Louis Farrakhan

Louis Eugene Farrakhan (born May 11, 1933) is an American religious movement leader, political activist and writer.

Overview

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

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

In 2020, he was classified by the American civil rights group Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as the most popular antisemite in America.[2]

Racism

Farrakhan is well-known for his antisemitic and anti-White views, despite his and his group's denial.

1980s

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]

1990s

In 1995, Farrakhan accused Jews of causing the Holocaust themselves, a false claim common among antisemites,[5][6] 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".[7]

2010s

In March 2015, Farrakhan accused "Israelis and Zionist Jews" of being involved in the September 11 attacks,[8][9] while believing that Jews control mass media and the Hollywood to "turn man into women and women into men".[10] 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",[11] 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."[12] 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.

References

  1. ↑ "Nation of Islam at a Crossroad as Leader Exits". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
  2. ↑ "Farrakhan Remains Most Popular Antisemite in America". Anti-Defamation League (ADL). July 15, 2020. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
  3. ↑ Shipp, E. R. (June 29, 1984). "Tape Contradicts Disavowal of 'Gutter Religion' Attack". The New York Times. pp. A12. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
  4. ↑ Hitchens, Christopher (2007). God Is Not Great. London: Atlantic Books. p. 219. ISBN 9781843545743.
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  7. ↑ "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.
  8. ↑ "Farrakhan: 'Israelis And Zionist Jews' Behind 9/11 Terror Attacks". CBS DC. March 5, 2015. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ Greenwood, Max (February 28, 2018). "Tapper rips Farrakhan after anti-Semitic speech". The Hill. Retrieved December 11, 2019.
  11. ↑ Kerstein, Benjamin (July 8, 2020). "Public Campaign Launched to Remove Three-Hour Antisemitic Speech by Louis Farrakhan From YouTube". Algemeiner. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
  12. ↑ 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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