The founder of The Nation of Islam, Wallace Fard Muhammed, claimed himself to be half black and half white, born in Mecca. His followers claimed he was God Incarnate; most others see him as a white imposter. In truth, he was Pashtun by way of New Zealand.

The FBI investigated Fard in the 1950’s, 20 years after he mysteriously disappeared. They combed through files of criminals with similar names until they found a “Wallie Dodd Ford”, a small time opium dealer imprisoned at San Quentin in the 20’s. The fingerprints matched.

Further detective work by historians discovered this Fard's 1917 draft card in which his birthplace was given as Shinka, Afghanistan.

More digging into Fard’s repeated divorces under slightly different names (“George Farr”, “Wali Fard”, “Fred Dodd” ) discovered that he had immigrated from New Zealand, the son of a Pashto father and white mother. His real name seems to be Wali Dodd Fard.

The Pashtun connection makes sense: Fard is a common name in Pakistan and the only place on Earth that sounds similar to "Shabazz", the Nation’s word for African-Americans, is the Pakistani name "Shahbaz". He gave Elijah Muhammed’s brother the new Pakistani name “Kallatt” .

Muhammed often took time off from denouncing whites to inexplicably rage against Hindus, who his Black audience had never seen before and must have cared nothing about.

While living under the alias “George Farr” Muhammed joined Marcus Garvey’s black nationalist organization. It took about two seconds for investigators who noticed the man at the time to spot that he was Indian, not black:

Ahmadiyya missionaires from the Sindh were the first to win African American converts to Islam beginning in 1920, which almost certainly gave Fard his inspiration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmadiyya_in_the_United_States

At different times in his life Fard posed as a self-taught genius who spoke 30 languages. In truth, he was functionally illiterate to the point had to dictate letters home to New Zealand to his wife. He taught his followers the TRUE etymology of Europe: it means “bad rope”.

Most of these excerpts come Karl Evanzz's biography of Elijah Muhammed https://www.amazon.com/Messenger-Rise-Fall-Elijah-Muhammad/dp/0679774068/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Rise+and+Fall+of+Elijah+Muhammad&qid=1615066607&sr=8-1