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Subject: Re: Minister Farrakhan
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Date: 16 Jan 90 01:09:01 GMT
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In article <6751@wpi.wpi.edu> you write:
>
>	   I myself had read a lot of even more strange things about
>	   Farrakhan in the past, and had also come to believe that
>	   he was a Nazi and an anti-Semite. However, that was the
>	   period BEFORE I read and heard the full text of some of
>	   his speeches for myself.  I became convinced that the
>	   media were for some reason distorting his sayings (they
>	   are 'after him'). For example, even now sometimes
>	   newspapers quote him as haveing said that Judaism is a
>	   dirty religion, something he *never* said, and a charge that
>	   he vehemently rejected.

Actually, he hasn't rejected this. His speech was originally reported
as saying "gutter religion" and his spokesman announced that he didn't
say "gutter," he said "dirty." Unless I have it backwards, but I think
this is the way it was. Frankly I don't see the difference. He is a
dangerous fascist without any doubt. A demagogue, who uses his
charisma to spread the most vile sorts of racist and anti-semitic
ideology.  There was a recent article in _In These Times_ by a
somewhat sympathetic author by the name of Salim Muwakkil. In a reply
to some critical letters (ITT, January 10-16, 1990, p.15) he writes:
"The NOI doctrine posits black supremacy and deems whites genetically
defective, and my article is certainly not an apologia for that kind
of primitive racism." I leave it up to you to decide if such
"primitive racism" is in any way compatible with the teachings of
Islam. I think not.

Irvin