Louis Farrakhan: Twenty Controversial Quotes

Louis Farrakhan insists he's misunderstood and his quotes are "taken out of context".

We assembled a body of Louis Farrakhan quotes from throughout his public speaking.

The reader can then decide better for themselves about Farrakhan's intent.

From Wikipedia:

Louis Farrakhan (born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933), is the acting head of the Nation of Islam (NOI). Perhaps the most provocative aspect of Farrakhan's political philosophy are comments he has made that have widely been seen as antisemitic.

Twenty controversial and anti-semitic quotes from the leader of the Nation of Islam.

"They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters."
-- Louis Farrakhan, on Hezbollah, at District Council 33 Union Hall, Philadelphia, April 22, 1996


"The Jews have been so bad at politics they lost half their population in the Holocaust. They thought they could trust in Hitler, and they helped him get the Third Reich on the road."
--Saviours' Day speech, Chicago, February 1998


"White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet."
--Philadelphia Inquirer, March 2000


"Now that nation called Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there can never be any peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under His holy and righteous name."
-- Louis Farrakhan, 1984


"Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloodsuckers because they took from our community and built their community but didn't offer anything back to our community."


"The same year they set up the IRS, they set up the FBI. And the same year they set up the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith… It could be a coincidence… [I want] to see black intellectuals free… I want to see them not controlled by members of the Jewish community."


"...America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders. So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control."


"The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man."


"It appears that there is a genocidal plan against Black people."


"Dewey, Kant and Hegel, and the rabbis that wrote the Talmud, make blacks inferior."



"Murder and lying comes easy for white people."


"I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government ...Yes, they exercise extraordinary control, and black people will never be free in this country until they are free of that kind of control ... "
--Meet The Press interview, April 1997


"Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles."


"The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the late of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us for 400 years."
-- Louis Farrakhan, City College audience in New York


"I recognized that the black man will never be free until we address the relationship between blacks and Jews."


"America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed."


"Countless times over the years I have explained that I never referred to Judaism as a dirty religion, but, clearly referred to the machinations of those who hide behind the shield of Judaism while using unjust political means to achieve their objectives."

This was distilled in the New York tabloids and other media saying, "Farrakhan calls Judaism a gutter religion." As a Muslim, I revere Abraham, Moses, and all the Prophets who Allah (God) sent to the children of Israel. I believe in the scriptures brought by these Prophets and the Laws of Allah (God) as expressed in the Torah. I would never refer to the Revealed Word of Allah (God) -- the basis of Jewish Faith -- as "dirty" or "gutter."
--Letter to the Wall Street Journal June 18, 1997


"These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood. It's the wicked Jews, the false Jews that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality, [and] Zionists have manipulated Bush and the American government [on the war in Iraq]"
--February 2006 NOI event


"History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember. All other history defeats itself."


The reader can decide.

Is it possible that these quotes were "taken out of context?"

compiled by Mondoreb
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Today in History: December 22, 2007

WAR!, TERRORISM, ASSASSINATION, DISASTERS, POLITICS, CULTURE, 2ND AMENDMENT, ANTI-SEMITISM, DEATH, BIRTHDAYS

On December 22, 1944, during the World War II Battle of the Bulge, U.S. Brigadier General Anthony C. McAuliffe rejected the Germans' demand that the Americans surrender, writing "Nuts!" in his official reply.

WAR!

In 1775, Esek Hopkins was appointed the commander-in-chief of the Continental Navy.

In 1864, during the Civil War, Union General William T. Sherman wrote a message to President Lincoln which said in part: "I beg to present you as a Christmas-gift the city of Savannah."

In 1997, during his visit to Bosnia, President Clinton thanked American troops and lectured the nation's three presidents to set aside their differences.

TERRORISM

In 1997, gunmen attacked an Indian village in southern Mexico, killing 45 people.

In 2001, Richard C. Reid, a passenger on an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami, tried to ignite explosives in his shoes, but was subdued by flight attendants and other passengers.

In 2002, a defiant North Korea said that it had begun removing U.N. seals and surveillance cameras from nuclear facilities that U.S. officials said could yield weapons within months.

ANTI-SEMITISM

In 1894, French army officer Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason in a court-martial that triggered worldwide charges of anti-Semitism. (Dreyfus was eventually vindicated.)

ASSSASSINATION

In 1963, an official 30-day mourning period following the assassination of President Kennedy came to an end.

DISASTER

In 1977, three dozen people were killed when a 250-foot-high grain elevator at the Continental Grain Company plant in Westwego, Louisiana, exploded.

POLITICS

In 1807, Congress passed the Embargo Act, barring all U.S. trade with foreign countries.

2ND AMENDMENT

In 1984, New York City resident Bernhard Goetz shot and wounded four youths on a Manhattan subway, claiming they were about to rob him.

CULTURE

In 1808, Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony Number 5 in C Minor, Opus 67, and Symphony Number 6 in F Major, Opus 68 ("Pastoral"), had their world premieres in Vienna, Austria.

In 2006,rape charges were dropped against three Duke University lacrosse players, but kidnapping and sexual offense charges remained. (Those charges were later dropped as well.) Space shuttle Discovery returned to Earth after a smooth, 13-day flight to rewire the international space station.

DEATH

In 2002, Joe Strummer, lead singer of the legendary British punk band The Clash, died in Broomfield, England, at age 50.

BIRTHDAYS

Former House Speaker Jim Wright is 85. Actor Hector Elizondo is 71. Country singer Red Steagall is 69. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Steve Carlton is 63. ABC News correspondent Diane Sawyer is 62. Rock singer-musician Rick Nielsen (Cheap Trick) is 61. Baseball All-Star Steve Garvey is 59. Singer Robin Gibb is 58. Golfer Jan Stephenson is 56. Actress BernNadette Stanis is 54. Rapper Luther Campbell is 47. Country singer-musician Chuck Mead (BR549) is 47. Actor Ralph Fiennes is 45. Actress Lauralee Bell is 39. Country singer Lori McKenna is 39. Actress Dina Meyer is 39. Actress Heather Donahue is 33. Actor Chris Carmack is 27. Singer Jordin Sparks ("American Idol") is 18.

December 22, the 356th day of 2007. There are 9 days left in the year. Winter's arrival: 1:08 a.m. Eastern time.




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