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...Elijah Muhammad, Warith Deen Muhammad, like the majority of African-American Muslims, has accepted the non-racist beliefs of mainstream Islam. A vocal minority in the Nation of Islam, however, continue, to preach their message of intolerance...
Furthermore, those who present Islam as violently anti-Jewish completely disregard the centuries of cooperation and peaceful coexistence between believers of the two faiths. In portraying the Black-Jewish conflict as somehow ingrained in Islam, Muhammad and his cronies perpetuate the myth of an intransigent antagonism between Jews and Muslims...
...Muhammad and the Nation's presentation of Islam is laced with half-truths and outright falsehoods. To someone not familiar with the actual teachings of Islam, Dr. Muhammad's speech would have been an unfortunate introduction...
Free speech is a laudable ideal but the preaching of untruths and intolerance remains detestable. Dr. Muhammad's talk had little to do with academic discourse. Not only did he insult Black students and faculty as "Uncle Toms," he similarly offended every Muslim when, as a Muslim, he called whites "liars." Such blanket invective has no place in true intellectual discussion...
Campus organizations and student groups who bring in speakers such as Dr. Muhammad in order to present a diversity of opinions taint themselves with the views of the speaker, damaging any credibility they themselves may have as tolerant and objective organizations. In a few sentences, Muhammad attached to both Islam and the African-American movement for civil rights stigmas of radicalism and racism which they do not deserve...