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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 02/28/2012 : 04:58:28
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Scientology and NoI sittin' in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g?
Hat tip to Zingularity.
From the Tampa Bay Times:Controversy over Scientology influence clouds future of Pinellas charter school
By Drew Harwell, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Sunday, February 26, 2012
DUNEDIN — One Friday afternoon in December, leaders of a tax-funded elementary school called Life Force Arts and Technology Academy shepherded students into a Scientology church in Tampa's Ybor Square.
The children were fed candy and pizza, given Scientology books and DVDs, and shown a performance of a play written by Scientology's late founder, L. Ron Hubbard. Some posed for photos with Santa Claus in front of a silver Scientology cross.
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Though company president Hanan Islam was also executive director of the World Literacy Crusade, a California organization that promotes Scientology study methods, she had reassured parents then that her group would "not push any religion" at the school.
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Islam and Muhammad were joined in leading Life Force by the founder of the World Literacy Crusade, the Rev. Alfreddie Johnson. He flew in from California in October to give the keynote speech at a Life Force fundraiser at the Fort Harrison Hotel. That month, Life Force bankruptcy filings show, the school paid the Crusade more than $15,000.
Johnson is a regular speaker at Scientology events and a longtime proponent of Hubbard study tech. In 2006 he was the speaker for Scientology's Ebony Awakening Awards at the Fort Harrison Hotel, where he told the Times of a plan to train Nation of Islam members to administer study tech.
A black separatist movement, the Nation of Islam has promoted education and training initiatives aimed at black empowerment and self-improvement, but critics say the movement is a racist hate group. Louis Farrakhan, its outspoken leader, once proclaimed "Hitler was a very great man."
Johnson, who has called Farrakhan "God's man on the scene," was called "the liaison between the Church of Scientology and the Nation of Islam" last October by the Nation's official newspaper, The Final Call.
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Do read the whole article in full context.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
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Posted - 02/28/2012 : 06:36:22 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Scientology and NoI sittin' in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g?
Hat tip to Zingularity.
From the Tampa Bay Times:Controversy over Scientology influence clouds future of Pinellas charter school
By Drew Harwell, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Sunday, February 26, 2012
DUNEDIN — One Friday afternoon in December, leaders of a tax-funded elementary school called Life Force Arts and Technology Academy shepherded students into a Scientology church in Tampa's Ybor Square.
The children were fed candy and pizza, given Scientology books and DVDs, and shown a performance of a play written by Scientology's late founder, L. Ron Hubbard. Some posed for photos with Santa Claus in front of a silver Scientology cross.
. . .
Though company president Hanan Islam was also executive director of the World Literacy Crusade, a California organization that promotes Scientology study methods, she had reassured parents then that her group would "not push any religion" at the school.
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Islam and Muhammad were joined in leading Life Force by the founder of the World Literacy Crusade, the Rev. Alfreddie Johnson. He flew in from California in October to give the keynote speech at a Life Force fundraiser at the Fort Harrison Hotel. That month, Life Force bankruptcy filings show, the school paid the Crusade more than $15,000.
Johnson is a regular speaker at Scientology events and a longtime proponent of Hubbard study tech. In 2006 he was the speaker for Scientology's Ebony Awakening Awards at the Fort Harrison Hotel, where he told the Times of a plan to train Nation of Islam members to administer study tech.
A black separatist movement, the Nation of Islam has promoted education and training initiatives aimed at black empowerment and self-improvement, but critics say the movement is a racist hate group. Louis Farrakhan, its outspoken leader, once proclaimed "Hitler was a very great man."
Johnson, who has called Farrakhan "God's man on the scene," was called "the liaison between the Church of Scientology and the Nation of Islam" last October by the Nation's official newspaper, The Final Call.
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Do read the whole article in full context.
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Louis FarraKlan is well known here in Chicago.
He has no interest in Scientology.
Most likely he had Malcolm X killed when Malcolm X turned away from the "blue-eyed devil" hating path and towards Sunni Islam.
NoI still has a significant presence in Illinois and is still making Farrakhan a great deal of money.
Scientology has way too many white people for his liking. His organization may be looking at Scientology for funding. Johnson, whom I assume is black otherwise Farrakhan wouldn't give him the time of day, may be a liason but I cannot see logically where they would join forces for more than some kind of press. He has done it before with a White extremist movement. |
Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 02/28/2012 : 07:03:32 [Permalink]
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| Maybe this is a an experimental pilot project between Scientology and NoI. Both sides stand to get cash and converts out of the school. With Johnson as the middle-man, maybe the desired myth of each side to keep their hands clean of the other can be maintained. But with NoI actually calling Johnson "the liaison between the Church of Scientology and the Nation of Islam," it does seem this is not merely some local fluke by a few backsliding screw-ups. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Scientology/Nation of Islam seize charter school
