What is it like to spread the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad in Paris?
TM: It’s hard, because most of the material is in English and the people here speak French. We spend a lot of our time translating the speeches of Minister Farrakhan into booklets and sell them to the people and invite them to our meetings. We also have a website, www.nationdelislam.com, that we also use. We create French DVDs of the Minister. Viewers have a choice of watching it in French or English. Much of our work is focused on translations, so people can hear exactly what the Minister has to say. We want them to know his words, rather than what we have to say about him. FC: How did you hear about the teachings? TM: In 1995 before the Million Man March, I heard about the Nation of Islam on the news in Paris. Once every two to three years there is a documentary on Islam in the world. At the time I was at work reading a book on Malcolm X. A Brother came to me and said, “Are you in the Nation?” I said, “No, they are in the United States.” The Brother said, “No, they are here too.” I w
