Word: sects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While investment has always been a basic tenet of the movement, Muhammad says: "We didn't have the money to go into business until now." Last year the Muslims sank an estimated $6,000,000 in businesses and real estate, two-thirds of it in Chicago, where the sect is based. Says Muhammad: "Our goal this year is ten times that amount." Few black businessmen believe that they will achieve this figure, but even if they double their investment next year, it will be a remarkable performance...
...Chicago's South Side ghetto, the organization owns a warehouse, apartment houses, two bakeries, a clothing store, two restaurants and two supermarkets where produce is sold bearing the sect's "Your" label. Much of the produce comes from a 1,000-acre Muslim-owned farm in Cassopolis, Mich., which has dairy cows and 10,000 laying hens. Another 1,400-acre Muslim farm is located in Albany, Ga. Says Muhammad-"What we have in mind is to purchase, wherever we can, better farm lands for our people, where they can grow their own food. We are scouting...
Lovely Service. In Cleveland, the sect owns a string of stores with interesting names, among them "The Shabazz Kosher Market," "The Kaaba Haberdashery" and "Omar's Ice Cream Parlor." In Washington, D.C., where the movement has been active for 30 years, the Muslims own a bakery, a barber shop, a restaurant, a cleaning establishment and a printing office...
...annual income. Now the Muslims are looking for other sources of income and are trying to negotiate a $20 million loan from various banks. Some of this money will be used for additional business investment, and one-third of it will be spent to "revitalize" the 47 schools the sect operates across the country, notably the 37-year-old University of Islam in Washington...
...austere tradition of the Wahhabi sect to which he belonged, Saud's burial was simple. His body, wrapped in a Saudi flag, was flown in a special aircraft to Riyadh, and after brief ceremonies was buried somewhere in the capital. In keeping with tradition, there is no gravestone. Only a small group of holy men know the last resting place of one of the world's wealthiest...