Posted on 08/15/2002 10:52:48 PM PDT by Michael2001
In the war against terrorism, perhaps the greatest threat facing our nation is posed by the enemies within. These are organizations and individuals who – though they live among us and may even be US citizens – detest this country and actively seek out every opportunity to denounce it. Whatever the issue, or whoever the adversary, they align themselves with America’s opponents. With their relentless drumbeat of anti-American rhetoric, they depict this land as a den of iniquity, racism, aggression, and corruption. Because their ultimate goal is to facilitate our nation’s eventual collapse, they endeavor to undermine its every effort to protect itself – even from the bloody ravages of terrorism.
Among those who have shown themselves to be genuine leaders of this Fifth Column is Nation of Islam (NOI) kingpin Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan’s anti-white rhetoric is of course, by now, legendary. It is also closely related to his contempt for the United States, given that our country’s population is nearly three-quarters white. In March 2000, the Philadelphia Inquirer quoted Farrakhan saying, “White people are potential humans ... they haven’t evolved yet.” On other occasions, he has referred to whites as “devils,” “vicious beasts,” and “the skunks of the planet.” In 1997 the Clarion-Ledger reported Farrakhan’s characterization of “the white man” as none other than the “anti-Christ.” These statements are unambiguous; they are the words of a man who deems most of our nation’s inhabitants spiritually primitive and morally bankrupt. In a 1997 "Meet The Press" interview, he stated, “It is not accidental that the black male is in the condition he is in,” explaining that there is a “conspiracy of our government against the black male.”
Because he views the US as an evil nation – a veritable snake-pit of racist vipers – Farrakhan never misses an opportunity to publicly denounce it, or to predict its demise. In August 1997, for instance, the New York Amsterdam News quoted him stating, “A decree of death has been passed on America. The judgment of God has been rendered and she must be destroyed.” In a similar vein, a month later The Final Call (the NOI newspaper) reported Farrakhan’s contention that just as African Americans are under a “death decree” from the US government, America is similarly under a “decree of death from God.” According to Farrakhan, “America is a modern Rome. America is a modern Egypt. America is a modern Babylon. America is a modern Sodom and Gomorrah. There is no wicked nation in the past that approaches the evil that is practiced in America on a daily basis.”
Given his views about America, it is not surprising that Farrakhan would align himself with our country’s bitterest enemies – including those that pose the strongest threat of launching terrorist attacks against us. Consider Libya, for example, which for years has sponsored terrorism against American interests – among the most memorable being the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 that killed 270 people. In January 1996 Farrakhan formed a partnership with Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, who pledged $1 billion to help Farrakhan develop a Muslim political lobby in the US. According to Libya’s official news agency Jana, Gadhafi stated, “We agreed with Louis Farrakhan and his delegation to mobilize in a legal and legitimate form the oppressed minorities – and at their forefront the blacks, Arab Muslims and Red Indians – for they play an important role in American political life and have a weight in US elections.” The Jana story further stated that the two leaders had pledged to fight America from the inside. “Our confrontation with America,” said Gadhafi, “was [previously] like a fight against a fortress from outside, and today [with the NOI alliance] we found a breach to enter into this fortress and confront it.”
This was by no means Farrakhan's first encounter with Gadhafi. Indeed eleven years earlier, the Libyan strongman had granted NOI a $5 million interest-free loan, in gratitude for which Farrakhan later visited Libya to personally thank his benefactor. That same year, via satellite, Gadhafi told a crowd of NOI followers at a Chicago convention that he sought to sponsor an armed black revolution in America. On yet another occasion, Farrakhan and his aides – violating a travel ban imposed on Americans by President Reagan – flew to Tripoli to meet with Gadhafi and attend training seminars on weapons and explosives. Farrakhan is quite candid about his admiration for Gadhafi, whom he proudly calls “a friend,” “a brother,” and “a fellow struggler in the cause of liberation for our people.” In The Final Call, Gadhafi has been dubbed the “true hero of liberation struggle.”
Notably, Libya is not the only outlaw nation with which Farrakhan has cultivated ties. During what he dubbed his 1996 Friendship Tour, he also formed a relationship with Sudan, the Islamic fundamentalist state notorious not only for harboring terrorists, but also for its enslavement of black African Christians. His trip also took him to Iraq, Iran, and Syria – three more international supporters of Islamic terrorism. Before he left Iran for Syria, a Tehran newspaper quoted him saying, “God will destroy America by the hands of the Muslims. . . . God will not give Japan or Europe the honor of bringing down the United States; this is an honor God will bestow upon Muslims.” Many times during the tour, Farrakhan publicly denounced the US government, going so far as to call it “the Great Satan.”
In Baghdad, Farrakhan met with Saddam Hussein and expressed his wish that the US would “halt its mass murder of Iraqis.” This was a reference to the economic hardships caused by the post-Gulf War sanctions imposed on Iraq. Yet remarkably, Farrakhan made no mention of the fact that the sanctions were instituted for one reason alone: Saddam’s utter refusal to abide by the agreements of the peace terms. Portraying the sanctions as “a crime against humanity,” Farrakhan compared their effects on the Iraqi population to those of “the [Nazi] death camps” on the Jewish population decades earlier. In short, he accused the United States of practicing genocide.
While he has always had plenty to say about America’s shortcomings, Farrakhan seems hard-pressed to find circumstances worthy of criticism elsewhere. For instance, his 1996 tour also featured a cordial visit with the notoriously corrupt Nigerian military dictator, General Sani Abacha. But then, Farrakhan has had a long history of exchanging pleasantries with ruthless autocrats. As long ago as the early 1980s, he traveled to Uganda, where he heaped effusive praise upon Idi Amin, the man responsible for the murders of hundreds of thousands of his own countrymen.
In late 1997 through early 1998, Farrakhan took another Friendship Tour – through some thirty-seven nations wherein leaders of the Islamic community hosted him. When he returned to the US, he spoke at NOI’s annual Savior’s Day convention, drumming home the theme of America’s loathsome corruption and the hatred it had engendered in the nations he visited.
In February 1998, Farrakhan sent a cordial and supportive letter to Saddam Hussein. “Your Excellency,” he wrote, “we who have grown up in Islam inside of America understand that the West wants to destroy you, sir, in order to make an example out of your destruction to all strong Muslim leaders. You are a visionary, and they want to destroy your vision! If they are able to bring you down, that will serve as a warning to Brother [Gadhafi] in Libya; to Brothers Hassan Turabi and [President] Omar Bashir in the Sudan; it will mean a setback for the goal of unity [among Muslims].”
Appearing on CNN’s "Late Edition" earlier this year, Farrakhan portrayed America’s contemplated attack on Iraq not as a way to forestall Saddam’s use of nuclear weapons and terrorism against the American people, but rather as an unprovoked act of aggression against a regime that poses no tangible threat to our nation. “I would feel so much better,” he said, “if the government of the United States of America would not seek to make Saddam Hussein a trophy for the reelection of President Bush. Saddam Hussein is not responsible for the collapse of Enron and thousands of American citizens losing their life savings.” In other words, Americans have more to fear from their own, home-grown business cheats than from an exporter of international terrorism.
According to Farrakhan, “sanctions [are] a weapon of mass destruction [against the Iraqi people]. America is angry with Saddam Hussein because his people love him. And they want to punish the Iraqi people to make the Iraqi people rise up and overthrow Saddam. They [the Iraqis] had a so-called election, a referendum. Ninety-nine percent of the people vote[d] for their man. You can't get that in America. They love their man.”
On Black Entertainment Television in July 2002, Farrakhan stated that America, because it is so corrupt, is in no position to pass moral judgment on any other nation’s regime. Consequently, he explained, he has exhorted the governments of “the Arab and Muslim world” to “not allow your nation to be a base for such a war.” “How is America so righteous,” he asked rhetorically, “with blood dripping from [its] hands of the peoples of the world? How has America all of a sudden become so righteous that she can now go to Iraq and set that man [Saddam] down?”
Shortly after an American bomb was mistakenly dropped on a wedding party during recent military actions in Afghanistan, a guest columnist wrote in The Final Call, “I am ashamed that the US government has bombed a wedding party in Afghanistan resulting in the loss of some forty or more lives. Thousands of lives have already been lost in that poor and desperate nation, and Bush should pull out the US troops immediately and stop talking about making war on other people.” In the rhetoric of the Fifth Column, even a nation’s effort to defend itself and strike back at its attackers is transformed into an unwarranted act of aggression.
A few weeks ago, Farrakhan condemned President Bush’s announcement that he would have no further dealings with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. On the Al-Jazeera television network, Farrakhan told an audience of 70 million Muslims, “I was very disappointed [in Bush]. I thought he could have been more balanced. Why? Because the United States is the best friend of Israel. The F-16s, the F-15s, the helicopter gunships, the tanks that are killing Palestinian people every day are made in the United States of America.” Asserting that Bush had given Israeli Prime Minister Sharon a “green light” to practice anti-Palestinian brutality and repression, Farrakhan did not once acknowledge the almost unbelievable – and futile – patience Bush had demonstrated in waiting for Arafat to finally put an end to the suicide bombings. Yet while Farrakhan had no problem discerning malevolence and injustice in America’s actions, he actually characterized Hamas – the very organization that has openly proclaimed its goal of driving every last Jew out of Israel – as an organization that desires “peace.”
If Farrakhan were a mere fringe extremist with a small cult following, perhaps he could be dismissed as irrelevant. But his following, most notably in the black community, is very large. He draws enormous, standing-room-only crowds of listeners wherever he speaks. An October 1992 lecture he gave in Atlanta actually outdrew a World Series game played there that same night. In a recent National Black Politics survey, fully two-thirds of black respondents called Farrakhan “a good leader.” In 1996 the National Newspaper Publishers Association, which represents 200 black-owned publishers, gave Farrakhan its “Newsmaker of the Year” award – for which one criterion was the demonstration of “a higher level of moral authority.”
We are, as a nation, at a crossroads where, if we do not choose to come together as a people – regardless of race – we will perish. For those who accept what the Fifth Column says, evil resides primarily within this country, not outside of it. Thus they are unsuspecting of even the most monstrous threat being mounted in their very midst by the future Mohammed Attas of this world. Moreover, even those who do see the threat are loathe to take preventive measures against it – given their carefully cultivated contempt for this nation. Like Louis Farrakhan, they prefer to watch America collapse under “a death decree from God.”
Yes, but isn't the most important thing that we encourage diversity? After all, "our strength IS our diversity." 100,000,000 liberals CAN'T be wrong!! (/sarcasm)
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This entire first paragraph could also perfectly describe the atheist-left-democrats.
Seems to me FairyCon's words are advocating the violent overthrow of the USA. Is there not a law somewhere about such actions. You could make a case that FairyCon is attempting to incite a riot. Blacks are not helping their cause supporting this bigot. Every time I see these race pimps on TV, I have to remind myself of the likes of Walter Williams, Mr. Keyes, MLK etc. Unfortunately the good images are being obscured by these anti-white, anti-USA cult followers.
To any legal eagles on the FR, does every CLAIMED religion have to be treated as a valid religion with the associated Constitutional protections? What are the critera for some organization to be declared a religion? Can satanic cults, which clearly advocate the killing of certain groups be somehow de-listed as a religion and deemed a terrorist organization to be targeted for exile?
If any CLAIMED religion is to be considered valid then boy have we opened one giant can of worms. Could I then form a religion based on the premise that all Islamic people should be wiped off the face of the earth? That is no different than the koran.
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