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Yakub (allegedly c. 5,000 BCE) is a mythological scientist in the Nation of Islam (NOI). According to the Nation's doctrine, Yakub created the white race through a selective breeding effort spanning 600 years while on exile from his native Mecca to the island of Patmos.

Throughout its history, the story has caused disputes within the Nation of Islam. The tale of Yakub first originated from the writings of the Nation's founder, Wallace Fard Muhammad, but was rejected by some of the Nation's later leaders.

While generally agreed that Yakub's tale is nothing more than a myth, the Nation of Islam continues to assert that the story of Yakub is true under current leader Louis Farrakhan.

Summary
The Autobiography of Malcolm X relates the tale of Yakub.

According to the teachings of the Nation of Islam, God put twenty-four "brilliant Black scientists" in Mecca after a rogue scientist detonated the Earth causing the split of the Moon.

Among these scientists were Yakub, who was born c. 4,500 or c. 8,400 BCE in the Tribe of Shabazz with an abnormally large head and a destiny to wreak havoc on society. Yakub, who was gifted intellect at birth, discovered magnetism at age six.

Exile to Patmos
A skilled orator, Yakub rallied a number of converts for his cause before religious authorities in Mecca exiled him to the Greek island of Patmos along with his 59,000 followers. According to NOI doctrine, "Let us make man" in the Book of Genesis were Yakub's words instead of God's.

In spite of his exile from Mecca, Yakub sought revenge against God by creating a "devil race", a "bleached-out white race of people". Armed with knowledge of genetic dominance, Yakub set about breeding weaker and increasingly fair-skinned people by means of a nefarious birth control law forbidding dark-skinned couples to marry and killing children deemed too dark. If a couple gave birth to a dark-skinned baby, Yakub and his followers were to "put a needle in its brain and feed it to a wild animal or give it to the cremator".

Yakub died c. 5,150 BCE at age 150, but the process of favoring fairer-skinned offspring persisted after his death. Within 200 years, no more dark-skinned babies were born in Patmos. It took more than 600 years to go from black, brown, red, yellow, to finally achieve a pure white race, "blond, pale-skinned, cold blue-eyed devils" according to Elijah Muhammad.