Countdown to Armageddon by Mattias Gardell

Islam in the USA. This book explains the absorption of Islam in the USA over hundreds of years from aprophycal tales of Abubakri II, ruler of Mali who had discovered America 200 years before Columbus to the current NOI school led by Louis Farrakhan, this book has it all. The main focus is on the NOI in trying to define its philosophy of the black man as Allah. Each one is Allah the Creator. The link of NOI with Libyan leader Qaddafi is also explained which is a very interesting description. I guess it is only natural that the black man, after years of slavery and direct subjugation rise up and claim its natural rank among the other races in the world. The book explains how the leaders of NOI are living like kings on handouts of the poor black brothers and how the poor brothers seem to be very happy with this unfair arrangement. The followers are happy because they are happy to be part of an establishment of speakers and edifices which they can call their own. I think this is all a part of growing up. The white man is classified as a devil himself, while all blacks are Allah's. Islam has made inroads among the American blacks precisely because no nationalist American black can call white favoured Christianity as its own. Islam is also popular because it focuses on orthopraxy rather than orthodoxy making it easier to spread without the aid of preachers and canonists travelling to far flung areas. Interestingly this is precisely the same reason why terrorists are able to form groups all over the world in isolation simply because of this effect based nature of Islam. But this opposition to white mans religion of Christianity has produced a lively argument. Consider this gem by the Messenger, Elijah Muhammad,' there is no such thing as dying and coming up out of the earth and meeting those who died before you. I say get out of such slavery teachings. It keeps you blind, deaf and dumb to reality.... When you are dead you are DEAD. Heaven and hell are not postmortem destinations but conditions on earth. Hell is when you are enslaved, poor, and deprived of true knowledge if a self and God. Hell is when someone else controls you and your life. The white man enjoys a heavenly affluence in the same world in which the black man endures hell, a situation bound to continue until the curse is lifted.'