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Research Report:
The Nation of Islam: The Relentless Record of Hate (March 1994 -
March 1995)
(c) 1995 Anti-Defamation League
Printed in the United States of America
All rights reserved
David H. Strassler, National Chairman
Abraham H. Foxman, National Director
Howard P. Berkowitz, Chair, National Executive Committee Peter T.
Willner, Chief Operating Officer
Robert G. Sugarman, Chair, Civil Rights Committee
Jeffrey P. Sinensky, Director, Civil Rights Division
This publication was funded in part by a generous grant from the
Schnurmacher Foundation.
ADL Research Report is a periodic publication of the Civil Rights
Division,
Research and Evaluation Department.
This publication was prepared by Lori Linzer, Research
Analyst,
Research and Evaluation Department.
Edited by Alan M. Schwartz, Director, Research and
Evaluation Department.
The Nation of Islam: The Relentless Record of Hate
Documenting the Bigotry of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam,
March 1994-March 1995
Introduction
In 1995 we enter a second decade of media attention focused on
Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. During the mid-1980s,
coverage of the black Muslim organization primarily centered around
Farrakhan's hideous, often violent
pronouncements against Jews, whites, Christians and
homosexuals. But in more recent years, as the Nation of Islam has
steadily expanded in both size and influence, stories in the press
suggest that NOI has lost its edge, become more mainstream, and has
even emerged as a legitimate representative of a large segment of the
black community.
There have been several attempts by NOI to sanitize its public
image. For the past few years, NOI has promoted the
activities of several security companies it operates, claiming
they have eliminated drugs and crime from public housing projects. In
Washington, DC, it has constructed a treatment clinic that promises
to deliver a cure for AIDS. NOI recently purchased tracts of farmland
in Georgia, along with a fleet of trucks it claims will transport
farm-fresh vegetables to stores in black communities. And a restaurant
complex built on Chicago's South Side with money donated by NOI members
was opened to the public in late February. "This is a blueprint for
economic development and investment in our neglected communities,"
Farrakhan announced at the restaurant opening.
Such economic exploits make it possible for the Nation of Islam to
distract onlookers from the group's message of bigotry. They help to
cultivate an image for Farrakhan as a leader who deeply cares for the
welfare of blacks, and who is encouraging the principles of economic
self-help. But Farrakhan's rhetoric tells a different tale, and
reveals a frightening agenda. Press reports that the NOI leader has
softened suggest that the media has stopped listening to the words of
Farrakhan and his representatives. For if they did stop to hear what
these individuals are serving up at public arenas and college campuses
around the country, or were they to glance at the pages of NOI's
bi-weekly, The Final Call, there would be no mistaking the ongoing
message of bigotry.
The Nation of Islam does not hide its prejudices. The
organization's philosophy has been, from its earliest days, racist to
the core. Its founder, Farad Muhammad [also known as W.D. Fard],
taught that the white race was produced thousands of years ago in a
failed laboratory experiment by an evil wizard named Yacub. This
pernicious belief remains the backbone of Nation of Islam theology, and
is a palpable influence on the organization's oratory.
But in recent years, NOI appears to have "broadened its
horizons," borrowing heavily from what would seem an unlikely
rhetorical source -- the propaganda of white supremacists. In
speeches before thousands of enthusiastic listeners, Farrakhan has
breathed new life into the long- discredited anti-Semitic myths of
the white hate movement. He claims to deliver a message of uplift
to the black community, but Farrakhan's words actually have the
opposite effect. They further the cause of those most hostile to
racial equality, while providing blacks themselves with nothing but
misplaced anger and frustration.
At a gathering in Chicago on March 19, 1995, passing his
lecture off as a scholarly history lesson, Farrakhan
promoted the anti-Jewish conspiracy theories of white supremacist
writer Gary Allen, whose book, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, has been
heavily distributed by the John Birch
Society. Farrakhan lavished praise upon Allen's work, announcing
that "I'd like to get 10,000 copies of it, have everybody read it."
Referring at length to Allen's claim that Jewish
international bankers financed the Nazis, Farrakhan announced
that during the Holocaust, "Little Jews died while big Jews made
money. Little Jews [were] being turned into soap while big Jews washed
themselves with it." In contrast, Farrakhan stated, "We [blacks] didn't
kill one Jew.... We were not involved there.... That was your white
brother, Hitler.... How in the hell can you call us anti-Semitic?"
In the interest of attacking Jews, Farrakhan has paid homage to the
rhetoric of white racists, ignoring the pain that similar words have
inflicted upon the black community. Such behavior is nothing less than
anti-Semitic.
In the pages that follow, excerpts from the speeches of various NOI
lieutenants demonstrably follow the same narrow pattern of thought,
and all subscribe to an identical primitive world view. This, of
course, is because these individuals are not isolated figures, each
with an active,
independent imagination. All were taught in the same "school,"
and are the product of a well-organized, highly structured movement
that peddles a slick package of odd but appealing notions to a growing
number of African-Americans.
More than a year has passed since Minister Farrakhan dismissed
Khalid Abdul Muhammad as his national assistant, claiming it to be a
disciplinary measure for the raucous, hate-filled speech Muhammad
delivered at New Jersey's Kean College. Several lessons emerge from
that episode.
First, as the rhetoric in the upcoming pages will illustrate,
when Khalid Muhammad spoke at Kean he was not spreading ideas alien
to core NOI beliefs. Muhammad's "take no prisoners" style of delivery
may be unique, but his essential message does not differ much from
those of other NOI ministers. Farrakhan made this clear last February
when he criticized Muhammad for the "manner" of his Kean College
speech, but upheld its poisonous allegations as "truths."
Farrakhan's dismissal of Khalid Muhammad, after his words at Kean were
exposed by ADL in a New York Times advertisement, also demonstrates the
importance of rooting out bigotry and holding it up to the public
spotlight. Farrakhan did not exhibit any signs of disgust with
Muhammad's "manner" in the days that followed the talk at Kean.
Muhammad remained
Farrakhan's national spokesman. It was only when citizens
learned of Muhammad's hatemongering and voiced their
condemnation that Farrakhan was forced to suspend his
representative .
The statements that follow demonstrate that the record of NOl's
hatred continues to write itself. As long as such words of division
are expressed by NOI--or any group�-public exposure remains the most
potent response for ADL. When Americans are confronted with
injustice, they deserve the chance to reject it. This report furnishes
citizens with the means to do so.
The excerpts below, taken from speeches Minister Louis
Farrakhan has delivered over the last twelve months, demonstrate
the Nation of Islam leader's refusal to depart from a bitter,
divisive message of racist and anti-Semitic scapegoating.
April 12, 1994: Press Conference at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Houston,
Texas
On Jews
"Birth of a Nation was the first great movie that made a Jewish
person a millionaire, but how did they depict us, and how are we
depicted in film today?"
April 22, 1994: Interview with Barbara Walters on 20/20 April 22,
1994
Defending Khalid Muhammad
"While I rebuked the vile manner of his speech, I said I
stand by those truths that he spoke.... If he calls Jews
bloodsuckers of the black community, if we're going to be honest, in
the 60s, many Jews were the merchants, they were the landlords, they
were the furniture persons that we bought furniture from, they were
the clothiers that we bought clothing from. And they grew in
strength from our trade with them. Today, it's the Arabs and
Koreans and others."
On the Assassination of Malcolm X
"I was not in any way involved in his murder But don't leave out the
United States government. Don't leave out the FBI who had worked for
years to separate Malcolm from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad."
April 30, 1994: University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
On Whites
"Is it wrong for me to remind you that you have suffered at the hands
of white people? If I don't remind my people of what you people
[whites] have done, you might get the mind to do it again. "
"You're being set up for the slaughter, because they [whites]
know you are the people of God." When rich whites need a kidney or a
heart, they say, "get us a nigger! When you're killing each other,
they can't wait for you to die. You've become good for parts."
June 4, 1994: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
On Homosexuals
Farrakhan declared in a falsetto tone, "I'm a woman in a man's body
trying to get out."
"Your Bible tells you that effeminates are not going to see the
Kingdom. I didn't write it, it was here when I came."
July 1, 1994: Interview with the Baltimore Jewish Times
White Control
"The problem has always been in the past that when we came up with
ideas for our advancement, whites came up with the financing to bring
our ideas to fruition. If there were certain things whites didn't
like, they would be changed because they had the purse strings."
Message to Jews
"Meyer Lansky was not a nice person. Bugsy Siegel was not a nice
person. But I wouldn't tell those raising money for Israel not to
accept money from this man because he's involved in illegal
[activities.] my point is even if my ideas are not proper from the
Jewish point of view, why should you tell the members of my own
family not to receive me? That's very arrogant. We, as a family, are
trying to work out solutions to our problem, and I do have something
to offer.
"Hell, if you don't want to give us your money...we'll fund the NAACP.
And we'll work to punish corporations that pull away their money.
After all, we as Muslims have a growing influence in America, and
we've never used it to boycott one. ..Jewish enterprise. Don't
threaten us. Because we can threaten too."
On Khalid Muhammad
"My desire was to curtail him [Khalid Muhammad] in terms of expression
and language, but never to curtail any truth that he speaks."
Jews and the Slave Trade
"The reason my research focused on the Jews was that when I mentioned
Jewish involvement, there was an outcry.... One of the faults we have
with Jews is this: you are a very minuscule part of the population
of America, but a very major part of the influence. What made you do
that?... What do you know that makes you the powerful, influential,
and well-living people that you are? And what don't we know that makes
us the weak, ineffectual, powerless, degraded people that we are?"
July 26, 1994: Hartford, Connecticut
On Jews and Whites
"I'm not anti-Semitic, not a hater of Jews and whites; it's not your
complexions or your faith that has messed up the world. It's the way
you think."
"They [whites] are sick and their world has made us sick. I'm not
dealing with well people. I'm dealing with sick people who have made
us sick through a corrupt leadership."
"Why do you call white men 'The Man?' Because be has access to power,
he has dominion, and he rules. So he has access to dominion even
though [he's] not fit. Don't think raw knowledge and power is a
trial for those who have it. When you have the power to deny others of
rights...then the power you have makes you a devil."
"White men have been in control of black and Hispanic men."
"Whites made blacks call them 'massa.' Many whites still want blacks
to call them 'massa.'
"Racism is a sickness. White people you are sick and have spread your
disease to black folk."
"Rape of black women made us lighter so we believe we are better than
our darker brothers. They put hate into us."
A White "Conspiracy"
"We are killing each other because an enemy put us at odds with each
other."
"Because the juice [O.J. Simpson] did it better than anyone else they
made a hero of him, so they could make money off him.... And now they
sic a white woman on him because they don't want the money to go out of
the family."
Economic Threats
"We want you to know white people, we know how to strike you in the
pocketbook."
January 17, 1995: Nation of Islam head quarters in Chicago, Illinois
Responding to the Indictment of Qubilah Shabazz, Daughter of Malcolm X
Blaming the U.S. Government
"The...government of the United States...created division within the
Nation of Islam and exploited it, and made the
Nation of Islam and its leadership the number one
organization targeted for destruction. The same forces that denied
Malcolm X protection after his house had been firebombed as a
result of a hostile environment created by the government, have now
exposed Malcolm's daughter Qubilah to a similarly hostile environment
which has likewise been created by the wicked machinations of the same
government."
"The ultimate aim of this government is to destroy Louis Farrakhan
by planting the seeds of public contempt and hatred toward me
through manipulation of the media."
Blaming the New York Post
"It is no coincidence that after I spoke to nearly fifteen thousand
black men early last year in New York City, that the New York Post
hunched a series of attacks on me, which included numerous and vicious
lies which were calculated to expose me to aversion and hatred among my
own people."
February 26, 1995: Saviour's Day Speech in Chicago, Illinois
Farrakhan's "Jewish Conspiracy"
"Well, what had the Founding Fathers learned from the history of
the activities of privately owned banks in Europe? That history
begins with the rise of Meyer Amschel Rothschild. I want you to just
put on your thinking caps. We're going down now into the valley, and I
want all of you in this audience to walk with me. Meyer Rothschild said
that he did not care who governed so long as he controlled the purse
strings."
Referring to the five sons of Meyer Rothschild: "They worked and
maneuvered and manipulated until they gained control of the central
banks of England, France, Austria, Italy and Germany. The control of
these central banks went into the hands of individuals whose interests
were not necessarily in harmony with the best interests of that nation."
"Wars were fought. And in order to fight a war, governments had to
borrow money. They borrowed money from these central banks. The
central banks waxed rich because they loaned money and charged
interest, then took over when one side prevails [sic] against the
other, and when governments could not satisfy the indebtedness, then
some of the natural wealth of that country flowed to the bankers.
They would loan money to both sides in the conflict, 'cause they
really didn't care who won or who lost. I mean it's
hurtful, but a Jew--Rothschild--loaned money to Adolf Hitler. A
Jew. Rothschild. Goddamnit you better not open your mouth to call me
no anti-Semite!
Rothschild and Paul Warburg loaned money. Hitler killed little
Jews while Rothschild and Warburg stayed in the finest hotels in
Europe. But damn it, if you can't call
Rothschild anti-Semitic and Warburg an anti-Semite, then you don't open
your mouth against me."
"In 1913, something happened. Four things were set up in the year 1913.
First, the Federal Reserve Bank, the IRS, the FBI and the
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. All were set up in the same
year. Is that a coincidence? Or is there a design?"
"How did we get into World War II? You say Japan attacked Pearl
Harbor. Yes, they did, but what were the forces that created in Japan
the desire or the need to force them to attack America? You don't
know that. But when America went to war after the attack on Pearl
Harbor, she had to borrow money. There were the international bankers
again. They financed all sides. And how many millions of Americans
lost their lives? Suppose Hitler was trying to destroy the
international bankers controlling Europe, but he went about it by
attacking a whole people. All Jews are not responsible for the evil
of the few who do evil.... But certain Jews have used Judaism as a
shield."
March 19, 1995: Mosque Maryam, Chicago, Illinois
Jews, Whites and the Holocaust
"The international bankers have always wanted what they called a
'balance of power' in the world.... The Warburgs, the Rothschilds who
financed Hitler. 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. Why
don't you tell that one? Go back and tell your editors I want to put
this in the paper tomorrow. You got a hell of a nerve to open your
mouth to call me an and-Semite when your own people have been the
worst and-Semites in the world. "
"Little Jews died while big Jews made money. Little Jews
[were] being turned into soap while big Jews washed themselves
with it. Jews were] playing violin, Jews [were] playing music, while
other Jews [were] marching into the gas chambers. We wasn't there. We
had nothing to do with it. But why all of a sudden am I anti-Semitic --
tell me!"
"How many of you were involved in the Holocaust, raise your hand. You
see what I mean. We didn't kill one Jew. And if there were a
Holocaust today, damn it, you wouldn't find most of these harming one
hair on the head of a Jewish man, woman or child. So we were not
involved there.... That was your white brother, Hitler. Aided by
your white Jewish brother. Warburg and Rothschild, Lord Milner and
Schiff, and Lube[phon] and Kuhn. It's your brothers. Hell, if they
killed two million, one million, five million, six million, we didn't
have nothing to do with it. The Pope -- that's your brother...that was
your brother, your white brother. He looked the other way. But when
it came to open...those camps, those death camps, the first man to
open it, was a black man. Goddammit, how in the hell can you call us
anti- Semitic in the face of your own damn evil to your people?... I'm
angry as hell, and sometimes if I didn't cuss I'd kill."
Farrakhan's Jewish Conspiracy
"The international bankers from the House of
Rothschild...sent their sons into five countries...and through
manipulation and money...they gained control of the Bank of England,
the Bank of France, the Bank of Italy, the Bank of Austria, and
private concerns began to print money in Europe. The Rothschilds would
finance both sides of all the European wars. They always wanted to get
their hands on the Central Bank of America. And they finally did.
On December 22, 1913, Congress passed into law the Federal Reserve
Act."
"How did the rich make America's debt grow? The easiest way
to get money is to start a war.... The moment the
international bankers took control of the money by taking control of
the Central Bank of America, the Federal Reserve, a war broke out in
Europe and the British sent Lord Weissman to America to encourage
America's involvement in the war. The Germans didn't start any war
with America. Let's deal with the truth because your government is
filled with liars and thieves and it's time now."
"1917. America gets into the war. At that time, $1 billion in debt.
Now America got [sic] to borrow money to finance the war effort. Who's
she borrowing from? Who's America in debt to?... After World War I was
over...Max, Pelix and Paul Warburg, all three of them brothers, and
Lord [Alfred] Milner, another financier of Hitler. They met
representing their counties at the Paris Peace Conference.... When
they go to war they...take territory from one, give it to
another...here come the international bankers again, financing
both sides of the conflict."
"The root of communism and the root of capitalism is from the same
group of people. They ['international bankers'] started both
philosophies, they financed both philosophies, and when Russia was
strong, they said, now we have a balance of power. Under Karl Marx,
Lenin, Trotsky, financed by wicked bankers, many of whom were Jews.
Now look man, I'm going to stop right here. This old crap that you
use called anti-Semitism, that's a smokescreen.... Are white people
sacred? You're damn right they're not.... If white people have done
evil to the darker people of the world and somebody points it out,
does that mean I'm anti-white?... If I point out your evil, all of a
sudden I'm a racist. You're just frightened of truth. You don't mind
writing it in your books, but don't let one of your ex-slaves read your
books and then read you."
"Let me read you something. This is on page 46 of this little
book called None Dare Call It Conspiracy, by [Gary] Allen, which I'd
like to get 10,000 copies of it, have everybody read it. If it's a
lie, I didn't tell it, I'm just reading now."
"Did you hear my Saviour's Day lecture? Did you hear me condemn all
Jews? [Crowd: "No!"] I condemned the wicked ones and they would be
sometimes even more wicked because they got revelations.... Right
after that, a full page ad in The New York Times. Taken out by whom?
ADL...These are the watchdogs for the international bankers. They
are the
watchdogs for the secret government that manipulates
presidents and Congress.... Almost all of your black congressmen
are honorary citizens, members of the Knesset. Did you know that? Most
senators, black and white, honorary members of the Knesset."
"The international bankers are waxing rich in this East-West
struggle.... The arms race? Who did it enrich. The
international bankers."
On Jews and the Slave Trade
"How did I get to be an anti-Semite.... What have I done? I told the
truth about Jewish involvement in the slave trade. Your own writers
say the same thing. Well, if they're not anti-Semitic for writing it,
how the hell am I anti-Semitic for reading what they wrote and then
saying it?... I didn't write your history, you wrote it. And then the
sad thing, when you confront them with what their scholars have said,
they say, 'Well is this part of the old conspiracy talk?'"
On Homosexuals
"You have become swine. You love filth. Homosexuality growing
so, so now you can't even have a slumber party, because little
girls are having sex with little girls and little boys are having
sex with little boys. And it's alright to you now."
"When I was coming along, if you were a homosexual, you had to hide
it, because that was unacceptable behavior.... Homosexuality has to
be looked at. Pastors, you don't want to talk about it anymore.
Why? Because many pastors are homosexuals.
"The Holy Koran refers to homosexuality as an abomination, meaning it
is so utterly loathsome in the sight of God.... I hope I ain't hurting
no feelings."
Jews and Hollywood
"I want to say to those who are Jews. You want us to take your own
to task. That's why when Farrakhan speaks, you go to every black
leader you can and you say to them, isn't there something you can
say about Farrakhan? W~ 11, I'm asking you isn't there something you
can say about them damn freaks in Hollywood? Your own kin...that claim
to be Jews."
"You want black people to attack me because you say I'm a racist.
But Jews won't lift your voice against your own brothers who are
making themselves wealthy off of the weakness and the ignorance of
the people. Why don't you call Hugh Hefner into question? Why don't you
call David Geffen into question?... Where is the guts in the Jewish
community? Where is the righteousness in the community that you won't
even condemn your own criminals? Meyer Lansky."
Threatening Jews
"Now there's a new Israel. You may not want to believe it, but the
God that I represent is the same God you read about in the Old
Testament.... The Israel that it's talking about is the Nation of Islam
in the West...l know you're plotting against us [Jews], but I want to
tell you what my God is poised to do for you.... I want you to look
at the national calamities that our God will bring against his evil
nation."
"Master Farad Muhammad...He is the God of Israel...Our God can't wait
for you to make your move.... He dares you to touch me. Come on, if
you want to die.... All of these wicked ones who have given Judaism a
bad name, they are the members of the synagogue of Satan.... I warn you
in the name of Allah, leave us alone. Your time is just about up."
The following excerpts are from speeches delivered in the last year
by Louis Farrakhan's former national assistant, Khalid Abdul
Muhammad. Portions of an obsessively anti-
Semitic, racist, anti-Catholic and homophobic speech delivered
by Muhammad at New Jersey's Kean College were published by ADL in
January 1994 in a full-page New York limes advertisement. Exposure of
Muhammad's bigotry brought forth a wave of condemnation from blacks and
whites, public and private. Shortly, thereafter, Louis Farrakhan
publicly dismissed Khalid Muhammad from his position in the Nation of
Islam, but allowed him to remain a member of the group. Since that
time, Muhammad has not backed down. Instead, he has repeatedly
reaffirmed his belief in the "truth" of his poisonous Kean College
message, and has sharpened his attacks on peoples of all color
and creed. The crude, unrestrained remarks that follow make this
clear.
March 23, 1994: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Threats to Whites and Jews
"To the whites and 'white Jews' in the audience, I say: It's
gonna be a rough ride, buddy.... Buckle your seat
belts...because I didn't come to pin the tail on the donkey, I came to
pin the tail on the honkey."
"I'm going to go buck wild on you...like a pit bull on your Jew
backside."
"Don't hide tonight, rabbi. Come up front and we'll run your raggedy
behind out of here with the truth."
"Bring me your rabbis and I'll strip your butts naked. "
March 29, 1994: Friendship Baptist Church, Brooklyn, New York
politicians in the Black Community
"When it's time to speak out these negroes don't speak out. When the
rugged Rabbi Dr. Goldberg or Goldstein or Gold something went into
the mosque and killed them in cold blood and they're fleeing the
mosque, the no-good so-called Israeli soldiers opened fire on them
and mowed them down in the street. An old raggedy rabbi said at the
eulogy that all of the Arabs mixed together are not worth one
fingernail of one Jew. Where was Reverend Jackson? Where was Kweisi
Mfume? Where were the negroes from the NAACP? Where were these boot-
licking negroes?"
"Kill our baby here in Crown Heights and then the old no good damn
Jew goes to Israel. No cry of moral outrage. If one of us had done
that Jesse Jackson would have been the first to repudiate and all the
negroes would have jumped on his bandwagon."
Questioning the Holocaust
"Tell us you lost six million. Historians, scholars, scientist,
they went to some of the death camps...it wasn't six million, it wasn't
five million, it wasn't four million, it wasn't even three million....
Some of them say we'd be hard-pressed to get one and a half million."
"Everybody talks about what Hitler did to you. What did you do to
Hitler?...What made that man so mad at you?"
Reports on the six million Jews killed by Nazis were "bloated,
exaggerated, probably fabricated."
Claims of Jewish Control
"You wonder why I call it Jew-nited Nations...Jew York
City...Jew-niversity. Because you control it."
Threats of Violence
"I want to be one of the flame-throwers of God, break white folks'
backs. I want to give you hell all the way to your graves. I ain't
scared to die and I'm ready to kill."
April 1, 1994: Fort Worth, Texas
Addressing Jews
"Our holocaust is much worse.... We're still in our ghettos. The Jews
are out from under Hitler's yoke. We're still here."
"I don't know all Jews. If you can introduce me to some good Jews and
find a good Jew that is not a bloodsucker, I would be happy to meet
them."
"Why don't you understand us Jew? Because you don't want to understand
us. We are the chosen people of God."
Threats of Violence
To protesters outside: "You're lucky you just got words out of me and
I didn't give you the bum's rush and black-boot stomp the hell out of
you."
On Whites
Throughout the speech, Muhammad referred to whites as "devils."
April 19, 1994: Howard University, Washington, D.C.
Comparative Suffering, Trivializing the Holocaust
"You [Jews] talk about the death marches. What about the death
marches in Africa? You said that by the summer [of 1937] there were
over 400 ghettos. We, the sons and daughters of Africa, are still
in the ghettos."
"We set forth here tonight that the black holocaust was 100 times worse
than the so-called Jew Holocaust."
"You say you lost six million. We question that. But for the sake of
argument we'll give you that. We lost 600 million."
"`Schindler�s List� is really a �Swindler�s List�"
"You make me sick--always got some old, crinkly, wrinkled cracker
that you bring up, saying 'this is one of the Holocaust victims.'
God damn it! I'm looking at a whole audience of Holocaust victims."
"The Holocaust lasted 10 years; ours lasted 500. How can you compare,
buddy? You are so arrogant."
On Whites and Jews
"I am going to be like a pit bull. That is the way I'm going to be
against the Jews. I am going to bite the tail of the honkies."
"I love Colin Ferguson, who killed all those white folks on the Long
Island train. God spoke to Colin Ferguson and said, 'catch the train,
Colin, catch the train.'"
May 3, 1994: Harlem, New York
On the Pope
"The Pope is not the vicar of Christ. The Pope is a
representative of the Anti-Christ."
May 12, 1994: NBC's "Donahue"
On Whites
"There is a little bit of Hitler in all white people."
May 13, 1994: Oakland, California
On Black Politicians
"We don't want no butt-licking, butt-poking negro politicians
with a slavery mentality."
On Whites
"The problem in Oakland isn't with the crack, but with the cracker."
"White folks, we're in serious trouble. You've got nowhere to hide.
I'm gonna be as a pit bull dog and lock my jaws on your backside and
only Louis Farrakhan has the keys to unlock it."
On Homosexuals
"Those brothers who don't got a white girl on their elbow, got a
white boy. We got some Ex-Lax to get it of your system."
"I hate a black man who acts like a white man. But what's worse than
that is a black man who acts like a black woman."
Denigrating the Holocaust
"Your Holocaust is indeed the worst holocaust ever filmed. You say
you lost 6 million. We lost over 600 million over the past 6,000
years. Ours is one hundred times greater. They want a special corner on
suffering even."
"Jews have gotten over $100 billion in reparations, but you won't
apologize.... You make me sick talking about Holocaust survivors."
On South Africa
"Mandela sold us out.... Mandela's the biggest clown in the big
top.... I say give 'em [whites] 24 hours to get out of town. If they
don't, kill everyone white in sight. Kill the men, kill the women, kill
the children, kill the blind, kill the crippled. God damn it, kill them
all."
May 22, 1994: Dorchester, Massachusetts
On Whites
"The white man has his Armistice Day, Memorial Day, Armed Forces
Day. The white man honors the killers--General Eisenhower, Patton,
Westmoreland.... But when the oppressed stand up there is a cry of
moral outrage."
On South Africa = Jews
"So called Jews are sucking our blood in South Africa. There
is no real freedom in South Africa. The white man
controls.... We owe the white man nothing in South Africa. All is
ours. South Africa is devil-ruled, demon-controlled."
May 29, 1994: Riverside, California
Addressing Jews
"I don't give a damn what you say about me, you bagel-
eating, hook-nose, lox-eating so called Jew." "The so- called Jew
is Jew-wish--he wishes he was a Jew.... You wanna- be Jews, we're gonna
strip you buck naked before the world. There's no place for you to
hide. You lied for too long telling that you are the chosen people."
A
"Everywhere I go I wanna give the white man hell from the cradle to
the grave. This is a new generation of blacks and we say to you, white
man, you either stop or drop."
"Brothers, don't let this no good cracker tell you about Aristotle,
Plato, Socrates; the white man has a frequent liar program."
"You can't out-devil the devil. The white man's nature is to
lie and steal. You have to beat the white man in
righteousness. You can't beat him in evil and wickedness."
June 29, 1994: Emanual Evangelistic Temple, Milwaukee
Referring to O.J. Simpson: "Our brother over a period of time, to
some degree, strayed away from the family. He left his black wife and
decided to live a life sleeping with the enemy."
November 1, 1994: State University College, Rochester, New York
On Whites
"How could all 13 men at the Last Supper be white? If we were at
the Last Supper, we must have been in the kitchen." "I ask white people
to reason with us. The nerve of you to call me a bigot, a racist, or an
anti-Semite. By the end of the night we'll see who the real racists
are."
November 7, 1994: New York University
On Jews and Arabs
"Who is it that is sucking our blood in the black community-
-the so called Arab and the so-called Jew."
On Reparations
"We lost over 600 million over the lost 6,000 years in general,
and in specific, 150 million in the last 400 years coming over in
slave ships. But nobody wants to pay
reparations for pain and t suffering...everyone gets reparations
but the black man and woman."
[You Jews] have a Holocaust Museum that costs over 200 million to
build. [You] got four billion dollars from America and you have billions
more for reparations. But [the] sons and daughters of Africa don't even
get."
On Jews, Whites and South Africa
Referring to the relationship between Israel and South Africa,
"Not one Jew would like it if an African country had a relationship with
Nazi Germany."
Referring to whites in South Africa: "I am talking about
self-defense.... I am giving them [whites] a chance to leave, but
if they don't leave, we should go to war with them. This is a war and
in any war there is bloodshed."
November 16, 1994: Bethel AME Church, New Haven, Connecticut
On the Holocaust
"The Jews were never in bondage. Yet the Jews want to corner the term.
The Jews think they were the only ones who suffered. The Jews
never suffered. Jews never even lost their names." "So how many were
there? You can't even agree on how many. Was it six million? Five
million? Two million. We'll even give you seven million. We lost 600
million men,
and you [Jews] want to have a Holocaust?"
On Jews
"[Jews] say they are the descendants of Abraham. Everyone is
a descendent of Abraham. Besides, if you were Abraham's
descendants, you would do his work, but you don't. Jews polluted
everything."
On Christmas
"The true meaning of Christmas is heathen, vain, ignorant, backward,
white pagan worship and idolatry."
February 21, 1995: Interview with the Daily Challenge, New York City
black daily
On His Kean College Speech and its Aftermath
"The Honorable Minister Farrakhan said he found my words
spoken at Kean College 'vile in manner, repugnant, malicious,
mean-spirited, spoken in mockery of individuals and not in the spirit
of Islam'.... I think the context of my comments need to be put in
perspective. The topic I spoke on, The Secret Relationship Between
Blacks and Jews, was chosen by the students. The human side of me said
I did what I was supposed to do and, so, I have no apologies. And, if I
had the opportunity under the same circumstances, I would do the same
thing again."
"President [Bill] Clinton, Vice President [Al] Gore, the
U.S. Senate and the United States House of Representatives, in a
history-making decision, passed a House Resolution condemning my
speech. There are some Negroes--not blacks-- who would have probably
committed suicide. But to me, it is a great honor for the enemy and
our oppressors to attack me all the way from their high offices and
the corridors of their power elite. That's the way I want to be
remembered by my children...as one the enemy did not praise and did
not love but had nightmares about."
The following are excerpts from the Nation of Islam's bi-
weekly publication, The Final Call. The paper often promulgates
anti-white and anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, many of which are,
ironically, co-opted from the rhetoric of white supremacists.
Columnist Abdul Allah Muhammad, in his column, "Eleven Fifty Five, "
March 30, 1994:
"The vicious attack being mounted against us [NOI] is the result of
the realization by a wicked Jewish cabal which seeks to solidify its
world rule, that not only are they unable to make Minister Farrakhan
and his followers dance to their tune, but the Black leaders they once
controlled are slipping from their grasp."
James Muhammad, Final Call editor, in his column, "Up Periscope,"
January 25, 1995:
"Mossad and the ADL are kissing cousins who are only out for their
selfish personal interests and do not care about the welfare of United
States citizens."
James Muhammad, March 30, 1994:
"If it weren't for the Jews and their control and
manipulation of the media, a good man's message of uplift to Black and
oppressed people would be free of the false charges of
anti-Semitism and hate. I'm referring to Minister Louis Farrakhan and
his message."
Abdul Allah Muhammad, April 13, 1994:
"It is the height of duplicity for Jews to deny to the general
public that they control every institution which affects life in
America, while bragging to each other that the 'conspiracy theories'
are not theories at all, but that the conspiracy is an absolute fact."
"I hope nobody wastes my time and effort to try to tell me that there
are some 'good Jews.' The law of averages says there probably are. God
even managed to get three people out of Sodom. "
Reporter Cedric X Welch, April 27, 1994:
"[Jews] have dominated the original people of the planet earth and
are planning to unite the the world under one currency and one world
order."
"The activities of the Masons were controlled by a certain secret
society comprised of Jewish members and these Jews were the
instigators of the periodic revolutions that threw the world into
convulsions."
Reporter Jerome Jackson, May 25, 1994:
"The political rise of Nelson Mandela is a smokescreen for the
economic rape committed by Jewish financial powers well- entrenched in
South Africa.
James Muhammad, November 16, 1994:
"The fact that white people once lived on the level of beasts
underscores their humble beginning. As they were blessed to advance to
now dominate the peoples of the planet, however, they've lost their
humility."
The Rhetoric of Farrakhan's Other Representatives:
Leonard Farrakhan Muhammad, Nation of Islam Chief of Staff
At an April 1994 press conference held after NOI filed a suit against
the New York Post
for S4.4 billion:
"We are making a legal response to the Jewish controlled media and
those reporters that we believe have unfairly,
inappropriately and illegally associated the name of Minister
Louis Farrakhan with the death of Malcolm X."
January 23, 1995, reacting to Senator Bob Dole's demand that HUD
investigate
NOI Security's housing contracts:
"I don't care if people call me paranoid but I see a well-
orchestrated pattern of attack on the Nation of Islam."
Conrad Muhammad, Minister of New York's Mosque No. 7
April 19, 1994 at Boston University:
On Jewish Organizations
"It is the Jewish leadership--those like Abraham Foxman and others--who
actually are not representing the best interests of the Jewish
community, because they're squandering time and resources focusing on
phantom anti-Semitism in the black community, leaving the flanks of
the Jewish community exposed to true anti-Semitism that exists in this
society."
"I don't think that the American media is creating this
controversy [between blacks and Jews].... It is
organizations like the ADL and others that prevail upon the media to
keep this thing going."
In an interview with New York magazine October 24, 1994:
Alleging Jewish Control
"The thing about the Jews is, you have great intellectual talents
and you are very skilled at grafting yourself onto natural talent, but
you don't have a lot of it yourself.... Look at the way the Jews
exploit all of our singers and athletes."
Abdul Alim Muhammad, Nation of Islam Health Minister
February 24, 1994 at University of Wisconsin-Madison:
On Whites
"All of you whites don't have nothing to fear from AIDS. If AIDS kills
the niggers, well you whites would think that was pretty good."
"Seventy percent of black high school students in Washington drop out.
Of the black students that do graduate, 60 percent are functionally
illiterate...that is the [educational] policy that they whites] use
to keep you ignorant. So they can use you for their tool."
"Caucasian means a pale face and weak bones. They [whites] are
divinely given power to rule for now. But what drives them is death.
And that's what's going to happen to everyone on earth. Their rule is
the power to kill."
"Why would you kill, white race? It is to preserve your whiteness.
We didn't invent segregation, did we?... We didn't invent
apartheid. These are systems to keep white people apart from black
people. "
"[Whites] kill men, women and children all over the earth, reducing
the world population down by approximately a billion people....
Because you come out of Europe and start slaughtering the original
inhabitants of that land...you European people. You converted to
Judaism a little over 1,200 years ago, and NOW you're masquerading
as though you are the original Jews.... How could you be a chosen
people; you just ordinary white folk.
The "AIDS Plot"
Muhammad also said there is "enough evidence" that AIDS is a man-made
disease being used by the U.S.
government against blacks.
Harold Muhammad, Minister of New Orleans Mosque
Interview with the Times Picayune April 11, 1994:
On Jews
"Jews claim that they're the chosen people of God.... We've scanned
the globe; we can't find any other people who fit the biblical
description of God's chosen people other than us. So therefore
there's some lying going on, and Minister Farrakhan challenges that as a
man of God. And it angers the Jewish community that someone would have
the audacity to challenge their claim to being God's chosen people,
which has been historically unchallenged before."
Interview with the Louisiana Weekly, May 7, 1994:
"Jews use us as cannon fodder. I'm going to say the
truth...Lets look at the Jewish/Black |relationship. They are the
landlords, we are the |tenants. We're the artists, we are the talent
when |you look into the sports arena. They are the |managers, the
owners. We access them as |bankers, lawyers, CPAs--they control our
talents.... |They control the media.... We're not vocal, we need ; |to
be vocal. The Jews make up six percent of the |population in this
country. They are much more vocal |than we are." l
Eric Muhammad, leader of the Brooklyn-based
Black African Holocaust Council, and member of NOI
Interview with the Daily Challenge, December 12, 1994:
Comparative Suffering
"We [the Council] represent the disenfranchised and the downtrodden
because we believe that no has truly had a Holocaust but us. No
one has suffered as much; no one has been robbed of name, language,
God, religion and culture as us. They [the Jews] use the word
Holocaust because it's profitable to them but it is not real."
On Whites
"I am a black separatist. I firmly believe that it's impossible
for black and white to co-exist peacefully. It's not in the nature of
white people."
DOD Muhammad, Minister of Boston Mosque
On an October 1994 segment of his weekly radio program:
The Hamitic Myth
"There is hardly anyone in this listening audience who doesn't
know that the connection of slavery and blacks being suited for slavery
because they were inferior is tied to the Hamitic myth of blacks. And
it was the Rabbis who had created the Hamitic myth of blacks being
inferior."
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