Posted on 10/19/2008 6:50:38 PM PDT by tobyhill
Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan stressed unity among religions, while still preaching a message of black empowerment, at a rare public event Sunday deemed "a new beginning" for the Chicago-based movement.
In the nearly two-hour speech, Farrakhan covered topics including immigration, public schools, violence and morality. He vaguely referred to the presidential election but did not specifically mention any candidates.
"We are all in a journey to become complete human beings," the 75-year-old Farrakhan told the crowd of thousands gathered inside Mosque Maryam and in white tents outside. "Look how we have become so divided, so hateful, while claiming the same creator."
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Farakhan mentions immigration? Be prepared for millions of Arabs and muslims being imported if Obama wins.
Farakhan says “so divided and hateful?” Seems like he is the one spewing hate about whites and Jews.
Everybody - Volunteer & Donate.
Make sure we are all at local McCain HQ helping out with GOTV the weekend before the election.
Hey Virginia I think there is a fly in the ointment.
The young and stupid are heeding the call of their new “messiah”.
“We” haven’t Calypso Louie .......”YOU” have !
Makes you a “Domestic Enemy” to be properly dealt with sooner or later !
Wait for it.
They are all full of Bull Crap, lets not forget.
when i lived in long beach i used to pass street corners
where his people were selling their newspaper.
you could always spot them, lean, and very well attired in suits.
I can see the future of our country now...we will be fighting the islamocrazies in our own streets soon.
Great commercial:
Use the map of Obozo’s neighborhood friends with the background music of “Mr. Roger’s neighborhood”..ha.
I have no knowledge that Toni Preckwinkle deserves to be listed by anti-Americans and crooks.
She has been a voice of relative sanity and political integrity in this area of Chicago. When I lived there, I even voted for her once, in order to vote against a Marxist-style leftist, Tim Evans. Toni has even been somewhat “moderate” on abortion.
Do not list her in such a post again, please.
 Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan |
The former insider, who spoke on condition of anonymity, expressed particular concern that Obama employed at least two Nation members in his early days as a state senator, when his office was staffed by only a handful of workers.
"When you're a state senator, you have little money given to you to hire staff. It is ironic that two of Obama's employees in those days were known Nation of Islam activists when Obama employed perhaps a total of maybe three or four staffers," said the former insider.
The former insider confirmed Obama is directly aware of the Nation of Islam members on his staff.
Obama was elected to the Illinois state Senate in 1996, serving the 13th district, which then spanned Chicago's South Side neighborhoods, including areas in which Farrakhan was considered to be highly influential.
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"A key constituency for Obama was Hyde Park, where Farrakhan lives. To be successful politically in that area, you need to be involved with Farrakhan, since he's a strong power in the district," said the former insider.
The former insider identified early employees of Obama as Nation of Islam members, including Jennifer Mason, who still works in Obama's Chicago Senate office as director of constituency services; a key community liaison position.
Also, Cynthia K. Miller, whom the former insider identified as a Nation of Islam activist, served Obama in his early state Senate days and later as treasurer for his U.S. senatorial campaign.
Miller was also a paid consultant in 2003 and 2004, according to financial documents obtained by WND. She currently runs a Chicago real estate firm.
The former insider said Obama asked indicted Chicago businessman and Obama financier Tony Rezko to get his treasurer, Miller, a state government job with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
"She got an offer but turned it down. She ended up doing real estate," the ex-insider said.
The former insider also identified former Obama worker Shakir Muhammad as a Nation of Islam activist. Muhammad was paid by Obama's office as a photographer in the late 1990s.
According to a black supremacist source tied to Farrakhan, Muhammad previously worked as a bodyguard for the Nation of Islam chief.
The Anti-Defamation League identifies the Nation of Islam, the oldest black nationalist organization, as consistently racist and anti-Semitic.
The Nation of Islam operates "under the guise of instilling African-Americans with a sense of empowerment since its founding in the 1930s," reads an ADL description.
Mason did not return a WND request for comment at Obama's Chicago office.
Miller did not reply to phone messages left on her cell phone.
Michael Ortiz, Obama's deputy press secretary, did not return a WND request for comment about Illinois senator's alleged ties to Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.
WND verified the former insider speaking about Obama's Nation of Islam workers held a key position with the presidential candidate.
The former insider said he quit, in part, because of Obama's ties to the Nation of Islam and the senator's positions on Israel.
He previously also talked with columnist Debbie Schlussel, who first wrote about the Nation of Islam employees on Obama's staff.
"How many Nation of Islam members will work in an Obama White House?" Schlussel asked on her blog.
Obama-Farrakhan links
The exact nature of Obama's ties to Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam are unclear.
 Trumpet magazine cover with Barack Obama and his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. |
The presidential candidate repeatedly has denounced Farrakhan's views and would not accept the Nation of Islam leader's high profile endorsement.
"You know, I have been very clear in my denunciation of minister Farrakhan's anti-Semitic comments. I think they are unacceptable and reprehensible. I did not solicit this support," Obama said on NBC in February.
"We're not doing anything, I assure you, formally or informally with minister Farrakhan," Obama said.
But Obama's former church of 20 years – Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago – and his former spiritual adviser, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., have a different view of Farrakhan.
Wright, who accompanied Farrakhan to Libya in 1984, has been involved in Farrakhan initiatives and labeled him "one of the most important voices in the 20th and 21st century" during a national address to the media in April at which Nation of Islam officials were invited guests.
Obama has appeared at least three times on the cover of Trumpet magazine, founded by Wright, which in 2007 gave Farrakhan its Empowerment Award.
The magazine, to which Obama last year granted a lengthy, exclusive interview, regularly hails Farrakhan.
Obama's face was featured on the cover of a 2006 issue of Trumpet alongside Farrakhan's image.
Wright and Obama reportedly attended the Million Man March on Washington, which was led by Farrakhan and other prominent black leaders such as Al Sharpton.
Another Obama connection to supporters of Farrakhan comes from Obama's chief political strategist, David Axelrod.
WND reported this week Axelrod sits on the finance committee of St. Sabina, the Chicago Catholic parish that was led by controversial pastor Michael Pfleger, an outspoken Farrakhan supporter who hosted the Nation of Islam chief at his parish several times.
The Archdiocese of Chicago yesterday removed Pfleger from his duties at St. Sabina for an unspecified time following a well-publicized sermon at Trinity church two weeks ago in which Pfleger claimed Sen. Hillary Clinton cried in public because she thought being white entitled her to the Democratic presidential nomination.
Pfleger told the Chicago Sun-Times he felt free to speak about Clinton because he believed his sermon was not being recorded. He said he thought the live Internet link that normally broadcasts Trinity sermons was not running.
"They told me it was down," Pfleger said. "Their live streaming had been down all day, and they didn't know whether it was back up. … I regret the dramatization that I was naive enough to believe was just going to be kept among that church."
Pfleger hosted Farrakhan at his church as late as last May, Farrakhan's first public appearance since he announced in 2006 he had been suffering from prostate cancer and was seriously ill.
According to reports, Pfleger spent hours with the Nation of Islam chief during his illness. Pfleger previously enlisted Farrakhan's support for several of his initiatives, including an anti-gun protest last year.
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Rev. Willie Barrow, a member of the Obama campaign's official Faith Outreach Team and a pledged Obama superdelegate, is a close friend of Farrakhan's and a staunch Nation of Islam supporter.
Farrakhan stated in a 2002 interview he met with Barrow to devise his Nation of Islam platforms.
In 2006, Barrow condemned four Jewish members of the Illinois state Hate Crimes Commission after Blagojevich refused to remove from the commission Sister Claudette Muhammad, Farrakhan's minister of protocol.
"Not only should [Muhammad] continue to serve on the commission, but, I think those that resigned because they disagree, what have they done to bring about an agreement?” Barrow told the CBS affiliate in Chicago, WBBM.
Larry Johnson of the No Quarter blog posted a 2004 photo of Obama's wife, Michelle, posing with Barrow at a woman's luncheon for the Rainbow/Push Coalition for which Barrow serves as chairman emeritus.
In the picture with Michelle Obama is Khadijah Farrakhan, Louis Farrakhan's wife.
Louis Eugene Walcott AKA Louis Farrakhan, Calypso Louie, Louis Haleem Abdul Farrakhan
The tuxedo dressed Louis Farrakhan was born as Louis Eugene Walcott on May 11, 1933. Screwy Louie was raised without a father figure present.
The young Louie was musically inclined. At the age of six, he was given his first violin and by the age of 13, he had played with the Boston College Orchestra and the Boston Civic Symphony. A year later, Louie won the Ted Mack Amateur Hour. He was also one of the first blacks to appear on the popular show.
Popularly known as “Calypso Louie,” he achieved fame in Boston as a vocalist, calypso singer, dancer, and violinist. However, February 1955 marked a turning point in the life of Louis Walcott. While headlining a show in Chicago entitled “Calypso Follies” the young hatemonger received rave reviews.
During his musical career, Malcom X recruited Louie into the Nation of Islam. Then Louie changed his name from Louis Eugene Walcott to Louis X. He adopted his current name of Louis Haleem Abdul Farrakhan in 1965. King Louie then abandoned his musical career for a career in hate and race hustling.
When Malcolm X was sent to hell, people suspected Farrakhan as being part of the murder plot but this was never proved (although today, he admits to having “some part” in the killing). Elijah Muhammad became to new leader of the Nation Cult of Islam.
In 1975, the leader of the Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad, died. The Black Muslims then chose one of his sons, Warith (formerly Wallace) Deen Muhammad, as their new leader. Farrakhan disagreed with the new leader’s teachings, which involved the abandonment of radical Black Nationalism and the adoption of orthodox Sunni Islam.
In 1977, Farrakhan broke away from Warith Deen Muhammad’s group and formed his own Nation of Islam. Today, only Farrakhan’s group uses the name Nation of Islam.
In 1979, King Louie founded the Black Nationalist Final Call, a magazine that is sold on street corners and black businesses. If you go into an inner city and see blacks dressed in Tuxedos selling papers, it’s the Final Call.
The Nation of Islam’s beliefs include, “separation from whites and destruction of Jews and fags.”
During 1991, King Louie re-introduced the Three Year Economic Program to establish an economic base for the development of blacks through business ventures.
In 1992, Farrakhan drew 60,000 people to the Atlanta Dome for a black militant rally.
Farrakhan’s biggest publicity came on Oct 16, 1995, the day of the 200,000 man march in DC (referred erroneously as the Million Man March). His entire inspiration for the “Million Man March” is based on his alleged, “vision of being swept into a UFO that took him to a larger mother-ship.”
While in the UFO, he claims to have spoken to the late Elijah Muhammad before being beamed back to earth. (The Washington Post, Sept. 18, 1995, p. D3). The reason for the rally though was about money.
King Louie had to find a new way to pay for his and his family’s ornate palaces in Chicago and Phoenix, his Lexus, Mercedes, Rolls Royce and Lincoln Town Cars, a Mexican villa, a new 77-acre Michigan estate and over $1.5 million dollars in unpaid back taxes.
This is the reason he had an $11 registration fee for the March, a $3.99 per minute 900 number for call-in registration (Average call is three minutes), a $700 vendor’s fee, (reduced from $1000), and even ads in his newspaper soliciting for “donations” to “help defray the astronomical costs of the march,” in exchange for listing the donor’s name and city under appropriate categories (Platinum, Gold, etc.): $1000 or more (Platinum), $500 or more (Gold), $100 or more (Silver), $25 or more (Patron) not to mention $2 “special issues” of his ‘Final Call’ newspaper.
King Louie continues today with recruitment of youth gang members, prison inmates, and poor blacks with the same message that many critics term as “words of hate and racism.” In a speech given March 11, 1984, Farrakhan proclaimed, “Some white people are going to live... but (God) don’t want them living with us. He doesn’t want us mixing ourselves up with the slave master’s children, whose time of doom has arrived.”
Farrakhan, Activists and Educators Set to Convene at Reparations Summit
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/farrakhan317
Don’t hear the r word much, but...
you can bet that will happen immigrants coming from Kenya and left wing / islamic countries,
the new start will be using our tax money from obama and I hope the Jewish vote out there will wake up and realise just what is going on here
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