Louis Farrakhan's bitter pill

Sierra Vista Herald, Sierra Vista Arizona ^ | Feb 25, 2006 | STANLEY CROUCH

[SandRat]

Just last week, Muslim extremists in northern Nigeria started a bloody ruckus that resulted in the deaths of more than a dozen people. Their actions were the latest examples of a hysteric strain in the Islamic community that has put the world’s head in a spin. For lack of a better term, what we mean by “the civilized world” has been stupefied by the violent reactions to a Danish cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad in an unflattering way. This hysteria has spread from continent to continent, showing itself to maintain absolute disdain for freedom of speech or separation of church and state.

What I find more than academically interesting about this is that we have seen this expression of what some call “Islamic Fascism” foreshadowed in this country by the homemade version of Islam that is given a racist interpretation by our very own Nation of Islam. Beginning in the ‘60s, word slowly began to get out in the black community that anyone who was critical of the Nation ran the risk of being attacked and, perhaps, murdered.

The Harlem murder of Malcolm X in 1965 sent cold fear through all who might say something critical about the Nation of Islam, its separatist vision, its 19th-century morality or its tendency to threaten its critics with harsh responses. For all of the fatmouthing and personal attacks on the civil leadership, from Martin Luther King Jr. on down, mum became the word about the bow-tied cult in the black community. In the cult’s restaurants, one could hear members talking about how the word had come down that they had the “right” to kill anyone who criticized their “god,” meaning, actually, Elijah Muhammad, the cult’s patriarch.

After the patriarch’s death in 1975, his son Wallace D. Muhammad took over, and Louis Farrakhan, after years of bowing and scraping, essentially saw his career brought to an end. He would never become the boss now. Then he decided to step away from the son of the patriarch and start the cult not so much anew but with the old soup warmed over.

With Farrakhan as the godhead, the cult returned as it always was, fully weighted down under its puritanical surface with exaggerations, misinterpretations, cartoon-level insights, lies and threats.

In 1984, Milton Coleman, reporting for The Washington Post, brought Jewish coals of fire down on Jesse Jackson’s head during his 1984 presidential bid by mentioning Jackson’s referring to Jews as “hymies” and New York as “hymie town.” Jackson had also talked Farrakhan into registering his cult followers to vote, which Elijah Muhammad had always disdained. That was as big a mistake as making his “hymie town” comment.

Farrakhan brought Islamic fascism to the nation’s front porch when he accused Coleman of being a traitor to his race and was recorded saying of the reporter, “One day soon we will punish you with death.”

Nothing came of Farrakhan’s threat, perhaps because so much attention was brought to it. But Coleman to this day will say nothing of it, which bespeaks the gangster power of the Nation of Islam and the violent threat behind that power.

Make no mistake — this is not something we have never seen before Farrakhan.

The Ku Klux Klan and all its offshoots of nightriders, bombers and assassins well preceded it, and the level of murder committed during the Oklahoma bombing outsized anything we can lay at Farrakhan’s feet. But sometimes we can see things much larger than domestic issues foreshadowed within our national context.

Just as the anti-Semitic Dreyfus trial in 19th-century France provided the language, and the American eugenics theories of the early 20th century provided the racial “science” for the Third Reich, Farrakhan’s devoted submission to racially interpreted Islamic fascism gave us a minuscule taste of the bitter pills the world is swallowing from Muslim fundamentalists internationally.

STANLEY CROUCH can be reached by e-mail at scrouch@edit.nydailynews.com. His column is distributed by King Features Syndicate Inc. His column appears every Saturday in the Herald/Review.

[El Gran Salseron]

When will be reading of Mr. Crouch's unfortunate demise surrounded by suspicious circumstances?

[kjo]

Soon, I fear. These people he's talking about are totally nuts.

[Enterprise]

Well, in the race for killing people with whom one disagrees or dislikes, I fearlessly bet that when it's all over, militant Islamics will kill far more Americans than the KKK ever did.

[Army Air Corps]

The writer is going to need bodyguards; the NoI folks are psychopaths. I sometimes wish that all the dips**t racists would "off" one another. We could rid the country of the KKK, Aryan Nation, Nation of Islam, etc. in one fell swoop...

[BooksForTheRight.com]

Farakan is a hate-monger, a racist, and a separatist.

[George - the Other]

From the Nation of Islam ...

“I am doing all I can to make the so-called Negroes see that the white race and their religion (Christianity) are their open enemies, and to prove to them that they will never be anything but the devils' slaves and finally go to hell with them for believing and following them and their kind.” - http://www.muhammadspeaks.com/Objective.html

“The White Man - The evil race of people, knows Islam, but by nature they were not made to believe and to teach Islam.” - http://www.muhammadspeaks.com/about.html

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Milak Zula Shabazz (New Black Panther Party leader)last Saturday in front of the Danish Embassy, bashing whites, Jews, America, Danes, etc., blaming theme all for terrorism, saying we all deserved to have our heads cut off, and that we MUST submit to Islam.

More at - - -> http://georgetheother.blogspot.com/

[kjo]

Anybody else notice that the MSM covers NONE of this?

Remember the Washington sniper? He was of what religion again?

[Brian Allen]

<< ... These people he's talking about are totally nuts. >>

Yair.

They're islamanazis.

[mcg2000]

And to think .... Calypso Louie has been given "keys to the city" for both Memphis and Detroit!

[kjo]

Yeah, but you ARE talking about Memphis and Detroit.

[MissEdie]

Was his son, Milak Zula Shabazz's, the one who killed his grandmother when he was 12? I vaugely remember something about a 12 year old Shabazz who's family was big in the Nation of Islam murdering his grandmother and burning her body.

[eleni121]

Calypso Louie has been given "keys to the city" for both Memphis and Detroit!

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Not Nawlins? Not Frisco?

Oh probably because he wouldn't accept them...Orleans named after the maid and Frisco named after the saint.