TwistedShotta Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 (edited) The Five-Percent Nation of Islam has been known to hide behind the aura of religious protection, but some believe it’s only real religion is the worship of money and power. The Five-Percent Nation, also known as the Gods, the New Nation of Islam, and various other names, is a loosely organized gang more often at war with other factions of itself than with opposing gangs. The group has its roots in the early 1930s with the first stirrings of a movement which became popularly known as the Black Muslims in the 1960s and the Nation of Islam today. The Nation of Islam's tenet that the White Man is a blue-eyed evil is well known. A lesser well known belief is another tenet taught by the Nation, that the Black Man is god. They believe that ten percent of the people of the world know the truth of existence, and that the world’s “elites” keep 85 percent of the world in ignorance and under their controlling thumb. The remaining percentage are those who know the truth and are determined to enlighten the rest. The remaining percent of those who know the truth and are intent on spreading their knowledge make up the Five Percent Nation. In 1963, a student minister named Clarence 13 X founded the Five Percent Nation when he split with the Nation of Islam. He was a student of Malcolm X, but left his mosque because he disagreed with the Nation of Islam over the nature and identity of God. The Nation said its founder, W. D. Farad Muhammad was God. But Clarence reasoned that only a pure black man could fill that role -- and to him, there was nothing "purely black" about Muhammad, who was bi-racial. Clarence 13 X also rejected the traditional Muslim belief that God was separate from man. Instead, Clarence 13 X claimed that the black man was God personified, and that each black man could cultivate and eventually realize his godliness through meditation, study, and spiritual and physical fitness. To Clarence 13 X and a handful of close friends, these new ideas were a revelation. To the Nation of Islam, they were heretical. So Clarence 13 X split with the Nation in 1963 and changed his name to Allah the Father. He took his message to the youth inhabiting inner city streets nation wide, teaching them that black Americans had inherited a legacy stretching back to the great civilizations of Africa, and that they should reclaim their greatness by fighting for racial equality and self-determination. The Muslim community is widely considered the most diverse in terms of their ethnic backgrounds in the United States. A 2010 survey of religious institutions, including mosques, offers some of the most specific information available about the number of Muslims living in Southern San Andreas. The U.S. Religion Census, conducted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, estimated there are 120,868 Muslims living in Los Santos, Las Venturas, San Fierro and Whetstone. While San Andreas is the nation's most populous state, it has fewer Muslims than Texas, Liberty City or Illinois. The Los Santos chapter of the Council on American-Islamic relations estimates there are around 500,000 Muslims in the region. The Paleto Bay-based Shura Council offers a similar figure for the counties within it’s region. That study found that the makeup of Southern Los Santos mosques is significantly more African-American and South Asian than it is nationally, and somewhat less Iranian. Islam is the fastest growing religion in U.S. prisons, where the population is 18 percent Muslim (compared to 1 percent for the general population); 80 percent of all prison religious conversions are to Islam. Muslims prisoners have been characterized as a danger or threat for radicalization in the media. Yet despite the fact of there being over 350,000 Muslim inmates in the United States, little evidence indicates widespread radicalization or foreign recruitment. Rather, research has shown that Islam has a long history of positive influence on prisoners, including supporting inmate rehabilitation for decades. Knowing how many Muslims are in state prisons helps prison officials understand the importance of respecting religious practice for a significant and growing portion of people in prison. A report on this topic compiled 163 lawsuits between October 2017 and January 2019 in which Muslims alleged their right to practice was being violated. Edited May 21, 2022 by TwistedShotta 32 1 Link to comment
Rushing Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 No hate but muhammad al-rashid wouldn’t be a “pastor”. Mashallah though Link to comment
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