On Christmas: What Would OUR Jesus Do?

Weekly Newsletter • Volume 3, Number 51

Minister Louis FARRAKHAN Tours The Caribbean

On Christmas: What Would OUR Jesus Do?

By Nation of Islam Research Group

In 1845, the great Black abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass explained that these so-called holidays were “one of the grossest frauds committed upon the down-trodden slave.” He saw right through the false religious piety to the real economic motive of the celebrations: “I believe them to be among the most effective means in the hands of the slaveholder in keeping down the spirit of insurrection. These holidays serve as… safety-valves, to carry off the rebellious spirit of enslaved humanity.”

The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad forthrightly challenged the Black man’s adoption of the white man’s holiday in his 1974 book Our Saviour Has Arrived, and no one has remarked more plainly on the hypocrisy of Christmas celebrants, who “pretend to love worshipping the prophet on the 25th day of December”: “They stagger drunkenly all over the streets, campuses, and most of the homes and churches, with card games, dice and other games of chance and all kinds of whisky and beer — to celebrate that great prophet; with fighting and killing and eating swine flesh. Such is the day which they call the birthday of Jesus.”

But today Blacks ignore this sage advice and follow the commandments of Macy’s and Wal-Mart, Target and Toys ‘R’ Us and fall further and further into debt and credit card subjection. In fact, it seems that Black people walked off the plantation and into the department store. We went from standing on an

auction block waiting to be sold to standing in the checkout line waiting to be fleeced.

Before the merchants cynically snatched Jesus from the Christians and exiled him to the North Pole, Blacks were at the forefront of truly celebrating Jesus’ life as a freedom fighter and revolutionary. Once upon a time our brothers and sisters suffering the physical chains of slavery had a different type of “yuletide” spirit. And on Christmas, they asked themselves a question rarely asked in America: “On His birthday, what would Jesus do?”

If He returned today would He be swiping a credit card, or, as the Scripture says, fighting for the freedom of all human beings.

On Christmas Day in 1701, fifteen Blacks on the tiny Caribbean Island of Antigua celebrated by rising up and giving the caucasian sugar planter who enslaved them a present to remember: they hacked him to pieces—killed because of the manner he treated his female slaves. The dead Major Samuel Martin was also the Speaker of the Antiguan Assembly. Their rebellion was short-lived, however; they were overpowered by the island’s well-armed militia. And though their dreams of freedom were frustrated, their spirited yuletide example permeated the colonial Caribbean.

Our Jamaican brothers and sisters weren’t waiting for Santa either. In 1831, under the command of a Black “house slave” named Samuel Sharpe, they rose up against the white oppressors. A true

2 believer in Jesus, our Baptist Brother Samuel used hanged along the roadway, their dead bodies serving his insider position to secretly organize a peaceful as a warning to other Africans.

Christmas strike among his fellow captives in orBut as the Quran says [2:154] of those who are slain der to win better working conditions. Word leaked in the way of Allah, do not speak of them as dead. Beout to the whites, who violently responded, turning cause from 1521 onward, plantation owners ended the peaceful action into a the importation of Muslims full-scale Christmas rebelto the island. The strength lion. Sharpe’s forces grew and bravery of those Mussteadily in number—some lims in Hispaniola struck say to 40,000—and they so much fear in the white traversed the island burnman that their actions very ing down nearly 160 large likely saved untold numsugar plantations one by bers of Muslims back in Afone. Within a week the rica from becoming victims rebels controlled the enof the slave trade. tire western interior of Much of what is under Jamaica, including the our Christmas trees is the mountainous regions. result of handing over $20 The rebels targeted dollar bills etched with the property and not people, portrait of President Anas shown by the fact that drew Jackson. But think only 12 whites were killed. over the irony of that holiBut the British responded day exchange. In the 1830s with both their militia and Pres. Jackson was in a fulltheir navy, and they masHarriet Tubman (1820-1913); Spent Christmas savscale war with the Seminole ing Black souls from white Christians. sacred more than 200 of the Indians in the territory now freedom-seeking Blacks. 300 known as Florida. Our Indimore Africans were systematically executed in a hor- an Brothers and Sisters provided a refuge for escaped rifying manner, along with Bro. Samuel Sharpe. Now Africans and Jackson intended to end that Black– known in Jamaica as the 1831 Christmas Rebellion, Red Alliance. On Christmas of 1835, Africans and it sent shockwaves through Britain, which ultimately Seminoles launched the St. John Rebellion against decided to abolish slavery—not because of any awak- the region’s sugar plantations. One caucasian official ened sympathy or morality, but because the Baptist Bro. Sharpe and his freedom-fighting rebel forces had made slavery too costly and thus unprofitable.

In 1492, Portuguese slave trader Christopher Columbus landed on Hispaniola (now Haiti and Dominican Republic), bringing with him slavery, disease, death, and destruction. He sailed off to his next indigenous victims but left his son Don Diego Colon in charge of the island, where he owned a major sugar plantation. On Christmas day of 1521, twenty Africans of the Muslim Wolof people launched that island’s first slave rebellion. Taking advantage of the holiday lull, the Muslims gathered twenty more to their cause and tried to effect their escape. They killed and captured those who tried to stop them and burned plantations as they made their way. The Europeans quickly responded in force and in a few days the rebellion was thwarted. The rebels were

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sounded the alarm: “If a sufficient military force… is not sent…the whole frontier may be laid waste by a combination of the Indians, Indian negroes, & the Negroes on the plantations—It is useless to mince this question.”

A Jewish soldier named Myer M. Cohen was a leader of the force sent to destroy the Seminoles and return the Africans to slavery. He reported that the freedom fighters were so rapid in their movements that within five days they had burned and destroyed several plantations, freeing 45 slaves from one; 180 from another; 80 and then 300 from the two others. The Seminole wars lasted for many years and ultimately succumbed to defeat. That mighty Black–Red alliance is one of the only authentic alliances Blacks have ever had in America, and it is one that is sealed in blood.

Harriet Tubman was not waiting for Donner or Blitzen. On Christmas Day, 1854, she was in Dorchester County, Maryland, in secret assembly with seven enslaved Africans whose captor was considered “the worst man in the country.” Two of those were Sis. Harriet’s own blood brothers and she came to lead them out of bondage—she would eventually lead 300 Africans out of American slavery. Hundreds of miles they traveled, hiding in ditches and caves in the day, sneaking through forests and fording through streams in the night. She was ever watchful of the roving bands of whites—called paddyrollers—who with their bloodhounds watched out for escapees and sought to earn the bounties the captured runaways would bring. Frederick Douglass described his own escape from slavery: “At every gate through which we were to pass we saw a watchman, at every ferry a guard; on every bridge a sentinel and in every wood a patrol. We were hemmed in upon every side.”

But Harriet Tubman, even with a reward of $12,000 on her head (that’s $300,000 today!), kept asking herself, “What would Jesus do?” and she persevered northward. The isolated network of houses of free Blacks that made up the Underground Railroad provided some respite, but the abhorrent Fugitive Slave Law deputized every white citizen—North and South—making them into legal slave catchers.

Ultimately, Sister Harriet and her companions crossed the bridge at Niagara Falls and made it into Canada, where the law gave Blacks a measure of freedom. Their Christmas song was true: Glory to God and Jesus too, One more soul is safe!

Oh, go and carry the news, One more soul got safe!

3 Every year on Christmas—indeed, every single day—we must continue to ask ourselves that profound question, “On His birthday, What would OUR Jesus do?” Our Jesus is The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad who taught that spending ourselves into debt to serve a false holiday will never be in our interest. On every Christmas Day the Muslims must be found working hard to unite our people to pool our resources to build something for self, and educating and qualifying ourselves for independence.

“Come follow me,” He said in Message to the Blackman, “and I will show you how to do this without having to shed a drop of blood….This chance can be had if you go about it in the right way.”

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Why Do Our Best Friends Sell Us?

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Homosexual Behavior as Population Control

By Ridgely Abdul Mu’min Muhammad

population explosion. The practice seems to have been reserved for the aristocratic elite, and it was a “recognized pubThe Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has been labeled lic institution connected with the education of young men “homophobic” because he dares to promote a heterosexual in military virtues” and athletics training. As the historian lifestyle that he maintains is sanctioned by God. Of course, Strabo records it: [The Cretans] have a peculiar custom in regard to love afthere are those who do not believe in the God of Abraham and His laws as stated in both the Bible and the Holy Qur’an. fairs, for they win the objects of their love, not by persuaThere are others that claim that homosexual behavior is a re- sion, but by abduction; the lover tells the friends of the boy sult of some people having a genetic disposition for sex with three or four days beforehand that he is going to make the the same gender and therefore to condemn such a behavior abduction; but for the friends to conceal the boy, or not to let him go forth the appointed road, is indeed a most disgraceis cruel.

Does “genetic disposition” suffice to excuse a behavior that ful thing, a confession, as it were, that the boy is unworthy may be antisocial? Do White people have a right to subjugate to obtain such a lover; and when they meet, if the abductor Black people because Whites innately believe that they are is the boy’s equal or superior in rank or other respects, the better than Blacks? Are White people’s feelings of superiority friends pursue him and lay hold of him, though only in a and racist actions toward Blacks excusable because they may very gentle way, thus satisfying the custom; and after that they cheerfully turn the boy over to have a genetic disposition to dominate and him to lead away; if, however, the destroy Black populations? abductor is unworthy, they take the The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan boy away from him. And the pursuit has uncovered documents that prove that does not end until the boy is taken former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to the andreion [a building where promoted a policy of population control men took meals together and were where billions of humans were to be elimitrained in the warrior arts]’ of his nated. A sure way of controlling or reducabductor. ing population would be to eliminate the After being abducted the “boy sexual relationship between males and fespends a time with his older “lover” males. Black males and females are over(erastes) in the wilderness of the represented in prisons, where there is a countryside, where he is taught how proliferation of same-sex behavior. Homoto hunt and fight militarily and ensexuality would then lead to sure genocide gages in male-on-male sexual relaor “desolation,” as described in the Book of tions. The man and boy become Daniel in the Bible.

Aristotle (384–322 bc), Greek philosoopen lovers. At the end of the Is sexual preference simply a question pher and scientist.

2-month period in the countryside, of “genes” or is it culturally determined?

Does homosexuality have a beginning or has it always been the “lover” presented his “beloved” with a set of military arwith us? Can a society increase the number of homosexuals mor and equipment, a drinking cup and an ox for sacrifice to Zeus (these are the gifts required by law), among many through chemicals or social engineering?

A review of history shows that the ancient Greeks are other presents. According to the Roman biographer and hisknown to have practiced and condoned homosexual behav- torian Cornelius Nepos, “In Greece it is considered an honor ior. In fact, we know that at least one Greek city-state, Sparta, to young men to have as many lovers as possible.”

Some may argue that this is all myth and fairy tale, but is famous for its homosexual warriors. The Greeks claim that archeological findings point to the actual Greek homosexual their race came from the isles in the Aegean Sea, and the Cretans claim that the major Grecian god, Zeus, was born in a practices. A number of these archeological finds have been cave on the Greek island of Crete. “Pederasty”—the practice interpreted as documentation of the Cretan pederastic rites of older men “turning out” or sexually overpowering young of passage. At a sanctuary or shrine dedicated to Hermes boys—was widespread in early Sparta and a widespread and Aphrodite in eastern Crete on the slopes of Mount Dikte (long claimed to be Zeus’ birthplace, among other places, practice in Crete.

According to the Encyclopedia of Birth Control, the Greeks according to Greek mythology), archeological excavations traced the origin of “pederasty” to the ancient Minoans, the have uncovered numerous bronze objects offered to the deiinhabitants of ancient Crete. Aristotle argued that the people ties, together with remains of animal sacrifices.

Among these were found bronze figures of youths from on Crete institutionalized the custom to cut down on the

the Minoan period (before 1100 BC), indicating this to have been a long-standing sanctuary site. Such figurines were offered over the course of many centuries. One set, dated to ca. 8th-7th century BC and presently in the Louvre, depicts a male couple consisting of an older bearded male and a younger male with long, flowing hair and curls. The older partner grasps the younger by the arm and draws him close. They are looking intently at each other, their legs and feet are touching, and the genitals of the younger male are exposed.

So was the young Cretan male somehow genetically confused or was he turned? In fact, Strabo also indicates that it is the boy’s masculinity that consigns him his lover: They regard as a worthy object of love, not the boy who is exceptionally handsome, but the boy who is exceptionally manly and decorous.

Therefore the youth exhibits masculine, and not feminine, traits before being abducted. He therefore was “turned.” Fortunately for the Cretans, this behavior was mostly practiced by the aristocracy, because if all of the men turned to men, there would be no one left to procreate. For the aristocracy taking a wife was for child-producing purposes, while taking a boy was for pleasure. In fact, the Greek philosopher Plato stated, “I cannot say what greater good there is for a young boy than a gentle lover, or for a lover than a boy to love.” Lesbianism was also practiced on the island of Crete and in Greece, and the name itself comes from the name of the island of Lesbos in the Aegean Sea. The Bible authors try to give an explanation for the three major categories of man or races. The human race was destroyed by a flood. Only Noah and his three sons and their wives were saved. After the flood the earth was divided and populated by his three sons: Shem, representing what are called the “Semites,” Ham, whose biblical descendants were identified with the “Cushites,” or the Black nation, and Japheth, traditionally

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viewed as the ancestor of the “Gentiles,” or white race. Japheth is said to have populated what is called in the Bible the “isles of the Gentiles” (Genesis 10:2-5). The “-iles” part refers to the mountainous islands in the Aegean Sea. So the Bible gets it right in this instance and places the home of the “Gentiles” in the Aegean Sea, but it is The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, who gives us the exact location of the place where the white race was made through a process of genetic selection or grafting. The birthplace of the white race was the island of Patmos in the Aegean Sea. It took 600 years to graft the white race from their original Black stock.

This process was started 6,600 years ago, a process that has been verified through genetic research done by Dr. Jonathan Pritchard at the University of Chicago. More on these findings can be found in a Final Call article titled “Myth Or High Science: Is There Evidence Of Mr. Yakub?”

So maybe those who want to promote a heterosexual lifestyle should separate from those that want to live a homosexual lifestyle, so as not to offend the “gay population.” All aspects of the media—television, music and movies—seem to promote the acceptance of homosexual behavior. So maybe the parents who do not want their sons or daughters “turned” should separate themselves from a society where homosexuality is becoming sanctioned by the state.

Of course, the strictly gay society would not last beyond one generation unless they get babies through adoption or abduction or recruits from the heterosexual community. “Pederasty” is that recruitment process.

(Dr. Ridgely A. Mu’min Muhammad, Agricultural Economist, National Student Minister of Agriculture, Manager of Muhammad Farms. He can be reached at drridge@noimoa.com)

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