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Malcom X was raised as a Witness?!?!
by sixsixsixtynine 6 Replies latest jw friends
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sixsixsixtynine
What is the origin and history of the Nation of Islam?
- The Nation of Islam began in the early 1930s with the teachings of a white man by the name of Wallace D. Fard. His background and family heritage are still unknown.
The fact that both the Arab prophet Muhammad and Wallace Fard were white men is not generally known to most followers of the Nation of Islam. They have been fed the lie that Muhammad and Fard were black men. Since Wallace Fard and Muhammad were both white men, Islam and the Nation of Islam can both be called "a white man's religion."
The Watchtower Connection
Fard used the literature and teachings of the Jehovah's Witnesses to attack the Christianity. He also developed a theory of racism in which the white man was created by an evil black scientist/god by the name of YaKub. This is why the white man is a called "white devil." In contrast, black people are "gods" in that they sprang from the original black deities of the universe.
Malcom Little
One of the early converts of Elijah was a young man by the name of Malcom Little who, like Elijah himself, was the son of a Baptist preacher. Elijah changed Little's name to Malcom X and he became Elijah's chief spokesman.
Elijah Muhammad was a superb businessman who made himself, his family, and his organization, fabulously wealthy. He continued using Jehovah's Witness doctrines such as the end of the world coming in the 1970's and 1914 as "the beginning of the end." This false prophecy proves that he was a false prophet.
- The Nation of Islam began in the early 1930s with the teachings of a white man by the name of Wallace D. Fard. His background and family heritage are still unknown.
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sixsixsixtynine
Fruit of Islam to Nation of Islam With the large-scale mass migrations of African-Americans this century had come the 'ghettoization' of a large part of the black populace. It was in these ghettos that a new voice emerged, one Elijah Muhammad (born Elijah Poole in Georgia 1897), who had created a movement in the 1930s called the Black Muslims. Originally called the Lost-Found Nation of Islam the group had been founded by one W.D. Fard who soon disappeared in mysterious circumstances and was deified as Allah by Elijah Muhammad, who then became Allah's messenger. Muhammad continued Fard's teachings, which have been described as, "not Islam, but a contradictory blend of Islam, Jehovah's Witness doctrine, gnosticism and heretical Christian teachings", but this did not diminish their appeal in the black ghettoes of America. -
sixsixsixtynine
Mr. Rawls, you earlier said that Master Fard Muhammad was of Middle-Eastern origin? How did you know that? You know that Master Fard Muhammad was from Mecca Arabia because the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said so. Why don't you then refer to the writings and public teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad on the subject of the origins and composition of the teachings? We think that would clear up much of the confusion you display, or allow, about where the teachings came from. And what do you really know of the relationship between the Nation of Islam and the Jehovah's Witnesses? Did you know that Judge Rutherford, the second president of the Jehovah Witnesses actually met Master Fard Muhammad in the 1930s? He looked up to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad's teacher. Anyone who writes about the relationship between the Nation of Islam and Jehovah's Witnesses should know that. Again, no one knows more about what Master Fard Muhammad taught than the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. You should get his view before you refer to others.
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sixsixsixtynine
In various ways Fard undermined his hearers’ faith in Christianity and the Bible, which for generations had sustained downtrodden black families. He encouraged his followers to listen to radio broadcasts of Jehovah’s Witness president Joseph Rutherford, whose rallying cry at that time was “Religion is a snare and a racket.” Fard also used Jehovah’s Witness literature to teach his followers that the time of “Gentile” (i.e., Caucasian) domination had come to an end in 1914; that the resurrection of the “so-called Negro” had already occurred as a mental and invisible fact, and that the coming New World was just around the corner. In just a few years, he claimed, the oppressed black man would receive the kingdom and the New World would arrive by 1936 at the very latest.
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MungoBaobab
I'll be damned.
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sixsixsixtynine
Other than the first source I posted, I can't find any other information directly linking Malcom X with the Witnesses.
Has anyone else heard this before?