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Declaration of Independence
In the beginning of the Declaration of Independence, the first paragraph states, "
When in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected
them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature
and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the cause
which impel them to the Separation."
Declaration of Separatiion
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad
declares the causes which impels us to separate. Read the solution to the problem that we face here in America. The
Honorable Elijah Muhammad did exactly what a civilized man was supposed to do, and he declare the causes for separation. We
were never given the rights to which the Laws of Nature and Natures God entitle us.
What the Muslims want.
Program and position
What do the Muslims want?
This is the question asked most frequently
by both the whites and the blacks. The answers to his question I shall state as simply as possible.
1. We want freedom. We want a full and complete freedom.
2. We want Justice. Equal justice under the law.
We want justice applied equally to all regardless of creed, class, or color.
3. We want equality of opportunity.
We want equal membership in society with the best in civilized society.
4. We want our people in America whose
parents or grandparents were descendants from slaves to be allowed, to establish a separate state or territory of their own--either
on this continent or elsewhere. We believe that our former slave-masters are obligated to provide such land and that
the area must be fertile and mineral rich. We believe that our former slave-master are obligated to maintain and supply our
needs in this separate territory for the next 20 to 25 years until we are able to produce and supply our won needs.
Since we cannot get along with them in peace and equality after giving them 400 years of our sweat and blood and receiving
in return some of the worst treatment human beings have the suffering forced upon us by white America justifies our demand
for complete separation in a state or territory of our own.
5. We want freedom for all Believers of Islam now held
in federal prisons. We want freedom for all black men and women now under death sentence in innumerable prisons in the North
as well as the South.
We want every black man and woman to have the freedom to accept or reject
being separated from the slave-master; children and establish a land of their own.
We know that
the above plan for the solution of the black and white conflict is the best and only answer to the problem between two people.
6. We want an immediate end to the police brutality and mob attacks against the so-called Negro throughout the United
States.
We believe that the Federal government should intercede to see that black men and women
tried in white courts receive justice in accordance with the laws of the land, or allow us to build a new nation for
ourselves, dedicated to justice, freedom and liberty.
7. As long as we are not allowed to establish a state or
territory of our own, we demand not only equal justice under the laws of the United States but equal employment opportunities
-NOW!
8. We want equal education-but separate schools up to 16 for boys and 18 for girls on the conditions that
the girls be sent to women's colleges and universities. We want all black children educated, taught and trained by their
own teacher.
Under such school system we believe we will make a better nation of people.
The United Sates government should provide free all necessary text books and equipment, schools and college buildings.
The Muslim teachers shall be left free to teach and train their people in the way of righteousness, decency and self respect.
10. We believe that intermarriage or race mixing should be prohibited. We want the religion of Islam taught
without hindrance or suppression.
These are some of the things that we, the Muslims, want for
our people in North America.
What do the Muslims Believe?
1. WE believe in the One God
Whose proper name is Allah.
2. We believe in the Holy Qur-an and in the Scriptures of all the Prophets of God.
3. We believe in the truth of the Bible, but we believe that it has been tampered with and must be reinterpreted so
that mankind will be snared by the falsehoods that have been added to it.
4. We believe in Allah's Prophets
and the Scriptures they brought to the people.
5. We believe in the resurrection of the dead --not in physical
resurrection but mental resurrection. We believe that the so-called Negroes are most in need of mental resurrection;
therefore, they will be resurrected first.
Furthermore, we believe we are the people of God's
choice as it has been written that God would choose the rejected and the despised. We can find no other persons fitting
this description in these last days more than the so-called Negroes in America. We believe in the resurrection of the
righteous.
7. We believe this is the time in history for the separation of the so-called Negroes and the so-called
white Americans. We believe the black man should be freed from names imposed upon him by his former slave-masters. Names
which identified him as being the slave of a slave-master. We believe that if we are free indeed, we should go in our
own people's names-the black peoples of he earth.
8. We believe in justice for all whether in God or not. We
believe as others that we are due equal justice as human beings. We believe in quality-asa nation - or equals.
We do not believe that we are equal with our slave-master in the status of "Freed slaves."
We recognize and respect American citizens as independent peoples, and we respect their laws which govern this nation.
9. We believe that the offer of integration is hypocritical and is made by those who are trying to deceive the black
peoples into believing that their 400-year-old open enemies of freedom, justice and equality are, all of a sudden, their "friends."
Furthermore, we believe that such deception is intended to prevent black people from realizing that the time in history has
arrived for the separation from the whites of this nation.
If the white people are truthful
about their professed friendship toward the so-called Negro, they can prove it by dividing up America with their slaves.
We do not believe that America will ever be able to furnish enough jobs for her own millions of
unemployed in addition to jobs for the 20,000,000 black people.
10. We believe that we who declared ourselves to
be righteous Muslims should not participate in wars which take the lives of humans. We do not believe this nation should
force us to take part in such wars, for we have nothing to gain from it unless America agrees to give us the necessary territory
wherein we may have something to fight for.
11. We believe our women should be respected and protected as the women
of other nationalities are respected and protected.
12. We believe that Allah (God) appeared in the Person of Master
W. Fard Muhammad, July, 1930--the long awaited "Messiah" of the Christians and the "Mahdi" of the Muslims.
We believe further and lastly that Allah is God and besides HIM there is no God and He will bring
about a universal government of peace wherein we can live in peace together.
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