Is it a group based on black empowerment or the exploitation
of children?
A&E investigates the United Nation of Islam.
My parents, they wanted the best for they children.
They were naive.
They just really put their trust them
to something that they thought was a religion, which
turned out to be a monster.
Do you have any idea how many kids
were trafficked by this group?
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ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: Their primary activity
is structured around the labor of young children.
It was slavery.
That's exactly what it was.
How could you send me off, dad?
As an eight-year-old, it's not like I can protect myself.
We've never really had the opportunity to come forward
to bring every single person that's
responsible for these children being abused to justice.
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ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Growing up, it was me, my parents, and my two siblings.
Carl, he's the oldest, and then Mary.
Mary is the baby girl.
My parents, they wanted their children
to be around the African-American mind
set of entrepreneurs.
They were in the Nation of Islam.
The Nation of Islam didn't work out for them.
So when they Royall Jenkins and the United Nation of Islam,
that's what they went for.
STEPHEN FINLEY: For Royall Jenkins,
Louis Farrakhan's movement of the Nation of Islam
was a failure.
African-Americans in his estimation,
have not gotten their fair share of the American Pie.
That is, a community and land of their own.
He sees himself as a viable alternative who can bring
these realities into being.
So Royall Jenkins started the United Nation of Islam.
I know we've talked about this before,
but we shouldn't confuse this group
with the controversial Nation of Islam.
Right?
That would be correct, John.
The United Nation of Islam has a well
documented track record of reviving blighted areas
and restoring hope.
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ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: Royall preached that he would
be the one to help minorities rise up from oppression
and we believe him.
We On this planet back.
Whether any white people, black people, or any people
come at all, we've got to get this planet back.
And it's already started back.
We've already started it back on its journey.
I guess the main thing that was interesting to my parents
was the fact that in a low income area
they produce businesses.
And there was young African-American people
who are doing something different besides getting
in trouble.
It was the opportunity for them to do something
positive with their lives.
So my parents started to participate
and my dad actually became the first minister of the study
class in Cincinnati.
Me and my two siblings attended the Academy,
which is the local school for the organization.
The first thing they taught us was that Royall Allah in person
is the creator of everything.
He is god.
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Ryan Jenkins preached that he had
been taken on a tour around the universe by scientists.
They gave me a little knowledge
of everything in the universe and even
taking me into the sun.
Most people think, you know, they
made a joke of that and everything,
but it literally took place.
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STEPHEN FINLEY: The United Nation of Islam,
they mythologize a sort of a history of black people
that did not originate with slavery,
but has a prehistory on other planets.
So I think Royall's experience that he claims
with the angel scientists cast him as Allah on this earth,
and it gives him a certain religious authority.
Elijah Muhammad, you were a member as a child
of the United Nation of Islam.
Why Royall Jenkins?
Why did people follow him?
When a person comes from the same background
as their following, the people tend to relate to him.
Sure.
You're like me.
Yeah.
When you have a person that say, well,
here's a person in the cold.
I'm willing to take my coat off and give it to him,
and he does it, everyone that's used to being more selfish,
so to speak, look at him and say, wow.
Absolutely.
These are things that make a person say,
I'm going to give my last dime to see that this
goes as far as it can.
It's clear to see why it might appeal
to some people who have been treated
as the bottom of the culture.
People who have very few opportunities
whose life possibilities seem fixed and limited.
And here comes this organization that
says you can be more than that.
In fact, you are more than that.
You're gods.
Well, let's be honest here.
Royall Jenkins and the United Nation of Islam
came into being at a time when there
wasn't a lot of other people willing to invest
in these communities. STEPHEN FINLEY: Sure.
Correct.
These were the ignored, neglected neighborhoods
that nobody wanted to go near.
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: Absolutely.
And here was somebody saying, uh-uh, I believe in you.
Here's some money.
You can do better.
We can do better. - That's right.
It's powerful.
Right?
WOMAN: The United Nation of Islam
is trying to bring hope back by doing right on Quindera.
Not to be confused with Farrakhan's group,
the United Nation is about making a positive change.
When I was 12 years old, my parents received a phone
call from Royall's first wife.
We were informed that my brother and I were ready to take
our next step into manhood.
And what that meant was, we were to go to the Community
of the United Nation of Islam.
The Community is known as heaven.
Now, if you got a bunch of negative things happening
in the community-- drugs, gang banging, violence, and then
you have a place that claims to be opposite of it, of course
you want our children to participate in something better
than what they're used to.
And so bags were packed that night.
We were told transportation will be here tomorrow to get you.
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And so when tomorrow came, it was very scary.
We didn't know who we were staying with.
We didn't know who it was that was transporting us.
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It was a semi truck.
It read on the side, The United Nation of Islam.
And we rode in back to be transported to heaven.
When the truck pulled up, me and my brother got off.
The first thing they told us was, this is the FY barracks.
So leaving your parents' house and transitioning
into barracks, it's a place where soldiers reside.
So we're no longer children.
We're expected to be soldiers.
We're expected to be men.
And that meant anything that came along with that.
You had to endure it.
ROYALL JENKINS: You know, being young is one thing,
but being young and dumb and rebellious is another.
That is not tolerated.
Now, in our attempt to make sure that you develop properly,
sometimes you make us bring out unpleasantries.
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: We put our trust into something
that we thought was a religion, which
turned out to be a monster.
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What does a person that was watching this program, what
do they have to--
first steps they have to make to start process of seeing Allah?
Because they not gonna see him just by looking
at your physical person.
True.
Like, I have met with many people that has been with me
and that still are.
They change their looks.
They change their thinking.
They change their bank account because of the discipline.
They learning of what truth produces.
So let's talk a little bit about your trip to heaven.
Maybe it's because I'm a mom of two
boys about the same age as you and your brother
were when you were sent there.
But that really got to me, watching
you talk about that and how scary and hard
that must have been.
How hard was it to leave home?
Oh, very, very hard.
Very hard.
Although, we were told this is family,
I didn't know the people.
You know, and naturally a young boy,
he misses his mom and his father.
And for me, it was hard.
You were homesick?
Oh, yeah.
When we arrived to the place where we lived,
I was 12 years old.
It was about 14 individuals who lived in this apartment.
We really didn't have a chance to breathe.
It was constant, constant motion.
School.
Then after school, duty work.
I was a dishwasher.
After work, I went to worship.
Then after worship you go back to the dish washing.
Finish up, go home 3:00 in the morning.
Then wake up at 5:00.
Do it all over again.
That was my daily routine at 12 years old.
It was better that my brother was there with me.
Life in heaven was strange.
We were all compacted in this small community in Kansas.
I was 15 years old.
And we had school at the university
where we pretty much was just reminded over
and over and over again about what our purpose was
on the planet, which was to learn everything from Royall
and then go out and teach the world how to be civilized
and how to be like god.
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You know, when you have a child, more than one,
and one is very obedient, you know,
it goes the way it is supposed to do, very respectful,
you can't do enough for that child.
Then you have another child, his brother or sister.
They just the opposite.
So that's where the power needs to be shown, on the one
that's acting obstinate.
The studies for the University of Islam
is rooted in their book that orientates you
to the philosophies of the Nation, which was called,
"The Book of Introduction."
They would touch on things like math, reading, language.
Royall taught that language was something that lays with you.
And so they teach you how to speak a certain way
and use words that mean something different.
There were certain words that was forbidden.
Like the word, hello.
It was not getting on the phone and saying, hello.
It was, yes, or to whom am I speaking?
It was not, hello.
Royall taught that this subliminally
sentences the receiver to the lowest part of hell.
This is what they do.
They control how you speak.
If you was found saying any one of these,
you were definitely in trouble.
You would be at the mic in math class, definitely.
Math class is not the normal math class.
The class consisted of different people
who did bad things that day.
So if you were scolded for something,
you were brought to the mic at Math class
and publicly humiliated.
If they found out you were walking
the wrong way down the street, you were a scenario that night.
You were brought in front of the people and you were humiliated.
Disciplinary action is what is next.
A person that was in a scenario or an infraction
in the Nation, the entire auditorium of people
would come to the mic and punch the person in the chest.
That was what was referred to as a chest cap.
You would hear the wind being knocked out of the person.
But to see a person who was a part of the Nation
get physically hit, it was shocking.
So it was-- yeah, it was very militant.
That's what they called everybody, military.
We were the soldiers.
And if you got a order, you don't question your order.
You just carry it out.
When you understand the propaganda that was taught
and you understand why it was taught that way,
you start to believe that.
And so, yes, we were the biggest supporters of it.
We really didn't communicate much back home.
When we would speak, an official would monitor the phone calls.
So we really wouldn't--
they didn't reach out to us much and we weren't calling them.
What was the promise given to your parents?
What will we do with your kids at heaven?
The promise that they gave was pretty much
that we had the opportunity to guarantee our salvation.
And it was just businesses in heaven,
because a lot of these kids were brought to heaven
and trained, indoctrinated and then sent
to other United Nations of Islam businesses
throughout the country.
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: Correct.
They call it, dispatched.
Dispatched?
Correct.
They would have conferences and it will
literally be like a NFL draft.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
You know, if you made a record for being good at what you were
doing and you didn't cause problems,
you were sent to the newest place that was opening.
So if it was New York, they told you,
hey, you going to New York.
We need you packed tonight.
Could you leave an hour?
Really, that little notice?
Yeah.
Were you separated from your brother?
Were you sent to different places?
Yes.
I remained in heaven or in Kansas City,
Kansas and Carl was sent to the Eastern Shore Maryland Farm.
And then I was sent to New Jersey.
New Jersey was the first place I was dispatched to.
And did they inform your parents you were
being moved to another state?
No.
Wait.
So your parents said goodbye to you in Ohio
and knew you were going to heaven.
And then after that, they had no idea?
Correct.
They wouldn't hear about me or my siblings
being in a different place until someone
who may have seen us in that city went through Cincinnati
and told them.
It became something that you got used to.
For me, I saw it as something to keep you on the right track.
So you were all sort of brainwashed into thinking
this is normal.
Yes.
You've got hundreds of youth who worked sometimes
day and night in the restaurants,
the businesses, supermarkets.
We would go to school then go straight to work.
And we never received any pay.
And not that I'm an adult, I realize what that was.
You know, it was literally--
under the disguise of building a nation,
it was human trafficking.
You know, we were moved across--
awe, man.
JALICA: You all right?
Yeah.
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The Nation has about six or seven
restaurants around the country.
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The organization is utilizing the labor of children.
They are not paying any of these children.
And the majority of the time, the children who
are being moved from state to state
to work in these restaurants, their parents
are not with them.
It's not their parents moving from state to state.
So yes, it's definitely human trafficking.
And I want to expose the Nation of Islam to the FBI
to prevent other kids from going through what myself, friends,
and my family went through.
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I actually got a phone call recently from one of the FBI
agents in Kansas City, Kansas.
And he wants to talk to me about some
of the things that happened.
So it's a big major thing going on.
When I ask the FBI agents, you know, simple questions
that anybody can ask, do you know that children are working
and they're not being paid?
Do you know that they're not getting breaks?
Do you know that there are minors working?
I want to address the physical and mental abuse,
and the young people who died.
I'm going to meet my friends that grew up in the Nation.
They have specifics and input that's crucial.
And we're going to talk about this.
Figure out what's the best way to build a case against them.
To help build my case, for the FBI
against the United Nation of Islam,
I'm going to meet my best friends.
Niesha King, Khalib Butler, his sister, Ayana,
and their father, Derek Butler, they
have different time frames of things that have happened
in the Nation that's impactful.
And I think by us all coming to the table
and bringing these different things together,
we'll be able to paint a bigger picture
of what exactly happened and why we need to stop it.
NIESHA KING: Elijah.
Hey, Niesha.
KHALIB BUTLER: E. Fonzarelli.
Khalib.
What's happening?
Aww, man.
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How you doing?
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: Good, man.
What's going on?
When I joined the organization,
I had donated much time much energy and resources
to the development and the maintenance
of the United Nation of Islam.
Among those resources were my 11 children, Khalib and Ayana.
And they had been offered so that they could be developed
in a way that would be of benefit to all
of us, including themselves.
And so that must weigh heavily on everything that happened
because when they boil it down, they think,
my parents put me in this.
And it's true.
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: This morning I woke up realized
today's my dad's birthday.
WOMAN: That's a shame.
You can't even call him and tell him happy birthday because he
won't accept that from you.
That's it, yep.
WOMAN: It's really sad.
Yep, and then after I thought about that,
I realized everyone at the table is going to be affected
by exposing yourself, your vulnerability and things
that you've been through.
Those times when you all were in the Nation,
you will never forget them.
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: Yeah.
You'll never forget them.
And that is why I wanted to make sure that I did something.
When a federal agent reached out to me,
he just wanted to know some of the things that's going on.
And I just wanted to know from you guys
if you had anything that you wanted to make sure that I
shared or brought up and to make sure I
don't leave anything out.
My thing is, the main thing about--
I can't imagine participating still after realization
of something or a institution that
derives on taking advantage of people young and old.
That's the most cowardly act I think
anybody could ever commit.
To take advantage of children and the elders.
And that's exactly what they doing.
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: Listen, I personally
witnessed children working under age
when they shouldn't have been.
Yeah.
I remember when I came to Kansas I did not go to school.
I was shipped downstairs to a basement where I worked
with two elderly people who trained
me in the ways of making products
for the Nation's businesses.
It's not like we would be experiencing
the benefits of the business.
Like, oh, this is where you can go to wash your laundry.
No, you'll be working here and washing other people's
laundry when they come.
It was just all--
it was all a lie.
And I stayed in that lab for the next four years.
But, yeah, they still currently have children doing that now,
what we were doing then.
I was sent off to Kansas when I was eight.
I was born in the cult so my dad was
already in it when he had me.
And as a child, being separated from your family members,
you go to a place you don't know anybody,
you're staying with strangers, you're
being told what to do 24/7.
You're being abused.
You're not being fed.
You're having to work in sewing factories
and supermarkets, and other places where no child
should have to do that.
Period.
Fear and isolation were their favorite tactics
to use against us.
The whole concept of the Nation just
blows my mind on how could parents
send their children off?
Like, how could you send me off, dad?
Like, I know you only knew so much,
but it's like, as an 8-year-old, I'm not 16.
I'm not 18.
It's not like I can speak for myself, do for myself,
but it's kind of like--
I don't understand, like, how can the parents not realize
something is wrong with their kids
and allow people to just do these horrible things to us?
I have to accept the blame where the blame falls.
You know, if my daughter was sitting there saying,
why didn't somebody come and get me out of this,
and I'm not shrewd enough to figure out, you know,
that she's calling for help--
and I think if it happened to me then
it happened to every parent who dispatched
their children somewhere where we
couldn't see what was going on.
So those kind of things that occurred, you know,
it's like putting a nail in somebody's hand.
You can take it out.
It's still going to be a hole in there
for the rest of their life.
You know, I'm sorry the hole's in there.
That's my fault. But that's why it's so important
to get in touch with the parents or the children
who are currently there now.
Absolutely.
So that it doesn't-- if I can't heal the wound in her
hand, at least I can prevent the wound from
getting in someone else's hand.
That's why it's important.
You know, because it breaks that cycle.
You know, so this cycle should stop.
It's only going to stop if people stop it.
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WOMAN: What's so unique about Food
for Life Supreme is that its value stretches
far beyond what's on its menu.
The restaurant serves as a classroom to local children
aspiring toward careers in culinary arts.
You know, that particular Food for Life location
has a lot of significance.
My memories of being there--
I had a bad experience when I was there.
When I was there I was there on disciplinary.
They had me on bean, soup, or salad.
It's where I couldn't eat any other food,
but just beans and salad.
I don't know.
It was just a horrible experience.
I don't have too many good memories about it.
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: The thing about working for Food
for Life Supreme is that Royall liked to put forth
the image of health and wellness being the main thing
that he promotes.
When in reality, he punished the followers
by putting them on restrictive diets and week long fasts.
Fasting was like a main disciplinary action.
Royall taught that when you take a person's meals away,
they can't really focus on what it
is that's going on around them enough
to make a logical decision.
They were doing this to kids and adults.
They were not receiving the nutrition that they needed
or the medical attention that they needed.
BOTH: There it is.
Same color scheme.
When the tile and everything was put in,
you were here for all of that.
Yeah, I was here for all of that.
Yeah.
When I moved here, this was the place
where I started to speak up and say, hey, this is wrong.
CARL: Right.
Y'all doing the wrong thing.
You all are abusing the members.
And I remember Shaquanta worked in here.
Yeah.
This is the last restaurant she was in.
I'll never forget that.
My wife had a sister.
Her name was Shaquanta Williams.
I don't know what happened.
We didn't even get to see her.
There was no funeral.
Only a few people said they seen her.
And when they seen her she was extremely ill to the point
that her eyes were protruding out her head.
We didn't even know she was sick.
She was either 14 or 15.
Shaquanta was a young girl when she passed.
When Shaquanta was sick and all that was happening in here,
they was telling her to still go to work in this place,
that she was faking.
It got to the point where she had to sit down.
You know, like, they had her working while sitting
because she couldn't walk.
They sent her back to Kansas.
They call it the Community House of Wellness.
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: The United Nation of Islam
had their own medical facility.
They do not believe in western medicine.
The biggest thing that we always try to avoid
was going to the hospital.
If you're following Royall taught,
you won't have no real health situations.
He taught that everybody would live forever.
He was going to change death.
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Shaquanta begged to go to the hospital
and they did not take her.
None of them were qualified to treat
what was going on with her.
She should have been immediately taken to the hospital
and it did not happen.
They treated Shaquanta with three baths of Epsom salt,
you know, blended food, music therapy.
And it got to the point where her entire immune system
shut down.
And the story that Royall gives is
that she willed herself into extreme illness
and she, by self conflict, passes.
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Pretty much, she died in agony and pain
and we were lied to about it.
My wife was just very broken hearted behind that.
She was-- you know, she just wasn't the same.
She was very quiet.
She didn't talk.
Anybody that know her, she was very playful.
And after that, she wasn't like that anymore.
She was very-- she was just sad all the time.
You know, everything I ever cared about,
you know, just fell through my hands.
There was nothing I could do to stop it from happening.
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: These are children.
And if we don't do something to help them to escape it,
we're cowering to something that can be easily defeated.
We can bring the people responsible for some type
of justice.
I truly believe that.
When I saw Shaquanta last, she was healthy.
And the next time I had seen Shaquanta, she was ashes.
And we were told that that's what she wanted.
She wanted to be with her creator
because passing was not something
that we believed in, especially a young person.
When it happened, we were like, wow, like, no one told us.
But Janja, you you've seen this in other cults
where when they say you're going to live forever or Armageddon
is going to happen on this day at this time,
and then the time and date passes and nothing happens,
or somebody tragically dies.
How do they readjust and keep the faith going?
Right.
Well, typically the leader will reframe the event.
Like saying, you know, she had to go to Allah so she
could be with her husband.
Or she willed herself.
JANJA LALICH: She willed herself.
Yeah, it'll get reframed.
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: When you tell people for over 20 something
years that they'll live forever, when people start dying,
a lot of people within their right mind
will wonder, what's going on with this?
You know, and that's what ended up happening.
A lot of people did wonder that.
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He knew that he lost control of the Nation.
And if the members kept talking, there
goes the entire congregation.
And so that's why at this time, communication
between different states, they said no one was to talk.
A 90 day cleanse was ordered after Shaquanta's death.
What was that about?
What was that supposed to accomplish?
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: We were supposed to be introduced
into a new expression of godhood and during this time,
intense study into Royall's original philosophy.
They were worried that Shaquanta's death
had shaken so many of you.
We need to make sure-- OK.
No, no, no, no, no.
This is what we believe.
No talking.
That's a perfect example of the kind of control
that'll happen to silence everybody.
Just like, oh, let's have a new campaign.
And let's have everybody rededicate and re-commit.
And nobody is going to have a moment
to think about this girl that just died and a horrible death.
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: Correct.
So it's very deliberate, very calculated.
But why don't people lose the faith?
Why don't people start going, wait a second.
Well, some people might, but in general people
won't because they're used to following that person
and they're used to trusting and believing in that person.
So in an organization like this, you know,
your only loyalty is to the leader.
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ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: I went and I listened to the conference.
And he's telling everyone this is what happened, a girl died.
But hey, my daughter also died three times.
And she died and we have began a process
of making her into someone new.
We were told Royall's daughter was hosting the 24 scientists
that took Royall across the universe
and gave him a little knowledge of everything,
royal said she was a vessel to help
people communicate to them.
He wanted to take the attention off the deaths
and put it on something else.
And that story that he made up about his daughter
was the perfect ploy to do it.
That was it.
I had enough after that.
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Before we had to call the police and we
didn't have enough people to come forward and say anything.
But now, we have the opportunity to really
use the truth as a glove, as a punching glove.
We're going to do our best to get the best
blow that we can with it.
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The agent wants to meet us a little bit earlier.
100 thoughts running through my mind right now.
I just want to make some I'm spiritually prepared for what's
about to happen.
I'm a little nervous because he got me off my a-game
like I planned, but the unexpected
makes the adventure a little more exciting to me anyway.
So it's not a problem.
We ready to rock and roll.
KC weather for you.
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: I'm feeling very excited about the FBI
meeting because we get to finally get our story out
to the authorities.
We've never really had the opportunity to come forward
to talk to any law already about what's going on,
but now since they want to know what happened to us,
it gives us a chance to really go over it thoroughly,
the way it should be done.
Specifics, you know, events, things that happened,
the people who died.
The agent said he'll be there at 11:00.
I'm going to talk about some of the deaths that occurred.
Yeah.
The beatings.
Everything.
One of the main things I want to address
is human trafficking and the free labor.
Today, they still are utilizing minors to make their money
and that is something that we need to address ASAP.
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All right, man. Wish me luck.
All righty.
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: Everyone believes whatever they was
told, but it's a select few of us
who really know what happened.
And it's many others who died or lost their parents
and the truth about it never came out.
And I'm hoping that the agents, that they
are the Superman that we've been waiting on to help.
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So when you went to go meet with the FBI
in that hotel room, were you nervous?
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
Were you afraid they would be like, come on,
this can't possibly be happening in the United
States of America, in full view of everybody.
Yes.
And some people might ask, like, do you get
nervous talking to the feds?
I'm like, listen if you saw what I saw you
would run to talk to the FBI.
What's next on this?
Like, will they tell you if they--
are they going to go out now and try to verify the stories?
I'm pretty sure they're going to go out and start the process
of verifying the story.
There's actually a lawsuit now.
A woman, a former member of the United Nation of Islam
is suing the organization and corroborating a lot of what
you've been saying all along.
Yes.
Her name is Kendra Ross.
She placed a lawsuit against the organization
for human trafficking.
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And so that kind of helped to validate what I was saying.
I'm pretty sure that I put a little bit of fuel
in the FBI's tank to go out after these individuals.
Do you think that your going to authorities
will lead to more people inside the United
Nation of Islam speaking out, either publicly
or to authorities?
I hope so because everyone wants to pretend
like it didn't happen.
You know, they're embarrassed.
They don't want to talk about it.
And I just want to show them that at this point
there's nothing to lose.
There's so much to gain.
So much.
And I have hopes that they do come forward.
I really do.
Especially the ones who are inside because that's
the biggest challenge.
Being able to have someone come forward that's already there
and say something.
What's justice for you?
Justice for me would be would be,
everyone who was involved for Shaquanta's
death, being held responsible.
You know, human trafficking is wrong,
but when it get to the point where people are dying
and it's swept under the rug--
And a terrible cruel.
Oh, yeah.
Painful.
That girl got no love from and no comfort.
That would be true justice for me.
Everyone involved to be brought to justice for it.
Well, let's hope you get your justice.
Appreciate that.
It's a good first step.
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: This is the starting point
of bringing the Nation down by exposing the organization as
a cult. We threw such a blow to their recruiting system
and that is big to me.
Because now I know that I did my best to enlighten others
on exactly who they are and why they should
not get involved with them.
If I can go to sleep knowing I did that, I'm fine with that.
This is the start of healing, I feel.
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