Word: islam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rivers, for example, has been particularly critical of the Nation of Islam for its refusal to disavow violence. Rivers, who preaches in the streets around Four Corners in Dorchester, was among four area ministers who signeda letter in March suggesting Nation of Islam leaders were behind the murder of Malcolm...
Muhammad, of course, is the openly anti-Semitic former spokesperson for Minister Louis Farrakhan, the slightly less openly anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam. Muhammad attracted attention earlier this year by calling Jews "blood-suckers" and other epithets during speeches at Kean College and Howard University. He advocated that Jews be killed, and then killed again, because "they didn't die hard enough." And he evinced understanding for Nazi Germany's genocide of the Jews, suggesting that we mustn't dwell too much on remembering the Holocaust...
Naturally, Muhammad's speeches prompted an outcry. The Anti-Defamation League is waging a publicity campaign to expose Muhammad with his own words, while prominent Black leaders like the Rev. Jesse Jackson denounced him. Even Farrakhan was forced to demote Muhammad, though the Nation of Islam leader didn't actually repudiate muhammad's views, instead making it clear that he in fact endorsed them...
Through July 3. "Pattern and Purpose: Decorative Arts of Islam. " This exhibit presents a selection of the ceramics, metalwork, textiles, and other decorative media that have been created to beautify life in the Muslim world...
...Nation of Islam slammed the New York Post with a $4.4 billion libel suit over an article describing possible links between its leader, Louis Farrakhan, and the murder of Malcolm X. The Post called the lawsuit "totally without merit...