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Mosiém Minister Explains Philosophy of ee el - Islam and Its Impact on America EDITOR'S NOTE: For the past several years ‘great num. - bers of Americana have embraced the Moslem falth, On the’ other hand, the majority of people who are members of Western faiths do not understand the philosophy of Islam and its teach- ings. Basically, Islam teaches that all men are equal and no * golor differences exist among Moslems. The author of this arti. a cle, Malcolm X, la a Moslem minister. He explains his faith trom the point of view of & Moslem In the Western world,” - a : a -~_ "By MALCOLM X, Minister Temple No. 7, New York x city” “Iam he that Husth, and wos dead; and, behold, I am alive forevermors, Amen; and have the Keys 0 of hell and of death” — : —Revelativa Li EFORE we heard the teach- ings of MESSENGER MUHAMMAD, we Americans (so-called Negroes) were in the grave of ignorance. We had been taught by our Christian Slavemaster, as well aa by our own ignorant religious leaders that God had cursed us black and sentenced us to a lifetime on earth of servitude to the Christian white race. _- - The same Slavemaster’s Christian religion taught us (or promised us) that we Negroes would sprout wings after death and mount up into . the sky where God would have v a a pas oo or prepared fof for Since we slaves” were oh to Paints any- thing on earth while we were paiva ciatiieaieal 2 lle sar ler cet a aim, to thems. - Tota mT wae WE SOON learned to expect it only after death, up in the aky, Therefore, this earth and _ all its vast riches, which we ourselves originally owned, was left to the deceitful maneuver- ‘ings of the white race, to build for themselves a heaven on earth while they yet live. Such religious teachings were designed to make us feel in- ferior to the white Christian Slavemaster, and he soon was successful in making us fear him, obey him and worship him, ad of Almighty God Allah, he True Supreme Being, the of our Own Foreparents. MESSENGER has taught us how we so-called Negroes soon became like the beggar, Lazarus, of the Bible: our condition became sickening ' very sore), We sat here amid the rubbish of the Western World, at the rich white Chris- tians’ feet (or gate) begging for something from their table ++,» but from this same Slave- master whom our own forefa- thers had made rich, by giving him freely of their slave labor for 400 years, we received only _the roughest jobs at the low- . est wages, the poorest houses in the slum areas at the high- est rent and the worst food and elothi.g at the highest prices, Our schools were like shacks, and were staffed by teachers who knew and could teach only what the Slavemaster dictated | MESSENGER MUHAMMAD has taught us how we so-called Negroes _were KIDNAPED “from the East” by the white : Christian Slavemaster, brought “here in chains and robbed of OUR OWN RELIGION, robbed of OUR OWN language, robbed . of OUR OWN culture, robbed - of OUR OWN God, robbed of OUR OWN flag, robbed of OUR OWN names and robbed even of OUR OWN NATIONALITY _ +24 and after robbing us of all