The
AIM
of the ENEMY
 Thank
you for allowing me to interrupt my articles on family. I
felt that my article last week and this week were very necessary
to combat the evil and wicked aim and objective of the mischief of
the media. If it is the Will of Allah (God), I will resume
my articles on family next week. Please look forward to,
"Allah's (God's) choice of Jesus."
For the last twelve
years, I have said that Malcolm (X) and I were involved in a
heated controversy over the Honorable Elijah Muhammad�s
morality. Malcolm X took the view that the Honorable Elijah
Muhammad was immoral, while I and other Ministers of the Nation of
Islam took the position that He was and is a moral man. This
heated controversy created an atmosphere out of which Malcolm was
assassinated. In that sense, this that I said is nothing new. What
is new, is that, I, sitting in the seat of the Honorable Elijah
Muhammad, as the Head of a new Nation of Islam, asked for Mercy
and Forgiveness from Allah (God) and from any aggrieved persons
for any acts committed by the members of the Nation of Islam in
the past or in the present that were injurious to others.
Even as the Pope, though not guilty of what has happened under
former administrations, felt the need to ask forgiveness for the
church; I, also am in a similar position today.
In 1995, I, along with members of the Black Clergy from
denominations or sects of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, met in
Rankin Chapel at Howard University in Washington, D.C. to declare
a Day of Atonement, Reconciliation and Responsibility. This was
not to be a 24 hour period, but, a season where wounds that have
been inflicted either willfully or in ignorance by us and others
might lead to a healing in the process of atonement for us and
also between us and our open enemies.
I would hope that the mischief of the media as seen in
headlines throughout the Nation, "Farrakhan admits
complicity in the murder of Malcolm X," would not
turn the people against the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan.
I would hope that after 47 years of my service to the Black
community you would not allow the mischief of the media to turn
you against a friend that has battled and continues to battle for
the liberation of our people.
As a revolutionary, the life of Jesus, as recorded in the
Gospels is a wonderful example to study. Every Black leader of
consequence has been crucified and has knowingly or unknowingly
followed in the footsteps of Jesus.
It is written in the scriptures, "They wanted to
take Jesus, but, they feared the people."
On what Christians call Palm Sunday, He rode into Jerusalem to
the joy and hosannas of the people who were casting palms at His
feet. Many recognized Him as the expected Messiah. However,
according to Christian Theology, five days later, the same people
that claimed Him as the Messiah were now shouting, "Crucify
Him."
What happened in those five days from Palm Sunday to what is
called Good Friday? What has happened in these last five years
since the Million Man March?
No Black man ever has been blessed by Allah (God) to call for a
Million Black men to assemble on the Mall in Washington, D.C., the
place where we once were sold as slaves. Nearly two million Black
men heeded that call, not necessarily to petition government, but,
to petition our Creator to ask forgiveness for our sins that we
might forgive each other and become a united body of Black men
going forward for our families and for the greater good of true
liberation that we might be placed where Allah (God) intends for
us to be.
On the Mall, on that day, October 16, 1995, a poll was taken by
the Wellington Group, in conjunction with Howard University. The
poll showed that eighty five percent of those who were present at
the Million Man March were Christians. Twelve percent were
Muslims, and three percent were other. Eighty five percent
approved of the Leadership of Louis Farrakhan, while eighty six
percent approved of the Nation of Islam. These statistics alarmed
elements within the Christian and White communities, and, from
that day to this, a concerted effort has been made and is being
made to destroy the influence of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of
Islam among the Christians.
Cities into which I went in earlier times and was received by
Pastors of the Christian faith allowing me into their churches,
all of a sudden turned cold. In my 37 City Tour in 1997, I found
the doors of most churches locked against me, however, in most of
the major cities there would be one strong Pastor who would allow
me into his or her church to speak to the people. In many cities,
some Christian Pastors took to the airwaves referring to me as the
anti-Christ.
On my World Tour of 1995 and 1996, in the spirit of Atonement,
Reconciliation and Responsibility, I went to Iran and Iraq and
pleaded with them to reconcile. I went into the Arab and Muslim
World and pleaded with the Arabs, Christians, and Muslims to
reconcile their differences.
I went into nations in Africa and Asia using the Message of
Atonement to help settle conflicts between Muslims, Christians,
and between different tribes.
Congressman Gus Savage, who was with me during the first part
of this tour, took me into a room on our chartered plane and said
to me, "I always believed that you could unite Black
people in America. I did not know your power in Africa, and, if
you have this same power in the Arab and Muslim world you are the
most dangerous man on the planet to these forces that rule by
divide and conquer. So, when you get back to the United States,
they are going to jump on you with both feet."
He told the truth. For, when I returned, the media again
attacked my trip with such viciousness that many friends that we
had gained from the Million Man March either were neutralized or
were so upset that I, in their eyes, squandered an opportunity for
general acceptance by visiting these so called "rogue
nations."
We must remember that no Black man
who has become international in terms of unifying the Black
struggle in America with the struggle of Blacks throughout the
world has ever been loved by the Government of the United States.
Every Black leader who had that kind of international respect was
attacked viciously by the media, turning many of our people
against these leaders. Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Dubois, Marcus Garvey,
Adam Clayton Powell, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, the Honorable
Elijah Muhammad all had global respect and ties, and, each one
during his life time was turned on by his own people by the
mischief of the media and did not live to see the acclaim that
would ultimately come to them. When it appeared that these leaders
were no longer a threat to the aims or objectives of the United
States Government, the purposeful revision of the goals and
objectives of these great men, thus, destroying their ideas among
the people is what allowed the enemies to sanitize them, exalt
their names and their faces because the public would no longer be
familiar with the ideas of these men that made them a target of
the American establishment.
I have learned that the National Security Agency of the United
States Government started recruiting young Black college students
sending them into our mosques to create havoc and cut down the
progress of the Nation of Islam internally and externally.
The ADL and other Jewish groups in collaboration with other
Whites worked to undermine any government contracts that came to
Muslim owned security companies.
The Nation of Islam was actually being "SANCTIONED."
Internally, the agent�s job was to try to get into positions of
authority and from these positions kill the spirit of the
believing men and women who are the workers and supporters of the
Nation of Islam, and, some from these positions stole monies of
the Nation of Islam. Their job was to take advantage of any
division within the Mosque and foster those divisions, so that
internally, progress would be brought to a halt on the spiritual
and economic levels.
Quietly, various Christian and Jewish leaders met concerning
the "Farrakhan Factor," and, their aim was and is
to destroy any attraction that Black people might have to Louis
Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.
These clandestine meetings culminated in a series of lectures
by noted Christian Pastors and Evangelists who took time out from
preaching the Gospel, particularly Reverend Fred Price, who spent
nearly six months attacking Islam, Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Unto
Him), The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and myself. Many pamphlets
were published by Muslims, Christians, and Jews attacking Louis
Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam, our Founders, Master Fard
Muhammad, and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. This is being done so
that never again would a Muslim be able to make a call and
Christians answer that call.
Several years ago, I stated that I have worked hard to bring
about unity between Black Christians and Muslims that we might
work together for the spiritual, moral, political, and economic
upliftment of our people. I harbor no ill will toward our
Christian family, nor do I harbor ill will toward believing and
practicing Jews and Muslims. I am only citing things that I know
have been going on in the last five years since the Million Man
March and its great success.
I began an effort to reconcile with Imam Warith Deen Mohammed
several years ago. When I returned from my Third World Friendship
Tour, in February 1998, I stated before our convention that it was
highly improper for me to seek reconciliation and unity with
Christians, Jews and others, and, not seek reconciliation and
unity among Muslims.
I praise Allah (God) that a
dialogue and a good spirit prevails among the followers
of Imam Warith Deen Mohammed and members of the Nation of Islam as
we move step by step toward reconciliation.
What I have noticed is that the media wants to make the
world believe that I have thrown away or trashed the Message of
the Honorable Elijah Muhammad; a Message that gave me life and
allowed me to give life to hundreds of thousands and millions of
our people.
What I have done is grown into a deeper understanding of the
universal application of what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad
taught. There is a saying that before you can assassinate an
individual of importance you must first destroy his reputation.
These headlines are designed to create an atmosphere of hostility
toward the Minister and even possibly toward Ms. Shabazz that
zealots on both sides who hate any attempt at reconciliation might
in such an atmosphere do harm to her or myself.
The aim of this world has always been to kill the Honorable
Elijah Muhammad. Not because of the way He looked, but, because of
the ideas that are inherent in His Message. Ideas that are now
carried by me, therefore, the same wickedness that came to him is
now coming to me.
I will continue reconciliation with Ms. Shabazz and the Shabazz
family; with the Nationalist community; with the brothers and
sisters of Islam who love the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and
Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), because, I believe that only
through our unity will we be able to repel the forces of evil that
are bent on the destruction of the rise of Black men and women,
and, the destruction of the great future that Allah (God) and His
Prophets have prophesied for us. |
