Evidence: 1 (Mythology, not history)
| Claim | Detail |
|---|---|
| Core teaching | Yakub, a black scientist, created white people through selective breeding 6,600 years ago on the island of Patmos. White people are inherently evil (“blue-eyed devils”) |
| Origin | Wallace Fard Muhammad (1930s), elaborated by Elijah Muhammad |
| Status | Central NOI doctrine. Not shared by mainstream Islam, Christianity, or Judaism |
| Scientific basis | None. Contradicted by genetics, archaeology, and human migration evidence |
| Significance | Understood as mythological framework for processing the reality of white supremacy and slavery, not as literal science by many adherents today |