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Muslim apologists and the truth about Farrakhan

By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor Differences of opinion are the natural result of intellectual and spiritual development and, as Muslims, we are taught to make our arguments in the best manner. But when so-called differences are used to attack and malign an innocent man, that is out of bounds within Islam–which demands we speak from positions of truth. Muslims are...

Farrakhan Vindicated, Despite Media Lies

By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor American media is like a powerful flood that can uproot and wash away everything in its path. But nothing is more powerful than God Himself and his ability to vindicate and clear his servants of false charges, no matter how large the lie and how often it is repeated. When the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan...

Smite the shepherd, scatter the sheep: A time to fight

By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor The anti-Farrakhan flood of propaganda and effort to destroy the Nation of Islam is in full operation with the constant effort to have Black underlings, fearful sycophants, or misguided members of our community lead the way. The aim is to divide and conquer and instill fear to avoid an unavoidable confrontation with evil, real evil,...

Pseudo slavemasters and an assault on Black leadership

By Final Call News The sharp knives are out and demands for the political castration of Black lawmakers and leaders have been issued by Jewish publications, groups and the right wing media. After falling into rabid fake outrage with the publication of a 12-year-old photo of then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, these demons upped the pressure...

Learning the lessons of history and rejecting the lies of the past

By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor The Jewish and right wing media have gone wild with publication of a photo of Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan and then U.S. Senator Barack Obama taken over a decade ago. Not content with howling at Mr. Obama, these jackals now clamor and declare: how could the Congressional Black Caucus associate with the Minister...

Jelani Cobb and his Twitter buck dance

By Richard B. Muhammad - Editor Buck dancing: A type of folksy tap or soft-shoe dance common in the southern U.S. states during the slave era. Performers incorporated buck dancing into “cooning” shows, where a black person (or white person in blackface) would dance and sing for a white audience's enjoyment. (Urban Dictionary) Intellectual discourse is part of the Black tradition and...

‘Separate, hostile and unequal’

By Final Call News When writer Andrew Hacker looked at race and reality in America, he reached a telling and almost prophetic conclusion. Inside the United States, he wrote, there were “Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal.” Race, the ugly bedrock of American history, had shaped and would continue to shape life and perceptions of life in this country,...

Warning and the mercy of God

By Final Call News “To be plagued with too much rain will destroy property and lives. It swells the rivers and creeks. Too much rain floods cities and towns. Large bodies of water at the ocean shore lines will be made to swell with unusually high waves, dumping billions of tons of water over the now seashore line. … “Wind with...

Hajj: A Journey of devotion and unity

By Imam Sultan R. Muhammad (Editor's note: This week we offer our editorial page for an important message from Sultan Rahman Muhammad, student national imam of the Nation of Islam, about this special time of year for Muslims worldwide.) “And everyone has a goal to which he turns (himself), so vie with one another in good works. Wherever you are, Allah...

White Supremacy: America’s Original Sin

By Final Call News Many may feel comfortable condemning the Alt-Right, neo- Nazis, Klans-men and White Supremacists who gathered in Charlottesville, Va., but the true problem is America's underlying cancer of White Supremacy etched into the DNA of this nation. The torch carrying, swastika waving, black-shirted, Nazi saluting supporters of the Alt Right, who openly voice their disdain and hatred for...