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...Khaalis himself, burst into the headquarters of B'nai B'rith, the world's largest and oldest Jewish service organization. Moving upward floor by floor, they seized dozens of hostages, shooting at some, slapping and cutting others, shouting that they were ready to die for Allah. The hostages were herded into a conference room, the windows of which were then painted over...
...heyday in the 1960s, the separatist sect known as the "Black Muslims" appeared to many as a sinister force for racial hostility. Their leader, Elijah Muhammad, preached a weird doctrine that the race of "white devils" had been created from blacks, and that Allah had assumed bodily form in the person of W.D. Fard, a mysterious black itinerant who preached in Detroit until he vanished in 1934. The great annual event was "Savior's Day," the cult's Christmas, which celebrated the advent of Fard...
Besides returning to orthodox belief in Allah, Wallace Muhammad has abolished his father's separatism, which also ran counter to orthodox Islam. Elijah Muhammad had demanded a piece of the U.S. for a separate black nation, and taught that Allah would destroy the white devils and their civilization by the end of this century. Wallace Muhammad, who has opened membership in the sect to all races, told Survival Day worshipers, "We know there is no superiority in any color." He has also abolished the group's muscular police force, the "Fruit of Islam...
Clearly, any ad executive or diminutive South American who couldn't shoplift his way out of a rest room smoking rap could become one of the smartest and best stacked female athletes in the Universe. Take Abdullah the Butcher, known to the fans as Allah's Gentle Persuader...
...across a tobacco field green with flowering plants. A clinic had been set up; those seeking medical care were given numbers by armed Israeli soldiers and shown a place to wait. An outhouse and a pipe for drinking water had also been put up near by. "In sha 'allah, let it be like this for the rest of our lives," said a young Maronite farmer at the fence last week...