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i a ' w MUHAMMAD SPEAKS The Messenger of Allah Presents The Muslim Program q What the ; g e Muslims Want £ ‘This is the qoestion asked mest frequent by both the whites aed the blacks. The se- pwere we this qeestion I shall state aa simpty bie. }. We wast freedom. We want a full and complete freedom. 2. We want justice. Kaun! justice under fe iaw. We want yastice applied equally wo all, regardless of creed of cinas of coler. 3. We want equality of opportunity. We wast equal membership im sectety with the peat in etvilizned society. @. We want car pevple tn America wheer parents oF grandparents were descendants ves, to be allowed to establish = sep- etate or territery of their owe—either on elsewhere. We betieve that masters are obligated te pro- teat the ares mest be fer- ly rich. We beileve that cer qaasters are obligated te mate- oer needs i this separate ter- wert 20 te 25 years—antil we are to predece and supply our ows aeeds. we cannot get along With hem ip and equality after giving them 0 of our swest and blood and receiving In some of the worst treatment human be- ve ever experienced, we believe our ations to this land and ibe suffering upoe ws by white America. justifies our éemand for complete separation ip 8 state or territory of our own 6. We want freedom for all Believers of Islam now held ta federal prisons We want freedom for all black men and women Bow Un- Ger dest sentence In innumerable prisons in fe North as well as the South We want every Diack man and woman to Dave the freedom to sccem or reject deing aeparated from the slave master's children aad establish « land of their own We know that the sbeove plan for the sote- tee Of the black ané@ white conflict te the best aad ealy sarwer te the prodiem between twe a ii t EpEytete an atl Bpas i, ie 1 @. We want an immediate end to the po Brutality and mob sttacks against the so- @alled Negro throughout the United States. We believe that the Federal government Bhould intercede to see thal Black men and women tried in white courta receive justice iB geeordance with the laws of the land—or allow @s to build a new nation for ourselves, dedi- ented to justice, freedom and Uberty. 7. As jong a2 We are not allowed to a z We do not believe that after #00 years of oc mearty free isbor, sweat and bicod, Iped America become rich and t eo many thousands of black heve tc subsist on relief, chartty tA poor bowsea Wu wank the gorecameni of the Tralted exempt car people from ALT tasa- ¥$7 HY ERx § is4 i an 8 gr 5 tem as long as We sre deprived of equal jus M$oe uncer the la wa of the land. . 6. We want equa! education—but separate eehools up to 16 for boys and 18 for girls on Me condition Hist the girls be sent to women’s @nileges and walversition. We want all black Ghiidren ot@hated, taught and trained by (heir own wachers. Under euch echootag system we believe ‘We will mate a betier eatin of people. The Dating Malan goverpment mould provide, free, ai) necessary text books and equipment. echools and college buildings Tre Masiim wachers shali be left free teach aad train mew propie in the way of righteousness, 6 cency and self respect 9. We veiftve that tatermarriage of race mizing should be probibited We want the re tugion of Iaiem taught without Maderaace tod suppression. ‘Teese are some of the things that we. the Mustims, went for oar people Ih Nore Amert- Muslims Believe i 1. WE BELILVE & the Ove God Whee proper Name w Alla). 2. WE BELIEVE in the Rety Qur-sa and te the Scriptures of a!) the Prophets of Ged. 3. WE BELIEVE ie the truth of the Bivie, bet we believe that it bas bees tampered with and mest be retaterpreted vo that mankind qitt not be emared by the tnlseboods that have woes adéed te it. 4. WE BELIEVE in Aliad's Propbets and the Scriptures they brought to the people $. WE BELICVE wm the resurrection of the Gead—not in physica! resurrection—dut in ments reeurrecuon We deiieve wai We a called Negroes are most tm peed of mental resurrection, therefore. they Will be resurrect- ed first Furthermore, we believe we are the peo ple of God's choice. sa it haa deen Britten, tbat God would choose the rejected and we Gespused We can find so other persons fit- ting (his description tH these last Gaya more than tbe so-called Negroes ip America We believe in the resurrection of the righteous @ WE BELIEVE w the judgement. we pelieve this first judgement wil) taze piace as God revesied. in Americsa... 97. WE BELIEVE this ts the time i his tery for the separation of the so-called Me an¢ the so-called white Americans. We Delleve the Diack ment should be freed ln name ax well as in fact. By this we mean that be seowd be freed from the names imposed upon hum by kis former alave masters. Names which Keniifies him as being the slave mas ter's slave. We delicve that tf we are free in- eed, we abould go in our own people's names —tag Diack peoples of the earth 6 WE BELIEVE in justice for all. whetD- er God or act. we believe as ctZers, that we are due equs! justice as human betngs We believe tn equality—as a nation——of equals. We do not believe bat we are equal with our aiave masters in the status of “freed slaves.” We recoguize and respect American citi- sera a2 imdeprateet preples sad ere prmpect thes knees waich severe this maGea. $. WE BELIEVE that the offer of tetegra- then is hypocritical! and is made by these whe are trying deceive the black peoples inte be- Weaving that thelr O0¢-year-old epee enemies af freedom, justice and equality are, all of 5 endées, their “friends.” Furthermore, we be- Meve that such deception is intended te pre- veut black people from realizing that the time fm history bas arrived fer the separation from the whites of this notion. I the white peuple are truthful about thelz prefemses fricadanip towart the ay-calles We- om s— FEBRUARY 36, 1005 — ey we Bittle ig te ED Honorable Elijah Muhammod giv, they can prove & by striding up America with their slaves. We do not believe that America wil ever to furniaS enough jobs for ber own millions of unemployed, im addition to jobs for the 20.080.800 black peopie as well. . WE BELIEVE that we who declared warselves to be righteous Muslims should not wars which take the lives of bu- w mot believe thiz nation should force ws to take part in such wars. for we have nothing to gain from it unless America guarreca tO give we the necessary \erritory open we Tay have & ¢ gio fight for tk. WR BXLIZVE our werice should be reapected and protected as the women a omer patonalities are respected and protected 2 WE BELIEVE that £Mabk (Get) «5- peared ia the Person of Master W. Fard Me bemrmnad, July, 19890; the long-awaited ‘Mas w Back Page of "Muhammad Speaks" « = s ite Ms. a