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Black Muslim Sect Turns Cultish

By AAN Staff
april 1, 2003  05:44 pm
Black Muslim Sect Turns Cultish
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan spurned him, but that didn't stop Maryland-based Royall Jenkins from believing he was Allah. Jenkins might have been unwelcome at the Chicago headquarters of the Nation of Islam, but he found streets paved with gullibility in Kansas City, Kansas. There, his daughter began recruiting members to open up friendly businesses like Your Diner, Your Supermarket, Your Service Station and Your Colonic Center in a forgotten slum. The United Nation of Islam -- whose impeccably dressed members possessed an almost otherworldly politeness -- earned praise from city officials and newspaper columnists. But as Pitch staff writer Allie Johnson discovered, a funny thing happened on the way to Heaven. Royall Jenkins started acquiring wives. Recruits began turning over their homes and property to the United Nation of Islam. Members' children ended up in a school where the principal had only a sixth-grade education. One child died under suspicious circumstances. And Allah's daughter, the Mother of Civilization, started coming to her senses.
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