Edited sentence: Breeding this white race took six hundred years.He is regarded as a prophet in Islam.In Arabic Jacob is known as Yaqub.In the mythology of the black supremacist movement the Nation of Islam, Jacob's name is spelled Yakub.Instead of being seen as the father of the twelve tribes of Israel he is presented as an evil scientist who created the white race by genetic experimentation on an isolated group of the original black peoples of the world, conducted on the island of Patmos.Jacob's progeny are destined by God to be the ruling race of the world for an allotted period of six thousand years, before the original black race regains dominance, a process that is supposed to have begun in 1914.Originating with Wallace Fard Muhammad, the prophet of Nation of Islam, the sources of this idiosycratic theory have yet to be fully traced, but probably derive from anti-Semitic ideas of the time according to which Jews are an "artificial race".This notion is then generalised to white people, of which Jews are perceived as a sub-group