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* garnble, date, attend movies, oF sports, or take long vacations from work, Mualims slept no morc than health required. Any Gomestic quarreling, any giscourtesy, ¢s- bying. of stealing was permitted, or no insubordination to civil authonty, except on the grounds of reiigious obligation. Our moral laws were policed by our Fruit of Islam—able and dedicated and trained Muslim men. Infractions resulted Chicago and New York than anyone ever would have guessed from the outside. In fact, as you know, in the really big cites having no other interests, es- 7 undersiand. For about the next year I ° juet noticed her. You know. It was Sister Betty X. She was tall. Brown-skinned— darker than | was Andshehad browneyes. _ Bun ! didn’t pay ton much attentions, 25° 9 knew she was a native of Detroit, and that at Tuskegee Institute down of Mr. Muhammad's teachings of much = Tse Muslim sisterhood delps maintcia hb personal standa things as that the filthy pig is only a large featy. ar Ke panied 48 * ble cough that the expenses could tet owe of tuo Wiel apertincate Sh "ml while there, fo most The Honorable “* Elijah Mubenmad in Sever Betty 9X, of course, knew afl abomt this, ao there was nothing for her to think when it was lem that Sister Betty X was having. When the license. Then we west 4b Sister Betty X had told her foster parents, of the peace who were financing ber education, that = An old hunchbecked whier she wat » Mustim, they had given her a formed the wedding. And alt of choice: leave the Muslims, or they" d cut off her nursing-school financing. T got to wring 1 over in my mind. They were all standing there, wating andi What would happen if I just should hap- watching every move. The old devil anid, pen, sometime, to maybe think about Maybe getting married to somebody? | was 90 shocked, at myeelf, when I realized __ what 1 was thinkmg, 1 quit going any« where around Sister Betty X, of anywhere Bast" Wd hed tes much of kinds of — ASG {GG Maa OF Sa in cupenence 10 make & man very caugipug., Bul I told The Honorable Elijah Mu- = out like Cindercila for dinner and ‘danc- hammed, when Ef visited him in Chicago ing—theo that month, that ] was thinking abowt a - scraggicdly very serious sep. He amiled when he * sweaty from working Hhe 9 og al day, heard what it was. Mr. Muhammad said = Jooking for some food, ---: 4 that he'd like to meet this sister. We Hived for the next two-and-a-half The Nation by thas time was financially years in Queens, New ‘York, sharing a = Brother Jobn Ali and his wife. He's the from different mosques, to be sent on @ r tip to Chicago to attend the Hyad- Avedic plays a part in of modesty aad simplicity te well-regelated family routine. aged to learn as mec tee Hee OFS 3 Tae Wat