Remember, be careful what you ask for, you just may get it.
If the Market Street Mission decides to wipe the dust from it's feet
and move to another welcoming community, they would be totally in
their rights to sell their building to the Nation of Islam. Fact is
they are required by Federal regulations governing 501 (c) 3
organizations to look for another 501 (c) 3 to sell to first.
"Behold the lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world." The
Gospel of John.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "carlchesna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm not most non-politically vocal person I know - but this was an
> interesting article --it's from the front page of local news
section
> and continues to page 2... The article is about Councilman Keady,
> and there's a quote from Minister John Muhammad of the Nation of
> Islam:
>
> "If you don't help us, the city will not come back, and I don't
want
> it to come back," Muhammad said. "If you don't build, we don't
lose
> a dime."
>
> Ummm... Doesn't that sound a little off? Any thoughts on where
> he's coming from? Dan? Tommy? Anyone?
>
> I don't want to jump to the wrong conclusion or be un-PC towards
> Nation of Islam (who lashed out at the Council saying it was
setting
> the stage for a racist city with the rich on one side, the black
and
> poor on the other)
>
> In not wanting to make any false assumptions based around my
> personal experience with the Nation of Islam ministers who used to
> loiter around 14th Street years ago, I did some research, and this
> comes from www.islamfortoday.com
>
> "Michael Young examines the Islamic credentials of these self-
> styled "Muslims".
> August 1, 2001
>
> ...Racist ideology also at odds with universal Islam
> A third area of non-compliance with Islam, and the one which
> receives by far the greatest attention in the secular media, is
the
> issue of race. The present "Nation of Islam" leader, Louis
> Farrakhan, is on record as having made objectionable anti-Jewish
(as
> distinct from anti-Zionist) remarks. Among other unfortunate
> utterances, he is alleged to have referred to Judaism as a "gutter
> religion".
>
> Moreover, the NOI is a segregationalist organization exclusively
for
> black people descended from slaves. Proper Islam is a universal
> religion open to people of every race. Muslims are supposed to
> differentiate between people on the basis not of ethnic origin but
> of piety and upright behavior. As the Quran makes clear:
>
> "And mankind is naught but a single nation." Holy Quran 2:213
>
> "O Mankind! Most certainly, it is We (God almighty) who have
Created
> you all from a single (pair) of a male and a female, And it is We
> who have made you into nations and tribes, that ye may recognize
> each other. Verily, the noblest of you in the sight of Allah is
(he
> who is) the most righteous of you." Holy Quran 49:13
>
> And in his final sermon, Prophet Mohammed made clear that racism
> has no place in Islam:
>
> "O people! Verily your Lord is one and your father is one. All of
> you belong to one ancestry of Adam and Adam was created out of
clay.
> There is no superiority for an Arab over a non-Arab and for a non-
> Arab over an Arab; nor for white over the black nor for the black
> over the white except in piety. Verily the noblest among you is he
> who is the most pious."
>
> In contrast, the NOI has a pronounced anti-white bias. They refer
> to blacks as God's chosen people and Caucasians as white devils.
> They call for a separate homeland for American blacks, for
racially
> segregated education and for a ban on interracial marriage. To
> quote again from their website:
>
> We believe we are the people of God's choice.
>
> WE BELIEVE this is the time in history for the separation of the
so-
> called Negroes and the so-called white Americans.
>
> 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 want all black children educated, taught and trained by their
own
> teachers.
>
> We believe that intermarriage or race mixing should be prohibited.
>
> Fellow Muslims with eyes the bluest of blue and skin the whitest
of
> white...
> Former NOI members who recognized anti-white racism as folly and
> converted to proper Islam include Malcolm X and the world champion
> heavyweight boxer, Muhammad Ali. Both spoke out on the subject:
>
> "[The Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca] was an exhilarating experience to
> see people belonging to different colors, races and nationalities,
> kings, heads of states and ordinary men from very poor countries
all
> clad in two simple white sheets praying to God without any sense
of
> either pride or inferiority. It was a practical manifestation of
the
> concept of equality in Islam." Muhammed Ali
>
> "During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have
eaten
> from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept in the
> same bed (or on the same rug) -- while praying to the same God --
> with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose
hair
> was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of
white.
> And in the words and in the actions and in the deeds of
the 'white'
> Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black
> African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan and Ghana."
>
> "We were truly all the same -- because their belief in the one God
> had removed the 'white' from their minds, the 'white' from their
> behavior, and the 'white' from their attitude."
>
> "This religion recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all
human
> beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human
> Family of Mankind. I totally reject Elijah Muhammad's racist
> philosophy, which he has labeled 'Islam' only to fool and misuse
> gullible people as he fooled and misused me. But I blame only
> myself, and no one else for the fool that I was, and the harm that
> my evangelical foolishness on his behalf has done to others."
> Malcolm X
> XXX
>
> So I ask now, who's setting the stage for a racist city? Not
> Councilman Keady, I can assure you...
>
> Carl Chesna
>
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