Has the Nation of Islam, a tradition hinged on separatism, evolved into supporters of the President of the United States? If so, how does that affect the Nation’s ground-up community networks and socio-political analysis of American society?
Islam is part of America,” said President Barack Obama in his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo last week. But though Obama cited Muslim communities around the world and championed Islamic influence in the United States, he did not mention one community that’s especially unique to America: the Nation of Islam.
Perhaps that’s to be expected; after all, the Nation has built its foundation as one separate and opposed to the US government, which hardly reconciles with the religious and political cooperation that Obama championed in Cairo.
As well, the Nation itself long kept quiet about Obama, both during and after his presidential campaign.
For a long time, it wasn’t easy to find out exactly what the Nation of Islam thought of the election of the first black president of the United States.
There were no press releases on November 5, no public statements from Minister Louis Farrakhan, the Nation’s leader for thirty years. From Election Day to Inauguration Day, the religious movement of black nationalism kept itself out of the spotlight.
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