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...Hakim and many of the other black inmates, this new pride in blackness was related to their involvement in Islam and their subsequent discovery of aspects of black history that had not been a part of the education they had received in the public schools. This discovery awakened in Hakim and his brother cons a desire to obtain other knowledge and skills they had missed. Prevented from obtaining this knowledge in the prison schools because of the tracking system. "We began to conduct our own classes. We had brothers there from Lincoln University and so forth. So the cats began...
...fail to meet with substantial opposition from prison authorities. "Antagonisms began to develop: because it was hard for them Southerners to concede that the black man does not necessarily want to integrate with him, see. And the fact that we had begun to educate religiously along the lines of Islam meant that he couldn't join us either, they started rumors. You know, there's going to be a race riot. Well, you see, we wasn't talking about race riots. We was talking about history and facts. But they had to find some way to shut...
Gibb's academic world ranged from pre-Islamic times to current Middle East affairs. He edited the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Islam, sponsored by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and also authored several works on Arabic history, religion and literature...
...Islam has much to do with such attitudes. Religion alone is not strong enough to withstand Communism if other conditions are right; Catholic Cuba and Confucianist China demonstrated that. But Islam has a permeating discipline in Arab culture that shapes politics and unites even dissident leaders like Libya's Gaddafi and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal. Gaddafi subscribes to the same simplistic explanation of the new order offered by Nasser before his death: "The reason that Arab socialism is different from Communism is because our socialism believes in God while Communism is atheistic...
...been refused conscientious-objector status by his draft board. When he went to his draft appeal board, the Justice Department advised it that he was not sincere and that his beliefs, based on the teachings of the Nation of Islam (more familiarly known as the Black Muslims), were "political and racial" in nature, rather than religious as required by law. The appeal board upheld Ali's 1-A classification...