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Following LOUIS FARRAKHAN's recent surgery, speculation abounds about who will become the Nation of Islam's next titular and spiritual leader. Longtime Farrakhan friend and adviser Akbar Muhammad, the Nation of Islam's international representative, who lives in Ghana, was in the U.S. last week to visit the hospitalized Muslim leader. Muhammad told TIME that during Farrakhan's four-to-six-month medical leave, the organization will be headed by the National Board of Laborers, a group chaired by Farrakhan's chief of staff and son-in-law Leonard Farrakhan Muhammad. Sources close to the Nation of Islam...
Before 1993, the most likely heir apparent was Khallid Muhammad, the former supreme captain of the Fruit of Islam, the Nation's elite paramilitary security force, who is a gifted speaker. But he proved too extremist for Farrakhan and split with the group...
RECOVERING. LOUIS FARRAKHAN, 65, controversial leader of the Nation of Islam; from prostate-cancer treatment and the flu; in Chicago. He plans to take a four-month sabbatical from the organization...
...Laden's interpretation of Islam is not shared by most Muslims, since Islam is a religion of peace. But the U.S. became involved in Bosnia very late, only after thousands of innocent Muslims had been killed, and it still has not acted to prevent the persecution of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. SHOAIB AZIZ Karachi...
Osama bin Laden: We should fully understand our religion. Fighting is a part of our religion and our Shari'a [an Islamic legal code]. Those who love God and his Prophet and this religion cannot deny that. Whoever denies even a minor tenet of our religion commits the gravest sin in Islam. Those who sympathize with the infidels-such as the PLO in Palestine or the so-called Palestinian Authority--have been trying for tens of years to get back some of their rights. They laid down arms and abandoned what is called violence and tried peaceful bargaining. What...