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Dr. A. A. Muhammad Analysis

What Dr. Alim got right

He is a superb advocate for holistic medicine and improving overall health in the black community. The Hoop House concept is an actionable plan to address the problem of food deserts. Urban gardening will not only improve the nutrition in underprivileged communities; it will increase fellow feeling amongst those that participate in the effort. The root of good health is nutrition. In a community with little money for health insurance, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. In addition, the building of hoop houses will not require government help.

He also brought an awareness of Ayurvedic medicine and Yoga to the black community. Without Dr. Alim, many black people would not have been exposed to any eastern medicine. Other avenues to eastern medicine are price prohibitive for poor people.

Advocacy for prostate cancer awareness is also vital in the black community. Because we are oppressed anything that can threaten virility can do severe damage to our psyche. Back in the 1990s when his work started losing a prostate could mean the loss of the ability to get an erection. Even the rectal exam could make men feel emasculated.

The economic devastation of Iraq through government sanctions was a subject few would discuss. Dr. Alim shined a light on the subject and urged Blacks to do what we could for those overseas. The act of discussing the US embargo on Iraq shows a glimmer of a world-centric perspective.

The most significant campaign of Dr.Alim’s life was the Dopebusters campaign. He provided a community solution when the government decided to underfund police in DC. Most stood by and watched DC neighborhoods fall apart. Dr. Alim created a program to at least retard the cancerous growth of crack.

Is Dr. Alim racist or antisemitic?

No evidence could be found of Dr. Alim advocating violence toward anyone for any reason. Also, there was no evidence that he prevented someone from improving their life due to race. In fact, in the Yale speech, he said NOI member that has a weapon can be expelled from the organization. He repeatedly said that the NOI is a peaceful movement and any vengeance will be taken out by Allah. So to equate him to the Ku Klux Klan or neo-nazis is a stretch.

Most often he is accused of supporting Steve Cokley’s conspiracy theory on Jewish doctors spreading HIV to babies in Africa. After evaluating the evidence presented he never confirmed the conspiracy only said the Cokley is a reputable researcher. Dr. Alim never evaluated the claim for himself. To hold Dr. Alim responsible for something, another person said that is not even in the Nation of Islam would be unfair. Dr. Alim said HIV was created and spread by the US government.

The worst statement Dr. Alim made was about Mayor Barry saying he “should not bow down to the Jews.” This statement is insensitive, yet not promoting violence to Jews directly or indirectly. So the statement can be considered a gaffe more than evidence of hate toward anyone.

In Dr. Alim’s work, he partnered with an Indian American and a Chinese American to create Abundant Life. Later he worked with Dr. Freddie Ulan, a white man, on Nutritional Response Testing. So he has worked with people outside of his race and faith for most of his career.

Finally, he works in conjunction with the Church of Scientology. The vast majority of the members of that organization are white. Therefore it would be difficult to say a black man that worked with Scientologist and took Scientologist training is racist. Racism is defined as advocating for violence, harassment, or destruction of property of other people based on race. He also would not fit the definition of racist if it is defined by impeding a person from advancement economically or politically because of race.

It would also not be fair to say Dr. Alim is racist for his affiliation with the Nation of Islam alone. If the NOI is evaluated from the lens of all Blue meme ethnocentric religions, it is not worse than any other. The belief of the NOI is the Mother Plane will return and lay waste to the earth and create a new Muslim social order. It is no different from the belief the Jesus will return lay waste to the current order and create the Kingdom of Heaven. Indeed, the Nation of Islam will not accept white converts, but many sects of Judaism will not accept those that are not ethnically Jewish. Master Fard Muhammad taught that whites are the devil, as the bible says many of the Hebrew’s neighboring tribes were evil. Therefore, the NOI might have racist members, but all those in the NOI are not racist by virtue of being members.

What Dr. Alim got wrong

What Dr. Alim gets wrong is the idea of a grand conspiracy that is thwarting blacks and every turn or a grand plan to kill all black people. It is true that there are nefarious plots conducted by individuals, but there is not grand plan that every white person is involved with to destroy black America.

When Dr. Alim was in charge of the Dopebusters program, he claimed that elites were all working against him. In reality, he had support from Democrats like Maxine Waters and Republicans like Jack Kemp. The NOI Security Agencies won contracts when they were not the lowest bidder. The effort stopped because the companies went bankrupt not because a law was created to stop them from getting contracts.

There were some Jewish groups like the Anti-defamation League (ADL) that were against the NOI getting government contracts. Their motivation was various insensitive things high profile leaders of the NOI said, not arbitrary hate for Muslims. In essence, there was a legitimate call for concern on the part of Jews. It is reasonable to be worried that if the NOI had the authority to police, they could begin to commit racial violence. The Senate conducted an investigation that vindicated the NOI against claims of racism. Therefore there was a legitimate concern that was evaluated and determined to be unfounded.

The Dopebuster program ended because the company went bankrupt. To blame a conspiracy by the elite only obfuscates from the real issue. Unless there is a thorough evaluation of what happened, people can’t improve community policing efforts in the future. The idea of a grand conspiracy will discourage future community policing attempts because people will believe the effort will be thwarted.

Another conspiracy that never materialized was the government was going to use the 2009 swine flu outbreak to force vaccinations. That never happened. It is currently 2019, and there has been no effort to force people to get vaccinated. There was no plot to infect a large portion of society with a virus to cause a mass extinction. Wild assertions like the government is attempting to exterminate black people through vaccines only raise suspicion of vaccine effectiveness in the black community. For a group of people with limited access to healthcare, it is essential to implement all low-cost preventative measures like vaccines.

The most outrageous conspiracy theory is the idea of an earthquake machine at the HAARP weather research facility causing the 2010 Haitian Earthquake. There is no scientific method to heat a tectonic plate. A man that graduated from medical school is smart enough to a tectonic plate can’t be heated artificially. By making such a wild conspiracy theory, it distracts from the real issue of America’s foreign policy toward Haiti. Because the US has not allowed the country to be fully sovereign, Haiti couldn’t build proper infrastructure. Having people advocate from Haiti spewing complete nonsensical assumptions only hurts Haiti.

Where is Dr. Alim on the Spiral?

Dr. Alim is a Blue meme spiritual leader. Even though he has an extensive background in science, most of his worldview is under-girded with NOI theology. The world is a dichotomy between the elite and aboriginal people. The elite are all in cahoots to systematically kill and oppress the aboriginals.

In the Crucible, Don Beck speaks of how once one sees the world in a dichotomy, they often dehumanize those seen as others. The dehumanization of others causes much of the “white man is the devil” rhetoric prevalent in the NOI. Even though Dr. Alim is more moderate than the average NOI member, he often indulges in wild conspiracy theories with little evidence. An example of a wild conspiracy theory is the idea that the US government has an earthquake gun.

The super-ordinate goal of Dr. Alim and the NOI is to unite Black America under their brand of Islam. NOI Islam is not the same as orthodox Islam. The most significant theological difference is the belief in “The Wheel,” a giant UFO that houses NOI leaders after death. So the NOI historically was against other versions of Islam. However, Dr. Alim never spoke against other forms of Islam.

One area that does not fit the traditional idea of the Blue Meme is motivation based on fear and guilt. The NOI doesn’t believe in an afterlife. It appears Dr. Alim believes one can live over 100 years with proper diet and exercise. NOI motivates people through the authority of the leaders. Dr. Alim exemplifies the adherence to authority through leadership in how often he references Louis Farrakhan when speaking.

Dr. A. A. Muhammad’s Religious and Political Philosophy

Speech at Yale Law School

Dr. Alim was invited to speak at Yale Law school due to his activism in ending the drug trade at the Mayfair Mansions. The speech occurred late in 1990. Unsurprisingly the event was met with protest accusing Dr. Alim of being anti-semitic. The Yale Law Journal first published the transcript in the first quarter of 1991.

The speech that Dr. Alim gave was on how White Supremacy fueled the drug trade. The mechanisms linking elite power to generational poverty has been around for centuries. The only hope is for all of America to heed the call of the Nation of Islam and fund their plans for national renewal.

Yale was named after a man named Eli Yale. Mr. Yale worked for the East India Company and the Royal African Company. His fortune was built off of colonization, slavery, and plundering of natural resources from aboriginal people. So the University he was currently speaking in was a part of the system that destroyed his people.

Pirates and slave traders were another group that plundered aboriginals. A man named John Hawkins captained the first slave ship. Some also pronounced his surname Hopkins. He landed in Africa waving a flag of the crescent and star. The crescent and star flag was the universal sign of brotherhood. The African boarded the ship because they believed they could trust Hawkins. Once the ship was out of sight of land, the crescent and star flag was replaced by the skull and crossbones. That is when the slaves knew they were doomed.

The skull and crossbones is also the symbol of the Yale fraternity by the same name. Their most prominent member was the current US President George H.W. Bush. Bush and his colleagues have a thirty-year history of using clandestine military groups to destabilize developing nations. The destabilization has fueled the drug trade. One example of this type of white terror was the removal of Manuel Noriega in Panama.

The Bush family were instrumental in wars in Nicaragua that created a banana republic in that country in 1912. The family saw the country as their personal property. American rule ended in 1933. Ever since the 1930s, the Bushes wanted the area back. Bush used Elliot Abrams to issue an ultimatum to Noriega of Panama. Either Noriega aid the US invasion of Nicaragua and provide a base, medical support, and additional troops, or the CIA would assassinate him. Noriega held to his convictions and narrowly escaped an assassination attempt.

Similarly, Muammar al-Gaddafi escaped an assassination attempt. Just like Noriega, he was warned a few days before. When the missile entered his bedroom, Gaddafi was not there. The later invasion attempt was also thwarted. The mechanism that scrambled the electronic defense of the invasion fleet was a celestial object unlike anything ever seen before.

The Nation of Islam (NOI) believes there is a giant wheel-shaped city in the sky piloted by humans of superior intelligence. The origin of the craft and its crew is earthly, not extraterrestrial. The NOI calls this ship “The Wheel” or “The Mother Plane”. Most outside the NOI call the vessel an “UFO”. The Mother Plane house many smaller wheels that conduct various maneuvers.

The mother plane beamed up Louis Farrakhan in 1985 after a religious ceremony. While onboard The Mother Plane, Elijah Muhammad told him of the United States plots to overthrow Nicaragua and Libya. It was Farrakhan who warned both Gaddafi and Noriega of their appending assassinations.

In addition to sending Farrakhan to warning Gaddafi, The Mother Plane scramble the electronics on the US ships set to invade Libya. These ships had to return to Miami for servicing.

Because the Muslims know about this city in the sky and it houses their greatest leaders Master Fard Muhammad and Elijah Muhammad, there is no need to have weapons. In fact, if a Muslim has a weapon or firearm, he will be excommunicated from the group. Muslims fight with their words that are given to them by Allah himself. That is why all of America must heed to the teachings of Master Fard Muhammad and Elijah Muhammad to avoid impending doom. Muslims do not want to overthrow the government.

Dr. Alim reiterates that his message is to teach the Black man of American and the American Indian. These are the original or aboriginal people of the earth. Whites were created by the mad scientist named Yacub to be the grafted devil and the skunk of the earth. The white man was designed to wreak havoc on the world. Dr. Alim does concede there are whites that are caught up in the oppression. The factory workers of England were and are currently in the form of neo-serfdom. However, for the most part, whites are oppressing the aboriginal people of the earth.

During the question and answer period of the speech, an audience member asked why he linked Christianity to John Hawkins and Eli Yale. These men were not practicing the teachings of Jesus. Dr. Alim answers by saying that one must understand the ideologies undergirding the oppression that we see today. He discussed earlier in his lecture about John Calvin, who created the idea of predeterminism in Christianity. Part of that theology was the G-d preordained whites to rule over the rest of the world.

One must extricate the conventional idea of Christianity, centered around a white Jesus from their mind. Jesus could not have been blonde and blue-eyed because the Aryan people are not native to the region. Also, Jesus hid in Egypt, which is in Africa. How would a white family be able to hide in a black country? Europeans created the image of Jesus we see now because they wanted a religious icon that resembled them.

Another audience member asked how can the Nation of Islam expect to be supported by the government when they support enemies of the USA, such as Noriega and Gaddafi. Dr. Alim did say earlier in the speech the president should request an audience with Louis Farrakhan to create solutions to the various social ills of America. He answers the question saying that he never expects to credit from the evil American government. In fact, it makes no difference to him whether America survives or not. As a person of the oppressed class, he would simply brush off the dust from his jacket and move forward. In Dr. Alim’s estimation, George H.W. Bush was not serious about ending the drug war he helped create.

He went on to say that the accusations of Gaddafi being a terrorist were proven to be false. Also, even if they were true, they don’t compare to the United States dropping 419 bombs on a mostly black Panamanian slum. Not only was Gaddafi not a terrorist, but he also helped the NOI when they were in need. Gaddafi gave them a three million dollar loan to build their center in Chicago.

Then a Jewish man in the audience self-identified himself as a Zionist. He asserted he was not afraid of the NOI. He asked how the NOI could justify referring to Jews as “those that rejected Jesus” as anything other than antisemitic. They also assert that Jews were principle in the slave trade.

Dr. Alim replies that he considers himself a Semite, so he cannot be anti-Semitic. He and others in the Nation of Islam only repeat what they read in the Bible. The Bible says many negative things about the Jews. The words of the Bible are not the fault of the Nation of Islam.

He nor anyone else in the Nation of Islam have never committed an act of violence against Jewish people. In addition to not being violent, they do not encourage harassment or vandalizing Jewish property. So if the Jewish audience members are not afraid, then they have every justification for feeling secure.

Another audience member asks if Dr. Alim would confirm or deny the allegations of Louis Farrakhan that AIDS was spread to black babies in Africa through Jewish doctors.

Dr. Alim replied by saying that Farrakhan never said all Jewish doctors were conspiring to give black babies AIDS. In fact, a man named Steve Cokley made the statement on a show called “Crossfire.” Cokley’s statement was based on a journal article that said doctors that happened to be Jewish gave a group of young Africans a contaminated vaccine. The result was the babies contracting HIV/AIDS.

According to the research, Dr. Alim has read HIV/AIDS was created at Fort Dietrich, MD at the Army Biological Warfare Center. There is no evidence that the virus evolved from Green Monkey Virus, Slow Virus 40, or Visnoff Virus. When the AIDS cases first appeared, the Soviet government blamed the US Government. The US government blamed the Soviets. So ultimately, no one thinks the virus occurred naturally.

The reason whites are concerned with the disease now is the infection of white gay males. When the government first created the disease, it was spread through contaminated vaccines in Central Africa. The government underestimated how many whites would interact with blacks in a way that would allow for infection. The ability of the virus to mutate was also underestimated. Now it has spread all over the world.

The goal of spreading the disease in Africa was to kill all the inhabitants so whites could have the resources. The depopulation of Africa is just part of a global initiative. Gay sex or intravenous drug use is not common in Africa. Therefore artificial contamination is the only plausible explanation.

At the time of the speech, there were 1,135 white heterosexual AIDS cases and 3,503 black heterosexual AIDS cases. So the infection rate was significantly higher in the black community, given that blacks were only 10% of the population. The disparity in heterosexual infection again points to a depopulation plan because rates of drug use and homosexuality are the same in the black and white communities.

Ultimately blacks must unite to fight the biological weapons formed against us like AIDS and the chemical weapons developed against us like crack. Without unity, the aboriginal people will be wiped out.

The final question came from an audience member asking what the Nation of Islam doing to fight the white supremacist power structure at the heart of the drug trade. Even though their efforts at the Mayfair should be applauded, they only confronted street-level black drug dealers. Earlier in the speech, Dr. Alim explained how the US promoted the Cali Cartel and thwarted the Medellin Cartel. He insinuated the US government backed the Cali Cartel.

The doctor explains the reason the Mayfair Mansions became a large open-air drug market was that it was easily accessible from Interstate 95. Whites from the suburbs could buy drugs and quickly return. Many of the local police were supporting the drug trade and recruiting young dealers with few options.

Then Dr. Alim tells the biblical story of Joseph. Joesph was jailed in Egypt when the Pharoh had a dream none of his advisors could interpret. Pharoh had to reach to the bottom of society, those relegated and written-off for the answers. The government needs to look to those they despise in the Nation of Islam for the solution.

He again asserts, “The Nation of Islam is not going to attack America. Fight America.” In fact, if a Muslim has a firearm, he will be kicked out of the Nation of Islam. He hopes that America will not fall as Babylon did. You laugh at Farrakhan’s vision on The Mother Plane, but you will not laugh when it is over your cities.

Free Needle Exchange Program

Dr. Alim Muhammad was against the free needle exchange program because it was ineffective in stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS while making drug use easier. The oldest needle exchange was in Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Alim sites a study on those that received needles in Vancouver to show recipients still shared needles. Needle exchange also does nothing to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS from sex. He showed that there was a correlation between sexual transmission and prostitution. The doctor then proposed social programs to reduce the need for prostitution. Ultimately, needle exchange is just a step toward drug legalization. He applauds Bill Clinton and his Drug Czar General Barry McCaffrey in stopping needle exchange programs. It is important to remember the Congressional Black Caucus supported the free needle exchange program.

The Tuskegee Experiment and Forced Sterilization Programs

In 1997, President Clinton apologized for the Tuskegee Experiment. This experience held 399 black men infected with syphilis from 1932 to 1972. The point of the experiment was to prove that Black men experience the same stages of the disease as White people. The cure was known the entire time. However, these men were forced to languish with the disease. The experiment ended because a journalist uncovered the plot. A book was published on the incident in 1981 titled Bad Blood by James H. Jones.

Dr. Alim explains Clinton should not only apologize but work to rectify the situation. Louis Farrakhan has an eight-step procedure for healing.

  • Point out the wrong
  • Acknowledge it
  • Confess it – to G-d first
  • Repentence
  • Atonement
  • Forgiveness
  • Reconciliation
  • Reconciliation / Perfect Union

By not taking steps to rectify the situation blacks will always be suspicious of those in the medical field and the government. Dr. Alim never specifically says what should be done in reparations.

He also mentions the American Eugenics Movements initiative to sterilize black people without consent. At the publication of the referenced articles, 200,000 to 100,000 sterilizations were funded by the federal government. Twenty-four thousand black people were sterilized by the federal government directly, of which 80 were underaged children from 12 – 14 year old.

Healthcare as Human Right

In 1948, the United Nations declared that all people have a right to a standard of living adequate for health and well-being. One of the services referenced explicitly in the document was health care.

Black America is severely hampered in its ability to access healthcare because of a lack of black-owned institutions for medical training. At the turn of the century, there were 13 black-owned medical schools in the country. Then there was a study called “The Fletcher Report.” After the study, the number was whittled down to two, Meharry in Nashville, and Howard in Washington, DC. Now there have been a few more added namely Charles Drew in Los Angeles and Morehouse Medical in Atlanta. Even with those developments, there are not enough institutions to produce black medical professionals. At the time of publication of the referenced article, the black doctor to black patient ratio was 1 to 1500 people. Most industrial countries were 1 for 300 people. Therefore black America has a third-world doctor to patient ratio.

As the US government hinders healthcare in the black community, it hinders healthcare in Iraq. Even after the Gulf War ended, 1.4 million Iraqis died because of inadequate healthcare. The US has placed sanctions on the country that hinder it from getting medicine and medical equipment. In addition, US bombing raids destroyed vital water infrastructure that is difficult to rebuild. The most devastating aspect is the use of depleted Uranium tipped bombs. The radiation from these bombs has increased congenital disabilities and damaged adults immune systems.

Congressional Campaign

While running for office, Dr. Alim participated in the Free For All TV Show with the other NOI congressional candidate George X Cure.

The show hosts first asked Dr. Alim how he reconciled being part of the NOI, which is a black separatist group with running for Congress. Dr. Alim replied that black separatism is only the final resort of the NOI. If black people can not find freedom and equity in America, then blacks should be allowed to separate. For now, himself and others in the NOI want to work within national systems.

Next, Dr. Alim was questioned on how he expected to win support from Jewish voters, given his support of Louis Farrakhan. Dr. Alim answers by saying the Farrakhan has never spoken against Jews, only Zionism. The NOI as a whole considers themselves followers of Moses and the other prophets. They support all those that are followers of Moses.

Another host pressed Dr. Alim about demanding that Marion Barry not “bow down to the Jews.” He replied that he was in a conversation with Marion Barry. Marion Barry said he could not go to a Farrakhan rally because “the Jews will crucify me.” So Dr. Alim was only repeating the language Marion Barry used and would have said the same thing if Barry was in fear of another groups reprisal.

Then the conversation turned to Marion Barry. Dr. Alim was asked how he and other NOI members could support Barry after his drug scandal. The behavior was not conducive to the teachings of any religion. Dr. Alim explained that their support was of a man walking the path of redemption. Their faith believes in forgiveness, and that was the root of the support. A host asks if the support of Marion Barry was just a political play to get political support for current and future campaigns. Dr. Alim assured the host the goal of the NOI’s support of Barry was moral and not political.

They ended by talking about Middle East Policy. Dr. Alim said that the current hostilities in Iraq were a mistake. The USA should re-evaluate giving all its foreign aid money to Israel and Egypt. A more balance foreign aid policy would reduce hostilities in the region.

Episode of Crossfire

The episode of “Crossfire” happened before minister Louis Farrakhan was to appear at a rally at Yankee Stadium. The panel believed that Farrakhan would endorse Mayor Dinkins in is election against Rudy Giuliani.

Dr. Alim, who was the National Spokesman for the Nation of Islam, was asked about Farrakhan, often referring to whites as the devil and Judaism as a gutter religion. He responded by saying one that understands black history cannot view those that oppressed black people as anything other than evil. The whites of today are evil in the extent they support and condone past and present oppression.

Louis Farrakhan had recently supported a statement by Steve Cokley on a Jewish conspiracy to spread AIDS in South Africa. Steve Cokley is not a member of the Nation of Islam but is a black nationalist. Dr. Alim was asked if he also believed that Jews infected black children.

Dr. Alim said he could not confirm or deny the statements by Cokley because he had not reviewed his research. He views Cokley as a reputable researcher and has no reason to doubt him. However, even if his research is wrong, then Cokley should be confronted, not Louis Farrakhan or the Nation of Islam.

Finally, Dr. Alim is asked why has out of wedlock births and unemployment in the black community gone up since the 1960s. Could it be possible that slavery is still affecting a population five generations later? Dr. Alim responds with no group of people has gone through the type of oppression black people endured. After slavery, there was the KKK and Jim Crow law. So there was never a break in government interference in black life. In addition to decades of oppression, the misguided liberal policies of welfare further degraded the black household.

2010 Haitian Earthquake

Dr. Alim believes that an earthquake machine caused the earthquake in Haiti. The earthquake machine is part of the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) weather research facility. HAARP was able to focus 1 billion watts of power at the tectonic plates under Haiti. The excess heat caused the plate to expand, resulting in an earthquake.

Oil was recently discovered off the coast of Haiti. Therefore, America wants to control the area. As evidence of America causing the earthquake, Dr. Alim says the “humanitarian force” was assembled for deployment the day before the earthquake.

The Nation of Islam had a joint effort with the Church of Scientology to provide humanitarian aid. Dr. Alim was able to fly to Haiti on John Travolta’s private jet. While in Haiti Dr. Alim provided various medical services to those displaced by the earthquake. He also observed how the US “humanitarian force” was serving the people. According to Dr. Alim, the US soldiers only guarded the Citibank.

On April 6, 2010, address to the Nation of Islam, he urged the congregation to fund more charity to the nation. Members should also consider adopting orphans from the earthquake. However, the way the NOI could be the most beneficial by urging the American government to act in an equitable way toward Haiti. He also encouraged congregants to demand an investigation in HAARP and their possible involvement.

Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad Sources

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