Answering Islam

• Important Questions for African-Americans:
  • Which Roots?
  • Who was the Real Slave Master?

• Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam:
  • Part One: History
  • Part Two: Beliefs
• Information on Wallace D. Fard, founder of the Nation of Islam (*, *), and Elijah Muhammad his prophet
• The Five-Percenters
• Emergence of Islam in the African-American Community
• Convert stories of former Nation of Islam members
• Other Christian pages:
  • Black Muslims and the Nation of Islam (AP)
  • Nation of Islam / Black Muslims (CRI)

Book recommendations, in particular,
Defending Black Faith has a good chapter on responding to the Nation of Islam.

See also:

• Nation of Islam, Muslim & secular reactions
• History of slavery
• Which Roots?
• White people are devils? Muhammad disagrees!

• List of sites (Christian, Muslim and secular) on the Nation of Islam: *, *

Christian ministries who are reaching out to members not only of the Nation of Islam but to all African American Muslims, and offering training seminars for churches to do likewise:

• Project Joseph

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