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To: cloudmountain

Farrakhan also goes by the title “minister,” but I don’t believe there are ministers in Islam.


27 posted on 04/14/2012 3:20:21 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: Fiji Hill
Farrakhan also goes by the title “minister,” but I don’t believe there are ministers in Islam.

I don't think so either. In Saudi Arabia, there were "mutawahs." Some young, sour Saudis were purported to go around with small sticks and beat on people who weren't obeying the rules, but I never saw them. I think they were an urban legend. I think the Iranians call their holy men imams.

I watched and listen to an hour-long special on Farrakhan once, a long time ago. It was interesting. He is a concert violinist, very smart but so FULL of anger and hatred.
He played Felix Mendelssohn's FAMOUS violin concerto JUST to prove that he didn't hate Jews.
However, Farrakhan didn't do his homework about Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn was born to Jewish parents but was brought up WITHOUT any religion. As an adult he was baptized as Lutheran. Germany didn't become a country until 1871 so he wasn't a German as there was no Germany but he was German-speaking. "Jew" isn't a race or culture, necessarily, so Mendelssohn isn't necessarily a Jew. Doesn't matter to me, but Farrakhan was/is so caught up with hating Jews, would-be Jews, ancestors of Jews, that he can't see straight.

Farrakhan held his choler for a while but all through the hour I could see it start to emerge. By the end of the program he was his usual angry self, SO caustic, full of malice. It was like watching a human Satan, spewing venom. Ugly.

28 posted on 04/14/2012 3:37:36 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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