PC/AHC: Collapse of Nation of Islam leads to mass conversion to Sunni Islam?

Is it plausible for the National of Islam to collapse, leading to a mass conversion to Sunni Islam? And if so, how could it occur?
 
Doubtful. If we’re talking the American NOI, then I don’t think things would be so simple as African Americans finding Sunni Islam. NOI turned into something more about black nationalism than about Islam from my perspective. I’m not sure if NOI, Elijah Muhammad, or Louis Farrakhan ever reconciled the Islamic/Arab world’s place in the slave trade, but I’m not too familiar with the early manifestations of the movement to speak on that.
 
Doubtful. If we’re talking the American NOI, then I don’t think things would be so simple as African Americans finding Sunni Islam. NOI turned into something more about black nationalism than about Islam from my perspective. I’m not sure if NOI, Elijah Muhammad, or Louis Farrakhan ever reconciled the Islamic/Arab world’s place in the slave trade, but I’m not too familiar with the early manifestations of the movement to speak on that.

Assuming that ex-members weren't just looking for another black nationalist outfit, but wanted something reflecting the original theology and cosmology of the NOI, I think they'd be more likely to drift into UFO cults or quasi-masonic groups(with nationalist overtones of course), rather than traditional Islam.

I’m not sure if NOI, Elijah Muhammad, or Louis Farrakhan ever reconciled the Islamic/Arab world’s place in the slave trade

You might know about the NOI book called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks And Jews, blaming the latter for the enslavement of the former. Not sure how, or even if, it addressed earlier Muslim involvement.
 
Persuant to the overlap with UFO cults...

For quite a few years, we’ve been keeping an eye on the odd relationship that’s developed between Farrakhan’s group and David Miscavige’s Church of Scientology. As best we can tell, that relationship began around the year 2006, when Scientologist and Baptist minister the Rev. Alfreddie Johnson Jr. began bringing Farrakhan to Hollywood Celebrity Centre events. According to NOI’s official publication The Final Call, Farrakhan began introducing Scientology concepts to his Nation of Islam followers on May 8, 2010. Farrakhan had come to the realization that L. Ron Hubbard (perhaps the whitest man who ever lived) had valuable “wisdom” for the black nationalist organization that Farrakhan has led since 1977.

Farrakhan asked his followers to study Hubbard’s original text, the 1950 book Dianetics, which is known as “Book One” to Scientologists. We’ve seen photographs of large convention rooms filled with hundreds of NOI members doing “Book One auditing,” which is the original form of counseling that Hubbard developed and does not use an E-meter. More than a thousand NOI members have been certified as Dianetics auditors, according to The Final Call. We’ve also seen an increasing number of Nation of Islam members doing actual Scientology, and progressing rather far up Scientology’s expensive “Bridge to Total Freedom.” But at this point, we still don’t see much convincing evidence of an actual merger between the two groups.


From this anti-Scientology website, which seems credible, but obviously has an agenda.
 
Doubtful. If we’re talking the American NOI, then I don’t think things would be so simple as African Americans finding Sunni Islam. NOI turned into something more about black nationalism than about Islam from my perspective. I’m not sure if NOI, Elijah Muhammad, or Louis Farrakhan ever reconciled the Islamic/Arab world’s place in the slave trade, but I’m not too familiar with the early manifestations of the movement to speak on that.

Definitely true, but isn't the typical position of NOI types (including Farrakhan's) that the most of the slave trade is the result of the Jews? And like Christianity, Islam has a lengthy history of antisemitism.

Persuant to the overlap with UFO cults...

For quite a few years, we’ve been keeping an eye on the odd relationship that’s developed between Farrakhan’s group and David Miscavige’s Church of Scientology. As best we can tell, that relationship began around the year 2006, when Scientologist and Baptist minister the Rev. Alfreddie Johnson Jr. began bringing Farrakhan to Hollywood Celebrity Centre events. According to NOI’s official publication The Final Call, Farrakhan began introducing Scientology concepts to his Nation of Islam followers on May 8, 2010. Farrakhan had come to the realization that L. Ron Hubbard (perhaps the whitest man who ever lived) had valuable “wisdom” for the black nationalist organization that Farrakhan has led since 1977.

Farrakhan asked his followers to study Hubbard’s original text, the 1950 book Dianetics, which is known as “Book One” to Scientologists. We’ve seen photographs of large convention rooms filled with hundreds of NOI members doing “Book One auditing,” which is the original form of counseling that Hubbard developed and does not use an E-meter. More than a thousand NOI members have been certified as Dianetics auditors, according to The Final Call. We’ve also seen an increasing number of Nation of Islam members doing actual Scientology, and progressing rather far up Scientology’s expensive “Bridge to Total Freedom.” But at this point, we still don’t see much convincing evidence of an actual merger between the two groups.


From this anti-Scientology website, which seems credible, but obviously has an agenda.

Definitely a pretty odd note. But possibly worse than Scientology would be if African American UFO cults like Nuwaubianism (created by imprisoned child molester Dwight York, and which is also extremely racist and currently appears to be involved in appropriating American Indian culture) would grow. The best thing (out of so many horrifying things) which might come out of an upswing in African American UFO religions is a fairly harmless cult like Raëlism. Perhaps they revere Sun Ra or something--remember that a small African American Christian denomination proclaims John Coltrane as a saint, and Sun Ra was of course deeply involved in that sort of stuff (his music might as well be from Saturn).
 
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