Larnes: Only the black man is a true Muslim

MUSKEGON, Mich. (RWN) - Only the black man from Africa is a true Muslim, the nation's most influential black Muslim leader said today from his headquarters.

Only the black man from Africa was enslaved, freed and enslaved again, only to break his bond when the Western powers fell, said Julian Larnes, the imam of the Black African Mosque and Movement.

Larnes often issues strongly worded statements, but this is the most stringent statement that the leader of the nation's Black Separatist Movement has ever issued. He made the statement during a press conference about his plans to start a homeland for African Muslims in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, to be called "New Liberia," because, he said, "I have a sense of humor about me."

"The black man is the true man," Larnes said today. "He has not been in power. He has not enjoyed the fruits of others' labors. Now the black man has the power, because the black man has the guns."

Larnes was referring to General Kidd, the Somalian immigrant and hero of the Battle of Newark and head of the Fedayeen. Kidd, in a carefully worded statement last year, distanced himself from Larnes.

That didn't stop Larnes.

"There are Arab Muslims," he said, "and they are our cousins. But though they have been stepped on, they have not been stomped on the way the black Muslim has. They have not gone through famines, through humiliations, thorough slavery, the way the black Muslim has. General Kidd knows this and he has gone through it. He came into the Islamic Army a major, and had to perform a miracle at the Battle of Newark to get promoted.

"But where is my brother now? He heads the most elite unit in this nation. And when the chips are down, my brother General Kidd will stand up and hold his head high as a black Muslim and he will bring out the guns and say 'Brothers, Mullah Larnes and I are here to bring you home.'"

Mullah Scotton, the imam for the state of Michigan, reacted with resignation to Larnes' comments. "My brother has an interesting idea," Scotton said, "but it is the wrong idea. We must be drawn together by the strings of Islam, not pulled apart and hung by them.

"What makes a true Muslim is not the color of their skin nor the travails they have gone through. What makes a true Muslim is what is in a heart."


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