas, the Palestinian resistance group. Israel holds Hamas solely responsible for 1,400 Israelis killed and over 200 taken captive in the unprecedented Oct. 7 attack on occupier settlements.<br /><br />Since the current war began, Israel doubled down on a 16-year blockade in Gaza by blocking food, water, and fuel from the area, forcing deadly interference in life-sustaining and life-saving functions of hospitals, desalination plants, and infrastructure, subsequently killing many. Israeli officials dismissed the carnage as collateral damage of an extreme degradation campaign to eliminate Hamas. However, analysts argue total eradication is unrealistic because Hamas exists throughout the Arab world.<br /><br />Furthermore, it appears the only eradication in the war is ordinary Palestinians. War opponents argue the disproportionality of Palestinian civilian deaths is excessive. Some see it as another sign that what Israel—backed by America—is doing in the name of “erasing” Hamas is extermination, according to the Geneva Convention on Genocide.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/AP23311243390440-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Rafah, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)</i><br /><br />It was the first human rights treaty adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948 and is considered the foundation of the international human rights system. War opponents argue the disproportionality of Palestinian civilian deaths is excessive. Some see it as another sign that the real aim of Israel, in the name of “erasing” Hamas is Palestinian extermination, according to the Geneva Convention on Genocide.<br /><br />The convention defines genocide as committing the following acts with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group:<br /><br />(a) Killing members of the group.<br /><br />(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group.<br /><br />(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.<br /><br />(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.<br /><br />(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.<br /><br />Palestine, Israel, and the U.S. are signatories to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which obligates all 153 signatories to prevent and punish genocide. The convention criminalizes not just the commission of, but incitement, attempts to commit, and complicity in genocide.<br /><br />The complicity of America and Western powers who fund and provide weaponry to Israel are complicit, say experts. Some cite the U.S. failure to use the leverage it holds to influence Israeli negative actions toward the Palestinians. Observers argue it’s absurd to push billions of U.S. taxpayer monies to Israel and act powerless to hold it accountable.<br /><br />Palestine, Israel, and America are signatories to the Convention which obligates all 153 signatories to prevent and punish genocide. The Convention criminalizes not just the commission of, but incitement, attempts to commit, and complicity in genocide.<br /><br />America and Western powers funding and providing weaponry to Israel renders them complicit in the crime of genocide, experts argue. Some cite the U.S. failure to use the leverage it holds to influence Israeli actions toward the Palestinians. Observers also argue it’s absurd to provide billions of U.S. taxpayer monies to Israel and act powerless to hold it accountable. <br /><br />Washington has moved from its usual “see no evil, hear no evil” posture to a “see the evil but powerless to stop the evil” position, despite the annual $3.8 billion unconditional check it cuts for Tel Aviv. However, a wide range of voices are saying “enough is enough” and Israel must be held accountable. Advocates and change agents across the globe are calling America and Israel out.<br /><br />The U.S. delivers lip profession toward Palestinians and notoriously shields Israel from body blows of criticism. The West allows the destruction of Gaza, the massacre of children, and the forced displacement of survivors.<br /><br />The collective West is destroying its credibility because of its unconditional backing of the Israeli regime, according to some observers.<br /><br />“Because of their support for the #GazaHolocaust, the collective West has lost the respect of the international community,” said Seyed Mohammad Marandi, political analyst and professor at the University of Tehran, in a Nov. 8 remark on X (Twitter). <br /><br />“This unprecedented Israeli extermination of Gazans carried out live before the eyes of the world has only been made possible by these diabolical regimes,” he added. <br /><br />“Those who survive the Gaza Holocaust are ethnically cleansed,” said Mr. Marandi. “NEVER FORGET: Both the holocaust and the ethnic cleansing are fully backed by the collective West,” he posted.<br /><br />As Israel advanced its ground offensives in Gaza on Nov. 10, tanks and snipers surrounded several hospitals in Gaza, reported Al Jazeera. Health officials said Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital—the largest—in Gaza City was attacked five times in less than 24 hours. The Zionist State alleges that Hamas houses a command center and underground tunnels at the site, which hospital officials and Hamas vehemently refute.<br /><br />“This is false, these are utter lies,” Muhammad Abu Salmiya, director of al-Shifa told Al Jazeera. “This is a civilian hospital. We cater to more than 1.5 million Gazans,” he added.<br /><br />“The Israeli occupation forces are fully aware that this is a totally safe area. They are certain that there is no command center or any tunnels under these hospitals,” Mr. Salmiya said. <br /><br />On the same day, at least 50 Palestinians were killed after Israeli missiles and artillery pounded a Gaza school sheltering internally displaced people. In another incident, more injuries and fatalities occurred on the main road to southern Gaza, bombarded while Palestinians escaped Israeli attacks in the north. <br /><br />“I can’t even count,” lamented one survivor. “The ones I brought to the hospital myself are five [martyrs],” he said. “I’m sure there are many more coming behind me.”<br /><br />Al Jazeera reported that Israeli authorities assured people the Salah al-Din Road was a secure route to use. Another survivor said many were injured and killed where the missiles struck.<br /><br />“We are helping our fellow Gazans … elders … disabled, women and children. The Israeli warplanes fired at women and children. Their bodies were cut in pieces; we cannot even collect what is left of them,” he said. “Why would you throw bombs at civilians after you specifically told them to leave Gaza City.”<br /><br />International and humanitarian law gives comprehensive and detailed protection to civilians and specific institutions during war. Israel’s indiscriminate bloodshed and brutal blasting of prohibited targets like schools, mosques, churches, hospitals and homes is more than shock opera for terror’s sake. As far as war rules, Israel has outright violated the principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution and embarked on a widespread and systematic attack on Gaza’s civilian population, critics argue.<br /><br />International experts say the extremity of Israeli attacks has been the modus operandi of the settler colonial state that lends to allegations of genocide. Although, the concept of genocide has been the subject of political abuse, say some international law experts, the mass slaughter of Palestinians leaves no ambiguity.<br /><br />It is comparable to the roots of America as a settler colonial state that systematically removed the indigenous Native Americans from their lands onto marginalized reservations. It is also redolent to the same Europeans enslaving Africans and currently controlling them in colony-like ‘hoods throughout the U.S. under systematic oppression.<br /><br />Israel in its settler colonial ideology practiced decades of systematic persecution and purging of Palestinians based entirely on their status as Arabs.<br /><br />“In the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, homes are seized and reassigned based entirely on race, and violent settler pogroms are accompanied by Israeli military units. Across the land, apartheid rules,” said Craig Mokhiber, a human rights lawyer and former director of the New York Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.</div><div><br /></div><div><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/AP23312530547839-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Palestinians inspect the damage of a destroyed mosque following an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Nov. 8. Photo: AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman</i><br /><br />“This is a textbook case of genocide,” said Mr. Mokhiber, in an open resignation letter to the UN. He quitin angst over successive failures of the UN to end the “genocide unfolding before our eyes” by Israel. His letter expressed that the European, ethno-nationalist, settler colonial project in Palestine entered its final phase toward destroying the last remnants of indigenous Palestinian life in Palestine. What’s more, America, the UK, and much of Europe, are wholly complicit in the horrific assault, he argued. <br /><br />“Not only are these governments refusing to meet their treaty obligations ‘to ensure respect’ for the Geneva Conventions, but they are in fact actively arming the assault, providing economic and intelligence support, and giving political and diplomatic cover for Israel’s atrocities,” wrote Mr. Mokhiber.<br /><br />America professes to be the friend and defender of peace-loving and freedom-loving people. However, her unholy alliance with Israel, despite its repressive system against Palestinians shows her claim is false. Israel’s usurping land, apartheid control of movement, forceful removal, genocidal practice and bloodthirst toward Palestinians underwritten by America undermines the future of both nations. Both parties were warned by scriptures and Divine Warners that there is no favorable endgame.<br /><br />The Holy Qur’an, the Islamic book of scripture, warns that those who do not heed good advice are doomed. The law of Moses condemns the unjust taking of lives. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan along with his teacher, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad of the Nation of Islam warns that no individual nor nation can escape the law of justice today. Both Divine Servants of Allah (God) teach that the world is in the day of God’s Judgment and that the world is in a time when the consequences of deeds, individual and national, cannot be averted except if there is repentance.<br /><br />In part 2 of his timely yearlong 2013 broadcast called, “The Time and What Must Be Done,” Minister Farrakhan discussed the moral compass that applies to the current U.S.-Israel-Palestine crisis. “I want our government to see the drones that have gone into Afghanistan; the ‘shock and awe’ of America’s bombers, and the bombs that fell in Iraq on the basis of a lie!” said Minister Farrakhan. “I want us to think about the drones that were in Pakistan, in Yemen, in Somalia—of the men, the women, the children that were slaughtered; of families destroyed,” he said.<br /><br />“Do you think that only Americans know how to love their children? Only Americans feel the pain of loss of our children? No, no, no! Every human being on the Earth feels such loss … Yet, we can walk away from such slaughter, and call it ‘collateral damage’?” reasoned Minister Farrakhan.<br /><br />Just as Americans feel the pain of watching children slaughtered in mass killings within America; Minister Farrakhan said we would feel the pain of the Iraqis, the Afghans, the Yemenis, the Somalis, and the Palestinians dying by American-made bombs. Each time Israel embarks on bombing campaigns America commits to “replace every bomb” that the Israeli Defense Forces dropped. <br /><br />“Oh America, you are blinded, and that is why we must talk about ‘The Time and What Must Be Done!’ America will never have ‘enough’ ‘guns,’ ‘weapons of war’ to satiate her bloodlust,” said Minister Farrakhan.<br /><a href="https://store.finalcall.com/collections/how-to-eat-to-live"></a><br /><br /> </div><div><br /></div>Wisdom House Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12805439406753743723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956583853727789183.post-34647759129078755602023-11-07T18:05:00.003-06:002023-11-07T18:07:38.144-06:00From The Final Call Newspaper<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Concerns rise that the Middle East is slipping gravely close to a wider war</span></b><br /><br />By <a href="https://new.finalcall.com/author/brian/">Brian E. Muhammad, Staff Writer</a><br /> - November 7, 2023<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F11%2F07%2Fconcerns-rise-that-the-middle-east-is-slipping-gravely-close-to-a-wider-war%2F"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Concerns+rise+that+the+Middle+East+is+slipping+gravely+close+to+a+wider+war&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F11%2F07%2Fconcerns-rise-that-the-middle-east-is-slipping-gravely-close-to-a-wider-war%2F&via=thefinalcall"></a><a href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/11/07/concerns-rise-that-the-middle-east-is-slipping-gravely-close-to-a-wider-war/&media=https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/AP23309398695214.jpg&description=Concerns+rise+that+the+Middle+East+is+slipping+gravely+close+to+a+wider+war"></a><a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=Concerns+rise+that+the+Middle+East+is+slipping+gravely+close+to+a+wider+war%20%0A%0A%20https://new.finalcall.com/2023/11/07/concerns-rise-that-the-middle-east-is-slipping-gravely-close-to-a-wider-war/"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/11/07/concerns-rise-that-the-middle-east-is-slipping-gravely-close-to-a-wider-war/&title=Concerns+rise+that+the+Middle+East+is+slipping+gravely+close+to+a+wider+war"></a><a href="https://reddit.com/submit?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/11/07/concerns-rise-that-the-middle-east-is-slipping-gravely-close-to-a-wider-war/&title=Concerns+rise+that+the+Middle+East+is+slipping+gravely+close+to+a+wider+war"></a><a href="mailto:?subject=Concerns%20rise%20that%20the%20Middle%20East%20is%20slipping%20gravely%20close%20to%20a%20wider%20war&body=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/11/07/concerns-rise-that-the-middle-east-is-slipping-gravely-close-to-a-wider-war/"></a><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/share/link?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/11/07/concerns-rise-that-the-middle-east-is-slipping-gravely-close-to-a-wider-war/&name=Concerns%20rise%20that%20the%20Middle%20East%20is%20slipping%20gravely%20close%20to%20a%20wider%20war"></a><a href="https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/11/07/concerns-rise-that-the-middle-east-is-slipping-gravely-close-to-a-wider-war/&text=Concerns+rise+that+the+Middle+East+is+slipping+gravely+close+to+a+wider+war"></a><br /><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/AP23309398695214.jpg"><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/AP23309398695214.jpg" width="400" /></a><div><br /><br />To the thousands of Palestinians slaughtered, injured, and displaced in weeks of Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip and increasingly in the occupied West Bank, there has only been one unified message coming from Western politicians, warmongers, and conflict profiteers who wax rich from blood-soaked theaters of war: “No Ceasefire!”<br /><br />At presstime the carnage suffered by the Palestinians was approaching 10,000 deaths and nearly 25,000 injured. Tens of thousands of justice activists, anti-war voices and change agents are on the streets worldwide demanding a ceasefire. An estimated 100,000 people attended the National March for Palestine in Washington DC on Nov. 4.<br /><br />They amplified the message “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” and said President Biden has “blood on his hands” for continuing the U.S. “unwavering support” of the Zionist state of Israel, which they say is genocide of Palestinians.<br /><br />Even though human rights experts from the United Nations and international organizations are echoing the demand for peace, events are falling deeper into fire. Observers and analysts say the Middle East is igniting dangerously closer to wider conflict.</div><div><br /><a href="https://store.finalcall.com/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/store-default_ad_728x90.png" width="400" /></a><br /><br />“The possibility for a regional escalation is huge,” said activist and investigative journalist Eugene Puryear. “I think we’re seeing how especially in the broader Middle East, Palestine is almost like the heart,” he said. “The center of a broader circulatory system that is connected to almost all of the other issues in the Arab world,” he added.<br /><br />There are fears concerning to what extent the Arab world may be aflame militarily. Forces in the region are positioning themselves as the onslaught of Palestinians continues. Mass demonstrations in the Arab streets are in lockstep with the Palestinian plight. Across the region resistance fighters from nearby countries have entered the fray.<br /><br />When Hamas lodged its surprise attack on the Israeli occupier area on Oct. 7, and Israel launched its corridor of destruction in Gaza, combat engagements with Hezbollah fighters at Israel’s northern border with Lebanon also started. Then Houthi Ansarullah forces from Yemen officially joined the war, firing several missiles toward Israel. In Algeria, with a unanimous 100/100 vote, lawmakers authorized President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to also enter the conflict, and back Gaza, reported Albawaba news.<br /><br />In Nov. 3 remarks, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said: “All options are on the table” against Israel. To avoid a regional war depends on stopping Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip, he warned. Specifically to America, he said stopping Israel in Gaza is paramount because the skirmishes on the Lebanese front can easily escalate into wider war.<br /><br />“You, the Americans, can stop the aggression against Gaza because it is your aggression. Whoever wants to prevent a regional war, and I am talking to the Americans, must quickly halt the aggression on Gaza,” Mr. Nasrallah said. “You, the Americans, know very well that if war breaks out in the region, your fleets will be of no use, nor will fighting from the air be of any benefit, and the one who will pay the price will be … your interests, your soldiers and your fleets,” he added.<br /><br />Days before, the United States further ramped up its military game in the region. President Biden’s administration, as one of the loudest voices against a total ceasefire has pressed Congress for $14 billion-plus in military funding for Israel. The money is an “emergency supplement” to the regular annual bag of $3.8 billion the Zionist state already receives which are separate from the costs of added munitions and two aircraft carriers equipped with planes and thousands of American soldiers sent to the eastern Mediterranean Sea in early October.<br /><br />Additionally, in the mix, the volume of antagonism between the U.S. and Iran is up. The region appears to be tipping past the edge.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/AP23306772649775-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>A man sits on the rubble as others wander among debris of buildings that were targeted by Israeli airstrikes in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)</i><br /><br />Since the Gaza war started there were over 30 attacks on the U.S. military in the region that began on October 17. Washington blamed Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria. An Oct. 26 statement by U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III., said President Biden authorized fire play in response to the series of attacks.<br /><br />“The United States does not seek conflict and has no intention nor desire to engage in further hostilities, but these Iranian-backed attacks against U.S. forces are unacceptable and must stop,” said Secretary Austin. An American contractor died from a cardiac incident while sheltering in place, and 21 U.S. soldiers suffered minor injuries in the attacks, he said.<br /><br />The military head accused Iran of hiding its hand to deny any role in attacks on U.S. personnel and threatened that if “Iran’s proxies” continue with more attacks, the U.S. will not hesitate to take further measures.<br /><br />On the timing of the military action, Secretary Austin said the strikes were intended “solely” for U.S. self-defense in Iraq and Syria. “They are separate and distinct from the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, and do not constitute a shift in our approach to the Israel-Hamas conflict,” he said. “We continue to urge all state and non-state entities not to take action that would escalate into a broader regional conflict.”<br /><br />Anti-war opponents disagree with the defense secretary’s claim that attacks targeting U.S. personnel are unrelated to the Gaza crisis. “He’s totally wrong,” said Madea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK, the pro-peace and social justice organization. “There is a tremendous connection between the groups in the region … the skirmishes that are happening in Syria … in Lebanon, that are connected to this horrific massacre going on in Gaza,” she told The Final Call.<br /><br />There are groups in the region having a hard time sitting quietly while witnessing their brothers and sisters in the Muslim world being viciously attacked. Ms. Benjamin said Americans should be appalled that the U.S. is giving the green light to Israel for the bombings, land invasion, and the $14 billion package when so many domestic needs are unmet. “The American people should really be contacting our members of Congress, and going out in the streets in these demonstrations,” she said.<br /><br />Ms. Benjamin, who has been exerting pressure on U.S. lawmakers to sign on to the universal call for a ceasefire, also believes there is a serious threat of a regional war that could certainly involve Iran.<br /><br />Mr. Puryear said that for reasons looking from a more birds-eye view of the region, Iran is being framed as the main aggressor. He explained that the U.S. and Israel have been aiming for Iran for years and are using the current conflict as a pretext to continue their efforts.<br /><br />He reasons that Washington and Tel Aviv want to maintain Western hegemony over the Middle East and see Iran as a major obstacle, and with Tehran’s growing relations with China and Russia, an even more formidable opponent.<br /><br />Explaining what is at stake, Mr. Puryear said they see the geopolitical project they tried to establish in the Mideast to control oil and the commercial crossroads of the world and Eurasia, which is centered on Israel, its occupation of Palestine, and influence on pro-Western governments, threatened.<br /><br />The concern is “that all of that could unravel,” said Mr. Puryear. “I think they’re willing to use overwhelming force, if necessary, to try to prevent a new Middle East, which has already been coming to the forefront,” he added.<br /><br />He pointed out the rise of Iran includes its rapprochement with longtime regional foe Saudi Arabia and both joining the BRICS alliance changed things. Although the U.S. sees beyond Palestine as a priority, when the resistance rose and fought back on Oct. 7, those chess pieces were knocked off the board, some observers noted.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/AP23306387586566-1.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>This photo released by the Israeli military on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023, shows ground operations inside the Gaza Strip. (Israel Defense Forces via AP)</i><br /><br />“Now the possibility that the sort of U.S.-led, U.S.-centric, imperialist setup in the Middle East could be collapsing … and I don’t think they want to allow that,” said Mr. Puryear.<br /><br />For America to remain “ironclad” with the Zionist State adds to its own trouble. Before the crisis reached this level of distress, there were years of warnings to the U.S. and Israel by the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and his National Representative and top student, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam.<br /><br />Both of these Divine Servants of Allah (God) warned that America is under Divine Judgment for her errant foreign policies and own sordid domestic policies, namely the genocide of the Indigenous Native Americans and persistent oppression of the Black once slave—which has never been corrected by way of justice.<br /><br />In a November 18, 2018, press conference from Iran, while answering a question about U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, Minister Farrakhan warned America concerning her direction.<br /><br />“My teacher, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, taught me years ago that the policies of our government would bring about a war in the Middle East that would be a trigger to the greatest war that has ever been, the War of Armageddon, spoken of in the Bible,” said Minister Farrakhan.<br /><br />“A reporter asked my teacher: Is America going to remain in the Middle East? And my teacher said America is going to come out of the Middle East. And when they asked about war, he said, ‘Yes, there would be war.’ And he said, ‘bloodshed in this area would be much,’” said Minister Farrakhan.<br /><br />When Minister Farrakhan gave these remarks, President Donald Trump was in power. However, his warning is as applicable in 2023 with Mr. Biden or whoever will win the upcoming 2024 presidential race.<br /><br />“I am begging our president and the government that supports him to be very, very careful because if the trigger of war in the Middle East is pulled by you, using your surrogates at the insistence of Israel, then the war will trigger another kind of war, which will bring China, Russia, all of the nations into a war and it bothers me to say this to you, Mr. President, but the war will end America as you know it,” warned Minister Farrakhan.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Wisdom House Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12805439406753743723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956583853727789183.post-9305239515469121802023-11-01T19:26:00.000-05:002023-11-01T19:26:10.670-05:00From The Final Call Newspaper<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan Issues a Statement on the Lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Simon Wiesenthal Center</b></span></p>By <a href="https://new.finalcall.com/author/hmlf-fcn/">The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan</a><br /> - 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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Johnathan Greenblatt (ADL CEO/National Director), The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), Rabbi Abraham Cooper (SWC Assoc. Dean/Director of Global Social Action), which was filed on October 16, 2023, in the Federal Court of the Southern District of New York for 1st Amendment violations and for defamation. To read the press release and case documents, please visit NOI.org/NOIvADL.<div><br /><img height="298" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/NOI-Flag-copy.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful. I Bear Witness That There Is No God But Allah. And I Bear Witness That Muhammad Is His Messenger.<br /><br />As-Salaam Alaikum. This is Minister Louis Farrakhan, the National Representative of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Eternal Leader of the Nation of Islam, and that great preacher of Freedom, Justice and Equality to the Black man and woman of America, to the Black man and woman in the Caribbean, and Central and South America, in Africa, in the Isles of the Pacific, and to our Brown and Red and Yellow brothers and sisters. Wherever you are, this message is for you.<br /><br />On the 28th Anniversary of the Million Man March, October 16th, we filed a lawsuit against the ADL and The Simon Wiesenthal Center, against their leadership, because our desire, now, is to state our case before the courts and before the world. We are not what they have said we are—and we intend to prove such.<br /><br />This is probably the most sensitive time in our struggle for equal justice, freedom, and equality. For nearly 40 years we have withstood the awful charges that have come against me and those who are in the Nation of Islam under the leadership of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and myself.</div><div> <br /><br /><a href="https://store.finalcall.com/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/store-default_ad_728x90.png" width="400" /></a><br /><br />We have borne a lot in these last 40 years in the absence of our great leader and teacher, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. And he, Elijah Muhammad, prepared me to receive the insults, the sneers, being evil spoken of, and my and our reputation being scarred and bruised by the false charges of “anti-Semitism” by the Anti-Defamation League. And with their influence over the media, these false charges have been spread throughout the Earth. <br /><br />All over the world, I and we have been hated; and I and we are hated the same today. I have been denied entrance into several countries and have been labeled as “persona non grata.” I am presently being called “the Godfather of hate,” and I am being called “one of the leading anti-Semites in America.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/HEM_1970-1-813x1024.jpg" width="318" /></div><div><i>The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad</i><br /><br />Myself and my family, and those who follow the Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad under my leadership, have suffered and been scapegoated, and have lost positions in media, lost positions in business, because of the vileness of the charge even though we are saying that which is absolutely the truth.<br /><br />In the Holy Qur’an it reads, “And mix not up truth with falsehood nor hide the truth while you know.” The Honorable Elijah Muhammad told us and taught us that hiding the truth leads to all kinds of mischief-making and vile behavior, hatred, and even death. So we thought it is now time for us to legally respond to these false charges.<br /><br />Two thousand years ago in the Roman Empire, the Jews of that day caused the Roman authorities to join with them to bring false charges against Jesus, as he was the last prophet to the Jews. Two thousand years later, some members of the Jewish community, the ADL and others, have met with White House officials and some members of the United States government to formulate a strategy that would enable them to make laws and policies that would allow them to arrest me or others who are falsely accused of being “anti-Semitic.”</div><div> <br /><img src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Holy_Quran_3D-1.png" /></div><div><br /><br />My teacher told me, “Take plenty, brother.” And he told me that his Teacher, Master Fard Muhammad, told him, “You must take plenty.” But why? You must take plenty if you are being made to be a saviour, a redeemer, a reconciler, a resurrector. You must have the patience through your suffering to bring about the salvation and the transformation of the lives of those to whom you are missioned.<br /><br />The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught me of the three most hated persons in the world. The first, being a rich person who wishes to share his riches with those less fortunate; second, those who are considered rich in knowledge and wisdom, who want to share that knowledge and that wisdom with the ignorant. And lastly, the most hated of all persons is the man to whom the Holy Qur’an is revealed.<br /><br />Why? Because the revelation of the last great book of prophecy, and teaching the Honorable Elijah Muhammad the meaning of all of the prophecies that are found in the Bible and the Holy Qur’an, gives that man the power to 1.) bring the whole of religion together in oneness, and 2.) bring about the end of a world like this, and the civilization of those who are the archdeceivers who rule this world. So Paul said, “We war not against flesh and blood, but we war against the principalities and the powers and the rulers of the darkness of this world.”<br /><br />I am a follower of such a man, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, who was taught the meaning of all of the prophecies found in the Bible and Holy Qur’an. So while he was among us, he said if any scholar or scientist could prove him wrong, he would pay out of his brother’s vest pocket $10,000 for every word that you could prove that was wrong, and he would pay with his life for lying.</div><div><br /></div><div> <br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Soft-Cover-Bible.E16.2k-2-1024x1024.png" width="400" /><br /><br />As his student, whom he sat in his seat in July of 1972, and anointed me and commissioned me to make his great commission known, I issue the same challenge. If you can prove me to be a liar in my recitation of his Teachings, and my understanding of what he said to me when he brought me to The Great Wheel in 1985—if you can prove me to be a liar, you don’t have to try to kill me; I will be willing to pay with my life for such!<br /><br />When we saw that the ADL and others have joined with the U.S. government to produce a legal justification for punishment of anyone who is so charged as being a “hater of the Jewish people” and an “anti-Semite,” we decided to bring a lawsuit, which we filed on Monday, October 16th, the 28th Anniversary of the Million Man March. <br /><br />We summoned the lawyers in the Nation of Islam who have also suffered by just being attached to me and The Nation. But suffering is what we all have done! Yet, you cannot prove that anyone who is a follower of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad under my leadership has ever done anything of hatred toward the community of Jewish people, White people, any people! <br /><br />You cannot find one word in the tens of millions of words that God has guided me to speak in 68 years of my service where I ever called for the death of those who call themselves “Jews.”</div><div><br /></div><div> <br /><img height="241" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/simon_wiesenthal_center-1024x616.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br /><br /></div><div>Even though my phones may be tapped, and my house may be tapped, and you have heard my private conversations, my conversations at the dinner table, and you have even heard me praying! But you cannot find me even praying like David did, for the death of his enemies; David, who is the sign of the Promised Messiah. <br /><br />Boy, I have thought about such prayers, but I have never uttered them; because I, like the God I serve, do not take pleasure in God’s killing of the people who are sinful; or us, for our sins. My teacher, Elijah Muhammad, taught me that “He came to save us from our sins,” and he added “the sins of White people” that we have been nurtured under; an iniquitous people who have made us into themselves.<br /><br />And this is our reason for going before the courts: To attempt, with the help of Allah (God), to prove our innocence of such false charges, and that the guilty who charge us with their crimes are the ones who should suffer the punishment of judgment because they lie! They lie on a good man, who has never been arrested, never condemned as being a liar, never done anyone evil—and you wish death for me, and for those who follow me. <br /><br />So we think the time is right! We have taken aplenty, and you cannot find us calling for the death of any Jewish person, harming one hair on their head, putting a swastika on any synagogue, or walking in protest at their stores and businesses asking people not to trade with them. But this, they have done to us, so we say: Enough is enough. So we have chosen to bring this action before the courts, and also before the people of America and the world.</div><div> <br /><img height="210" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/adl-social-1-1024x538.png" width="400" /></div><div><br /><br />Jesus, in his “Sermon on The Mount” found in Matthew 5:11-12: “Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.” And it was my brother, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who said: “Underserved suffering is redemptive.” <br /><br />And so, we have paid the price to be looked upon as saviours and redeemers of our people, and correctors of the awful condition that we have been placed in by our enemies. So if you would like to read the complaint and the exhibits that we have submitted to the court, please use the QR code that appears on the screen [visit <a href="http://noi.org/NOIvADL">NOI.org/NOIvADL</a>]. <br /><br />And get the full transcript of the complaint, and the many pages of documents that support the charge that we have made, and then share it with your family and your friends. And don’t ever worry about what the outcome is going to be, because truth crushed to the earth will rise again.<br /><br />Thank you for listening and may Allah bless each of you with the light of understanding, as I greet you in peace: As-Salaam Alaikum (Peace be unto you).</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Wisdom House Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12805439406753743723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956583853727789183.post-56658081799585775972023-10-24T11:59:00.001-05:002023-10-24T11:59:28.909-05:00From The Final Call Newspaper<p><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">‘Let the Showdown Begin!’ Farrakhan, Nation of Islam sue Jewish groups for violation of his constitutional rights and hindering his mission</span></b></p>By <a href="https://new.finalcall.com/author/finalcall/">The Final Call</a><br /> - October 24, 2023<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F10%2F24%2Flet-the-showdown-begin-farrakhan-nation-of-islam-sue-jewish-groups-for-violation-of-his-constitutional-rights-and-hindering-his-mission%2F"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=%E2%80%98Let+the+Showdown+Begin%21%E2%80%99+Farrakhan%2C+Nation+of+Islam+sue+Jewish+groups+for+violation+of+his+constitutional+rights+and+hindering+his+mission&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F10%2F24%2Flet-the-showdown-begin-farrakhan-nation-of-islam-sue-jewish-groups-for-violation-of-his-constitutional-rights-and-hindering-his-mission%2F&via=thefinalcall"></a><a href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/10/24/let-the-showdown-begin-farrakhan-nation-of-islam-sue-jewish-groups-for-violation-of-his-constitutional-rights-and-hindering-his-mission/&media=https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AdobeStock_575982636-scaled.jpeg&description=%E2%80%98Let+the+Showdown+Begin%21%E2%80%99+Farrakhan%2C+Nation+of+Islam+sue+Jewish+groups+for+violation+of+his+constitutional+rights+and+hindering+his+mission"></a><a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=%E2%80%98Let+the+Showdown+Begin%21%E2%80%99+Farrakhan%2C+Nation+of+Islam+sue+Jewish+groups+for+violation+of+his+constitutional+rights+and+hindering+his+mission%20%0A%0A%20https://new.finalcall.com/2023/10/24/let-the-showdown-begin-farrakhan-nation-of-islam-sue-jewish-groups-for-violation-of-his-constitutional-rights-and-hindering-his-mission/"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/10/24/let-the-showdown-begin-farrakhan-nation-of-islam-sue-jewish-groups-for-violation-of-his-constitutional-rights-and-hindering-his-mission/&title=%E2%80%98Let+the+Showdown+Begin%21%E2%80%99+Farrakhan%2C+Nation+of+Islam+sue+Jewish+groups+for+violation+of+his+constitutional+rights+and+hindering+his+mission"></a><a href="https://reddit.com/submit?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/10/24/let-the-showdown-begin-farrakhan-nation-of-islam-sue-jewish-groups-for-violation-of-his-constitutional-rights-and-hindering-his-mission/&title=%E2%80%98Let+the+Showdown+Begin%21%E2%80%99+Farrakhan%2C+Nation+of+Islam+sue+Jewish+groups+for+violation+of+his+constitutional+rights+and+hindering+his+mission"></a><a href="mailto:?subject=%E2%80%98Let%20the%20Showdown%20Begin!%E2%80%99%20Farrakhan,%20Nation%20of%20Islam%20sue%20Jewish%20groups%20for%20violation%20of%20his%20constitutional%20rights%20and%20hindering%20his%20mission&body=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/10/24/let-the-showdown-begin-farrakhan-nation-of-islam-sue-jewish-groups-for-violation-of-his-constitutional-rights-and-hindering-his-mission/"></a><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/share/link?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/10/24/let-the-showdown-begin-farrakhan-nation-of-islam-sue-jewish-groups-for-violation-of-his-constitutional-rights-and-hindering-his-mission/&name=%E2%80%98Let%20the%20Showdown%20Begin!%E2%80%99%20Farrakhan,%20Nation%20of%20Islam%20sue%20Jewish%20groups%20for%20violation%20of%20his%20constitutional%20rights%20and%20hindering%20his%20mission"></a><a href="https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/10/24/let-the-showdown-begin-farrakhan-nation-of-islam-sue-jewish-groups-for-violation-of-his-constitutional-rights-and-hindering-his-mission/&text=%E2%80%98Let+the+Showdown+Begin%21%E2%80%99+Farrakhan%2C+Nation+of+Islam+sue+Jewish+groups+for+violation+of+his+constitutional+rights+and+hindering+his+mission"></a><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AdobeStock_575982636-scaled.jpeg"><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AdobeStock_575982636-681x454.jpeg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><br />“Woe to every slanderer, defamer!<br /><br />—Holy Qur’an, Surah 104:1 (The Slanderer)<br /><br />“For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful<br />Have opened against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.<br /><br />They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,<div><br /><a href="https://store.finalcall.com/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/store-default_ad_728x90.png" width="400" /></a><br /><br />And fought against me without a cause.<br /><br />—Bible, NKJ, Psalm 109:2-3<br /><br />CHICAGO—The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam filed an 11-count lawsuit on October 16 in the Southern District Court of New York against the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), its president Johnathan Greenblatt individually and the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) and its Director of Global Social Action Abraham Cooper individually, alleging infringement of his constitutional rights of freedom of association and free exercise of religion. The lawsuit also makes a claim for defamation.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="293" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/HMLF-Birthday-celebration-May-11-2023-Photos-Andrea-Muhammad-40-cropped-1024x750.jpg" width="400" /></div><div>The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan</div><div><br /><br />“For nearly forty (40) years, the Anti-Defamation League (hereinafter, “ADL”), later joined by the Simon Wiesenthal Center (hereinafter, “SWC”), in violation of the rights and protections guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, have engaged in actions to hinder Minister Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam from continuing the Mission that Allah (God) gave to the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad,” the lawsuit states.<br /><br />This mission, accepted by Minister Farrakhan, is to deliver the Truth, taught by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad that will correct the condition of spiritual, mental and moral death of the Black man and woman of America that came as a result of the 310 years of chattel slavery and over 150 years of oppression and suppression, thereafter, the document continues.<br /><br />“While the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s Mission started with the Black man and woman of America, that Mission has expanded through Minister Farrakhan to the whole of humanity,” the lawsuit notes.<br /><br />In addition, the lawsuit alleges Greenblatt and Cooper, as representatives of their organizations, did such acts knowingly, willfully, intentionally, with actual malice and “under the color of law.”<br /><br />“Color of law refers to the appearance of legal <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/authority">authority</a> or an apparently legal <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/right">right</a> that may not exist. The term is often used to describe the abuse of power under the guise of <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/state">state</a> <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/authority">authority</a> and is therefore <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/illegal">illegal</a>,” explains <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/">www.law.cornell.edu</a>. The lawsuit seeks damages of $4.8 billion.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="284" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AP20150050714854-1024x728.jpg" width="400" /></div><div>Jonathan Greenblatt<br /><br />The lawsuit demands a trial by jury and alleges that Greenblatt and Cooper, through their organizations, have for decades labeled Minister Farrakhan “an antisemite,” “antisemitic,” “promoting antisemitism,” “a hater of Jews,” and even as a “Black Hitler,” all without proof.<br /><br />Such relentless false labeling, the lawsuit states, has had a damaging and chilling effect on those who would support Minister Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam and has hindered the Minister in his mission and calling.<br /><br />A Divine mission amid opposition<br /><br />For over 90 years, the Nation of Islam under its founder Master Fard Muhammad, Allah (God) in Person and the Great Mahdi; its Eternal Leader, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and their servant, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan have worked and labored tirelessly in the mission to resurrect, redeem and reform the Black man and woman of America.<br /><br />Centuries of slavery, suffering and death, decades of abuse during Reconstruction, Jim Crow and beyond—enforced by federal, state and local laws—have impacted several generations of Black people in the United States.<br /><br />In scripture, it is prophesied that God would come and choose the rejected, unloved and despised, and they would be His people and He would be their God. “Is there any people more despised, more rejected, more unloved than the Black people of America?” the Minister asked during his Saviours’ Day 2019 message, “A Saviour is Born for the Black man and woman of America.” <br /><br />His teacher, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, who was taught for three years and four months by Allah (God) in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, taught Islam to Black men and women of America, first in an area of Detroit, called “Black Bottom.” The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad stated in His book, “Message To The Blackman In America,” why Islam is key in the chapter titled, “Islam Dignifies.”<br /><br />Mr. Muhammad explains in part that Islam is the natural religion and way of life for Black people and it dignifies the Black man (and woman), giving them the desire “to be clean internally and externally and for the first time to have a sense of dignity.” He also states that Islam makes Black people love and know one another.<br /><br />However, at every turn since its inception, the Nation of Islam has faced targeted opposition from the U.S. government and other entities, including the ADL and SWC. The 72-page lawsuit meticulously lays out the allegations leveled at the ADL, Greenblatt, SWC and Cooper over the years.</div><div><br /><br />False labeling<br /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AP050727010337-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /></div><div>Rabbi Abraham Cooper<br /><br />The lawsuit alleges the ADL and SWC use such labels as anti-Semite singularly to mean anti-Jewish or anti-Israel when the word “Semite” refers to a diverse group of people who speak specific languages in the Middle East.<br /><br />Greenblatt and Cooper know that “falsely labeling someone as ‘anti-Semitic’ is a ‘trick’ to manipulate, to punish, and/or to unduly influence others to stay away from saying and/or doing anything critical of the ADL, or its interests,” the lawsuit alleges.<br /><br />Lawyers for the Nation of Islam point out that the ADL and SWC have painted a picture of Minister Farrakhan as a hater of Jews despite following his every word over four decades. The ADL has produced numerous documents, including “Farrakhan: In His Own Words.” The document maliciously accuses the Minister of anti-Semitic rhetoric yet never recounts the innumerable times he has acknowledged Judaism as a revered religion of God and his respect for the Jewish faith.<br /><br />The ADL did not, in their documents, acknowledge Minister Farrakhan’s many requests for dialogue with Jewish leaders. Both the ADL and SWC have used their influence to cause damage not only to Minister Farrakhan’s persona but also to his and the Nation of Islam’s ability to conduct business and establish friendships.<br /><br />The legal filing brands the ADL and SWC as “unamerican” organizations that have woven themselves into the fabric of the U.S. government, in general, and into local governments within America to advance their “interests that are unamerican.”<br /><br />The SWC demonstrated its control over media outlets when, in 2018, its founder, Marvin Heir, directly caused the streaming service “Netflix” to prevent the showing of a documentary on Minister Farrakhan’s life in music. The SWC later boasted on its website how it exercised influence over another media outlet, causing it to cancel the broadcast of Minister Farrakhan’s July 4, 2020, message entitled “The Criterion.”<br /><br />The SWC published a report titled “The 2020 Top Ten Worst Global Anti-Semitic Incidents,” where it defamed the Minister as “America’s Godfather of anti-Semitism.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="210" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/adl-social-1024x538.png" width="400" /><br /><br />In addition to being falsely branded an anti-Semite, the lawsuit alleges the ADL acts “under the color of law” by its ability to directly request and receive millions of taxpayer dollars to fund its organization and promote its programs.<br /><br />In 2022, the lawsuit notes, the Office of Management and Budget received from the ADL a letter requesting funding in the amount of $1.5 billion.<br /><br />The ability to demand large sums of money and receive it “in a matter of days,” is the quintessential definition of “direct nexus” and “a symbiotic relationship” with the government, the lawsuit says of the non-profit ADL organization.<br /><br />What makes the request even more extraordinary is that “at no time should any request for funding be made directly to the Office of Management and Budget unless it is a government agency,” according to the lawsuit.<br /><br />A pattern, history of violations<br /><br />While posing as a friend to numerous civil rights organizations, the ADL worked jointly for decades with the F.B.I., conducting “illegal surveillance and monitoring” of these organizations,” the lawsuit continues.<br /><br />The ADL admits it trains new F.B.I. special agents and intelligence analysts and works with local law enforcement. As such, the lawsuit says it functions as a governmental actor that can be held liable for violating a person’s constitutionally protected rights.<br /><br />“This pattern and history of the ADL’s nearly 83 years of illegal surveillance and data gathering on groups and persons, in joint action with state and federal law enforcement agencies, to be used for targeting groups whose views or policies the ADL disagrees with, is at the most egregious levels of the violation of constitutional rights, as secured by the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights,” the lawsuit argues.<br /><br />The false charge by the ADL against Minister Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam started in 1984 when the Minister came to the aid of Rev. Jesse Jackson in his first run for president. The ADL and other Jewish groups targeted Rev. Jackson as an anti-Semite, and the reverend received threats to his life. Minister Farrakhan stood to warn Jewish detractors not to bring harm to Rev. Jackson or his family.<br /><br />The Minister would criticize the behavior of some Jews in the U.S. and the unjust acts of Israeli Zionists against the Palestinians. From then on, he was branded falsely a “Black Hitler” by Nathan Perlmutter the then-Executive Director of the ADL, and over the years the Minister was labeled as the number one anti-Semite in America.<br /><br />As an anointed and appointed servant of God, Minister Farrakhan has extended an olive branch to Jewish leaders for decades in efforts to engage in a dialogue, but his overtures have been rejected. <br /><br />In part 18 of his 58-week 2013 lecture series, “The Time and What Must Be Done,” Minister Farrakhan rhetorically states: “Louis Farrakhan: An ‘anti-Semite’?” He continues by breaking down the pre-fix “anti.”<br /><br />“Well, if somebody is an‘anti-’ they are ‘opposed to’; they are ‘against.’ The definition of ‘anti’ asan adjective means: ‘A person opposed to a particular policy, activity or idea,’” the Minister explained.<br /><br />“We, The Nation of Islam, are ‘opposed,’ in that sense, to a wicked policy against our people. We are ‘opposed’ to a wicked activity based on the idea of ‘White Supremacy.’ Yes; we are ‘opposed’ to that, but you can never find, since I have risen by The Grace of God to rebuild the work of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, not one White person that has been harmed by us, and not one Jewish person, nor one Black person, that has been harmed by us!” the Minister said.<br /><br />“So how will you make us ‘haters’ when there is no deed that demonstrates ‘hatred’? We are beyond that—but, are you? It seems to me that your hatred of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam is driving you crazy! Everywhere we go we find you’ve been there, telling lies on us before we get there! Every place that we leave, here you come: Telling lies following us up! And that is why, out of The Spirit of God: We Call for a ‘Showdown’!”<br /><br />The Complaint and Exhibits may be accessed at <a href="https://noi.org/NOIvADL/">https://noi.org/NOIvADL/</a> and www.finalcall.com. The Final Call will continue to cover this important and critical story as it develops.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Wisdom House Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12805439406753743723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956583853727789183.post-29818980901062083552023-10-11T15:20:00.001-05:002023-10-11T15:20:25.701-05:00From The Final Call Newspaper<br /><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Atonement, Reconciliation & Responsibility The ongoing legacy of the Million Man March</span></b><br />By <a href="https://new.finalcall.com/author/charlene/">Charlene Muhammad, National Correspondent</a><br /> - October 10, 2023<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F10%2F10%2Fatonement-reconciliation-responsibility-the-ongoing-legacy-of-the-million-man-march%2F"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Atonement%2C+Reconciliation+%26+Responsibility+The+ongoing+legacy+of+the+Million+Man+March&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F10%2F10%2Fatonement-reconciliation-responsibility-the-ongoing-legacy-of-the-million-man-march%2F&via=thefinalcall"></a><a href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/10/10/atonement-reconciliation-responsibility-the-ongoing-legacy-of-the-million-man-march/&media=https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MMM-fists-1.jpg&description=Atonement%2C+Reconciliation+%26+Responsibility+The+ongoing+legacy+of+the+Million+Man+March"></a><a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=Atonement%2C+Reconciliation+%26+Responsibility+The+ongoing+legacy+of+the+Million+Man+March%20%0A%0A%20https://new.finalcall.com/2023/10/10/atonement-reconciliation-responsibility-the-ongoing-legacy-of-the-million-man-march/"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/10/10/atonement-reconciliation-responsibility-the-ongoing-legacy-of-the-million-man-march/&title=Atonement%2C+Reconciliation+%26+Responsibility+The+ongoing+legacy+of+the+Million+Man+March"></a><a href="https://reddit.com/submit?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/10/10/atonement-reconciliation-responsibility-the-ongoing-legacy-of-the-million-man-march/&title=Atonement%2C+Reconciliation+%26+Responsibility+The+ongoing+legacy+of+the+Million+Man+March"></a><a href="mailto:?subject=Atonement,%20Reconciliation%20&%20Responsibility%20The%20ongoing%20legacy%20of%20the%20Million%20Man%20March&body=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/10/10/atonement-reconciliation-responsibility-the-ongoing-legacy-of-the-million-man-march/"></a><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/share/link?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/10/10/atonement-reconciliation-responsibility-the-ongoing-legacy-of-the-million-man-march/&name=Atonement,%20Reconciliation%20&%20Responsibility%20The%20ongoing%20legacy%20of%20the%20Million%20Man%20March"></a><a href="https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/10/10/atonement-reconciliation-responsibility-the-ongoing-legacy-of-the-million-man-march/&text=Atonement%2C+Reconciliation+%26+Responsibility+The+ongoing+legacy+of+the+Million+Man+March"></a><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MMM-fists-1.jpg"><img height="268" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MMM-fists-1-681x456.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><br />Tune in on Sunday, October 15 at 2:00 p.m. CDT at noi.org for a special message titled ‘Atonement and the Great War’ delivered by Student Minister Ishmael Muhammad, National Assistant to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan to commemorate the 28th Anniversary of the Million Man March / Holy Day of Atonement<br /><br />This year marks the 28th anniversary of the historic Million Man March, which drew nearly two million Black men to the Nation’s Capital of Washington, D.C., for a day, devoted to Atonement, Reconciliation and Responsibility. This day unlike any other in the history of this country, still resonates as a gathering that will go down in history.<br /><br />Convened by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, the unprecedented, divine March brought together Black men from all over the country from various religions, political ideologies and socio-economic backgrounds.<br /><br />“Now, more than ever, we need to delve deeply into the process of atonement offered to us from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan,” stated Student Minister Abdul Haleem Muhammad, Nation of Islam Southwest Region Representative of Minister Farrakhan.<div><br /><br /><a href="https://store.finalcall.com/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/store-default_ad_728x90.png" width="400" /></a><br /><br />Student Minister Abdul Haleem Muhammad was among the Black men, the husbands and fathers who stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, and demonstrated their willingness to reconcile differences at home, school, church, organizations and in society. <br /><br />In answering the Minister’s call to present themselves before God and atone to themselves, their families and communities, these men became part of what many referred to that day as “a glimpse of heaven.” <br /><br />“As America and the world she has ruled since World War II unravels, it is imperative that we close the gap and tighten up our house so we in the mosque and the Black community don’t unravel and devolve into anarchy also,” added Student Minister Abdul Haleem Muhammad.<br /><br />In observance of the Commemoration of the Million Man March / Holy Day of Atonement which is Monday, October 16, there is no work, no school and no play that day. It is a day of Reflection, Reconciliation and Prayer.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/hdoa_chicago-2023-UPDATED-Copy-copy-696x1024.jpg" width="272" /><br /><br />This year, Student Minister Ishmael Muhammad, National Assistant to Minister Farrakhan, will deliver a special keynote message from Mosque Maryam in Chicago, on behalf of the Minister for the 28th Anniversary of the Million Man March on Sunday, October 15. The message may be viewed live-streamed at <a href="http://www.noi.org/">www.noi.org</a> at 2:00 p.m. CDT. The title of his message is, “Atonement and the Great War.”<br /><br />“As a student of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, I marveled at what God gave me to give to the nearly two million Black men present on the National Mall and to the world watching via television,” stated Minister Farrakhan, during reflections on the Million Man March, on the occasion of its 25th anniversary in October 2020.<br /><br />At that time, he stated, he re-read the words that Allah (God) gave to him on October 16, 1995. “This was unlike any event ever before in the United States of America or in the nations of the earth, especially those countries that have been under the victimization of the Satanic mind that rules this present world,” stated Minister Farrakhan.<br /><br />“No nation has assembled this number of men to make Atonement to God, to others we may have offended, to reconcile differences in our families, differences in our communities and to accept responsibility for our actions that have sown division, hurt and pain among us,” he stated.<br /><br />The Minister continued that October 16 was the beginning of a process of healing. The day represented a high point in individual development achieved through the guidance of God and the fellowship of men and women, brothers and sisters from many different walks of life. “We came with different ideologies, religious beliefs, and political aspirations,” he stated.<br /><br />Part of the continued legacy of the Million Man March, as noted by Minister Farrakhan, was that never before had an event taken place that honored women as women were honored on that day. Those on the rostrum and who spoke included the woman who was the mother of that March, Dr. Dorothy Height, a legendary leader in the civil rights struggle, said the Minister. <br /><br />“Mrs. Rosa Parks, Dr. Betty Shabazz and daughter Ilyasah Shabazz, humanist and poet Maya Angelou, Cora Masters Barry, Atty. E. Faye Williams, Mother Khadijah Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam, Mother Tynnetta Muhammad, wife of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad;<br /><br />Mrs. Jacqueline Jackson, Rev. Barbara Skinner, C. Delores Tucker, Black nationalist matriarch Queen Mother Moore and Dr. Delois Blakeley and then 10-year-old Tiffany Mayo participated or spoke at the Million Man March. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun, Rep. Cardiss Collins, and Rep. Barbara Rose Collins were among political leaders at the March,” the Minister said.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Wisdom House Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12805439406753743723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956583853727789183.post-24160053664784709102023-10-03T22:08:00.001-05:002023-10-03T22:08:18.050-05:00From The Final Call Newspaper<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s impact on Black Youth</b></span></p>By <a href="https://new.finalcall.com/author/anisah/">Anisah Muhammad, Contributing Writer</a><br /> - October 3, 2023<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F10%2F03%2Fthe-honorable-elijah-muhammads-impact-on-black-youth%2F"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=The+Honorable+Elijah+Muhammad%E2%80%99s+impact+on+Black+Youth%C2%A0&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F10%2F03%2Fthe-honorable-elijah-muhammads-impact-on-black-youth%2F&via=thefinalcall"></a><a href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/10/03/the-honorable-elijah-muhammads-impact-on-black-youth/&media=https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GettyImages-515210594-scaled.jpg&description=The+Honorable+Elijah+Muhammad%E2%80%99s+impact+on+Black+Youth%C2%A0"></a><a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=The+Honorable+Elijah+Muhammad%E2%80%99s+impact+on+Black+Youth%C2%A0%20%0A%0A%20https://new.finalcall.com/2023/10/03/the-honorable-elijah-muhammads-impact-on-black-youth/"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/10/03/the-honorable-elijah-muhammads-impact-on-black-youth/&title=The+Honorable+Elijah+Muhammad%E2%80%99s+impact+on+Black+Youth%C2%A0"></a><a href="https://reddit.com/submit?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/10/03/the-honorable-elijah-muhammads-impact-on-black-youth/&title=The+Honorable+Elijah+Muhammad%E2%80%99s+impact+on+Black+Youth%C2%A0"></a><a href="mailto:?subject=The%20Honorable%20Elijah%20Muhammad%E2%80%99s%20impact%20on%20Black%20Youth%C2%A0&body=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/10/03/the-honorable-elijah-muhammads-impact-on-black-youth/"></a><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/share/link?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/10/03/the-honorable-elijah-muhammads-impact-on-black-youth/&name=The%20Honorable%20Elijah%20Muhammad%E2%80%99s%20impact%20on%20Black%20Youth%C2%A0"></a><a href="https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/10/03/the-honorable-elijah-muhammads-impact-on-black-youth/&text=The+Honorable+Elijah+Muhammad%E2%80%99s+impact+on+Black+Youth%C2%A0"></a><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GettyImages-515210594-scaled.jpg"><img height="201" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GettyImages-515210594-681x342.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><br />Malcolm X. Muhammad Ali. Imam Warith Deen Mohammed. Dr. Khalid Abdul Muhammad.<br /><br />The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. These are all world-renowned students of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, a man who said he met with God. <br /><br />The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was born 126 years ago around October 7, 1897, in Sandersville, Georgia. With a third-grade education, he shook up the scholars of this world. How was this Georgia-born Black man with limited education able to produce giants and confound the best in society?<br /><br />Simple. He met with God. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was personally taught by God-in-Person, Master Fard Muhammad. The wisdom Master Fard Muhammad imparted to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad over the course of a little over three years forever changed the trajectory of Black life. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad has impacted every facet of Black life in America, and His legacy is still being carried out by Black youth today.<div> <br /><br /><a href="https://store.finalcall.com/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/store-default_ad_728x90.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/HEM-for-Cover-cutout-2-819x1024.png" width="320" /><br /><br />Personal testimonies<br /><br />Yosef Ben Prince Asiel, son of the late Nasik (Prince) Asiel Ben-Israel from the Hebrew Israelite community in Dimona, Israel, learned from a young age the importance of God and the importance of the knowledge of self. <br /><br />His mother joined the Nation of Islam in 1973 and was a follower of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. His father lived across the street from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s family. In his adult life, Yosef Ben Prince Asiel followed in his parent’s footsteps and developed his own love for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. For him, the most impactful thing about the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is His true love for Black people.<br /><br />“I was once told as a young man, if you don’t love Black people, you hate them. But there’s no in-between. And you can’t even really do anything for Black people unless you have a real genuine love for them,” he said. <br /><br />“It was the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad who taught us to love ourselves again and to love one another and see the divinity in the Black man and woman, which allowed us to not just transform our individual selves, but our circumstances and our environment,” he continued. “And so that would be the part that I resonate with the most. It’s the love for Black people. It’s the love for ourselves and the love for the God that created us and that chose us to be His people so that we would prove His words to be true.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="395" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Zakiyy-Shabazz-2.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Zakiyy Shabazz</i><br /><br />Before coming across the Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Jabarri X, 25, from Atlanta, did not have a positive outlook for his life. Though he grew up middle-class in a Christian household, he felt purposeless and did not value virtue or righteousness. <br /><br />During his undergraduate years at Georgia State University in downtown Atlanta, a friend introduced him to the Teachings and gave him material to read, and he started to study. He officially joined the Nation of Islam on October 7, 2022, the 125th birth anniversary of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.<br /><br />“There’s a lot of pathways that you can take as a young man that might seem appealing, but the pathway of life that comes from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what the Nation of Islam gives you … it seems like it will outlast all of those lifestyles,” he said. “Elijah Muhammad has been consistent. That’s been a consistent figure in Black liberation.”<br /><br />Zakiyy Shabazz from Atlanta described to The Final Call the impact the Teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad have had on his life.<br /><br />“There was a time in my life where I did not have a solid direction or foundation as far as my spiritual growth and development. I, as many young Black men, had been caught up in the justice system. I had marks on my record,” he said. “The Teachings really have allowed me the opportunity to grow spiritually, grow as a man, grow as a father and as a husband.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Shania-Muhammad-1.jpeg" width="323" /></div><div><i>Shania Muhammad</i><br /><br />Joi X is a registered M.G.T. and G.C.C. (Muslims Girls Training and General Civilization Class) Vanguard at Muhammad Mosque No. 29 in Miami and a member of the Nation of Islam’s youth committee. Through the Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, she has found a sense of fulfillment.<br /><br />“The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad … has forged a way for me to find what my purpose is in life,” she said to The Final Call.<br /><br />West Muhammad, a 13-year-old Jr. F.O.I. (Fruit of Islam) from Muhammad Mosque No. 6 in Baltimore, and a multi-platform journalist, also found purpose through the words of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. West Muhammad is a special assistant to WHID-FM (What Has Islam Done For Me) and is a writer.<br /><br />“Being a young brother in the Teachings, it’s not a lightweight thing. Even if it may not be as common in my day-to-day life, I noticed that whenever I have my bowtie on or I have my suit on and I walk into the grocery store, people will say, ‘nice bowtie’ or ‘nice suit,’ and my bowtie has the star and crescent on it,” he said. “So, I take that as, they recognize that I’m a part of something greater, and they can see that I’m not just a regular young boy on the streets.”<br /><br />He has also seen the impact his presence has on other young boys. “Once I was on the Saviours’ Tour and I gave a young brother a Final Call. I had a little bit of conversation with him. And when we first came up to him with our uniforms on, with our suits on, he said, ‘Where my suit at?’” West Muhammad recounted.</div><div><br /></div><div> <br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Kalimah-Muhammad-578x1024.jpeg" width="226" /></div><div><i>Kalimah Muhammad</i><br /><br />“So I think that they want this life. They want to be in this righteous world,” he added. “I believe it’s our job to help them and help our young sisters as well to grow into that best version of themselves by just being an example sometimes and giving them a word that we were given to get us to this state.”<br /><br />Women impacted by Mr. Muhammad’s Teachings<br /><br />Jadayah Muhammad, 28, from Brooklyn, New York, has traveled the world and has experienced different cultures. She is the executive director and the UN Representative of the International Youth Leadership Institute. She gives credit to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s vision to send committees of women around the world.<br /><br />She referenced words from Mother Tynnetta Muhammad, wife of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, who quoted from a September 11, 1973, Table Talks recording where the Honorable Elijah Muhammad shared his vision of women organizing conventions of classes for women’s training and organizing committees of further training that would “take us on travels around the world being honored and received in many places of the globe as the equal to the best in world society.”<br /><br />The Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s understanding of the role of women in the world and the role of women in Islam stands out to Jadayah Muhammad.<br /><br />“Through the Teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, women in the Nation of Islam have more freedom and more honor than in any other Islamic culture that I’ve ever encountered in the world,” she said.<br /><br />She recalled a conversation with her friend from Bangladesh, who was surprised that she would be inside the mosque.<br /><br />“Around her way, women do not go inside the mosque. Only men can go inside the mosque. Women pray outside the mosque in the dirt,” she said. “A lot of people take their culture of oppression of women as religion, which is not the case. And so, what the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad has given us is an Islamic culture that makes space for freedom, justice and equality for all of us, regardless of creed, class, color.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/HEM-Standing-holding-quran-cutout-373x1024.png" width="146" /><br /><br />Elisha Muhammad, 17, from Memphis, Tennessee, also propped up the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s Teachings on the value of women.<br /><br />“I’m so privileged to be able to understand my value and to not abuse myself as the Second Self of God,” she said.<br /><br />The Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s words on women have been the key to her confidence as a young Black Muslim.<br /><br />“In the M.G.T. class and in the M.G.T. Vanguard, we are a different caliber of women. We are strong and we’re intelligent,” she said. “The Honorable Elijah Muhammad has given me that confidence, and of course, he’s given me the wisdom to be myself as a Muslim woman in this world today.”<br /><br />A comfort to Black youth and a continuing legacy<br /><br />The Honorable Elijah Muhammad departed in 1975 but His work and mission have continued through His National Representative, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. “<a href="http://www.noi.org/hon-elijah-muhammad/">The Honorable Elijah Muhammad</a> is indeed a true friend of the Black man and woman because His message is as relevant today as it was when He was physically among us.<br /><br />He worked, suffered, studied and constantly prayed for our rise. He sacrificed his own personal life to devote 44 years to the rise of our people,” Minister Farrakhan stated in a message published in The Final Call titled, “A True Friend: The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.” His impact in areas of education, spirituality, business and economic development, and other areas cannot be overlooked.<br /><br />Shania Muhammad, 16, from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been making headlines due to graduating college at a young age and becoming a full-time salaried teacher.<br /><br />Her father, Elijah Muhammad, who was named after the Honorable Elijah Muhammad by his mother, instilled in his children principles from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad that he learned growing up, such as doing for self and the importance of education. When COVID-19 hit, he decided to try something different for his daughter.<br /><br />Shania Muhammad enrolled in a dual enrollment course at 13 years old, and she blew through the classes. With encouragement from her father, she kept going. At 14, she graduated with two associate degrees from two different colleges on the same day.<br /><br />At 15, earlier this year, she graduated with her bachelor’s degree in family and consumer sciences and early childhood development and education. She turned 16 in July. She is now working on her master’s in business administration with a concentration in marketing and expects to graduate in May 2024.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/3-3-6700001_Page_03.jpg" width="280" /><br /><br />As she pursues higher education, she is also a third-grade teacher at a Black school and the author of three children’s books.<br /><br />“The Honorable Elijah, Muhammad always talks about being your brother’s keeper, being your sister’s keeper and uplifting us as a people. And I feel like that’s what I’m doing with teaching. I’m literally living the message He’s been teaching and that still continues to be taught over the years, which is, we have to uplift us,” she said to The Final Call.<br /><br />Joi X described the Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad as “new and comforting” to Black youth.<br /><br />“Just learning about who we are, which the Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches, we are a god. You can’t help but find inspiration and comfort in that,” she said.<br /><br />“Also in addition, as we see a gradual rise in the consciousness among each generation of Black youth, in terms of understanding the importance of the liberation for Black people, the effects of White supremacy, the growing desire to support Black businesses and endeavors, etcetera, etcetera. Whether or not people realize it, this all stems from the Teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad,” she added.<br /><br />A big part of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s message to Black people is to “do for self.” Kalimah Muhammad, 17, from Houston, Texas, has been an entrepreneur since she was nine years old, when she started “Powder Power,” talc-free powders.<br /><br />“My mom came to me and said, ‘Kalimah, you’re nine years old. You need to start your own business like I did,’” she recalled to The Final Call. “And I decided to go with it. And for the last eight years, we have been developing all-natural, homemade talc-free powder products to sell nationally and praise be to Allah (God) internationally.”<br /><br />She grew up hearing the words of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to “Do for Self.: “His inspiration, His guidance, being able to do for myself and have this business has not only been a wonderful experience, but it gives me the chance and the ability to spread these all-natural products across the world to help keep my people safe by what they put on their bodies and what they consume,” she said.<br /><br />Kalimah Muhammad described the Honorable Elijah Muhammad as someone who desires the best for Black youth, “because He knows of our potential.”</div><div><br /><img height="198" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/FCN4301-3-1024x508.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br />“Even if we’ve never met Him personally, He knows that we are all destined to do great things,” she said. “He is relevant because he wants us Black youth to be our best selves in whatever field of study.”<br /><br />For Jadayah Muhammad, simply showing love to Black youth rather than condemning them is significant.“They get enough hate. They get enough disrespect out here in this world, and we can’t be another space with more of the same. We have to give them love and show them love, and that, at the end of the day, is at the root of our Teachings,” she said.<br /><br />West Muhammad shared a message to his fellow young people: “Just stick to the words of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam. Now, I’m only 13, I’m young, so I haven’t been in prior to 1975 or I’m not even registered yet. But I can already recognize that we are part of something greater. We are part of a new legacy, and it’s our job to establish this Nation of Islam and help it to move on.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/FCN4301-36-987x1024.jpg" width="386" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="td-pb-row" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; position: relative; width: 1021px;"><div class="td-pb-span8 td-main-content" role="main" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 1px; position: relative; width: 680px;"><div class="td-ss-main-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><div class="td-post-content td-pb-padding-side" style="border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; padding: 10px 19px 0px 20px;"><div class="td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_bottom tdi_13 td_block_template_1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; 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Over 30 acres are farmed at Phelps growing vegetables for the 942 inmates. (AP Photo/Karen Wink)</i><br /><br /><br />Crime pays, especially if you’re a for-profit contractor providing services at correctional institutions. From medical and mental health care to pharmaceutical services to transportation to food services and communications services, these services cost the incarcerated a “pretty penny.” Imagine working for $1.25 an hour or receiving only $20 a month for full-time work. Adding insult to injury are the high costs people locked up behind bars pay for essentials.<br /><br />Joseph Keller was arrested when he was 14 years old. From that time until he was 29, he was in and out of correctional facilities in the D.C. area. He told The Final Call, “I didn’t have anybody to take care of me. I received monthly what they called the food stamp bag where if you didn’t have any money, they give you envelopes, peanut butter crackers, a pencil, an ink pen, some deodorant and some toothpaste.<br /><br />When I got a job working as a barber, I could put money on my books, so I was able to buy good deodorant that didn’t burn my underarms. The free deodorant burns. I got paid $19 a month.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="307" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/page-534-graph-1024x785.png" width="400" /></div><div><i>According to the African American Coalition Committee Black and Brown people make up roughly 60 percent of the prison and jail population in the state of Massachusetts. Graphic: The Final Call</i><br /><br />“We had to pay prices similar to the prices in the stores outside. Deodorant inside is like maybe $4 or $5. You have to make sure that when you buy something, you buy what you need not what you want because with only $19 a month, that’s really almost half of your salary,” Mr. Keller explained.</div><div><br /><br /><a href="https://store.finalcall.com/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/store-default_ad_728x90.png" width="400" /></a><br /><br />Mr. Keller’s experience is typical. Inmates must pay for simple things like phone/video visits/email services, things people in free society take for granted. These costs add up, but more importantly, the profits add up.<br /><br />Each year a mix of private corporations generate $80 billion in revenue by capitalizing on the needs of incarcerated people and their families. This exploitation, powered by more than 4,000 corporations engaged in a web of public–private partnerships, disproportionately targets and steals resources from Black communities, according to Worth Rises, the nation’s leading organization working to dismantle the prison industry.<br /><br />“Prisons and jails are a business—one that is threatening our families, communities, and public safety,” said Bianca Tylek, executive director of Worth Rises. In conjunction with Color Of Change, they recently released a new policy blueprint calling for the end of carceral (prison) profiteering. “Over the last 40 years, the carceral system has grown into a vast network of corporations that use public-private partnerships to profit from the incarceration of our grandparents, parents, siblings, children, and other loved ones,” she continued.<br /><br />“They have created a carceral crisis and collected the windfalls on the taxpayers’ dime while the rest of us suffered. This policy blueprint provides the clearest roadmap for fulfilling the promise of justice that the Biden-Harris administration made and many expect it to meet.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screenshot-2023-09-21-at-12.16.57-AM-817x1024.png" width="319" /></div><div><i>A new report states that private corporations generate billions of dollars by exploiting incarcerated people and their families. Graphic: Worth Rises/Color of Change</i><br /><br />“The Policy Blueprint for Ending Carceral Profiteering” details system-wide policy changes and administration actions within the following carceral sectors: healthcare, food and commissary, telecommunications, financial services, electronic monitoring, and labor.<br /><br />Demands include:<br /><br />• Eliminate the use of private profiteers from Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facilities and the federal immigration detention system;<br /><br />• Issue guidance to states to end profiteering at the state and local level and publicly support relevant legislation that eliminates private profiteering within the prison system;<br /><br />“Every year, politicians choose to protect corporations as they gouge, fleece and scam incarcerated people and their families,” said Rashad Robinson, president of Color Of Change. “Government policies protect blatantly abusive profiteering instead of helping to end it, which enables corporations like Securus, Aramark, Corizon, and JPAY to use the criminal justice system as a cash cow, stealing billions of dollars from our communities.”<br /><br />“People ask what structural racism is. This is it. Our blueprint provides a clear path of action for President Biden and all public officials who believe these financial attacks on our communities must end. We outline a clear set of steps for eliminating superfluous and inflated fees, revising the terms of government contracts with corporations to prevent gouging, and more.”<br /><br />He added, “The incarcerated people and families that corporations have targeted with these profiteering practices know all their tricks, inside and out. This Blueprint reflects their unique knowledge about what is happening and how to stop it.”</div><div><br /></div><div><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screenshot-2023-09-20-at-8.34.57-PM-795x1024.png" width="311" /></div><div><i>Worth Rises and Color of Change, released a new policy blueprint calling for the end of carceral (prison) profiteering. Graphic: Worth Rises/Color of Change</i><br /><br />The Policy Blueprint details how on a daily basis, families are faced with impossible decisions: pay rent and purchase groceries and life-saving medications, or make a phone call to speak with their incarcerated loved one this week? Many times these families have already lost a wage earner and can least afford to pay the high costs and fees that federal, state, and local agencies neglect to protect them from.<br /><br />These costs are overwhelmingly borne by women, especially Black, Latino, and Indigenous women. The policy blueprint tells the plight of Maria Marshall, who, after spending $120 in just two weeks to maintain contact with both her teenage son and her ex-husband behind bars, was forced to make the difficult choice between the two, as she struggled to pay exorbitant phone rates and could only afford one of their accounts.<br /><br />States are starting to take notice of these high costs that affect millions of families. In August, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed the FY24 budget with a provision that requires state prisons and jails to offer free phone calls, video calls, and e-messaging to those incarcerated.<br /><br />The provision, which goes into effect December 1, 2023, is estimated to save Massachusetts families more than $25 million annually. This win marks the culmination of over three years of tireless advocacy by incarcerated people, families, and allied advocates. <br /><br />The provision makes Massachusetts the third state this year and fifth state overall to make prison calls free, following Minnesota and Colorado. California made prison calls free in 2022 and Connecticut in 2021. The new Massachusetts law is unique in that it applies to state prisons and jails. <br /><br />Further, it requires video calls and e-messaging, where available, to be free in addition to phone calls, which only Connecticut had done previously. The law also prohibits the state from taking kickbacks from its prison telecom vendor and protects in-person visits for Massachusetts residents with incarcerated loved ones.<br /><br />“It’s been an uphill battle to say the least, but one worth fighting for,” said William “7even” Ragland, chairman of the African American Coalition Committee (AACC), a coalition of men incarcerated at MCI-Norfolk focused on reforming the criminal legal system. “Black and Brown people—many in poverty—make up 21 percent of the Massachusetts population but roughly 60 percent of its prison and jail population. It is a monstrosity and repugnant.”<br /><br />“It’s not surprising then that Black and Brown people spend the most on phone calls, video calls, and e-messages with their incarcerated loved ones, to the tune of $25 million annually. Given our low prison wages, our families are often left with the bill, deciding whether to put money on their loved ones’ phone accounts or pay their rent, put gas in their cars, or put food on their tables.”<br /><br />Cedric 3X Cal represents the Nation of Islam Prison Ministry in Illinois. “In the Illinois prison system, the average cost for an inmate is $1,000 a year for commissary expenses. That’s like $100 a month. The sad thing is most have no salary. Salaried jobs are very limited and those with jobs may get 35 cents an hour, or $30 a month for a job.<br /><br />A higher-paying industry job may get $100 a month. Poor people in prison have to rely on the charity of people on the outside that care for you in order to survive in prison,” he told The Final Call.<br /><br />“The food has little if any nutritional value. You’re depending on processed food at the commissary to balance out what you’re getting from the cafeteria. That’s where the costs come in. We get the same brand name things in free society at many of the same costs as free society,” said Cedric 3X. <br /><br />“It’s all about profit for prisons. That’s what Minister Farrakhan spoke about when he revealed the conspiracy (of) putting prisons on Wall Street for investment,” he said, referring to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam. “It’s not just about putting bodies in the prisons. It’s also about the industries connected to the prisons that generate so much profit. They are profiting off crime on every level,” Cedric 3X added.<br /><br />During an #AskFarrakhan Social Media Town Hall held in 2012, Minister Farrakhan explained that prison is “big business.”<br /><br />“You know, the prison industrial complex is now on the Stock Market, and the “privatizing” of the prison industry is going on as we speak! Therefore, just as people don’t build hotels if you don’t expect occupancy: People don’t build prisons unless you expect people to fill those prisons,” said Minister Farrakhan.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Wisdom House Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12805439406753743723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956583853727789183.post-58590760679260443012023-09-19T13:49:00.001-05:002023-09-19T13:49:20.400-05:00From The Final Call Newspaper<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">More Than A Vision: Black America’s Saving Grace</span></b><br />By <a href="https://new.finalcall.com/author/anisah/">Anisah Muhammad, Contributing Writer</a><br /> - September 19, 2023<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F09%2F19%2Fmore-than-a-vision-black-americas-saving-grace%2F"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=More+Than+A+Vision%3A+Black+America%E2%80%99s+Saving+Grace&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F09%2F19%2Fmore-than-a-vision-black-americas-saving-grace%2F&via=thefinalcall"></a><a href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/09/19/more-than-a-vision-black-americas-saving-grace/&media=https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Page-1-graphic-scaled.jpg&description=More+Than+A+Vision%3A+Black+America%E2%80%99s+Saving+Grace"></a><a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=More+Than+A+Vision%3A+Black+America%E2%80%99s+Saving+Grace%20%0A%0A%20https://new.finalcall.com/2023/09/19/more-than-a-vision-black-americas-saving-grace/"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/09/19/more-than-a-vision-black-americas-saving-grace/&title=More+Than+A+Vision%3A+Black+America%E2%80%99s+Saving+Grace"></a><a href="https://reddit.com/submit?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/09/19/more-than-a-vision-black-americas-saving-grace/&title=More+Than+A+Vision%3A+Black+America%E2%80%99s+Saving+Grace"></a><a href="mailto:?subject=More%20Than%20A%20Vision:%20Black%20America%E2%80%99s%20Saving%20Grace&body=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/09/19/more-than-a-vision-black-americas-saving-grace/"></a><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/share/link?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/09/19/more-than-a-vision-black-americas-saving-grace/&name=More%20Than%20A%20Vision:%20Black%20America%E2%80%99s%20Saving%20Grace"></a><a href="https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/09/19/more-than-a-vision-black-americas-saving-grace/&text=More+Than+A+Vision%3A+Black+America%E2%80%99s+Saving+Grace"></a><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Page-1-graphic-scaled.jpg"><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Page-1-graphic-681x454.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><br />Social networks have been aflame with jokes, memes and reels about “unidentified flying objects” (UFOs) ever since the U.S. government’s admission of their existence. Black people, in particular, have taken to social media to question, “What does that have to do with me? I have bills.” <br /><br />The existence of the objects has everything to do with Black people, according to the Teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Eternal Leader of the Nation of Islam. The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad started teaching on the reality of the objects as early as the 1930s, before they were ever on the government’s radar. He identified a “Mother Plane” or “Mother Wheel” that carried within her 1,500 smaller wheels, or “baby planes.”<br /><br />The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, National Representative of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, has since given in-depth accounts and descriptions of the Mother Plane and her smaller baby planes.<div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/HEM_1970-1-813x1024.jpg" width="318" /></div><div>The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad<br /><br />On September 17, 1985, he was directly brought aboard the Mother Plane in a Vision-Like Experience in Tepoztlán, Mexico. The 38-year anniversary of his experience has now come to pass. Following his September 17 experience, Minister Farrakhan delivered a detailed press conference at the JW Marriott hotel in Washington, D.C., on October 24, 1989, titled, “The Announcement: A Final Warning to the U.S.-Government,” where he exposed the plans of the U.S. government based on the words he received from the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad during his experience.</div><div><br /><br /><a href="https://store.finalcall.com/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/store-default_ad_728x90.png" width="400" /></a><br /><br />“It is perhaps more significant today than ever before,” Memphis-based Student Minister Ilia Rashad Muhammad said to The Final Call, in reference to Minister Farrakhan’s experience. “This experience that the Minister underwent would not just affect him, but would ultimately affect the Nation of Islam, our critics, our enemies, and eventually the world.”<br /><br />The Great Announcement<br /><br />The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan opened his Announcement with words from the Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 3, verses 18 and 19: “When I say unto the wicked, ‘Thou shalt surely die,’ and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way to save his life, the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Pyramid-built-on-peak-of-the-Sierra-de-Tepoztlan-Mexico-1024x683.jpeg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Pyramid built on peak of the Sierra de Tepoztlan, Mexico.</i><br /><br />“It is in this spirit that I make this Announcement,” Minister Farrakhan said. <br /><br />He then detailed his experience. It started with him being carried up a mountain with a few friends. As they reached the top of the mountain, which lies the ruins of a temple dedicated to Quetzalcoatl, the Christ-figure of Central and South America, a Wheel appeared at the side of the mountain. A beam of light came from the Wheel and carried the Minister up into it.<br /><br />“As the Wheel lifted off from the side of the mountain, moving at a terrific speed, I knew I was being transported to The Mother Wheel, or The Mother Plane, which is a human-built planet, a half-mile by a half-mile, which the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us of for over 60 years,” he said.<br /><br />“The pilot, knowing that I was fearful of seeing this great, mechanical object in the sky, maneuvered his craft in such a way that I would not see The Mother Plane and then backed quickly into it and docked in a tunnel. I was escorted by the pilot to a door and admitted into a room.”<br /><br />While in the room, Minister Farrakhan heard the voice of his teacher, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, from a speaker on the ceiling.<br /><br />“He spoke in short cryptic sentences; and as he spoke, a scroll full of cursive writing rolled down in front of my eyes—but it was a projection of what was being written in my mind. As I attempted to read the cursive writing, which was in English, the scroll disappeared and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.</div><div> began to speak to me again,” Minister Farrakhan said. <img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/products-BK_ANNO.-2.jpeg" width="284" />Photo taken in October of 1989 with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Washington, D.C., delivering a press conference on his Vision-like Experience on the Wheel. Photo: Final Call archive<br /><br />The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to him: “President Reagan has met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to plan a war. I want you to hold a press conference in Washington, D.C., and announce their plan—and say to the world that you got the information from me, Elijah Muhammad, on The Wheel.”<br /><br />After the experience, events unfolded from September 1985 into February 1986 that caused Minister Farrakhan to slowly realize that the war mentioned by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was against Muammar Gadhafi and the people of Libya.<br /><br />While in Tripoli, Libya, on March 16, 1986, Minister Farrakhan repeated his vision publicly to representatives of approximately 80 nations, and he warned President Reagan and then-Secretary of State George Shultz. <br /><br />“During the confrontation in the Gulf of Sidra between the United States Air Force and the Libyan Air Force, it was reported in the press that a bright orange object was seen over the Mediterranean. The Wheel was, in fact, present and it interfered with the highly sensitive electronic equipment of the aircraft carrier that was in the Gulf of Sidra, forcing it to return to Florida for repairs,” Minister Farrakhan said during his Announcement. <br /><br />In 1987, a year after Minister Farrakhan publicly announced President Reagan’s plans in Libya, the truth of his Vision-Like Experience was verified in the news. The news that President Reagan and his Joint Chiefs of Staff had secretly planned a war made the front pages and the headlines of The New York Times Sunday magazine and the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.</div><div><br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/muhammad_speaks_wheel_01-14-2014b.jpg" width="302" /><br /><br />“In the article which followed, the exact words that the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad spoke to me from The Wheel were found, that the president had met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and planned a war against Libya in the early part of September 1985,” Minister Farrakhan said.<br /><br />That war, he said, only served as a sign of “an even more significant and consequential event, which was to come several years later:” that President George H.W. Bush had met with his Joint Chiefs of Staff, under the direction of General Colin Powell, “to plan a war against Black people of America, the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan with particular emphasis on our Black youth under the guise of a war against drug sellers, drug users, gangs and violence.”<br /><br />After announcing President Bush’s plans, Minister Farrakhan then laid out the operations of the FBI, including the campaign to destroy Black leadership, the dirty tactics used against those who fight for justice, the agents planted in Black organizations, including the Nation of Islam, and the counterintelligence program under FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. He also talked about how the media fed the American public negative portrayals of Black youth and how police instigated gang warfare to justify the government’s plans of slaughter.<br /><br />Minister Farrakhan closed his Announcement with a warning to the president, the government and the people of America to leave the Nation of Islam alone and to cease and desist from planning against the future of Black people in America and the world.<br /><br />“I warn you that I am backed by the Power of Allah and His Christ and the Power of that Wheel in which I received this Announcement. And the moment you attempt to lay your hands on me, the fullness of Allah’s Wrath will descend upon you and upon America.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="280" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MLF_historic_1989_2-press-conference-National-Press-Club-1-1024x717.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br />And before you will be able to establish your mockery of me, if that is what you wish to do for what was revealed to me in The Wheel, you will see these Wheels, or what you call ‘UFOs’, in abundance over the major cities of America,” he said.<br /><br />“And the calamities that America is presently experiencing will increase in number and in intensity, that you might humble yourselves to the Warning contained in this Announcement, or be totally destroyed from the face of the Earth.”<br /><br />“This is a final warning to you. The ball is now in your court. You may do with it, with me, and with us as you see fit,” he concluded.<br /><br />Controversy and the Night Journey<br /><br />Shortly before Minister Farrakhan’s Vision-Like Experience, he found himself in a controversy with members of the Jewish community due to his defense of Rev. Jesse Jackson during the reverend’s 1984 presidential campaign.<br /><br />Student Minister Ilia Rashad Muhammad, author of the book, “UFOs And The Nation Of Islam: The Source, Proof, And Reality Of The Wheels,” shared that just before Minister Farrakhan left for Tepoztlán, he spoke at a forum in Los Angeles, where members of the Jewish community were chanting, “Who do you want? Farrakhan. How do you want him? Dead.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_7067-1-821x1024.jpg" width="321" /><br /><br />“It was these members of the Jewish community that were calling and urging on the Minister’s assassination. So it was under that pretense, if you will, under those conditions, that the Minister left Los Angeles and went to Tepoztlán where he received this Vision,” Student Minister Ilia Rashad Muhammad said.<br /><br />The atmosphere of hostility concerning Minister Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam was still present when Minister Farrakhan delivered his Announcement. Two weeks before George H.W. Bush was elected president, he delivered a speech at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles and promised that he would lead the fight “against those whom he and certain leading members of the Jewish community determined to be anti-Semites,” Minister Farrakhan said.<br /><br />“He indirectly referred to me as ‘the villain.’ Evidence is now mounting that those were not empty words of the president, but those words, as in the past, have been translated into a program, a policy and a war that has been designed to destroy the Nation of Islam and Minister Farrakhan with a particular focus on the growing strength of Black youth,” he added.<br /><br />The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s Vision-Like Experience, which occurred amidst controversy and hostility, is both biblical and Quranic. <br /><br />Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) received a similar experience amidst a hostile environment. When the Prophet (PBUH) visited the city, Ta’if, shortly after the passing of his uncle and wife, he was met with mockery and ridicule. The people threw rocks at him, causing him to be wounded and covered in blood.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FCN4035P01-946x1024.jpg" width="370" /><br /><br />After the Prophet (PBUH) recovered from the attack and re-entered Mecca, he experienced his Night Journey and Ascension, where he traveled from Mecca to Jerusalem in the span of one night. Though the Prophet (PBUH) was called a madman, similar to the labels placed on Minister Farrakhan, like the Minister, he was able to describe in detail his experience. <br /><br />“Allah blessed him to experience what became known as the Night Journey, wherein he received revelation and was taken into the inner sanctum of Allah. Well, that is a foreshadowing and a prefigurement of the Honorable Minister Farrakhan’s More-Than-A-Vision Experience, where he, too, was taken up into the inner sanctum of Allah where one Mighty of Power had taught him, the Lord of Strength,”<br /><br />Student Minister Ilia Rashad Muhammad said. “And it is this experience that we read about in the Qur’an and that we read about in the history of the Prophet, and we are actually living the fulfillment of it right now as we speak, and the point person in all of this is that messianic figure among us, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.”<br /><br />Student Minister Ilia Rashad Muhammad described that the Prophet (PBUH), just like Minister Farrakhan, has human qualities and that the Night Journey solidified certainty from Allah.</div><div><br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FCN-VOLUME-6-Number-2-UFOS-Known-page-1-cover-768x1024.jpg" width="300" /><br /><br />“Nobody wants to be rejected. Nobody seeks that type of controversy, that dangerous controversy,” he said. “So this experience came at a time that offered the Minister a level of certainty from Allah, and it is that certainty that has allowed him to withstand the most powerful Satanic forces of this world.”<br /><br />He shared that everything of significance Minister Farrakhan has done can be traced back to that Vision-Like Experience, from the “Stop the Killing” and “Men Only” tours in the early ’90s to the historic Million Man March on October 16, 1995, which was attended by almost two million Black men.<br /><br />“The Minister knew the plots and plans that were afoot from the highest echelons of government because he had received divine revelation in the Vision-Like Experience, and that revelation has proven to be a saving grace for Black America,” Student Minister Ilia Rashad Muhammad said.<br /><br />The government’s continued activity<br /><br />In 2023 just a few weeks shy of the Minister’s anniversary of his Vision-Like experience, the Pentagon unveiled a new website for the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, the office charged with investigating what the government has dubbed, “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP). Via the website, the office has shared “UAP reporting trends,” information gathered on the objects via congressional reports and briefings and press material from the Department of Defense.</div><div><br /><img src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/farrakhan_gadhafi1997_1.jpg" /></div><div><i>Min. Louis Farrakhan, shown above with the late Liby-an leader Muammar Gadhafi, in Africa. Photo: Final Call archive</i><br /><br />The office will soon be accepting reports from current or former U.S. government employees, service members or contractors with direct knowledge of government programs or activities related to UAP dating back to 1945. It will announce when a reporting mechanism for the general public will be available.<br /><br />Though the government “has finally expressed that they are and have been concerned over the presence of these planes,” Student Minister Ilia Rashad Muhammad said he doesn’t “expect the government to be fully truthful in their efforts, because if they are truly honest and sincere about UFO disclosure, then they would come to those who disclosed this information in the first place, which is the Nation of Islam.”<br /><br />“But since they have not done so but instead have done just the opposite by trying to censor us and run from the truth that we have that answers these phenomena, then we find most of their efforts hypocritical,” he added.<br /><br />As for Black people jokingly questioning on social media what UFOs have to do with their everyday livelihood, “if we knew better, Black people would understand that the presence of these so-called UFOs is proof and evidence that a superior power is here on our behalf,” Student Minister Ilia Rashad Muhammad said. “And it is extremely important that we take heed to this reality, because our salvation, our physical salvation, our salvation as a people and our future is directly connected to this reality.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Ezekiels-wheel-Muhammad-spe-798x1024.jpg" width="312" /><br /><br />“Black people should be the first and foremost to be standing and shouting over the fact that there’s a power in the world that is greater and far superior than our oppressor’s power. So only a fool would mock such a reality that governments and militaries have been spending countless billions, even trillions of dollars trying to study,” he added.<br /><br />“If it’s that important to the most powerful governments and militaries of the world, we would look like a fool trying to mock this phenomena in this day and time when all the evidence proves it to be true. But more importantly, we should be thankful, and we should understand that that power is represented by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.”<br /><br />Earlier this year, Student Minister Ilia Rashad Muhammad released the first episode of a documentary film series titled, “Answered.” Though the episode is just a prelude that gives an introductory overview of the reality of the wheels, it has received great feedback.<br /><br />“Every review that we’ve had has been nothing short of spectacular. So, there’s a great anticipation for part two, and that episode of ‘Answered’ will involve the Coming of God,” Student Minister Ilia Rashad Muhammad said. “And fortunately, we hope in the coming weeks to have that available for viewing as well, so get ready.” <br /><br />The prelude episode can be found on media.noi.org, under the category, “The Wheel.”<div><br /></div><div><div class="td-pb-row" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; position: relative; width: 1021px;"><div class="td-pb-span8 td-main-content" role="main" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 1px; position: relative; width: 680px;"><div class="td-ss-main-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><div class="td-post-content td-pb-padding-side" style="border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px; padding: 10px 19px 0px 20px;"><figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); 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So when he covers her she bears a light burden, then moves about with it. Then when it grows heavy, they both call upon Allah, their Lord: If You give us a good one, we shall certainly be grateful.”<br /><br />~Holy Qur’an, Surah 7, Verse 189<br /><br />And of His signs is this, that He created mates for you from yourselves that you might find quiet of mind in them, and He put between you love and compassion. Surely there are signs in this for a people who reflect.<div><br /><br /><a href="https://store.finalcall.com/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/store-default_ad_728x90.png" width="400" /></a><br /><br />~Holy Qur’an, Surah 30, Verse 21<br /><br />Happy 70th Blessed Wedding Anniversary to<br /><br />The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and Mother Khadijah Farrakhan,<br /><br />who were married on September 12, 1953.<br /><br />May Allah continue to bless you and your family.<br /><br />We Love You!</div><div><br /></div><div><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/SD_2004_15-678x1024.jpg" width="265" /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MLF-Mother-Khadijah_Taste-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /><img height="262" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MLF-Khadijah1-1024x671.jpg" width="400" /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Minsiter-Farrakhan-and-Mother-Khadijah-cut-the-cake-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Min.-Farrakhan-and-Mother-Khadijah_Boston-September-2019-241-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /><img height="259" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MKF-1-SD2000_ADD3-1024x663.jpg" width="400" /><img height="265" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/HMLF-mother-khadijah-Egypt-1024x678.jpg" width="400" /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/29thWedng.jpg" width="271" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Wisdom House Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12805439406753743723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956583853727789183.post-85184899990713097532023-09-05T23:23:00.003-05:002023-09-05T23:23:52.260-05:00From The Final Call Newspaper<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Latest racist attack on Blacks is further proof we must ‘separate and be saved’</span></b><br />By <a href="https://new.finalcall.com/author/js/">J.S. Adams, Contributing Writer</a><br /> - September 5, 2023<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F09%2F05%2Flatest-racist-attack-on-blacks-is-further-proof-we-must-separate-and-be-saved%2F"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Latest+racist+attack+on+Blacks+is+further+proof+we+must+%E2%80%98separate+and+be+saved%E2%80%99&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F09%2F05%2Flatest-racist-attack-on-blacks-is-further-proof-we-must-separate-and-be-saved%2F&via=thefinalcall"></a><a href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/09/05/latest-racist-attack-on-blacks-is-further-proof-we-must-separate-and-be-saved/&media=https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/blue-eye-white-male.jpeg&description=Latest+racist+attack+on+Blacks+is+further+proof+we+must+%E2%80%98separate+and+be+saved%E2%80%99"></a><a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=Latest+racist+attack+on+Blacks+is+further+proof+we+must+%E2%80%98separate+and+be+saved%E2%80%99%20%0A%0A%20https://new.finalcall.com/2023/09/05/latest-racist-attack-on-blacks-is-further-proof-we-must-separate-and-be-saved/"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/09/05/latest-racist-attack-on-blacks-is-further-proof-we-must-separate-and-be-saved/&title=Latest+racist+attack+on+Blacks+is+further+proof+we+must+%E2%80%98separate+and+be+saved%E2%80%99"></a><a href="https://reddit.com/submit?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/09/05/latest-racist-attack-on-blacks-is-further-proof-we-must-separate-and-be-saved/&title=Latest+racist+attack+on+Blacks+is+further+proof+we+must+%E2%80%98separate+and+be+saved%E2%80%99"></a><a href="mailto:?subject=Latest%20racist%20attack%20on%20Blacks%20is%20further%20proof%20we%20must%20%E2%80%98separate%20and%20be%20saved%E2%80%99&body=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/09/05/latest-racist-attack-on-blacks-is-further-proof-we-must-separate-and-be-saved/"></a><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/share/link?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/09/05/latest-racist-attack-on-blacks-is-further-proof-we-must-separate-and-be-saved/&name=Latest%20racist%20attack%20on%20Blacks%20is%20further%20proof%20we%20must%20%E2%80%98separate%20and%20be%20saved%E2%80%99"></a><a href="https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/09/05/latest-racist-attack-on-blacks-is-further-proof-we-must-separate-and-be-saved/&text=Latest+racist+attack+on+Blacks+is+further+proof+we+must+%E2%80%98separate+and+be+saved%E2%80%99"></a><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/blue-eye-white-male.jpeg"><img height="223" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/blue-eye-white-male-681x380.jpeg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><br />Black America added yet another deadly racist attack to the growing tally when recently a 21-year-old White man used his assault-style rifle to kill three Black people at a Jacksonville, Fla., Dollar Store.<br /><br />Incidents such as these are a stark and brutal reminder of the supermarket shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., where a White man slaughtered 10 Black people in a mass shooting; the Charleston, S.C., mass shooting, where a White man targeted a Black church, killing nine worshippers, and more.<br /><br />The growing number of deadly attacks leaves no room for doubt, that White people are disagreeable to live with in peace, and that Black people must establish independence in order to survive.<div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/AP23240832736952-1024x639.jpg"><img height="250" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/AP23240832736952-1024x639.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><i>Sabrina Rozier, center, holds her granddaughter, Je Asia Gallion, during an Aug. 28 news conference with attorney Ben Crump, far right, regarding the Aug. 26 racially motivated mass shooting in Jacksonville, Fla. Je Asia is the 4-year-old daughter of Jerrald Gallion, one of three people killed in the attack. Rozier is the girl’s maternal grandmother, and Gallion was once engaged to her daughter. Photo: AP Photo/Russ Bynum</i><br /><br /><br />Horror in Jacksonville<br /><br /><a href="https://store.finalcall.com/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/store-default_ad_728x90.png" width="400" /></a><br /><br />The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the Jacksonville shooting, which happened August 26, as a hate crime and an act of racially motivated violent extremism, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. The gunman, identified as Ryan Christopher Palmeter, shot and killed Anolt Joseph “AJ” Laguerre Jr., 19; Jerrald Gallion, 29; and Angela Michelle Carr, 52, before he killed himself.<br /><br />Prior to targeting the store, authorities say Mr. Palmeter stopped by Edward Waters University, a historically Black college in Jacksonville, but was deterred after students reportedly saw him putting on a tactical vest, then notified security. Mr. Palmeter had left racist writings and used racial slurs before his rampage, according to Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters.<br /><br />Diallo-Sekou Seabrooks, a Jacksonville-based activist, says he was disturbed and saddened upon hearing about the shooting. However, he’s not surprised.<br /><br />“We have to always look at the systemic and long, long, deep-rooted issues of Jacksonville, Florida, which is rooted in racism and rooted all the way into the power structure that’s here,” he said.<br /><br />Jacksonville is a city located in northeastern Florida, near the Georgia state border.<br /><br />“People may think, through television and promotion, that [Florida] is just a retirement state but this isn’t,” he said. “This is Jim Crow South.”<br /><br />Rodney L. Hurst Sr., a civil rights activist, historian and Jacksonville native, writes about the city’s racist roots. In 1960, he was Jacksonville’s NAACP Youth Council president and witnessed “Ax Handle Saturday.” He, along with other protesters, had staged sit-ins at segregated lunch counters. In August of that year, 200 Whites had armed themselves with ax handles and baseball bats and attacked them across the city.<br /><br />The Civil Rights Movement Archive has a snippet of Mr. Hurst’s book titled, “It Was Never About a Hotdog and a Coke!” He writes, “Here is a country based on the Christian ethic of loving your fellow man and embracing Jesus Christ. … Yet, here is a country throwing those very teachings and its accompanying love out the window, violently attacking young Blacks for pursuing their God-given and constitutionally assured rights.”</div><div><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FCN4248-3-1024x397.jpg"><img height="155" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FCN4248-3-1024x397.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br />He further writes, “Blacks in Jacksonville endured an enormous amount of racism, discrimination, pain, and suffering in the fight for civil rights. They endeavored to leave a legacy and heritage from which we can benefit and of which we all can be proud.”<br /><br />“In the wake of Charleston, Buffalo, and now our hometown here in Jacksonville, there seems to be a pattern that folks want to see how far they can go,” said Anthony Brown, co-founder of the Red Alliance for Justice, an organization dedicated to the revitalization of Black communities. “And if there’s not going to be any pushback or any resistance or retaliation, then you will continue to see these tragedies take place.”<br /><br />Student Minister Nolan X of the Nation of Islam’s Mosque No. 66 in Jacksonville, says attacks like the one in Jacksonville are related to Black people attacking one another.<br /><br />“The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan pointed out in the scriptures where God will send fiery serpents and he mentioned fiery serpents just simply means angry White people,” Student Minister Nolan X said. “So, we keep killing each other, we keep doing harm to each other, hating each other. … The more we keep harming each other, the enemy, by God’s permission, is going to turn it up.”<br /><br />A climate of violent racism and grounds for separation<br /><br />On April 13, Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager, was shot in the head by an 84-year-old White man in Kansas City, Missouri. Ralph, who’s now 17, was trying to pick up his younger brothers but went to the wrong home. He survived the shooting. Now a judge has ruled the gunman, Andrew Lester, must stand trial. He was charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action and previously pleaded not guilty.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Ralph-Paul-Yarl-in-the-hospital-in-serious-condition-April-2023-1024x576.jpg"><img height="225" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Ralph-Paul-Yarl-in-the-hospital-in-serious-condition-April-2023-1024x576.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><i>Ralph Paul Yarl, in the hospital in serious condition on April 2023. Photo: MGN Online</i><br /><br />D’Monterrio Gibson, a 25-year-old Black man, says he was fired from his job at FedEx on July 26, after two White men chased and shot at him in Mississippi in 2022. A judge recently declared a mistrial for the father and son charged in the attack, citing police errors.<br /><br />In Amherst, Penn., a White man armed with a shotgun was accused of threatening two women before attempting to enter a predominantly Black church on Aug. 31. According to the Associated Press, investigators say they have no evidence the man was motivated by racial hate, to the dismay of the members of that church. <br /><br />And the list goes on.<br /><br />Krystal Muhammad, the national chair of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, says she receives messages describing racial attacks on a daily and weekly basis.<br /><br />“There are tons and tons of local reports of racial attacks and the exaggerated energy of racism that’s being displayed openly,” Ms. Muhammad told The Final Call. She says these reports don’t always reach the national media.<br /><br />“We’re living in a time where we just formerly were under the presidency of a well-known racist, who came out on a platform to basically be the opposite of what (President Barack) Obama was to Black people, for the Whites in this country, which would be, Donald Trump.”<br /><br />She says these attacks have never slowed down, but the advent of social media has made them more visible.<br /><br />Dr. Jared Ball, a professor of communications at Morgan State University, says, “At the end of the day, these random acts of violence, as horrific as they are…to paraphrase what [Martin Luther King Jr.] says, they are the derivative crimes of an already criminal arrangement that we have with this society. They are themselves extensions of a society’s public policy of a national material and immaterial will against Black people.”</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/AP23239610968391-1024x683.jpg"><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/AP23239610968391-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><i>Church members at the St. Paul A.M.E. Church pray with four Edward Waters University students, center, who attended a prayer service for the victims of a mass shooting, Aug. 27, in Jacksonville, Fla. Photo: AP Photo/John Raoux</i><br /><br />Ms. Muhammad points to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s solution to these issues, which is separation. The Eternal Leader of the Nation of Islam’s program which includes separation is found in the Muslim Program, “What The Muslims Want” and “What The Muslims Believe.” The program was printed in every edition of Muhammad Speaks newspaper and is also on the inside back page of The Final Call.<br /><br />The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad stated, “We want our people in America whose parents or grandparents were descendants from slaves, to be allowed to establish a separate state or territory of their own—either on this continent or elsewhere.”<br /><br />He further states, “Since we cannot get along with them in peace and equality, after giving them 400 years of our sweat and blood and receiving in return some of the worst treatment human beings have ever experienced, we believe our contributions to this land and the suffering forced upon us by White America, justifies our demand for complete separation in a state or territory of our own.”<br /><br />As long as Black people are under the rulership of the slave masters’ children this pattern of violence and attacks by Whites will continue, explained Ms. Muhammad. “You can’t get a scorpion to change their ways. You can’t get a rattlesnake to not be a rattlesnake.”<br /><br />On page 204 of His monumental book titled “Message to the Black Man in America,” The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad writes, “We, once slaves, have grown to be a nation of twenty million or more in a nation that enslaved our fathers and to this day has deprived us of equal justice under their own laws.<br /><br />No equal civil rights–most of us are treated by White citizens of America as animals. It is common to see and hear of White mobs attacking, beating, and shooting down poor Blacks whose fathers’ and mothers’ labor, sweat and blood helped make America the richest government on earth; nevertheless, we are yet the most hated and mistreated people.”<br /><br />“Allah (God) wants to make a great nation out of us (so-called Negroes). But if we desire to remain the slave of servants for our slave-masters, it is all right with Allah. Do we love ourselves and our children? If so, why not build a future for ourselves rather than beg the same slave-masters for jobs and equal shares in whatever they have even to equal membership in their society and families (intermarriage).”<br /><br />Krystal Muhammad says an honest dialogue must be had within the Black community about the current reality, and Black children must be told about the kind of people they are dealing with.<br /><br />“We are going to have to be honest and stop trying to just stay assimilated into a system that is stacked against us,” she said. “But what we have not done and have yet to do and it’s gonna be the only solution is to make the decision to separate and operate as a separate nation and to be self-governed.”<br /><br />Mr. Brown believes there are legislators who “represent (the community) in rhetoric but don’t represent them in practice. And until that improves, you’re not going to see the type of legislation that you need in order for us to have that protection.”<br /><br />But he also believes Blacks need to start taking matters into their own hands.<br /><br />“I think these communities need to be a little bit more proactive in creating a neighborhood watch or a group of individuals that kind of patrol their own community and make sure that nothing irregular is taking place, make sure that someone who looks suspicious that they can kind of do what they need to do because if you’re waiting on the government to come at this particular time, you might be waiting a long time,” he said.<br /><br />As Jacksonville begins its journey toward healing, Mr. Brown and Student Minister Nolan X plan to participate in a September 6 town hall that will enable local organizations to plan strategically and offer resources to the community. <br /><br />“Allah (God) is showing us who the true enemy of self is,” Student Minister Nolan X said. “This is going to continue to escalate and get worse and worse and worse, so teaches the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, if we continue to do what we have been brainwashed to do. But the Teachings (of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad) have washed our brains and we have to be acquainted with the God that saves and the true reality of ourselves.”</div><div><br /></div><div> <br /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/AP23109005959392-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>People gather at a rally to support Ralph Yarl, April 18, in Kansas City, Mo. Yarl, a Black teenager, was shot by a White homeowner when he mistakenly went to the wrong address to pick up his younger brothers. Photo: AP Photo/Charlie Riedel<br /></i><br />A May 2022 Time magazine article titled “Anti-Black Violence Has Long Been the Most Common American Hate Crime—And We Still Don’t Know the Full Extent” reported that as the country publicly declared itself to be in the <a href="https://time.com/6177386/buffalo-guns-white-supremacy/">midst of a racial reckoning</a>, “it turns out Black Americans were being hunted and hurt at a level unmatched since 2008—the year that saw the election of the first Black president and an attendant, hate-fueled backlash.”<br /><br />In 2020, the most recent year for which the FBI has gathered and reported nationwide hate crime data, 2,871 Black Americans became victims of hate crimes, the article noted.<br /><br />In a message titled, “Can Black and White Live Together in Peace,” from part 39 of the 2013 online lecture series, “The Time and What Must Be Done,” Minister Farrakhan stated:<br /><br />“The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us that one of the things that must be done, in this time, is that we must be separated from our former slave masters and their children—because time will prove that they will become more and more disagreeable to live with in peace.<br /><br />“Unfortunately, race relations will continue to get worse because the government just cannot provide enough food, clothing, shelter and jobs, or justice, for us. And as we sit around, waiting for somebody else to do this for us—and demanding what we feel are our basic rights as so-called citizens—<br /><br />We are making our former slave masters and their children more angry with us; and thus, they are becoming more disagreeable to live with in peace. That’s why the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, ‘We must be separated if we don’t want to continue to suffer great loss.’”<br /><br />Final Call staff contributed to this report.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Wisdom House Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12805439406753743723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956583853727789183.post-36232465825128335632023-09-04T17:03:00.007-05:002023-09-04T17:03:54.892-05:00From The Final Call Newspaper<p><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Black Business Conference unites Black businesses and professionals under one agenda</span></b></p>By <a href="https://new.finalcall.com/author/anisah/">Anisah Muhammad, Contributing Writer</a><br /> - August 29, 2023<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F08%2F29%2Fblack-business-conference-unites-black-businesses-and-professionals-under-one-agenda%2F"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Black+Business+Conference+unites+Black+businesses+and+professionals+under+one+agenda&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F08%2F29%2Fblack-business-conference-unites-black-businesses-and-professionals-under-one-agenda%2F&via=thefinalcall"></a><a href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/08/29/black-business-conference-unites-black-businesses-and-professionals-under-one-agenda/&media=https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/iStock-1195024400.jpg&description=Black+Business+Conference+unites+Black+businesses+and+professionals+under+one+agenda"></a><a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=Black+Business+Conference+unites+Black+businesses+and+professionals+under+one+agenda%20%0A%0A%20https://new.finalcall.com/2023/08/29/black-business-conference-unites-black-businesses-and-professionals-under-one-agenda/"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/08/29/black-business-conference-unites-black-businesses-and-professionals-under-one-agenda/&title=Black+Business+Conference+unites+Black+businesses+and+professionals+under+one+agenda"></a><a href="https://reddit.com/submit?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/08/29/black-business-conference-unites-black-businesses-and-professionals-under-one-agenda/&title=Black+Business+Conference+unites+Black+businesses+and+professionals+under+one+agenda"></a><a href="mailto:?subject=Black%20Business%20Conference%20unites%20Black%20businesses%20and%20professionals%20under%20one%20agenda&body=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/08/29/black-business-conference-unites-black-businesses-and-professionals-under-one-agenda/"></a><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/share/link?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/08/29/black-business-conference-unites-black-businesses-and-professionals-under-one-agenda/&name=Black%20Business%20Conference%20unites%20Black%20businesses%20and%20professionals%20under%20one%20agenda"></a><a href="https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/08/29/black-business-conference-unites-black-businesses-and-professionals-under-one-agenda/&text=Black+Business+Conference+unites+Black+businesses+and+professionals+under+one+agenda"></a><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/iStock-1195024400.jpg"><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/iStock-1195024400-681x454.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><br />ATLANTA—When traveling down the lobby escalators of the Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Black people from all over the country and the world were presented with a visual display of African art and culture. The display was a welcoming introduction to the 123rd National Black Business Conference that took place in Atlanta on August 24-26.<br /><br />The National Business League, the National Black Chamber of Commerce and The World Conference of Mayors unified to host the conference. More than 1,000 Black businesses and professionals registered.<br /><br />“This conversation about Black business, that’s what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, as well as Minister Farrakhan, they believe in. Black people supporting their own businesses, Black people governing their own businesses, Black people turning over the dollar in the Black community. We hope to accomplish all of that as a result of a conference like this,” said former Tuskegee, Alabama, mayor and president and founder of The World Conference, Johnny Ford said, to The Final Call.<br /><br />The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Eternal Leader of the Nation of Islam, listed the science of business as one of the three sciences never taught to the Black slave, the other two being the science of mating and the science of warfare.<div><br /><br /><a href="https://store.finalcall.com/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/store-default_ad_728x90.png" width="400" /></a><br /><br />On page 40 of His book “Message to the Blackman in America,” Mr. Muhammad recalled a congressional debate in the early 1920s concerning the appropriation of funds for Howard University. During the debate, a senator voiced that they would not teach Black people those much-needed sciences.<br /><br />“He knew these were things free people must know in order to protect, preserve and advance themselves,” the Honorable Elijah Muhammad writes.<br /><br />“Inspiring Black people to go back, go into business. Start their own businesses. But the point is, we have to come to a conference like this to learn where the money is. And many times, we can generate the money ourselves. That’s what Minister Farrakhan believes in, Black people spending money with themselves ,” said Mayor Ford.<br /><br />The conference is important because it brings together institutions with resources that Black people can take advantage of, he added.<br /><br />The conference came on the heels of a recent partnership between the National Business League and the National Black Chamber of Commerce. The two organizations partnered in September 2022 to create the National Alliance for Black Business, to develop a unified Black business agenda.<br /><br />“This is the foundational nucleus for us to mobilize the entire country. Every Black chamber in the country, every business league in the country, in connection with all of our historic Black towns and settlements, and the endorsement of all the Black mayors not just here in the United States of America, but throughout the world,” Dr. Ken Harris, president and CEO of the National Business League, said during the conference’s opening ceremony on Aug. 2</div><div><br /></div><div><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG_4213-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br />The organizers noted the importance of a unified alliance to create an economic destiny.<br /><br />“This is the beginning of the enactment of a unified global economic empowerment by way of entrepreneurs,” said Chuck Debow, president and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce. “It’s been our mission. It’s been something that we theoretically and philosophically had espoused. But what you are a part of is the actuality of it.”<br /><br />The conference stands on the shoulders of Booker T. Washington, founder of the historic Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama. Booker T. Washington founded the National Negro Business League 123 years ago, in Boston, Massachusetts. On August 23, 1900, the league held its first national conference.<br /><br />“It was Booker T. Washington who brought together Black business leaders as well as Black political leaders, Black educators, Black nonprofit organizations, organizations from throughout the nation and the world to organize a national business league,” Mayor Ford said during the opening program.<br /><br />A pre-conference took place at Tuskegee University on Aug. 23, which included a tour of the university, a news conference and ribbon-cutting ceremony and a reception. The university is the national headquarters of the National Business League.<br /><br />Conference organizers recognized the presence of representatives from Amazon, Comerica, Prosper Africa and the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Representatives from several African countries were also present, including Senegal, Uganda, Kenya, Barbados, Gambia, the Ivory Coast, Mali and Tanzania, along with a representative from New Delhi, India.<br /><br />The in-person conference was accompanied by an event app, Whova, where Black business owners and professionals scheduled their own meetups on different subjects, linked with fellow conference attendees and posted on the community discussion board.<br /><br />Attendees also had the opportunity to directly support Black businesses via a Black business expo that took place on Aug. 26. Products and services ranged from food, clothing and books to personal care products and investment and consulting services.<br /><br />Panel discussions<br /><br />Conference panel discussions on Aug. 25 included “Re-Building Black Wallstreet,” “Pan-African Diaspora Global Business,” “Black Women in Business” and “Access to Capital for Black Business.” The National Black Chamber of Commerce held a “30th Anniversary Dinner” in the evening, which included a red-carpet international fashion show.<br /><br />“Re-Building Black Wallstreet” panelists acknowledged the detrimental effects of integration, namely, how Black-owned and operated businesses began to decline.<br /><br />When Alberta McCrory was growing up in Hobson City, Alabama, the first established Black city, everything was Black-owned and operated, from the service station to the grocery store. She is now the mayor of Hobson City and is encouraging the pooling of resources and for young Black entrepreneurs to return to their communities.<br /><br />Dr. Tyrene Wright commented that though Black people “integrated our dollars,” White people didn’t integrate their dollars.<br /><br />Jay Bailey, the president and CEO of the Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs, noted how GDP (gross domestic product) is lost every year simply due to Black people residing in the parts of town that lack access to resources and opportunity.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG_4209-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>From left, Mayor Jimmie Gardner of Pritchard, Alabama; Sherman Copelin, pres- ident of Alexander’s Inc.; Mayor Johnny Ford of Tuskegee, Alabama, and Frank Jackson, the vice president of The World Conference of Mayors pose for a photo at the conference.</i><br /><br />Panelists also discussed the importance of the intentionality of spending money, how spending is a form of protest and strategies of resistance. They said White acceptance, assurance and capital are not needed for Black people to create their own economies.<br /><br />“You spend your money where your people are. You can transform your people, which transforms your community,” Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon, CEO of the Atlanta-based Village Market and Our Village United, said. Her organization has spent $8.3 million in direct sales on Black people.<br /><br />“Everything started with a single idea of inspiring people to move, to mobilize where you are, to use those smartphones; to make sure your shopping cart was Black, make sure your dentist, your doctor is Black, make sure the guy that’s working on your roof is Black,” she said.<br /><br />Dr. Tyrene Wright of City University of New York (CUNY) commented that “Whatever we consume, we should produce.”<br /><br />Black women in business spoke to a majority-women audience on the importance of mentorship, finding a tribe, having partnerships and collaborations and social media and influencer marketing. They also answered questions from the audience.<br /><br />The “Access to Capital for Black Business” panel covered key barriers such as financial education and the willingness of financial institutions to share the rules of the game and to discuss underwriting.<br /><br />“Your idea upon which you create your business will become your value,” Joe Cecala, founder and CEO of Dream Exchange, said. “A lot of great ideas can start in a garage,” he added.<br /><br />Panelists mentioned the importance of finding an accountant, a financial adviser and a lawyer and staying in constant communication with them. They also talked about the importance of education and sacrifice for a successful business.<br /><br />“The secret is education. The secret is sacrifice. The secret is being on a path with goals and objectives and executing the goals and objectives to achieve success,” Frederick L. Daniels Jr., of the Black-owned Citizens Trust Bank, said.<br /><br />Workshops<br /><br />The next day’s agenda consisted of Black business workshops. Topics included trusting yourself, the transformative power of wellness, institutions of change, the athletic mindset in business, the U.S. Census Bureau, intellectual property ownership, the international trade association, mastering content creation, legal advice for start-ups, trade-marking, doing business internationally and globally, business plans and models, business planning and development, mental health of business, mastering public relations, getting your business legit, obtaining federal contracts and grants, where to start when owning a business and emerging markets and industries.<br /><br />Tiffiney Ward from Atlanta attended the conference to see what other people in the business world were doing and to learn from their mistakes and successes. She was interested in attending the session on business plans and models, to help her company, Wordflux Solutions.<br /><br />“Everyone has a business plan, but a business plan is always being tweaked so that you have a stronger business plan,” she said to The Final Call. “I’m hoping to glean some new ideas and new tools that I can use to make a business plan stronger.”<br /><br />During a workshop on making your business legitimate, Racheal Allen, the CEO of Operations School, testified on how she left her job and started running a successful business within the span of a year. She outlined five steps people should take to have a legitimate business: getting legal, getting branded, getting operational, getting profitable and getting noticed.<br /><br />Getting legal includes having an EIN, articles of organization and an annual statement, an operating agreement, licensing and permits, insurances, service, contractor and non-disclosure agreements, commercial savings, tax and payroll accounts, tradelines and a paydex score.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="276" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/nabb.png" width="400" /><br /><br />Getting branded includes having a domain name, branded email, evoice phone number, lifestyle and headshot photos, a brand archetype, a style guide, a logo and a website.<br /><br />Ms. Allen talked through five needed systems to get operational: lead conversion such as subscription websites, project management such as Monday or Asana, operations such as Google Workspace, customer service and financials. She concluded that the main system needed is customer relationship management.<br /><br />To get profitable, she voiced the importance of developing your customer avatar, creating a value spectrum, utilizing multiple payment systems, knowing your numbers and becoming oversubscribed.<br /><br />To get noticed, she advised attendees to tell their stories, to create something newsworthy, to write their own press releases, to leverage digital marketing and to go where their customers are.<br /><br />In another workshop, Diane Palmer, founder and managing director of B3 Elevation, shared five things every Black-owned business needs to succeed: a finance team, a legal team, digital presence, certification and elevation of the mind.<br /><br />A concurrent session of workshops was held via a “Pan-African Diaspora Black Business Summit,” presented by Prosper Africa. Those workshops included fostering trust and collaboration between the African diaspora and Africa, defining and exploring the African diaspora and its role, Africa’s place in the global economy and supporting African self-reliance and diasporan independence.<br /><br />A film titled, “Hapi,” was shown, presenting a snapshot of economic history and the flow of money and information over time.<br /><br />The day concluded with the “Booker T. Washington Black-Tie Awards Gala,” which included a keynote speech from civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump.<br /><br />Dr. Royelle Comer from Montgomery, Alabama, attended the conference to learn more about access to capital. “You want to be around people that are like-minded. You want to understand what’s going on in the business world and how we can make our business grow and flourish,” he said to The Final Call.<br /><br />“Build relationships, take that back to our companies and grow them, and hopefully become part of this network as these conferences happen over the years.”<br /><br />Forrest Carter, the national director for the National Black Supplier Development Program of the National Business League, listed closing the wealth gap as one of the objectives of the conference.<br /><br />“This many coming together of Black excellence from across the country, it’s important to be able to scale. The same agenda, same objective, but it is only when we come together collectively en masse that we’re able to accumulate the resources and the gravitas that could bring our objectives into fruition,” he said to The Final Call.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Wisdom House Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12805439406753743723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956583853727789183.post-33683441999299552422023-08-10T20:30:00.001-05:002023-08-10T20:30:29.525-05:00From The Final Call Newspaper<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">A Soldier, Scholar, and Friend laid to rest</span></b><br /><br />By <a href="https://new.finalcall.com/author/tariqah/">Tariqah Shakir-Muhammad, Staff Writer</a><br /> - August 8, 2023<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F08%2F08%2Fa-soldier-scholar-and-friend-laid-to-rest%2F"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=A+Soldier%2C+Scholar%2C+and+Friend+laid+to+rest&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F08%2F08%2Fa-soldier-scholar-and-friend-laid-to-rest%2F&via=thefinalcall"></a><a href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/08/08/a-soldier-scholar-and-friend-laid-to-rest/&media=https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG_7448-photo-via-corretta-muhammad-2.jpg&description=A+Soldier%2C+Scholar%2C+and+Friend+laid+to+rest"></a><a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=A+Soldier%2C+Scholar%2C+and+Friend+laid+to+rest%20%0A%0A%20https://new.finalcall.com/2023/08/08/a-soldier-scholar-and-friend-laid-to-rest/"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/08/08/a-soldier-scholar-and-friend-laid-to-rest/&title=A+Soldier%2C+Scholar%2C+and+Friend+laid+to+rest"></a><a href="https://reddit.com/submit?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/08/08/a-soldier-scholar-and-friend-laid-to-rest/&title=A+Soldier%2C+Scholar%2C+and+Friend+laid+to+rest"></a><a href="mailto:?subject=A%20Soldier,%20Scholar,%20and%20Friend%20laid%20to%20rest&body=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/08/08/a-soldier-scholar-and-friend-laid-to-rest/"></a><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/share/link?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/08/08/a-soldier-scholar-and-friend-laid-to-rest/&name=A%20Soldier,%20Scholar,%20and%20Friend%20laid%20to%20rest"></a><a href="https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/08/08/a-soldier-scholar-and-friend-laid-to-rest/&text=A+Soldier%2C+Scholar%2C+and+Friend+laid+to+rest"></a><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG_7448-photo-via-corretta-muhammad-2.jpg"><img height="342" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG_7448-photo-via-corretta-muhammad-2-681x582.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><br />A final salute was made to Brother Minister Jabril Muhammad in a sentimental and beautiful interment ceremony on August 2 at the Phoenix Memorial Park and Mortuary in Phoenix, Arizona.<br /><br />The “exemplar in the classroom of God” and longtime companion, aide and supreme witness to the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan departed this life on July 16. The Janazah (Islamic prayer service) for Minister Jabril Muhammad was held on July 30 at Mosque Maryam in Chicago (See The Final Call, Vol. 42 No. 43 for the special tribute to Minister Jabril Muhammad and visit media.noi.org for a replay of the janazah service). <br /><br />In Phoenix, Minister Farrakhan led the burial service sharing poignant and reflective sentiments and fitting tribute to his dear brother and friend.<div> <img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/FCN-BRO.JABRIL-BURIAL-AUG.2ND-2023-PHOTOS-BY-HAROON-RAJAE-170-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br />“Sister Bernique Cushmeer, the mother of these children, shall always be remembered with honor and a deep and abiding respect,” said Minister Farrakhan speaking about the family of Minister Jabril Muhammad. He is survived by his wife, Sister Dr. Patina Muhammad. Minister Jabril’s legacy is carried on by his loving and devoted family, including his children from his first marriage with Sister Bernique Cushmeer: Sister Naeemah, Sister Ati Hamid, Sister Bari, Brother Elijah, and Brother Barnar.</div><div><br /><a href="https://store.finalcall.com/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/store-default_ad_728x90.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>“I shall always be grateful to Allah (God) for this man in this casket or coffin,” Minister Farrakhan continued during the August 2 service. “For what he did for me had caused me to awaken to the nature of God that would build up in me, made by the same God that made our father, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. He made me to be the helper of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. And Jabril Muhammad gets the credit eternally!” he said.<br /><br /><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/FCN-BRO.JABRIL-BURIAL-AUG.2ND-2023-PHOTOS-BY-HAROON-RAJAE-171-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br /><br /><br />Minister Farrakhan, who is an expert violinist and released a musical project, “Let’s Change The World,” then described the importance of an aspect of music unique to composers when discussing Brother Minister Jabril. On his album, there is a song that Minister Farrakhan’s violin instructor dedicated to a close friend.<br /><br /> The Minister, to mark the occasion of laying Brother Minister Jabril to rest, dedicated the song to his close friend. <br /><br />“Every one of the great composers made a largo, a piece that is solemn, a piece that makes one think deeply on whatever you’re thinking on. Mozart had a largo, Handel had a largo, and Beethoven had a largo, and now we have a largo for our brother, Jabril,” the Minister closed.<br /><br /><br /><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/FCN-BRO.JABRIL-BURIAL-AUG.2ND-2023-PHOTOS-BY-HAROON-RAJAE-166-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/FCN-BRO.JABRIL-BURIAL-AUG.2ND-2023-PHOTOS-BY-HAROON-RAJAE-192-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/FCN-BRO.JABRIL-BURIAL-AUG.2ND-2023-PHOTOS-BY-HAROON-RAJAE-327-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br /><br />The closing prayer was performed by Student National Imam Sultan Rahman Muhammad, resident imam at Mosque Maryam in Chicago.<br /><br />Participants who were present as well as those watching the livestream via social media were able to follow the service. Muslims carefully covered the coffin in silence while others reflected on the life and legacy of Jabril Muhammad as the melodic and beautiful largo played in the background.<br /><br />A repast was held after the burial service at Muhammad Mosque No. 32 in Phoenix. Please see page 20 to read the message delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.<br /><br />Final Call staff contributed to this report.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/FCN-BRO.JABRIL-BURIAL-AUG.2ND-2023-PHOTOS-BY-HAROON-RAJAE-171-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/FCN-BRO.JABRIL-BURIAL-AUG.2ND-2023-PHOTOS-BY-HAROON-RAJAE-187-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/FCN-BRO.JABRIL-BURIAL-AUG.2ND-2023-PHOTOS-BY-HAROON-RAJAE-189-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/FCN-BRO.JABRIL-BURIAL-AUG.2ND-2023-PHOTOS-BY-HAROON-RAJAE-188-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/FCN-BRO.JABRIL-BURIAL-AUG.2ND-2023-PHOTOS-BY-HAROON-RAJAE-342-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/FCN-BRO.JABRIL-BURIAL-AUG.2ND-2023-PHOTOS-BY-HAROON-RAJAE-351-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img height="319" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG_9871-1024x816.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Wisdom House Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12805439406753743723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956583853727789183.post-55577624330152444082023-08-02T20:22:00.003-05:002023-08-02T20:25:07.754-05:00From The Final Call Newspaper<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">An Angel Among Men</span></b><br />By <a href="https://new.finalcall.com/author/michaelz/">Michael Z. Muhammad, Contributing Writer</a><br /> - August 1, 2023<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F08%2F01%2Fan-angel-among-men%2F"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=An+Angel+Among+Men&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F08%2F01%2Fan-angel-among-men%2F&via=thefinalcall"></a><a href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/08/01/an-angel-among-men/&media=https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG_9652-light-room-dark-left-side-for-cover.png&description=An+Angel+Among+Men"></a><a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=An+Angel+Among+Men%20%0A%0A%20https://new.finalcall.com/2023/08/01/an-angel-among-men/"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/08/01/an-angel-among-men/&title=An+Angel+Among+Men"></a><a href="https://reddit.com/submit?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/08/01/an-angel-among-men/&title=An+Angel+Among+Men"></a><a href="mailto:?subject=An%20Angel%20Among%20Men&body=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/08/01/an-angel-among-men/"></a><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/share/link?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/08/01/an-angel-among-men/&name=An%20Angel%20Among%20Men"></a><a href="https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/08/01/an-angel-among-men/&text=An+Angel+Among+Men"></a><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG_9652-light-room-dark-left-side-for-cover.png"><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG_9652-light-room-dark-left-side-for-cover-681x454.png" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/FCN-SPECIAL-BROTHER-JABRIL-MUHAMMAD-.pdf">Download Special 8-Page Spread: Minister Jabril Muhammad</a><br /><br />“O soul that art at rest, Return to thy Lord, well-pleased, well-pleasing, So enter among My servants, And enter My Garden!”—Holy Qur’an, Surah 89 Verses 27-30<br /><br />CHICAGO—Mosque Maryam at The National Center of the Nation of Islam was full to capacity as family members, friends, and Believers from around the world gathered to pay tribute to a man who was and is a pillar of Islam as taught by the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and exemplified by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.<br /><br />Brother Minister Jabril Muhammad, known affectionately and lovingly as “Brother Jabril,” was honored during a janazah (Islamic funeral service) on July 30. The program was streamed live around the world. Minister Jabril Muhammad was a longtime companion, aide and supreme witness to the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://store.finalcall.com/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/store-default_ad_728x90.png" width="400" /></a><br /><br />His casket was ceremoniously brought into Mosque Maryam accompanied by Nation of Islam Honor Guard dressed in striking blue uniforms. At the front of the sanctuary, they lifted the casket above their shoulders before carefully putting it in place.<br /><br /><br /><br /><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Bro-Jabril-Muhammad-Janaaza-7-30-23-Photos-Abdul-K-Muhammad-543-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /><br />Bro Jabril Muhammad Janaaza 7-30-23 (Photos Abdul K Muhammad)<br /><br /> As the believers in the audience stood, raised their arms and saluted, the air was filled with the heartfelt chorus of “Allah U Akbar!” (God is the Greatest). <br /><br />“We are gathered here today for a very special tribute in honor of one of the great helpers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, Minister Jabril Muhammad,” said Student Minister Ishmael Muhammad, National Assistant to Minister Farrakhan. “We mourn the loss of a father, a grandfather, a husband, an uncle, a brother, a soldier in the cause of Allah (God). We lift his lovely wife, his children, his family in our prayers and thoughts.”<br /><br /><br /><br /><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Bro-Jabril-Muhammad-Janaaza-7-30-23-Photos-Abdul-K-Muhammad-283-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /><br />Bro Jabril Muhammad Janaaza 7-30-23 (Photos Abdul K Muhammad)<br /><br />Student Minister Ishmael explained, “Today we will be introduced to this special man, this beautiful human being, Jabril,” and that “we will learn something of his life through the obituary.” But, we will learn his divinity and the special divine role he played in the liberation struggle of Black and oppressed people as well as his priceless, invaluable contribution to the Nation of Islam, he continued.<br /><br />“And that role that he played will be introduced to us by none other than the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. In my humble opinion and I’m sure it’s shared by many: Brother Jabril was the greatest witness of the Messiah, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Jesus—hands down! He was the greatest witness of his brother, his Minister, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. We thank Allah for Brother Jabril Muhammad.” <br /><br />The service was a testament to this man’s incredible achievement as the central and key figure of assisting Minister Farrakhan in resurrecting the Nation of Islam after the departure of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad in 1975.<br /><br /><br /><br /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Bro-Jabril-Muhammad-Janaaza-7-30-23-Photos-Andrea-Muhammad-4-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br />The service detailed Minister Jabril’s life history through a beautifully crafted program. The reading began with Brother Cedric Muhammad, who took those in attendance back to Minister Jabril’s early years. Born as Bernard Edward Moore in the Bronx, New York, on June 28, 1936, his upbringing was profoundly influenced by his mother, Ruby Anna Mae Parker-Moore, and his father, Bernard Moore, Sr. Growing up, his mother nurtured his public speaking skills. She instilled in him the importance of education and diligent study. <br /><br />Minister Jabril developed a deep passion for research and the arts as a young man. In 1953, he first heard about the Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and attended a mosque meeting at Temple No. 7 (as they were called at that time). <br /><br />The following year, he had a transformative six-hour conversation with Minister Malcolm X, where he made a powerful commitment regarding what Malcolm told him of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad: “If this man is who you say he is, I will help him,” read Brother Cedric. <br /><br />Brother Cedic concluded by noting that in June 1954, Minister Jabril had a transformative experience when he read J.A. Rodgers’ book, “From Superman to Man.” This book reminded him of a previous conversation with Minister Malcolm X, sparking his interest even more. He soon started attending Temple No. 7 in Harlem, and after his fourth visit, he officially joined.<br /><br /><br /> <br /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Bro-Jabril-Muhammad-Janaaza-7-30-23-Photos-Andrea-Muhammad-6-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br />A year later, he met and instantly connected with Brother Louis X (the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.) This friendship would prove to be one of the most significant and enduring bonds in both men’s lives, Brother Cedric read.<br /><br />Additional historical highlights of his life stated that in 1965 Brother Jabril was appointed minister in Phoenix, Arizona, where he had the distinct honor of living with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Minister Jabril was blessed to receive direct teaching and training from his teacher. <br /><br />Student Minister Ishmael noted that in 1966 Minister Jabril corresponded with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, who confirmed his thoughts about his departure on the heels of a death plot that would not succeed.<br /><br />In 1972, Minister Jabril accurately predicted the day, month, and year of the Messenger’s departure. Three years later, on February 25, 1975, the world received the news of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s passing. This event plunged the Nation of Islam into a period of darkness and led to the dismantling of the works of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.<br /><br /><br /><br /><img height="268" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Bro-Jabril-Muhammad-Janaaza-7-30-23-Photos-Haroon-Rajaee-6-1024x685.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br />Sister Dr. Patina Muhammad, the wife of Minister Jabril, highlighted her husband’s role as an “extraordinary helper to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.” During a meeting in Hollywood, California, in September 1977, Minister Jabril had the opportunity to present his book to Minister Farrakhan, who was on the verge of returning to show business. He felt the unwavering love the Minister still had for Allah in Person, The Great Mahdi Master Fard Muhammad, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Black people.<br /><br />Minister Farrakhan completed reading the book in just three days and assured Minister Jabril that his “eye operation” had been successful, Sister Dr. Patina read.<br /><br />In the same year, Minister Jabril revealed that he was able to lift Mother Tynnetta Muhammad, the wife of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, as well. The trio’s bond was unbreakable, and Mother Tynnetta became like a sister to Minister Jabril. Together, the three of them worked tirelessly to rebuild the Nation of Islam.<br /><br />Minister Farrakhan bestowed the name Jabril Muhammad upon Brother Bernard Cushmeer in honor of the angel Jibril, who revealed the Holy Qur’an from Allah to Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him). Minister Jabril approached Minister Farrakhan with profound spiritual insight, urging him to “READ.” Minister Farrakhan acknowledged that Brother Jabril knew him better than anyone else due to his deep understanding of scripture.<br /><br /><br /><br /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Bro-Jabril-Muhammad-Janaaza-7-30-23-Photos-Andrea-Muhammad-35-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br />Sister Iman “Latonja” Ali worked with Brother Minister Jabril read portions that further shared facts about his life. She highlighted his admiration for author J.A. Rodgers and his influential book which inspired his writing endeavors. <br /><br />His strong determination to accurately portray the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan led him to produce remarkable works, showcasing his scholarly expertise and unwavering support for these two divine servants of Allah.<br /><br />She stated Minister Jabril demonstrated an unwavering dedication to the written word as evidenced in his numerous books, such as “This is the One: The Honorable Elijah Muhammad We Need Not Look for Another,” “A Special Spokesman,” “A Written Testimony,” and “Is It Possible the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is Still Alive???” His impactful insights were also featured in his weekly column, “Farrakhan the Traveler,” in The Final Call newspaper. <br /><br />Minister Farrakhan then mounted the rostrum and shared a touching tribute. The Minister expressed his admiration and gratitude, saying the name of his brother and trusted companion should be celebrated and shared with the world.<div> <br /><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Bro-Jabril-Muhammad-Janaaza-7-30-23-Photos-Final-X-31-1024x682.jpeg" width="400" /><br /><br /><br /><br />He described Brother Minister Jabril as a mentor and teacher who helped him regain his true self. The Minister highlighted the commendable assignment undertaken by Minister Jabril, which he successfully fulfilled. <br /><br />“Our actions align with the Teachings found in the scriptures, spanning from Genesis to Revelation,” the Minister stated. Minister Jabril’s guidance has prepared me “to be a victor over Satan.”<br /><br />Minister Farrakhan highlighted the recurring nature of history. He cited the example of Prophet Muhammad, who was initially unable to read but later received a book upon the command of the Angel Jibril. Similarly, Master Fard Muhammad bestowed the Holy Quran in Arabic to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, who could not read it at first. However, a profound understanding of the Qur’an emerged through Elijah Muhammad, leading to the discovery of an entirely new realm of knowledge.</div><div><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Bro-Jabril-Muhammad-Janaaza-7-30-23-Photos-Haroon-Rajaee-232-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br /><br /><br />Lastly, he noted the story of Peter, who denied Jesus upon his death. Addressing the audience, he inquired, “What is my assignment?” Answering, he pointed to the Bible’s book of Luke, Chapter 22, where Jesus says in part, “But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.” <br /><br />“I came back and got you,” Minister Farrakhan said as the audience stood to their feet in applause. Please see the special insert in The Final Call to read the Minister’s message.<br /><br />The service ended with the janazah prayer led by Student Imam Sultan Rahman Muhammad and Student Minister Ishmael Muhammad. Following the customs of the Nation of Islam as taught by the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, mints were handed out to honor the sweet and meaningful life of Minister Jabril Muhammad. A repast was held next door at Muhammad University of Islam where guests fellowshipped and also greeted family members of Brother Minister Jabril.</div><div><br /></div><div><img height="266" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CJM_7666-1024x680.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br /><br /><br />Brother Minister Jabril Muhammad married his wife, Sister Dr. Patina Muhammad in 2011 and she remained a trusted and faithful companion. Brother Minister Jabril was preceded in death by his second wife, Sister Nafessah Muhammad. <br /><br />His legacy is carried on by his loving and devoted family, including his children from his first marriage with Sister Bernique Cushmeer: Sister Naeemah, Sister Ati Hamid, Sister Bari, Brother Elijah, and Brother Barnar.<br /><br />And his stepchildren with his wife Sister Dr. Patina, Sister Vanteresa Underwood-Muhammad, Brother Isaiah Underwood-Muhammad, and their children Kalaiah, Isaiah, Kai Jr., and TahRyah Prince Lee. Brother Jabril’s legacy also includes his seven cherished grandchildren: Gabrielle, Kaia, Joaquin, Noah, Ehren, Hasan, Hanif, and Emir Nasr Karriem. To view this special service in its entirety, visit media.noi.org.<br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Wisdom House Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12805439406753743723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956583853727789183.post-75200446174084491012023-07-25T14:02:00.001-05:002023-07-25T14:03:36.047-05:00From The Final Call Newspaper<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">‘This is the worst summer in recent memory’ Deadly and extreme heat leading to dangerous conditions</span></b><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span>By <a href="https://new.finalcall.com/author/organicallybalanced/">Shawntell Muhammad, Contributing Writer</a><br /> - July 25, 2023<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F07%2F25%2Fthis-is-the-worst-summer-in-recent-memory-deadly-and-extreme-heat-leading-to-dangerous-conditions%2F"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=%E2%80%98This+is+the+worst+summer+in+recent+memory%E2%80%99+Deadly+and+extreme+heat+leading+to+dangerous+conditions&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F07%2F25%2Fthis-is-the-worst-summer-in-recent-memory-deadly-and-extreme-heat-leading-to-dangerous-conditions%2F&via=thefinalcall"></a><a href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/07/25/this-is-the-worst-summer-in-recent-memory-deadly-and-extreme-heat-leading-to-dangerous-conditions/&media=https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/AP23194432556361-1-scaled.jpg&description=%E2%80%98This+is+the+worst+summer+in+recent+memory%E2%80%99+Deadly+and+extreme+heat+leading+to+dangerous+conditions"></a><a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=%E2%80%98This+is+the+worst+summer+in+recent+memory%E2%80%99+Deadly+and+extreme+heat+leading+to+dangerous+conditions%20%0A%0A%20https://new.finalcall.com/2023/07/25/this-is-the-worst-summer-in-recent-memory-deadly-and-extreme-heat-leading-to-dangerous-conditions/"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/07/25/this-is-the-worst-summer-in-recent-memory-deadly-and-extreme-heat-leading-to-dangerous-conditions/&title=%E2%80%98This+is+the+worst+summer+in+recent+memory%E2%80%99+Deadly+and+extreme+heat+leading+to+dangerous+conditions"></a><a href="https://reddit.com/submit?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/07/25/this-is-the-worst-summer-in-recent-memory-deadly-and-extreme-heat-leading-to-dangerous-conditions/&title=%E2%80%98This+is+the+worst+summer+in+recent+memory%E2%80%99+Deadly+and+extreme+heat+leading+to+dangerous+conditions"></a><a href="mailto:?subject=%E2%80%98This%20is%20the%20worst%20summer%20in%20recent%20memory%E2%80%99%20Deadly%20and%20extreme%20heat%20leading%20to%20dangerous%20conditions&body=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/07/25/this-is-the-worst-summer-in-recent-memory-deadly-and-extreme-heat-leading-to-dangerous-conditions/"></a><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/share/link?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/07/25/this-is-the-worst-summer-in-recent-memory-deadly-and-extreme-heat-leading-to-dangerous-conditions/&name=%E2%80%98This%20is%20the%20worst%20summer%20in%20recent%20memory%E2%80%99%20Deadly%20and%20extreme%20heat%20leading%20to%20dangerous%20conditions"></a><a href="https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/07/25/this-is-the-worst-summer-in-recent-memory-deadly-and-extreme-heat-leading-to-dangerous-conditions/&text=%E2%80%98This+is+the+worst+summer+in+recent+memory%E2%80%99+Deadly+and+extreme+heat+leading+to+dangerous+conditions"></a><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/AP23194432556361-1-scaled.jpg"><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/AP23194432556361-1-681x454.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><i>A jet takes flight from Sky Harbor International Airport as the sun sets, Wednesday, July 12, 2023 in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)</i><br /><br /><br />The summer of 2023 began with never seen before extreme heat across the United States and Europe. In America, close to 110 million people are still under extreme heat warnings, according to the National Weather Service.<br /><br />“El Niño conditions are present and are expected to gradually strengthen into the Northern Hemisphere winter 2023-24,” the National Weather Service reported. Heatwaves are amongst the deadliest natural hazards with thousands of people dying from heat-related causes each year.<br /><br />The weekend of July 15-16 was the hottest weekend recorded. Phoenix, Arizona, had its 16th consecutive day of temperatures reaching 110 degrees and higher on July 15. As reported on the NBC News website, Dr. Frank LoVecchio, an emergency medicine physician with Valleywise Health Hospital, said the heat is straining local hospitals.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="268" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/AP23194708082680-1-1024x686.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services medic Capt. Darren Noak, left, and M. Megally check on a man on East 6th Street in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday July 12, 2023, during an excessive heat warning when the temperature reached up to 107 degrees. Then man was transported by ambulance to a hospital for heat-related issues. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)</i><br /><br />“This is the worst summer in recent memory,” he said. “I’ve been working here since 1996, this same hospital, and this is one of the worst summers because we’ve had so many days in a row this super warm weather.”<br /><br /><a href="https://store.finalcall.com/"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/store-default_ad_728x90.png" width="400" /></a><br /><br />“We’re overcrowded with patients,” Dr. LoVecchio said, adding that 20 percent of patients are there for something heat-related. “We’re using overflow.”<br /><br />Ice pools are prepared on stretchers by medical staff members for the inevitable next patient who needs an immediate cooling-down. Dr. LoVecchio said that some patients have come in with internal temperatures of 107 and that they can sometimes be saved. The one who was rushed in with an internal temp of 110 could not.</div><div><br /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/AP23199802784224-1-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>With Chase Field, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team in the background, a digital billboard updates the time and temperature as temperatures are expected to hit 116-degrees Tuesday, July 18, 2023, in Phoenix. The extreme heat scorching Phoenix set a record Tuesday, the 19th consecutive day temperatures hit at least 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 Celsius). (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)</i><br /><br />The Phoenix Fire Department has been feeling the strain, too. No strangers to heat, Arizona firefighters take ice baths after particularly grueling calls. Taking IVs in coolers filled with ice, they’ve been responding to an uptick of the same heat-related calls that bring more patients to the hospital, including a man who had third-degree burns on his body from lying on the asphalt. The firefighters believe the man was among those in the city experiencing homelessness—the most vulnerable population in the heat wave.<br /><br />Considered to be the hottest place on earth, Death Valley National Park, located along part of central California’s border with Nevada, reached 128 degrees on July 16.</div><div><br /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/AP23197109465992-1-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>A woman shields herself from the sunlight with a copy of the Los Angeles Wave newspaper during the “#BLM Turns 10 People’s Justice Festival” Saturday, July 15, 2023, at the Leimert Park neighborhood in Los Angeles. In Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley, the thermometer cleared triple digits in some areas. Mayor Karen Bass announced the city was opening cooling centers where residents could escape the heat. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)</i><br /><br />While weather and climate scientists attribute what is happening to human-caused climate change due to the burning of coal, oil and natural gases which are heating the planet, the so-called experts of this world are ignoring one critical and divine fact.<br /><br />For decades, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Eternal Leader of the Nation of Islam, warned the nations of the Earth, specifically America, that the wrath of Allah (God) is imminent due to her wickedness perpetrated against the Black and Indigenous man and woman of America.<br /><br />The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught that God would use the forces of nature to pummel and punish America. He also taught that by ignoring Divine Guidance that Whites, Blacks and others would not escape these forces of nature.<br /><br />“The four (4) Great Judgments that Allah (God) promises to destroy America with are now coming upon her … hail, snow, drought, earthquake. Allah (God) has reserved His treasures of snow and ice to be used against the wicked country America in the day of battle and war. These are some of Allah’s (God’s) weapons, the storms that we see going on,” the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad warned in his book, “The Fall of America.”<br /><br />His top student and National Representative, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, like his teacher, warns of God’s Divine Judgment and also provides much-needed guidance for spiritual, mental and physical survival in these times.</div><div><br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/AP23195714240520-1-618x1024.jpg" width="241" /></div><div><i>Landscape worker Jose Meza takes a break from a job at a home in the Yuma Valley, Ariz., to run cool water over his head near mid-morning Friday, July 14, 2023, when the temperature was already flirting with 107 degrees Fahrenheit. (Randy Hoeft/The Yuma Sun via AP)</i><br /><br />“We are witnessing terrifying disasters afflicting the people of the world and these disasters are now afflicting the United States of America. Believing that these prophesies will be fulfilled, we felt that it is our duty to learn as much as we can, so that we can return to the United States and prepare documents on disaster preparedness, and in conjunction with local, state and federal government, do all we can to prepare the American people, and our people in particular, for coming disasters,” the Minister explained in a 2006 message during a visit with a delegation to the island nation of Cuba. The delegation was there to study and learn about disaster preparedness.<br /><br />The Union of Concerned Scientists, which is tracking national extreme weather data, has flagged that more than half of Americans have faced an extreme weather alert in the past several weeks alone. About 11 percent of heat alerts during that period had a climate signal linking the weather to global heating.<br /><br />Local officials and the National Weather Service have asked people in Texas to take precautions against heat stroke and heat exhaustion. The record-breaking heatwave is expected to worsen and expand in the coming days, with heat indexes forecasted to surpass 110 degrees Fahrenheit.<br /><br />“Oppressive and persistent heat will become increasingly dangerous and potentially deadly in south and south-central Texas, especially to people repeatedly exposed for long durations. Many locations in those parts of Texas have already experienced a yearly record number of hours of dangerously high heat index readings,” the National Weather Service said. <br /><br />Victor Ramos, 67, was found in his home in southwest Houston, which did not have air conditioning. He died on June 24 in the hospital. Mr. Ramos’ sister Karla told local Houston news outlet KHOU that her brother could not afford to fix his broken air conditioning unit since he was let go from his job in March.<br /><br />In nearby Pearland, Texas, Felipe Pascaul, 46, also died from the heat on June 16. Mr. Pascaul was pouring concrete on a construction job site when he went into cardiac arrest and collapsed. He was taken to a hospital but did not survive.<br /><br />Amid a dangerous heatwave that has brought blistering temperatures across the state, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a recent law eliminating local rules requiring water breaks for workers. The measure, which will take effect later this year, will nullify ordinances enacted by Austin and Dallas that mandate 10-minute breaks for construction workers every four hours. It also prevents any other local governments from passing similar worker protections.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img height="267" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/AP23196148756691-1-1024x683.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><i>Men who are homeless watch a movie, hydrate and rest inside the Justa Center, a day cooling center for homeless people 55 years and older, Friday, July 14, 2023, in downtown Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)<br /></i><br />Just days after the governor ratified the law, officials said a 35-year-old utility lineman working to restore power in Marshall, Texas, died after experiencing symptoms of heat illness. The heat index which takes into account both the temperature and humidity, was 100 degrees while he was working.<br /><br />“In the midst of a record-setting heatwave, I could not think of a worse time for this governor or any elected official who has any, any kind of compassion, to do this,” said David Cruz, the communications director for League of United Latin American Citizens National (Lulac), a Latino civil rights group. “This administration is incrementally trying to move us backwards into a dark time in this nation. When plantation owners and agrarian mentalities prevailed,” he said, according to theguardian.com.<br /><br />Six out of every 10 construction workers in Texas are Latino, and labor advocates say, that the law will hurt Latino and Black communities that are already disproportionately affected by extreme heat.<br /><br />Local protections are crucial, advocates say, because the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) does not have a national heat protection standard.<div class="td-pb-row" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; position: relative; width: 1021px;"><div class="td-pb-span8 td-main-content" role="main" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 1px; position: relative; width: 680px;"><div class="td-ss-main-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><div class="td-post-content td-pb-padding-side" style="border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px; padding: 10px 19px 0px 20px;"><div class="td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_bottom tdi_12 td_block_template_1" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-top: 21px; text-align: center;"><div class="g g-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; zoom: 1;"><div class="g-single a-3" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="text-align: left;"><img height="49" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/banners/htetl_ad_728x90.png" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Wisdom House Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12805439406753743723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956583853727789183.post-63766733574390911312023-07-18T19:26:00.001-05:002023-07-18T19:26:08.045-05:00From The Final Call Newspaper<p><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are indebted to Brother Jabril Muhammad’</span></b></p>By <a href="https://new.finalcall.com/author/ishmael/">Student Minister Ishmael Muhammad</a><br /> - July 18, 2023<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F07%2F18%2Fwe-are-indebted-to-brother-jabril-muhammad%2F"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=We+are+indebted+to+Brother+Jabril+Muhammad%E2%80%99&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.finalcall.com%2F2023%2F07%2F18%2Fwe-are-indebted-to-brother-jabril-muhammad%2F&via=thefinalcall"></a><a href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/07/18/we-are-indebted-to-brother-jabril-muhammad/&media=https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/jabril-2-copy-1.jpg&description=We+are+indebted+to+Brother+Jabril+Muhammad%E2%80%99"></a><a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=We+are+indebted+to+Brother+Jabril+Muhammad%E2%80%99%20%0A%0A%20https://new.finalcall.com/2023/07/18/we-are-indebted-to-brother-jabril-muhammad/"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/07/18/we-are-indebted-to-brother-jabril-muhammad/&title=We+are+indebted+to+Brother+Jabril+Muhammad%E2%80%99"></a><a href="https://reddit.com/submit?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/07/18/we-are-indebted-to-brother-jabril-muhammad/&title=We+are+indebted+to+Brother+Jabril+Muhammad%E2%80%99"></a><a href="mailto:?subject=We%20are%20indebted%20to%20Brother%20Jabril%20Muhammad%E2%80%99&body=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/07/18/we-are-indebted-to-brother-jabril-muhammad/"></a><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/share/link?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/07/18/we-are-indebted-to-brother-jabril-muhammad/&name=We%20are%20indebted%20to%20Brother%20Jabril%20Muhammad%E2%80%99"></a><a href="https://telegram.me/share/url?url=https://new.finalcall.com/2023/07/18/we-are-indebted-to-brother-jabril-muhammad/&text=We+are+indebted+to+Brother+Jabril+Muhammad%E2%80%99"></a><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/jabril-2-copy-1.jpg"><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/jabril-2-copy-1-681x702.jpg" width="388" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://new.finalcall.com/2023/07/18/letter-from-minister-louis-farrakhan-on-brother-minister-jabril-muhammad/">Letter from Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan</a><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /><img height="400" src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Ishmael-Muhammad-Photo-Haro-2-908x1024.jpg" width="355" /></div><div><i>Student Ishmael Muhammad</i><br /><br />[Editor’s Note: The following remarks were delivered by Student Minister Ishmael Muhammad, National Assistant to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on Sunday, July 16, 2023, from Mosque Maryam in Chicago on the passing of Student Minister Jabril Muhammad, a longtime companion, aid and supreme witness to the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Minister Farrakhan. The Final Call will pay honor and tribute to the life and legacy of this Beloved and Dedicated Servant of Allah (God) in an upcoming issue. May Allah Bless us all.]<br /><br />It is with great sadness that I announced that we lost Brother Student Minister Jabril Muhammad, formally Brother Bernard Cushmeer, May Allah Be Pleased. We’re not here forever but that brother lived his life in total dedication to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. He has left us a treasure trove of knowledge, all bearing witness to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.</div><div><br /></div><div> <br /><img src="https://new.finalcall.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/jabril-c.jpg" /><br /><br />Brother Jabril Muhammad was named “Jabril” by the Minister from Bernard because he represented the Angel Jabril that visited Prophet Muhammad, Peace be upon him. Those of you who are familiar with the history, Prophet Muhammad would go to himself in a cave and he was agonizing and pained over the condition of his people. And I believe … it was the western mountain right there in Mecca, Arabia, which we visited and climbed. And in a cave, where he would often sit and it looks over the valley of Mecca, the angel visited him. Not a spook, not a man with wings, but a human being. And the first words that the Angel Jabril gave to Prophet Muhammad, Peace be upon him—which is found in the 96th chapter (of the Holy Qur’an) were these words: “Read (“Iqra”), Read in the name of thy Lord Who creates.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Wisdom House Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12805439406753743723noreply@blogger.com