by Brett William Urben
[Editors note: Come at me again, “Wink”, Mr. “Second Cousin of RZA Himself” who apparently still has to side-gig as an Uber driver.]
The Nation of Islam (NOI) is a full-blown cult built on one of the most batshit racial creation myths ever sold to desperate people, complete with a 6,600-year-old mad scientist named “Yakub” who genetically engineered “white devils” on the island of Patmos.
This is textbook brainwashing that turns trauma into tribal loyalty, shields predators, and treats any criticism as “devil interference.”
The cover-up playbook is straight out of the Catholic Church’s priest-shuffling manual: deny, deflect, discredit victims, protect the “divine” hierarchy at all costs.
Let’s rip the veil off this entire system – no mercy, no sugarcoating, and no fucking prisoners.
I’m going full “Hit Em Up” on the abusers who’ve been peddling this nonsense while their leaders lived like hypocritical kings.
The Zulu Nation Gateway
Bambaataa and the NOI Pipeline
Lance Taylor (yes, the whitest name imaginable) IE. “Afrika Bambaataa” founded the Universal Zulu Nation in the Bronx as a hip-hop peace movement.
But its philosophical core was straight NOI doctrine filtered through 5% Nation and Black Muslim teachings.
Bambaataa openly credited Elijah Muhammad’s influence on self-knowledge, discipline, and anti-white “devil” framing.
When multiple men accused him of molesting them as boys in the 1970s-90s, with institutionalized grooming via Zulu “youth programs”, allegedly sex trafficking a 12-year-old – the organization’s first response was classic NOI: attack the accusers as liars or government plants.
Only after lawsuits and public pressure did they oust him and issue a weak apology.
A 2025 default judgment hit Bambaataa after he ghosted court.
In May 2025, a New York Supreme Court judge granted the John Doe plaintiff a default judgment “without opposition” after Bambaataa failed to show up or file any defense – essentially admitting the allegations by ghosting the entire case.
LOL.
This was the fruit of an ideology that demands blind loyalty to “godly” Black authority figures while framing outsiders as devils.
Classic cult-like behavior.
The Cult’s Origin Story
Wallace Fard Muhammad
The Vanishing Con Man
The Nation of Islam didn’t start with some noble Black empowerment crusade, contrary to propaganda that figures like “RZA” will spout from their compromised mouths.
It kicked off in 1930s Detroit when a mysterious peddler named Wallace Fard Muhammad (aliases: W.D. Fard, Prophet Fard, Master Fard) showed up selling silk and “knowledge” door-to-door in Black neighborhoods during the Great Depression.
LOL!
Bro showed up selling silk and suddenly he’s God in human form.
Even L. Ron Hubbard would’ve said, ‘Damn, that’s ambitious.’
FBI files and police records paint him as a petty criminal with a shady past – possibly a white-passing con artist or even tied to earlier occult/white-nationalist fringe groups.
He preached a syncretic mix of Islam, numerology, and racial revenge fantasy.
Fard claimed he was from Mecca, the Mahdi, and eventually “Allah in person.”
LOL!
He taught that Black people (the “Tribe of Shabazz”) were the original divine humans- literal gods – who had ruled for trillions of years.
Whites?
Engineered evil.
Fard vanished in 1934 after a human-sacrifice scandal involving one of his followers stabbing a man on an altar.
Nation of Islam lore says he “departed to Mecca” or ascended.
Reality?
He fled police heat.
His most devoted disciple, Elijah Poole (a Georgia sharecropper’s son with a 4th-grade education), rebranded as Elijah Muhammad and took over, building the empire on Fard’s teachings.
The Yakub Myth
The Ridiculous Sci-Fi Core
That Brainwashes Millions
This is where it gets insanely ridiculous – yet this is the ontological bedrock of the NOI.
From Fard’s Lost-Found Moslem Lessons and Elijah Muhammad’s Message to the Blackman in America, the “Yakub History” is presented as literal fact, not metaphor:
I would advise swallowing your coffee before reading this list.
You have been warned, dear reader.
If you though Scientology was bad, just wait…
This is what NOI followers actually believe:
- 6,600 years ago, a rogue Black scientist named Yakub (big-headed, evil genius) was exiled to the island of Patmos.
- Over 600 years, he and his followers used selective breeding (“grafting”) to create a race of pale, blue-eyed devils – whites – devoid of melanin, inherently murderous, lying, and thieving.
- These “grafted devils” were released into the world after 2,000 years of incubation, leading to 6,000 years of white rule, slavery, and oppression as divine punishment for Black “original sin” of letting Yakub live.
- The universe is run by 24 Black “scientist-gods” on a wheel-shaped Mother Plane (a giant UFO in the sky) that will one day rain bombs on the devils.
- Black people are gods in human form, Fard was the latest Allah, and Elijah was his “Messenger”. Whites are temporary – doomed to destruction in the coming apocalypse.
This is less theology and more L. Ron Hubbard meets Star Wars meets eugenics fan-fiction, complete with “grafting” labs and flying saucers.
Ontologically, it’s a disaster:
Pure racial essentialism that essentializes one group as divine-by-blood and the other as ontologically corrupt-by-design.
Empirically, it has been crushed by every branch of science – genetics shows all humans share African origins.
Archaeology, anthropology, and history show zero evidence of a “Yakub bio-engineering project.”
It’s unfalsifiable pseudoscience, designed to be immune to evidence: any counter-proof is just “the devil’s trickery.”
Philosophically, it fails spectacularly.
It weaponizes post-slavery trauma into a revenge cosmology that rejects universal humanity, evidence-based reason, and self-critique.
Dissent itself becomes satanic.
This creates the perfect insular cult:
Loyalty over truth and hierarchy over accountability ensure an unquestioning and easily abused relationship between the average NOI follower and their fascistic leaders.
Vulnerable Black communities ravaged by poverty, racism, and identity crisis get hooked on “knowledge of self” that’s actually self-delusion.
It’s brainwashing 101:
Replace reality with a comic-book narrative that flatters the in-group and demonizes the out-group.
They learned well from their former masters, it seems.
Except the masters at least had the decency to keep the eugenics in the lab instead of turning it into mandatory Sunday school.
Elijah Muhammad and his Harem of Teenage Secretaries
The Hypocrisy That Malcolm X Exposed
While preaching the strict “Restrictive Law” – the NOI’s “moral” code banning fornication, adultery, alcohol, etc., with shunning and beatings for “violations” (interesting how that benefits the male leaders, eh?), Elijah Muhammad was living like a cult king.
From the mid-1950s onward, Elijah Muhammad impregnated between 13 and 21 teenage secretaries (some as young as 15), according to scholar Karl Evanzz and multiple paternity suits filed in the 1960s.
He justified it by citing Biblical prophets having multiple wives or “tests from Allah” while his followers got beaten for looking at a woman sideways.
The organization knew, covered it up, and threatened or expelled anyone who talked.
Enter Malcolm X – the most famous NOI recruit, who built the movement into a national force.
Malcolm learned the truth from Elijah’s own son Wallace (Warith Deen Mohammed) and the victims themselves.
He was devastated.
In 1963–64, after the JFK “chickens coming home to roost” suspension, Malcolm went public:
Elijah was a hypocrite, the Nation of Islam was corrupt and idolatrous (worshipping Fard as God), and the “Messenger” was exploiting young girls while demanding celibacy from the rank-and-file.
Malcolm broke away in March 1964, converted to orthodox Sunni Islam after Hajj (where he saw racial unity in prayer), and founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity – shifting toward broader human rights rather than racial separatism.
The NOI’s response was typical psycopathic cult-defense:
Death threats, firebombing his home, and ultimately assassination.
On February 21, 1965, NOI gunmen shot him dead in Harlem.
Three NOI members were convicted (though one later recanted and evidence pointed to higher orders).
Malcolm had warned:
“Elijah Muhammad himself had already given the order to have me killed because he feared I would expose… his extreme immorality.”
The case of Malcolm X is the inevitable outcome when a cult’s ontological house of cards gets threatened by truth.
He went from NOI superstar to “hypocrite” overnight because he chose gnosis over the lie.
The Classic Cult Special:
One minute you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, the next you’re public enemy #1 because you noticed the emperor has a harem of teenagers.
The Splinter That Proves the Pattern
United Nation of Islam’s Forced Child Labor Cult
The abuse didn’t stop with Elijah (who died in 1975).
His splinter group, United Nation of Islam (UNOI, founded by Royall Jenkins, a former Farrakhan follower), operated exactly like the mother cult – only with documented federal convictions.
In 2024–2025 trials in Kansas City, six high-ranking UNOI leaders were convicted of conspiracy to commit forced labor (and additional counts).
Kaaba Majeed got 10 years in prison plus three years supervised release for five counts of forced labor and conspiracy.
The others received four to five years (or probation).
The judge’s words: the defendants “were entrusted to care for and nurture vulnerable children but instead chose to exploit and abuse them.”
For 12+ years (2000–2012), they ran a “cult” (judge’s words) where children as young as 8 were beaten, isolated, denied education and healthcare, fed strict punitive diets, and forced into 16-hour unpaid workdays in UNOI businesses across multiple states.
Victims testified to physical and emotional abuse, arranged child “marriages,” and exploitation—all while leaders preached NOI-style self-discipline.
Same playbook: insular hierarchy, divine authority claims, and victim silencing.
Catholic Church Parallels
Same Cover-Up, Different Robes
This is the Catholic Church scandal with a racial sci-fi twist.
For decades, the Vatican hierarchy transferred predatory priests, silenced victims with NDAs or excommunication threats, and framed exposés as anti-Catholic media plots – preserving the institution’s “infallible” moral authority.
Bishops acted as gatekeepers, and the “divine” structure shielded the guilty.
The Nation of Islam does the exact same.
Fruit of Islam enforcers manage victims’ silence, “Messenger” immunity is granted only to the patriarchy, and critics are labeled devils or traitors.
Both demand total loyalty, and both produce double trauma for survivors (abuse and betrayal).
The difference here is the overt, explicit racialization.
The NOI’s ontology explicitly racializes the enemy (“white devils” or external plots), making external scrutiny inherently suspect.
Catholic theology at least nods to universal sin.
Catholic priests at least had to pretend to be celibate.
Elijah just said ‘Allah made me do it’ and kept the receipts in the form of 13–21 secret babies.
The NOI exempts the “original people” while grafting all evil onto others.
The result is nearly identical, still.
Predators thrive until lawsuits or feds force partial reckoning.
The Dangerous Legacy
Why This Cult Is Still Toxic
The NOI’s (Farrakhan) current iteration still peddles the Yakub myth, the “Mother Plane”, and the same dualism. But now it’s mixed with anti-Semitism and baseless conspiracy theories.
It preys on real grievances but offers fantasy solutions that isolate, radicalize, and enable internal abuse.
The “enforcement” is the cover for a system that brainwashes followers into defending predators as “divine exceptions” while attacking truth-tellers like Malcolm X.
This is a dangerous ontological trap:
Pseudoscience masquerades as gnosis.
Hypocrisy gets sold as holiness.
And cover-ups are framed as resistance.
The patterns scream:
Any group claiming racial and/or moral supremacy while shielding its leaders from accountability is a cult.
This is a dangerous ontological trap:
- Pseudoscience masquerading as gnosis
- Hypocrisy sold as holiness
- Cover-ups framed as “resistance”
Any group claiming racial and/or moral supremacy while shielding its leaders from accountability is a cult, full stop.
Sunlight is the only cure.
Touching grass is imperative when you find yourself believing this insane dogshit that even Philip K. Dick couldn’t get away with publishing.
Survivors of Bambaataa, UNOI, and Elijah’s victims have already forced some reckonings through the courts.
The rest is a matter of time.
Let the dominoes fall.