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Yeah. Yeah, You Very You. You? Yeah. What you want? Mhm. All right. Yeah. Patty Cake, Patty Cake. Baker's man think me being his best stage. You can't. What do you think about the violence that happened in

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Washington with the Gadhafi Muslims? Well, I think that what they've done, they felt they were right. But now I also know that the only Wallace Mohammed, he teaches us to fight with no one. Unless you aggressed upon unless you attack. That's a natural law in nature.

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So whatever they did, I feel that they feel justified in doing it. I feel justified. I guess they feel justified in doing it. But like, it's not the teachings of the honorable Elijah Muhammad. He don't teach you, don't You don't teach violence. Uh, people have had

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an image of the Muslims as being a violent set. When we are the word Muslim means peacemaker. You know, it means peace. The dress code. I first didn't I didn't know how to accept that. But once I've seen the beauty and wearing long clothes, being different

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from other women that were just wearing the the regular style long quote I mean long short dress and so forth. I realized how beautiful it was to be covered up because it wasn't, uh, external beauty that was being taught to us. But it was an internal

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beauty. A lot of people I know they don't. They don't even like to come to the must get because of the checking procedure. But see, it's not the Gestapo type, uh, thing that we're trying to portray us securing them, giving them safety and ensuring them safety

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while there coming to hear the truth. After after the month under the animal mass Elijah Muhammad, everyone was intending. He gave us a teaching and by the mother's Channel and this mothership was something that was designed, uh to come. And it's gonna save everybody much like

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the Christians had to swing low, sweet chariot. Okay, so our relationship with America was one that was intended to be briefed, Okay, because this was all going to be destroyed physically, as we our limited understanding allowed us. Though Elijah Mohammed didn't say it, teach it in

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that manner. Many of us being in that type of mind accepted like that. So our relationship to America and the government was one that meant was. This is soon to be destroyed. We're going somewhere else. While is the Mohammed comes in and says, he explains, the

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icon of the mother ship explains about the burning of the American environment of the American mind. He translated it into its spiritual, gave its interpretation interpretation of the symbology. So now, now, Wallace, the mom, is letting us know you have to live in this world. Everything

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changes anything. Don't change deep and dead or dying. Good evening. I'm Johnny Barnes. Selvin. This is the Muslim mosque in Oakland. It serves about 1000 followers of Allah. Until now, its doors have been closed to the public, and the media in this half hour will take

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an unprecedented look behind the closed doors and into the lives of Bay Area Muslims. Yes, mhm. Mhm. Muslims in the Bay Area worship together on Fridays and Sundays. We attended the Friday Congregational prayer called Jumah Prayer at one o'clock on Friday afternoon, with at least 500

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Bay Area Muslims, everyone male or female, who enters the mosque, this frisk or, as they call it, check with the entry that we were not allowed to film. The women's checking procedure, and no one is allowed to wear shoes in the mosque or mosque. The worshipers

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of Allah Inter quietly according to Islamic tradition. They are segregated by six men, and boys come in the door at the front of the mosque and sit on the floor before the imam, their minister. Women and girls enter at the back and sit on the floor

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in rows behind them in a call to prayer sung by fucking sh wave starts the service. Hello! Oh oh, what then? The imam lectures for about an hour on the ways of the world of Islam. The founder of the black Muslim Movement,

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Elijah Muhammad, died in 1975. He played a godlike role, ruling over America's Muslims with absolute authority they now call his rule. The first resurrection rule passed to Elijah Muhammad's son, Wallace de Mohammed. The second resurrection began with his takeover, and it promises to be a time

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of great change. Bay Area Muslims no longer list their racist black, for instance. They have taken the name of Bilal, a black slave who 1400 years ago became their prophet Mohammed's first minister. Becoming billions is one change. I discussed others with the new Bay Area imam,

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who was formerly from Pakistan. Imam Mohammed Abdullah. When the Honourable Wallace de Mama took over, he felt that this nation of Islam that was only confined to America should be introduced to the last brotherhood of Islam. He made them to pray as the other Muslims prayed

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fast during the same month as the other Muslims. Fast before that, they had to fast during the month of December because December was the show to take month. But now they followed the same system as other Muslims follow and to be the member of the universal

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Islam. Each service ends with prayer. Allah Akbar God is the greatest and frustration facing the east, a show of deep humility before Allah. I will tell him a lot, a lot. Oh, hello work that in order to support the mosque, the sacrifice pale has

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passed. Of course, then it's time to go out into the courtyard, where you can buy a coffee of the Muslim holy book, the Koran. Just enjoy a piece of bean pie, a culinary favorite, or talk with the Imam Mohammed Abdullah, who has more to say about

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America's Muslims, where are you from? Originally? Originally, I may say from India, but when I went back, it was Pakistan. Imam Abdullah, how long have you been here in the United States? I came since 1960. It means 16 years or 17 years. Mhm. When did you

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come to Oakland? Just six months ago. And how long have you been reading the Muslims in the area? I same period of time. I was here for the last three months. What has happened to the white man is the devil philosophy that says, you see, uh,

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that was during the time of honorable Master Elijah Mohammed. In fact, he wanted to create a uh huh or two away the inferiority complex that was in his race. So he wanted to, uh, make them feel that they are no longer interior. And the white man

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is devil. Not you. The devil. How do far Eastern Muslims feel about American Muslims? They think that Islam is progressing to the members of the world community of Islam in the West. And they are very happy. And they give publicity in their newspapers. Has this always

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been the case? Yes. Yes. Many Far Eastern Muslims have always liked and respected the American Muslim whatever little progress they make. And they know that they are approaching towards Islam. They feel very happy. Mr. Lodge, Um Mohammed claim that he was a messenger of Allah. Mhm.

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And he also said that one person, by the name of master card moment came to America to teach Islam. And he considered them considered him as Allah. God coming in the person of card Mohammed. So that was The difference is that is, uh, the Muslims don't

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accept anyone after Prophet Mohammad as messenger, Ravana and the Muslims don't think that man can be gone. What is the Muslims day like? How does the Muslim spin the day Muslim is supposed to get up early in the morning and if necessary, to take bath. Or

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he has to make evolution. Evolution mean washing of hands and teeth and face and up. Two elbow and the feet and touching with wet hands up a certain part of the head and the neck and cleaning the ears. So this is called just a minor. But

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and after that, he's supposed to make prayer. The prayer is not very long. And if there is a mosque is supposed to go to the mosque, Otherwise he can play at home. And then after that he had to get ready for the job he has to

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do for the breakfast and get ready for the job. Where the employer to go and work there and come back home in the afternoon or late evening. Whatever it is, How many times a day does you pray? A Muslim is supposed to pray five times a

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day. The honorable master large Um Mohammed introduced a few simple things. He didn't like to overburden his community. He just wanted them to be clean and to improve themselves economically, educationally. And for that purpose e introduced schools and he introduced the Muhammad speaks newspaper. And, uh,

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he was not against a fiver. Prayers are other principles of Islam. Once he told me that I want my followers to pray five times a day. I want my followers to pay the card I want my followers to fast during the month of Ramadan. I want

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my followers to go to Mecca for pilgrimage. He smiled. He said, You know, my followers are not in a good shape and, uh, they went to jail many times. And, uh, I'm just trying to clean them up. Hakeem and Yolanda Sway Bar devoted Muslims. Hakeem is

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magazine, the man who calls everyone to prayer as well as treasurer at the mosque. And Yolanda is an avid supporter of mosque activities. The Schwab's have two Children, four year old Camilla and six month old fucking junior. We've been Muslims for about five years, since January

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of 1972. On hearing the Minister talk about and saying that the white man is the devil. Naturally, uh, all we heard I saw was physical images on the Elijah Muhammed We came and we went to the first book of the Bible, and we said that in

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the beginning, darkness covered the earth. Okay, so when since it was that darkness covers the earth, that meant that darkness before, like Black Knight was before Day Black was before white. This is the rationale, baby. Simple rationale. But the mentality of the people was such that,

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uh, you know, why couldn't you accept? You accepted everything else. We have been taught in so many ways and through so many powerful forms of media that our blackness represented inferiority Okay, so you have the angel Food cake was white and the devil's food cake was

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black. Okay, you have the black cat you had black Monday. The creature from the Black Lagoon. Everything black was bad. Okay, Yeah. Step, in fact, and all these other things to come in contact with something that totally contradicts that. 379 years of black inferiority teaching. You

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got the last hold to it. If you have any thought of personal survival or if you have any ego left, person becomes a Muslim essentially from the Declaration of la la la la la Muhammadu lawsuit by saying that there's nothing worthy of worship but God and

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that Muhammad is his last messenger. Last profit on the Elijah Muhammad. Our understanding was that you can't You can't serve God and the devil, Okay. And so since he was the devil, we couldn't go in his army because if he was in his army, we would

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be opposing what we were standing for. So we didn't know we wouldn't join military service. We wouldn't do anything like that. And it's not strongly advocated in the world community Islam today. But it is under. It is an understood factor that we are American citizens and

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being American citizens, you are obligated as an American citizen. And America is also obligated to you as a citizen. So whereas we vote and register to vote under Wallace de Mohammed today, uh, that was not one of our concern, because the whole political system was hopeless,

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Uh, in our concern then. But Wallace the Mohammadi has faith in Jimmy. Carly. He says, You know, Jimmy Carter thus far is a good president, you know, he's made some good decisions, and many of the people in government today are showing a new type of mind.

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So it's our job today to support government, to support the communities, to support those things that are designed to maintain America. My first thought was that Oh, no, you know, I'm going to be a Muslim because I knew that I wanted to be with him. So

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my first thought was, you know, Oh, no, you know, here I'm going to be a Muslim and I was thinking about more or less what I had seen and how a Muslim woman is rather than for me to investigate it from myself. I just want less

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seen. The women, uh, saw the women on the streets, and I was a little bit afraid of than what? I've seen it because the way how different they were from other people well, upon me going to the mosque, I realized then that, um, what they were

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teaching, um What the roles for the woman the woman was was in tail was just really my own identity. Bokeem and Yolanda had more to say later at their Oakland department. How do you plan to educate your Children The way we plan on plan on Educator

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is having her to go to Claire Mohammed School, which is located at the mosque to 47th Avenue in Oakland, where she would probably get her basic education, her reading, writing And if if she is, uh at the age where I feel that she can deal and

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cope with the public schools, I will then put her in a public school when she is maybe eight or nine or something at that age. And then, if not, she'll stay at Claire Mohammed School. It is a good school for the Children that are in the

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elementary years and I think that that's the most important years of her life. Moral education in public schools is rather restricted. As a matter of fact, you find teachers that have different and distinct and varied moral values. Uh, it is the concept of the all the

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values of the teacher that impressed or that had the greatest impression on the child. So our foundation, uh, Islamic foundation of Islamic Education is father on Koran. The obligation of the Muslim man to the Muslim woman is number one. When you look at it physically and

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biologically is to maintain, Muslim families are not just heavenly, you know? Just, you know, everything is always sweet. She gets frustrated. Sometimes I get frustrated. Sometimes Children, you know, they get active sometimes also like myself. So it's my job to offer information where she needs information

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she needs information about, you know? What did she say? Like you hear something on the news? She has something on the news. Don't quite understand. What about this Israeli Arab conflict? What about Eddie? I mean, what about this? And I can inform her on that for

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as far as the emotional relationship, the emotional relationship is like I come home, I bring flowers, I bring perfume. I bring little things home because when she spent much time here living in as active a world as we live in, and with all the ideas about

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women's liberation and then you got the edge of night and the storm, what's that secret storm? All these other pictures going on, then, you know they have a certain influence. Okay, so it's the man's job to keep her emotionally comfortable in this highly emotional environment, you

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see, and, uh, to to reassure her and various things into provide the kind of leadership that a woman naturally looks for, and learning that the man was to be the maintainer and the provider and that I was to be, uh, submission submissive to him and humbled

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to him. I've always been that way with my husband, and it was never something that I had to learn to do, but it was more or less. Uh uh, It gave me a basics to where to go from there, and it helped me to be a

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better wife to him after becoming a Muslim and marrying him, because I realized that that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to bring peace to him. And when I brought peace to him, I brought peace to myself. What do you think of the women's lib

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movement? I have to ask you. Well, um, all right, leading question. Oh, I agree. I agree with the women's lives in respect to making sure in that in that the women all women should know their place is. And if they feel as though that they can

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offer to society um, their, uh their intelligence, their their ability to do whatever they feel is right for them. And then I can respect that. I think that women's lives becomes, um, more or less to over over overbearing when they become when they tried to take

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and do things of a man. I mean, just a manual type man's work when it becomes so much out of their nature that it distorts them as a woman. What's the difference between the leadership of Elijah Muhammed and Wallace de Mohammed? The reason that we have

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not made any more progress, Wallace Mohammed, that we have is because we don't have contact with people in the community that are of import. So he's moving us in that direction. His direction is to move us into not necessarily overthrowing what stands but just renewing it,

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renewing it and make it better because the basic principles of what it stands for. As good as he says. We accept the American Constitution as it is written as it stands. But if they change the American Constitution, then we have to reconsider our acceptance of that

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new American Constitution. We all allegiance to the American government. We all allegiance to the people who have provided for us the time that we've been in. We can join the services we can fight for this country. Your black Muslim bakery opened its doors in Oakland in

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the summer of 1969. The Muslims had tried to make Santa Barbara They're California headquarters but found that the market for health foods just wasn't big enough There. Elijah Muhammad gave your black Muslim bakery its name and strict Muslim guidelines on healthy eating habits. In his book

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How to Eat to Live In 10 Years in Oakland, the bakeries owner and manager Yusuf Bay has turned your black Muslim bakery into an independent business worth a quarter million to a half million dollars a year. Black Bakery began some 10 years ago. A group of

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us got together and, uh, collected are our financial and physical energies together and decided to establish something that we could produce and be independent and, uh, do something constructive for the community. And the bakery has always been independent from any organization in the church or mosque

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or temple. Uh, for the last 10 years, and we've been quite successful in, uh, retail wholesale distributing throughout the Bay Area and, uh, we plan on expanding. We have non Muslims and Muslims employed here. We pay minimum wage wages and up. It depends on your qualifications

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and your ability. I asked yourself bay how he felt about hiring women. Women play the same role as any other qualified person. If she's intelligent, if she's qualified, then there's no limits. If she's not so intelligent, not so qualified, and we don't use it. The men

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and women working for yourself Bay, as he said, are not all Muslims. But we talked to Workers Show on Sunday, and Mohammed Salim, who are followers of Islam. I've been a Muslim eight years. Islam has taught me the knowledge of myself and kind. It has taught

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me how to be upright person. It has taught me to be civilized person. When I say civilized, I mean the way I am dressed. I don't wear miniskirts, tight, fitted pants, being a woman in the bakery. Uh, you feel very good because the men are very

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respectful and you have a very peaceful mind and working in a very clean and pleasant environment. Being a woman in the world of Islam, it makes you very mindful of your duty of how to take care of your Children, the proper way of taking care of

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your Children. And they grow up, you know, with living a long lasting life and having something to live for. When we asked what Muslim kids in particular had to live for, we heard the old philosophy of Elijah Mohammed of the Black Man is God. So, uh,

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to grow up knowing that he is, you know, the maker, you know, of the planet Earth is really beautiful. What religion isn't subject to many interpretations. However, several billions I spoke to did say that a number of Muslims don't like Wallace D Mohammed's changes and continue

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to follow the teachings of Elijah Mohammed Mohammed Salim has been a Muslim for 10 years. He joined the mosque at the age of 17. I was young, like any other average Children was getting loaded, dropping pills and things. And then I came into Islam. It cleaned

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me up, made a man out of me, a young man out of me. And, uh, it's a beautiful, real life, you know, and keep you out of trouble. I love looking at the bakery. You keep me busy. And I learned out here since I've been here,

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I love being Baker before. Since I've been a bakery here, we're going to bakery here. I learned how to make a lot of beautiful products and things, and it is really a beautiful recommend. Owner Yusuf had more to say on his bakeries role in the community.

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We like the idea of being, uh, productive people in the community. And we also like to be, uh, contributing, like all the other groups, ethnic groups in the community. That's one of the reasons we maintain the title of your black Muslim bakery. Because every time you

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pick up a loaf of bread, a purchase, a product with that label. You know that black people in the community are doing something constructive and producing a product that is definitely needed. Charles and Cheryl Fareed chose to have a small wedding with family and friends. And

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since our cameras had been everywhere and a part of the mosques activities all weekend, they graciously invited me and my camera crew to come along. Once again, we are too. Just love each other, cherish each other Well, we plan to have Children. Yes. We plan to

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bring the Children up in a good environment and a secure environment where they can be taught in the right manner. I like, uh, my Children to be taught in al Islam the principles of al Islam to be able to be an example to other people in

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the world. Because our duty as Muslims is to raise the Children up so that they will be able to function in the society. Hahaha! What In the lung! Okay, old people, be careful of your duty to your lord who created you from a single being

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and of the same creative it's mates and spread from these too many men and women and be careful of your duty to Allah, by whom you demand one of another. Your rights and tiles of relationship. Surely Allah watches over you. Yeah, Muslim Sherilyn Charles said. I

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do twice as they must, according to Muslim tradition. And then, as the imam of task Number 77 an imam of the area, declare that surely me a name, a cream and Charles Free are married. Congratulations. Mhm! It's stupid. In this half hour, you've seen the beginnings

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of a new way of thinking for American Muslims under Elijah Mohammed. Muslims didn't vote. They didn't involve themselves. In the non Muslim world, the policy was one of secrecy and exclusion. Bay Area Muslims say that the leadership of Wallace de Mohammed brings with it great changes.

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They say people will no longer be judged by skin color, but by what they stand for. The Muslims say they will now be open and involved in the community, and that the doors of the mosque are open to people of all colors and all races. Allowing

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our cameras through this door and into the world community of Islam is evidence of the new Muslim philosophy. I'm Johnny Barnes, Selvin. Good night, Yeah. Uh huh. Miss me life. Right? Alanya, Alka. The home feet of the really Allahu Akbar. Mhm. Yeah. Samuel Holliman.