Portland OR.
Nation of Islam was its name
Muhammed Ali
masjid nabwi
He Founded the Muslim Mosque Inc. when he left the Nation of Islam
Malcom X
Malcolm Little was his birth name but then he changed it to X when he was older cause it was a slave name.
Converted to Faradian (as in W.D. Fard, Elijah Muhammad, The Nation of Islam, and The Nation of Gods and Earths) Islam at age 16, taking the Godly name of Rakim Allah. His lyrics often contain references to his Five-Percenter faith. Any coincidence between the Nation of Gods and Earths and traditional Islam is accidental, as this form of Islam, an acronym for "I-Self Lord and Master," is a made-up religion that only has Islamic elements in it. (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0707582/bio)
Converted to Faradian (as in W.D. Fard, Elijah Muhammad, The Nation of Islam, and The Nation of Gods and Earths) Islam at age 16, taking the Godly name of Rakim Allah. His lyrics often contain references to his Five-Percenter faith. Any coincidence between the Nation of Gods and Earths and traditional Islam is accidental, as this form of Islam, an acronym for "I-Self Lord and Master," is a made-up religion that only has Islamic elements in it. (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0707582/bio)
he was a christian.
The Nation of Islam is a African-American Islamic Organization. In the past, the Nation of Islam has advocated for violence against Whites, Jews, and Asians claiming that all of these people have repressed the "Black Interest" and should be "properly punished" for their conduct. Understandably, mainstream Sunni and Shiite Islam both condemned the Nation of Islam for these racial beliefs saying that Islam does not recognize any difference between people on the basis of race and that discrimination on such a basis is un-Islamic. With the death of the early Nation of Islam leaders, the Nation of Islam began an effort to reconcile its beliefs with Sunni Islam and is increasingly moving along that path, but there are still elements of the Nation of Islam that advocate for violence against non-Blacks. _______________________________________________________________ Nation of Islam (NOI) is not belonging to main stream Islam. Followers of NOI are expelled from the Islam religion. Refer to question below.
Cassius Clay, who later changed his name to Muhammad Ali, converted to Islam in the 1960s, specifically the Nation of Islam. He later embraced Sunni Islam and followed the teachings of the Sufi sect.