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A while back I contacted Dr. Ridgely Abdul Mu’min Muhammad of the Nation of Islam Research Group (NOIRG) to ask about the Nation’s position on the genocide in Gaza. That question was answered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s February 25 Savior’s Day speech, published in The Final Call as “The Genocide of Palestinians: A Test for The Whole Human Family.” Tonight Dr. Ridgely and Jeff Brown of China Rising will discuss the Gaza genocide, among other topics, on my live radio show.

Tomorrow’s False Flag Weekly News covers the week’s most notable 30 stories, including Barnett Rubin’s remarkable “Redemption Through Genocide.” Rubin’s observation that Zionism is an outgrowth of messianic millenarian heresy echoes what people like me and Yusuf Hindi have been saying for years. But Rubin has an impeccable establishment resumé. Maybe he’ll help Hindi and me get some traction?

Ramadan kareem! The holy month of fasting is expected to begin Sunday or Monday evening in most parts of the world. Above is the video, and below is a partial transcript, of last year’s khutba delivered on the Friday before the beginning of Ramadan.

We are in the last Juma before the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan. So I'm going to talk a little bit about Ramadan and about inviting people, including non-Muslims, to share in Ramadan as a kind of dawah, an expression of what Ramadan is all about.

So what is Ramadan all about?F The first place to look is in Surat al-Baqarah 2:183) Believers! Fasting is enjoined upon you, as it was enjoined upon those before you, that you become God-fearing. (2:184) Fasting is for a fixed number of days, and if one of you be sick, or if one of you be on a journey, you will fast the same number of other days later on.

Another translation of that would be to become God conscious, to have taqwa, to have an awareness, a direct awareness of the reality of God. And that raises the question, how does fasting make you more mindful of God?

If we reflect on this—and the Quran does tell us to reflect, tells us to fakkur, to contemplate, to use our aql, our reason—and so we reflect on this and we use our reason and we realize that fasting makes us conscious of our dependence on God.

When you're hungry and when you're thirsty, when you're not eating even though your stomach is telling you that you want to eat and you're not drinking any water even though your body is telling you that you want a drink of water, your mouth is dry and you feel kind of lightheaded and normally if you were just following your instincts the way we usually do throughout 11 months of the year, you'd probably look around for a drink of water.

But during Ramadan, you don't. You use your consciousness and your willpower to not be a slave of your body and your physical desires. And as you feel that serious thirst, hunger, lightheadedness, first two days maybe a little bit of a headache, especially if you're withdrawing from caffeine