Word: muslimism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...system that put him in prison and locked his people up in the teeming ghettos of America. With Malcolm the realization was as unequivocal as the attack of a vicious police dog tearing at his leg. While in prison, Malcolm was introduced to the teachings of the Black Muslim leader Elijah Muhammad. The two corresponded, and upon leaving prison. Malcolm became Elijah's right hand...
...film shows several of the speeches Malcolm made while he was a Black Muslim, including the one in which he said, "President Kennedy is a trickster. Black people put him in office and he's got time to take a stand in Vietnam, but not against racism." In the integrationist era of the early 1960's, Malcolm's words were anathema to the mass of blacks and their leaders. He was denounced as a "devil" and a "hate monger." After Kennedy's assassination in 1963. Malcolm said. "It's just the chickens coming home to roost," a statement with which...
Central to Arica's classroom work is a repertoire of exercises similar to the Audicon Plantar and loosely based on Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Muslim Sufism and Tibetan Lamaism. Exercises called "Mentations" require the student to "concentrate your attention into each separate section" of the body for a prescribed time: 8 minutes 40 seconds for the colon and kidneys, 10 minutes 45 seconds for the liver, and so on. "Active in the World" calls for lying motionless, forearms supported on elbows, palms facing the feet, while feeling "the tissues of your body actively engaged in the dance of Life...
...stands alone before the visitors' table, looking down with defiant, dark eyes. He is a big man, with broad shoulders, hard features, shaved Muslim head hidden by a blue stocking cap. A dark scar runs from his left cheek to his ear, from a "cutting" two years ago. His rust-colored cardigan is open and reveals a ring on a brass chain. Satisfied with the press card, he says, "They look for excuses to play with me. I try not to give them...
Both blacks and whites are still puzzling over the background and intent of Upton's group. From Chicago, Elijah Muhammad, head of the Black Muslim movement, denied any knowledge of it. No one has any idea what the blacks had in mind. But their legacy is a senseless renewal of racial hatred in Baton Rouge...