Leila Wills
Quick Note to the Class!
While some see the merging of the Nation of Islam with the Church of Scientology as comic relief, others, for a variety of reasons, are saddened and outraged. Members of our dynamic group, Scientology Invasion of the Black Community, wonder why the media has not brought more attention to this subject. I can’t speak for them but, I can speak for myself.
My first book, Farrakhan, The Movie, was a screenplay project that I began ten years ago. I met with Minister Farrakhan in 2002 and he said that he would sit down with me and go over his life story. Since then, I tried to no avail to have these sessions. As a former member of the NOI and someone who loved and thought very highly of Minister Farrakhan, he was the protagonist in the film and guaranteed a victorious and happy ending. Little did I know that through the years, he was developing a secret relationship with the Church of Scientology.
Once I found out that he had no intention to meet with me or stop this alliance, I told him that I was moving forward with my project and would release it as a book. My first book does not deal specifically with this relationship but, it lays the foundation of not only Farrakhan but, the Nation of Islam and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. After years of research and so many important issues covered in the screenplay, I could not change the direction of the book simply because the ending involved the new twist with Scientology. I decided to address this topic in a separate manuscript.
I had to finish the first project and release the book because the NOI had begun a serious campaign to recruit unsuspecting members of our community into this strange, pay-as-you-go- religion and something had to be done. Once my book was published, I reached out to Ishmael Allah Bey and Professor Billy Denham EL aka Professor I Self after watching their videos and listening to their radio shows. While I was still trying to get a meeting with Minister Farrakhan, they had already gone public with this fiasco. Together, we are mainly concerned with cult-awareness and alerting the public that this alliance has taken place.
My next book, The Final Fall, delves specifically into the “marriage” between these two groups and the subsequent fall-out. As far as the media goes, I have spoken to quite a few reporters and journalists and whether or not they do stories is not my concern. They are onlookers with editorial boards and such to answer to while this was part of my life story. (Besides, our people have always had the grapevine because we knew the revolution would not be televised.)
Lastly, I am a journalist and with our group, sources of members still inside the NOI, members of Anonymous, and ex-Scientologists, we, together, will continue to tell this story.
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