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Scientology Youth for Human Rights Award Winner Nation of Islam Brother Rizza Islam falsely accuses St. Patrick's Day of being based on the genocidal massacre of Black people.
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Snopes explains that this is simply untrue.
Snopes: Did St. Patrick Wipe Out an African ‘Pygmy’ Tribe, the First Inhabitants of Ireland? False
Did St. Patrick Wipe Out an African 'Pygmy' Tribe, the First Inhabitants of Ireland?
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Did St. Patrick Wipe Out an African ‘Pygmy’ Tribe, the First Inhabitants of Ireland?
A long-standing theory of ancient Irish history describes the genocide of the Twa pygmies, purportedly the original source of the "leprechaun" myth.
Dan MacGuill
Published 29 July 2019
Claim
St. Patrick led the genocide of a contingent of Twa 'pygmies' from Central Africa, who were the original inhabitants of Ireland.
Rating
False
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The theory is not backed by any historical evidence, and as a set of factual claims, it can be dismissed. One prominent historian told Snopes it was, simply, “complete nonsense.”
The origins of the “Twa” theory of Irish prehistory are not entirely clear. However, it appears to be informed by what is sometimes referred to as “Afrocentrism,” an approach to historical study that emphasizes the role and achievements of African people in the evolution of Western civilization. The theory also seems to be influenced by euhemerism, an unusual strand of pseudohistory that was particularly popular in the 19th century
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Conclusion
The “African pygmy” theory of Irish prehistory, and in particular the theory of St. Patrick’s genocide of the Twa people, represent a fascinating, if confused and at times incoherent, jumble of various long-discredited strands of pseudohistory and euhemerized versions of Irish, Bantu, Egyptian and other mythologies.
Kairn Klieman, an associate professor of history at the University of Houston and author of a history of the Batwa pygmies of Central Africa, dismissed the theory as a “mish-mash of ideas,” but said it was an interesting attempt to understand the ways in which various geographically separated cultures developed similar ideas about “little people,” in particular conferring on them magical and supernatural powers.
Writing by email, she told us the theory explores “real similarities that exist in terms of myths about small people associated with the earth (sprites, leprechauns, mythical pygmies, mythical batwa). These myths existed since Egyptian times and there is a long intellectual history of how they came, in Western minds, to be associated with primordial humans. When the Europeans met Batwa, they unloaded all of this myth onto them.”
However, Klieman added that: “The idea that ‘pygmies’ or small dark people inhabited the world in ancient days is a 19th century trope that builds on the ancient myth of the pygmy in the western world.”
We also put the theory to Dáibhí Ó’Cróinín, professor of history at the National University of Ireland in Galway, and the author of a history of early medieval Ireland. His emailed response was unequivocal: “Complete nonsense,” he wrote.
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Snopes had much more at the above link.
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Scientology Youth for Human Rights Award Winner Nation of Islam Brother Rizza Islam elaborates on his false accusation that St. Patrick's Day is based on genocidal massacre of Black people, "the original inhabitants of Ireland."Scientology Youth for Human Rights Award Winner Nation of Islam Brother Rizza Islam falsely accuses St. Patrick's Day of being based on the genocidal massacre of Black people.
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Snopes explains that this is simply untrue.
Snopes: Did St. Patrick Wipe Out an African ‘Pygmy’ Tribe, the First Inhabitants of Ireland? False
Did St. Patrick Wipe Out an African 'Pygmy' Tribe, the First Inhabitants of Ireland?
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* * * * * BEGIN EXCERPT * * * * *
Did St. Patrick Wipe Out an African ‘Pygmy’ Tribe, the First Inhabitants of Ireland?
A long-standing theory of ancient Irish history describes the genocide of the Twa pygmies, purportedly the original source of the "leprechaun" myth.
Dan MacGuill
Published 29 July 2019
Claim
St. Patrick led the genocide of a contingent of Twa 'pygmies' from Central Africa, who were the original inhabitants of Ireland.
Rating
False
[SNIP]
The theory is not backed by any historical evidence, and as a set of factual claims, it can be dismissed. One prominent historian told Snopes it was, simply, “complete nonsense.”
The origins of the “Twa” theory of Irish prehistory are not entirely clear. However, it appears to be informed by what is sometimes referred to as “Afrocentrism,” an approach to historical study that emphasizes the role and achievements of African people in the evolution of Western civilization. The theory also seems to be influenced by euhemerism, an unusual strand of pseudohistory that was particularly popular in the 19th century
.
[SNIP]
Conclusion
The “African pygmy” theory of Irish prehistory, and in particular the theory of St. Patrick’s genocide of the Twa people, represent a fascinating, if confused and at times incoherent, jumble of various long-discredited strands of pseudohistory and euhemerized versions of Irish, Bantu, Egyptian and other mythologies.
Kairn Klieman, an associate professor of history at the University of Houston and author of a history of the Batwa pygmies of Central Africa, dismissed the theory as a “mish-mash of ideas,” but said it was an interesting attempt to understand the ways in which various geographically separated cultures developed similar ideas about “little people,” in particular conferring on them magical and supernatural powers.
Writing by email, she told us the theory explores “real similarities that exist in terms of myths about small people associated with the earth (sprites, leprechauns, mythical pygmies, mythical batwa). These myths existed since Egyptian times and there is a long intellectual history of how they came, in Western minds, to be associated with primordial humans. When the Europeans met Batwa, they unloaded all of this myth onto them.”
However, Klieman added that: “The idea that ‘pygmies’ or small dark people inhabited the world in ancient days is a 19th century trope that builds on the ancient myth of the pygmy in the western world.”
We also put the theory to Dáibhí Ó’Cróinín, professor of history at the National University of Ireland in Galway, and the author of a history of early medieval Ireland. His emailed response was unequivocal: “Complete nonsense,” he wrote.
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Snopes has hamuch more at the above link.
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The ADL has published their information on Scientology Youth for Human Rights Award Winner Nation of Islam Brother Rizza Islam in PDF formatThe Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has a page devoted to Scientology Youth for Human Rights Award Winner Nation of Islam Brother Rizza Islam.
The page extensively discusses his involvement in Scientology.
ETA: Scientology Freedom Medal Winner Nation of Islam Minister Tony Muhammad also receives a mention.
Rizza Islam
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Key Points:
* Ronnie Steven “Rizza” Islam is a member of the Nation of Islam
* Mr. Islam is also a social media influencer, with more than 500K followers
* He regularly posts antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ and anti-vaccine rhetoric
* Mr. Islam also espouses a range of conspiracy theories
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Ideology:
Rizza Islam’s most common claims include popular NOI talking points and other offensive tropes and conspiracy theories, including:
* Jewish people today are not “true” Jews (he often uses the spelling “Jew-ish” to indicate this derogatory connotation)
* Jewish people control the media and Hollywood, and use that control to censor Black people
* Jewish people disproportionately owned slaves or controlled the slave trade
* Jewish people and members of the LGBTQ+ community are pedophiles or promote pedophilia
* The LGBTQ+ so-called “agenda” is part of a calculated effort to feminize Black men and bring on the extinction of Black people
* No one is born gay; it is forced upon them through chemical manipulation by the government and “international bankers”
* Vaccines cause autism, illness or death, particularly in Black children
* Vaccines are part of a governmental depopulation plot targeting Black people
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History and Rise in the Nation of Islam:
Rizza Islam was born in Compton, California, in 1990. He was a member of the Nation of Islam and attended the local NOI mosque as a young child, though he also became involved in the Church of Scientology. His mother, Hanan Islam, and his adoptive father, Alfreddie Johnson, were the executive director and founder, respectively, of a Scientology-backed nonprofit organization called World Literacy Crusade. Mr. Islam took on various roles within the organization throughout his teenage years.
In the mid-2010s, Mr. Islam and his family ran into legal trouble stemming from their involvement with Scientology and World Literacy Crusade. Mr. Islam, along with some of his siblings and his mother, were arrested on Medi-Cal fraud and insurance fraud charges in California in 2015. In recent years, Mr. Islam has largely downplayed references to his Scientology past.
Though Mr. Islam had participated in NOI-related events previously, including training Fruit of Islam members while working at World Literacy Crusade, it was around the time of his 2015 arrest that he became a more active NOI member. His association with Scientology and preestablished relationships within NOI likely contributed to his rapid rise within the organization’s ranks. World Literacy Crusade and its associates, including Johnson and NOI’s Tony Muhammad (Farrakhan’s Western Regional Representative and Rizza Islam’s mentor at NOI’s Los Angeles mosque), played a key role in forging an unlikely relationship between Farrakhan, NOI and Scientology in the 2000s.
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https://brother.rizzaislam.com/about-rizza/

Scientology Youth for Human Rights Award Winner Nation of Islam Brother Rizza Islam on "How To Make Your Degree Work For You." Wait, what? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In collaboration with the Alabama A&M University Honors Program.
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Brother Rizza Islam's website says that he, "attended Compton college majoring in political science and did not graduate by choice." See:
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Compton College is a two-year community college that offers an Associate Degree.
So, Brother Rizza Islam chose not to graduate from community college, and he is going to lecture people on how to make their degree work for them?
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