Members of the Nation of Islam are practicing the religion of Scientology

On December 8 - 9, 2018: Nation of Islam Sister Nayyirah Tivia Muhammad will host a Repair of the Black Family event at 1130 8th Ave. South, Nashville, TN, which just happens to be the address of the Church of Scientology and Celebrity Centre of Nashville. Workshops will be presented on Communication, Disaster Preparedness, Self Analysis, Personal Values and Integrity, and more. Other venues will include Birmingham, Hunstville, Atlanta, Chattanooga, and Mississippi.

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I find it interesting that while the promo necessarily lists the address where the event will be held, it does not state that it is being held at the Church of Scientology and Celebrity Centre of Nashville. Also, in contrast to promo for Repair of the Black Family events held last year, the promo for this years events does not mention Dianetcs or anything Scientology related. Or at least Scientology related to anyone who is not otherwise informed. In context, the workshops on Communication, Disaster Preparedness, Self Analysis, Personal Values and Integrity are obviously based on Scientology Life Improvement and other Scientology courses.

According to Nation of Islam Sister Nayyirah Tivica Muhammad, there are "many" NOI Auditors in the Phoenix area. Perhaps coincidentally and as noted above, a well attended Repair of the Black Family event hosted by Nation of Islam Sister Nayyirah Tivica Muhammad was held at the Church of Scientology of Phoenix on November 10, 2018.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/DianeticallySpeaking/permalink/1826979154067760/

Scientology Class V Auditor, OT II, and Scientology Minister or Minister-In-Training at the Church of Scientology of London Nation of Islam Brother Alexander Ofori-Muhammad has created his sixth Scientology Clear.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/DianeticallySpeaking/permalink/1832155366883472/




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Nation of Islam FOI Captain Andrew Muhammad guest speaker at Wakanda United & Black History celebrations held at the Church of Scientology Birmingham.

FOI = Fruit of Islam, the paramilitary wing of the Nation of Islam (NOI).

https://twitter.com/wntvuk/status/1064654912930361344

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More photos from the Repair of the Black Family event hosted by Nation of Islam Sister Nayyirah Tivica Muhammad at the Church of Scientology of Phoenix. Exes and Scientology watchers will recognize instruction in the Tone Scale, Dianetics, Communication, and more. Ten photos.

Nation of Islam Sister Nayyirah Tivica Muhammad who, quoting the book The Fall Of America by the Hon. Elijah Muhammad, teaches --

"So, with "The Worst Yet To Come," I say to you my Black brothers and my Black sisters, fly to Allah; and come follow me! There are some intelligent white people who know and who will bear witness with me that the worst is yet to come!"

-- is the keynote speaker at Repair of the Black Family event at the Church of Scientology of Nashville on December 9 - 10, 2018.

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Anger over Scientology "ally" and "partner" Farrakhan ties prompts calls for Women’s March leaders to resign.

The obvious point is that if the leaders of the Women's March are being pressured to resign because of their ties to Minister Farrakhan, why shouldn't Scientology leader David Miscavige? Why shouldn't the Church of Scientology be forced to address the issues arising from its partnership and alliance with the Nation of Islam, Minister Farrakhan and Minister Tony Muhammad?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/anger-over-farrakhan-ties-prompts-calls-for-womens-march-leaders-to-resign/2018/11/21/6d925942-edb4-11e8-8679-934a2b33be52_story.html?utm_term=.9c97f2db148b



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Opposition To Womens March Leaders Grows Over Antsemitism, Connections To Scientology "Ally" And "Partner" Farrakhan.

Again, the point is that if opposition to Women’s March leaders is growing over anti-Semitism and connections to Farrakhan, then why isn't opposition to Scientology growing for the same reasons?

https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/11/20/opposition-to-womens-march-leaders-grows-over-antisemitism-farrakhan-connections/





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Nation of Islam Sister Nayyirah Tivica Muhammad is always about the mission of resurrection at her local Church of Scientology.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/DianeticallySpeaking/permalink/1838397939592548/

From Dianetically Speaking, the public Facebook home of the Nation of Islam and the Church of Scientology, another attempt to reconcile the theology of the Nation of Islam with the theology of Scientology.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/DianeticallySpeaking/permalink/1840028192762856/



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The first overt on the track was the scientist who blew away the part of our earth ?? called “Moon” ?? simply because he wanted us all to speak the same language.. Talk about an overt. lol
Clearly he had a misunderstood on language and dialect.

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From the Wikipedia article explaining the cosmology of the Nation of Islam:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_Islam#Cosmology

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Cosmology

Elijah Muhammad once said that the Moon was once a part of the Earth, and that the Earth is over 76 trillion years old.[44] The entire land mass on the Earth was called "Asia". This was, Elijah Muhammad claimed, long before Adam.[45] Elijah Muhammad declared that Black People in America are descendants of the Asian black nation and of the tribe of Shabazz. He writes on page 31 of his book, "Message to the Blackman in America", "...who is this tribe of Shabazz? Originally, they were the tribe who came with the earth (or this part) 66 trillion years ago when a great explosion on our planet divided it into two parts. One we call earth and the other moon. This was done by one of our scientists, God, who wanted the people to speak one language, one dialect for all, but was unable to bring this about."[46]

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How Scientology And The Nation Of Islam Formed A Bizarre And Dangerous Alliance

The Federalist: How Scientology And The Nation Of Islam Formed A Bizarre And Dangerous Alliance

http://thefederalist.com/2018/11/26/scientology-and-the-nation-of-islam-have-formed-a-bizarre-and-dangerous-alliance/

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In 2017, Scientology awarded its highest honor, the Freedom Medal, to NOI Minister Tony Muhammad. Actor Tom Cruise received the award in 2004. In his acceptance speech, Muhammad thanks Allah, Elijah Muhammad, and Farrakhan, whose name invokes loud applause. Muhammad is the Western Regional Representative for NOI, and is seen as the person in the NOI who, by far, is most responsible for pushing the Scientology/NOI alliance. Muhammad recently helped to launch a Scientology center in Ireland.

A few months after winning his award, Muhammad delivered a lecture to NOI members titled, “Why The Jews Hated Jesus; And Why The Jews Hate Farrakhan,” where he praises Farrakhan; expresses multiple conspiracy theories; and describes Jews as a “wicked,” “lying,” and “arrogant” people. Just last week, Muhammad claimed that, in addition to controlling the entertainment business and banking, Jews control “drugs,” “pedophilia,” and “pornography.”

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Linda Sarsour is still refusing to condemn Scientology "ally" and "partner" Farrakhan’s hate.

https://nypost.com/2018/11/25/linda-sarsour-is-still-refusing-to-condemn-farrakhans-hate/



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Scientology "Ally" And "Partner" Farrakhan: Jews are fake Semites, white people are unnatural,

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/255138





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Nation of Islam and Scientology: Their Dangerous Alliance

By Ryan Mauro and Alex VanNess, Clarion Project, November 27, 2018

The Nation of Islam and Scientology would seem to have nothing in common, yet they have formed a bizarre ans dangerous alliance.

The Church of Scientology, an organization created by the science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, is a cult that boasts multiple A-list actors in its membership. Scientology was founded in the 1950’s, after the publishing of Hubbard’s self-help book Dianetics. This cult is built around the ideas found within both Dianetics and the science fiction genre for which Hubbard was known.

Scientology has multiple celebrities and business magnates in their membership. In addition to being worth billions of dollars with massive real-estate holdings, Scientology has been known to attack detractors and cover up the misdeeds of some of its most prominent members.

Scientology has faced a storm of public criticisms over the past decade, much of it done by former members of the group. One action taken by Scientology, in response to the criticism, was to establish a front group called Scientologists Taking Action Against Discrimination (STAND). STAND claims its goal is to “put a stop to incitement of bigotry and hate crimes, and to secure religious freedom for Man,” however, the group spends most of its time attacking critics of Scientology.

Scientology and their group STAND pay lip service to fighting against religious bigotry. Recently, following the massacre of 11 Jews at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, STAND expressed solidarity with the Jewish community. However, while Scientology claims their sympathies are with the Jewish faith, they in fact have had a long-term partnership with a group of the most hateful, anti-Semites in America, The Nation of Islam (NOI).

The NOI has a long history of extremism and Holocaust denial. NOI’s spiritual leader, Louis Farrakhan, has a long history of anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-white and conspiracy-filled preaching. Farrakhan regularly calls Jews “Satanic” and claims that they “control everything and mostly everybody.” In a recent sermon, he compared Jews to termites and called his Jewish critics “stupid.”

The relationship between Scientology and NOI goes back nearly two decades. Farrakhan was introduced to Scientology in the late 90s. Scientology leader David Miscavige expressed interest in attracting members of the black community and, by 2006, Scientologists honored Farrakhan at the Ebony Awakening Awards.

In 2010, Scientology held a summit near the NOI’s headquarter and, according to the NOI’s official publication, The Final Call, this was around the same time when Farrakhan began having NOI members take courses in “Dianetics.”

One of Scientology’s most important practices is that of “auditing.” A Scientology audit is a therapy session in which an auditor listens to a patient and helps them to eliminate negative emotions and obtain higher levels of consciousness. It has been alleged that auditing sessions are monitored and that the information obtained through these sessions can be used for blackmail.

By 2013, the NOI boasted, “the Nation of Islam has 1,055 Certified Auditors. Among those are 526 auditors who have received their Gold Seal permanent certification, demonstrating consistent proficiency and results.” They go further, claiming that, “8,500 members of the Nation of Islam have participated in Dianetics seminars.” It is said that Farrakhan personally receives a commission for recruiting NOI members to become Certified Dianetics Auditors.

In 2017, Scientology awarded its highest honor, the Freedom Medal, to NOI Minister Tony Muhammad. In his acceptance speech, Muhammad thanks Allah, Elijah Muhammad and Louis Farrakhan whose name invokes loud applause. Muhammad is the western regional representative for NOI, and is seen as the person in NOI who, by far, is most responsible for pushing the Scientology/NOI alliance. Muhammad recently helped launch a Scientology center in Ireland.

A few months after winning his award, Muhammad delivered a lecture to NOI members titled “Why The Jews Hated Jesus; And Why The Jews Hate Farrakhan,” in which he praised Farrakhan, expressed multiple conspiracy theories and describes Jews as a “wicked,” “lying” and “arrogant” people. Muhammad recently claimed, that, in addition to controlling the entertainment business and banking, Jews control “drugs,” “pedophilia” and “pornography.”

This alliance has given the NOI access to Scientology facilities around the world, as well as use of their infrastructure and ability to attack defectors and opponents. While Scientology and many of its well-known members call for an end to hate, they have closed their eyes to the fact that NOI has been spending the past decade solidifying an alliance with Scientology.

This is truly an alliance one wishes were confined to the realm of science fiction.

This article appeared originally in The Federalist

Source: https://clarionproject.org/nation-of-islam-and-scientology-their-dangerous-alliance/

This article was first published in The Federalist in an item noted and excerpted above. The authors of the article as published on both The Federalist and The Clarion Project are:

Ryan Mauro, ClarionProject.org's Shillman Fellow and national security analyst and head of the Clarion Intelligence Network. He is also an adjunct professor of counter-terrorism; and

Alex VanNess, a Research Analyst for the Clarion Intelligence Network and a Fellow at the Endowment for Middle East Truth.

Scientology "ally" and "partner" Louis Farrakhan warns against ‘Satanic Jews’ in Chicago speech.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/louis-farrakhan-warns-against-satanic-jews-in-chicago-speech/




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The Repair of the Black Family event on December 8 - 9, 2018 at the Church of Scientology and Celebrity Centre of Nashville will include instruction in Self Analysis.

"We cannot serve two masters."

I believe it may be significant that this sermon is being given. I find it interesting that Nation of Islam Sister Nayyirah Tivica Muhammad posted this to Facebook. I am not entirely confident Sister Nayyirah Tivica Muhammad gets the point.

Scientology "ally" and partner" Farrakhan's influence tarnishes Women's March leadership team.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/26/louis-farrakhan-stains-womens-march-leaders-linda-/



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Nation of Islam Sister Nayyirah Tivica Muhammad is a Scientology Class II Hubbard Certified Auditor and a Minister or Minister-in-Training of the Church of Scientology.

See also the first and subsequent posts in this thread for more about Scientology Ministers and Ministers-in-Training.

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Nation of Islam Brother Elgie Muhammad has completed the Scientology New Era Dianetics Drug Rundown.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/DianeticallySpeaking/permalink/1848354751930200/

From Dianetically Speaking, the public Facebook home of the Nation of Islam and the Church of Scientology:

""Suppressives" in Scientology is a "Hypocrite" in Islam! - Minister Louis Farrakhan"

NOTE: The concept of "hypocrite" is very important in the Nation of Islam.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/DianeticallySpeaking/permalink/1848914361874239/



This is yet another effort to reconcile the theology, concepts and theory of the Nation of Islam with the those of Scientology.

By way of background, Nation of Islam Brother Kenny Muhammad was previously "Highly Commended" for his role at the Black Scientologists Convention.



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Alex VanNess, co-author of the recent story "Nation of Islam and Scientology: Their Dangerous Alliance," blocked by the Scientology STAND League.

https://twitter.com/thealexvanness/status/1069021540887465984

Scientology recognizes there are three barriers to study: (1) The Misunderstood Word: (2) Too Steep a Gradient; and (3) Lack of Mass. Nation of Islam Brother Luqman Muhammad explains these barriers to study can be understood through the teachings of the Most Hon. Elijah Muhammad and the Supreme Wisdom of the Nation of Islam.

I'm posting this to demonstrate the efforts being made by some NOI members to reconcile their membership in the NOI with their participation in Scientology.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/DianeticallySpeaking/permalink/1848332348599107/

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Luqman Muhammad

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The Technology of Study has been a tool given to us that has helped me tremendously with regards to the understanding of any subject matter.
Identifying the Three Barriers to Understanding has removed great obstacles and has helped me tremendously over these years of being on course.

1. The Misunderstood Word
2. Too Steep a Gradient
3. Lack of Mass

I won’t go into each in detail but I would like to pose the question.

Are these Three Barriers found in the teachings of the Most Hon. Elijah Muhammad?

Have we already been given these three keys but somehow they were overlooked?

The first concept is the Misunderstood Words.

A sentence is like a Mathematical equation. There are words contained in the sentence that may act as variables. If the variable remains unknown then the equation cannot be solved.

The same principle applies to our use of words. If a word is misunderstood then the sentence is vague.

In the study of Linear Algebra, also known as Matrix Algebra, the student is given multiple equations that must be solved simultaneously.

The variable of one equation must be understood in order to solve the remaining equations. This principle also applies to our Problem Book.

Words make up sentences and sentences make up paragraphs. Paragraphs make up pages and pages make up chapters. Misunderstanding one word may diminish our true grasp of an entire chapter.

We have been taught in our Supreme Wisdom in Rule # 3 … “But there is more to be understood in the words.”

With regards to the significance of gradient, the Most Hon. Elijah Muhammad has taught us that when you feed a baby you have to give it milk. You cannot give a baby meat.

This teaches us that the gradient must be in agreement with the student’s ability to understand. Give too much information and more harm than help can be done.

This phrase corresponds to the concept of Too Steep a Gradient.

Finally, regarding the Lack of Mass, we have been taught in Closing the Gap that Master Fard Muhammad taught the early converts through the use of pictures.

“Now, let’s look at the quality of the persons with whom the master first dealt. What was their condition? They were totally in the dark. They were a very ignorant people. So, Master Fard Muhammad, to Whom praise is due forever, taught them in a language that was the way you teach babies. You teach babies using words that conjure pictures. The picture is not the truth. But the truth is contained in the picture. But as long as the picture remains in the brain, as you mature in understanding, then you can reach into the picture and extract the principle of truth that lies therein.” (Closing the Gap, page 19)

Along with these three concepts I would like to offer a three more. 1. We must understand the Nature or Essence of what we are studying. 2. We must be able to see the Presence of Allah (God) in what we study and 3. We must be able to apply the concepts under examination to the Study of Self.

“Almighty Allah has taught me that if we study the universe and the nature of the earth: its plants, animals and insect life; if we study this part of Allah’s creation and the natural laws working among them, we will have the key to understanding of the way of life intended by God for you and me. This is the language of a scientist.” (Closing the Gap, pg. 312)

The importance of the Study of Allah (God) and the application to Self is found in A Torchlight for America, pages 48 – 51.

There are many concepts found in our Study of Dianetics and the principles of Scientology that are already present in what we have received from the Most Hon. Elijah Muhammad and the Hon. Min. Louis Farrakhan.

We must go back and reexamine the Teachings we have received to extract more principles that are still dormant in His words.

Remember, what we have is the “Fulfillment of the Prophecies of All Former Prophets..."

What is the meaning of “Fulfillment"?

Fulfillment means; to convert into reality, to develop the full potentialities of something, to bring about the successful completion of a process rather than the means of carrying it out.

Even if we study the wisdom, principles or ideas of other Schools of Thought our job is “Fulfill” what we study. Our job is to bring Every concept, Every Subject to the next level.

That is why it is called Supreme Wisdom.

Peace.

HQ 96:1-5

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Relying on this morning's webcast by Nation of Islam Minister Carlos Muhammad, Nation of Islam Sister Eugenia M Muhammad explains that members of the Nation of Islam must "update" “RIGHT NOW!” by "GOING CLEAR."

https://www.facebook.com/groups/DianeticallySpeaking/permalink/1850063815092627/

Fish Fry and Dianetic's seminar

Butthurt:

It took Nation of Islam Sister Nayyirah Tivica Muhammad six months to become a Scientology Clear.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/DianeticallySpeaking/permalink/1853189974780011/

Tony Oretega has a major story today about Scientology Freedom Medal Winner Nation of Islam Minister Tony Muhammad, the Church of Scientology and David Miscavige.

https://tonyortega.org/2018/12/07/tom-cruise-has-one-and-now-here-are-the-new-winners-of-scientology-freedom-medals/

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But here’s what you won’t see Scientology talk about in its magazines. And that’s Tony Muhammad and the Nation of Islam’s deep bigotry. Go ahead, hear it for yourself in this brief recent clip…

We’re going to show that Minister Farrakhan never has had a problem with some Jewish people. And he’s going to tell you what he has a problem with. My son is in the entertainment business. And I’m telling you the Jews do control the entertainment business. They control the banking. They control the athletics. They control basketball. They control baseball. They control it all. And, they control the drugs. They control the pimping. They control pedophilia. They control pornography. They control it all. Is it ready, brother? All right let’s play it.

So, the next time Scientology cries ‘bigotry’ when someone dares to raise questions about the church’s long history of abuses and controversies, just keep it in mind that David Miscavige has no problem decorating a bigot and celebrating him at one of the church’s holiest places in the world.

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ADDENDUM

YouTube has flagged the video and disabled features because the "content has been identified by the YouTube community as inappropriate or offensive to some audiences:"

YouTube confuses news reporting exposing bigotry and anti-Semitism with bigotry and anti-Semitism themselves. As a result, YouTube censors such news reporting and allows bigotry and anti-Semitism to flourish and prosper with less effective challenge.

Oh Hai NoIz

Discussion on Dianetically Speaking, the public Facebook home of the Church of Scientology and the Nation of Islam on whether L. Ron Hubbard met Master Fard Muhammad, the Founder of the Nation of Islam.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/DianeticallySpeaking/permalink/1856576711108004/

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There's a related post in the Leah Remini TV series thread:

Tonight, Leah Remini examines her own role in the bizarre Scientology – Nation of Islam dance

By Tony Ortega, The Underground Bunker, December 11, 2018

https://whyweprotest.net/threads/le...ps-families-apart.131933/page-26#post-2765262

I am cross-posting this because Scientology ally and partner Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan is prominently featured. Tablet magazine has a lengthy, excellent article on (among other things) the Women's March's Farrakhan issue. Tony Muhammad's favorite book, "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews," makes an important appearance.

Is the Women’s March Melting Down?

https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/276694/is-the-womens-march-melting-down

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According to several sources, it was there—in the first hours of the first meeting for what would become the Women’s March—that something happened that was so shameful to many of those who witnessed it, they chose to bury it like a family secret. Almost two years would pass before anyone present would speak about it.

It was there that, as the women were opening up about their backgrounds and personal investments in creating a resistance movement to Trump, Perez and Mallory allegedly first asserted that Jewish people bore a special collective responsibility as exploiters of black and brown people—and even, according to a close secondhand source, claimed that Jews were proven to have been leaders of the American slave trade. These are canards popularized by The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, a book published by Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam—“the bible of the new anti-Semitism,” according to Henry Louis Gates Jr., who noted in 1992: “Among significant sectors of the black community, this brief has become a credo of a new philosophy of black self-affirmation.”

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It was around this time that Morganfield says she first heard that Nation of Islam members were acting as security detail and drivers for the co-chairs. “Bob called me secretly and said, ‘Mercy, they have been in bed with the Nation of Islam since day one: They do all of our security,’” Morganfield told Tablet.

Two other sources, with direct knowledge of the time, also claimed that security and the drivers for the co-chairs were members of the Nation of Islam. And this was certainly the case in the women’s previous organization. A May 2015 photograph on Sarsour’s Facebook page shows a group of men wearing suits and bow ties in the signature Nation of Islam style. Her caption above the photo reads: “FOI Brothers, security for the movement,” using the acronym for Fruit of Islam.

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From Diantically Speaking, the public Facebook home of the Church of Scientology and the Nation of Islam. This is extraordinary. The emotions experienced upon the death of former NOI leader Elijah Muhammad are used to illustrate the Scientology Tone Scale.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/DianeticallySpeaking/permalink/1863102610455414/

Inside Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam’s Strange Ties to Scientology.

Daily Beast: Inside Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam’s Strange Ties to Scientology

https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-nation-of-islams-strange-ties-to-scientology

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Scientology whistleblower Leah Remini pulls back the curtain on the bizarre merger between Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam and Scientology.

Marlow Stern 12.12.18 4:56 AM ET

The latest episode of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, A&E’s Emmy-winning docuseries, examines the ties between the Church of Scientology and the Nation of Islam. And who better to guide us through it than Remini, who says she was tasked with strengthening the partnership.

“I was approached by Scientology to bridge the gap between Scientology and the black community. And I wanted to do that. I had no idea what the Nation of Islam was,” Remini says. “I was a Scientologist and I wasn’t questioning what my church was asking me to do.” (The church, for its part, sent a letter less than 24 hours prior to the episode’s airing, claiming that it “supports religious freedom” and comparing Remini’s show to Nazism.)

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