Posted on 02/28/2011 3:26:01 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
I think it was probably a good thing that the war in the East happened. Can you imagine the nightmare scenario of Stalin getting time to finish industrialising the USSR and then steamrolling all over Europe?
The USSR had the demographic mass and the native resources to build a war machine far beyond what the Nazis ever even had the potential to build...
Louis Farrakhan says Moammar Gadhafi has always been a friend
By KiM JANSSEN
Staff Reporter/kjanssen@suntimes.com
Last Modified: Feb 28, 2011 07:27AM
Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan says Moammar Gadhafi has always been a friend and he won’t distance himself from the Libyan dictator.
Speaking Sunday at the annual Saviours’ Day convention at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Farrakhan didn’t discuss specifics about the deadly uprisings in Libya.
But the 77-year-old said no leader has been loved by 100 percent of his people and said that if Gadhafi is persecuted for crimes against humanity, the same should apply to former President George W. Bush for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Farrakhan visited Gadhafi in the 1980s and in 1996 accepted a humanitarian award from him. But during his speech Sunday he warned the wave of revolution spreading across the Middle East is coming to the United States.
Speaking to followers who all but filled the 18,000-seat venue, he said, “What you are looking at in Tunisia, in Egypt, in Yemen, in Jordan, in Libya, in Bahrain will soon, very soon be in all the nations of the world . . . and even sooner take place in America.
“What you see happening there, you’d better prepare because it will be coming to your door, America.”
And Farrakhan added, “I hope that President Obama will remember his instructions to all nations — be careful how you attack and kill innocent people who are protesting. Take your own words into your bosom and be reminded when it comes to your home.”
Followers rewarded him with several raucous standing ovations during the four-hour speech.
“Don’t leave until I close — that might be a year from now,” he joked with listeners at one point.
“Teach on!” his followers urged him.
Farrakhan also said he had spent time at the Church of Scientology’s celebrity center in Los Angeles and had been impressed with the church’s method of “auditing” — a process he said was comparable to therapy.
He said the church’s founder L. Ron Hubbard had a mission to “civilize white people,” adding that Hubbard “is so exceedingly valuable to every white person on this earth.”
Scientology books were available for sale at the Savior’s Day event, but Farrakhan said he was not converting and did not need a new religion.
His speech also covered familiar topics from previous Savior’s Day events, including a focus on the common beliefs of Christians and Muslims who he said “should not be at war with one another,” how the Nation of Islam believes that white people were created from blacks 4,000 years ago on an Aegean island by a black scientist, and on problems affecting the black community, including street gangs.
He also criticized the sexually charged performances of popstar Rihanna, saying they were “filthy” and that people who enjoyed such antics were “swine,” a description he also applied to homosexuals and lesbians. He also criticized immigrant Muslims in the Chicago area for moving to white suburbs and being patronizing toward black Muslims.
During Black History Month, schools should teach from Nation of Islam books that say Jewish people took advantage of blacks, he said. An Anti-Defamation League spokesman said Farrakhan’s comments were “just the usual hate speech and propoganda.”
He warned that non-believers and the sinful would face the wrath of God through high-technology UFOs or “wheels” that he has often described in previous addresses.
It’s the ‘Devil You Know’ vs the ‘Devil You Don’t Know.’
Valid points but it’s just 6M, most of them unarmed...and Tripoli is sealed tight as Gaddafi prepares for offensives outside the capitol
Stay tuned~
Valid points but it’s just 6M, most of them unarmed...and Tripoli is sealed tight as Gaddafi prepares for offensives outside the capitol
Stay tuned~
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