Why The FBI Called The Nation Of Islam The Moslem Cult Of Islam

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The FBI called the Nation of Islam the “Moslem Cult of Islam” (Marable 111). In Chapter 4, Marable describes that the name given to the Nation of Islam by the FBI can be found in the FBI’s internal documents. The Bureau’s interest in the MCI was primarily due to the rapid increase in followers. Much of the information they had about the Nation of Islam came from African American informants paid to infiltrate the Nation. In 1958, one those informants described Malcolm as “having a strong hatred for the blue eyed devils” (Marable 139). According to Marable, the FBI failed to comprehend to nature of the sect because it was convinced that the Nation of Islam taught a subversive ideology, which aimed for the destruction of America’s legal and socioeconomic

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