The following are selected passages from the book Forbidden Dialogues |
The following are selected passages from the book Forbidden Dialogues |
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"A particular kind of black man is steadily gaining momentum as a distinct presence
in the ranks of a New Wave who are the bridge to a new era of social and political
transformation which will sweep through the continent of Europe, across America
and once more back to Africa where the journey began." (p. 27)
3
"Like Malcolm, the New Wave African is no passive victim. He can see what is
going on and refuses to be caught off guard. It is for this reason and the fact
that there are still far too many blacks who believe in it, that he makes no
attempt to disguise his contempt for the American way." (p. 39)
4
"They will not come as servants of international financiers or agents of multi-national
companies or representatives of development banks or purveyors of democracy,
christianity and aid dependency. Their movement is organic and unpredictable,
following the invisible imperatives of its own internal order. Spreading
like a virus oblivious to artificially imposed national boundaries." (p.
45)
5
"Putting a halt to the ruinous career of the usurious world banking system can
only be of universal benefit and the knowledge of how to do this and where to
commence is the great gift of the African Muslim to the rest of the African
world." (p. 47)
6
"Our denunciation of the European or Arab by race as evil, becomes the basis
upon which we define ourselves by race as superior. Ascendancy over these others
gained on the basis of giving victory to this reactive condition would be false,
since having defined ourselves from a position of denunciation and reaction
in the first place, reaction and opposition would continue to characterise the
nature of our dominance were it ever to materialise." (p. 59)
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"The sublime goal of the spiritual elite is that the knower, the knowledge and
the known are experienced as one self-obliterating event ... This personal and
experiential encounter with Absolute Singularity is the interior affirmation
of the doctrines known in the sciences of the deen as Tawhid." (p. 77)
8
"It should be clear that the purpose of this book is not to offer an alternative
response to the dilemma of the black man in Europe and America who finds himself
alienated from his African roots, but to give notice of an event. It announces
the advent of a new breed." (p. 82)
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"Their demeanour is urbane and self-assured, they value intelligence, courtesy,
trustworthiness, courage, loyalty, sincerity and generosity above all other
personal qualities. They disdain all forms of vulgarity or whatever lacks dignity
and they do not suffer patiently the prevarications of the fainthearted."
(p. 84)
10
"We can guarantee you that once you have understood this material it will never
again be quite so easy to justify blind ambition in pursuit of the dollar or
abject resignation in awe of the usurious financial system." (p. 94)
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"As long as we Africans think paper money is real, we will remain obedient slaves
to it and all of our best efforts to gain business success and economic autonomy
can only result in blind complicity with a system that is inimical to our interests
by its very nature." (p. 104)
12
"The greatest injustice committed against us by the Arabs in recent history
has been their willing complicity with the western powers in the covert removal
of true Islam (as the last remaining defence against usury) from Africa and
the rest of the Muslim world, by replacing it with a version deliberately modified
to open the way once and for all to the final ascendancy of the most comprehensively
oppressive and technically complete system of controlled human exploitation
history has ever seen." (p. 108)
13 "This book will send a clear signal to activists in the black communities both in Europe and America that they should not rush to replace the old Judaeo-Christian prejudices with newly conceived afrocentric ones." (p. 122)