Monday, Apr. 30, 1934

University of Islam

Week by week during recent months Negro moppets have been disappearing in batches from Detroit's public schoolrooms. One day ten black pupils would be reported missing and the next it would be 20. Meantime reports grew that a Negro cult school called the University of Islam was making corresponding gains. Alarmed teachers complained to the city attorney. Detroit's truant officers called at the University of Islam, housed on the second floor of an old brick theatre building, ten blocks east of the city's downtown business district, and had the door shut in their faces. They went back with police, but the school's instructors were clam-mouthed. All the visitors saw were some 40 little blackamoors marching in military formation.

Last week truant officers & police bore down on the school in earnest, seized textbooks, carted John Mohammed, 24-year-old leader of the cult, Tadar Ali, Allar Cushmeer and ten other instructors off to jail. This time they found only two pupils, but some 400 were on the school rolls.

Two days later a mob of 500 disgruntled "Islamites" roared up in front of police headquarters. "Get along," said five patrolmen.

Knives flashed, fists flew. A riot squad charged out from headquarters, thwacked heads. In 15 minutes the melee was over, 13 policemen retiring for first aid, 41 rioters going to jail.

Arraigned on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of minors by keeping them out of public school, University of Islam instructors kept their mouths tight shut. From the textbooks police learned that the school's curriculum included courses in General Knowledge of the Spook Being Displayed for 6,000 Years, General Knowledge of Spook Civilization, The Duty of a Moslem. Sample lessons:

"The actual knowledge of a sun of man has searched for 66,000,000,000 years or more and have not located the spook yet."

"Sampson was the man who muscled up the stone in the City of Mecca. It weighed 3,000 Ib."

"Mohammed killed 6,000,000 Christians in his time and put 90,000 heads in a hole."

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