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The Community: Jamiyla Chisholms Memoir of a Brooklyn Islamic Commune

Published: Jan. 23, 2023, 9 a.m.

This episode is sponsored by Better Help. Hold onto your seatbelt, cuz we\u2019re blasting back to the \u201870s for this one. Here\u2019s the scene: we\u2019re in Brooklyn, New York, at a time when all five boroughs were spiraling into ungovernable anarchy, with crime, violence, and widespread racism leaving the deteriorating metropolis totally ungovernable. If you were Black, you were particularly ostracized and lived in constant danger as a second class citizen (if only this weren\u2019t still true today). And so it\u2019s no real surprise that when people like Jamiyla Chisholm\u2019s father heard about a religious community that would, as Jamiyla put it, protect them from the hellish world and teach them how \u201cthey should live as Black people,\u201d they were drawn like moths to a flame.\xa0

While we\u2019ve seen time and time again that cults prey on the vulnerable, this often takes advantage of an individual\u2019s current mental, financial, or even physical state. In this particular case, one leader took advantage of nation-wide racial tensions in order to seduce hundreds of people into his community, which merged practices from Islam, Judaism, and various political ideologies.\xa0

Who was this leader? Well, we don\u2019t want to give it all away\u2026but here\u2019s a hint: the supreme douchebag is serving 135 years in prison for what\u2019s been reported as the largest prosecution of child molestation ever directed at an individual in the history of the USA.\xa0

To find out who we\u2019re talking about, tune in to hear author, journalist, storyteller and educator Jamiyla Chisholm discuss her own experience as a member of this cult, as detailed in her memoir, The Community.\xa0

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