QSI: CRAID, Transference and Bilalian Identity

Imam W. Deen Muhammad In  Dallas, Texas

Craid Convention - "The Final Step"

August 21, 1982

The Crucifix,  It has some benefits in terms of the kind of catharsis, or the kind of purging of wrong-mindedness on the part of people; when we look at a human being or a human form piercely nailed to a cross and we are told that that person was a good person, that that person had no malice, no evil will, that that person was well-natured and meant well to everybody, it does lure our sympathies toward him.  And when our sympathies are drawn towards a good thing, it does have the effect of awakening our good nature and our good conscious. So that's the one side of it. That's the good side of it.  But in spite of its having that kind of influence to provoke the movement of austere, good sentiments, moral sentiments, compassion, etc., in the one who looks upon it; for Races that cannot identify with it racially, it has a reverse effect.  It has a negative effect.