Nation of Islam
Farrakhan's religious organization
The Nation of Islam is an American religious and political movement founded in 1930, combining elements of Islam with Black nationalist ideology.
It teaches that Black people are the original humans and advocates racial separation, economic self-sufficiency, and moral discipline.
Malcolm X was its most famous member before breaking with the organization.
Under Louis Farrakhan's leadership since 1981, it remains controversial for antisemitic rhetoric while maintaining influence in some Black communities.
The Nation of Islam differs significantly from mainstream Sunni and Shia Islam in theology and practice.
- Final CallTerminal boarding announcement
- bow tiesSymmetrical knotted neckwear
- security servicesAgencies ensuring safety
- Muhammad AliLegendary heavyweight champion
Ending enforced group separation
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
- integrationCombining into a whole
- racismPrejudice based on ethnicity
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
Black Muslims · Detroit · Harlem · protest · activism · equality · voting rights · COINTELPRO
Movement for community self-determination
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- economic independenceFinancial self-sufficiency
- racial prideEsteem for one's heritage
- separatismAdvocacy for political breakaway
Afrocentrism · community control · self-sufficiency · upliftment · liberation · reclamation · sovereignty · solidarity
Hostility toward Jewish people
- separatismAdvocacy for political breakaway
- supremacismIdeology claiming group superiority
- heterodoxyUnorthodox belief or opinion
- divisiveCausing sharp disagreement
contentious · radicalism · extremism · provocative · sectarianism
Malcolm X
- Final CallTerminal boarding announcement
- bow tiesSymmetrical knotted neckwear
- security servicesAgencies ensuring safety
desegregation
Ending enforced group separation
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
- integrationCombining into a whole
- racismPrejudice based on ethnicity
discrimination · Black Muslims · Detroit · Harlem · protest · activism · equality · voting rights · COINTELPRO · FBI surveillance
Black empowerment
Movement for community self-determination
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- economic independenceFinancial self-sufficiency
- racial prideEsteem for one's heritage
separatism · Afrocentrism · community control · self-sufficiency · upliftment · liberation · reclamation · sovereignty · solidarity · unity
anti-Semitism
Hostility toward Jewish people
- separatismAdvocacy for political breakaway
- supremacismIdeology claiming group superiority
- heterodoxyUnorthodox belief or opinion
divisive · contentious · radicalism · extremism · provocative · sectarianism
- FaithsChristians, Catholics, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews
- religionsChristianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism
- Black CultureNAACP, HBCUs, Black churches, civil rights movement, Harlem Renaissance
- IslamAllah, Quran, Muhammad, Mecca, Ramadan
- American Islammosque, hijab, halal, Ramadan, Eid
- Modern Religionevangelicalism, fundamentalism, Pentecostalism, New Age, Scientology
Nation of IslamNAACP
Civil rights advocacy organization
Martin Luther King Jr. · civil rights movement · Black Lives Matter
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