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From: gwydion@Dyved.csc.ti.com (Basalat Ali Raja)
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Subject: Re: ET Joins with Minister Louis Farrakhan to defeat the "White Menace"
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Date: 16 Jan 90 17:43:24 GMT
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steve%revolver@gatech.edu writes:
>    The local public access cable channel here in Atlanta, Georgia often
>features broadcasts by Minister Farrakhan.  He is a Muslim and he reads
>(translations from) the text of the Qu'ran to his audiences.  I don't know
>how large his sect in this country is, but Malcolm X formerly belonged to
>this same group before he was assassinated by other members of the group.
>You are probably correct in your assertion that many members do join
>the group as an alternative to Christianity, which they view as being a 
>religion imposed on them by their former white masters.

I have heard one sermon made by Minister Farrakhan.  That is exactly
what it was - a sermon.  Not a Khutba, or a discussion given by a 
Muslim scholar.  It was quite definitely an attempt to preach at his
audience.   Also, I note that you refer to him as *Minister* Farrakhan.
Sunni Islam does not have a clergy, and Farrakhan does not seem to be
a Shia.  This, in all, seems to provide more evidence that the religion
that Farrakhan preaches is an anti-thesis to Christianity rather than
Islam in its own right; the name "Islam" was chosen because it was
viewed as a religion other than Christianity.