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Nation of Islam Announces Saviours' Day Highlights By FinalCall.com News Updated Feb 22, 2007, 07:05 pm

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• Official Saviours' Day 2007 Site (SD2007.com)
• Saviours' Day 2007: All roads lead to Detroit (FCN, 02-03-2007)

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Minister Louis Farrakhan leader of the Nation of Islam is scheduled to make his first public appearance in seven months on Sunday, February 25, at Ford Field 2:00 pm in Detroit Michigan

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Detroit, MI (SD2007.com) February 22, 2007 -- The Nation of Islam will hold a press conference in the Cobo Arena on Friday, February 23 at 9:30am to announce highlights of this weekend which include:

• Minister Louis Farrakhan leader of the Nation of Islam making his first public appearance in seven months on Sunday, February 25, in Ford Field 2:00 pm in Detroit Michigan.
   
• The satellite feed from His Excellency, Omar El-Bashir, President of the Republic of Sudan. President El-Bashir has agreed to answer questions on Dahfur for the press and concerned citizens.
   
• Leadership Forum with keynote speaker Rev. Al Sharpton, National Action Network. Rev. Sharpton will discuss the next Presidential election.
   
• Imam Siraj Wahhaj, Amir of MANA will deliver the Jumah Khutbah on Friday, Febraury 24.
   
• More details and information on the weekend program and activities will be distributed at the press conference.

Saviours' Day is the annual commemoration of the birth of the Nation of Islam's founder, Master W. D. Fard Muhammad. The convention is normally held in the city of Chicago, headquarters of the Nation of Islam, but this year thousands will convene to celebrate the Nation's 77th Year Anniversary, in its founding city of Detroit, MI.

The convention kicks off on Wednesday February 21, 2007 with an historic exhibit at the Charles H. Wright Museum. International Islamic scholars and Muslim clergy will gather for an interfaith dialogue between Muslims, Christians and Jews on Friday, February 23, along with one of the largest Jumu'ah (congregational) prayer services.

Workshops and conferences will be held through Saturday at the Cobo Convention Center on a variety of subjects including youth empowerment, male/female relationships, health, financial literacy, and religious tolerance. The convention will culminate with the keynote address at Ford Field, by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on Sunday, February 25 at 2pm.  Nation of Islam officials are expecting an estimated 65,000 people to attend.

Saviours' Day Convention details including registration, keynote address tickets, webcast and more information is available online at the official Saviours' Day 2007 website, SD2007.com  Additional Saviours' Day coverage will be available online by FinalCall.com News

[Peach]

I'm reading The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz and he reports that as he has traveled the country giving lectures at colleges, inevitably dozens of kids come up to him and say "I didn't know".

They are being indoctrinated but Alan has done God's work in introducing those kids to the facts, imo.

[saganite]

Well I would say it's poetic justice that Carter's book has found it's place among the anti semitic crowd. Not quite as good as Mein Kampf but certainly on the recommended reading list for the Jew haters.

[Gay State Conservative]

If Jimmah had a conscience he'd be embarrassed by the fact that Calypso Louie is one of his biggest supporters.

[NewHampshireDuo]

"By Way of Deception" by Victor Ostrovsky, a discredited book that makes unsubstantiated claims about Israel's Mossad

Anyone know any more about this book/author? Seems like I've run across him before but can't remember any details. For what it's worth, the book seems to have good reviews on Amazon.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

This is a dangerous man. He gives people reasons to hate Jews and others who are not of his "religion"

[taxesareforever]

The leader of the Nation of Islam recommended anti-Semitic conspiracy tracts and former President Carter’s book to his followers.

Does this mean that someone will now purchase Carter's book? I'll bet that's an ego boost for him.

[Malesherbes]

Poetic justice. On the paperback edition of Carter's screed he can feature a blurb from Farrakhan.

[denydenydeny]

Sweet. And appropriate.

[pissant]

Finally, Jimmuh has found a religious leader who buys into his crap.

[popdonnelly]

Farrakhan wasted his life being a religious huckster.

[Lijahsbubbe]

He looks like he's about to blow up. One can only hope.

[SunkenCiv]

Calypso Louie ping.

[tkathy]

The slave trade was dominated by MUSLIMS! And remains dominated by MUSLIMS today!!!

[cricket]

Will Jimmy be flattered by his new constituency/advocacy? Will he be puzzled by this endorsement - or embarassed? Perhaps he will prefer to think, that like so many others; Farrakhan misunderstoond what he wrote.

Whatever the case, the only really surprising comment in this is the following, so noted by ADL National Director Abe Foxman where he offers that "Farrakhan may have held his anti-Semitic views in check while on the dais, but if this is what he wants people to read, then the leopard hasn’t changed his spots". . .

Fararakhan might have on occasion 'couched' his views; parsed. . .but don't think he ever held his anti-semitism in check; nor could there have been any doubt, reasonably speaking; that a leopard ever changes his spots.

[doxteve]

How many of you noticed the uniformed thugs, dressed military style, were on Farrakhan's stage?

Did you pick up parts of his speech near the end about "self defense?"

A uniformed political-relgious party with a track record of domestic terrorism is rather new in America. We will see more of it. Farrakhan's speech gave us a timeline of ten years before black muslim "self defense" erupts.

Or is it just me?