Farrakhan Lied on the Messenger of Allah

 

Jim Jones - Mosque Maryam: Peoples Temple Revival: Ukiah Daily Journal, October 15, 1976

Ukiah Daily Journal, Ukiah, Calif.  Friday, October 15, 1976. Page 10

Temple revival services prove successful  

 

Capacity audiences hear Rev. Jones speak

Rev. Jim Jones, pastor of Peoples Temple, recently embarked on a series of remarkable revival services that have been highly successful and heavily attended.  The tour began with an interfaith meeting that featured ministers of several denominations (including the Nation of Islam, and a representative of the Jewish community) as well as government and civic officials, in Kansas City.

In subsequent meetings held in St. Louis, Chicago, and Detroit, capacity audiences heard Rev. Jones stress the importance of humanitarian service.  Referring to examples from the life and teaching of Jesus with regard to care for the people in need, Rev, Jones emphasized the spirit of ecumenical unity as a vehicle for achieving these goals.

The revivals were held in Disciples of Christ, Methodist, and A.M.E. denominational churches.  

In every service, people with problems in the area of drug usage and alcoholism were ministered to, and many of these joined the Peoples Temple, choosing to relocate in California in order to receive more extended help from the rehabilitation outreach of the Temple.  These people boarded the bus caravan that was carrying many hundreds of Temple members traveling with Rev. Jones on this series of meetings, designed to spread the message of Christian human service and interfaith unity.

Rev. Jones has also been calling attention to the need for people of conscious to be concerned about the dangers facing our freedoms, especially freedom of the press.

Rev. Jones will be returning to California after paying a visit to the church’s agricultural mission project in South America, where great quantities of food have been harvested in efforts to help relieve world hunger.  

 

The project has received the plaudits of many government officials there and in the United States, and is demonstrating the kind of dramatic results that can be achieved when people work together with the spirit of service to mankind which, Rev. Jones emphasizes, is “the highest service to God.”

 

Farrakhan meets Peoples Temple in Ukiah, CA: Ukiah Daily Journal, September 3, 1976

 Ukiah Daily Journal, Ukiah Calif.  Friday, September 3,1976.  Page 8

Spiritual Jubilee and national tour

Eventful summer for Peoples Temple

A wide variety of programs and special events have highlighted this Bicentennial summer season for members of  Peoples Temple.

In late May, the Temple cosponsored a Spiritual Jubilee with the Nation of Islam. attended by 20,000 people, that received nation-wide publicity, bringing together people, from all faiths, and emphasizing the need for brotherhood.  Dignitaries and leaders in religious, civic, and governmental spheres attended, and heard speeches by Rev. Jim Jones, and the Muslim’s chief minister, Wallace Muhammad. 

In June, over 750 members of the Temple took a 10,000 mile national tour, covering 22 states, bringing the message of brotherhood to many major metropolitan centers, and visiting scenes of historic and cultural interest.  The trip culminated with a Fourth of July celebration on Redwood Valley attended by several thousand members and guests of the congregation.

The summer months saw the implementation of educational and recreational programs, featuring field trips to many areas of interest, special film programs, trade and technical training programs, as well as religious, historical and cultural enrichment courses and seminars for young and old.  Many guest speakers from the community addressed the congregation, and expressed the need for more churches and community groups to follow the model of Peoples Temple in its outreach of concern and practical help.

One of the church’s most successful projects that was brought to fruition during the summer has been the establishment of a Bay Area Community News Service, the Peoples Forum, reaching hundreds of thousands of homes.  

Over the weekend, representatives from the congregation met with Minister Abdul Farrakhan, international representative of the Muslim Mosques, at a press conference attended by Channel 5‘s Belva Davis, and other news persons.  

Jonestown Massacre: Nation of Islam Joins First Interfaith Rally. L.A. Times. May 24, 1976

 

The Los Angeles Times.  Monday, May 24, 1976. Main Edition.  Page 24.

Nation of Islam Joins First Interfaith Rally

Group Once Known as Black Muslims Convenes in L.A.
BY JOHN DART

Times Religious Writer

The Nation of Islam, once known commonly as the “Black Muslims,” joined Sunday in its first major interfaith rally and heard its reform minded leader refer as much to the Bible as to the Muslim holy book, the Koran.

Wallace D. Muhammad of Chicago, chief minister of the Nation of Islam since his father’s death 15 months ago, spoke to an estimated 18,000 persons, all of whom had to pass through airport-type security checks to enter the Los Angeles Convention Center.  

Muhammad criticized world religious leadership to date for failing to end oppression or archive unity and he noted the traditional Islamic indebtedness to Moses and Jesus as predecessors of Mohammed.

“There is no division in the family of prophets,” he said, “but there is division in us.”

Under Wallace Muhammad’s leadership, whites have been admitted to membership and friendly relations have been established with Arabic Islamic representatives.  Sunday’s “Spiritual Jubilee” marked the sect’s first venture into interfaith cooperation.

Preceding Muhammad on the platform was Rev. Jim Jones, the white founder-minister of Peoples Temple, which claims more than 12,000 members in three California churches.  People Temple cosponsored the programs.

Jones, a Protestant minister, recalled several years ago tension was high between his San Francisco church and a neighboring Nation of Islam temple.

“But under Wallace Muhammad all those things have changed.”  Jones said “Peace has come.”

The People Temple churches, affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), are relatively unorthodox under Jones’ leadership.  The emphasis is on community service and support to worthy secular causes.

Jones says that even atheists and agnostics are welcome to his church as long as they agree with the gospel messages to serve others.

Pointing to the fact that traditional Islam regards Jesus as a prophet, the preacher declared- to the cheers of the audience- “It’s high time Christianity gave honor to Mohammad.”

Representatives of the predominantly Arabic Islamic Foundation of Southern California and the Southern California Council of Churches also extended their congratulations from the platform.  

Some speakers began with an Arabic Islamic greeting of peace, including Supervisor Kenneth Hahn and Lt. Gov. Mervyn Dymally.  The latter recalled that “it wasn’t safe” to give such a Muslim greeting 14 years ago, recalling the exchange of gunfire by police and Muslims at a Mosque in Los Angeles in 1962.

Greetings were also extended by activist-educator Angela Davis, Mayor Bradley and a young black woman member of the Sikh Dharma Brotherhood who wore white clothing and headgear similar similar to the attire of

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Jim Jones & Peoples Temple @Muhammad Temple No. 26. 1974

Jonestown: Nation of Islam's Modernization Program. AZ Daily Star. May 23, 1976

 Arizona Daily Star.  Sunday, May 23, 1976. Main Edition. Page 37

The Nation of Islam, continuing its “modernization” program under Chief Minister Wallace D. Muhammad, will take a giant step forward in Los Angeles Sunday.  For the first time, the nation will join forces with another religious group, the Peoples Temple Church headed by Rev. Jim Jones, for a giant spiritual jubilee, which will include Christian and Jewish religious leaders.

Mayors Tom Bradley of Los Angeles and George Mascone of San Francisco also will participate...

Jonestown Massacre: Cheif Minister of Islam Nation to Speak: L.A. Times, May 22, 1976

THE LOS ANGELES TIMES Saturday, May 22, 1976  Main edition page 31

Wallace D. Muhammad, the reform minded chief minister of the Nation of Islam, will join Rev. Jim Jones of Peoples Temple as the main speakers Sunday in an inter-faith program at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Officials of the Chicago-based sect, once commonly known as the Black Muslims, and they expect 30,000 persons to attend.  The Nation of Islam has changed many policies in the last year under Muhammad, including welcoming white members and moving toward increasing contacts with Arab Moslems.

Among those endorsing the “Spiritual Jubalee” Sunday was Dr. Muhsin El-Baili, director of the Islamic Foundation of Southern California.

Jones is pastor of three large Peoples Temple congregations in Redwood Valley, San Francisco and Los Angeles affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).  

Other speakers include Angela Davis, L.A. Gov. Mervyn Dymally, County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn, Mayor Tom Bradley, publisher Carlton Goodlett and the Rev. Priscilla Chaplin, director of the Southern California of Churches.  

Abdul Karim Hasan of Los Angeles, the Nation of Islam western regional minister, said the purpose of the rally was to alleviate racial and religious tensions and draw
attention to the community improvement programs of the Nation of Islam and Peoples Temple.

The 1 p.m. program will be preceded by two hours of music.  

Jonestown Massacre: Michael Prokes - Nation of Islam meetings. April 12, 1976

FBI preliminary tape identification note: One Tracs 90/ “Cecil Williams interviews JJ 4/12/76” 

Date cues on tape: 12 April 1976 (notation on tape box, confirmed in context) Part 7: 

Conversation between Mike Prokes and writer named Dick Prokes: 

Well, it uh, went really well. 

Dick: Good. 

Prokes: Uh, you weren’t uh– We had so many people here that it was unbelievable. And I– I think there was 4000 people. And uh, it uh, it was, it was really a, a moving service. 

 Dick: Oh. Prokes: It uh– We had uh, so many different people represented. I guess there was about 12 different ministers of various faiths, and uh, Dennis Banks came with uh, William Kunstler. 

Dick: Oh, good. 

Prokes: Nation of Islam was here. Willie Brown and uh, uh, oh gosh, I– Cecil Williams came, and (laughs) lot of people just dropped in unexpectedly. 

[EDIT] 

Prokes: ...it was just a, a really, a real feeling of uh, brotherhood with uh– 

Dick: Uh– We came by, but we were late. We got there by about– about one o’clock. 

Prokes: Oh, you did. Dick: Yeah. I had to get to another uh, thing, you know. 

Prokes: Oh, we were on the way over, I think, to the uh– 

Dick: Right. Right. 

Prokes: Oh, we were on the way over, I think, to the uh– 

Dick: Right. Right.  

Prokes: To the Nation of Islam. That’s really been a breakthrough, you know, Dick, uh– 

Dick: Well, that sounds good, really, I’m really, you know, happy about that. 

Prokes: It’s– It’s almost uh, unbelievable how they’ve– they’ve turned around with uh, slow cultivation and just, you know, working together and offering our services. It’s– It’s– They’re– They’re as uh, friendly as can be, I mean, we’re just uh, we’re really uh, on close terms now. And uh, I mean they– they don’t have any sort of uh, you know uh, rhetoric that’s hate-filled like you once heard it to be. And uh, they’re generally concerned with uh, you know, working within the system for, for change. 

 Dick: Are there going to be more meetings like that? 

Prokes: Yes. Yes, there will. We’ve done it quite a few times now. In fact, uh, Jim has been uh– I don’t know if I mentioned it or not, but uh, their chief minister in Chicago, Wallace D. Muhammed, who uh, was a friend of uh, a close friend with Malcolm X, uh, he is going to be uh, having a joint meeting with us, and they want, you know, Jim to have equal billing. It’s really sort of a, a breakthrough, but uh, it’ll be taking place in May in uh, Los Angeles. And then, depending on how that works out, they may have one here too. But uh, they– they usually have it uh, run closed-circuit throughout the country, and uh, it’s uh, I don’t know– a lot– lot of good could come out of it, if it works. Dick: Sounds good. Prokes: Yeah. 

SOURCE: Q683 Transcript https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=27537 

 Ex‐Aide to Tim Tones Kills Himself at News Briefing: https://www.nytimes.com/1979/03/14/archives/exaide-to-jim-jones-kills-himself-at-news-briefing.html

Jonestown Massacre: Nation of Islam - Peoples Temple. Ukiah Daily Journal. April 9, 1976

Ukiah Daily Journal, Ukiah, Calif. Friday, April 9th, 1976. Page 12

Joint worship service for Temple and Islam SAN FRANCISCO - 

A large number of civic and religious leaders gathered at Peoples Temple in San Francisco last weekend and participated in a joint worship service between the leadership of the Nation of Islam and Pastor Jim Jones’ congregation. 

The service represented a breakthrough in relations with the Nation of Islam. They recently became inclusive in their membership and accepting of all races, and now frequently worship with the Peoples Temple. 

San Francisco District Attorney Joseph Freitas, legislators from both State Senate and Assembly, as well as 15 pastors of all different faiths, including the bishop of the nationwide Christian Church denomination, participated in the worship service. 

The Los Angeles extension of Peoples Temple,which Jim Jones also pastors, is participating in joint services with the Nation of Islam mosque in Southern California, where Temple officers met recently with the movement’s national leader and chief minister, Wallace D. Muhammad. 

News of the meeting was kept private until released in the Temple’s newspaper, the Peoples Forum. which is circulated to 600,000 people throughout they bay region and Northern California. 

The paper is designed to report good news that is taking place in America, as well as being a “defense for the defenseless.” 

In recent issues the Forum has had wide ranging articles, including appeals for support in opposing the continued killing of baby seals in Canada. 

The paper also encouraged readers to write the Soviet Union, urging a liberalization of ‘emigration policies to allow free movement of its citizens, including Soviet Jews, to any country they would choose. 

 

 

Also mentioned in the Forum was a call for support of the family of a policeman who died just two and a half months before his retirement, causing the forfeit of a pension that woo;d have gone to his wife and children. 

The Peoples Temple congregation voted in one of its recent services to accept a visit from the consul general of the present Chilean regime. 

The officials request was made in response to a letter from the Peoples Temple thanking the new regime for releasing political prisoners in Chile. 

Rev. Jones told the members and visitors in service, “Though we do not approve of militant regimes, we do believe in freedom of expression and the free exchange of ideas, and thus want to allow the opportunity of hearing both sides of the Chilean issue.”

Nation of Islam - Peoples Temple Agricultural Project: San Francisco Examiner Apr 3, 1976

The San Francisco Examiner Sat, Apr 3, 1976. Page 26

Peoples Temple guests include Bishop Irwin Dr. Karl Irwin, Bishop of the Disciples of Christ for Northern California and Nevada, will be among the guests at the 11 a.m. service tomorrow at the Peoples Temple, Disciples of Christ, at 1859 Geary Blvd. Invited guests include Mayor George Mascone

and Indian leader Dennis Banks, 

 

leaders from the Nation of Islam's San Francisco Temple and many community leaders.

The Rev. Jim Jones, pastor, will conduct the service.

Jim Jones and crowd outside Muhammad's Temple Number 26, 1974

Bilalian News Article June 4, 1976: Nation of Islam and Peoples Temple

"I say today to hell with Christianity, rationalism, Buddhism, all the lumber of the centuries. I bring you a positive and primaeval fact, magic by name; and with this I will build me a new Heaven and a new Earth. I want none of your faint approval or faint dispraise; I want blasphemy, murder, rape, revolution, anything, bad or good, but strong."- Aleister Crowley to Gerald Kelly via letter 

                                                                       dated Oct 31 1905, Kaczynski's Perdurabo, p. 151

 

Reverend Jim Jones and Fruit Of Islam

Bilalian News Article- June 4th, 1976

 Spiritual Jubilee proclaims

A New Heaven and a New Earth!

Bilalian News Photos

Left: The Chief Minister emphasized: "The book tells us that God is coming. We've been looking for a physical person or a personality when we should have been looking for a mentality. A man's
mentality is what puts him in heaven."

Right: The Rev. Jim Jones observed that: "Whether we are Christian or Muslim, agnostic or atheist, we must first learn to forget our differences because the oppressors, be they economic or social, and the hate mongers are on our backs."

Left (Insert): Dressed in white, the Honorable W.D. Muhammad arrives at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Right: The multi-ethnic Peoples Temple Church Choir delivers a stirring rendition of "Sing A Simple Song of Freedom."



Page 2.  Opening Remarks

In opening remarks on Jubilee Day, Minister Abdul Karim Hasan, Western regional representative of the Honorable W.D. Muhammad, observed that: "The idea of bringing people together from all walks of life regardless of their color or creed is an idea that should continue to grow and develop to such an extent that all men and women can enjoy peace of mind and contentment."

Page 2. Opening Remarks

Among the key speakers were: Mayor Thomas Bradley; California's Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally; Sister Angela Davis of the National Alliance Against Racism and Repression; Mr. Kenneth Hahn, Los angeles County supervisor; Dr. Carlton Goodlett, noted publisher; the Rev. Priscilla Chaplin of the Southern California Council of Protestant Churches; Imam Rashid Tifrit, assistant director of the Islamic Foundation of Southern California; the Rev. Earl Hazly, president of the United Christian Association; and Minister Mukhia Khalsa of the Sikh Dharma Brotherhood.

Endorsees included: Dr. Mohammed Mehdi, secretary general of the Action Committee on Arab-American Relations; Rabbi Morton Hoffman of the Bureau of Jewish Education; Dr. Armando Rodriguez, president of East Los Angeles City College; and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone.

One of the first speakers, media expert Michael Prokes, lauded the multi-racial Peoples Temple Church as an institution which has "saved hundreds of people from jail sentences and hard-line drugs" while giving "medical care to thousands of senior citizens." The Temple also operates an agricultural mission in Guyana, South America, whose crops go to feed needy nations.

Mr. Prokes cited another positive example- the adoption by the Rev. Jones and his wife Marceline of six children of different nationalities.

Dr. Goodlett reminded the audience that this year's Bicentennial also marks the "200th anniversary of the exodus of Richard Allen from the United Methodist Church because he was no longer able to endure racism in organized religion."

Mr. Kenneth Hahn emphasized that: "When the Honorable Wallace D. Muhammad consented to come here, I wanted to be here to listen to him."

Mayor Bradley

Mayor Bradley characterized the Jubilee as "a magnificent occasion which will bring together diverse elements and set the tone for other communities around the country."
Angela Davis pointed to the rising up of people across the globe to challenge "the forces of disease, illiteracy and starvation. They have discovered that their most important weapon is unity." She cautioned citizens about stepped up repression in the United States.

The S-1 bill, if it is passed, "could even outlaw such wonderful gatherings as this," she said. Just last week, she added, the "Federal Center for Experimentation and Behavior Control was opened in Buckner, North Carolina." Miss Davis called for a unified struggle to free unjustly imprisoned men such as the Rev. Ben Chavis.

Mr. Dymally noted that "Fourteen years ago it wasn't safe to greet anyone with 'As-Salaam Alaikum.'" He reflected on the brutal attack of the Los Angeles Police on Muhammad's Mosque No. 27 in 1962. His support of the Nation of Islam in that case led to racist branding him as a "Black Muslim.

"My, my how times change!" he remarked. "That 'Black Muslim' is now your acting governor."

Rev. Jim Jones

The Rev. Jim Jones expressed joy in the "symbolic and literal union" of the Peoples Temple and the Nation of Islam. that union, he said, "represents a victory over the forces that seek to sow disunity."

The Native American evangelist warned that materialistic powers of racism, greed and profit now threaten to go to the extent of "destroying our planet." But oppressed people everywhere "are beginning to come into a ressurection of humanistic reality"- a keen awareness of the need to unite or persih.

Bro. Jones bore witness that: "I have recieved more acceptance and brotherhood from the Nation of Islam in these past few months than I have recieved from many quarters of the Christian Church." He paid tribute to the wise administration of the Chief Minister who has liberated the role of the womanand welcomed all races to the worship of one God.

Pic: Women members of the Peoples Temple Church actively participate in all church programs, including: homes for orphans and senior citizens, drug rehabilitation centers; legal assistance programs and an agricultural mission in Latin America.

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"If the Muslims and Peoples Temple can get together, anybody can make it," the Rev. Jones proclaimed. He advised listeners not to fall into "the trap of religious sectarianism and provincialism." All religious groupings, he observed, must forget their petty differences in order to overcome exploitation.

He mentioned that only a few days ago some misguided individuals had fire-bombed his church's property and made threatening telephone calls conserning the Jubilee, but instead of discouraging him, these incidents only "proved that this meeting was the hand of God upon us."

The Rev. Jones called the Honorable W.D. Muhammad "a prophet," and declaired, "with the alternatives I see on the horizon, I only wish he were running for President."

Turning to the pages of history, he pointed out that "Muslims made room for Jesus and gave him honor. And its high time that Christianity gave honor to Muhammad." Bro. Jones underscored the dangers of taking scriptures literally, citing the Biblical verse which reads: "Servants, obey your master."

Reffering to the example of Jesus, he observed: "Jesus said there's only one way you can be saved- 'Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, let the oppressed go free.'

"Who is fulfilling the words of Jesus? Who opened his arms and said, 'Come Christians, come Jews, come atheist, come agnostics?' Who is fulfilling the words of Jesus any better than the Honorable Wallace D. Muhammad?" The Rev. Jones concluded his speech with these words: "If you come after the Nation of Islam you better come after me."

The Chief Minister

The Honorable W.D. Muhammad voiced appreciation for Bro. Jim Jones and for "the great community that he heads- the Peoples Temple Church. In time," he noted, "maybe we will all realize just how muh the world is indebted to the step that has been taken this day."

Left: Warith Deen Mohammed  Right: Reverend Jim Jones

Delving deeply into scripture, the Cheif Minister showed that there is no compulsion in religion. "God never imposes His way on anybody or any community. Almighty God's way is an open way." He went on to say that almighty Allah had purposely let different religious communities flourish around the world in order to test man and to eventually produce a unity from diversity, a oneness which would lift all peoples to Him.

The Cheif Minister demonstrated the unity of all true believers and the oneness of all the great heroes of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. "Those who believe that they should conform to God's righteousness are all brothers in one brotherhood," he declared.

"Jesus verified the truth of Moses and continued the chain of truth....Muhammad came and supported the teachings and the teachers of the Old Testament. He spoke of Jesus as his brother in the faith."

Thus, there is no division in the family of prophets, but there is division among humanity. That alone is evidence that we have strayed from the pure teachings of those prophets," the Honorable W.D. Muhammad stressed.

"The world has become a world of enemies because religious orders have promoted this," he observed: "They have condemned the other communities as infidels." However, prophet Muhammad ibn Abdullah of 1,400 years ago (peace and blessings) "taught his followers to protect the sacred houses of other religious communities."

Today, the Lost-Found Nation of Islam pursues only one goal, Minister Muhammad boldly proclaimed: "to preach the truth regard-less to whom or what....Jesus said, "Know the truth and the truth will make you free."

The Chief Minister pointed out that Christians have been praying to an "old heaven" because God himself says that He's going to make a New Heaven and a New Earth. Minister Muhammad stressed that a wicked mentality which "portrayed itself as light" had established a false kingdom and buried the real, life-giving word of God.

We've come to see rabbis, priest and imams spit out nothing but air," because there has been "a famine in the Earth- not for food, but for the word of God." The Cheif
Minister added that it has been religious leadership which "has failed the world, not politics, nor science."
"Where are you, Pope?" he asked. "Where are you, imams?"-"Rabbis, its time for you to come out of your hiding place."

In conclusion, the Honorable W.D. Muhammad assured his listeners that: "God has ordained a natural movement to destroy the corrupt world and establish truth. This is our day!"

Bilalian News front page- June 4, 1976 

NATION OF ISLAM'S INTERFAITH RALLY
By John Hart (Times Religion Writer)

Los Angeles- The Nation of Islam, once known commonly as the Black Muslims, joined Sunday in its first interfaith rally.

Wallace D. Muhammad of Chicago, Chief Minister of the Nation of Islam since the death of his father, Elijah Muhammad 15 months ago, spoke to an estimated 18,000 persons, all of whom had to pass through airport-type security checks to enter the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Muhammad criticized today's world religious leadership for failing to end oppression or achieve unity, and he noted the traditional Islamic indebtedness to Moses and Jesus as predecessors of Muhammad.

There is no division in the family of prophets, he said, but there is division in us.

Under Wallace Muhammad's leadership, Caucasians have been admitted to membership in the Nation of Islam and friendly relations have been established with Arabic Islamic representatives. Sunday's "Spiritual Jubilee" marked the Nation's first venture into interfaith cooperation.

Preceding Muhammad on the platform was the Rev Jim Jones, the white founder-minister of Peoples Temple Church, which claims more than 12,000 members in three California churches.

Peoples Temple co-sponsored the program.

Jones, a Protestant minister, recalled that several years ago, tension was high between his san Francisco church and a Nation of Islam Temple.

"But under Wallace Muhammad all those things have changed." Jones said-"peace has come."

The Peoples Temple Churches, affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), are considered unorthodox under Rev. Jones' leadership. The emphasis is on community service and support of worthy secular causes.

The Rev. Jones said that even athesits and agnostics are welcome to his church as long as they agree with the gospel message to serve others.



Pointing to the fact that traditional Islam regards Jesus as a prophet, the minister declared- to the cheers of the audience- "Its high time Christianity gave honor to Muhammad."

Representatives of the predominantly Arabic Islamic Foundation of Southern California, and the Southern California Council of Churches extended their congratulations from the platform.

Some speakers began with an Arabic Islamic greeting of peace, including Supervisor Kenneth Hahn and Lt. Gov. Mervyn Dymally. The latter recalled that it wasn't safe" to give sucars ago, recalling the gunfire between police and Muslims at a Mosque in Los Angeles in 1962. Greetings were were also extended by activist-educator Angela Davis, Mayor Thomas Bradley, and a young Black woman member of the Sikh Dharma brotherhood who wore white clothing and headgear similar to the attire of thousands of Nation of Islam women in the audience.

The Honorable W.D. Muhammad said those who knew of the rally but stayed in their churches or temples (the doors opened at 11 a.m. for what turned out to be a five hour event) "Stayed in the darkness of Satan."- Reprint from Los Angeles Times



The Rev. Jim Jones observed that "All around us strife and division have been rising in the land, forces which would set race against race, brother against brother, which would even bring about the genocide of people deemed unfit for survival. But people around the world are beginning to come into an awakening, into a resurrection of humanistic reality. In the face of forces of destruction, the oppressed people are coming to an understanding that if we do not unite and put aside our differences...then we will very possibly not survive on terra firma."