Mar 24, 2008, 01:31 pm
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| Igneous Magma | Quote: |
(4) McCain's Church (which isn't Hagee's) has never been involved with the highly racist Farahkan. Yet Obama's has.
| Well, from my understanding of Farrakhan, he is a kind of person that point out racism in America and around the world. Then white American’s media twisted his words around of being a racist or anti-Semitic. Yes, it’s true that he indicated that some wicked “white and black Americans” are evil or devils. Farrakhan action is for black people and the poor condition of others. Therefore, Farrakhan is against America’s racist and injustice system and government. Louis Farrakhan backs Obama for president Quote: Louis Farrakhan backs Obama for president at Nation of Islam convention in Chicago -- chicagotribune.com
Farrakhan, 74, the longtime leader of the Nation of Islam, said the war in Iraq, the nation's faltering economy and the increased number of natural disasters were signs of "a nation in peril." He said those problems provide the broader context for Obama's rise. "We are witnessing the phenomenal rise of a man of color in a country that has persecuted us because of our color," Farrakhan told the crowd of nearly 20,000 gathered at McCormick Place.
| Farrakhan Praises Obama as ‘Hope of Entire World’ Quote: Farrakhan Praises Obama as ‘Hope of Entire World’ - America’s Election HQ
CHICAGO — In his first major public address since a cancer crisis, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said that presidential candidate Barack Obama is the “hope of the entire world” that the U.S. will change for the better. The 74-year-old Farrakhan, former leader of the black Muslim group, never endorsed Obama outright, but spent much of his nearly two-hour speech Sunday to an estimated crowd of 20,000 people praising the Illinois senator. “This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better,” he said. “This young man is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow. If you look at Barack Obama’s audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed.” Farrakhan compared Obama to the religion’s founder, Fard Muhammad, who also had a white mother and black father.
“A black man with a white mother became a savior to us,” he told the crowd of mostly followers. “A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall.”
Farrakhan also leveled small jabs at Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama’s rival for the Democratic nomination, suggesting that she represents the politics of the past and has been engaging in dirty politics.
Farrakhan rebuilt the Nation of Islam, which promotes black empowerment and nationalism, in the late 1970s after W.D. Mohammed, the son of longtime leader Elijah Mohammed, moved his followers toward mainstream Islam.
In recent years, however, officials with the Nation of Islam have promoted unity and tolerance among religions. Farrakhan now often quotes the texts of other religions, such as the Bible, in his speeches.
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