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8B RELIGION/Slie Charlotte Thursday,February 8, 2007 Imam sees similarities among world’s faiths Continued from page 5B what he wanted him to do and spread the word and goals of the NOI. “(Malcolm X) became a leader for us, for the young people," Mohammed said. "He was anxious for the young people to see what the Nation of Islam was all about and what the Honor able Elijah Muhammad’s message to the black man was all about. We started to come out of the wails of our temple and work in the public scene with Malcolm and then we started to get respect from the American people." When Elijah Muhammad died in 1975, Mohammed assumed control of the Nation of Islam and much like Malcolm X before him, moved more toward ortho dox Islam. Within a year, he changed the name of the organization to the World Community of al-Islam in the West and later changed his own name to Warith Deen Mohammed. He did away with the Fruit of Islam, the Nation’s paramil itary organization, and abolished the NOI’s dress codes for men and women. Ministers became imams and temples were renamed mosques. Followers were taught to pray as orthodox Muslims, to study the Qu’ran, and follow the five pillars of Islam. Warith Mohammed also taught that Elijah Muhammad was not a prophet, and that whites were not “blue-eyed devils.” He encouraged members to vote and enlist in military service. “During my leadership, I have pressed for us to broaden our awareness as a Muslim,” he said, Although several thou sand Muslims followed Louis Farrakhan when he split from Warith to re establish the Nation of Islam, most remained with Warith as he rapidly moved his community from the race-based, separatist beliefs of the NOI toward the orthodox practice of Sunni Islam. “The freedom that God wants for us in our holy book as human beings cre ated by God who have scared vessels, whether we know it or not, 1 believe that we have the same ideal of freedom under God that the Christian people have,” he said. But since 9/11 when mainstream media and politicians speak of Islam, the word terrorist often fol lows. But Mohammed said that is not true Islam and it is not the way it is viewed by other religious leaders. "Islam is respect for our common humanity and the desire to improve upon that humanity. That’s what it means to me,” he said. Mohammed said that the prophet Muhammad in the Qu’ran was guided by God to proceed vyith his life in accord with the direction that Jesus represents for human life. "Our excellence that we are pursing is the same thing that the Christians are pursing when they are pursing a life like Jesus,” Mohammed said. "It’s a common bond we have.” Stax museum photos depict soul of black churches THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEMPHIS, Term.—Ladies in grand dress hats. Men and women overwrought with the Holy Ghost. Arms reaching for heaven. Whether Church of God in Christ or Bap tist or Seventh-Day Adventist, Memphis or Baltimore or Philadelphia, some images are common and sometimes exclusive to African-American churches. Seventy-five of those scenes are on dis play beginning Friday in “Soul Sanctuary: Images of the African-American Worship Experience," a traveling exhibit of pho tographs by former Memphian Jason Mic- colo Johnson at the Stax Museum of Amer ican Soul Music. The exhibit of black-and-white pho tographs, part of the museum’s obser vance of Black History Month, will run through April 29 - in a place where a real church relocated from Duncan, Miss., is on permanent display. 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