Louis Farrakhan
Louis Eugene Farrakhan (born May 11, 1933) is an American religious movement leader, political activist and writer.
Overview
[change | change source]Ideologically, Louis Farrakhan is a Black supremacist. He is the leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI), a movement founded on a unique interpretation of Islam.
Life
[change | change source]Farrakhan was born Louis Eugene Wolcott in The Bronx, New York. He started playing the violin when he was six years old. He went to the Boston Latin School. Farrakhan now lives in Kenwood, Chicago. In 1953, he married Khadijah Farrakhan. They have nine children. In 2007, he retired at the age of 73.[1]
Popularity
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In 2020, he was classified by the American civil rights group Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as the most popular antisemite in America.[2]
Racism
[change | change source]Farrakhan is well-known for his antisemitic and anti-White views, despite his and his group's denial.
1980s
[change | change source]In June 1984, Farrakhan went to Libya to visit her dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Upon return, Farrakhan smeared Judaism as a "gutter religion [...] structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit" that "abused" God's name for self-defense.[3] In 1985, at an NOI meeting, Farrakhan said that the Jews deserved the Holocaust by screaming that "And don't you forget, when it's God who puts you in the ovens, it's forever!"[4]
Connections with White supremacists
[change | change source]In September 1984, former KKK member Tom Metzger[5] donated $100 to Farrakhan's NOI after being impressed by his antisemitic rhetoric at a Los Angeles event,[6] a prejudice shared by both White supremacists and Black supremacists.[6] The donation was followed by Metzger's gathering of 200 White supremacists to pledge support for Farrakhan's NOI.[6]
1990s
[change | change source]In 1995, Farrakhan accused Jews of causing the Holocaust themselves, a false claim common among antisemites,[7][8] by alleging that "German Jews financed Hitler right here in America [...] International bankers financed Hitler and poor Jews died while big Jews were at the root of what you call the Holocaust".[9]
2010s
[change | change source]In March 2015, Farrakhan accused "Israelis and Zionist Jews" of being involved in the September 11 attacks,[10][11] while believing that Jews control mass media and the Hollywood to "turn man into women and women into men".[12] On October 16, 2018, he implied that Jews were termites by posting on Twitter that "I'm not an anti-Semite. I'm anti-Termite." On July 4, 2020, he also accused Jonathan Greenblatt, a Jewish American serving as ADL's CEO, of being "Satan masquerading as a lawyer",[13] while gaslighting the public by denying that he is antisemitic: "If you really think I hate the Jewish people, you don't know me at all [... I've never] uttered the words of death to the Jewish people."[14] In addition, he has been the biggest promoter of the disproven conspiracy theory that "Jews ran the Atlantic slave trade", which is believed by many Islamists worldwide.
Related pages
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Nation of Islam at a Crossroad as Leader Exits". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
- ↑ "Farrakhan Remains Most Popular Antisemite in America". Anti-Defamation League (ADL). July 15, 2020. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
- ↑ Shipp, E. R. (June 29, 1984). "Tape Contradicts Disavowal of 'Gutter Religion' Attack". The New York Times. pp. A12. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
- ↑ Hitchens, Christopher (2007). God Is Not Great. London: Atlantic Books. p. 219. ISBN 9781843545743.
- ↑ "Tom Metzger". Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Retrieved February 22, 2025.
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- "WHITE SUPREMACISTS VOICE SUPPORT OF FARRAKHAN". The New York Times. October 12, 1985. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
- Marable, Manning (1998). "Black fundamentalism: Farrakhan and conservative black nationalism". Institute of Race Relations. 39 (4). doi:10.1177/030639689803900401. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
- Perry, Marvin; Schweitzer, Frederick M. (2002). "Antisemitic Myths Blackwashed: The Nation of Islam Inherits a Devil". Antisemitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present. pp. 213–257. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
- "Nation of Islam | History, Founder, Beliefs, & Facts". Britannica. February 15, 2025. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
- Kestenbaum, Sam (October 16, 2017). "White Supremacists Praise Nation of Islam's Message Of Separatism". The Forward. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
- ↑
- Woolf, Avi (June 23, 2014). "Abu Mazen's Zionist Nazis: Is Abu Mazen a Holocaust denier or not? Dr. Edi Cohen delved deeply into his infamous doctorate to answer that question. What he found may shock you". Mida. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
- Bergman, Ronen (November 26, 2014). "Abbas' book reveals: The 'Nazi-Zionist plot' of the Holocaust". Ynetnews. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
- "Palestinian leader Abbas offers apology for remarks on Jews". Reuters. May 4, 2018. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
- Tabarovsky, Izabella (January 18, 2023). "Mahmoud Abbas' Dissertation". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
- "Outrage over Abbas's antisemitic speech on Jews and Holocaust". BBC News. September 7, 2023. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
- "Simon Wiesenthal Center condemns Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas' remarks". The Jerusalem Post. September 9, 2023. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
- ↑
- Bogdanor, Paul (2016). "An Antisemitic Hoax: Lenni Brenner on Zionist 'Collaboration' With the Nazis". Fathom Journal. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
- Quinn, Ben (29 April 2016). "Ken Livingstone cites Marxist book in defence of Israel comments". The Guardian.
- Ben-Noah, Gerry (May 25, 2016). "The problem with Ken Livingstone's "evidence"". Workers' Liberty. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
- "Lenni Brenner's Anti-Zionist Libels". Mosaic Magazine. June 20, 2016. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
- "SEM0008 - Evidence on Antisemitism". UK Parliament. Retrieved February 6, 2025.
- ↑ "Farrakhan In His Own Words" (PDF). The Anti-Defamation League. March 20, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 14, 2021. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
- ↑ "Farrakhan: 'Israelis And Zionist Jews' Behind 9/11 Terror Attacks". CBS DC. March 5, 2015. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
- ↑ Boorstein, Michelle (November 16, 2017). "Saying God picked Trump, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan portrays him as both truth-talking hero and racist villain". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
- ↑ Greenwood, Max (February 28, 2018). "Tapper rips Farrakhan after anti-Semitic speech". The Hill. Retrieved December 11, 2019.
- ↑ Kerstein, Benjamin (July 8, 2020). "Public Campaign Launched to Remove Three-Hour Antisemitic Speech by Louis Farrakhan From YouTube". Algemeiner. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
- ↑ Oster, Marcy (July 6, 2020). "Louis Farrakhan rebuts charges of antisemitism in July 4th speech". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
They tell lies to make you think I am a bigot or antisemite, so that you won't listen to what I'm saying. So far they've been pretty successful.
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