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and nobody continued to walk in his foot steps?
Quote from: Waassup Bitch on April 12, 2008, 05:56:31 PMand nobody continued to walk in his foot steps?Yes.. there is one man that has. His name is Imam Jamil Al Amin. He went to prison in the 70's as a political prisoner for his revolutionary activities with the Black Panther Party.While in prison he realized that his idealogy would ultimately roduce the same results, and if the Panthers would have came to power they would have made many of the same mistakes as the white man.So while in prison he started to study Islam because he wanted to follow in the footsteps of Malcolm X.At the time his name was H. "Rap" Browne but he converted to Islam and changed his name to Jamil Al Amin. He then carried a knew idealogy that was based around the Qu'ran and similar to that of Malcolm X after his return from Hajj. Like Malcolm he believed in self-defense rather than "turning the other cheek". And like Malcolm he would make Hajj upon being released from prison and spent significant time in Africa. He learned to speak Arabic in the Sudan. When he came back to America he began biulding an Islamic community in the middle of a crime and drug infested ghetto of Atlanta. He became the leader of a mosque and started some local businesses teaching Muslims to become self-sufficient and spend and work to improve their communities. Although they say his story had more people coming in asking for money than customers and that he would give to whoever asked.By the 90's he had ran all the drug dealers away from his community. He even received threats from drug dealers who had been ran out. One day he was giving a speech in the mosque when somebody passed a note to him that was a threat from a drug dealer... he immediately crumpled it up and threw it on the floor and said to everyone over the microphone, "these people think I'm scared of them, you tell them that if I find them I will kill them myself!"Anyway.. he continued malcolm's mission to make blacks more self-reliant, to orientate them towards Allah-consciousness, and to unite them with the African and Muslim world. Imam Jamil's big thing was prayer. He encouraged that they must first learn to organize properly 5 times a day in the masjid for prayer consistently, before they could organize for greater things.The government considered him a threat and he was framed and accused of shooting a police officer. While on trial facing life in prison in 2001 he gave his last statement in court, dressed in a thobe and kufi, he made a supplication to Allah and awed the judge and all in that were in court that day.He is currently serving life in prison and has been isolated from the other prisoners.
Theres that famous picture of them together once...But make no mistake about it... their idealogies were not one in the same.-Martin was a Christian preacher and represented the black church. Malcolm was a Muslim leader and called Christianity the white man's religion. He felt like Christianity had been historically used to suppress the black man into turning the other cheek and worshippin a white Jesus. Malcom believed Islam was the solution to the race problem in America. He was not for integration like Martin, but rather he explained that there could be no white/black unity unless their was first black/black unity... before malcolm died he was working to unite the black man in America with the Muslims and Africans of the East.
Quote from: Waassup Bitch on April 12, 2008, 05:56:31 PMand nobody continued to walk in his foot steps?Yes.. there is one man that has. His name is Imam Jamil Al Amin. He went to prison in the 70's as a political prisoner for his revolutionary activities with the Black Panther Party.While in prison he realized that his idealogy would ultimately produce the same results, and if the Panthers would have came to power they would have made many of the same mistakes as the white man.So while in prison he started to study Islam because he wanted to follow in the footsteps of Malcolm X.At the time his name was H. "Rap" Browne but he converted to Islam and changed his name to Jamil Al Amin. He then carried a knew idealogy that was based around the Qu'ran and similar to that of Malcolm X after his return from Hajj. Like Malcolm he believed in self-defense rather than "turning the other cheek". And like Malcolm he would make Hajj upon being released from prison and spent significant time in Africa. He learned to speak Arabic in the Sudan. When he came back to America he began biulding an Islamic community in the middle of a crime and drug infested ghetto of Atlanta. He became the leader of a mosque and started some local businesses teaching Muslims to become self-sufficient and spend and work to improve their communities. Although they say his store had more people coming in asking for money than customers and that he would give to whoever asked.By the 90's he had ran all the drug dealers away from his community. He even received threats from drug dealers who had been ran out. One day he was giving a speech in the mosque when somebody passed a note to him that was a threat from a drug dealer... he immediately crumpled it up and threw it on the floor and said to everyone over the microphone, "these people think I'm scared of them, you tell them that if I find them I will kill them myself!"Anyway.. he continued malcolm's mission to make blacks more self-reliant, to orientate them towards Allah-consciousness, and to unite them with the African and Muslim world. Imam Jamil's big thing was prayer. He encouraged that they must first learn to organize properly 5 times a day in the masjid for prayer consistently, before they could organize for greater things.The government considered him a threat and he was framed and accused of shooting a police officer. While on trial facing life in prison in 2001 he gave his last statement in court, dressed in a thobe and kufi, he made a supplication to Allah and awed the judge and all in that were in court that day.He is currently serving life in prison and has been isolated from the other prisoners.
interesting, and what happenned with that community after he got jailed? Did drug dealers came back?