Nation of Islam doctrine inverted Christian white supremacy into Black racial superiority

Evidence

NOI founder Fard Muhammad claimed to be Allah incarnate; and Elijah Muhammad, Fard Muhammad’s disciple, was Allah’s messenger. They offered African Americans who migrated to Chicago from the South an alternative identity wherein they were racially superior to Whites. According to the NOI, White people were devils engineered by an evil scientist. Christianity, thus, was the religion of White oppressors used to indoctrinate African Americans to accept their inferior status. Taking from the UNIA’s message, the NOI taught its members self-help and promoted a racially uplifting message that emphasized Black solidarity, Black capitalism, and racial separatism. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 589

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Parable of the Sower’s racial politics and to the general pattern of Black separatist religious movements — also pairs naturally with Cole’s Afrocentricity and the Moorish Science Temple in this book’s earlier chapter. — connects to: Black Islam’s theology refused non-violence and made equality a prerequisite for reconciliation — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 194
• STORYSTEM: A religious movement whose entire cosmology inverts the dominant society’s hierarchy — Black devils engineered into superiority — is a ready-made premise for speculative fiction about counter-mythologies.