John Thornton wrote:
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> I don't claim to be an expert on the Nation of Islam but I never got the
> impression they were anything like al Quada. I thought they did things like
> working with inmates to help them get degrees and working with inmates
> families in support groups. They have lots of negative baggage concerning
> their racist views but I don't know about their involvement in terrorists
> attacks. Could someone enlighten me?
My barber for the last fifteen years has been a minister in Farrakhan's wing of the NOI -- and while their politics are really pretty bad, only a racist idiot (or a true ignoramus) would associate them with the connotations of "gansta." The wing that follows the lead of the founder's son is pacific in both language and deed.
Carrol
> John Thornton