Jeremiah Wright Was a Muslim: Why That Matters

No Quarter ^ | April 10, 2008 | Bud White

[Heuristic Hiker]

“I am a part of all that I have met.” Ulysses by Tennyson

The Obama-lovin’ media wants you to believe that the Reverend Wright earthquake has passed. Some would have you believe that Obama turned a negative into a positive with his embarrassing public contortionism defending Wright and giving us a history lesson on American racism from Plymouth Rock to the Freedom Riders, as if Reverend Wright’s inexcusable hate needs a context.

Nothing is further from the truth.

There is much to be told about Reverend Wright, Obama’s mentorship with this hate-monger, and the larger implication this relationship has for the Democratic Party and its strained coalition.

Long before Reverend Wright entered the national stage, Ryan Lizza of The New Republic, in the March 19, 2007 issue, dropped this little gem:

Wright was a former Muslim and black nationalist who had studied at Howard and Chicago, and Trinity’s guiding principles–what the church calls the “Black Value System”[Emphasis added]

Why should Reverend Wright’s past as Muslim concern us?

First, Reverend Wright’s hate sermons are virtually identical as those given by his good friend, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who followed in the footsteps of Malcolm X. For example, this description by Ben Wallace Wells, published in Rolling Stone—a magazine that favors Obama, most likely in serving the interests of their demographic–in February, prior to the release of the Wright videos, makes clear the connection:

Wright takes the pulpit here one Sunday and solemnly, sonorously declares that he will recite ten essential facts about the United States. “Fact number one: We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college,” he intones.

“Fact number two: Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!” There is thumping applause; Wright has a cadence and power that make Obama sound like John Kerry.

Now the reverend begins to preach. “We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional KILLERS. . . . We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. . . . We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. . . . We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means!”

The crowd whoops and amens as Wright builds to his climax: “And. And. And! GAWD! Has GOT! To be SICK! OF THIS SHIT!…This is as openly radical a background as any significant American political figure has ever emerged from, as much Malcolm X as Martin Luther King Jr.

The racist paranoia of AIDS being developed by white America to kill blacks and other inexcusable statements are from the same framework of the NOI and Farrakhan. In fact:

In 1984, Wright was one of the inner circle that traveled with Farrakhan to visit Libyan strongman Col. Muammar Khadafy. The ostentatious Farrakhan junket came at a time when Khadafy had been identified as the world’s chief financier of international terrorism, including the Black September group behind the Munich Olympics massacre.

Secondly, while Obama’s plagiarism of a speech delivered by Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X to mostly black audiences has been correctly noted as a racial dog-whistle, it has not been examined in the larger context of the black separatist movement from which it originates.

Third, why did Wright’s church put the racist and anti-Semitic Farrakhan on the cover of its magazine Trumpet? Why did Trinity Church post:

a manifesto by Hamas that defended terrorism as legitimate resistance, refused to recognize the right of Israel to exist and compared the terror group’s official charter – which calls for the murder of Jews – to America’s Declaration of Independence[?]

The three points above show a consistent pattern of Wright parroting not only the language and but also the attitude of the Nation of Islam.

Wright has synthesized Christianity and an odious brand of Islam. When two religions become one, social scientists refer to this as a syncretic religion. For example, the Mayans developed Mexican Catholicism as a subversive way to maintain their culture in the face of Spanish conquest. The Reverend Wright may no longer be a Muslim, but he clearly embraces Hamas, Minister Farrakhan and others because they dovetail with his established world view, as with other syncretic religions.

Reverend Wright’s hate speeches are a glimpse of someone who has blended Nation of Islam and Black Nationalist Liberation Theology into a subversive Christianity, one that would hardly be recognized by most black Christians, and much less so mainstream American Christians, regardless of color. Indeed, one suspects that Jesus himself would have a difficult time recognizing the message delivered by Jeremiah Wright.

Obama’s 20-year mentorship with Wright not only demonstrates an incredible lack of judgment, but also highlights his views on race. Comments about his Grandmother being a typical white person may simply sound immature, unappreciative, and dismissive of the woman who helped raise him, but in the tradition of Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, and Jeremiah Wright, calling someone a typical white person is an insult indicating a world view.

Thanks to Mary Jo Kopechne, PhD, for her assistance on this essay.

[Eye On The Left]

Farrakhan's Nation of Islam isn't really religion. It's a communist movement. The Black Panthers who are inseparable from them were/are Maoist revolutionaries.

Obama the "transformer"?

Louis Farrakhan, at the annual Saviours' Day celebration in Chicago, Feb. 25, 2008: "This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better"..."If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed."
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4337417

Louis Farrakhan, at the Millions More Movement rally in DC, Oct 15, 2005: "...what Mao Tse Tung did was, he went to the cultural community, and they [Farrakhan spreads his arms beneficently] accepted his idea."..."Mao Tse Tung ... had a billion people whose lives he had to transform."..."the idea of Mao Tse Tung became the idea of a billion people, and China became a world power on the base of the culture and the arts community. If we had a ministry of art and culture in every city we'd create this movement [in the U.S.]."
Source: http://thedrunkablog.blogspot.com/2005/10/communist-plot-noted.html

Louis Farrakhan, Santiago de Cuba, February, 1998: "There is not a member of the black masses in the United States who is not proud of the example set by Cuba and its revolution, with Comandante Fidel at its head"
Source: http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/farakhan21898.html#says

Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Obama's pastor and spirtual advisor "crazy uncle" of more than 20 years, honors "Honorable" Minister Louis Farrakhan with the "Jeremiah A. Wright Lifetime Achievement Trumpeteer Award" at the 2007 Trumpet Gala held at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.
[it appears the original video was removed, but this one is identical to it]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW2OhkZ0RSg

From "45 Communist Goals":
#27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
Article: "REVOLUTIONARY HEROS"

excerpt...

"On May 1st, May Day, the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo.

Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.

The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."

To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."

Article: "REVOLUTIONARY HEROS"
http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html

[Harley]

The penalty for leaving Islam is death. Jeremiah should watch his back, there’s probably a fatwah out on him.

[353FMG]

“Obama is not a Christian.”

So? Those who allow this beautiful country to disappear into a third world nation are not very Christ-like either. Yet, we do vote them into office every time.

[festus]

Careful or we’ll be over run with the Black Liberation Caucus threads over in the religion forum refutin that :-)

[piytar]

“’Mao Tse Tung ... had a billion people whose lives he had to transform.’...”

And gee his policies only killed about 65,000,000 of them. Well, guess you gotta “break some eggs” to further “social justice,” so that’s OK. /moonbat

[piytar]

“The penalty for leaving Islam is death. Jeremiah should watch his back, there’s probably a fatwah out on him.”

Not if he hasn’t really left it. See “taqqiya.”

[onedoug]

‘Guess we’ll find out how far this Kool-Aid goes.

[danamco]

He 'was' a good friend of Obama. Though he never heard a single word he said, he always helped him a-drink his wine.

Maybe Pastor Manning will say that o-Hussein-b was sexual abused by the "wright" (wrong)!!!

[Eye On The Left]

If Obama were the king of the world, tell you what he'd do. He'd throw away the cars and the bars and the war, make sweet love to Wright...

...before we go any further with this, PLEASE click on this link!
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/thebigchill/joytotheworld.htm

[Beckwith]

Obama’s 20-year mentorship with Wright not only demonstrates an incredible lack of judgment, but also highlights his views on race.

Obama's own words highlight his views on race

[Dajjal]

> "The penalty for leaving Islam is death. Jeremiah should watch his back, there's probably a fatwah out on him."

Not if he hasn’t really left it. See "taqqiya."

I don't know exactly what they say about Jesus Christ in Wright's church, but apparently whatever it is, it conforms to the Koran's opinion of "the prophet 'Esa, the son of Mary."

So I suspect taqqiya to be in operation there.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008991/posts
"We have many members in our [Wright's] church who are Muslims."

[Eva]

In that International Herald Tribune article from 04/07, Wright said that he told Obama that Trinity was an excellent place for apostate Muslims and former gang member. But you have to investigate BLT to understand why. BLT views Jesus as the spiritual son of God, a perfect role model, much the same as Muslims regard Christ. But the reason for the good fit for former gang members is a little different. That is because BLT doesn’t believe in personal sin for “oppressed people” (judicial restoration), they only sin that “oppressed people” are capable of committing is failing to rebel against oppressive white authority.

Also, Jeremiah Wright has a masters degree in divinity, with an area of concentration on Islamic religion, not Christianity. Obama claims that Wright has read Tillich and Niebuhr, both of whom were socialists, with a less than fundamentalist belief in the Bible. Niebuhr did an about face on socialism when he had to flee Europe and come to this country, though.

[Dajjal]

BLT views Jesus as the spiritual son of God, a perfect role model, much the same as Muslims regard Christ. But the reason for the good fit for former gang members is a little different. That is because BLT doesn’t believe in personal sin for “oppressed people” (judicial restoration), the only sin that “oppressed people” are capable of committing is failing to rebel against oppressive white authority.

Thanks!

[Dajjal]