Former Nation Of Islam Leader W.D. Mohammed Dies … Will Hussein Attend Funeral??
The ties that bind Hussein … … double and triple knotted tight..
And where DID that HOPE thing come from???
CHICAGO - Imam W.D. Mohammed, who succeeded his father as leader of the Nation of Islam but abandoned its teachings of black supremacy and moved thousands of its followers into mainstream Islam, died Tuesday. He was 74.
Sultan Muhammad confirmed his uncle’s death, but did not immediately offer details. He said the family planned to issue a statement later in the day.
The Cook County Medical Examiner said 74-year-old Wallace Mohammed was pronounced dead Tuesday. Mohammed went by both Warith Deen Mohammed and Wallace Muhammad. An autopsy was planned for Wednesday.
“Obviously, it’s a great loss for the entire Muslim community,” said Dawud Walid, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Michigan, where Mohammed led a convention last month. “He was encouraging his followers to accept the best of their humanity and to extend the moral and ethical values of Islam to the general American public.”
When Mohammed’s father, Elijah Muhammad, died in 1975, his son was named leader of the Chicago-based Nation of Islam, which promoted self-reliance and black supremacy, a belief that mainstream Muslims consider heretical.
Mohammed quickly abandoned that teaching and led the Nation toward orthodox Islam, emphasizing the faith’s message of racial tolerance. He had been a friend of Malcolm X, who abandoned the Nation to embrace mainstream Islam before he was assassinated in 1965.
Minister Louis Farrakhan, who broke with Mohammed over the change, separately revived the old Nation of Islam.
No one knows the size of Mohammed’s movement, which was decentralized with many leaders and many entities, including The Mosque Cares. However, the number of his followers is believed to be in the tens of thousands.
The movement included not only mosques nationwide, but many business projects, which reflected the continued emphasis on black economic self-reliance that had been part of the Nation of Islam’s mission.
The movement’s decentralization makes it unclear who will succeed Mohammed.
Jimmy Jones, a Muslim chaplain and religion professor at Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., joined Mohammed’s movement in 1979, during the transition toward orthodox Islam.
“He asked the believers to stop reading and learning what his father had taught and start listening to him,” Jones said after learning of Mohammed’s death from a movement leader.
Mohammed changed his name several times from his birth name, Wallace Muhammad, to Warith Deen Muhammad and W.D. Mohammed. Jones said the renaming partly reflected the imam’s struggle to maintain a triple identity: Muslim, African-American and American.
“He was trying to move a community that called itself an Islamic community closer to Islam without losing its roots and trying to situate itself in the context of American culture,” Jones said.
Mohammed’s businesses included importing clothing, developing skin care products and real estate development. Among the social service work he championed was promoting education, improving access to health care and supporting convicts after they were released from prison.
(AP)
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Fry, bitch, fry! I didn’t respect you when you lived, and I ain’t gonna pretend to respect you now. Fuck you and your little black supremacist shitbags!
September 9th, 2008 at 6:39 pmMay he Burn in HELL!!
September 9th, 2008 at 7:02 pmObama in his own words: Call to Islamic prayer (Salat) is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”
Highly unlikely he will go considering he’s desperately trying to distance himself from his muslim roots at the moment, but we double dare him to attend the Chicago Islamic leader’s funeral. C’mon Buraq, show us where your true loyalties lie!
September 9th, 2008 at 7:05 pmI’m going to dance a jig at his funeral, piss on his grave and kick over his headstone…….welcome to hell you slimy muzzie……
September 9th, 2008 at 7:05 pmThe fires of hell burn a little brighter right now
September 9th, 2008 at 7:07 pmWow! Hey Muzzie, seems as if you are well liked by reading the threads here at Dollard.
September 9th, 2008 at 7:28 pmYou’ll be missed like a hole-in-the-freaking-head.
Come on guys, show a little heart. Everyone deserves a prayer. I pray that he had enough sence to plead for mercy from his Maker with his last breath.
September 9th, 2008 at 9:49 pmYeah… I hope his eternity in hell won’t be quite as bad as what Farrakhan has coming.
September 9th, 2008 at 10:02 pmBrad:
It’s hard for me to feel sorry for this guy. Now that I actually read the article instead of skimming it while seeing red, maybe I shouldn’t have said what I said. It’s shit like what he taught before he converted that is one of the roots of racial intolerance in the black community.
People like him, Farrakhan, Wright, and his father played a direct part in it. They are directly at fault for it going mainstream. He may have changed, but his followers certainly didn’t.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:47 amBrad:
It’s hard for me to feel sorry for this guy. Now that I actually read the article instead of skimming it while seeing red, maybe I shouldn’t have said what I said. It’s shit like what he taught before he converted that is one of the roots of racial intolerance in the black community.
People like him, Farrakhan, Wright, and his father played a direct part in it. They are directly at fault for it going mainstream. He may have changed, but his followers certainly didn’t.
The ONLY reason I say that I shouldn’t have said what I did is because I’d get quite pissed off if one of them disrespected someone like that, which makes me look like a hypocrite. I will say this: at least he realized he was wrong with the black supremacy shit. I won’t even get on him for believing in Islam - that’s his own choice, his own problem to deal with now.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:59 am