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Aafia Siddiqui. Aafia Siddiqui (also spelled Afiya; [ 8] Urdu: عافیہ صدیقی; born 2 March 1972) is a Pakistani national who is serving an 86-year sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, for attempted murder and other felonies. [ 6][ 9] Siddiqui was born in Pakistan to a Sunni Muslim family ...
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an African American revolutionary, Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam (NOI) until 1964, he was a vocal ...
Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb[ a] (9 October 1906 – 29 August 1966) was an Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary who was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood. He is dubbed the "father of Salafi jihadism ", the religio-political doctrine that underpins the ideological roots of global jihadist organisations such as al-Qaeda ...
Wallace Fard Muhammad, also known as W. F. Muhammad, Wallace D. Fard or Master Fard Muhammad[ 3] ( / fəˈrɑːd /; [citation needed] reportedly born February 26, c. 1877[ 4][ a] – disappeared c. 1934 ), was the founder of the Nation of Islam. He arrived in Detroit in 1930 with an ambiguous background and several aliases, and proselytized ...
Elijah Muhammad (born Elijah Robert Poole; October 7, 1897 – February 25, 1975) was an American religious leader, black separatist, and self-proclaimed Messenger of Allah who led the Nation of Islam (NOI) from 1933 until his death in 1975. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Muhammad was also the teacher and mentor of Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, Muhammad Ali, and ...
Became atheists. Mina Ahadi, founder of the Central Council of Ex-Muslims. Javed Akhtar, noted Indian writer and lyricist. Sarah Haider, cofounder of Ex-Muslims of North America. Ismail Kadare, noted Albanian writer. Maryam Namazie, cofounder of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain. Armin Navabi, founder of Atheist Republic, about leaving Islam.
Sanyika Shakur (born Kody Dejohn Scott; November 13, 1963 – June 6, 2021), [ 1][ 2] also known by his former street moniker Monster or Monster Kody, was an American author and former gangster. He was a member of the Los Angeles -based Eight Tray Gangster Crips. He got his nickname as a 13-year-old gang member when he beat and stomped a ...
Muhammad. In Islam, Muḥammad ( Arabic: مُحَمَّد) is venerated as the Seal of the Prophets and earthly manifestation of primordial divine light ( Nūr ), who transmitted the eternal word of God ( Qur'ān) from the angel Gabriel ( Jabrāʾīl) to humans and jinn. [ 2] Muslims believe that the Quran, the central religious text of Islam ...