The campaign began in October 2023, the year of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israeli concertgoers and was continuing as late as October 2026, the report says. Its goal is to create anti-Islamic and anti- Muslim sentiments based on the “great replacement” conspiracy theory that argues the influx of immigrants from Muslim countries is aimed at becoming the majority population.

The campaign utilized platforms like Meta, YouTube, and TikTok. Forensic evidence points to Israel as the originator, the report claims.

The campaign named Qatar as the financier “directing migration, manipulating European institutions and seeking to ‘Islamize’ Europe.” The current Muslim presence in European countries is presented as evidence of an “Islamic takeover.” It is buttressed by imagery of Muslim conquests, inflammatory slogans and AI-generated parody songs.

The impact of the campaign resulted in 533 million exposures of “anti-Muslim, anti-migrant, racist and anti-Qatar” advertising in 30 countries, mostly in Europe. The total is “likely a massive undercount, and only accounts for advertising cost, as opposed to labor and commissioning costs.”

In addition to advertising, the campaign ran “branded and covert accounts” on Twitter/X and Telegram. A Change.org petition garnered 7,500 signatures in the name of a fake human rights organization and a “sockpuppet” network edited Wikipedia articles about Qatar, the report revealed.

Sockpuppet refers to a group of fake or misleading online accounts controlled by one person or organization, working together to look like independent people.

Calling the campaign a “multi-million-dollar machinery of hate,” Ibrahim Hooper, communications director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said the ad campaign is a threat to democracy.

“Islamophobia is not just a domestic civil rights threat; it is being weaponized globally by bad actors and foreignlinked influence networks to manipulate elections, subvert democratic integrity, and target marginalized communities,” he said.

“This important investigation reveals the dark underbelly of transnational disinformation, showing how anti-Muslim bigotry and the xenophobic ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy theory are systematically manufactured and bankrolled to achieve geopolitical goals.”

Advertising was placed through accounts and companies recorded in Vietnam, Brazil, Belgium, and through German-named TikTok advertiser strings, none with a disclosed connection to the countries targeted.

Money spent on the campaign reached millions of dollars and deleted ads often found their way back. Meta, for example, reported a $1.2 million spend in the first phase of the three-phase campaign. That is the highest advertising spend Meta has disclosed for any operation targeting European Union member states, the report says.

Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram and other platforms, removed the phaseone network in about mid-May 2024; advertising resumed, however, under new identities in November 2024 and returned at scale in October 2025, highlighting the relative ease of bypassing platform legal requirements, the report says.

Phase-one buying in France ran through the months before the June 2024 European Parliament election, and United Kingdom (UK) buying stopped on May 17, 2024, days before the general election was called.

Phase-one focused mainly on Western Europe and the United States, with the U.S. accounting for 37% of the 266.8 million targeted exposures. As the campaign continued through phases 2 and 3, the U.S. was less of a target, the report says.

The campaign remains active in countries approaching major elections, including France and Italy in 2027. The campaign targeted the UK in the months leading up to the July/August 2024 anti-Muslim riots that occurred after the Southport murders, where the murders of three children were mistakenly reported as caused by a Muslim or an immigrant.

Marc Owen Jones, co-author of the report and an associate professor at Northwestern University in Qatar, suspects Qatar was chosen as the originator of the “replacement” effort in Europe because of the country’s role as a negotiator to end the U.S.-Israel war with Iran.

“Discrediting Qatar serves the interests of Israeli hardliners who oppose negotiated settlements and favor continued military confrontation, including with Iran,” Mr. Jones told The Final Call via email.

“The political logic is to make the mediator itself appear illegitimate. If Qatar can be portrayed as a dangerous sponsor of extremism, its efforts to facilitate negotiations involving Hamas or Iran become easier to dismiss as complicity with an enemy.”

Video ads in Europe include AI-generated Christmas messages like “Now Santa’s Name is Abu Baqar.” Another video stressed the Great Replacement narrative, opening with the warning “You are being replaced” and “Wake up!” over footage of Muslim crowds and public gatherings.

To appear credible, the campaign created three fake organizations, including “Citizens for Human Lives,” “European Extremism Monitoring Project,” and “One Peace Global.”

Pointing to an Israeli origin for the ad campaign, researchers found that one Wikipedia editing session in 2024 “included a fixed-line Israeli IP address” layered with campaign accounts and known German proxy exits “consistent with a proxy failure exposing an operator’s own presence in Israel.”

Edit metadata in the videos on the operation’s Telegram channel “puts their production on a Sunday-to-Thursday working week … on machines with Hebrew drive and folder names, and one machine’s clock moved back between 22 and 27 October 2024, the week Israel left daylight saving time.”

The Great Replacement theory relates to a White nationalist concept that non- White immigrants and certain ethnic groups are invading Europe and other nations with dominant White populations with an aim to “replace” them.

The answer, they propose, is remigration, which is the voluntary or forcible return of immigrants and often their descendants to the immigrants’ countries of origin.

President Donald Trump has weighed in on the concept, establishing an Office of Remigration in the State Department and implementing strong and often brutal deportation policies.

Anti-Muslim hate was rampant during the recent midterm elections, with President Trump and Vice President JD Vance targeting Muslim candidates like Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn,) with anti-Muslim remarks.

“None of this makes sense and none of it is true,” said Edward Ahmed Mitchell, CAIR deputy national communications director. Islamophobia and the term great replacement “are deliberate attempts to marginalize and sideline American Muslims as we become more active and visible participants in our democracy.”

In an email to The Final Call, Aftab Malik, in Australia’s Office of the Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, said scapegoating is often behind “replacement” movements.

In 2019, a White nationalist killed 51 people in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Prior to the shootings, he wrote a manifesto titled “The Great Replacement.”

And earlier this year in San Diego, Calif., three Muslims were slain at the Islamic Center of San Diego in a case that was investigated as a possible hate crime. According to police, it was believed that the two suspects in that shooting met online and exchanged radicalized ideology.

Writings found in a vehicle reportedly used by the suspects described hatred toward various religions, including Islam, and races, police said. (See The Final Call, Vol. 45, No. 34)

“Some people may feel uncertainty about their identity, security, or future,” Mr. Malik wrote. “Unfortunately, such narratives can simplify complex social challenges by attributing them to communities, migrants, or religious groups. Rather than encouraging understanding and constructive solutions, these claims can deepen division, fear, and mistrust.”

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The 2026 U.S. midterms are over, but Americans now face the aftermath of a contentious campaign season. Attack ads in Michigan spent weeks telling voters to fear Abdul El-Sayed’s faith. Black Detroit answered at the ballot box. Mr. El-Sayed is now set to become the first Muslim to serve in the U.S. Senate, and he was not the night’s only first.

In Georgia, former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms will become the first Black woman to serve as governor of any U.S. state. If the incoming House elects him in January, Hakeem Jeffries will become its first Black Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Voters handed Democrats control of both the House and the Senate in the Nov. 3 midterm elections. As of press time, Democrats hold at least 54 Senate seats, including the two independents who caucus with them. Frustration over the cost of living and the war in Iran shaped the vote. Many analysts and observers view the so-called “blue wave” as a rebuke of President Trump and his administration.

When the new Congress convenes in January, Democrats will decide which bills reach the floor. Their committees can also investigate the Trump administration. However, President Trump still holds veto power.

For families already struggling to buy groceries or pay for a doctor’s visit, one question matters most. What can or will Democrat lawmakers actually get done with the power voters just gave them?

Black women on the ballot and a first in Florida

A record 72 Black women appeared on ballots nationwide for Congress, governorships and other statewide offices, Essence reported, citing data from Rutgers University’s Center for American Women and Politics and Higher Heights. Ms. Lance Bottoms’ win in Georgia gave that record its national milestone.

In Washington, D.C., Janeese Lewis George won the race and will become the District’s first new mayor in more than a decade.

In Illinois, Julianna Stratton, the former lieutenant governor, defeated her opponent for U.S. Senate and will become the second Black woman to hold that office.

The night also produced a first in Florida, from the other side of the aisle. The Associated Press called the governor’s race for Republican Byron Donalds, who is set to become Florida’s first Black governor. “I want you to hear from Florida that we are still red,” Mr. Donalds told the crowd on election night. He also thanked President Trump for his support and for “being in my corner.”

Faith on the ballot

In Michigan, campaign attacks went after Senator-elect El- Sayed’s Muslim faith. Student Minister Troy Muhammad of Muhammad Mosque No.1 in Detroit said the frequent commercials he saw dwelled on Mr. El-Sayed’s religion, name called, and gave little attention to his policies.

The Black vote was the test. “I was very interested to see what the Black community in particular would do, and praise be to Allah (God), the Black community came out,” Student Minister Muhammad told The Final Call. “They didn’t allow that anti-Muslim hate to go down.”

He credited relationships the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has built over decades with helping Black Detroiters see past the attacks. “Those relationships that the Minister has established reminded Black people that ‘the Muslims that I know aren’t like that’” he said, referring to the racist stereotypes spewed by El- Sayed’s opponent and from others.

A preliminary survey commissioned by the Council on American-Islamic Relations and CAIR Action widened the lens. Seventy percent of Muslim respondents said rising Islamophobia motivated them to vote. Eighty percent called the economy a major influence on their vote, and 80 percent said the same about what the survey called the genocide in Gaza.

Seventy-six percent cited the U.S.-Israel war on Iran as a major influence. Community Pulse conducted the survey by text from Nov. 2 to 4, gathering responses from 522 self-identified Muslim registered voters.

“Muslims, like our fellow Americans, are fed up with wars that destroy lives abroad while making it harder to feed our families at home,” CAIR and CAIR Action said in a joint statement. The organizations called on Congress to lower costs, improve health care and education, protect civil rights and end U.S. support for Israel’s military actions against Palestinians.

Loyalty at the polls did not mean trust. Among respondents who voted and answered the question about party choice, 80% said they primarily voted for Democrats. Yet 33% said neither party was more responsive to Muslim concerns.

The group also found at least 97 confirmed American Muslim electoral victories at the federal, state, and local levels across 21 states, including 38 state legislative wins.

Another 15 Muslims are leading in races that have not yet been called as of presstime, six Muslim candidates are running in races that are too close to call, and 50 Muslim candidates ran in races they did not win.

“Michigan, we did it. My name is Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, and I am so proud and honored to stand here as your senator-elect from the great state of Michigan. Up until right about now, you might have noticed, I always say ‘Inshallah’ or ‘God-willing’ whenever the outcome of this race was mentioned.

But today, tonight, we can turn that Inshallah into a ‘Alhamdulillah.’ For the right-wing ops, that just means praise be to God,” Senator-elect El-Sayed said during his Nov. 4 victory speech.

Money and the map

The cycle’s biggest donor spent like no one before him and still lost where it counted. Tech billionaire and former Trump administration figure Elon Musk contributed about $474 million to federal and state political groups through mid- October, according to a New York Times analysis of disclosures. That money paid for advertising and voter outreach.

In Texas, voters chose James Talarico for the U.S. Senate despite a costly effort by Musk-funded groups to elect Republican Ken Paxton. In Michigan, Musk’s America PAC spent about $9.2 million on ads supporting Republican Mike Rogers or opposing El-Sayed, according to WIRED. Voters went the other way in both states.

According to MSN, GOP groups spent $46 million on attack ads invoking terrorism, 9/11, and referencing Islam or Muslim groups against the Michigan Democrat. The influential AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) also spent millions backing candidates in both parties.

What can Congress deliver?

“Well, first, we have to be clear on what they are to deliver on,” Student Minister Abdul Arif Muhammad, a member of the Nation of Islam Shura Executive Council and Student General Counsel, told The Final Call. He pointed to many concerns: the price of gas, food, and health insurance, along with demands for accountability and an end to the war in Iran.

Rep. Jeffries gave House Democrats a timetable. “During the first 100 days, House Democrats must act to reverse the Medicaid cuts, restore SNAP funding, extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits … ,” he wrote in his Nov. 4 letter announcing his candidacy for speaker. He also called for eliminating Trump’s tariffs and ending the war in Iran.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said voters had told Democrats about “costs above all, chaos, and corruption.” The two leaders share broad priorities on affordability and accountability. Which House proposals the Senate takes up first remain open.

Atty. Abdul Arif Muhammad raised the question that will matter the moment President Trump rejects a bill. Does Congress have the votes to override him? An override requires two-thirds of those voting in each chamber, with a quorum present. With every member voting, that means 290 votes in the House and 67 in the Senate.

“The numbers tell the story,” he said. “In conclusion I would say what the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said on February 25, 2024, during his Saviours’ Day Message, entitled: ‘What Does Allah The Great Mahdi and The Great Messiah Have To Say About The War in the Middle East?’

Minister Farrakhan said, ‘So go on and vote for who you want to. If I were you, I would vote for God. If I were you, and I am you, I’d vote for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the God that HE represents,’” Atty. Abdul Arif Muhammad stated.

Two Senate races remained uncalled as of Nov. 5. In Mississippi, Democrat Scott Colom and Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde- Smith were separated by a thin margin, with absentee and affidavit ballots still to be processed, The Associated Press reported. If Mr. Colom’s lead holds, he would become Mississippi’s first Black senator since Reconstruction.

In Alaska, Democrat Mary Peltola, Alaska Native/Indigenous, of Yup’ik heritage, held a narrow lead over Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, with ranked-choice tabulation scheduled for mid-November.

Alaska’s governor’s race also remained uncalled, with Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins leading the unofficial first-choice count. Even if Democrats win both seats and reach 56, they would remain 11 votes short of an override in the Senate with all members voting. Before a bill reaches President Trump, most major legislation must clear a separate 60-vote hurdle in the Senate.

Congress can still act without a vetoproof majority. Lawmakers can hold hearings on how the Medicaid cuts affect patients and use spending negotiations to press for relief.

For Black families who rely on Medicaid or SNAP, progress has a plain measure: whether they keep their coverage and get help buying food. A vote shows where lawmakers stand. Restoring benefits takes a bill that becomes law.

D.C. community activist Luci Murphy doubts either party will make the economic changes she believes people need. “But I’m really clear about the Democrats and Republicans being a duopoly,” she told The Final Call. Ms. Murphy praised El- Sayed and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, arguing that the country needs to move away from capitalism.

Her challenge cuts deeper than the fight over votes and vetoes. How much are elected officials willing to change about the conditions that leave families struggling in the first place?

What can communities do now?

Senator-elect Talarico described love of neighbor as an obligation to serve Texans who voted against him as well as those who voted for him. Other winners also spoke about the importance of helping and serving their constituents, not being beholden to their political party but to the people.

Economist Julianne Malveaux was one of many panelists present on the midterm election night show of journalist and media personality Roland Martin. “Voting is the least we can do. After voting, we have to go to our communities and make the changes we need, hold community town halls, and meet with officials,” she said.

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, National Representative of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, speaking in a different context, placed a parallel responsibility on Black people for the places where they live and not relying on politicians or the government to solve our problems.

“We have to make our own community a decent place to live and make it safe and habitable for our people,” Minister Farrakhan said in a January 2016 interview with The Final Call.

He spoke about ending senseless violence, developing education in Black communities and preparing people for self-governance. His charge puts the work of building safer communities in the hands of the people who live in them.

That work does not wait on Washington. It can go on while residents press their representatives to act on the local, state or national level. A family facing the loss of Medicaid can bring its story to a district office or a town hall. Neighbors can help one another navigate benefits and organize around the conditions they want changed on their own blocks.

When the new Congress convenes in January, voters will hold specific promises in hand. They can measure those promises against the bills their representatives introduce, the votes they cast, and the relief that actually reaches their communities.

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In the Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.

Riz Khan (RK): Hello and welcome. Tensions are rising and divisions growing, but what is fueling hostility to Muslims in America? A new survey reveals that 40 percent of people in the U.S. have a negative perception of Muslims something that’s being highlighted in the media by the latest controversies.

The pastor of a small church in Gainesville, Florida threatened to burn copies of the Qur’an on September the 11th as a message to, quote: “radical Muslims.” Pastor Terry Jones did eventually back down after intense global pressure, including an appeal from the U.S. President Barack Obama.

But copies of the Qur’an were desecrated in Tennessee and New York City, where another issue is dividing the population:

Tensions remain high over the proposal to build an Islamic center in Manhattan near the site of the 9/11 attacks by Muslim extremists nine years ago. So today we ask: “Is there an organized effort to fan the flames of ‘Islamophobia’ in the United States?”

Joining me from Chicago is Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam; a controversial sect for the Muslim faith in the United States. Minister Farrakhan, I welcome you to the show. It’s good to speak with you again, sir.

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan (HMLF): Thank you. It’s a pleasure and honor to be with you again.

RK: I have to start by asking, sir: What sort of reaction has there been among the Muslims you know, and members of the Nation of Islam as well, to these incidents; especially the Qur’an burning over the weekends? Has there been an effort to reach out to non-Muslims to promote better understanding rather than perhaps react in anger?

HMLF: Yes, there has been. We had a press conference at the National Press Club, where a coalition of African American Muslims came together to dialogue and allow our voices to be heard in this very serious time of increasing anger, fear and hatred of the presence of Islam in America.

If I might say, Brother Riz: We have been in America—the Nation of Islam—now for 80 years. And in the beginning of our journey toward Islam in the ‘30s, we were persecuted because our names were changed from our former slave names to Islamic names.

And our women who changed their form of dress, and covered their hair and their bodies, were mocked and scorned as they walked the streets of Detroit and Chicago. This mainly was the followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and Fard Muhammad, who is the Founder of the Nation of Islam.

In 1941, when Japan attacked the United States of America, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was arrested; sent to prison. Not because he was a “criminal,” but America, the president of the United States, did not want him on the streets of America preaching Islam during a time that America was prosecuting a war.

The early Muslims who set up the University of Islam were arrested because we took our children out of the public schools, and put them in an Islamic school to be taught by their own teachers.

RK: What the interesting thing about what’s been going on recently is I know there have been comparisons made about the burning of the Qur’an with what many see in the media from overseas, and some other Muslim countries where there are people burning the American flag. And I wonder if there’s anything to even equate the two?

HMLF: No, there’s not. But, in finishing that point: We have suffered in America because we wanted to practice Islam.

You know that Muhammad Ali was called “Cassius Clay.” And when his name was changed to “Muhammad Ali,” although he was loved in the Muslim world, he was hated for his change of name.

Now you can look at basketball games, football games, and you can see the names of Allah on the jersey of many Black American athletes. And there is no persecution for them, but we suffered that.

Now, since 9/11: Yes, the flames of hatred for Islam are being fanned. And even though we have a Black president, who has spoken out very forcefully, that America will not go to war with Islam; that it is not Islam that is the problem, it is those who are fanatic in their zeal, supposedly for Islam, that America sees, and the Islamic world sees, as the problem.

But under President Barack Obama, there’s the FBI that have been planting agents in mosques around the country, stimulating those who are hateful of Israel, hateful of Jewish people; inspiring them to acts of terror. And then capturing them, and putting that on the television as though this is the “norm” in mosques throughout this country.

RK: Sir, I’ll put an email about that issue of the media that we got in from Louisiana in the U.S.A. here. “Amy Luna” wrote in, saying, “I believe the U.S. mainstream media holds some responsibility in the Qur’an burning issue as this is the type of story that brings ratings.”

Now, of course, the media has been blamed for giving too much attention to that Qur’an burning proposal by Pastor Terry Jones. And I wonder, even though he did back down after some high-level intervention, how much do you feel the media played a part in this?

HMLF: Well, first of all, the gentleman, or, the pastor is a non-descript person that did not deserve the media attention that he received. So, when the media catapulted this man’s thinking of burning Qur’ans to the entire world, this is provoking an Islamic reaction because of our deep love and devotion for Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.

Our deep love and devotion for this book, Qur’an: That raised the Arabs from a state of ignominy to eminence; and Muslims ruled the known world from the 7th to the 11th century based on the wisdom of this Qur’an.

And this Qur’an is what sparked the Renaissance in Europe. So, to burn a book that has meant so much to so many is an act of sacrilege. That, of course, would stimulate and provoke serious reaction in the Islamic world.

RK: Now, of course, Pastor Terry Jones, as you say, wasn’t known at all before this incident. You, yourself, have always been in the media for a long time; you’re often a controversial figure to many. And I wonder how much pressure there’s been on you not to say too much; to keep a low profile in order perhaps not to inflame either side?

HMLF: Well, it’s time for Muslims, especially African American Muslims, to make our voices heard.

Many of our Muslim brothers and sisters who are immigrant Muslims may be somewhat timid, because they have a “Green Card,” and they’ve been spied on by the FBI, and they don’t want to be deported. They have been good, upstanding American citizens.

We were born here! We live here! We’ve suffered here! We’ve bled here! We’ve died here! So, it is our time, now, to speak up for the hurt and the pain of the Islamic community. But I would say, Riz, to all Muslims: Don’t overreact, because, to harm people; because in their ignorance they burned a book that they may never have read, I caution you the 48th Surah of the Qur’an is called “The Victory.”

And what made it a victory? Because, at Hudaibiya, three miles from Mecca, when the Prophet and his Companions were trying to go to Mecca, an Accord was struck with the members of the Quraish who ruled Mecca;

And on that piece of paper it said “Muhammad ibn Abdullah, Messenger of Allah.” And, the members of the Quraish said, “If we had believed that you were in fact the Messenger of God, we never would have attacked you, so strike that from the Accord.”

None of the Companions would strike his title from the Accord, so the Prophet himself took the Accord, and struck the title “Messenger of Allah” from that Accord. Why? Because he’s the Messenger of God whether it is on paper, or not, Allah is a Witness!

So you can burn the Qur’an, but you cannot burn the zeal that the Qur’an has burned into the hearts of 1.6 billion Muslims around the Earth. And all it did was give the Muslims a victory; and when you burn our Holy Book, more Americans who don’t know anything about the Qur’an, want to know, “What’s in this book? Let me study this book.”

So, in the end, we’re the winner.

RK: “Guilty until proven innocent”—that appears to be the plight of millions of Muslims living in the United States. Many say they’ve been living under constant suspicion since the attacks of 9/11 which were carried out by Arab Muslim men. So, what can the Islamic community in the U.S. do to reach out to Americans of other faiths?

Minister, one of the issues that’s been ongoing is the Park 51 Islamic Center that’s being proposed for to be built very close to the Ground Zero location in New York City. We had an email from a viewer in Israel, if I can put this to you, sir. From

“Karina Robbins-Bronstein,” who wrote in saying: “What would Muslims do if, in Saudi Arabia, if a church was to be built next to the site of an attack carried out by a Westerner?

There is very little tolerance in Arab countries for other religions.” Now, how valid do you think that is as a point about the lack of tolerance there is in some Muslim countries to other religions?

HMLF: Maybe in some, but I was in Iraq while Saddam Hussein was its president. And I visited Shiite mosques, I visited Sunni mosques. There [were] Christian churches that I didn’t visit, but I saw; and there were Jewish synagogues. And there never was violence between Christians and Jews and various Islamic sects.

There have been Jews and Muslims and Christians living together in the Middle East for hundreds of years, and they have not killed each other. But this is a recent phenomenon by Europeans who accepted Judaism, and then used their view of this Holy Land as theirs.

And since in [19]48, the United Nations, mainly European countries—with only Ethiopia representing the Black Africa—giving Israel a home in Palestine. So now you have Europeans coming into Palestine, who are not Semitic—they are “Europeans.” And in Israel, they are persecuting the Semitic Jews who have been there for thousands of years, and they’re persecuting the Falasha, the Ethiopian Jews.

And in fact, just about a month ago I read where some European Jews did not even want darker-skinned Jews to go to school with them. This is not “Judaism,” this is racism masquerading under the name of Judaism!

RK: Minister, a caller from Saudi Arabia; “Omar” is on the line.

Omar: Sir, as an American working, or being in Saudi Arabia, what can I do to improve relations between our people and the Muslim world?

HMLF: You know, dear brother, our people are going through what the Arabs went through prior to the advent of the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him.

We are in a state of jahiliyya: We are in a state of mass ignorance. And as the Bible teaches, “My people are destroyed”—not because they’re Black, but they’re destroyed “for the lack of knowledge.” So the more we improve our growth in knowledge; and as you know, the first words that the Holy Prophet heard [were] Iqra—“Read.”

And when reading becomes the standard in America, we’ll grow from being the ugliness of a clot to the beauty of an embryo and a fetus, ready to be embraced by the entire world.

It’s our growth, and our development; and the banishment of ignorance from our words and our deeds that will make us accepted and acceptable among the civilized nations of the Earth.

RK: Let me get your view on the issue of the Islamic Center near Ground Zero; the Park 51 issue. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf had this comment to make about the way that the situation has been handled.

“The events of the past few weeks have truly saddened me to my very core. I regret that some have misunderstood our intentions. I’m deeply distressed that in this heated political season some have exploited this issue for their own agendas. And I’m deeply disappointed that so many of the arguments have been based on deliberate misinformation and harmful stereotypes.”

—Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf during a Sept. 13, 2010, press conference held at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York

RK: Minister Farrakhan, I wonder to what degree you feel what the imam is saying there reflects what’s happening in the U.S. to some degree with the midterm elections coming up. And how much, I guess, Muslims are caught in the middle of this political wrangling that’s occurring.

HMLF: I agree with Imam Rauf. I think he handled himself magnificently on CNN. He has shown that he is a Muslim. He is “Moderate”; he’s seeking peace between Jews and Christians and others, and he has every right to build a cultural center where they have that building.

And he has every right to feel that the constitutional guarantees of “freedom of religion” and “freedom of assembly” should prevail over the sensitivity of people who lost lives.

Muslims lost their lives! Christians, Jews, people from all over the world lost their lives in that tragic event! So, it should not be that Islam is held hostage for the acts of some who are claimed to be Muslims.

I put this before the world: Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader of Afghanistan, said to President George W. Bush while Osama Bin Laden was living in Afghanistan; he said, “Show me the proof that this man is guilty of this heinous act, and I will turn him over to you.”

What proof have we heard from these wicked deceivers that in fact it was Osama Bin Laden?!

As a Muslim, we should force them to show us the proof!!

RK: I’m sorry to have to stop you.

There’s so much more I’d like to discuss, but we’re out of time. Minister Farrakhan, thank you very much for being on the show.

HMLF: We are out of time?

RK: Yes sir. I’m sorry.

HMLF: The world is too. Thank you.

RK: Thank you for being with us.

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Nevada Pierre fell in love with soccer at one year old. His father, Don Pierre, continued to nurture that love. “Soccer is more than an activity for him. It is something that brings him joy and excitement and gives him a chance to learn and be part of a team,” Nevada’s mother, Martasia Griffin, said on a GoFundMe page launched to support the now-three-year-old’s soccer journey.

Dressed in his red, white and blue soccer outfit, the young, gifted Black soccer player watched from a distance as his parents spoke to police officers on Oct. 24.

“At just three years old, Nevada could not understand why he was being taken away from a game he loved. What should have been a happy childhood moment became heartbreaking and distressing for him and deeply painful for our family to witness,” Ms. Griffin said on the GoFundMe page, which at presstime had raised more than $66,000.

What started as an alleged dispute between the parents and a soccer league director, who is also Black, has ended with the preschooler becoming a viral sensation, touching the hearts of professional soccer players, celebrities and supporters around the world.

On Oct. 24, the i9 Sports soccer league director in Winter Park, Florida, called police to report an alleged disturbance involving Nevada’s parents during a youth soccer game, according to body camera footage released by the Winter Park Police Department.

The police department published a press release following the incident, which reads: “The Winter Park Police Department was contacted by a soccer league official who requested response to a disturbance between league officials and the parents of a player.

The league requested the family leave and offered to refund the league cost to family. Shortly after arrival, the officers were requested by the league official to communicate with the family as he did not want to further a disturbance. The family stated the game was over and they were leaving.

The family was cooperative with the officers and were provided with an event number for the incident at their request. The incident was a civil matter between those parties and not criminal. No one was arrested, trespassed, or forced to leave the park.”

To police, the soccer league director acknowledged Nevada’s skill, saying he’s “very advanced,” but he said the preschooler “pushes” other children to score goals. Online videos reviewed by The Final Call do not show Nevada pushing other children.

The league director also told police that Nevada’s parents had previously objected when he substituted their son to give other children an opportunity to play. After speaking to the parents, one of the police officers commented: “I want to see him play. I bet he’s good.” The other responded: “I know. He’s gotta be better than me.”

Nevada’s parents maintained that police were called because their son was too good at soccer. “They’re mad at my son because he actually plays soccer,” Ms. Griffin, Nevada’s mother, told the police.

“I signed my kid up for soccer, so they’re literally kicking him out of this place because he’s good at soccer.” She added: “First they said he’s not passing, but nobody is catching the ball when he’s passing.”

Nevada’s father, Don Pierre, who filmed the interaction, also weighed in. “They called the police on a three-year-old because he’s too good. They called the police on a three-year-old because he had the ball for too long, and nobody else could get the ball,” he said.

In a video of the Oct. 24 game, posted to the Instagram account @nevadaney10, other parents can be heard on the sidelines saying, “Pass it, pass it, pass it.” Another video posted after the incident shows Nevada successfully passing the ball to older players, with his father encouraging him, “Beautiful pass!”

In an emailed statement to The Final Call, a representative for i9 Sports said the company reviewed what happened and said the 911 call “was not related to the child.”

“The family asked for a refund. It was processed immediately, and confirmation was sent to the family on October 24. Following the incident, the league asked the adults involved not to continue as participants in the program,” the statement said.

But the parents’ removal from the program only highlighted Nevada’s gift on the field, which has been featured in videos posted to the Instagram account @nevadaney10. In the account’s first video, a two-year-old Nevada is shown scoring against a five-year-old.

Now, former U.S. men’s national soccer team player Eddie Johnson plans to train Nevada at his EJE7 Soccer Academy in Orlando, Florida. The incident also prompted Mr. Johnson to reflect on his own experiences in professional soccer. In one comment on Instagram, he shared how others attempt to diminish the gift God gives.

“This is sad and shouldn’t be tolerated at all in youth sports. Coaches and parents jealous bc this little Haitian kid is better than all their kids is crazy. Don’t worry nephew we gotta spot for you in the lab soon. A safe place where you can be you and enjoy the gift [God] has blessed you with,” he said.

Nevada’s father is reportedly Haitian, with roots in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

In an Oct. 27 post, Mr. Johnson shared that Nevada’s father brought his son to him a year ago, when he was two. He allowed Nevada to train but asked Mr. Pierre to let him develop further and then bring him back.

He further expressed that Nevada’s situation brought to light “a lot of the things that still exist in youth soccer in this country. Entitlement, Jealousy, Envy, Nepotism, Gatekeeping and profiling especially against people of color.”

Mr. Johnson also posted a video showcasing Nevada’s ability. He issued the following commands: “Right scissors, left scissors, push with your right, control with your right, push with your left, control with your left, push with your right, stop with your right.” Nevada listened and executed.

“It’s not even about control. It’s the comprehending,” Mr. Johnson said in the video. “I’m giving instructions and he’s being able to process it … with everything going on. That’s deep.” He described Nevada as a “star in the making.”

According to World Atlas, soccer, or fútbol (also known as association football), is the most popular sport in the world, with 3.5 billion fans. It is highly popular in Africa, Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Nevada has also gained the support of Roc Nation Sports, the sports division of Roc Nation, founded by rapper, businessman and record executive Jay-Z. The company posted on Instagram, “Nevada, you’re a shining star! We support you and your amazing talents. Keep being great.”

Loren LoRosa of The Breakfast Club reported on X that she was told Roc Nation Sports plans to send Nevada to Spain in December. She said Nevada’s family “has openly discussed moving to Spain previously because this is where he can really immerse himself into the sport.” Roc Nation has not independently confirmed the travel plans.

Brazilian soccer star Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior appeared in a video message addressed to Nevada, encouraging him to continue playing soccer despite criticism.

“Hello Nevada, Neymar speaking. I want to send you a hug,” he said, according to the video’s translated captions. “I’d like to continue to motivate you to keep playing football, no matter what the people say. If they say that you can’t do this or that, keep your head at ease. Because this is football. It’s joy.”

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Anisah Muhammad — Staff Writer

“The So-Called Negro Must Do Something for Himself.”

That is a chapter title in the book, “Message to the Blackman in America,” by the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Eternal Leader of the Nation of Islam. On page 61, He writes, “There is no need for us, millions through the country, spending our money for the joy and happiness of others.

As a result, as soon as they throw us out of a job we are back at their doors begging for bread and soup.” The Honorable Elijah Muhammad questions, “Should we not sell our people everything they want or need?”

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, National Representative of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, has, like his teacher, constantly taught on the importance of Black people spending their money in Black businesses.

“It appears that integration has only meant the surrendering of our dollars to others so that they can enhance their lives while our businesses close and our problems remain unattended.

We must look like a very foolish people in the eyes of others who nurse themselves to economic strength on our earnings and then abandon us and ridicule us as they advance and leave us further behind,” Minister Farrakhan said in an article published in The Final Call, titled,

“Rethink the Old Slavemaster-Slave Relationship.”

“We need to turn constructively inward, pool our resources intellectually and financially, and begin to build a future for ourselves and our children. We must patronize ourselves, as others patronize themselves. This is the way to build a viable economy and earn the respect of self and others,” Minister Farrakhan said.

Today, there are more than 4.5 million Black businesses in the U.S., according to the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public policy organization and think tank. But what is the state of Black businesses as 2026 comes to a close?

“It’s growing. I think Black businesses and Black economics are actually growing. There’s more opportunities and more education given out there for Black businesses,” restaurateur Sister Nahla Muhammad, founder and owner of Let’s Eat to Live restaurant in Chicago, said to The Final Call.

As an example, she pointed to FoodLab Chicago, a program where Black restaurant owners can get trained on finances, budgeting, how to run their business, menu engineering, how to do inventory and the best point-of-sale systems.

Most Black businesses are owner-operated firms without employees. According to the latest available 2023 Census data, Black-owned firms accounted for 14.4% of nonemployer businesses.

Approximately 201,000 Black-owned businesses are employer firms with at least one employee other than the owner, according to a U.S. Census Bureau infographic published in February. The businesses employed approximately 1.9 million people and paid nearly $70 billion in annual payroll.

Researchers with the Brookings Institution looked more closely at those numbers. They found that Black-owned employer businesses grew by 62% from 2017 to 2023. Yet Black-owned firms accounted for just 3.4% of employer businesses in 2023, while Black people represented 13.5% of the U.S. population, according to the Census Bureau.

Dr. Ken Harris, president and chief executive officer of the National Business League, founded by Booker T. Washington in 1900 to promote economic sovereignty and self-reliance among Black people, said to The Final Call that while Black businesses have expanded significantly, Black economic sovereignty has not grown at the same pace.

The challenges

Black businesses often face a litany of challenges that are exacerbated by systemic anti-Black racism. Those challenges include lack of access to capital, unequal lending outcomes, inflation, tariffs, operating expenses, low profitability, and difficulty attracting customers.

In a June 2025 research report on “How Racial Disparities in Small Business Ownership Affect Black Wealth and Economic Prosperity,” the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research organization, shared, “Racial inequalities prevail at each stage of business outcomes, however, contributing to the lack of wealth among Black individuals and communities.

Black individuals are less likely to form businesses, and the businesses they do form tend to be smaller in terms of size and commercial activity. In addition, Black families are less likely to hold any business equity.”

The National Bankers Association, an organization representing non-White-owned and women-owned financial institutions, analyzed findings from the Federal Reserve’s 2026 Small Business Credit Survey report on employer firms. The data further illustrated the significant financial strain Black-owned firms are experiencing.

The National Bankers Association highlighted key findings from the report: 34% of Black-owned firms rated their condition as poor, and 42% rated it as fair; 47% reported operating at a loss; and 50% cited credit availability as a financial challenge.

Many large banks are not lending Black applicants the money they request. The National Bankers Association pointed out that “at large banks, only 16% of Black applicants received the full amount they sought, compared to 48% of White applicants. And nearly half (48%) of Black applicants at large banks received nothing at all.”

Between 1888 and 1934, 134 Black-owned banks were established in the United States, according to a Library of Congress resource guide. As of June 2026, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation recognized only 24 federally insured Black-owned banks.

Those interviewed by The Final Call agreed that access to capital is one of the major challenges Black business owners face.

“Black businesses are starting to get some level of traction, but there needs to be a lot more work done. I think the biggest issue is the same: lack of access to capital and the lack of us as business providers to be able to work with one another to control our vertical aspect of business,” said Chicago-based entrepreneur and businessman Brother Abdul Akbar Muhammad.

“That is, if we’re in the restaurant business, some of our counterparts, such as the Arabs or the immigrants, they control the supply side because they have their own farms, the butcher shops, and all the way from farm to table,” he added.

Dr. Harris pointed out the need for Black businesses to scale. For him, simply owning a business is not enough. “If it doesn’t equal freedom or liberation but, most importantly, sovereignty, then why are we doing it?” he questioned.

“We have to move into true ownership because as of 2026, … post the signing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, 62 years later, we find ourselves basically at the bottom of the economic spectrum in just about every single economic quality of life indicator,” he added.

He advised against being “solo entrepreneurs” and painted a picture of the landscape Black businesses exist in.

“Companies have dropped their supplier diversity programs, so we’re going to have to find new ways to position our businesses to be able to get contracts with major companies or small businesses that are purchasing in the community,” he said. “We have to create working capital, collateral, creditworthiness, cash flow management. Those all remain central constraints on Black-owned businesses.”

Dr. Harris also noted the importance of Black business owners owning and controlling their own data. “Would you rather have someone else controlling your infrastructure and information and data, or should our community control that information, especially when it comes to our personal information, fees, customer data, cybersecurity, platform dependency, etc.?” he said.

The power of the Black consumer

On page 174 of “Message to the Blackman in America,” in a chapter titled “An Economic Blueprint,” the Honorable Elijah Muhammad lists five points for Black people to follow:

One, “recognize the necessity for unity and group operation (activities)” two, “pool your resources, physically as well as financially”; three, “stop wanton criticisms of everything that is Black-owned and Black-operated”; four, “keep in mind, jealousy destroys from within,”

And five, “Observe the operations of the White man. He is successful. He makes no excuses for his failures. He works hard in a collective manner. You do the same.”

“Without the Black consumer, we have no real business,” Brother Abdul Akbar said. He added that Black people need to work through envy, jealousy and backbiting and “realize that without us being able to rely on one another, we won’t be able to advance.”

“I can go pretty fast, but we can go far as a whole. We can go far, and I witnessed that. I put together a distributorship. I can buy it directly from the manufacturer, and I didn’t do it by myself. It was a group of us that helped pull it all together.

So, it’s just a necessity for us to realize the importance of self-reliance, and the self that I’m speaking about is not just the individual. Us as a whole is the self,” Brother Abdul Akbar said.

Black buying power was projected to reach $2.1 trillion this year, according to Nielsen. For Dr. Harris, circulating those dollars with Black businesses is critical. He recommended organizations create online shopping directories of businesses in their neighborhoods to bolster community support.

“It needs to become more of a culture for us to be able to support our own as a first, as opposed to it being a last option,” Dr. Harris said. He challenged Black people: if just a percentage spent $100, $200, $500 or $1,000 on a particular day to support local Black-owned businesses, “could you imagine what that impact would be financially?”

“Let’s get proud about promoting how much money we spend with Black businesses, how many referrals we make, and from a corporate procurement standpoint, supporting companies that support us,” he said. “Why are we going to spend money with companies that don’t support Black-owned businesses?”

The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad raised a poignant point. “You, the Black man, are the only members of the human race that deliberately walk past the place of business of one of your own kind—a Black man—and spend your dollars with your natural enemy. The so-called American Negro has never in the history of America been known to boycott or criticize the White man as he does his own kind.

He thus shows love for his enemy and hatred for his own kind,” he wrote in the chapter, “An Economic Blueprint.”

“We cannot demand economic power while overlooking the businesses that are in our communities and we don’t support those businesses. Shame on us,” Dr. Harris said.

The take-home message

Brother Abdul Akbar left the following message to Black business owners and consumers: “We as a people have to realize that we are all we got. … We have to realize that now is our time to be able to do it because others are pulling out.

And that’s the message for the Black consumer and the message for the entrepreneur. We have to be able to work together, and if we can’t, we will definitely suffer major consequences.”

Dr. Harris’ message? “Let’s take it back to the basics. Booker T. Washington had it right,” he said. “To Black business owners: Stop thinking small. Build institutions, not just businesses.

Compete for contracts, create jobs, own technology, control your supply chain and build enterprises that can survive beyond your lifetime and can be transferable to your children and grandchildren’s children.

To Black consumers: Your dollar is your economic vote. Every purchase is a decision of how a business grows, whose employees get paid and whose children inherit the wealth.”

He concluded: “Follow the sage words of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, as he has preached for his entire life ownership and economic independence as a people, and I think his leadership has gotten us this far. But he has also provided us with a vision for the future.”

Minister Farrakhan has continued his teacher’s warning: “Do for self or suffer the consequences.”

“The Honorable Elijah Muhammad lifted up a mighty example of doing for self for the Black man of America. Many said the Muslims operated mom-and-pop stores and made mockery of our humble beginnings. However, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad lifted up a light for all to see.

He was not working with the best minds in the country, but with those that society labeled as social misfits, the outcasts and the prisoners,” Minister Farrakhan said in an article published in The Final Call, titled, “The Key to Success: Do For Self.”

“There were very few people who worked with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad who were highly trained and highly learned. Yet, he showed us how to pool our resources, go to the earth and farm, thereby giving us the ability to do that which would one day enable us to be independent and gain the respect of the civilized people of the world,” he added.

He concluded the article with the words: “No one respects a beggar, and up until now we are beggars for a job, clothing, and education from the White man. No, Black man, the time has now arrived where you must beg no man. You must get up and do it for yourself.”

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According to the Rand Corporation, in a statement published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, “one-fourth of hospital days, one-fourth of procedures, and two-fifths of medications could be done without [at that time].”

I want you to think about this. Because it should be no secret that when there’s a profit to be made, regardless to its adverse effects on human life, there are always those who will choose wealth over the health of the American people.

Medical care is big business. Three quarters of a trillion dollars [now $4.3 trillion], or 12% [now 18%] of the gross national product of this country is spent on health care expenditures.

In many respects America has become a pill society. Billions are spent each year on over-the-counter drugs. Americans spend $1.5 billion [now $24.5 billion] a year on cholesterol-lowering drugs instead of eating properly. Merchants of death have a vested interest in keeping you ignorant and perpetually sick.

Over $160 billion [now over $237 billion] is spent each year on cancer and heart disease treatments, and there is no guarantee that with surgery or with another of the various forms of treatment you’ll be free of the disease.

Treatments, including surgery, tend to further traumatize the body and depress the body’s immunological systems. For example, one of the treatments of cancer is chemotherapy.

Chemotherapy is literally germ warfare on the body. The treatment is a by-product of WW II chemical and biological warfare research. Chemotherapy works by attacking cells within the body, killing normal cells in its efforts to kill the cancerous cells.

The result is a weakened body with no guarantee that you are cured of cancer. I am only pointing out the disadvantages of current treatments. I am not suggesting that you should not take the treatments prescribed by your doctor when your cancer or disease has progressed so far along that surgery or chemotherapy is the only option available.

The food industry is a $400 billion industry [now an estimated $1.5 trillion], based on promoting death-dealing overly processed foods. America’s diet of three meals a day with three snacks in between each meal is unhealthy. It is unhealthy because it consists largely of fast food and food that is overly processed in America’s food factories.

The foods get defibered, degerminated, defatted, refatted, and manipulated in countless ways other than how food is intended for us to eat. It’s no coincidence that the first heart attack reported in America was in 1896, the same time our diets began changing from a ruralbased local supply of food to the national food supply chains of highly processed foods.

It is now being proven by scientists that what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught on how to eat to live—one meal a day, no snacks in between meals, and to eat only the best foods—is absolutely correct and good for the body.

By our not having the knowledge of chemistry, we do not understand the effects from how the food industry injects hormones into chickens, beef, lamb and pork to fatten these animals up to get them to the market quicker to make a quicker dollar.

We do not understand that as we ingest these meats, our bodies react to the hormones. As a result, our girls, at 9, are developing breasts and having their menses. Our young men are prematurely developing sexually.

These hormones stimulate sexual development. When you add this to the degenerative kind of display of nakedness and filth in movies, television, songs, books and magazines, no wonder teenage sex and teenage pregnancy and teenage violence is greater now than it ever was.

This is a vicious circle of death dealing for the sake of profit. And who is the loser? The American people, especially Black people and particularly Black men.

How do we break this vicious cycle? How do we get out of this cycle of death? First, we must go back to Him who gave us the gift of life and Who is the Best Knower of how to protect, develop and properly care for and nurture the life that He has given. And that is Allah (God), the Creator Himself.

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This article was originally published by the Defender—Childrens Health Defense News & Views Website, October 30, 2026.

The number of U.S. death certificates listing Y59.0, the code for a death caused by a viral vaccine, rose from fewer than 10 per year through 2020, to 198 in 2021, the year COVID-19 vaccines rolled out, according to a new analysis of CDC data by the research group CORRELATION.

Researchers said the significant increase in certified vaccine deaths starting in 2021 is “unprecedented,” at least since 1968, and constitutes “a robust safety signal for COVID-19 vaccines.”

“Our results show that exceptional and brave attending physicians reported COVID-19 vaccine-caused deaths on the death certificates that they were legally mandated to complete, despite the large professional, institutional and political bias against doing so.

And that these deathcertificate results constitute a significant safety signal unprecedented since at least 1968,” Denis Rancourt, Ph.D., lead author of the analysis, told The Defender.

He added: “There is no justification for a claim that the COVID-19 vaccines are ‘safe,’ since they caused certified deaths, beyond any previous levels for any vaccine type. The side effect of death must be mentioned when informing patients. There is a definite low-er-bound risk of death that cannot be argued away by health agencies.”

Death certificate codes suggest COVID vaccines killed elderly

The authors of the analysis examined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s WONDER public health information data, which track mortality and other statistics. They focused on codes used on death certificates to identify a cause, or causes of death.

Standardized medical codes are used globally by healthcare professionals to classify patient diseases and medical conditions. The codes can be used to track and monitor illnesses and causes of death, and for research.

The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision (ICD-10) contains the most up-to-date codes.

The authors of the analysis specifically searched for how often the Y59.0 code—the code for death from a viral vaccine—appeared on death certificates.

There is no specific code for the COVID-19 vaccine—or yet for COVID-19 vaccine injuries. Distinct codes do exist for some bacterial vaccines, including plague, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, among others, but viral vaccines, including flu, all share Y59.0 code.

As the researchers sifted through the data for death certificates that list the Y59.0 code, they found that Y59.0 deaths were near zero from 1999 through 2020—fewer than 10 per year and zero reported in most months.

Deaths from all vaccine types never exceeded 10 reported per year from 1968 through 2020.

However, in 2021, use of the Y59.0 code peaked. For that year, the researchers identified 66 deaths where a viral vaccine was designated as the underlying cause of death, and 198 reports listing a viral vaccine as one of the causes of death on the death certificate.

Roughly half of the people assigned the code were 75 years old or older, and essentially all of them were 65 or over.

The authors suggested that given the massive rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine starting in January 2021, their interpretation of the ICD-10 Y59.0 deaths as being related to COVID-19 vaccines is justified.

The authors also compared the number of deaths on death certificates with the roughly 4,400 deaths from the CO- VID-19 vaccine reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) in January-May 2021. They argue that the gap is likely due to underreporting of death reports and to institutional bias that likely drives that underreporting.

They also suggested that a rapid surveillance system focused on death codes would have immediately identified a robust safety signal for death among elderly people who got the COVID-19 vaccines.

They recommended developing such a system for all “institutionally imposed new medical interventions” that haven’t undergone rigorous safety testing.

This article was originally published by the Defender—Childrens Health Defense News & Views Website under Creative Commons license CC BYNCND 4.0.

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The street renaming ceremony was more than a civic recognition, which took place on October 31 at the corner of West 2nd Street and Liberty Street.

It was a public acknowledgment of a life spent as a student in the Teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, a helper in the rebuilding work of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and in the service of Black people.

As family members, city leaders, believers, and longtime residents gathered beneath the new street sign, one theme emerged repeatedly: Plainfield would not be what it is today without the work and sacrifice of Minister Abdul Karriem Muhammad.

After decades of service, Minister Karriem returned to Allah (God) on May 17, 2025, at the age of 87.

One of his grandsons, Al-Lateef Farmer, opened the ceremony by welcoming guests and thanking his grandmother, Rosemary Cathcart, for sharing her husband with the broader community.

Re-flecting on returning home after more than two decades away, he said, “Never did I think I would ride down Second Street and not see my grandfather in the driveway.”

Fighting back emotion, he described the enormous role his grandfather played in both family and community life. “On those shoulders, he raised a family. He helped raise a Nation. He carried this city, and we all stand on it,” he said.

His words captured what many in attendance already knew. Minister Abdul Karriem Muhammad was not simply a community servant. He was a Nation builder whose influence extended far beyond the boundaries of Plainfield.

His journey began decades ago when, as a young man, he encountered Minister Malcolm X and accepted the Teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

That decision would define the rest of his life. Brother Wakeel Allah, who helped champion the street-renaming effort, re-minded attendees that Minister Karriem became a stabilizing force during some of Plainfield’s most turbulent moments, particularly during the unrest that shook the city.

After helping restore peace, he continued pressing elected officials to invest in neglected Black neighborhoods and youth programs. “This brother was always here for us,” Bro. Wakeel said, adding, “So we want to be here for him.”

Among the most moving testimonies came from Bro. Norman Deen Muhammad, who joined the Nation of Islam during the rebuilding efforts in the late 1970s under the leadership of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.

“I’m one of the first brothers he (Min. Karriem) brought into the Nation during the rebuilding process in the late ‘70s, right here at 446 West 2nd Street,” Bro. Norman recalled. “Brother Karriem started with a handful of people, but Minister Farrakhan gave him his mission, and he took offfrom there.”

He described the street renaming as more than a local honor. For many believers in attendance, the street sign stands as recognition not only of one man, but of an entire generation of Nation of Islam laborers who helped Minister Farrakhan to rebuild the Nation after 1977.

Min. Karriem’s granddaughter, Sister Nadiyah Spencer, highlighted her grandfather’s deep love and loyalty for the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. She recalled the moment Minister Farrakhan arrived in Plainfield in 1977 without a large group of people or security detail.

“He (Min. Karriem) told him, ‘I will help you, brother,’ and he meant it,” she said.

From that point forward, Min. Abdul Karriem Muhammad became one of Minister Farrakhan’s trusted aides, later serving as East Coast Regional Minister and minister of Mosque No. 80 in Plainfield, N.J.

According to Sis. Nadiyah, her grandfather’s greatest accomplishment was not organizational titles or public recognition. “What he did most was make boys into men,” she said. “He made sure we knew, as Black people, our strength, our capabilities, our beauty.”

Those words echoed throughout the ceremony as speaker after speaker credited him with helping shape their character, discipline, and understanding of self.

Bro. Joshua Muhammad, who led the effort to secure the street renaming, spoke about Min. Karriem’s unwavering devotion to the mission of the Nation of Islam.

“He absolutely loved the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan,” Bro. Joshua said to The Final Call. “We spent his last birthday with him, and he kept asking about our Minister. We felt it was befitting to honor him for his work with the Nation and in this city.”

Bro. Joshua and his wife spent nearly two years organizing support and gathering residents’ signatures. “We got over a thousand signatures and presented it for approval,” he explained. “The city council saw the value in honoring someone from the hometown,” he said.

Linward Cathcart Jr. reminded attendees why so many residents rallied behind the proposal. He spoke on watching his father’s community involvement since he was a child.

Mayor Adrian Mapp acknowledged the enormous scope of Minister Karriem’s influence.

“There’s no doubt about the contributions that the late Minister Karriem made to this city, this state, and this nation,” the mayor said. Mayor Mapp reminded attendees that there was a time when Black residents could not freely walk through their own neighborhoods without harassment.

“Because of people like Linwood Cathcart, this city has been transformed.”

Assemblywoman Linda Carter thanked the family for sharing him with the wider community.

“He continued to fight all of these years to make sure that we had what we needed to be successful,” she said.

City Council President Julienne Cherry praised Min. Karriem’s commitment to youth development and community uplift. “His life gives us a powerful example of true commitment,” she said.

Student Minister Michael Muhammad, representing Mosque No. 80 in Plainfield, said, “They say a man is known by his works, just as a tree is known by the fruit it bears. Having a street named after a man is one thing. But it is something greater for a community to take him as an example and strive to live by his principles.”

Scholar and community activist Imam Qasim Amin Nathari traveled from Newark to witness the occasion. “This man did tremendous work, not just in Plainfield, but throughout the East Coast and the country, especially during the rebuilding of the Nation of Islam,” he said to The Final Call.

For granddaughter Nadiyah Spencer, the honor carried special historical signifi cance. In comments to The Final Call, she said, “My grandfather brought me out today. What an honor, to have a street named after him at the very intersection where he raised his family.”

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The river rose higher than ever re-corded there, to just over 18 feet. Water stood 6 to 7 feet deep downtown and rose over the roofs of some homes, according to McCaysville Police Chief Michael Earley. Crews made more than 140 rescues by boat and helicopter, Georgia and Tennessee officials said.

However, when the water receded, the trouble stayed.

McCaysville’s water plant stopped working. Families were told to boil their water before drinking it. Copperhill asked people to conserve water while the state worked to restore drinking water. Both towns closed to visitors and set a nighttime curfew. Schools closed. The Copperhill post office shut down.

At least six buildings caught fire during the storm. Officials believe lightning started them.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp declared an emergency in four counties, and Polk County, Tenn., declared one, too.

The Toccoa becomes the Ocoee River in Tennessee, the same river that hosted whitewater races in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Near Copperhill and Ducktown, Tenn., the river runs through an old copper-mining area that operated from the 1840s until 1987.

The mines left so much damage that the EPA lists the area as a Superfund site, a polluted place under federal cleanup. Tennessee says routine testing has found no current water problems from the old mines for people using the river. No agency has yet said whether this record flood stirred up old pollution.

New Mexico has also been impacted by flooding. In September, a flash flood near Newcomb, N.M., killed two adults and a child, Navajo police said.

Then, starting Oct. 22, storms pushed the San Juan River to historic levels. At Shiprock, N.M., it rose above 23 feet. Major flooding there starts at 20.5 feet. Upstream in Farmington, it reached about 14.5 feet, where major flooding starts at 12 feet.

Law enforcement officers made hundreds of water rescues between Farmington and Bloomfield, the office of New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said. On Nov. 1 and 2, another storm flooded the region again.

What the water left behind

Untreated wastewater got into the San Juan River when floodwater reached Bloomfield’s treatment plant, Gov. Lujan Grisham’s office said. Downstream in Montezuma Creek, Utah, the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority said its wastewater ponds broke open. It told people to stay out of the river and asked people on that system to use less water.

Evacuated neighborhoods in San Juan County, N.M., stayed closed for days. Officials pointed out damaged buildings, dirty water, downed power lines and possible gas leaks.

In Utah, the flood washed out a bridge on Highway 163 near Bluff . In Colorado, the supports under a bridge on U.S. 160 collapsed, and the bridge must be rebuilt. A natural gas pipeline was damaged, and cell phone service went out for a time, Colorado’s governor said.

New Mexico’s governor says recovery could cost $200 million to $300 million. The federal emergency declaration does not pay for clearing mud and wreckage, her office noted. San Juan County expects that work alone to cost $230 million to $240 million.

In California, no storm came ashore. However, extra-high tides, called king tides, rode in on warm ocean water and flooded streets in Newport Beach and Huntington Beach.

On Oct. 27, Los Angeles Harbor saw its highest water level since records began in 1923, the National Weather Service said. Forecasters said the tides ran up to 1.7 feet higher than pre-dicted.

In Huntington Beach, seawater damaged about 114 homes and buildings, the city said. Six homes were yellowtagged, which limits who can go inside for safety reasons.

The city warns that tides in late November could be even higher.

Flooding also affected parts of Florida after heavy rain, forcing the move of 21 midterm polling locations.

AccuWeather preliminarily estimated total damage and economic loss from the devastating rainfall in Florida at $3 billion to $5 billion. Rainfall totals of 28.93 inches in Malabar and 28.13 inches in Palm Bay were recorded.

AccuWeather also reported that public schools closed in Brevard, DeSoto, Indian River and St. Lucie counties, according to the Florida Department of Education.

“For some Palm Bay residents, the flooding brought another hardship: water shutoffs. A water-main break along Port Malabar Boulevard NE forced the city to temporarily interrupt service to affected customers … . Officials said 4 feet of water prevented crews from accessing the repair site,” the weather service reported.

‘Watch the weather!’

The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Eternal Leader of the Nation of Islam, warned that Allah (God) would punish America with the forces of nature for its evildoings and wickedness.

In His book, “The Fall of America,” in Chapter 35, titled “America Surrounded with The Judgment of Allah,” the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad wrote: “The four great judgments that Almighty [God] Allah is bringing upon America are rain, hail, snow and earthquakes.”

His National Representative, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, has warned America many times to ‘watch the weather.’ In his Oct. 14, 2012, address “Guidance for Our President and Our Nation,” Minister Farrakhan cautioned, “I said again, ‘Watch the weather!’—because God doesn’t fight with your cheap ‘weapons’!”

Student Minister Abdul Haleem Muhammad, the Nation of Islam’s Southwest Regional Student Minister and an urban planner, spoke with The Final Call on Nov. 6, days after the Nov. 3 election. “The weather is a sign that, in spite of the political victories that we seem to enjoy, God is sending us a signal that He’s still displeased with this nation,” he said.

He pointed to the Holy Qur’an, the Islamic book of scripture, Surah (Chapter 2, Ayat verse 153), which states, “O you who believe, seek assistance through patience and prayer. Surely Allah is with the patient.”

“Ofttimes we’re not patient with Allah, and we have to learn how to balance our spiritual and temporal desires,” he said. America, he said, is facing “afflictions in the form of His judgment raining down on America.”

Minister Farrakhan, like his teacher, has continued to be a warner to America and the nations of the Earth. “America is surrounded with the Judgment of God.

Climate control is very important in the context of war, but there’s no space on this earth that has received as much calamity from weather as the United States of America. Water glaciers are melting. Some of these glaciers are the size of some small states.

When you see a water glacier, what you see on top is nothing compared to what is on the bottom. So, when the top falls off , the bottom rises. And when the top begins to melt, the water rises,” Minister Farrakhan said in his July 2019 message, “The Man Jesus and How Not To Fall Into Idolatry.”

“So, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said the Holy Qur’an bears witness that Allah would curtail this place on both sides. He said he wouldn’t buy anything on either coast, because the coasts are going to be flooded.

You heard it first here. Now watch the news bear witness that a Messenger of God, a man taught by God, is telling you things that are and things to come,” said Minister Farrakhan.

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Jeanne Kay Whitefeather and her husband, Donald Lantz, were sentenced to decades in prison last year, after a case that revealed the inhumane conditions that the children suffered at the couple’s home in Sissonville.

Allegations included the children being forced to stand in the rain, being locked in a wooden shed, performing hard labor, having very little food, and other hardships.

Kanawha County Circuit Judge Maryclaire Akers, who approved the settlement on Sept. 29, imposed the maximum sentences in March 2025—up to 215 years for Jeanne Whitefeather and up to 160 years for Donald Lantz.

The couple filed appeals that May. The state Supreme Court dismissed both on Oct. 31, 2025, after a final deadline to perfect them passed, WCHS-TV reported.

“As a mother of seven, this one hurt me,” Houston attorney Sadiyah Karriem told The Final Call. “Those babies were not ‘adopted;’ they were taken in to work and exploited.”

West Virginia Watch reported that the state’s Board of Risk and Insurance Management paid the maximum settlement each child could receive under its limits. Attorney Dante DiTrapano represented the siblings.

The case began Oct. 2, 2023, after a 911 call about children locked in a barn. Deputies forced their way into the barn, where a 16-year-old girl and her 14-year-old brother were locked in a room. The girl said they had been there about 12 hours that day.

The sheriff’s office said it had “no running water, no bathroom facilities.” The office said deputies also found a small child locked inside the main home, alone in an unprotected loft.

Judge Akers said in 2024 that the indictment alleged the children were used essentially as slaves.

On Jan. 29, 2025, a jury convicted Ms. Whitefeather on all 19 counts and Mr. Lantz on 12 of 16, including forced labor, human trafficking, and child abuse and neglect. Ms. Whitefeather was also convicted of racebased civil rights violations; Mr. Lantz was acquitted on those counts. Four of the five children were victims in the criminal case; the youngest was not.

“I have defended people for 24 years and I believe in due process, but this jury got it right and so did the judge this time,” Atty. Karriem said.

CPS (Child Protective Services) was re-portedly notified several times about concerns about the children. WCHS-TV reported that a CPS worker testified at trial that she left a card in May 2023, then visited the home on May 27 and spoke with the children on the porch.

She said no follow-up occurred and the assigned worker was fired. The oldest girl said she did not tell the truth about the abuse and conditions because she felt Mr. Lantz could hear what she told the CPS worker.

According to West Virginia Watch, records show CPS received another report in August 2023, and that in November the state said it had no travel records showing workers checked on the children.

Atty. DiTrapano told West Virginia Watch that neighbors called many times, but he believes the agency made only one visit.

“The CPS folks who went out there let an interview take place in the presence of the parents, where the kids were not able to tell the truth about what was going on,” Atty. DiTrapano said,” according to reporting by West Virginia Public Broadcasting.

“CPS left, they didn’t do anything, and the kids suffered more for a while until the police finally came out there and arrested the couple,” the attorney said.

In a February 2024 order compelling re-cords in a separate foster care lawsuit, U.S. Magistrate Judge Cheryl Eifert described press allegations about the calls to CPS. “However, CPS failed to respond and perform an adequate investigation,” she wrote.

Lars Dalseide, spokesperson for Gov. Patrick Morrisey, said the department does not comment on specific settlements, according to West Virginia Watch. He said the prior administration fired an employee involved in the case but did not identify the person.

One online headline called the settlement “karma.” Atty. Karriem disagreed. “That $4.4 million is not karma,” she said. “That is West Virginia, the system, admitting it failed those children.”

Reports on the settlement do not say the state admitted liability.

West Virginia Watch also reported that Atty. DiTrapano and the Salango Law Firm plan legal action against Washington state’s child welfare agency, saying it approved the children’s transfer despite earlier abuse re-ports.

Atty. DiTrapano said the siblings have new adoptive families, West Virginia Watch reported. The $4.4 million settlement awarded to the five children will be placed into trusts for their future use.

Atty. Karriem, who grew up in foster care, urges more Black families to adopt Black children. “We cannot keep leaving our children in somebody else’s hands and hoping for the best. If we do not claim them, somebody else will. We must do for self or suffer the consequences, even with our children,” she said.

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