I stumbled upon this while researching a different topic this afternoon. As far as I know, this has not been cited or mentioned in any scholarly work before. It may also be the only publicly-known example of something Fard had published in a newspaper.
That Fard lists his location as being in Chicago tells us that he did indeed leave Detroit when the police "asked" him to after the Harris murder.
His use of the term "nation of Islam" is worth noting, as NOI members at the time typically used "Allah Temple of Islam."
Fard's spelling of his name with an extra "A" (Farad) and his claims that "organized Christianity" is 550 years old (dating it to c. 1380) and that Buddhism dates back to 33,000 B.C. are also noteworthy since I believe we have slightly different versions of these claims in later documents.
Published in the Afro-American December 31, 1932
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