Farrakhan denies anti-Semitism

[Behind the Aegis]

(JTA) — Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan denied he is anti-Semitic during an address to the group’s annual convention in Detroit.

Farrakhan, who is known for his diatribes against the Jews, compared himself to auto magnate Henry Ford saying that Ford was “a great man who was called an anti-Semite.”

“I feel like I’m in good company,” Farrakhan said during a speech Sunday night to about 18,000 in Joe Louis Arena, the Detroit Free Press reported.

“I don’t hate Jewish people … what I hate is evil,” Farrakhan also said, and added that “Satan is in control of Hollywood,” as well as TV, the media and money.

Farrakhan also reprimanded Muslims for fighting against each other in the Middle East, saying they were killing each other for “America” and the “European infidel.”

more: http://www.stljewishlight.com/news/world/article_67ba80c2-6cf3-5018-8199-aa7871159b27.html

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Henry Ford: The International Jew

In Spring 1920, Henry Ford made his personal newspaper The Dearborn Independent chronicle what he considered the "Jewish Menace". Every week for 91 issues, the paper exposed some sort of Jewish-inspired evil major story in a headline. The most popular and aggressive stories were then chosen to be reprinted into four volumes called the "International Jew".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_Jew

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The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.

Louis Farrakhan


"They [the Jews] are the greatest controllers of black minds, black intelligence. They write the scripts - the foolish scripts on television that our people portray. They are the movie moguls that feature us in these silly, degrading, degenerate roles.

"The great recording companies that portray our people in such a filthy and low-rating way, yet they would not allow such a man as Michael Jackson to say one word that they thought would besmirch their reputation, but they put us before the world as clowns and as purveyors of filth. No, I will fight that."
Meet The Press interview, October 1998

"The Jews have been so bad at politics they lost half their population in the Holocaust. They thought they could trust in Hitler, and they helped him get the Third Reich on the road."
Saviours' Day speech, Chicago, February 1998

"Of course, they [the Jews] have a very small number of people but they are the most powerful in the world, they have the power to do good and they have the power to do evil ... Now what do the Jews do best? Well, they have been the best in finance that the world has ever known ...

"They finance a lot of stuff in the world, and there's nothing wrong with that, but they are not good politicians, they are the worst politicians because they don't recognise really their friends and as well their enemies ... "
Saviours' Day speech, Chicago, February 1998

I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government ...Yes, they exercise extraordinary control, and black people will never be free in this country until they are free of that kind of control ... "
Meet The Press interview, April 1997

"I don't own Hollywood. Who depicted black people? Who writes the books? Who writes the plays, the songs that make us look less than human? Do you mean to tell me that Jews have never done any evil to black people? ...

"Were they not involved in the slave trade? Yes, they were ... and to the extent that they were involved, somebody has to bring them to account. And I believe that has fallen on me."
Interview with New York Amsterdam News, January 1994

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jul/31/race.world1

[JustAnotherGen]

1. He is such a monumental

Asshole. Seriously - he's no better than Rand Paul and the bigots and racists Paul pals around with.

[Behind the Aegis]

4. That he is!

He sows some nasty seeds. He ain't too fond of the gays either.

[1StrongBlackMan]

13. I disagree ...

While 20+ years ago, he did make anti-sematic remarks, I think people remember this and confuse his anti-Zionism comments with anti-sematic comments.

[JustAnotherGen]

14. I saw him speak once

At Brockport State years ago -

1strong - I'll never forget that. And the feeling - because of what my mother's father was - and what his mother was -

That this man would have liked to remove me from the face of the earth. I was there 20 years ago . . .

[1StrongBlackMan]

15. I can understand ...

but that was 20 years ago, right?

Maybe, in that time, he has moderated his position ... He certainly has moderated his tone.

[JustAnotherGen]

16. True

But I'm a once bitten twice shy. Funny - I wrote back to back articles for my University Paper - I need to dig them up.

One week Farahkkan - the next week . . . remember David Duke? Both difficult - but a true test in the 5 W's and H.

[1StrongBlackMan]

17. I can truly understand ...

the once bitten twice shy and would likely be as suspect as you.

[Behind the Aegis]

19. Don't worry. He hasn't changed. See below.

Thank you for standing tall against bigotry, even if only against the Jews.

[JustAnotherGen]

22. I didn't think so

I didn't think he had changed.

[1StrongBlackMan]

21. It appears ...

from what Behind the Aegiss has written ... he ain't changed. Maybe it was the forums that I had heard him speak had him speaking differently.

Sorry.

[Behind the Aegis]

18. Is this recent enough for you?

“In all of these cities on a Jewish holiday, business stops because they are the masters not only in America’s
cities but in cities throughout Europe and the Western world.”
The Time and What Must Be Done, Part 20: Making Satan Known, 5/25/13

“The Jewish media has normalized sexual degeneracy, profanity, and all kinds of sin.”
The Time and What Must Be Done, Part 20: Making Satan Known, 5/25/13

“Socialism or communism is a doctrine they have to fight cause it ends their wealth and their power,
wherever socialism rises, capitalism begins to die…So the International Jew is affected by the rise of
socialism, it is in their DNA to fight anything that will raise the common man. This is why they fight any
voice that the little man will listen to.”
The Time and What Must Be Done, Part 17, 5/4/13

“Now you know I’m going to be lambasted and called anti-Semitic… They’ll say Farrakhan was up to his old
canards; he said Jews control Hollywood. Well, they said it themselves! Jews control the media. They said it
themselves! Jews and some gentiles control the banking industry, international banks. They do! In
Washington right next to the Holocaust Museum is the Federal Reserve where they print the money. Is that
an accident?”
Holy Day of Atonement Keynote Address, Part 2, Mosque Maryam, Chicago, Illinois, 10/21/12

Farrakhan: How many of you are lawyers? Only have one in the house? No wonder we go to jail so much,
brother! But at the top of the law profession, who are the top in law?
Audience: Jews.
Farrakhan: Sorry I didn't hear you.
Audience: Jews!
Farrakhan: Any doctors in the house? Ain't got no doctors? Oh there's one way in the back. At the top of
the medical profession, the top in that are members of the Jewish community. Anybody in media? Who's
the top in that field?
Audience: Jews.
Farrakhan: Anybody a rapper in the house? There's rappers. You can rap, ain't nothing wrong with that, but at the top of that are those that control the industry. Any of you have Hollywood ambitions, Broadway ambitions? Who's the top of that?
Audience: Jews.
Farrakhan: Same people! They're masters in business. Well I'm not a businessman I'm a banker. Well who's the master of the bankers? Audience: Jews.
Farrakhan: TALK TO ME!
Audience: Jews!
Farrakhan: You don't discredit them because they're masters, you discredit them by the way they use their mastery.
Audience: [applause]
Farrakhan: Now, I close.
---All is Vanity, Mosque Maryam, Chicago, Illinois, 7/1/12

“White Christians, [you saw the plight of blacks] but what did you do? You walked right by on the other side. Then along came the Jewish people. You did a little better. You came and looked at us: 'damn they're in bad shape! Let's see how we can take advantage of the shape that they're in.'”
---Guidance in a Time of Trouble, San Diego, California, 5/27/12

“Did you know that the Koran says that Jews are the most violent of people. I didn't write it, but I'm living to see it.”
Saviours' Day, Chicago, Illinois, 2/26/12

Are those recent enough examples? I have more! And, for the record, it is "anti-Semitic," not "anti-sematic", nor is this "confusion" with anti-Zionism.

[1StrongBlackMan]

20. You are correct ...

that is every bit as repugnant as his earlier stuff. I have heard him on a variety of occasions in the recent past; but had not heard any of this. Sorry.

[LuvNewcastle]

2. I've seen enough interviews with Farrakhan to know that he thinks all this is funny.

He's a very sick man. What's scary is that he's able to get 18,000 people to turn out and listen to the filth he spews, including at least one member of Congress that I can think of. He should be a pariah in our society.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. ^this^

I take comfort in the fact that my 20 year old nephew had never heard of him when I told him to "stop" after reading the autobiography of Malcolm X. Take his transformation of the soul - and start from there.

Societal Costructs of racial prejudice towards black Americans is not my problem to solve. I didn't put the race card in the deck, this isn't 1960, and I'm out there doing my own thing and making things happen.

But I AM responsible for shutting down this idiot and making sure the young black people on that side of my family see this monumental bigot for what he is.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. We all have to speak out when we see someone like this asshole being

taken seriously. It's our duty as decent human beings.

[BBR Esq]

9. Malcom X was a brilliant man

who was in the process of leaving the Nation of Islam behind. Farrakhan was jealous of Malcom X and probably played a role in his assassination.

[JustAnotherGen]

10. Amen

And the transformation he went through in his life? Amazing. And I tend to agree with you on Farrakhan and his involvement . . .

[Behind the Aegis]

6. It is a shame, because he really could be a force for good if he wanted to be.

Like you said, he is able to get many people to listen to him, but he chooses to mix hate in with his other messages.

[LuvNewcastle]

8. He could be a great force for change, but he'd rather scapegoat

other people while he spins his conspiracy theories. He has no desire to see positive change; he just wants to stir shit and sit back and watch his handiwork. It saddens me greatly when I see some people on DU defend him by saying that he says a lot of good things. If Farrakhan ever says anything that helps achieve something useful in our society, it will be purely accidental, because he has the most evil intentions behind every word he says.

[merrily]

7. +1

He's a very sick man and a very slick man and a man with charisma. He plays with words, and thereby with people's heads, very skillfully. Otherwise, he'd only be one more nut in the bowl.

[Mira]

11. A brief intermission in this thread

Louis Farrakhan took a year to prepare for the concert as I understand it. It shows that beautiful music can put the brakes on hate. At least for a while.

Here's what happened and when:
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/19/arts/sending-a-message-louis-farrakhan-plays-mendelssohn.html?pagewanted=print

[leftynyc]

23. It doesn't seem to have changed

crazy louie into a decent human being. He's still a viscous antisemite and his ideas belong in the dustbin of history.

[The Wizard]

12. Also know as

Louis Eugene Wolcott, Malcolm X's derisive name for him was Louie The Crooner, Calypso Gene (his recording name under which he recorded a few songs about cross dressing. Why did he use the words gutter religion in describing Judaism if he's not an anti Semite? He's got a lot of bigotry to defend.

[stevenleser]

25. Among every discriminated-against-group, there are a smattering of folks who go to far.

Who see prejudice even when it isnt there, and become prejudiced themselves. It's a small percentage of each discriminated-against-group, but its there in every case.