Five Percent Movement

[Gauracandra]

I found this interesting. There is some speculation that John Mohammed (the Washington D.C. area sniper) was a member of this group. It would certainly explain why he insisted on being called "God". Sounds like pretty wacky beliefs, and appears to be an offshoot of the Nation of Islam (which as I understand it believes Allah is in a Mother Ship ready to beam us up; the Nation of Islam is also pretty wacky).

 

Five Percent

Also known as "Nation of Gods and Earths." That phrase refers to one of the basic tenets of the Five Percent movement: blacks are gods and women are earths. "Five Percent" refers to the belief that only five percent of all people knows and teaches the truth. Ten percent conspires to hide the truth.

 

The movement calls itself "a culture" and "a way of life" and rejects being called a religion. It's teachings are referred to as "Supreme Mathematics."

 

(...) For the Five Percent, education and family are of prime importance. The word "peace" is central to the teachings. The 34-year-old movement rejects drinking, drugs and fornication.

 

It also rejects most accepted history, authority and organized religion. The black man, the Five Percent teaches, is god.

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They draw in part from the Nation of Islam, such as the teaching that a scientist created the white man from the black man, who in turn tricked the black man into slavery.

 

Teachings speak of Allah as supreme being. Each man is god only of his own universe, his family, and not of other people.

 

While only black men are gods, others who accept the knowledge of the Five Percent can become "civilized people."