W. D. Mohammed #1513

Caption from poster__     THE MOST IMPORTANT MUSLIM  YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF      Imam W.D. Mohammed 1933 – 2008 Like other great religious leaders, W.D. Mohammed, the American Muslim leader who died Tuesday at age 74, showed us how to mature spiritually and more gracefully. Imam Mohammed, who briefly followed his father, Elijah Muhammad, as leader of the black supremacist Nation of Islam, later rejected the radical and messianic teachings of his father and adopted a more traditional, humble and inclusive Islam."I had common sense, and my common sense told me this was ridiculous, the idea that God is a God that wants one people to dominate others," W.D. Mohammed said in 1997. Mohammed said he knew that Master W.D. Fard Muhammad, the mysterious founder of the Nation of Islam, "was not God, and I knew he was not God, Elijah Mohammed was not a prophet." W.D. Mohammed, who dissolved the Nation of Islam in the 1970s and encouraged his followers (including Muhammad Ali) to become more orth