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( © NY 105-8999 Pertinent parts of this press release are as follows: "In the history of world oppresaion, the case of the 22 million oppressed Afro~Americans is unique, much different from all other historic cases. We in America are not only a dark-skinned minority be oppressed by a white majori but we are over 6, miles our Original Homeland, Avs "If you here in Africa are the majority and yet you found jfourselves tortured and exploited by the European minority right here in your own land--imagine the torture, pein and exploitation we in America have suffered over ,000 miles away, as a minority, outnumbered in the land of our enemy. "If you who are in the majority here on this African Continent find it difficult to gain your independence from an enemy whom you actually outnumber, how much more ‘ difficult is it for those of us who are a minority in America where we are still colonised by an enemy who outnumbers us? "As a Muslim, I feel duty-bound to fight for the apread of Islam until all the world bows before Allah--- but I am also one of the 22 million oppressed Afro-Americans, and I can never overlook the miserable plight of my people in America. Therefore, my fight 1s twofold, my burden is double, my responsibilities miltiple...material as well as spiritual, political as well as religious, racial as well as non-racial. I will never hesitate to let the entire world know the hell my people suffer from America's deceit, and her hypocrisy, as weli as her oppression. : "So, when I come before you my brothers here in the Muslim World, it is not only to rejoice over the wonderful blessings of Islam, but also to take advantage of the opportunity to remind you that there are 22 million of our people in America, many of whom have never heard of Allah or Islam, and all of whom are the victims of America's continued political oppression, economic =| exploitation, and social degradation. -l8~