15 Facts About Muslim-American

Muslim-American is known to have fasted during the month of Ramadan, worn a fez and kaftan, and observed the Muslim feasts, in addition to consistently performing the five obligatory prayers.

Muslim-American was later granted a transfer to a military hospital, where he gained some knowledge of medicine.

Muslim-American suggests many non-Muslim slaves were acquainted with some tenets of Islam, due to Muslim trading and proselytizing activities.

Muslim-American lived on a 19th Century North Carolina plantation and wrote many Arabic texts while enslaved.

Muslim-American stated that the organization practiced the "Old Time Religion" of Islamism, but he drew inspiration from Mohammedanism, Buddhism, Christianity, Gnosticism, and Taoism.

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Muslim-American provided three main principles which serve as the foundation of the NOI: "Allah is God, the white man is the devil and the so-called Negroes are the Asiatic Black People, the cream of the planet earth".

Muslim-American left the NOI after being silenced for 90 days, and proceeded to form Muslim Mosque, Inc and the Organization of Afro-American Unity before his pilgrimage to Mecca and conversion to Sunni Islam.

Muslim-American is viewed as the first person to start the movement among African Americans towards Sunni Islam.

Muslim-American renamed it the World Community of al-Islam in the West; later it became the American Society of Muslims.

Muslim-American removed the chairs in the organization's temples, and replaced the entire "temple" concept with the traditional Muslim house of worship, the mosque, teaching how to pray the salat, to observe the fasting of Ramadan, and to attend the pilgrimage to Mecca.

Muslim-American's movement popularized the phrase: "The Qur'an, the whole Qur'an, and nothing but the Qur'an".

Muslim-American is under the necessity of eating pork but denies ever tasting any kind of spirits.

Muslim-American had converted to Islam while in the United States, moved to Yemen to study Arabic, and then went to Pakistan, where he was recruited by the Taliban.

Muslim-American was detained as a material witness until June 9,2002, when President George W Bush designated him an enemy combatant and, arguing that he was not entitled to trial in civilian courts, had him transferred to a military prison.

Muslim-American had converted to Islam while serving his last jail sentence in prison, and went to Pakistan where he was recruited into Al-Qaeda.