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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2002

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Deen Mohammed’s Web site at www.wdmonline.com. He is the leader of the largest indigenous group of Muslims in America. Many of his lectures are available online at http:// www.newafricaradio.com/ Sept. 11, 2001, heightened the world on many fronts. For the Muslims of America it reminded us of our obligation to share with America the clearest picture possible to all Americans. This is a debt that we owe to our country and our home, America. We owe them answers to their many questions about Al-Islam, especially those critical questions that arose after Sept. 11. The East Coast sniper shootings are very much un-Islamic acts. There is no justification for shooting the innocent. These shootings are inhumane, a shame and disgrace for all human beings. Some in the media want to point fingers at Minister Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. This community of Muslims has a 70 plus year history of teaching its followers to not carry weapons, “not even a pen knife.” If the accused, John

Allen Muhammad, was a member of the NOI under Minister Farrakhan then he violated a very serious law against not only society, but also the NOI itself Again, we send our condolences to the families of the victims. We pray for a full and speedy recovery from those injured by the snipers. We pray that the families remember that the words of G-d are more powerful and lasting that the bullets and the harm and lost that resulted from those bullets. We close with this prayer from the Holy Qur’an. “On no soul doth Allah place a burden greater than it can bear. It gets every good that it earns, and it suffers every ill that it earns. (Pray:) “Our Lord! Condemn us not if we forget or fall into error; our Lord! Lay not on us a burden like that which thou didst lay on those before us; our Lord! lay not on us a burden greater than we have strength to bear. Blot out our sins, and grant us forgiveness. Have mercy on us. Thou art our protector; help us against those who stand against faith.”

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worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom 1 am chief. (1 Timothy 1:15 KJ) (2) Like Jesus, we must see the value of one lost soul. To Jesus, everybody is somebody and everybody is as valuable as anybody^ It wasn’t that Jesus didn’t care about the 99, but he knew they were safe. He was sent to find the one whose body and soul was lost. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. (Matthew 9:36 KJ) (3) Like Jesus, we must rejoice when one lost soul is found. We must put them on our shoulders and carry them until they can walk right. And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring

the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren. (Acts 15:3 KJ) There is joy in the city over one. There is joy in the person found, joy in the one being used to find him and joy in heaven for the angels know better than we do what we are saved from and to. Remember, “you are the salt of the Earth and the light of the world” ... make a difference... you really can. Send comments and suggestions toe-mail: MattS [email protected] or write to Salt and Light, do Dr. Benjamin, P.O. Box 781344, Indianapolis, IN 46278-1344.

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OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Weathered and worn after nearly a century in existence, an Oxford landmark is set to gain new life as a meeting place and cultural center for the African-American community. In a deal finalized recently, best-selling author John Grisham donated the Belfry building at 710 Jackson Ave. to the OxfordLafayette County Heritage Foundation. That group plans to give the building to the Oxford Development Association, an African-American community organization, as soon as the ODA has secured tax-exempt status. “This is just like a dream for us to get the Belfry building," said ODA President Cynthia Parham. “The dream of ODA has always been to have a place to meet, a place to keep important papers and artifacts and a place to tutor our children.” There may be no more appropriate place for people to gather and history to be preserved than the Belfry building, which stands as a point of pride and symbol of freedom for the African-Ameri-can community. Built in 1910 as Bums Methodist Episcopal Church, it rests on the site where ex-slaves first built their own house of worship, organized in 1869 as Sewell Methodist Church. Their descendants in the Bums congregation worshipped at that site until 1973, when space constraints prompted a move to a bigger building. The Belfry was then sold and converted to office space. Grisham purchased it in 1993 to use it as his Oxford office and intended to renovate it. The author, who now lives in Charlottesville, Va., later decided not to renovate the building. With a prime location just steps from the Oxford Square, the property was attractive to

developers who were eager to take the Belfry off his hands. But as preparations were made to close Grisham’s Oxford office earlier this year, his secretary Penny Pynkala said the hopes of the Black community were “in the back of my mind.” ‘Till the end of time, I wanted to save the Belfry,” said the Oxford native. “I’ve seen too many buildings in Oxford tom down.” Pynkala provided a link between the author and the Heritage Foundation, whose membership includes her brother, Jim Pryor. The foundation is a nonprofit group dedicated to the preservation, restoration and stewardship of local historical assets like the Belfry. “We knew that a developer was very interested and we were fearful it would be tom down,” said Maralyn Bullion, president of the Heritage Foundation. “We also knew that the members of ODA had wanted it for a long time.” Gerald Walton, chairman of the Belfry committee for the Heritage Foundation, wrote to Grisham in early June offering to hold the building until it could be transferred to the ODA. He soon received a favorable reply from the author, who said he wanted to make sure the Belfry was preserved. The deed transferring the property to the Heritage Foundation was signed by Grisham on Aug. 22 and was filed with the Lafayette County Chancery Clerk. Walton and others are now working on a grant proposal seeking $500,000 from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History for the restoration of the building. The grant requires a 20 percent match — $100,000 — to be raised from private sources.

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