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Panelist Conrad Muhammad, spokesperson for theNation of Islam and popularly known as "theHip-Hop minister," said he sees a potential forhip-hop to permeate the political arena...
...follow-up to his Pulitzer-prizewinning Parting the Waters (1988) is dark and boding--a chronicle of deaths foretold. King no longer holds center stage as he did in the first volume. Challenges to the Georgia preacher's pacifist leadership begin to emerge from Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam and later from its leading apostate, the militant separatist Malcolm X. Malcolm's differences with King were unambiguous and raised legitimate questions, not least of which was the right of self-defense. But the man Branch vividly documents as King's most insidious enemy is FBI director J. Edgar Hoover...
Though the course also looks at Native American, Christian and Jewish traditions, it emphasizes more the religious life of Asian-Americans--Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh and Jain--and the African-American and immigrant tradition of Islam...
Asani says he wants to increase course offerings in introductory Islam to combat the ignorance many students have...
...think there is a dire need in this university for more courses on Islam for the non-specialist who doesn't have knowledge of languages or prior study." Asani says...