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Massacre of a Hanafi man's family by members of the Nation of Islam

The Hanafi Muslim massacre took place on January 18, ^[1] Two men and a boy were shot to death.

"Violence will not solve the complex …

Four other children ranging in age from nine days to ten years old were drowned. Two others were severely injured.^[2] The murders took place at 16th Street NW, a Washington, D.C. house purchased for a group of Hanafi Muslims to use as the "Hanafi American Mussulman's Rifle and Pistol Club".^[3] The property was purchased and donated by then Milwaukee Bucks basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.^[4]

The target of the attack was Hamaas Abdul Khaalis, the son-in-law of Reginald Hawkins.

Khaalis had written and sent fifty letters^[5] calling Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad "guilty of 'fooling and deceiving people – robbing them of their money, and besides that dooming them to Hell.'" The letters were mailed to ministers of all fifty mosques o