Editing Nuwaubian Nation (section)

====Growing opposition====

Over the course of the 1970s, the AAC began attracting negative attention from other Muslim groups active in New York, who criticised it as heretical.{{sfnm|1a1=Palmer|1y=2010|1p=26|2a1=Knight|2y=2020|2p=18}} In 1973, members of the [[Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood]], an African-American Sunni group, attacked AAC members for selling their newspapers in [[Manhattan]].{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=18}} In response to growing Islamic criticism, in 1989 York issued a ''A Rebuttal to the Slanderers'', in which he maintained that all previous translations of the Quran were false and that his own "19th translation" offered the "Supreme Code of the Quran". He further maintained that other Muslims were concealing the fact that Muhammad was a black African and denounced the first three [[Caliph]]s to succeed Muhammad as "usurpers", instead tracing the line of succession from Muhammad through to Muhammad Ahmad, the Sudanese Mahdi, and hence to himself.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|pp=26-27}}

Tensions with the authorities escalated in the late 1970s, particularly after Horace Green—a man who had refused the AAC's attempts to buy his building—was murdered. A member of the AAC's ''mujahim'' was suspected, but nobody was convicted.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=64}} A network of groups concerned about the AAC began to develop, incorporating ex-members, orthodox Muslim groups, the [[New York Police Department]], the [[Internal Revenue Service]], the [[United States Immigration and Naturalization Service|Immigration and Naturalization Service]], the [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives]], and the FBI.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=65}} In 1993, the FBI produced a report expressing their view that the AAC was a criminal enterprise masquerading as a religious community, and characterising the ''mujahim'' as a [[protection racket]].{{sfn|Palmer|2010|pp=65-66}}