Nation of Islam Official Defends Her Role

CHICAGO - A Nation of Islam official who serves on a state hate crimes commission said Tuesday it's ridiculous that she has been condemned for remarks made by the religious movement's leader, Minister Louis Farrakhan.

Sister Claudette Marie Muhammad's comments were her first since four members of the Governor's Commission on Discrimination and Hate Crimes resigned last week rather than serve with her.

"For those who try to condemn me because of the honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan's remarks," she said on WVON-AM, "it's ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous."

Gov. Rod Blagojevich's appointment of Muhammad to the commission in August drew no public attention until she invited commissioners to attend a speech given by Farrakhan, who is known for his disparaging remarks about Jews, whites and gays.

Some commissioners began criticizing her presence on the panel after Farrakhan's speech Feb. 26 in Chicago that included references to "Hollywood Jews" promoting homosexuality and "other filth."

Muhammad said Tuesday she and her family have been victims of hate crimes and discrimination, and that she has Jewish family members, has traveled to Israel and has worshipped in synagogues.

"Please know I am not the victimizer here, OK, but instead I am the victim," she said. She refused to repudiate Farrakhan and recommended that people who disagree with him, speak with him.

Three Jewish commission members resigned last week, saying her support for Farrakhan contradicts the panel's goals. They called on her to repudiate Farrakhan's remarks. A state lawmaker whom Blagojevich appointed to fill one of the vacancies also resigned Friday.

The Democratic governor said Monday that Muhammad is not responsible for any racist remarks Farrakhan has made. He has said he didn't realize he had appointed a Nation of Islam official until learning about it from news reports.

I'm from Illinois long ago and I thank God I;m in Tennessee instead of that cesspool. Here's another gem from the article to show what a complete nausea-inducing wretch Blagojevich is:

Taking the aforesaid gems of gubernatorial wisdom in order, Muhammad certainly is responsible for what Farrakhan said because she is an official of his organization and has refused to repudiate him. That he didn't realize she was a Nation of Islam official until he learned it from news reports is just as credible as the idea that Hillary didn't know who hired Craig Livingstone.

The main reason that this woman shold never have been appointed is because she belongs to an organization that espouses crackpot racial theories that are even MORE absurd than Heinrich Himmler's SS or Nathan Hale's World Church of the Creator. (see below) Would this dumbass governor have appointed Nathan Hale's "MINISTER of Protocol?"

In the Nation of Islam, both God and the devil are human beings. Elijah Muhammad identified the devil as the white man, the Caucasian race. According to Elijah, though the black race is many trillions of years old, the white race began a mere six thousand years ago with Yakub, one of the Black Gods of this time cycle.[15]
Elijah explained, "The white race is not equal with darker people because the white race was not created by the God of Righteousness. . . . They were made by Yakub, an original Black Man—who is from the Creator. Yakub, the father of the devil, made the white race, a race of devils—enemies of the darker people of the earth. The white race is not made by nature to accept righteousness."[16]
According to Elijah Muhammad, Yakub was born 20 miles from the Holy City of Mecca about 6,600 years ago. From the age of six he knew he was "born to make trouble, break peace, kill and destroy his own people with a made enemy to the black nation." He had a very large head and grew up to be called "the big head scientist." He decided to conquer and subdue the black race, and through lies he gathered 59,999 followers, whom the King of Mecca exiled to the island of Patmos. There Yakub worked to create the white race by allowing marriage only between brown or lighter-skinned Negroes and by killing all newborn black babies. His followers obeyed him; the penalty for disobedience was decapitation.[17]
Yakub died after 150 years, but his project to make a race of lawless criminals lived on (Elijah's term for this misguided eugenics project was "grafting"). After two hundred years, only brown people were left alive. After another 200 years, Patmos was home to only yellow and red people. At the end of "the six hundredth year, Mr. Yakub had an all-pale white race of people on this Isle," said Elijah Muhammad.[18]
The white race left the island and returned to Paradise (Mecca). But in less than six months they had caused warfare and controversy among the people, so the King of Mecca had them escorted to Europe by "a caravan, armed with rifles, to keep the devils going westward." Here begins the white man's history, for he was granted six thousand years to rule the earth.
The first two thousand years were squandered while the whites lived as naked savages in the caves of Europe, eating their meat raw and without even a knowledge of fire. They tried to "graft" themselves back to black by reverse breeding, but succeeded only in making gorillas (this is the origin of the monkey and gorilla family).[19] Then Moses came to them. He taught them how to wear clothes, use fire, cook their food, and to believe in Allah. The whites rejected Moses, who set a trap and blew up three hundred of them with dynamite,[20] but it was through Moses' efforts that the teaching of civilization gradually seeped into the mind of the white man. Over the centuries, the white man used this knowledge, combined with his innate craftiness and "tricknology," to dominate the world.
The twenty-four God-Scientists who wrote the history of this world foreordained that the period of white rule should be limited to six thousand years. To accomplish this, "the Black Man or Gods were put to sleep in order that the Wisdom of the Black Man did not interfere with what the white man is made for (to rule us under wickedness, enslavement, deceit, murder, and death for six thousand years)."

The NOI has not repudiated these beliefs, they just don't talk about them much anymore. Yup someone from an outfit like this is sure to bring a special sensitivity to a hate crimes panel.

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