Nation of Islam in the UK

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The Nation of Islam (NOI) is an African-American Islamic new religious movement founded in Detroit in 1930 by Wallace Fard Muhammad and developed under Elijah Muhammad. It combines distinctive Islamic teachings with Black nationalist ideas, moral discipline, racial uplift, economic self-sufficiency and strong community organisation. Its theology and social programme place particular emphasis on Black identity, knowledge of self, family responsibility, diet, modesty, discipline, social justice and the coming transformation of an unjust world order. In Britain, the movement became most visible from the late 1980s and especially during the 1990s, when Louis Farrakhan's exclusion from the UK, the circulation of NOI literature and recordings, the establishment of London mosques and study groups, and the movement's involvement in Black community politics, brought it into the public eye. Its British appeal was concentrated mainly among sections of the Black British, African and African-Caribbean diaspora, particularly in urban areas such as London, Birmingham and Manchester, where its message of racial pride, self-help, discipline and resistance to racism resonated with some young Black people and community activists. The NOI's public profile in Britain reached a high point in the 1990s. It was associated with street outreach, newspaper distribution, study groups, local mosques, schools, businesses, anti-drugs work, and mobilisation around Black civil rights issues. Its presence around the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry in 1998 made it especially visible, attracting both support from parts of the Black community and criticism from mainstream media and government. In 2026, the Nation of Islam appears to have a more limited and less publicly prominent UK presence than it had during the 1990s. It remains connected to the U.S.-based leadership and continues to present itself through a London-based European presence, online religious messaging, social media, recorded sermons, Saviour's Day material, and the wider digital circulation of Louis Farrakhan's teachings.

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