Nation of Islam
The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated the Nation of Islam (NOI) as a black supremacist hate group. They are also antisemitic.
In 2007, the core membership was estimated to be between 20,000 and 50,000.
The religion is based on the worship of Allah and on the belief that blacks were his chosen people. Mainstream Muslims consider this heretical.
In March 1966, three NOI members were convicted of assassinating Malcolm X.
In 2010, Supreme Minister Louis Farrakhan publicly announced his embrace of Dianetics and has actively encouraged Nation of Islam members to undergo auditing from the Church of Scientology. Dianetics has achieved no acceptance as a scientific theory and is widely considered to be a pseudoscience.
The NOI teaches that white people were a race of "devils" created by a scientist named Yakub on the Greek island of Patmos
In 2007, the core membership was estimated to be between 20,000 and 50,000.
The religion is based on the worship of Allah and on the belief that blacks were his chosen people. Mainstream Muslims consider this heretical.
In March 1966, three NOI members were convicted of assassinating Malcolm X.
In 2010, Supreme Minister Louis Farrakhan publicly announced his embrace of Dianetics and has actively encouraged Nation of Islam members to undergo auditing from the Church of Scientology. Dianetics has achieved no acceptance as a scientific theory and is widely considered to be a pseudoscience.
The NOI teaches that white people were a race of "devils" created by a scientist named Yakub on the Greek island of Patmos