Jesse Lee Peterson calls for investigation of Louis Farrakhan and his tactics

Congress: Probe the radicalization of blacks Exclusive: Jesse Lee Peterson calls for investigation of Louis Farrakhan and his tactics

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., recently held a series of hearings analyzing radicalization among American Muslims. The hearings were met with fierce opposition from many Muslim groups, including CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations), as well as the left. Rep. King was called a racist and a "modern-day Joe McCarthy."

As important as Rep. King's hearings are to our national security, there is another movement that cries out for examination – the radicalization of black males by Louis Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam.

As King's hearings played out and the situation in Libya was unfolding, I saw Farrakhan climb out of his hole to defend Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. In his recent "Saviour's Day 2011" speech to a crowd of 16,000, Farrakhan predicted America's doom. He warned, "This is the day of your doom! …What you're looking at happening in Tunisia, in Egypt, in Yemen, in Jordan, in Libya, in Bahrain will soon – very soon – happen in all the nations of the world. And even sooner to take place in America. .… While it's happening there, you better prepare, because it will be coming to your door, America!"

In my book "SCAM: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America," I write about Farrakhan:

Farrakhan has risen to fame under the guise of wanting to help black men take charge of their lives and the lives of their families. He entices his listeners by giving them a little truth about history and about slavery in America. Once they are emotionally involved with Farrakhan's version of "truth," he then reveals his true motive, which is to blame the white man (especially Jews) for everything. All the reasons blacks can't make it, all of their problems, are due to the "blue eyed devil," the white man in America.

Farrakhan achieved national prominence in October of 1995 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., when he received national attention for his so-called "Million Man March" and I said then that the American people would live to regret it.

Over the last 20 years, I have been invited to speak and run programs for men and youth incarcerated in correctional facilities in California, Michigan and Texas. My nonprofit BOND (Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny), has operated programs for inmates inside the Los Angeles Men's Central Jail and the Twin Towers Correctional Facility.

I have witnessed and heard countless reports of young black men routinely targeted and recruited by various subversive groups. One of the leading recruiters inside U.S. jails and prisons is none other than Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam.

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