Last semester, Undergraduate Student Government granted the Nation of Islam Registered Student Organization status. The decision spawned a lot of controversy because of the NOI’s racist and anti-American teachings. In the past, the Nation of Islam’s teachings has been against Jews, Catholics, gays, and other Caucasians. Calling all Caucasians white devils and Jews bloodsuckers.

The leader of the national movement Louis Farrakhan sided with many anti-American leaders. Just to name a few of his friends supporting him:Saddam Hussein, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, and Muammar Al Gadhafi. While Farrakhan was on his Itinerary of Hate tour in late 1996, his forth stop was Iran. In Iran, an Iranian newspaper quoted Farrakhan saying, God will destroy America by the hands of the Muslims. Also Libya’s news agency, JANA, reported Gadhafi agreed to give Farrakhan $1 billion to help bring Farrakhan’s hateful plans to fruition.

Last semester I attended the first NOI meeting on campus. I went there to see for myself if the media was correct, and they were this time. Enoch Muhammad, NOI campus leader and follower of Farrakhan’s policies, spoke the same hate as Farrakhan. He spoke on a broad array of hate against non-blacks and how white Americans are still torturing the black man. The group talked approximately 30 minutes on Islam and the other two hours on their hate.

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On Jan. 21, the NOI started off with more hate speeches by Muhammad. This time someone in the audience decided to record the anti-American and anti-Caucasian speech. This recording of Muhammad would prove to all non-believers the NOI on the SIUC campus is a hate group. Once the individual started recording the speech, an NOI member told him to hand over the recorder or leave the Student Center.

It is an outrage that Student Development and USG gave these anti-Americans and racists RSO status. They need to quit being cowards and stand up for patriotism and equality among all races and religions.