re: "Hate Map" created by the Southern Poverty Law Center

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Louisiana has like three chapters of The Nation of Islam listed.

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Nation of Islam really isn't Islam. It's more of a black supremacy movement. It has more differences than similarities to mainstream Islam.

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On the other hand, started by Wallace Fard in 1930, the NOI is centered on the belief that the Blacks is a greater race than any other. These people are deemed to be capable of being elevated to the same status as Allah. Because NOI believers are mainly black people, they accept that the white denomination is the incarnate of the devil himself. Unlike Islam, NOI does not follow Muhammad PBUH and his teachings. In his place, they follow what Muhammad Elijah has taught them. Elijah is actually a student of Ford who was renamed with such title

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