What The Muslims Want
This is the question asked most
frequently by both the whites and the blacks. The
answers to this question I shall state as simply as
possible.
1. We want freedom. We want a full and complete
freedom.
2.
We want justice. Equal justice under the law. We want
justice applied equally to all, regardless of creed or
class or color.
3. We want equality of opportunity. We want equal
membership in society with the best in civilized
society.
4. We want our people in America whose parents or
grandparents were descendants from slaves, to be allowed
to establish a separate state or territory of their
own--either on this continent or elsewhere. We believe
that our former slave masters are obligated to provide
such land and that the area must be fertile and
minerally rich. We believe that our former slave masters
are obligated to maintain and supply our needs in this
separate territory for the next 20 to 25 years--until we
are able to produce and supply our own needs.
Since we cannot get along with them in peace and
equality, after giving them 400 years of our sweat and
blood and receiving in return some of the worst
treatment human beings have ever experienced, we believe
our contributions to this land and the suffering forced
upon us by white America, justifies our demand for
complete separation in a state or territory of our own.
5. We want freedom for all Believers of Islam now held
in federal prisons. We want freedom for all black men
and women now under death sentence in innumerable
prisons in the North as well as the South. We want every
black man and woman to have the freedom to accept or
reject being separated from the slave master's children
and establish a land of their own.
We know that the above plan
for the solution of the black and white conflict is the
best and only answer to the problem between two people.
6. We want an immediate end to the police brutality and
mob attacks against the so-called Negro throughout the
United States. We believe that the Federal government
should intercede to see that black men and women tried
in white courts receive justice in accordance with the
laws of the land--or allow us to build a new nation for
ourselves, dedicated to justice, freedom and liberty.
7. As long as we are not allowed to establish a state or
territory of our own, we demand not only equal justice
under the laws of the United States, but equal
employment opportunities--NOW!
We do not believe that after
400 years of free or nearly free labor, sweat and blood,
which has helped America become rich and powerful, so
many thousands of black people should have to subsist on
relief or charity or live in poor houses.
8. We want the government of the United States to exempt
our people from ALL taxation as long as we are deprived
of equal justice under the laws of the land.
9. We want equal education--but separate schools up to
16 for boys and 18 for girls on the condition that the
girls be sent to women's colleges and universities. We
want all black children educated, taught and trained by
their own teachers. Under such schooling system we
believe we will make a better nation of people. The
United States government should provide, free, all
necessary text books and equipment, schools and college
buildings. The Muslim teachers shall be left free to
teach and train their people in the way of
righteousness, decency and self respect.
10. We believe that intermarriage or race mixing should
be prohibited. We want the religion of Islam taught
without hindrance or suppression.
1. WE BELIEVE In the One God whose proper Name is
Allah.
2. WE BELIEVE in the Holy Qur'an and in the Scriptures
of all the Prophets of God.
3. WE BELIEVE in the truth of the Bible, but we believe
that it has been tampered with and must be reinterpreted
so that mankind will not be snared by the falsehoods
that have been added to it.
4. WE BELIEVE in Allah's Prophets and the Scriptures
they brought to the people.
5. WE BELIEVE in the the resurrection of the dead--not
in physical resurrection--but in mental resurrection. We
believe that the so-called Negroes are most in need of
mental resurrection; therefore they will be resurrected
first. Furthermore, we believe we are the people of
God's choice, as it has been written, that God would
choose the rejected and the despised. We can find no
other persons fitting this description in these last
days more that the so-called Negroes in America. We
believe in the resurrection of the righteous.
6. WE BELIEVE in the judgment; we believe this first
judgment will take place as God revealed, in America...
7. WE BELIEVE this is the time in history for the
separation of the so-called Negroes and the so-called
white Americans. We believe the black man should be
freed in name as well as in fact. By this we mean that
he should be freed from the names imposed upon him by
his former slave masters. Names which identified him as
being the slave master's slave. We believe that if we
are free indeed, we should go in our own people's
names--the black people of the Earth.
8. WE BELIEVE in justice for all, whether in God or not;
we believe as others, that we are due equal justice as
human beings. We believe in equality--as a nation--of
equals. We do not believe that we are equal with our
slave masters in the status of "freed slaves."
We recognize and respect
American citizens as independent peoples and we respect
their laws which govern this nation.
9. WE BELIEVE that the offer of integration is
hypocritical and is made by those who are trying to
deceive the black peoples into believing that their
400-year-old open enemies of freedom, justice and
equality are, all of a sudden, their "friends."
Furthermore, we believe that such deception is intended
to prevent black people from realizing that the time in
history has arrived for the separation from the whites
of this nation.
If the white people are
truthful about their professed friendship toward the
so-called Negro, they can prove it by dividing up
America with their slaves. We do not believe that
America will ever be able to furnish enough jobs for her
own millions of unemployed, in addition to jobs for the
20,000,000 black people as well.
10. WE BELIEVE that we who declare ourselves to be
righteous Muslims, should not participate in wars which
take the lives of humans. We do not believe this nation
should force us to take part in such wars, for we have
nothing to gain from it unless America agrees to give us
the necessary territory wherein we may have something to
fight for.
11. WE BELIEVE our women should be respected and
protected as the women of other nationalities are
respected and protected.
12. WE BELIEVE that Allah (God) appeared in the
Person of Master W. Fard Muhammad, July, 1930; the
long-awaited "Messiah" of the Christians and the "Mahdi"
of the Muslims.
We believe further and
lastly that Allah is God and besides HIM there is no god
and He will bring about a universal government of peace
wherein we all can live in peace together.