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THE STAR & CRESCENTThe Online E-zine of the Nation of Islam London Study Group

Issue 32December 2017

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In the name of AllahThe Beneficent, The Merciful……

As salaam alaikumDear Reader

I pray you are well. Welcome to issue 32 (December 2017)of the Star & Crescent E-zine.

At the time of publication, we recently witnessed MinisterLouis Farrakhan’s Press Conference in Washington DC on16 November 2017 where a final message was delivered toPresident Donald Trump and the US Government to ‘Letmy people go!’ and a final call to Black people. (To befeatured in the next issue).

In the USA, it was Thanksgiving Day quickly followed bythe shopping frenzy called the Black Friday season, wherethe Christmas shopping season follows close behind. Thisis the season where many shoppers will flock to their highstreet cathederals (shopping malls and plazas), submit tothe gods of consumerism (high street brands andcorporations), all in the name of Jesus (Christmas).

The worldwide Black consumer boycott of Christmas isunderway (from 25 November to 2 January). But, if youmust buy a present for your family, tell your children thetruth; that it comes from you. Do not give credit to Santa.Support Black business. Find a Black retailer or businessand support them before spending any of your cash withothers. Teach your family the value of supporting Blackbusiness.

Make sure when spending your money with Blackbusiness, you are satisfied with the customer service. Ifnot, you must advise them to invest in staff training. It isimportant they provide you with good customer service andthe right attitude if you are giving continued support to theireconomic survival. Buy from a Black retailer and help theBlack economy to grow. We have a long way to go. We canstart today and continue into 2018.

Join a campaign or group that actively supports Blackbusiness. The Black pound is more valuable than werealise. Other communities will do everything they can tomaintain the status quo, to prevent the rise of Black peopleand the Black pound. Their job is to stop Black people fromspending their money with Black business. Only oureconomic unity can keep our Black businesses alive andvisible on the high street. Black people will become lessdependent on others (who continue to disrespect us), whenwe spend our money with our own.

Support the Boycott and Support black business.

ContentsThe Immeasurable Limitless Value and Beauty of a Woman……………………………………..3

Up with Jesus, Down with Santa …………………………...7

Message to the Blackman…..………………………………11

Black History 365 ...………………………………………….13

Silent Protesters rip proposed NIDS…………………...…..15

London Study Group Road Trip to Sheffield………………17

Scenes from Huddersfield…………………………...……...18

Sagging pants of today could hurry hip replacements of tomorrow…………..….…19

What the muslims want ……………………………………..21

What the Muslims believe…………………………………...22

In 1969 there was an outrage in the Black communityagainst Ebony magazine for publishing a magazine

with a Black Jesus on the cover.


Minister Louis Farrakhan

The Immeasurable, LimitlessValue and Beauty of a Woman

Editor's note. The following are excerpts from a SpecialMother's Day Message delivered by Minister Farrakhan onSunday 10 May 2009 at Mosque Maryam in Chicago.

In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.

The enemy calls today “Mother's Day.” I don't know howmany billions of dollars the enemy has madecommercialising on our natural love for our mothers, but inIslam, every day is a day to honour our mothers.

The commercial nature of the enemy is to make money onJesus by celebrating what they call “Christmas” and tomake money on his resurrection, which is the day they call“Easter.” They also make money off of your girlfriend andboyfriend on what is called “Valentine's Day.” A smart,crooked deceiver will think of everything they can to makemoney by sucking the blood out of the common people whoare ignorant, and easily taken advantage of.

Women. The Foundation of CivilizationIn the Holy Qur'an, which is the book of scripture of theMuslims, the 4th Surah (chapter) is titled AlNisa TheWomen. Further on, you will see that the 19th Surah, titledMaryam (Mary), makes reference to the very specialwoman who is the mother of Jesus, the Messiah. ThisQur'an was not arranged haphazardly — it was divinelyarranged, so each chapter has significance.

The number “4” is a foundational number. You can'tbecome president of the United States until you've reachedthe age of “40.” Moses was “40” when he received God'sCommand and he was in the wilderness “40” days. Jesusfasted “40” days and “40” nights and, consider the 450years of the Black man and woman's sojourn in America.This number, “4,” signifies that something was and is beingdone to lay a foundation.

Well, why women? What is a woman the foundation of?This world in which we live has been destroyed becausethe woman has been spoiled and laid waste. TheHonourable Elijah Muhammad taught us that where there

are no decent women, there are no decent men, becausethe woman is the Mother of Civilization. Civilization is notjudged by the man, civilization is judged by the female.

The Honourable Elijah Muhammad

Man's abasement of womanI have travelled all over the world, and I have been incertain parts of the Islamic world where the woman can'tpray in the mosque with the man. In Africa, I saw that menwould be in airconditioned rooms saying their prayers,while the women were out on the dirt making prostration inthe hot day sun.

But in Mecca, both women and men are at the Ka'bah,praying. Shouldn't that be the example? What hashappened to us throughout the world of Islam, that we haveallowed old, cultural traditions to sideswipe the culture ofIslam? The Islamic World needs reform. When you look atour world of Islam, we as elder Muslims, see that we'relosing our children to the world. The Christian World alsoneeds to be reformed in its expression of women and eventhe Jewish World needs reform. Why? It is because anignorant woman is the death of a nation.

Mecca, Arabia

How can any man be afraid to educate a woman anddeprive one of God's creatures of the gift of knowledge, if


we say we believe that Allah (God) is “The Supreme Being”and introduces Himself to us as “The Best Knower”?

Women are devalued in this society. It is heartbreaking todrive down certain streets in major cities and see beautifulwomen of every colour, of every race, half nude and sellingthemselves to anyone who would purchase pleasure fromthem. Women have fallen so low, and it doesn't seem thatwe, as men, care, because some will put our women up tothis kind of behaviour for the sake of money.

Once men are taught the knowledge of God, and the valueof a woman, then men will kill to keep her safe! Butbecause you don't know her value, or yours, you play withher, devalue her, and laugh at her. How can she open herknees to you, and you impregnate her, and then walk away— without even a thought of responsibility?

When I was a young Muslim, working in a store inElmhurst, New York, I saw two white policemen beating ayoung Black girl. It was my job to keep the store open, butwhen I saw those police beating that woman, I left the storeand challenged the police. These police thought I wascrazy and, evidently, to them, I was — but I was “crazyenough” to try to protect a female. I warned them, with noF.O.I. (Fruit of Islam) around me, because Allah wassufficient for me “Don't put your hand on her!” They put herin the car, and I went down to the station to make sure theydidn't!

Now, what gives a man that kind of strength, where hedoesn't fear death? 1. It is love for your people; and 2. It isknowledge of the value of what that policeman wasdesecrating.

Woman. The SecondSelf of The CreatorWho are you, Black woman? Do you really know howvalued you are in the Sight of your Creator? In the HolyQur'an, Surah 4, verse 1, there is a very beautiful scripturethat reads “O people, keep your duty to your Lord, Whocreated you from a single being and created its mate of thesame (kind), and spread from these two many men andwomen. And keep your duty to Allah, by Whom youdemand one of another (your rights), and (to) the ties ofrelationship. Surely Allah is ever a Watcher over you.”

Here, the Arabic word nafs is translated as “being.” OtherQur'anic scholars translate nafs to mean soul, or, essence.But if Allah created us from a single essence, what is thatessence? How could Allah create man as His khalifah(successor), and the essence of that man is not theEssence of Him Who created man? Biblically speaking, youcan't say that man and woman are created in the imageand the likeness of God, and the Essence of God is not inyou.

Why the subject, “The Limitless, Immeasurable Value andBeauty of a Woman”? Some women may look in the mirror,and think, “Oh, I am not so pretty.” They may not beconsidered physically attractive, but physical attractivenessis not beauty, that is why I am teaching on the limitless,immeasurable value and beauty of all women. The beautyof the woman is the matchless beauty of God. This is youon the inside.

The Qur'an says that Allah is “not begotten, nor does Hebeget.” He is SelfCreated. The Honourable ElijahMuhammad teaches that Allah (God), in His LimitlessWisdom and Power, created Himself in Triple Darknessand that we don't know how long it took Him becausenothing was there to measure time. God created Himself,and then studied Himself and out of Himself He made aSecond Self. Sisters, you are from Allah (God).

The Sacredness of The WombIn my study of the act of “birth” and “creation,” there isalways pain involved in the Creative Process. Allah (God)made each one of us a witness of Himself, so mothers, youhave nothing to do with the babies that form in yourwombs. What is being formed in your womb is like a selfcreation after the Order of God!

Sperm meets egg

There is an intelligence in the sperm that seeks the eggbecause it is looking for something. How could it be“looking for something” that it didn't know what it waslooking at? And Who's intelligence is in the sperm when itseeks the egg to form the first cell of life? It's not yourintelligence — you didn't know what was going on! It isGod's Intelligence. His Essence.

The scriptures below bear witness that Allah (God) isworking in the womb “Such is the Knower of the unseenand the seen, the Mighty, the Merciful, Who made beautifuleverything that He created, and He began the creation ofman from dust. Then He made his progeny of an extract, ofworthless water. Then He made him complete andbreathed into him of His spirit, and gave you ears and eyesand hearts; little it is that you give thanks!” (Holy Qur'an,Surah 32, verses 69)

“O people, if you are in doubt about the Resurrection, thensurely We created you from dust, then from a small lifegerm, then from a clot, then from a lump of flesh, completein make and incomplete, that We may make clear to you.And We cause what We please to remain in the wombs tillan appointed time, then We bring you forth as babies, thenthat you may attain your maturity. And of you is he who iscaused to die, and of you is he who is brought back to theworst part of life, so that after knowledge he knows nothing.And thou seest the earth barren, but when We send downthereon water, it stirs and swells and brings forth a beautiful(growth) of every kind.” (Holy Qur'an, Surah 22, verse 5)


See how sacred the woman's womb is? No man shouldhave access to the sacredness of your womb unless thatman is worthy — not because he's “cute,” not because he's“popular,” and not because he has a little money. Yourwomb is too precious to throw it away.

Respect, Control and ProtectionSatan is always after the woman, because his desire is tocreate an adverse world. He can't bring the man downunless he goes through the woman, so Satan has tobeguile and deceive the woman. Because the woman is sosacred, this is why, in his Saviour's Day address in 1957,the Honourable Elijah Muhammad taught the subject “TheRespect, Control and Protection of the SoCalled NegroWoman.”

Brothers, you can never protect a woman that you can'tcontrol. And Sisters, I know some of you may think, “Noman is gonna control me!” But wait, you are not going tomind being controlled if the man is under The Control ofGod.

God regulates the affairs of everything that He creates, andHe does it by means of Law, so when He takes womanfrom man and gives the woman to the man as His SecondSelf, God also gives the man the responsibility to maintainher in all aspects of her creation. A good woman doesn'tmind a man's exercise of control, if that man is a goodmaintainer of her. A man under The Control of God is notgoing to be wicked in the way he exercises his authority.He will be just, he will be fair. A good husband will listen tohis wife and when truth is spoken from his wife, thehusband will bow to truth — not to her biology, but to thefact that she is telling the truth, because truth is uppermostin the mind of a true servant of God!

When Satan gets a hold of the woman, he encourages,exacerbates and makes mischief with her natural power togive consolation and solace to a man. The woman that hasbeen captured by Satan is so different from the Woman ofGod.

The Value of Virtuous Women and GirlsWomen know the beauty of their form, their breasts andbuttocks are embellishments of their bodies, and are veryattractive to the eye of a man. As young girls come intopuberty, and they see their form developing, they will try tobe in the presence of boys and men to test the power ofattraction they are just beginning to discover. This is whywe do not allow our girls in the presence of men, becausewhen they begin to discover their powers of attraction, theywant to see just how attractive they are. Now Satan hasentered our homes, and is creeping up into our young girlswho are just beginning to know their power of attraction,but not their value.

The Bible teaches that a virtuous woman is more preciousthan silver and gold. How many virtuous women are in theworld that we live in today? Is it just a thing of the past?Girls are having sex as young as the age of 8! But look atwhat the Honourable Elijah Muhammad said. “There's nosuch thing as a nogood woman. Every nogood womanwas made nogood by a nogood man.”

When a man — a good man — sees a young girl whosebody is forming and that girl is trying to attract him, thegood man will look away, because he realizes that thisbeautiful child does not know her value. This child's value isnot in her bosom, her value is not in her buttocks. Hervalue is not in the prettiness of her face. Her value is in theBeauty of God that is hidden within her, which has to becultivated.

The Ka'bah

‘A Precious Corner Stone, A Sure Foundation'Allah (God), through The Messiah and The Mahdi, wants tomake a new people out of us. In Mecca, the Ka'bah, whichis the Kiblah (Spiritual Center) of Muslims, features asimple cube of stone that is called the “Black Stone.” AllMuslims who are blessed to go to Mecca want to kiss theBlack Stone, following in the way of Prophet Muhammad(Peace Be Upon Him). The Ka'bah is an Ancient Housethat is a sign of something bigger than itself.

You are a stone. I am a stone. We are stones, mortaredtogether in the Love of Allah, His Messenger [and] Islam.This is what makes us into an impenetrable building thatbecomes the Real House of God.

Touching the Holy black Stone of the Ka’bah

As most Muslims are amazed by the beauty of Mecca,Mecca is not more beautiful than you. Which building madeby the hands of man equals in beauty the buildingfashioned by Allah? There are none. You are the RealHouse of God, so in the end times, The Mahdi is going to


fashion The Kingdom of Islam from a “Black Stone,” astone that is like the Guide Stone, the Corner Stone. TheBible calls it a “precious corner stone” laid in Zion.“Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zionfor a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not makehaste.” (Isaiah 28:16)

Sisters, The Mahdi, or, The Messiah, can't make a new andholy people without making a new and holy woman. Youare the candidates for that. You are candidates to be,again, the Women of God.

The Woman and The DragonI want you to study Proverbs 10:1, which reads: “… a wiseson maketh a glad father but a foolish son is the heavinessof his mother.” This is how valuable a woman is in makinggreat men.

I didn't have a father, but I had a great mother. My motherwas a strong woman. My brother and me — we didn't getany checks from our fathers. My father never bought me asmuch as a shoelace, but I thank Allah for him, becausewithout him, I wouldn't be. He did nothing for me, but, mymother She did it all.

My mother was not a foolish woman. I never saw mymother engaged in foolishness. I never got out of bedbefore my mother did. And, when she put me to bed, shewas still working. My mother didn't care if the men in her lifedid not support her children. She said she would do itherself. And when my mother would beat me, she alwaysdid so for a principle. One of the things that she would beatme for, more than anything that I did, was when I lied aboutwhat I did. Because I couldn't fool her, she would trap me inmy lie, beat me for what I did, and then, beat the hell out ofme for the lie! What was she doing? See, she was beatinginto me a love for truth. She was making me into a manthat would not be afraid of the consequences of telling thetruth. God cannot use you if you fear men as we ought tofear Allah! If we were unafraid, we could raise a nationbetter than what we are doing.

Please study the 12th Chapter of the Book of Revelation.This scripture teaches us of a Dragon that is after a certaintype of woman pregnant with a man child that will rule thenations with a rod of iron.

As a mother, you should want to be like the woman that theDragon was after. But sisters, sometimes you are too weakto make a man child for God because you compromise toomuch with that which devalues you. You are full offoolishness sitting in front of the television, watching thesesilly programs such as “reality shows” and music videosthat exploit women. What do you get out of it except thatwhich makes you more and more foolish? You're going tohave to be stronger than you are now, because you aremuch too weak by compromising with a world that God istaking out.

Look at your children and how very special they are thesedays. Have you noticed how smart they are? Have younoticed the level of intelligence they have? Have younoticed the curiosity in these children? But if they have a

weak mother, a foolish mother, she'll involve these childrenin foolish pursuit.

Become a Woman and Mother Like Unto MaryamMay Allah bless the womb of every one of you, my dearsisters, who are expecting. Do not engage in a lot offoolishness as you are making new life, because you willbe marking your baby with foolishness.

Be serious about the life that is growing within you! Youcan make it into a likeness of God! In the Book of Psalms itteaches “Ye are all gods, children of the most high God” —but it's going to take a strong mother to make a child likethat. Don't doubt yourself, you do have this ability — youjust have to start now putting off foolishness!

Fill your head with knowledge! The more knowledge youhave, the more you can see something great for what isgrowing within you. And with the knowledge you acquire,you will be able to project it onto the one that is growingwithin you! Then, this child coming from your womb will beborn to achieve.

This is why the Nation of Islam's flagship mosque here inChicago — Mosque Maryam — is named after the motherof Jesus, one of the greatest human beings that ever lived.I call it Mosque Maryam because for everyone that entersthrough these doors, I want to make you pregnant with anidea that is bigger than the foolishness of the world inwhich we live. And when that idea gestates and grows inyour mind, as you go back out into this crazy world, you willgo out as a Saviour! As a Deliverer!

So from this day forward, make no merchandise of yourwomen and girls. Treat them with respect and honour —even if you think they don't deserve it — becauseunderneath all of their foolishness, they are still God's child.

May Allah bless each and every one of you! AsSalaamAlaikum!

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Up With Jesus Down With $antaBy Richard B Muhammad and Charlene Muhammad Final Call [posted December 2016]

Holiday decorations are up, Christmas songs ring out instores across the country, and “chaching” sounds emanatefrom cash registers, but don’t be fooled, because many fedup with injustice, police violence and racism are rejectingspending, commercial overkill and debt this holiday season.

Minister Louis Farrakhan

Echoing a call by the Honourable Minister Louis Farrakhanof the Nation of Islam, many Black activists and othersagreed it’s time to boycott as Season 2 of “Up With Jesus!Down With Santa!” moved forward. The goal is to curbshopping until 2 January 2017.

By strategically engaging in economic withdrawal, Blackpeople can begin putting power behind their demands andbuild a new and better reality, Minister Farrakhan stated inthe run up to Justice or Else!, the 20th Anniversary of theMillion Man March in Washington, D.C. in October 2015.

“The widespread death, rising racism, mob attacks andpolice brutality on Black people coupled with economicdeprivation and stark poverty, requires that something mustbe immediately done to address and correct the condition.The failure of the US government to give justice to itsformer slaves requires that we present ourselves in unity tomake the demand for Justice or Else!” Minister Farrakhanstated.

“Let us start by not spending money we either don’t have orcannot afford during the Christmas season. Why should wemake the merchants rich by their wicked manipulation andexploitation of the emotions of children, parents, familiesand those we love, with their pagan practices that havenothing to do with the celebration and observance of therighteous servant of God, Jesus?”

Take the day, the entire season, to give thanks to God forthe gift of Jesus, share that great gift of God and what hetaught, Minister Farrakhan instructed.

Advocates and organizers had been waging online and onthe ground battles for justice with petitions and protests,and those have been effective, but the impact has grownwith a focus on Main Street [the high street] andmerchants. Minister Farrakhan, for example, called onBlack people to pool their $1 trillion purchasing power tobuild institutions and create jobs for their people.

Justice or Else! demands an immediate end to policebrutality and mob attacks and justice for the NativeAmerican Indians, the Mexican and Latinos, for women, thepoor, the incarcerated, and veterans, and, it means land,said the Minister. “I personally believe that 2017 will be thebest year for Black people, maybe ever, because to me themost exciting part is we have the ability now tocommunicate with each other without asking for whitepeople’s permission,” said Dr Boyce Watkins, a Blackauthor, economist, political analyst and entrepreneur.

Dr Boyce Watkins


“I don’t think Donald Trump is going to be as friendly incertain elements of political justice as the Obamaadministration was,” he explained. “Unfortunately, there area lot of Black people who are motivated by fear, and there’salmost nothing they’re afraid of more right now than DonaldTrump and the Trump administration. So now they realiseall they’ve ever had was people like Minister LouisFarrakhan and others, who can provide a type ofleadership that’s far more authentic to what Black peopleare trying to do.”

Economically, Black people are gaining by leaps andbounds every year, due to the development of technologyand awareness, he said. They’re moving closer to a worldin which Black people will spend hundreds of billions moremoney in their own communities, support each other, andconnect emotionally, psychologically, politically andintellectually, Dr Watkins predicted.

‘Everybody boycotts us’“I think that we should certainly boycott all the timebecause everybody boycotts us. Trade is supposed to be atwoway street, and Americans have turned it into being aoneway street. They look at us and say ‘Negroes give usall your money, and we will give you nothing,’ and thatdoesn’t make any sense,” said Dr Watkins.

Boycotts are a natural reaction for anyone who has agrievance, Dr Watkins continued. But, he said, even deeperthan that Black people could consider alternative languagethat would achieve the same result. Rather than motivatingourselves by rejecting something that other people aredoing, we should motivate ourselves by accepting whatwe’re doing, he argued.

“I don’t really get up every morning thinking ‘I’mma goboycott white folks.’ I wake up every day thinking, ‘I’mmago love me some Black people, and after I get done lovingmy own people, who need so much love, I ain’t got no morelove for nobody else,’ ” Dr Watkins said.

“It’s like taking care of your own children. Does a motherget up in the morning and say, ‘I’mma boycott babysittingother people’s kids’ or does she say, ‘my kids need thebest that I can offer, and maybe if I have something left, Imight do something for your children, but I got seven kidsand I ain’t got time for all of that.’ ”

Dr Watkins said, “It’s not really radical for us to do this.We’re claiming back to normalcy, because we’ve been insuch an abnormal, such an abusive, such a terroristicenvironment, we’ve really endured the equivalent of a Naziholocaust every year for 400 years, and even peoplewho’ve gone through what we’ve gone through for just 5 or6 years or were traumatized for an entire century, soimagine what we’re feeling?”

Perhaps people could come up with another term forboycott, Dr Watkins said. There is one. It’s called the BuyBlack Movement. The movement recognizes Black peopleare linked to great economists, even postslavery, such asBlack Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Black businessowners’ economy boasted $2 million a day, that todaywould be the equivalent of $25 billion, said Student MinisterTony Muhammad, the Nation of Islam’s Western RegionRepresentative.

A white mob burned the area in Tulsa’s Greenwood Districtto the ground in 1921 during race riots. The only remnant ofBlack Wall Street is a memorial brick holding all the namesof the businesses burned, he said.

Student Minister Tony Muhammad

“I didn’t realize that that area was so vast, it was sothriving, that we had our own transit system. There was abrother who was manufacturing and making buses. Theywere manufacturing, yes, their own cars. Black people,their own airplanes. Black Wall Street, they had hospitals.They had schools. They had manufacturing plants in everydirection, they owned it all. Banks, theatres,” TonyMuhammad said.

The Millennials love the Buy Black Movement because theyview this as an opportunity to hit back at oppression, he


explained. In addition to supporting Black business, thereare entrepreneurs focused on creating Black businesses.Tag Team Marketing is one of those efforts and part of theBuy Black Movement.

Delxino and Deborah Wilson De Briano

Founded by Delxino and Deborah Wilson De Briano, TagTeam focuses on building Black economic power. “Wehave come to realize that the only way our race willadvance economically is by Black people buying fromBlackowned businesses, on a massive scale,” Tag TeamMarketing said.

“That means we aim to help create so many prosperousBlackowned businesses, and create levels of productionso high, that the Black community becomes permanentlywealthy and nothing, not even a bad economy, can bringus down,” the company added.

Dr Melina Abdullah

“I think it’s important to highlight the building work thatpeople are doing, so not just the disruption,” said Dr MelinaAbdullah, an organiser with Black Lives Matter Los Angelesand chair of the Pan African Studies Department atCalifornia State University Los Angeles.

Disrupt and build: A dual strategyBlack Lives Matter uses a disrupt and build model, shesaid, and a lot of what’s been covered has been on thedisruption, and that’s important as it confronts whitesupremacist, patriarchal capitalism.

“We have to disrupt it. If we think about what this system is,the election of Donald Trump really embodies that system,and so we have to be active. We have to engage. We have

to disrupt, and, at the same time, we have to buildalternative models,” Dr Abdullah said.

“If we think about what we’re doing now and workbackwards, we are in a period of Black XMAS, where we’resaying we have to divest from white corporations while atthe same time build our own economic power,” she said.

Blacking Black Business

Their website, Backing Black Business, was scheduled togo live 12 December. It comes in part out of a monthlongsurvey of national Blackowned businesses. It will featurean interactive map highlighting Blackowned businessesand Blackled community organisations.

“We also want to shake people from this idea that we haveto spend, spend, spend. We can also use our dollars toinvest in Black communities,” she said. Handing outeconomic punishment is a way to strike at the heart ofAmerica — hit businesses who influence and bankrollpoliticians to press for change.

Carmen Perez

Groups like the Justice League of New York, Justice OrElse! Chicago, and Black Lives Matter in Los Angeles tookto the streets over the Black Friday weekend. “When we’retalking about the economic shutdown, we’re talking aboutstopping corporations from getting our money, right? So,we’ve got to go to the stores that don’t care about us, don’t


care about people of colour,” said Carmen Perez, cofounder of the Justice League of New York.

In Chicago, activists and demonstrators disrupted shoppingon the Michigan Avenue retail strip dubbed “TheMagnificent Mile” the day after Thanksgiving. According tothe Chicago Tribune, the Black Friday protests in Chicagohad a significant impact, to the tune of a 2550% drop inretail sales for various retailers. “We were down a lot,”Sarah Midoun, a sales associate at Aldo shoe store, toldthe newspaper. “We were budgeted to make $37,000 butwe only did $19,000 — customers told us they wereconcerned.”

Other stores affected included Men’s Warehouse, whichmade less than $10,000 on Black Friday this yearcompared to $19,000 last year. Highend shoe retailerStuart Weitzman projected to make as much as $50,000this year, saw sales more than $20,000 short of the goal.Garmin, a manufacturer of GPS devices, said its instoreBlack Friday sales were down by as much as 40% becauseof the Michigan Avenue protests.

According to the National Retail Federation, consumersspent less money this year than they did in 2015. Also,while online shopping went up, brickandmortar operationssaw a decrease of 3 million instore shoppers this year,compared to last. Research firm ShopperTrak revealed thatnationwide, overall instore sales fell 10% from $11.6 billionin 2015 to $10.4 billion in 2016.

The National Retail Federation reported consumer spentabout $10 less on average in 2016 — about $290 this yearcompared to nearly $300 in 2015. The federation alsoattributed spending success to discounted sales, with about36% of 2016 shoppers saying all of their purchases wereon sale versus 32.5% of shoppers last year. Guns werealso a big seller, according to sales surveys.

Strategic and socially conscious shoppingCassiopeia Sledge of TheBlackMall.com, a Chicagobasedwebsite that sells Blackowned goods and services, seeschange on the horizon. “There’s been a surge of interest inpeople buying Black and [doing business with] popupshops ready to serve them,” she said. Her “Buy Black”message may have once seemed somewhat radical, butthe tide has turned, she said.

AntiTrump activists have joined the fray, with an appdesigned to highlight companies owned by or connectedwith controversial Presidentelect Donald Trump. The#GrabYourWallet movement, launched in October, includesapproximately 65 companies that can be targeted for an

alignment the Trumps. Some of the most notablecompanies included on the spreadsheet were Amazon,Nike, New Balance, Home Depot, Sears, Nordstrom andBloomingdales.

Cassiopeia Sledge (left)

In his article, “Want to Protest Trump? Nix Black Friday,#CancelXmas Shopping,” Tom Ewing encouragedprotestors to forget taking to streets to denounce theelection of Donald Trump to the presidency. Mr Ewingwrote that the only way to protest Trump is to stopshopping.

“It might be the only weapon left,” he said. The DemocraticCoalition Against Trump created a “Boycott Trump” appwhich lists businesses that have been linked to Trump andhelps people avoid spending money with those companies.

As the holiday season draws to a close, the deals and thedoor busters are liable to grow and the ads will tug at heartstrings, hoping to undo purse strings. But if you reject thehype, you can save yourself postholiday debt blues andstrike a blow for freedom.

As activists and advocates have declared: We’ve got tostop financing our own oppression.

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Message to the Blackman

ISLAM

What is Islam?While teaching and representing a religion called “Islam” toyou, the first important thing to do is to answer thequestions: What is Islam? Who is the author? Who are itsprophets and people? Such questions could be answeredin a few words or one could make books out of theanswers. Briefly, “Islam” means entire submission to theWill of Allah (God). It is, moreover, a significant name. Itsprimary significance is the making of peace, and the idea of“Peace” is the dominant idea in Islam.

The author of Islam is Allah (God). We just cannot imagineGod being the author of any other religion but one ofpeace. Since peace is the very nature of Allah (God)andpeace He seeks for his people and peace is the nature ofthe righteous, most surely Islam is the religion of peace. Itis the religion offered to the people to bring about a peaceof mind and contentment after the destroyers of peace withfalsehoods have been destroyed. The entire creation ofAllah (God) is of peace, not including the devils who are notthe creation of Allah (God) but a race created by an enemy(Yakub) of Allah. Yakub rebelled against Allah and therighteous people and was cast out of the homes of therighteous into the worst part of our planet to live their wayof life until the fixed day of doom.

These enemies of Allah (God) are known at the present asthe white race or the European race, who are the solepeople responsible for misleading nine-tenths of the totalpopulation of the Black nation.

The prophets of Islam include: Noah, Abraham, Moses,Jesus, Job, David, Solomon, and Jonah. The people ofIslam are the Black people, and their numbers are made upof the brown, yellow and red people, called races. TheBook of Islam is the Holy Qur’an Sharrieff, and thescriptures that were brought by the above-mentionedprophets were of Islam.

The Bible does not mention Islam by name as the religionof the prophets, nor does it give us the name of any of thedivine prophets’ religions. By not teaching the reader thename of the former prophets’ religion, yet giving the nameof Christianity to what Jesus taught, it leaves the reader to

seek the name of the religion of the former prophets fromAdam to Muhammad. The followers or believers of Islamare over one-half billion people. Even among the infidelsyou will find many who confess Islam, although by naturethey are against Islam. If I teach or preach a religionclaiming its origin is from Allah (God), I must prove it, and ifyou oppose it with another religion which you claim hasGod as its author, then you must prove your claim. Areligion whose origin or roots cannot be found in theuniversal order of God cannot be said to be the religion ofGod. The first prophet of God and His scripture must bethat of the true religion of God.

Islam has five beautiful fundamental principles of belief.The most essential of them all is “The belief in One God.”This was the belief (Oneness of God) and preachings ofthe prophets of God from Noah to Muhammad (the last). AsI have said, if your religion’s roots are not found in theuniversal order of things, it is not from Allah (God). I defyany opposer to prove the religion (as we know it today)called Christianity to be the religion of God and Hisprophets Noah, Abraham, Lot, Moses, David and Jesus.

What is Islam? It has been answered in one word –righteousness. Briefly, it is the religion of Allah (God) andHis Prophets. Islam is as old as Allah (God) Himself and isthe religion of which Allah (God) is the author. Islam is thereligion of Adam, Noah, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad(the last). Islam is the religion of entire submissionto the willof Allah (God). Islam is the religion which the Holy Qur’anteaches.

Allah (God) says, “This day I have perfected for you yourreligion, completed my favour on you and chosen for youIslam as a religion” (Chapter 5:3). Allah (God) also says inanother chapter of the Holy Qur’an, “Surely the truereligionwith Allah is Islam” (Chapter 3:18).

The significance of the name “Islam” is peace, the truereligion. It is a religion of eternal peace. We cannot imagineAllah (God) offering to us a religion other than one ofpeace. A religion of peace coming to the righteous after thedestruction of the wicked is also mentioned in severalplaces in the Bible: The Lord will bless His people withpeace.” (Psa 29:11): also, “He will speak peace unto Hispeople and to His saints” (Psa 35:8) and “the Lord of peacegives you peace always” (II Thess. 3:16).

Islam is the religion referred to in the above-mentionedBiblical verses. It is the only religion that gives the believera peace of mind and contentment. It removes grief and fearat once on the believing: “Yea, whoever submits himselfentirely to Allah and he is the doer of good to others, hehas his reward from his Lord, and there is no fear for him,nor shall he grieve” (Holy Qur’an 2:112).

Allah invites to the abode of of peace (Holy Qur’an 10:25).Can you imagine a divine prophet being sent with anythingother than a religion of peace to his people? Our people,the so-called American Negroes will love Islam when theylearn more of it. For it is the religion of their fathersand it isthe last of the three great religions on earth. The other two,Buddhism and Christianity, cannot give us a lasting peace.We have tried them to our disappointment.

Christianity is on of the most perfect Black-slave-makingreligions on our planet. It has completely killed the so-called Negroes mentally. Now it takes Allah (God) Himself


to revive and restore our people back into their own.Though I am his Messenger, and Allah can use my life asHe pleases for them, they are my people and many – whileI am only one.

Islam will give them the heaven while they live. Islam hasmore to offer than the white-controlled Christianity. Islam isuniversal. The true believers of Islam are equal in numberto the total population of the whites on our planet (400million). By nature, all members of the Black nation areMuslims (lovers of peace), whose number is over the billionmark.

We must have Islam as our religion to restore our peaceafter suffering under the slavery, the persecutors, and thegrief of wars for 6,000 years. The so-called Negroes ofAmerica, who have never known the way of peace, whohave never had love or mercy shown to them, today haveAllah (God).

The God of mercy is on their side in the religion of Islam.But they are so dumb about it that it hurts my very heart. Iam not surprised at what disbelievers think and say of me,but when a supposed brother Muslim joins the disbelieversagainst what I write, then I am surprised. For no trueMuslim will speak against another Muslim to the delight ofthe disbelieveing people of Allah and His prophets and thereligion of Islam.

Meaning of Islam Entire submission to the Will of Allah (God), the religion ofAllah (God), and His prophets is the natural religion of therighteous (Holy Qur’an 30:30), which will dominate all otherreligions (Holy Qur’an 61:8-9). “Surely the true religion ofAllah (God) is Islam” (Holy Qur’an 3:18). Can we say this ofother religions? Does the Bible give us any prophecy thatChristianity will finally rule and dominate the whole world?Islam is the religion which the Holy Qur’an teaches. Theholy Qur’an is a book which white christianity never hasand probably never will introduce to the so-called Negroes.They love you to read the book (Bible) which they havefixed for you and desire that you never be able tounderstand it (though the original of the Bible was true).The Jews are charged with tampering with the originalscripture (adding to and taking from it). The christians arecharged with poisoning the original scripture, called theGospel of Jesus.

Islam means salvation to each and every one who believesin it. To the American so-called Negroes, it is the masterkey which opens wide every door locked against them. Thedoor of universal friendship with the Creator and HisCreatures swings wide open to you and the doors offreedom, justice and equality. All the believers of Islam arethe brothers of the others unlike Christianity, where the withChristians are too proud to make the Black people theirequal.

Since the so-called Negroes never were recognised bywhite Protestant Christianity as equal members, theyflocked to the Catholic church to join it, running from agarter snake to a rattlesnake. The garter snake runs fromthem, the rattlesnake swallows them. They know nothing ofthe true religion (Islam) of God and care very little, bacausetheir minds are to be whatever the white race’s minds are.

Christianity has no power for the Negroes against theirenemies. Islam is a powerful religion. If the so-calledNegroes of the South, or america in general, would acceptAllah and His religion, Islam, their dreaded fear of the whiteman’s brutality and murder would be over. Allah will defendthe believers of Islam. The believers are united againsttheir enemies. For every Islamic believing so-called Negroin America, there are 100 Muslim brothers on his side. Thismeans if the whole 17 million so-called Negroes werebelievers in Islam, their would be 17 million of their peoplewith them as brothers and sisters.

Allah’s (God) finding of the lost members of the Blacknation is more valuable in His eyes than the whole world ofmankind., and even they are very valuable in the eyes ofany Asiatic Muslim. The finding of the so-called Negroes byAllah (God) means the end of the present world and thebeginning of a new world under the guidance of Allah(God).

From Message to the Blackman in America by theHonourable Elijah Muhammad


Black History 365 1 December 1940 – Richard Pryor, actor and standupcomedian, born.

Rosa Parks arrested

1 December 1955 – Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, which sparked the bus boycott of 1955.

1 December 1987 Carrie Saxon Perry begins her term asthe mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, the first Black woman mayor of a major US city.

2 December 1884 – Granville T Woods patents telephone transmitter.

3 December 1847 – Frederick Douglass publishes first issue of North Star.

4 December 1909 The New York Amsterdam News is founded by James A Anderson.

5 December 1932 – Little Richard, musician, born

5 December 1955 Martin Luther King, Jr organises Birmingham bus boycott, marking the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

Shaun Wallace

5 December 2004 – Shaun Wallace, barrister, the first Black man to win the BBC television quiz programme Mastermind.

6 December 1932 – Richard B Spikes patents automatic gearshift.

Richard Francis Jones

6 December 1936 Richard Francis Jones is the first Blackman certified in urology.

7 December 1941 – Dorie Miller, US Navy, shoots down four Japanese planes during attack on Pearl Harbour.

8 December 1925 Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. born.

9 December 1872 – P B S Pinchback of Louisiana is the first Black American Governor in USA.

9 December 1952 – Michael Dorn, actor (Lieutenant Worf Star Trek), born.

10 December 1924 – Michael Manley, Jamaica Prime Minister, born

10 December 1950 – Dr Ralph J Bunche is the first Black man awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

11 December 1938 Jazz pianist McCoy Tyner born.

12 December 1899 George F Grant patents golf tree.

12 December 1950 Jesse Leroy Brown is the first Black American naval officer to die in combat.

WAVES

13 December 1944 First Black American servicewomen sworn into the US Naval Women's Reserve also known as WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services).

13 December 1961 – Judith Jacob, actor, born.


14 December 1829 – John Mercer Langston, US congressman and founder of Howard University Law Department, born.

15 December 1883 William A Hinton, first Black Americanon Harvard Medical School faculty and developer of the Hinton test to detect syphilis, born.

15 December 1994 Ruth J Simmons named president of Smith College.

16 December 1976 – Andrew Young nominated to be US Ambassador to the United Nations.

17 December 1802 Teacher and minister Henry Adams born.

18 December 1971 – Rev. Jesse Jackson founds Operation PUSH.

19 December 1875 – Educator Carter G Woodson, "Fatherof Black history," born.

22 December 1943 – W E B Dubois is the first Black American elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

23 December 1869 – Madam C J Walker, businesswoman and first African American woman millionaire, born.

Cheikh Anta Diop

23 December 1923 – Cheikh Anta Diop, author, anthropologist, historian, physicist and politician, born.

24 December 1832 Charter granted to the Georgia Infirmary, the fist Black hospital.

25 December 1760 – Jupiter Hammon is the first publishedBlack poet with his poem, "An Evening Thought".

26 December 1894 – Jean Toomer, author of Cane, born.

26 December 1952 – Mutabaruka, poet, born.

27 December 1862 African Methodist Episcopal Zion church founded in New Bern, North Carolina.

28 December 1905 – Earl “Fatha” Hines, "Father of Modern Jazz Piano", born.

29 December 1924 Author, sportswriter A S "Doc" Young born.

30 December 1842 – US Congressman Josiah Walls, born.

31 December 1930 Odetta, blues and folk singer, born.

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And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

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Jamacian citizens protest outside the Jamaica Parliament building Gordon House

While they were not the placardbearing, rowdy bunch, thescores of persons who lined the precincts of Gordon Houseon Friday in disapproval of the proposed NationalIdentification System (NIDS) did not mince their words.

The consensus among the group of religious leaders,human rights advocates, tertiary students, and civilians thatgathered is that the mandatory system is a breach ofprivacy, a basic human right.

Bishop Dr Alvin Bailey

Pastor of the Portmore Holiness Christian Church BishopAlvin Bailey said that the Government was not sending apositive message by choosing to proceed with the billwithout engaging major stakeholders and the citizenry.

Raises suspicion"Any system that has to do with accountability is one thatthe Church and the Jamaican people would, in fact,support. But anything that breathes suspicion would be acause for concern, and there are to be questions, locally,especially as persons are asking questions internationally.

Let those persons who are hellbent on pursuing it withoutdue process take time to convince us that there's nothing tobe suspicious about," Bailey, who is also the president ofthe Jamaica Evangelical Alliance, told The Gleaner.

While stating that the country could benefit through socialdevelopment and health services, President of the JamaicaHouse of Prayer Pastor Harry Walcott raised the issue ofsecurity for the intricate personal information that isrequired for enrolment.

Pastor Harry Walcott (left)

"It would seem to me that the required information isinvasive and is going to impact on our privacy. Also, whenwe have all of this information on people in one place, wehave to be very careful. Some of the most "secured" meansof storage in the world have been hacked and critical


information leaked into the hands of persons using it forcorrupt means. Some of the developed countries such asEngland and Australia have rejected this system, and sothe question we should be asking is, why?" Walcott stated.

'It's going to reenslave us!'A civilian who goes by the name Shekhemt, was explicit instating that National Identification System (NIDS) beingdebated in the nation's Parliament "is going to reenslaveus a people".

"It's a situation where the Jamaican Government is beingpaid $68 million by the United States to carry out thisatrocity against its own people. The Jamaican Governmentcannot sell its people on the auction block. It should not beentertained at all. It needs to be totally discredited. Whatwe need to do is look at the systems we have in place rightnow and empower them in such a way that it doesn'tinvade the privacy of Jamaicans and allow them thefreedom that God and rational human beings intended forall of us," explained Shekhemt.

Susan Goffe

Jamaicans for Justice spokesperson Susan Goffereasoned that while her organisation was not opposed to anational identification system, it was not content with thenature of the bill before the Parliament.

"We have felt from the beginning that a (parliamentary) billof this nature should have gone to a joint select committeeto have allowed for a full debate on all the issues that arisefrom it. We believe that in a democracy, we really ought tohave had far more opportunity for input on this particularbill," said Goffe.

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London Study GroupRoad trip to Sheffield

21 October 2017

Brother Leo Muhammad addressing the local community in Sheffield

During Black History Month 2017 Brothers and Sisters ofthe Nation of Islam London Study Group were invited tomeet members of the local Black community in Sheffield,South Yorkshire (approximately 170 miles north of London).

The theme of the address was called Unity and Strength.Brother Leo Muhammad thanked the organiser SisterYvonne for inviting the Nation of Islam London Study Groupto Sheffield.

(L to R) Brother Leo Muhammad and Brother Clidd Muhammad

He addressed the Black man and woman’s truerelationship with the Supreme Being needs to be re-

established. The world’s biggest secret is the true identityof the Black man. He is the direct descentant from AlmightyGod Himself. The Black man today must obatin the trueknowledge about his identity, his history and his rightfulplace in the scriptures.

As a people, the original Black man’s and woman’s havebeen destroyed due to the lack of knowledge of ourselves.The true identity of Black people has been withheld forseveral generations by organised secret societies. TheFreemasons and the Illuminati constantly study everythingthey can about the Black man and woman because theyknow our true identity. We are the direct descendants of thetrue and living God.

We must obtain the true knowledge of who we are andpass that on to our children. At one time, in the Caribbean,no Black man ever addressed any person as ‘Nigger.’ Itnever happened. But today, after copying the lifestyles inthe USA, young people call each other ‘Nigger,’ ‘Dog,’‘Home-boy,’ ‘Fly-girl.’ We are being depicted as savagesand many of us are playing into the media steroetype.

(L to R) Brother Darren Muhammad and Brother Clidd Muhammad

Brother Leo Muhammad stressed how important it is for theBlack man and woman to change their names. The nameswe wear such as Smith, Jones, Green, Robinson, White.How can Black people ever be respected anywhere aroundthe world when wearing somebody else’s name? As longas you wear a European name, the white man still ownsyou.

Brother Leo Muhammad referred to the strength of theChinese and the Indian communities. He stressed howthese communities understand unity. From their unity is the


source of their power. You see it in Chinatown or whateverdistrict they control in the city.

Black people are likened to the prodigal son in the Bible,where (we as a people), we left our Father’s home andwent to live among a strange people in a strange land.Living among these strange people, experiencing andsuffering the harsh trials of this world, we are being forcedto return to our Father’s house. This means we mustchange the way we think and it is our current state ofthinking that is hurting us.

Everything that Black people have owned, we’ve givenaway. For example, The Notting Hill Carnival started inresponse to the problems Black people were experiencingin West London in the 1950’s and 1960’s. But today, theNotting Hill Carnival is owned and sponsored by multi-national Corporations.

Brother Leo Muhammad and Sister Yvonne (host)

We must learn and re-learn to love one another. Pointing tohis hair (or the lack thereof), nose, thick lips, skin colour,Brother Leo told the audience how much he is in love withwhat Allah (God) has blessed him with. He added that thereare many white people today who wished they had beenborn with Black people’s physical attributes.

In their hatred of Black people, many white people will rushto the beach to get a suntan. Black people must neverapologise for being who they are.

Brother Leo Muhammad emphasised the need to regularlycommunicate with one another. From this first meetingorganised by Sister Yvonne, in Sheffield, the spirit of Blackunity must and will grow.

No man is an island. Black people must repair theirrelationships with one another if we are to move forwardcollectively as a community. The Black man can only besuccessful with the Black woman and the black woman canonly be successful with the Black man.

Every relationship is not without its fair share of stormyweather. Every relationship must be put through trials totest the strength, the sacrifice and the commitment of bothof the persons in that relationship.

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Scenes from Huddersfield

28 October 2017

Brother Leo Muhammad addressing the community in Huddersfield, Yorkshire

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Brother Leo Muhammad meets and greets members ofthe Huddersfield community


Sagging pants of todaycould hurry hipreplacements of

tomorrow

Michael Gerdine, spine expert

By Sandra Jordan

Some of the same activities and behaviours that can causedisease can cause health problems in your bones, jointsand your neuromuscular system. “For every one pound ofweight that you gain, you put three pounds of pressure onyour knees, so the opposite of that is, for every pound thatyou lose, you take three pounds of pressure off yourknees.”

Spine expert Chiropractor Michael Gerdine of West EndChiropractic said when it comes to wellness, the approachshould be proactive rather than reactive. “There are manystresses in life that contribute to illness, whether it bestresses from work, family, job, poor diets, lack of exercise,not getting enough rest” Gerdine said. “All of those thingslead to problems with the nervous system, due to what wecall in chiropractic care ‘subluxations.’”

Subluxations occur when the body’s infrastructure gets outof alignment. “Its bones out of place irritating the nerves,”Gerdine said. “Subluxations are caused by – I call them thethree T's

• Trauma – which could be an accident, sportsinjury, repetitive motion on the job, weekendwarrior stuff;

• Thoughts – which would be stressrelated; and

• Toxins – bad food, poor diet. Medications can betoxic to the human body, bad air, recreationaldrugs, cigarette smoke, all of those things aretoxic.”

The Missouri Chiropractors Association describessubluxations as a response to stress, causing the musclesto spasm, spinal bones to lock up and choking or chaffingnerves. Nerve impulses communicate messages to thebrain and throughout the body through your spine. If there’s

a hitch somewhere in the nervous system, it will manifestas some type of health problem. “Most of us havesubluxations and don’t even know we have them,” Gerdinesaid.

Crook neck

He said that occasional “crook in the neck” or stiff backwhen you wake up in the morning – subluxations. “It couldbe because you slept wrong or it could be because youhold the telephone at work with your shoulder cocked up onthe phone and one of the contributing factors tosubluxations, a big one – is posture,” he said. “Most humanbeings have bad posture and people who are sedentaryhave even worse posture.”

Think of this balancing act, poorly postured humans withbowling balls sitting on top of the smallest area of the spinalcolumn.

Text neck pain

“Most people don’t realise that our heads weigh about thesame as a bowling ball – between 10 and 15 pounds,”


Gerdine explained. “The cervical spine – the neck, thoseare the smallest bones in the vertebral column and nowyou have this head that is leaning forward and that’s puttinga lot of pressure on those bones and it can cause problemsover time.” Gerdine said the boom in tech gadgetry that haspeople looking down at their cellphones, tablets and otherpersonal devices will wind up being a major pain in theneck.

“You can rest assured that there is going to be an epidemicof neck problems with headaches, tension in the shoulders,pain between the shoulder blades, pain radiating into thearms,” Gerdine said, “and a lot of it is going to be due tothis repetitive motion that we have developed to exist in theworld today.”

Sagging pants – a potential source of back problems

Although not so high tech, a lowhanging fashion statementof the millennials, hiphoppers and the “OGs” who try todress like them may come back to bite when where the sundidn’t use to shine. “These young men who are walkingaround with their pants sagging – you can rest assuredthere’s going to be an epidemic of hip replacementsbecause the way they have to alter their gait and swingthose legs to keep those pants up – they are wearing thehip joints out,” Gerdine said.

Sagging pants get blamed for a number of health issues,from urological and sexual dysfunction to severe postureand bone growth deformities. Gerdine said seeing achiropractor is the conservative approach to wellness. “Weare going to look at the bony structures, the musculoskeletal system to try to prevent people from going tosurgery and using all the different drugs with the major sideeffects they may have,” Gerdine said. “We are interested inpeople doing functional health. My goal is to get peopledoing the things they are supposed to do, that they want todo, the right way.”

The American Chiropractic Association says chiropracticservices are included in most health insurance plans and isalso available to activeduty members of the armed forcesat more than 60 military bases and is available to veteransat 36 major veterans medical facilities.

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The Honourable Elijah Muhammad

What the Muslims want 1. We want freedom. We want a full and completefreedom.

2. We want justice. Equal justice under the law. We wantjustice applied equally to all, regardless of creed or class orcolour.

3. We want equality of opportunity. We want equalmembership in society with the best in civilized society.

4. We want our people in America whose parents orgrandparents were descendants from slaves, to be allowedto establish a separate state or territory of their own–eitheron this continent or elsewhere. We believe that our formerslave masters are obligated to provide such land and thatthe area must be fertile and minerally rich. We believe thatour former slave masters are obligated to maintain andsupply our needs in this separate territory for the next 20 to25 years – until we are able to produce and supply our ownneeds. Since we cannot get along with them in peace andequality, after giving them 400 years of our sweat andblood and receiving in return some of the worst treatmenthuman beings have ever experienced, we believe ourcontributions to this land and the suffering forced upon usby white America, justifies our demand for completeseparation in a state or territory of our own.

5. We want freedom for all Believers of Islam now held infederal prisons. We want freedom for all Black men andwomen now under death sentence in innumerable prisonsin the North as well as the South. We want every Blackman and woman to have the freedom to accept or rejectbeing separated from the slave master’s children andestablish a land of their own. We know that the above planfor the solution of the Black and white conflict is the bestand only answer to the problem between two people.

6. We want an immediate end to the police brutality andmob attacks against the so-called Negro throughout theUnited States. We believe that the Federal governmentshould intercede to see that Black men and women tried inwhite courts receive justice in accordance with the laws ofthe land–or allow us to build a new nation for ourselves,dedicated to justice, freedom and liberty.

7. As long as we are not allowed to establish a state orterritory of our own, we demand not only equal justiceunder the laws of the United States, but equal employmentopportunities–NOW! We do not believe that after 400 years


of free or nearly free labour, sweat and blood, which hashelped America become rich and powerful, so manythousands of Black people should have to subsist on reliefor charity or live in poor houses.

8. We want the government of the United States to exemptour people from ALL taxation as long as we are deprived ofequal justice under the laws of the land.

9. We want equal education–but separate schools up to 16for boys and 18 for girls on the condition that the girls besent to women’s colleges and universities. We want allBlack children educated, taught and trained by their ownteachers. Under such schooling system we believe we willmake a better nation of people. The United Statesgovernment should provide, free, all necessary text booksand equipment, schools and college buildings. The Muslimteachers shall be left free to teach and train their people inthe way of righteousness, decency and self respect.

10. We believe that intermarriage or race mixing should beprohibited. We want the religion of Islam taught withouthindrance or suppression.

Master W Fard Muhammad

What The Muslims Believe1. WE BELIEVE In the One God whose proper Name isAllah.

2. WE BELIEVE in the Holy Qur’an and in the Scriptures ofall the Prophets of God.

3. WE BELIEVE in the truth of the Bible, but we believethat it has been tampered with and must be reinterpretedso that mankind will not be snared by the falsehoods thathave been added to it.

4. WE BELIEVE in Allah’s Prophets and the Scriptures theybrought to the people.

5. WE BELIEVE in the the resurrection of the dead–not inphysical resurrection–but in mental resurrection. Webelieve that the so-called Negroes are most in need ofmental resurrection; therefore they will be resurrected first.Furthermore, we believe we are the people of God’schoice, as it has been written, that God would choose therejected and the despised. We can find no other personsfitting this description in these last days more that the so-called Negroes in America. We believe in the resurrection

of the righteous.

6. WE BELIEVE in the judgment; we believe this firstjudgment will take place as God revealed, in America…

7. WE BELIEVE this is the time in history for the separationof the so-called Negroes and the so-called whiteAmericans. We believe the Black man should be freed inname as well as in fact. By this we mean that he should befreed from the names imposed upon him by his formerslave masters. Names which identified him as being theslave master’s slave. We believe that if we are free indeed,we should go in our own people’s names–the Black peopleof the Earth.

8. WE BELIEVE in justice for all, whether in God or not; webelieve as others, that we are due equal justice as humanbeings. We believe in equality–as a nation–of equals. Wedo not believe that we are equal with our slave masters inthe status of “freed slaves.” We recognize and respectAmerican citizens as independent peoples and we respecttheir laws which govern this nation.

9. WE BELIEVE that the offer of integration is hypocriticaland is made by those who are trying to deceive the Blackpeoples into believing that their 400-year-old open enemiesof freedom, justice and equality are, all of a sudden, their“friends.” Furthermore, we believe that such deception isintended to prevent Black people from realizing that thetime in history has arrived for the separation from thewhites of this nation. If the white people are truthful abouttheir professed friendship toward the so-called Negro, theycan prove it by dividing up America with their slaves. We donot believe that America will ever be able to furnish enoughjobs for her own millions of unemployed, in addition to jobsfor the 20,000,000 black people as well.

10. WE BELIEVE that we who declare ourselves to berighteous Muslims, should not participate in wars whichtake the lives of humans. We do not believe this nationshould force us to take part in such wars, for we havenothing to gain from it unless America agrees to give us thenecessary territory wherein we may have something to fightfor.

11. WE BELIEVE our women should be respected andprotected as the women of other nationalities are respectedand protected.

12. WE BELIEVE that Allah (God) appeared in the Personof Master W Fard Muhammad, July, 1930; the long-awaited“Messiah” of the Christians and the “Mahdi” of the Muslims.We believe further and lastly that Allah is God and besidesHIM there is no god and He will bring about a universalgovernment of peace wherein we all can live in peacetogether. Source: http://www.noi.org

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