Posted on 01/09/2005 8:52:01 PM PST by Kaslin
Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan has told his followers that President Bush's efforts to bring democracy to the Middle East represent "the rule of the devil."
"What is going on in the world is a battle between 'theocracy' and 'democracy,'" Farrakhan said, in a transcript of a December speech in Newark, NJ posted last week to the NOI web site.
"The enemy is plotting, through democracy, to make the whole world submit to so-called democratic values," he claimed, "so that the demons of the West can rule all the darker peoples of the world under 'demo cracy.'
"'Democracy' is 'the rule of the people,'" the NOI leader explained. "But what kind of people? Its the very opposite of theocracy. Its the rule of a devil."
Farrakhan said ill-conceived attempts to foist democracy on Middle Eastern peoples explain why the insurgency in Iraq has proved so resilient.
"Thats why when you see Muslims in Iraq fire a rocket and it destroys an American tank, they cry out, 'Allah-u-Akbar! God is great!'" he told the Newark crowd.
"I do not mind accepting the rulership of intelligent White people if theyre intelligent enough to rule," Farrakhan said. "But this madness thats going on in Washington, I cannot let that rule me. I cannot let that determine the future of a people who are hungering to breathe free."
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