Talk:Yakub (Nation of Islam)

elijah muhammad is correct

elijah muhammad messenger of allah is correct all the way

I'm so thrilled to learn that. Paul B 10:16, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Good to see racism alive and well....

"Shocked" Muslims

Observant Muslims might well have "reacted with shock" to the doctrine of Yakub because both the separate creation of different races, and the accompanying racial superiority/inferiority, are both contrary to Muhammad's rather specific comments in his last sermon, one of the great foundational texts of Islam.

Specifically, the relevant part of the Last Sermon reads in translation as:

“All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over a white — except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood."

With superiority that means who has authority over another. That person doesn't control me and i don't control him. His skin color is weaker then a black person's because a black person's skin color would show up more then a white person if those two races had a baby.

I imagine that the "shock" was mostly their realization that they were talking to a crazy person. -- The Anome 10:07, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

How can someone crazy give measurements of the Earth that Albert Einstein, one of your smartest men, couldn't do. In the 1930's we knew the measurements of the Earth and universe. You're crazy not to belive him.

Are you people telling me that people in modern-day America believe that anglo-Americans were created by an "evil black scientist" on a Greek island a few thousand years ago? If black people are stupid enough to believe that, no wonder they are easily dominated by the white man, as they cliam. -195.93.21.134

That's a racist comment if I've ever seen one. We are born with the intellect that God gave us, no more, no less. African Americans may embrace a number of unconventional ideas that seem foreign or even "stupid" to you and I, but for you to disparage them for it is just ignorant and shows a lack of understanding of their constant struggle to survive in an advanced society. -TrevorMay 05:03, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

The suggestion that black people "struggle to survive in an advanced society" is racist and patronising in itself. Stupid ideas are just as stupid whoever has them, and to treat one group more indulgently is act as if they are children, who can be forgivern for having naive ideas. That's truly insulting. Paul B 06:48, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Statistically speaking, members of some groups in general have more or less difficulty prospering in an advanced society. Some of this stems from the ability to handle math, science, language, etc. This is not racist, it is just the way things are. If somebody is born with less intellectual capacity than yourself, it is your duty as a human being and as a member of the civilized world to treat them with respect, understanding, and dignity, even if they wind up making a number of poor decisions or holding beliefs that you find irrational. -TrevorMay 04:27, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Trevor, you have got to be a social worker or other liberal. Paul, I agree with you. Liberal racism is just as strong as ever, and allows the "niggaz," as they tend to refer to themselves, to continue to think they are superior to other people.JBDay 23:17, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Amazing. And I thought Christian Fundamentalists were crazy. -Neural 00:56, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

I think that it's perfectly understandable for foreign cultures that are less "enlightened" to modern sciences and logic will come out with what we Westerners would call "stupid". But I'm sure to a manual labourer who's never seen a post-comprehensiv e education will not see this in the same way as us. To me personally, this is just as "stupid" as Christianity. Henners91 (talk) 08:12, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

This has to be one of the funniest pages on Wikipedia.

the lads who dreamt this up were a crowd of washers away with the fairies

So if the black man made the white man then they have no one but themselves to blame for their problems. I like this idea. It isn't the white devil's fault, its the black man's. But seriously, how did a black genetic scientist come to be on the Island of Patmos 6,000 years ago when scientist didn't exist at the time?

Irony

If one wishes to play word games as Yakub-ists are wont to do, then how is it reconciled that Heather Locklear's middle name is "Deen," which is an Arabic word essentially meaning "all-encompassing/lifestyle?" It has a strong meaning in Islam specifically, but other faiths use it as well. Her father is Lumbee, and they have +- 50% SSAfrican genetic material in their DNA. The Lumbee may have Moorish/North(East) African ancestry as well, as most likely do a lot of triracial groups. Perhaps that is originally where "Deen" in her family came from, although Sephardic Jews and or Christians from that region may have contributed as well. Farakhan told black men to stay away from "Heathers," meaning "white" women, but blacks fall for every scam perpetrated by darker skinned eastern Caucasians such as Fard? Word games...In Malta, they call "God," "Alla," no "h." JBDay 01:12, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

ESQ TIENE UN NOMBRE MUY FEO SE DEBERIA LLAMAR BRAWAN QUE SE PRONUNCIA BRAWAN BUENO PERO EL NOMBRE DE YACUB NO ES PARA EL ES LA VERDAD.

Truth? English, please. JBDay 02:38, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Those unsigned posts by registered users never fail to amuse me. Cowards.JBDay 20:47, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Pseudohistory

I deleted this category. I find it fanciful; even farcical, but this is a religious belief. Wikipedia does not take a position on truth. We are neutral and that category is anything but neutral when applied to religion or its beliefs. --Storm Rider ^(talk) 21:26, 13 February 2007 (UTC) It is still psuedohistory just like the nephites of the book of mormon--Java7837 03:36, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Why not put it under catagory of racism? JBDay 18:02, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

---Why not, indeed. Done.Kar98 16:19, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Alright, but while delete the "Sacred History" cat? Cannot a sacred history be racist? Me thinks so...--Rojerts 19:42, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm surprised to find this page in the category of 'racism' with no more discussion on the topic but the above. Your simple misunderstanding or disagreement with an historical perspective does not seem to me to qualify that perspective as racist. What, exactly, are the conditions to be included in the category, and on what basis does the history and teachings of Yakub thereby qualify? I'll delete this page from the category, pending the resolution of this discussion. Llamabr 15:54, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, if "white race — a race of devils" does not qualify as racism, I don't know what does. Kar98 20:27, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

They won't put it under racism because the author of the belief is black. It's as simple as that. Trying looking up articles under racism, racist violence, etc., and you will find almost NO mention of anything that would indicate that a black person could be a racist. And the one single article I did find "beat up a white kid day" under racial violence that was black/hispanic on white violence, there were like dozens of people asking for the article to be deleted. Stating it was of local interest only - or one person who just said "oh that's so terrible, we just delete it and forget it because violence is wrong" Oh OK then, did that same person ask for any of the white on black racial violence to be deleted? NO - I checked. There is WAY TO MUCH BIAS on Wikipedia in the favor of minorities. If a black man calls caucasions "white devils" then that IS RACIST !! Are you being willfully ignorant or please tell me what it would take for something a black person does to be racist? From what I can tell, on wikipedia, even murder is not good enough.Rebeccaamerocco (talk) 21:16, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

the article is properly placed in Category:Black supremacy, which is already a sub-category of Category:Racism. Of course this is racism, but we should avoid redundant categorization. --dab (𒁳) 17:11, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Jew rant

"...to reposition him as the originator of white people as a whole (including Jews)."

What's the point of mentioning yews as also belonging to the white race, why must they be so distinctive? And there are jewish members of the black race (to be politically correct), so that kind of stands against NOI policies. I understand, yews have suffered a lot in the past. But why keep pushing it beyond all reason? They want the same rights as everyone else. Then why *must* they always be mentioned separately? I got nothing against jewish religion or, if it indeed is a separate race, jewish people, except that they try to overequalize themselves. I understand that many will now think of me as an "anti-Semitic nazi estonian" (as if it wasn't bad enought that extremist russians call us so), and I will leave the decision, whether it should be removed or not, to someone else, for maybe I am anti-Semitic and just do not acknowledge it. BlahBlah, Woof Woof... Too much writing over a small thing that isn't really that important. Graphomaniac Laur Joost 19:41, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

The reason for mentioning Jews specifically is because Jacob in the Bible is only the parent of the Isrealites - the forefathers of modern Jews. However in some versions of British Israelism the ten Lost tribes of Israel are construed as the forefathers of White People in general. The Yakub story evolves from that theory. Paul B 20:01, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Yakub the same as Jewish/Chrisitan/Islamic Jacob/Yacoub?

I wonder if the person referred to by this article is the same person referred to as Jacob/Yacoub in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.246.160.46 (talk) 07:30, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

well, is the "Yaqub" in Islam "the same" as the "Jacob" in Christianity? These are stories. Are the orcs in Tolkien "the same" as the orcs in Dungeons & Dragons? How are you going to identify characters in one story with characters in another? You need a "canon", and an authority fixing the canons. You then can then follow your authority, or else simply make up a couple of more stories on your own. --dab (𒁳) 17:41, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

interesting. But notable?

Notability would imply reception in independent, third party sources. Such coverage of NOI as I can find in a hurry dedicate typically a brief paragraph to Yakub. I am not sure this is sufficient for a standalone article. We could as well just briefly mention the idea in a discussion of NOI racism more generally at Nation_of_Islam#Teachings_on_race. --dab (𒁳) 14:18, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

btw, I find it interesting to note that current estimates place the first development of light skin to some 12,000 years ago: Wallace Fard Muhammad's "6000 years ago" aren't all that far off. --dab (𒁳) 16:54, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

I think the introduction needs to be re-written to provide clarity BUT This is a notable article and should be maintained - with some Neutral Point of View language revisions. --YakbutterT (talk) 22:35, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

The article on light skin actually says the mutation occured 6,000 to 12,000 years ago. Stillwaterising (talk) 00:57, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

KEEP

I don't see that this page meets WP:GNG by means of doing a web search but I don't think that's an accurate picture. WP:WikiProject_Latter_Day_Saint_movement has pages like List_of_Book_of_Mormon_people but I don't see notability being disputed there. What's important is that this is part of the core beliefs that influence NOI and Black supremacist. Whether this garners much attention in mainstream media isn't important; notability in this case is derived from it's influence on notable events and people. Therefore, Yakub (Nation of Islam) is an important footnote in the bigger picture of understanding those who believe in it. Stillwaterising (talk) 22:53, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Another reason to keep is becase 30 articles link to this page. Stillwaterising (talk) 15:47, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

I can see zero reason for either the deletion or merging of this article, which has been in existence for many years now. And there are no arguments presented here to do so. Its notablility should not be in doubt. As any trawl of google books will indicate, the NOI Yakub myth has been the subject of extensive discussion. No-one has seen fit to add such tags in all the years that this article has existed. The tags were added after I drew attention to the fact that an NOI "believer" had attempted to rewrite the article to express literal belief in this story. That version is long gone. User:Simonm223 sees fit to refer to the current version as a "trainwreck of an article". I really wonder whether he has even bothered to read it. He has offered no useful suggestions whatever. If there is no helpful discussion I will remove the tags again after a week. Paul B (talk) 07:35, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Archeological Evidence

The Patmos page says that archeological evidence shows that the islands first inhabitants were around 2000 BC. I would be interested in see what racial characteristics their bones have and what the DNA record may show on their ancenstry. It would round out the article to present some scientific evidence to help prove or refute the story. I'm sure there some apologetics views on this too. Furthermore, what's the scientific view of this theory in general? Stillwaterising (talk) 23:15, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

I rather doubt that anyone has taken this story seriously enough to research the racial characteristics of bones on Patmos. It's not appropriate to introduce scientific evidence to refute the myth unless the extant literature does so, which I doubt. There is a fair deal of academic material on its socio-historical significance in the context of early 20th century Eugenics and millenarian ideology. Paul B (talk) 23:14, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

OK, how does their doctrine account for....

....the fact that Yakub was black himself? Never giving a motivation for why he wanted to create a "magnet race" that would rule over those like himself (black people) through "tricks and deceit" seems very counter intuitive being that would mean a future hegemony over those like himself. 98.246.62.216 (talk) 21:24, 14 November 2009 (UTC)