Jacko X: Michael Jackson & the Nation of Islam

Michael Jackson has a reputation for very bizarre actions that have occurred throughout his career. The strangest yet, it seems, may be a sudden conversion to the Nation of Islam just as he is formally charged with child molestation.

The Australian reports:

"The King of Pop is restyling himself Jacko X," said the newspaper. "High-ranking members of Nation of Islam have been working to bring Jackson into Reverend Louis Farrahkan's flock - and Jackson's conversion is now well-known in the NOI community," said the report. ... Fox News reported Jackson's brother Jermaine Jackson had brought Farrakhan's chief of staff Leonard Muhammad into Jackson's inner-circle as "a bodyguard".

I've not heard of Michael Jackson showing any particular interest in either mainstream Islam or America's Nation of Islam at any time in the past. Perhaps he has been moving in this direction but hasn't revealed it - and this current crisis has pushed him along faster than he might otherwise have moved? It will be interesting to see where this goes...

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