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Hawaii Tribun-Hrold, Monday, April 25, 19775 M-ps'Mm Oo fio UMimg with I fHU wT S'- By David Smothers 400 million Muslims throughout the world. There are knowledgeable men In Islam who have a considerable degree of faith in Muhammad's affirmation. Zafar Ishaq Ansarl is a strictly orthodox Muslim from "Orthodox Islam does not recognize quote black and quote white and other races. It only recognizes human Individuals In the sight Of God." Muhammad's exposure to "the thrills of the authentic Islamic religion, Its univer-, human being, that He came In the person of Wallace Fard. Their idea of race was fundamentally different "I'm not able now to make a definite statement on Wallace Muhammad.

There is a feeling among scholars to accept them, any problems with the Muslims in recent years and we're really not keeping that much of an eye on them." Another New York police spokesman said the department is not "keeping an eye on the Muslims" any more than it watches Roman Catholics or any other religious group. Similar, although more guarded reports came from the San Francisco and Washington, D.C., police. Still, Muhammad's Muslims are their own kind of Muslims, by Muhammad's own testimony. Uniting with Islam is "not our only mission," he said. "What I see In America, my own birth and rise to leadership, I see it as a divine opportunity for me to really help my people overcome a lot of serious problems Inherited from slave life.

'Black Muslim9 Image Changing, Muhammad Challenging Attitudes tegrated into American he said. "By integration I dont. mean the physical integration. I mean the moral and the spiritual integration. "There's a morality that should be the morality of America, and that morality is concern for all people in America, a kind of moral patriotism, a kind of spiritual patriotism.

"That's what seems almost impossible for Bilalian black Americans. It's hard for most Bilalians to speak patriotically of America and American life. And this Is because we still see ourselves as outsiders, even with freedom." The spectre of Muslim menace surfaced again last month when seven men at first identified as Black Muslims took 134 persons prisoners in Washington and held them hostage for 39 hours. The truth was that the captors were Muslims of a completely different stripe called Hanafls. Their leader, Hamaas Abdul Khaalis, blamed Elijah Muhammad's brand of Muslims for the massacre of five members of his family in 1973 and called for Among other things, Khaalis demanded that Wallace Muhammad deliver himself into his hands.

Muhammad did, indeed, fly to Washington, where authorities showed no inclination to risk use of his services in negotiating for the hostages. Still, Muhammad and his Muslims had been associated once again with violence. It is a reputation that, Muhammad readily concedes, is not unearned. "In the 60s a different kind of youth came in," he said. "Everbody demonstrating down with this and down with that.

And they became militaristic and violent. "They came with the problems of society and they came into an explosive, inflammatory kind of environment. You could come from a mosque maybe on Sunday meetings and may be a month wouldnt pass that you wouldnt see someone getting knocked down, thrown out. "It was a violent 'kind of element In the community and fai the Fruit of Islam, the Muslim's strongarm cadre and some of the sisters were crazy, too. "We're still attracting people from prison life, people that are down and out, drunkards and wineheads and dope addicts and people like that "But I think the membership is changing.

You wont find the same class dominating the membership. I think it is Just about balanced between people who never were really established in society and those that did, were successful." Muhammad is a genial, bearded man of disarming candor, particularly when it comes to talking of the Muslims under his father's leadership. He was at his desk in the stately onetime Cathedral of St. Constantine and Helen. The Muslims bought it from the Greek Orthodox denomination and converted into the chief mosque of their faith.

A deep-chested man of medium height he wore a brown leisure suit and none of the Islamic trappings affected by his wispy, wiry father. The day after Elijah Muhammad died on Feb. 25, 1975, his eldest son assumed his father's mantle and began to make changes. For one thing, Elijah Muhammad was no longer to be regarded as a messenger of Allah. Also demoted was what WOW literature now calls the "strange Arab silk peddler called 'Master Fard Fard founded the denomination in Detroit in the early 1930s, gave Wallace Muhammad his own first name and reputedly designated him the eventual leader of the faith.

No more, his namesake said, would Wallace Fard be taken at his word as a Christ-like vn i CHICAGO (UP1) In the sanctuary of what most people still call the Black Muslims, Wallace Muhammad waved a gold-fringed American flag and talked of patriotism and integration. He spoke affectionately, but sometimes in deprecation of his father, Elijah-who called himself "Messenger of Allah" and scared and scandalized people with preaching of "white devils" and demanding that a share of the United States be carved out for his people. It was aQ wrong, Wallace Muhammad said. "Some of the teachings were very wrong," he said. "No doubt about it.

"I dont think my father ever truly envisioned seeing a physical nation with a different flag than this flag on my desk. This flag is going to stay here. "In fact, my father laughed about some of the things he asked for in conversation with us at the dinner table, with his staff. He would laugh, 'Well, if you dont ask for big things you dont get anything." Twice expelled from the splinter sect of Islam which his father guided to dubious fame over a 44-year span, Wallace Muhammad, 43, is now his successor as head of what he now calls the World Community of Islam in The West He heartily dislikes the term Black Muslim. He eschews the denomination's old tag of Nation of Islam because "outsiders might have been deceived into thinking this was a community that was going to annex Florida." What he wants, he said in his headquarters at the Elijah Muhammad Mosque No.

2 on Chicago's South Side, is to bring his people, estimated at from 500,000 to 700,000 into the main stream of Islam and of the United States. "Now I see how far we have to really go to really become in to welcome them. We are hopefully waiting to see no difference remains, that the i gulf will be done away with. 'Perhaps yes. Perhaps no.

Everybody feels the gulf has been harrowed." Dr. H.T. Mehdi, president of the American Arab Relations Committee in New York, was more of a believer in Muhammad. "The major changes have come as a result of the gradual appreciation of the Black Muslims as to the authentic meaning of Islam," Mehdi said. Pakistan, a teacher at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University in Toronto, and, colleagues attest, one of the best-based Islamic scholars in this hemisphere.

He knows Wallace Muhammad and the WOW. "When Elijah Muhammad was leader of the movement there was a big gulf between it and the Islamic world," he said. "There was such a big gap there was very little in common, except the name. "They believed the black nation is God, that God is a "I see those ideas and at- titudes as things inherited from slave you've life and slave attitudes. The lack of appreciation for private property, the lack of ap- preciation for excellence-social excellence, spiritual excellence, the lack of respect for another individual's life, the emotional kind of spirituality that in my opinion characterizes religion in the black community.

up the minds and hearts of the people here and In Chicago to give up their own black racism, which was a reaction to American white racism," Mehdi said. "Accordingly, they have joined the mainstream of Islam." Even policemen, who kept a close eye on Muhammad's Muslims four years ago as "a group that could become involved In extremist activities," say they have relaxed. A source in the New York Police Intelligence Division said, "We really havent had II 0 I 1 WeVe also manifestation of Allah. In fad, Wallace Muhammad says Fard "obviously had his own designs on the black community, second interests." He compared Fard to Satan, "that he bought the methodology to serve God as an adversary used us to start fires." Along with that white was declared equal with black. "We saw black people as members of the divine body and essence.

divine race," Muhammad said of the past "It was explained God was really the supreme attributes of the black race. "Now the society has come around to accept the idea that God is love, that God Is not the creation but the creator. That has changed our whole outlook on life and people and the world. "That necessitated us to changing the way we looked at the Caucasian race, the white race. We had then to accept that Caucasian people are equally and legitimately the creation as black people.

"That was a drastic change, the biggest one of all. And it made it easier for the other ones to follow." The "milltaristically disciplined" again, words taken from WOW literature Fruit Of Islam was disbanded. This was the rather ominous group of muscle men who appeared at almost every "Black Muslim" function. The Fruit's most celebrated member was the heavyweight champion of the world, Muhammad AH. Business interests controlled by the central mosque were sold off.

Steps were taken to square things with the Internal Revenue Service. "We were on the way to getting Into very serious tax troubles," Muhammad said. "I think I came around and the staff came around just In time." Some of the old rules were relaxed. Once, male Muslim functionaries dressed in somber hue. White shirts and dark ties were encouraged, if not ordered.

Muslim women wore flowing white robes and veils. Visitors to Muslim havens were frisked In FBI fashion, heel to armpit All cigarettes and matches were confiscated. A ballpoint pen was examined as if it were a dangerous weapon and tested on its possessor. On a fine spring afternoon recently, the men around Mosque No. 2 wore modish suits conservative by South Side standards, perhaps, but in tune with the season.

Belinda All, the champ's recently divorced wife, dropped by in a frisky pants and blouse outfit There was still evidence of suspicion. A very large man sat, quite silent, arms folded, against a wall throughout the Interview with Muhammad. Visitors to the mosque had to pass through the same kind of metal detector familiar to air travelers. It was noteworthy, however, that the device was monitored by a pleasant, middle-aged white man. The most vital changes are not altogether visible at the mosque.

To an outsider, Muhammad's profession that he is truly bringing his followers into one of the world's great religions has to be taken largely on faith. That Is, that Muhammad has so reworked his father's teachings that what he now preaches and practices is the same religion espoused by some 11 0 to MoiniAulM every day 'Nolo Contendre' Plea Admission of Patty's Guilt Hawaiian Air offers you more than twice as many round trip flights daily to Honolulu as our competition. Add the El LI Wm4wJ VJ up there lilies you. luxurious comfort I i (-''' of smooth, quiet Super lDG9s with exclusive overhead compartments for carry-on items. And the only airline sales office serving you in downtown Hilo.

It all part of the unspoken "I like you" that is in everything we do. By Jack V. Fox LOS ANGELES (UPI) -Patty Hearst her family and her lawyers had sworn the heiress would never plead guilty to any of the charges against her. Their unwavering stand had been that she was a victim, not a criminal. she had not been kidnaped, dragged screaming from her apartment and subjected to a terrorizing brainwashing, they said, she would obviously never have been involved in bank robberies, shootings or a 16-month flight Hearst struck to mat position during her 1976 San Francisco trial for bank robbery.

She was found guilty and sentenced to seven years in. prison. That conviction is now under appeal But last week the 23-year-old newspaper heiress stood In a Los Angeles courtroom and mumbled "nolo contendere" when a prosecutor asked how she now pleaded to charges of assault with a deadly weapon and robbery. The Latin legakss means "no contest" It is a technicality osed to protect a defendant against civil damage suits. But it was In reality an admission of guilt and Superior Court Judge E.

Talbot Canister took tt aich, formally finding her guilty on both counts. He set sentencing for May I. Why did Hearst high-paid attorneys, F. Lee Bailey and Albert Johnson and her parents, Randolph and Catherine Hearst ve to? Johnson tdd reporters after last Monday's bearings that he would not discuss that until after fee asr.tencfcg. Est tt appeared there were two major factors la the -4 -Arrt to between the robbery of the Hibernia bank in San Francisco on April 15, 1974, and the melee at Mel's sporting good store in Los Angeles on May 16, 1974.

Hearst was kidnaped on Feb. 4, 1974, by a tiny Symbionese liberation Army band led by ex-convict Donald DeFreete, know as "Cinque." Then came the bank holdup and the famous photographs, taken from the bank's monitor movie camera, of Hearst standing in the lobby waving a submachinegun. It made her perhaps the best-known woman "criminal" in American, history. After the bank holdup, the neat in San Francisco was such that Cinque moved his SLA unit to Los Angeles and eventually took refuge in a small wooden house in the Watts section. On May 16, Hearst went out In a Volkswagen van along with William and Emily Harris to buy provisions.

A security guard in the sporting goods store thought be saw Harris steal a pair of wool stockings, followed him out into the sidewalk and tried to put a pair of handcuSs on him. They fought and roEad into a gutter. Hearst waiting alone in a parking lot across a busy street and reading a newspaper, looked up and saw what was going on. She picked up a carbine which had been adjusted so that it could Cre bursts of bullets with one pu3 oa the trigger and opened Ere. No one was seriously injured.

The Harrises ran to van srd Use three drove iy. In tha cest hours, fee trio commandeered a nunsber of cars, tock two ci the owners captive and tock th cash from the wallet of middle-aged ecarsan Frank Sutter fence the cl cf assart wetpou, kid- wilh ml Ti a I ird -ry. '-i J935-08U ft had not been fleeing from the scene of the sporting goods store shooting they, too, probably would have returned to Watts and been killed. Hearst was asked at her San Francisco trial about the Incident at Mel's. The questions and answers went this way: "When you saw the struggle with Bill Harris on the ground, what did you do?" "I picked up his gun and started firing." "What was the penalty for failure to rescue a comrade in trouble as it had been described to you?" "Death." "After the Harrises did in fact escape and you were driving away in the van, did you consider at all the opportunity that might have been before you to escape and was now gone?" "Yes." "Tell us what you thought about that" "I mean, I Just couldnt believe that I'd done what I did." Prosecutor James Browning asked Hearst if she could not have gotten out of the van and gotten away from the Harrises.

"Where would I have gone?" Hearst replied. "There had been classes every day and mis was one of the particular ones what to do if something like that bad happened and when it happened I didnt even think. I Just did It, and if I had not done it and if they had been able to get away fey could have killed me." Within a few days the Harrises and Kf ant returned to northern California and then drove east to Pennsylvania. They returned to the San Francisco area the nest year and tat csjfcred In September, 1575. Lr Ar-A District Attorney i v.

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