Word: muslimism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brain Trust. Reporting on his first 100 days as leader, Wallace, 41, spoke for 3½ hours while protected by a phalanx of 100 Muslim guards. To underscore the new tolerant line, the Muslims had invited a host of white civic and church leaders to the rally, although few showed up. Since Wallace's speech included several appeals for white money, the Muslims' new liberalism may have as much to do with finances as social enlightenment...
Race aside, the post-Elijah Muslims are in for some changes. Wallace announced plans to form a brain trust of Muslim leaders across the country to seek solutions to social ills, a scholarship program for high school youths, and a center to treat mental illness. He has also appointed the movement's first woman minister. While maintaining traditional Muslim secrecy about overall membership (estimated at between 50,000 and 100,000, though higher figures are often used), Wallace revealed the dollar dimensions of Elijah's legacy: the Muslims have investments of $14.5 million in Chicago property...
...lecture focused on the need to remember one's roots and to develop a true concept of friendship. Much of what Ali said echoes the Muslim teaching of which he is a follower...
...from that of orthodox Islam, which has never been sure whether to recognize Muhammad's U.S. variant. Its black-supremacy views conflict with Islam's racial tolerance. Islam's fundamental tenet is that there is no god but Allah and Mohammed was his Messenger; the Black Muslims believe that Fard was Allah incarnate and that Elijah Muhammad was his Messenger. The Black Muslims deride the orthodox Muslims as "spooky believing" for holding that Allah is a spirit. To them, Allah is the Supreme Black Man among a race of divine black men. The rituals and practices...
Rambling Inaugural. Though many killings have been blamed on the movement, Muhammad advocated nonviolence except for self-defense. A number of the murder victims have been members of rival Muslim groups; one was Muhammad's onetime spokesman Malcolm X, who was assassinated in 1965 after he left the movement...