1940-1998 SPECIAL REPORT: "BLACK MUSLIMS"

The Nation of Islam (NOI) is an African American political and new religious movement, founded in Detroit, Michigan, United States, by Wallace Fard Muhammad on July 4, 1930.  Its stated goals are to improve the spiritual, mental, social, and economic condition of African Americans. Critics have described the theology of the organization as promoting antisemitis and anti-LGBT rhetoric,  and of promoting racial separatism,  black nationalism and of having promoted black supremacist beliefs in the past. The Southern Poverty Law Center tracks the NOI as a hate group which, it claims, teaches a “theology of innate black superiority over whites”. Its official newspaper is The Final Call. In 2007, the core membership was estimated to be between 20,000 and 50,000.

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