Editing Jacob (section)

====Nation of Islam====
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According to the teachings of the [[Nation of Islam]] (NOI), the original inhabitants of the world were black (referred to as the "Asiatic Blackman"), while the white race are "devils" who were created 6,000 years ago on what is today the Greek island of [[Patmos]] by the biblical and quranic Jacob, whom the group refers to as the "bigheaded scientist" Yakub.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Perspectives_1/article_7371.shtml|title=Myth or high science? Is there evidence of Mr. Yakub?
|work=The Final Call (Nation of Islam)|author=Alan Muhammad|date=October 24, 2010|access-date=September 15, 2019}}</ref> Though rejected by the vast majority of American Muslims, several NOI breakaway sects, including the [[Five-Percent Nation]], subscribe to this narrative.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/8737494|title="Ain't No Spook God": Religiosity in the Nation of Gods and Earths|last=Andrews|first=Pamela|website=Academia.edu|access-date=2 August 2019}}</ref> The [[Nuwaubian Nation]], an NOI offshoot headed by [[Dwight York| Malachi Z. York]], promotes an [[Yakub (Nation of Islam)#Nuwaubian version|alternative version]] of the Yakub story. In contrast to both the Bible and Qu’ran, the NOI and its offshoots teach that Yakub was born in [[Mecca]].<ref name = "mike">Michael Angelo Gomez, ''Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas'', Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 311</ref>