" This may have contributed to what ultimately led to the assassination of Malcolm X at a time when he was beginning to distance himself from the NOI after his hajj to Mecca.

Multiple stories exist as to why Clarence and the NOI parted ways: some have him refusing to give up gambling ; others have him questioning the unique divinity of Wallace Fard Muhammad, whom the NOI deified as the True and Living God in person ; or questioning his position as God due to the belief that Fard was born of a Caucasian mother.

NPRMs are often preceded by a notice of inquiry ( NOI ), where comments are invited but no rules have yet been proposed.

NOI members have offered contradictory accounts of the events that caused his exit and whether he left voluntarily.

Five Percenters have posited different culprits, including the CIA, the NOI, or a disgruntled follower.

Akbar Muhammad of the NOI described Clarence 13X as " confused ", although relations between the Five Percenters and NOI leaders have improved over time.

The Fruit of Islam wear distinctive blue or white uniforms and caps and have units at all NOI temples.

In January 2008, the Sequoia National Forest published a Notice of Intent ( NOI ) in the Federal Register that they intended to prepare an environmental impact statement and was beginning a year-long collaborative scoping process for development of a new Giant Sequoia National Monument Management Plan.

During the 1990s the NOI and the widely criticised Lyndon LaRouche network were cooperating on matters including the Million Man March, and criticism of the Anti-Defamation League.

The Nation of Islam ( NOI ) is a syncretic new religious movement founded in Detroit, Michigan by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad in July 1930.

By the time Elijah Muhammad died in 1975, there were 75 NOI centers across America.

Currently, there are over 130 NOI mosques throughout the world.

The Nation of Islam ( NOI ) preaches adherence to the Five Pillars of the Islamic Faith.

The NOI also teaches morality and personal decorum, emphasizing modesty, mutual respect, and discipline in dress and comportment.

NOI adherents stress a healthy diet and physical fitness, do not consume pork or alcohol, and do not use drugs or tobacco.

The NOI teaches that the Earth and Moon were once the same, and that the Earth is over 76 trillion years old.

The NOI teaches that black people constitute a nation and that through the institution of the Atlantic slave trade they were systematically denied knowledge of their history, language, culture, and religion and, in effect, lost control of their lives.

" In 1985 Louis Farrakhan invited white supremacist Tom Metzger, leader of the White Aryan Resistance ( a neo-Nazi white power group ), to attend a NOI gathering.

There are a number of stations on the Rotterdam-Amsterdam line on the border of The Hague and Voorburg, including Den Haag Mariahoeve and Den Haag Laan van NOI.

Louis Farrakhan Muhammad, Sr. ( born Louis Eugene Wolcott ; May 11, 1933, and formerly known as Louis X ) is the leader of the syncretic and mainly African-American religious movement the Nation of Islam ( NOI ).

He served as the minister of major mosques in Boston and Harlem, and was appointed by the longtime NOI leader, Elijah Muhammad, before his death in 1975, as the National Representative of the Nation of Islam.

After Warith Deen Muhammad disbanded the NOI and started the orthodox Islamic group American Society of Muslims, Farrakhan started rebuilding the NOI.

In 1981 he revived the name Nation of Islam for his organization, previously known as Final Call, regaining many of the Nation of Islam's National properties including the NOI National Headquarters Mosque Maryam, reopening over 130 NOI mosques in America and the world.

Due to health issues, in 2007, Farrakhan reduced his responsibilities with the NOI.

There he first came in contact with the teachings of the Nation of Islam ( NOI ) through Rodney Smith, a friend and saxophonist from Boston, Massachusetts.

After having the Saviour's Letter reviewed, and approved by the NOI's headquarters in Chicago in July 1955, Wolcott received a letter of approval from the Nation of Islam acknowledging his official membership as a registered Muslim / registered believer / registered laborer in the NOI.

Members of the NOI used the " X " while waiting for their Islamic names, which some NOI members received later in their conversion.

The summer after Louis ' conversion, Elijah Muhammad stated that all musicians in the NOI had to choose between music and the Nation of Islam.

After only nine months of being a registered Muslim in the NOI and a member of Muhammad's Temple of Islam in Boston, where Malcolm X was the minister, the former calypso-singer turned Muslim became his assistant minister.

After Malcolm X's dismissal from the NOI, and hajj, an Arabic word meaning pilgrimage, to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, several " revolving ministers ," meaning ministers who took turns preaching until an official minister was secured at a particular temple, were used at Muhammad's Temple of Islam No. 7 in Harlem.

A Southerner married to a New Englander, I have lived for many years in a Connecticut commuting town with a high percentage of artists, writers, publicity men, and business executives of egghead tastes.

Those writers known collectively as the `` Southern school '' have received accolades from even those critics least prone to eulogize ; ;

Such writers as William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren have led the field of somewhat less important writers in a sort of post-bellum renaissance.

Perhaps these writers have been too deeply moved by this romanticizing ; ;

In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.

Few writers have better understood their deepest selves.

Hanoverian agents assisted in promoting circulation, said to have reached 40,000, and if one may judge by the reaction of Swift and other government writers, the work must have had considerable impact.

Thus he complains, with considerable justice, that the Tory writers have resorted to libel instead of answering his arguments.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

What makes the current phenomenon unique is that so many science-fiction writers have reversed a trend and turned to writing works critical of the impact of science and technology on human life.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

This is not to deny the existence of pogroms and ghettos, but only to assert that these horrors have had an effect on the nerves of people who did not experience them, that among the various side effects is the local hysteria of Jewish writers and intellectuals who cry out from confusion, which they call oppression and pain.

Without the good magazines, without their book reviews, their hospitality to European writers, without above all their awareness of literary standards, we might very well have had a generation of Krim's heroes -- Wolfes, Farrells, Dreisers, and I might add, Sandburgs and Frosts and MacLeishes in verse -- and then where would we be??

I would not want to be one of those writers who begin each morning by exclaiming, `` O Gogol, O Chekhov, O Thackeray and Dickens, what would you have made of a bomb shelter ornamented with four plaster-of-Paris ducks, a birdbath, and three composition gnomes with long beards and red mobcaps ''??

A great many writers are bewitched by the apparently overwhelming advantage an attacker would have if he were to strike with complete surprise using nuclear rockets.

The final example of the failure to use available evidence, though evidence of a different kind from that which has so far been considered, comes from Fromm's treatment of some other writers who have dealt with the same themes.

Few new writers have their first story accepted, so they tell me.

Unfortunately, few of the artists ( writers, movie producers, dramatists and musicians ) who have used American folklore since 1900 have known enough to distinguish between the two streams even in the most general of ways.

The Middle Ages have known many arabic writers who revolutionized the Arab world literature with authors like Ahmad al-Buni and Ibn Manzur and Ibn Khaldoun who wrote the Muqaddimah while staying in Algeria, and many others.

Anthropology in France has a less clear genealogy than the British and American traditions, in part because many French writers influential in anthropology have been trained or held faculty positions in sociology, philosophy, or other fields rather than in anthropology.

This is to avoid the notion that a writing system that represents sounds must be either a syllabary or an alphabet, which implies that a system like Aramaic must be either a syllabary ( as argued by Gelb ) or an incomplete or deficient alphabet ( as most other writers have said ); rather, it is a different type.