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Reflections On The Significance of Minister Farrakhan’s 88th Birth Anniversary
“Blessed is He who sent down the Criterion upon His Servant that he may be to the worlds a warner”
-Holy Qur’an Chapter 25 (al-Furqan) Verse 1
On May 11, 1526, the Spanish monarchy issued forth a formal decree forbidding the importing of Muslims into the Western Hemisphere. According to esteemed scholar Sylvianne Diouf:
“After the first slave uprising in the New World, led by the Wolof in 1522, a royal decree of May 11, 1526, specifically forbade the introduction of ‘Gelofes’ (Wolof), Negros (Blacks) from the Levant (or Middle East), those who had been raised with the Moors, and people from Guinea without a special license from the Casa de Contratación, which regulated the slave trade and put levies on the slaves.