Posted on 03/15/2006 5:06:38 PM PST by SJackson
CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - With the precision of a surgeon, three officials of the Nation of Islam (NOI) delivered clear arguments that cut through the media controversy purportedly over statements by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered during his Feb. 26 Saviours’ Day address.
Ishmael Muhammad, assistant minister to Minister Farrakhan, Leonard F. Muhammad, NOI Chief-of-Staff, and Claudette M. Muhammad, NOI Chief-of-Protocol, appeared Mar. 7 as guests on the Clifford Kelley morning talk show on WVON radio station, 1450 AM, followed up by a brief press conference.
In a warmed-over reincarnation of the poison propaganda that began in the 1980s, members of the Jewish community in Illinois, particularly the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), aimed their virulent pressure on Governor Rod Blagoievich, urging him to dismiss Sister Claudette from his Commission on Discrimination and Hate Crimes, on which she has served since August 2005, as well as attacking her for not denouncing Minister Farrakhan. Four Jewish members of the commission have resigned: Lonnie Nasatir, Midwest regional director of the Anti-Defamation League; Richard Hirschhaut, executive director of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center; Howard Kaplan and state Rep. Lou Lang (D-Skokie).
The governor instead issued a statement supporting Sister Claudette, and Sister Claudette refused to disassociate herself from Minister Farrakhan.
“For those who try to condemn me because of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s remarks on Saviours’ Day, which were perceived by some as anti-Semitic, it is absolutely ridiculous,” she maintained.
To those who are criticizing Minister Farrakhan, she had a special message. “I highly recommend that they be man and woman enough to direct their concerns to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and have open dialogue with him,” she declared on WVON. “He is my minister of whom I love and respect, and he will remain my minister until Allah decides differently.”
She noted that members of her family are Jewish; her travels since 1984 to Israel at least 12 to 15 times spending six to eight weeks at a time; her work with Jewish people and her worshipping in synagogues with many rabbis who know that she is a member of the Nation. She also shared stories of her family members who have been victims of violent hate crimes, as well as her personal encounters with racist discrimination in the sixties.
She pointed out her experiences working as a special assistant to the Commissioners of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders set up by former president Lyndon Johnson, which was chaired by the late Otto Kerner of Illinois, and New York Mayor John Lindsey.
Coined the Kerner Commission, she informed that the initial report was deemed too strong by Pres. Johnson, who told them to go back for six months and “water the commission report down.” She quoted the conclusion of the commission in the words of Mayor Lindsey, “We live in two separate societies, one Black, one White, separate and unequal.”
She added that, “This remains as true today as it was when it was written decades ago, which gives me even more of an incentive to work on the governor’s Commission on Discrimination and Hate Crimes.”
Contention rooted in cowardice
Despite her “impeccable credentials,” as one caller into the radio station stated, some Jewish members insist on taking exception to Minister Farrakhan pointing out in his Saviours’ Day address, Hollywood Jews who promote filth in movies and music.
Yet, their point of contention is off base, since it obscures the context of Minister Farrakhan and his message—for Minister Farrakhan was illuminating the modern-day recognition of the scriptural reference of the synagogue of Satan.
But Min. Ishmael and Bro. Leonard adeptly dissipated the cloud of confusion, stressing the fact that the differences have always been an ideological debate that the Jewish community has avoided out of cowardice.
Bro. Leonard informed the listening audience that Minister Farrakhan “has always been willing to meet any members of the Jewish community or other community, and if they proved him to be incorrect, he would apologize. That offer is still there and no one has taken him up on that offer.”
While he thanked the governor for standing by his appointment of Sis. Claudette, Bro. Leonard also expressed that the governor received bad advice that made him comment on the nature of Minister Farrakhan’s message even though he had not heard the lecture in context. Bro. Leonard also raised the stakes of the dialogue by charging that if the governor had dismissed Sis. Claudette from the commission, this act would not only be immoral, but also illegal because it would be without cause. He urged members of the ACLU to speak out against the request by the ADL for such an illegal dismissal.
“The American people are tired of this debate,” he said, referring to the ADL history of asking politicians and leaders to repudiate Minister Farrakhan, yet refusing to come into a conference and have discussion with members of the NOI.
He urged the members of the commission who resigned to return to settle the differences properly. “You left out of confusion. You misunderstand what the commission is about. Come back to the commission and debate your points, and if you are correct, then from that meeting can come a greater understanding between Jews and Blacks not only in the state of Illinois, but throughout America,” he explained.
He concluded by saying that if the ADL cannot prove their points of contention, then maybe it should apologize for the last 15 to 20 years of this battle against the Nation and pressuring other groups into isolating members of the NOI.
A spiritual context
Min. Ishmael laid the spiritual base to understand Minister Farrakhan and his message, condemning the media for taking a 15 to 30 second sound bite out of a message of over two hours and characterize the entire message.
“The press chose to lift the statement in respect to hate; that it is alright to hate,” he elaborated, “but he went on to defend that statement based upon what we read in the Bible and Holy Qur’an.”
He explained the range of human emotions of God, which includes hatred for what is wicked and evil, therefore, the basis of the scriptures that tell of God’s destruction of His enemies, bringing plagues and judgement into the house of Pharaoh and drowning its members in the Red Sea.
“Does God love the devil? Does He like sin? He hates all of that that is against His Will, so it is unfair for anyone to take the Minister’s statements out of context.”
He posed the question of how electronic media would handle the message of Jesus when he said, “I come not to make peace, nay I come for war. I would make a man turn against his father, a woman against her mother,” Min. Ishmael quoted from scripture.
“Surely they would say this is divisive; this is hatred,” he added. “As it is today, when you have a man of God who is speaking what God has put in his mouth for his people, those who are not of God cannot hear God.”
He concluded by imploring everyone to be more careful and responsible in their comments. “We are here today because it is not for Minister Farrakhan to defend himself. We can defend him because we believe in every word of truth that he has spoken.”
Calls of support
When the radio show opened up for comments from its listeners, a stream of support for Sister Claudette and Minister Farrakhan flowed through the airwaves.
Father Michael Phleger, of Saint Sabina Church, stressed that the community should rise up and say these attacks are unacceptable.
“I am so tired of those who have made their life agenda, and the ADL is one of those, to demonize the Minister and to continue to misinterpret, attack and discredit him. They can’t dispute his truth and when you can’t dispute the truth of what somebody is saying, you attack the personality and discredit the person, so people won’t listen to the truth,” he charged. “It is time to stop—people are not so stupid. People know the truth of what the Minister stands for. His consistency over the years has been there. The maligners and demonizers are the ones we need to cut off and stop allowing them to continue to attack this man.”
I had to go to the state's site to make sure this was up there. Perhaps they could give this to Gail Purkey with the Illinois Federation of Teachers and see if she can spot the spelling error since the state couldn't.
It's not like Christians haven't sold slaves here and there, but you have to open a history book to read about it. You can read about muslim slave trading by opening the classified ad section of a newspaper in many muslim countries.
Serfdom was always a part of Christian societies but the kind of evil slavery we associate with the word came into existence in the mid 1400s. What happened was that the Mongols opened up trade routes which had been shut down for a thousand years and, then 150 years later, Tamerlane, a muslim fanatic, shut them down again, and Europeans, haven gotten used to spices and other oriental goods, started sailing around Africa. When those ships put into west African ports for food and water, the Africans figured they were just more muslims come to buy slaves, and opened up the slave markets. Welling excess people off as slaves was simply business as usual in such places at the time.
y that guy really don't understand about son against father or vice-versa. Jesus mean, GOD is more important than parent unless parent follow GOD way! Yes, ten commandment did mention honour parent. What if parent break ten commandment. Jesus use "against" mean the will of a person. For example, father want to rape a woman but the son refuse to follow, instead protect the woman life. So, the son against the father action. That is what Jesus mean! It is true he didn't bring peace but sword coz' we love Christ and obey 10 commandment. If parent and child obey Christ word, there will be peace otherwside sword in the family. Those bastard...please try to read again and understand carefully. My GOSH!!!
For an explanation of how the Nation of Islam believes white people came into being, see below. The NOI has not repudiated these beliefs, they just don't talk about them much anymore. Yup someone from an outfit like this is sure to bring a special sensitivity to a hate crimes panel.
In the Nation of Islam, both God and the devil are human beings. Elijah Muhammad identified the devil as the white man, the Caucasian race. According to Elijah, though the black race is many trillions of years old, the white race began a mere six thousand years ago with Yakub, one of the Black Gods of this time cycle.[15]
Elijah explained, "The white race is not equal with darker people because the white race was not created by the God of Righteousness. . . . They were made by Yakub, an original Black Man—who is from the Creator. Yakub, the father of the devil, made the white race, a race of devils—enemies of the darker people of the earth. The white race is not made by nature to accept righteousness."[16]
According to Elijah Muhammad, Yakub was born 20 miles from the Holy City of Mecca about 6,600 years ago. From the age of six he knew he was "born to make trouble, break peace, kill and destroy his own people with a made enemy to the black nation." He had a very large head and grew up to be called "the big head scientist." He decided to conquer and subdue the black race, and through lies he gathered 59,999 followers, whom the King of Mecca exiled to the island of Patmos. There Yakub worked to create the white race by allowing marriage only between brown or lighter-skinned Negroes and by killing all newborn black babies. His followers obeyed him; the penalty for disobedience was decapitation.[17]
Yakub died after 150 years, but his project to make a race of lawless criminals lived on (Elijah's term for this misguided eugenics project was "grafting"). After two hundred years, only brown people were left alive. After another 200 years, Patmos was home to only yellow and red people. At the end of "the six hundredth year, Mr. Yakub had an all-pale white race of people on this Isle," said Elijah Muhammad.[18]
The white race left the island and returned to Paradise (Mecca). But in less than six months they had caused warfare and controversy among the people, so the King of Mecca had them escorted to Europe by "a caravan, armed with rifles, to keep the devils going westward." Here begins the white man's history, for he was granted six thousand years to rule the earth.
The first two thousand years were squandered while the whites lived as naked savages in the caves of Europe, eating their meat raw and without even a knowledge of fire. They tried to "graft" themselves back to black by reverse breeding, but succeeded only in making gorillas (this is the origin of the monkey and gorilla family).[19] Then Moses came to them. He taught them how to wear clothes, use fire, cook their food, and to believe in Allah. The whites rejected Moses, who set a trap and blew up three hundred of them with dynamite,[20] but it was through Moses' efforts that the teaching of civilization gradually seeped into the mind of the white man. Over the centuries, the white man used this knowledge, combined with his innate craftiness and "tricknology," to dominate the world.
The twenty-four God-Scientists who wrote the history of this world foreordained that the period of white rule should be limited to six thousand years. To accomplish this, "the Black Man or Gods were put to sleep in order that the Wisdom of the Black Man did not interfere with what the white man is made for (to rule us under wickedness, enslavement, deceit, murder, and death for six thousand years)."
But Min. Ishmael and Bro. Leonard adeptly dissipated the cloud of confusion, stressing the fact that the differences have always been an ideological debate that the Jewish community has avoided out of cowardice."
Well, the clarification certainly "dissipated the cloud of confusion" (although it had the surgical precision of your average shotgun blast) -- "Joos is just bad, and they afraid to admit it." Pretty clear.
The webcast of the speech:
http://www.noi.org/savioursday/webcast.htm
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