We re-aired our Black History Month Special today, talking about the contributions various black leaders have made to American society.
In the meantime Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, is getting ready for his annual Saviours' Day, this week entitled, "The Birth of a Nation."
His website claims he is the reason for the growth of Islam in America...
And John Lee Clary summarizes significant points about Farrakhan such as:
- His saying the reason so many people died in New Orleans was because the flooding was a deliberate plot by the White man to kill Black people and that George Bush was behind it all because he hates black people. (Remember, the Mayor of New Orleans met with Farrakhan following the floods?)
- One of the most controversial statements made by Farrakhan in response to a Jewish journalist at the Village Voice referring to him as a "Black Hitler", and which led to him being censured unanimously by the United States Senate:
He is known for his anti-semitic statements such as:"So I said to the members of the press, 'Why won't you go and look into what we are saying about the threats on Reverend Jackson's life?' Here the Jews don't like Farrakhan and so they call me 'Hitler.' Well that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man."
"You're not the true Jew .... You are a European strain of people whocrawled around on your all fours in the caves and hills of Europe, eating juniper roots and eating each other."Although raised in a Christian family Farrakhan became a Muslim who followed Malcom X. Today his writings and preaching reflect a a strange mixture of the two religions, which causes some black Christians to ignorantly follow him, including in the Million Man March a few years back, despite the fact that he has claimed to be be Jesus Christ, and that there is no need to look for Christ's 2nd coming, because 'he is here.'
Related:
Farrakhan in his own words
Billy Graham on Farrakhan
Hear the show (See 2/20/05)
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