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sow ig aA eM: <= > e- Feud Withim the Black Muslixs _ERjan’ ijan Muhammed, ‘leadey-of the separatist Negro sect, faces @ revolt im itis ranks. His discipie, Meaico : 7 *B! ack Nationalisi*p - ~ Q-19 (Rev. 5-27-63) By GEATRUDE SAMUZis—-— HE Nation of Islam—better known as the Black Muslim movement—is an Islamic sect, adapted by American Negroes for Amer- ican Negroes, with a secret member- ship that could be anywhere from 50,000 to 250,000. What is preached in its temples, or mosques, is a doctrine of black supremacy (for black men are “divine"), hatred of the white man (for whites are “devils’"}, and complete sep- The Muslims reject jo eae AUS TS POS integration as completely as does Mississippi's Senator James Eastland. They believe that they have the answer to the masses of Negroes who live in economic despair and are groping for racial dignity, _____~, Negro civil rights leaders who fight for integration are “Toms” and “white- man's niggers,” according to the Mus- . lims. The sect says it seeks a separate black nation in America—the nation of Islam—with lis own army and flag. but it has never said how it proposes to achieve this secedS$ion nor from what part of the Uniteg States it proposes to carve its nation. Officially, the Black Muslims preach nonviolence and honor the law, Many outsiders, however, feel that there is the threat of violence implicit in the fanatical preaching of race hatred, in the rigid discipline maintained by members, and in the secret army—the \ i as, ee blackK-<cl a Pr of isiam—weii-driii Be fi TOR WV aration af the races Srauictn Gf Oe races. bd * nn | political miover:st. «smuis—sthooled in the use of- fircarms. But experts describe the movement's Posture as one of “contained aggres- siveness,” largely because of the con- cepts of its charismatic leader, Elijah Muhammad. Ai cconnme to Jegend, the move- ment began when a “Prophet” appeared Detroit in the nineteen-thirties de- nouncing Christianity and the white man. Before “disappearing,” he ap- pointed Muhammad as his ‘Meéssen- ger" and endowed him with divine cuid- ance. Muhammad, born Elijah Poole in 1887 at Sandersville, Ga., is the un- educated but dynamic son of a Baptist minister, The Muslims began to thrive under Muhammad about the time the civil rights movement spread in the fifties. Temples and tommercial enter- prises supported by Muslim money grew and flourished in vartous cities though headquarters were in Chicago where Muhammad sat. He and his sons—-and notably his son-in-law, Raymond Shar- rieff, Supreme Captain of the Fruit of Islam — were all-powerful author- itarians. Eschewing politics and the vote, keeping their strength secret, they welded a monolithic organization. They demanded and got blind and unswerv- ing obedience to the spiritual leader, Elijah Muhammad. | In the past two weeks, that soli- darity has been broken by a once- trusted lieutenant. The elements of anaes racia! viclen Yenence and Fane tes Baoen. _ Faqcins GF eho \20¢ Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gand m K, leader in New “York, has set up a.rival NOT RECORDED 128 MAR 30 | The Washington Post and nue — >» f an “ad “9 i 4 2 a - cr z t » The Washington Daily News The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune — New York Journal-American 1. New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post The New York times J 2 The Worket The New Leader The Wail Street Journal The National Observer People's World Date