heh, arguably, indeed.
Farrakahn compares Obama (R) to NOI founder, Fard Muhammad (L)
Posted on 02/26/2008 11:54:13 AM PST by BGHater
Arguably one of the most overlooked holidays in the United States, Saviour's Day serves as a day for members of the Nation of Islam to commemorate the birth of their founder, Fard Muhammad.
Held annually in Chicago, the celebration gives Nation of Islam followers a chance to congregate and speak on important issues, mostly related to the black community.
"The meaning of Saviour's Day, [is that] on Feb. 26, 1877, the founder of the Nation of Islam, a man by the name of Wallace Fard Muhammad, was born," said Mark 7X Cox, a junior speech communications major. "We come together to commemorate the birth of this man. We have various workshops to help families connect with each other, become more productive and to mobilize upward as people."
Muhammad, the founder of Faradian Islam, was a preacher who established the Nation of Islam (NOI) and their first mosque, located in Detroit.
After spreading the teachings of NOI for three years, he mysteriously disappeared in 1934. After his disappearance, Elijah Muhammad became leader of the Nation of Islam.
The celebration includes a three-day calendar of events touching on issues of interfaith dialogue, health and nutrition, maintaining healthy relationships, education, economic development, voter education, media and communications, agriculture, prison reform, criminal justice, a youth conference and a keynote speech made annually by the NOI leader, Minister Louis Farrakhan.
"The ultimate event of the holiday is when we hear the address from Minister Farrakhan," 7X Cox said. "The subject of his speech was 'The Gods at War: The Future is all about Y.O.U.t.h.' [Among other things,] he talked about the upcoming election. He said that we should pray for brother Barack and his success, also that he is safe throughout this election process."
To many members of NOI, the holiday and gathering serve as a needed retreat from the world's realities. Jalil Muhammed, a freshman history major, said Saviour's Day is a place for him to network and engage in fellowship with his peers from across the country.
"This is as important to those in the Nation of Islam as Christmas would be to Christians," Muhammed said. "All members of the Nation look forward to it. It's a day when men and women of like mind, with similar values and beliefs can come together."
He continued, "The beautiful thing is that you get to see young people from all over the country who are not smoking, drinking or being promiscuous, trying to elevate our people mentally, spiritually and morally."
Despite the holiday's religious appeal to members of NOI, the events attract people from various backgrounds and faiths.
"Usually, this is the highlight for conscious people all over the world, not just those in the Nation of Islam," Muhammed said. "Russell Simmons was there last year."
In an interview with The Final Call, Farrakhan said today's battle lies with the young people of the NOI to carry out the mission started by the forefathers of the religion.
"Today's generation of young black people do not know the enemy as their fathers and grandfathers knew the enemy," Farrakhan said. "When we demand justice, freedom and equity, we excite the worst in our slave masters and their children, and they come against us. These cases of the Jena '6,' Megan Williams, Martin Lee Anderson, Sean Bell and Generalow Wilson - they are just a smidgen of what is going on throughout America by evil white people bent on teaching us a lesson."
heh, arguably, indeed.
Farrakahn compares Obama (R) to NOI founder, Fard Muhammad (L)
Saviour’s Day has always been Christmas. When did it change?
The birth of a White-hating separatist black-supremacist revolutionary movement.
>> Arguably one of the most overlooked holidays in the United States, <<
“One of the least recognized” doesn’t mean “one of the most overlooked.”
if this Fard dude is claimed to be the “Saviour”, he could at least rise from the dead. Otherwise fuggidaboudit.
>> Mark 7X Cox <<
LOL!
Fard’s FBI file here: http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/fard.htm
He was actually born in 1891, of mixed Polynesian and European ancestry, at least according to the FBI investigation. Their opening profile of Fard is refreshingly blunt: “an enterprising racketeering fake.”
I Fard on both of them; I will paeon neither!
from dictionary.com:
fard
–noun 1. facial cosmetics.
–verb (used with object) 2. to apply cosmetics to (the face).
And here I’ve not even finished my shopping.
How shocking! I always thought a Fard was a unit of electrical measurement, connected with oms.
Chili and beer have nothing to do with fards?
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