A GOOD FRIEND OF RACIST DIVISIONIST BARACK OBAMA IS HATE MONGER LOUIS FARRAKHAN, A FELLOW MUSLIM (SEE HIS PROFILE BELOW THEN DO A SEARCH FOR OBAMA - FARRAKHAN)
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Review: Obama-Produced Netflix Movie ‘Leave the World Behind’ Can’t Decide How Much It Hates White People
Netflix’s Leave the World Behind has a white people problem. The Wi-fi is out but that’s not it. The Tesla is acting funny, but also nope. The movie can’t decide how much it hates white people.
Sometimes, it’s a little, and sometimes, it’s a whole lot, like when Julia Roberts goes full Karen on the black family that shows up unannounced at the doorstep. Or when husband Ethan Hawke abandons a distraught Latina housekeeper on the roadside. Mostly, this apocalyptic thriller spends more than two hours trying to be artfully “ambiguous” about its Whiteness Studies specimens as the world comes crashing down around them.
The plot can be summarized as: White people problems become the problem with white people. Profound stuff. This is the kind of movie that lefty white Brooklyn-ites think they deserve and feel obligated to love — the former because they are self-loathing and the latter because the movie was produced by Barack and Michelle Obama.
In searching for material to turn into their first fiction feature for Netflix, the former first couple landed on a novel that ticks all the boxes of brand 44. Gay Bangladeshi-American author Rumaan Alam’s book is a thinly veiled Trump-era allegory that is set in 2019 and imagines an unspecified apocalyptic event that threatens humanity and sends an unnamed president scurrying into a bunker for safety.
But the end of the world is a giant red herring for the movie’s (and the Obamas’) central preoccupation — race.
The central family (Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke, plus two kids) is hunkered down in a palatial Hamptons rental when the internet goes out and an oil tanker mysteriously beaches itself. Soon, planes are falling from the sky. Enter the black family (father Mahershala Ali and daughter, played by actress Myha’la), who are seeking refuge from the unfolding calamity.
It turns out the Mahershala Ali character is the owner of the property — a fact that Julia Robert’s cynical ad executive has a lot of trouble believing. She even asks him to show ID. How dare she! Later, she makes them sleep in the basement, though it’s a very nice basement. Casting the uber-likeable Julia Roberts in an unlikeable role is a hoot. The 56-year-old actress magnificently looks her age and admirably does little to temper her character’s harshness. But Robert’s still-formidable star power makes her character more relatable than she should be and ends up taking some of the edge off of what the movie really wants to say.
Which is what exactly? Hard to tell given the movie’s deliberately mishmash tone and numerous forest paths that lead nowhere. A clip that has gone viral showing Myha’la’s character talking trash about “white people” has led numerous people on the right to conclude that the movie is woke. But this bratty Zoomer is perhaps the least sympathetic character in the whole movie, and her knee-jerk race baiting is something her father knows best to ignore or brush aside.
What is Obama trying to tell us? It’s a muddled message at best. The movie’s vision of Armageddon is generalized to the point of generic — it could be cyberattack, an environmental disaster, or the North Koreans. Most likely, it’s just a heavy-handed metaphoric manifestation of our racial divisions — the end of the world is our ultimate punishment for white privilege.
Race is the organizing principle in Obama’s worldview, and so it is the case with Leave the World Behind. White people problems become everybody’s problems. There goes the neighborhood becomes there goes the world.
The Obamas know better than anyone how to package such a patently ridiculous and repulsive ideology as race essentialism into a slick piece of fun. Leave the World Behind is never less than entertaining. The early scene with the oil tanker is thrilling to behold and a sequence involving out-of-control self-driving Teslas will be remembered for a long time. Writer-director Sam Esmail can’t shake his TV background but he is in control of his visual style, no more so than when he uses cross-cutting between various permutations of characters to build suspense.
The actors are all top-notch, fully embodying their characters while acknowledging the quotation marks they come with. Ethan Hawke’s CUNY professor listens to NPR and reads The Atlantic. His left-wing compassion goes only so far when he encounters the Latina housekeeper — a bizarre throwaway scene that is elevated by Hawke, who gives one of his best performances as a man who turns out to be more resourceful than he thinks he is.
Late in the story, Kevin Bacon has a big scene as the local conspiracy theorist and doomsday prepper who price gouges Hawke’s character in a moment of crisis. The giant American flag on his porch and trucker hat are extremely subtle indications that he is conservative.
The movie’s youngest character (Farrah Mackenzie) is the daughter of Roberts and Hawke — a pre-teen glued to her devices who is addicted to Friends, the whitest sitcom ever made. She is “binge culture” personified and delivers the movie’s final, visual punchline.
A final note about the original novel… Rumaan Alam’s book was published during the Trump presidency and reflected the writer’s publicly stated anti-Trump sentiments.
“I didn’t want this to be a book about Trump,” he said in an interview. “One of the frustrations of sharing the planet with him is the way he’s forced us to see everything as somehow related to him. So I avoid saying his name, but he’s there, because I wanted this to be a book about this moment. Not to talk about that guy, but to talk about what’s most urgent right now.”
But the Netflix movie is a product of the Biden era — and it resonates more powerfully because of it. An inept president does nothing as the world devolves into chaos around him: war and conflict breaking out across the globs, his own citizens forced to endure one economic indignity after another as race relations fray to the point of catastrophe. There is no hope that things will get better.
The Obamas produced an end of the world allegory but maybe not the one that thought they were making.
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* Leader of the Nation of Islam
* Orchestrated the 1995 “Million Man March”
* Renowned for his hatred of whites and Jews
Beginnings
Louis Farrakhan was born Louis Eugene Walcott on May 11, 1933 in the Bronx, New York. He grew up in Boston and was raised in the Episcopalian Church. Walcott attended the Winston-Salem Teachers College from 1951-53 but dropped out to pursue a musical career, becoming a popular calypso singer, dancer, and violinist in the Boston nightclub circuit. In 1953 he married a woman named Khadijah and went on to have nine children with her.
Joining the Nation of Islam
While in Chicago in February 1955, Walcott was invited by a friend to attend a Nation of Islam (NOI) Saviours’ Day Convention at a local mosque. Soon thereafter, he joined NOI, and, as was customary among the organization’s members, replaced his surname with an “X,” as a way of distancing himself from a surname that had likely been assigned to his ancestors by white slaveholders in a bygone era.
Louis X first gained some prominence at Temple No. 7 in Harlem, New York, where he was a protégé of the temple’s minister, Malcolm X. NOI’s top leader, Elijah Muhammad, gave Louis X his new Muslim name, Abdul Haleem Farrakhan, and soon thereafter Farrakhan was appointed head minister of Boston Temple No. 11, which had been previously established by Malcolm X.
Farrakhan & the Murder of Malcolm X
In the 1960s Farrakhan developed a strong enmity toward Malcolm X, who backed a more moderate vision of black civil rights than did Farrakhan. When Malcolm in 1964 publicly revealed that Elijah Muhammad had impregnated several of his teenage secretaries, Farrakhan, outraged at what he perceived to be Malcolm’s disloyalty, called Malcolm a traitor and denounced him in the December 12, 1964 issue of the NOI newspaper Muhammad Speaks: “Only those who wish to be led to hell, or to their doom, will follow Malcolm. The die is set, and Malcolm shall not escape, especially after such evil, foolish talk about his benefactor; such a man is worthy of death and would have been met with death if it had not been for Muhammad’s confidence in Allah for victory over his enemies.” Ten weeks later, on February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was killed in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom by three gunmen with ties to NOI.
· In 1993, Farrakhan tried to justify Malcolm X’s assassination when he said in a speech: “Was Malcolm your traitor or ours? And if we dealt with [Malcolm] like a nation deals with a traitor, what the hell business is it of yours? A nation has to be able to deal with traitors and cutthroats and turncoats.”
· In 1994, however, Farrakhan spoke for the first time in repentant tones about the slaying, and admitted to having “helped create the atmosphere” that led to it. “I may have been complicit in words that I spoke leading up to 21 February [1965],” he added in May 2000. “I acknowledge that and regret that any word that I have said caused the loss of life of a human being.”
· Soon thereafter, however, Farrakhan named the U.S. government as the real villain that had fomented zeal and bitterness inside NOI’s ranks.
Rising Star of NOI
Three months after Malcolm X’s death, Farrakhan became the minister of NOI’s Temple #7 in Harlem. In 1967 he became NOI’s “national spokesman,” and his popularity soared. In a June 1974 speaking appearance in New York, for example, Farrakhan drew a crowd of 70,000 people.
Ties to Moammar Qaddafi
In 1971 — according to a September 2009 editorial by Farrakhan in The Final Call — Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi loaned NOI $3 million for the purchase of a Greek Orthodox Church in Chicago that became the Nation of Islam’s new headquarters.
NOI’s Philosophical Split
When Elijah Muhammad died in February 1975, his son, Wallace Deen Muhammad, succeeded him as Supreme Minister of the organization. Not wishing to be overshadowed by the more charismatic Farrakhan, Muhammad reassigned Farrakhan to an NOI temple located in a poor section of Chicago’s West Side. Moreover, Warith sought to make NOI more like mainstream Sunni Islam and began to permit non-blacks to join the organization, going so far as to change its name in November 1976 to the “World Community of al-Islam in the West.” This greatly troubled Farrakhan, who saw it as an abandonment of Elijah Muhammad’s separatist, anti-white principles. On November 8. 1977, Farrakhan announced that he was reestablishing the Nation of Islam in line with Elijah Muhammad’s principles.
Striving to prove himself as the rightful heir to Elijah Muhammad, Farrakhan purchased Muhammad’s former Chicago home in 1986, and two years later he purchased Mosque #2, the flagship mosque owned by Warith Muhammad’s old NOI. Before long, Farrakhan’s NOI surpassed Warith’s organization in terms of membership and influence.
Threatening a Black Reporter Who Revealed Jesse Jackson’s Anti-Semitism
In 1984 Farrakhan issued a threat against a black Washington Post reporter named Milton Coleman, for having publicly revealed that presidential candidate Jesse Jackson, whose campaign Farrakhan strongly supported, had derisively referred to Jews as “Hymies,” and to New York City as “Hymietown.” Said Farrakhan on a Chicago-based radio program: “We’re going to make an example of Milton Coleman! What do [we] intend to do to Mr. Coleman? At this point, no physical harm . . . We’re going to punish the traitor and make the traitor beg for forgiveness . . . One day soon we will punish you with death! . . . This is a fitting punishment for such dogs.” Farrakhan also promised that Coleman’s wife would “go to hell . . . the same punishment that’s due that no-good, filthy traitor.”
Alleged Encounter with a UFO
At an October 24, 1989 press conference which he dubbed “The Great Announcement,” Farrakhan detailed what he claimed had been his experience with an unidentified flying object (UFO) four years earlier. To view excerpts of that account, click here.
Alliance with the Congressional Black Caucus
At a “Race in America” town hall meeting sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) on September 16, 1993, Farrakhan and NOI announced that they had agreed to establish a more formalized working relationship with the CBC. At the meeting, Farrakhan joined former CBC chairman Kweisi Mfume, NAACP executive director Benjamin Chavis, Rep. Maxine Waters, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson in a discussion about: (a) the poor state of race relations in America, and (b) possible solutions to the problems facing the black community. Among the problems that the panel identified were: societal prejudice against African Americans, black feelings of inferiority, housing and job discrimination, poverty, urban violence, and family dysfunction. As the Washington Post reported: “The agreement between the [C]aucus and the often controversial Nation of Islam means that the two groups will consult on legislative issues and develop common strategies … on major issues.” “We want the word to go forward today to friend and foe alike that the Congressional Black Caucus, after having entered into a sacred covenant with the NAACP to work for real and meaningful change, will enter into that same covenant with the Nation of Islam,” said Mfume. Farrakhan, for his part, stated: “Black people have to take it upon ourselves to end racism. White folks will never end it. But we have the power in ourselves.”
Mfume backed out of the aforementioned covenant with NOI in February 1994, after a number of CBC members voiced concern about Farrakhan’s failure to condemn a recent instance of incendiary racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric by NOI spokesman Khalid Abdul Muhammad.
Icon of Black Racial Politics
For many years, Farrakhan has ranked among the most influential black figures in America. He draws enormous, standing-room-only crowds of listeners wherever he speaks. An October 1992 lecture he gave in Atlanta actually outdrew a World Series game played there that same night. In 1996 the National Newspaper Publishers Association, which represents 200 black-owned publishers, gave Farrakhan its “Newsmaker of the Year” award — for which one criterion was the demonstration of “a higher level of moral authority.”
Farrakhan has been a mentor and role model to many black radicals, among the most notable being Malik Zulu Shabazz and the late Khalid Abdul Muhammad.
Million Man March
Farrakhan was the lead organizer and main attraction at the October 16, 1995 Million Man March, which was held at the National Mall in Washington, D.C and drew several hundred thousand attendees. Though officially billed as a “day of atonement,” a significant portion of the event focused on America’s historical and allegedly continuing assault on black people. “The real evil in America,” Farrakhan said that day, “is the idea that undergirds the setup of the Western world, and that idea is called white supremacy.” Among the notable individuals who helped Farrakhan organize the Million Man March were Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright, and Barack Obama.
Alliance with Libyan Dictator Moammar Qadhafi
On numerous occasions, Farrakhan has formed alliances with avowed foreign enemies of the United States. In January 1996, for instance, he formed a partnership with Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi, who pledged $1 billion to help Farrakhan develop a Muslim political lobby in the U.S. According to Libya’s official news agency JANA, Qadhafi announced: “Our confrontation with America used to be like confronting a fortress from outside. Today, we have found a loophole to enter the fortress and to confront it from within. On this basis, we agreed with Louis Farrakhan and his delegation to mobilize in a legal and legitimate form the oppressed minorities, and at their forefront the blacks, Arabs, Muslims and red Indians — for they play an important role in American political life and have a weight in U.S. elections.”
JANA also quoted Farrakhan as having said: “I have met my brother, Col. Moammar [Q]adhafi … for the sake of unifying Arabs, Muslims, blacks and oppressed communities in America to play a strong, significant role, not only in the American elections but in American foreign policy.”
This was not Farrakhan’s first friendly encounter with Qadhafi. Eleven years earlier, the Libyan strongman — through the Islamic Call Society, a Tripoli-based religious agency supporting Muslim activity across the globe — had granted NOI a $5 million, interest-free loan, in gratitude for which Farrakhan later visited Libya to personally thank his benefactor. When he offered the loan to NOI, Qadhafi not only encouraged black soldiers to leave the U.S. Army, but he also offered to arm such deserters so they could resist their “racist oppressors.” On yet another occasion, Farrakhan and his aides — violating a travel ban imposed on Americans by President Reagan — flew to Tripoli to meet with Qadhafi, whom Farrakhan, at various times, proudly called “a friend,” “a brother,” and “a fellow struggler in the cause of liberation for our people.”
In March 2011, Farrakhan, reacting to President Barack Obama‘s decision to assist rebels who had recently launched an uprising against Libyan President Moammar Qadhafi, said: “I love Moammar Qadhafi, and I love our president. It grieves me to see my brother president set a policy that would remove this man not only from power, but from the earth.” Portraying Qadhafi as a fellow revolutionary and longtime friend of NOI, Farrakhan reported that the Libyan leader had lent the Nation of Islam some $8 million over the years.
Close Ties to Fidel Castro
In 1996, Farrakhan traveled to Communist Cuba and met with President Fidel Castro. The two discussed international issues, Cuba’s social development, and conditions among people of African descent in the Western Hemisphere.
Farrakhan returned to Cuba for a friendly, three-day visit in February 1998.
On March 19, 2006, Farrakhan led a 23-person delegation on a nine-day fact-finding mission to Communist Cuba, where they met with Fidel Castro and studied Cuba’s purportedly exceptional example of disaster-relief preparedness. The delegation took pains to contrast Cuba’s efficiency to the Bush administration’s allegedly abysmal response to Hurricane Katrina in August and September of 2005 — a response that Farrakhan, at a March 27 press conference in Havana, cited as evidence of the need for “regime change in America.” As the NOI publication Final Call reported:
“During the mission [to Cuba], the Cuban government provided the delegation with unfettered access to the officials in various governmental departments to impart how the various agencies work together to minimize and/or eliminate human casualties during, and immediately after natural disasters. The delegation learned methods and strategies of collecting vital information in advance of natural disasters that would provide for a more measured and precise evacuation plan. The Cuban government apprised the delegation of procedures it implemented which prevented the loss of any life during Hurricanes Wilma and Henry and a nominal loss of life [in Cuba] during Hurricane Katrina.”
In April 2018, Farrakhan led an NOI delegation to Cuba, to pay homage to the late Fidel Castro by laying flowers at his tomb in Santiago de Cuba.
World Friendship Tours
In 1996, ’97, and ’98, Farrakhan went on three “World Friendship Tours” to exchange pleasantries with government leaders in Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Kuwait, North Korea, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Palestinian Territories, China, Malaysia, Singapore, the former Soviet Union, 20 countries in Africa, and a number of nations in the South Pacific, the Caribbean, and South America. Many times during these tours, Farrakhan publicly denounced American foreign policy. Particularly noteworthy was his visit as an honored guest of Sudan’s Islamic fundamentalist government, which had slaughtered a million black Christians and enslaved hundreds of thousands of its black inhabitants.
Supporting Saddam Hussein
In February 1998, Farrakhan sent a cordial and supportive letter to Saddam: “Your Excellency, we who have grown up in Islam inside of America understand that the West wants to destroy you, sir, in order to make an example out of your destruction to all strong Muslim leaders. You are a visionary, and they want to destroy your vision! If they are able to bring you down, that will serve as a warning to Brother [Qadhafi] in Libya; to Brothers Hassan Turabi and [President] Omar Bashir in the Sudan; it will mean a setback for the goal of unity of the Muslim ummah.”
Hatred for Whites
In 1997 Farrakhan was quoted describing “the white man” as “the anti-Christ.”
In March 2000, The Philadelphia Enquirer quoted Farrakhan saying: “White people are potential humans … they haven’t evolved yet.”
On another occasion, Farrakhan delivered a sermon in which he said, “There is no human being on earth that has murdered more living things than the Caucasian. He is a murderer and a liar.” In the same sermon, he elaborated: “White folks … cannot be reformed [because] you cannot reform a devil. All the prophets tried and failed. You have to kill the devil…. [H]e’s 100 percent wicked…. He’s a snake of the grafted type, and if he’s allowed to live, he’ll sting someone else. It is not the color of the white man that’s the problem. It’s the mind of the white man that’s the problem.”
Blaming Jews, Not Muslims, for 9/11
In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Farrakhan stated that America had insufficient proof of Osama bin Laden‘s and al-Qaeda‘s culpability. “They [American government officials] have lied before,” he said, “and there’s no guarantee they are not lying now.”
In a March 1, 2015 Saviours’ Day event in Chicago, Farrakhan said that “Israelis and Zionist Jews” had been behind the September 11, 2001 al Qaeda terrorist attacks. “We now know that the crime they say is at the root of terrorism was not committed by Arabs or Muslims at all,” Farrakhan stated. He continued:
“They [so-called 9/11 ‘truthers’] say the world trade buildings were brought down by carefully placed explosives, not by planes. It is now becoming apparent that there were many Israelis and Zionist Jews in key roles in the 9/11 attacks. Now look, if they can prove me wrong, like I said I’ll pay with my life. Since they want to kill me anyway. Prove me wrong We’re dealing with thieves, liars and murderers. Listen to this. We know that many Israelis were arrested immediately after the attack, but quickly released and sent to Israel….
“We know that many Jews received a text message not to come to work September 11. Who sent that message, that keep them from showing up. Within minutes of the attacks Ehud Barak, the founder and master of the Israeli military covert force was in a London studio of the BBC blaming Osama bin Laden and calling for a war on terror. We know that Benjamin Netanyahu told an audience in Israel, we are benefiting from one thing and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon and the American struggle in Iraq. He added that these catastrophes and wars will swing the American public opinion in favor of Israel…. It now appears 9/11 was a false flag operation, which is an attack from one country but made to appear like an attack from another in order to start a war between them.”
Farrakhan revisited this theme in 2018, when he narrated a video that, according to the Nation of Islam, cited “many experts” who “say the World Trade Center Towers were destroyed in a controlled demolition.” According to the video, this “false flag” operation was designed “to deceive” the public by making “activities appear as though they [were] being carried out by entities, groups, or nations other than those who actually planned and executed them.”
Condemning a Possible U.S. Invasion of Iraq
Appearing on CNN’s Late Edition in 2002, Farrakhan portrayed America’s contemplated attack on Iraq as an unprovoked act of aggression against a regime that posed no tangible threat to the U.S. “I would feel so much better,” he said, “if the government of the United States of America would not seek to make Saddam Hussein a trophy for the reelection of President Bush. Saddam Hussein is not responsible for the collapse of Enron and thousands of American citizens losing their life savings.”
On Black Entertainment Television in July 2002, Farrakhan asked, “How is America so righteous, with blood dripping from [its] hands of the peoples of the world? How has America all of a sudden become so righteous that she can now go to Iraq and set that man [Saddam] down?”
Portraying the Iraq War As a War Against Islam & a Favor to Israel
In the February 17, 2005 issue of The Final Call, Farrakhan condemned the United States for seeking “to change Islam, to make Islam suitable and non-threatening to Western hegemony over the entire world.” “[T]he war [against Iraq] is not just against brutal dictators,” he said. “The war, at the root, is against Islam. The government will not admit to that, but I see signs. … I say to you that there’s no way that I, as a Muslim, could countenance my children or grandchildren fighting a war against fellow believers in any part of the world.” Asserting that America’s involvement in the Iraq War was a consequence of its loyalty to Israel, Farrakhan added:
“Once the American people understand the agenda of the neo-conservatives, you would be foolish to send your children to die for that which is against the best interest of America, but in the best interest of Israel. All of the agenda of the neo-conservatives was to bring President Bush in line with Israel and use the power of the American military to destroy the real and perceived enemies of Israel. Iraq never threatened America; could not threaten America. But as long as Saddam Hussein was alive, in their minds he was a threat to Israel. Syria is a threat to Israel. Iran is a threat to Israel. Anyone that does not believe in their justification of the State of Israel on Palestinian lands is an enemy that must be destroyed.”
Accusing the Bush Administration of Seeking to Maximize Black Deaths from Hurricane Katrina
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina which devastated America’s Gulf Coast in August 2005, Farrakhan accused President Bush of ordering that one of New Orleans’ strategically located levees be dynamited so as to enable the flood waters to kill a maximum number of black people. “I heard from a very reliable source, who saw a 25-foot deep crater under the levee breach,” said Farrakhan “It may have been blown up to destroy the black part of town and keep the white part dry.”
Posing for a Photo with Barack Obama in 2005
At a Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) meeting in 2005, Farrakhan posed for a very friendly photograph with then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama. Also posing with Farrakhan and Obama were Mustapha Farrakhan (Minister Farrakhan’s security chief and son), Joshua Farrakhan (his other son), and Leonard Farrakhan Muhammad (his chief of staff and son-in-law). In addition, the photo included a Farrakhan ally named Willie F. Wilson, who had once led a protest against an Asian business by a mob shouting, “Fuck the Chinks!” The photographer, Nation Of Islam employee Askia Muhammad, subsequently hid the photo for the next 13 years, in order to protect Obama politically. As Askia Muhammad would later explain in January 2018, he had “basically swor[n] secrecy” and handed over the picture to the aforementioned Leonard Farrakhan Muhammad, who had kept the photo hidden for 13 years.
Millions More Movement
In 2005 Farrakhan organized the Millions More Movement to mark the tenth anniversary of the Million Man March, and to demand that the U.S. government increase its spending on welfare programs designed to recompense blacks for the suffering that America has historically inflicted on them and their forebears.
Supporting Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Campaign
Addressing a crowd of some 20,000 people at the Nation of Islam’s annual Saviours’ Day celebration in February 2008, Farrakhan said that presidential candidate Barack Obama represented the “hope of the entire world” that the United States might become a better neighbor to other nations.
Also in February 2008, Farrakhan called Obama “a herald of the Messiah.” “Barack has captured the youth,” said the NOI leader, referring to the passionate support Obama had drawn from young people in America. “And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn’t care anything about. That’s a sign. When the messiah speaks, the youth will hear. And the messiah is absolutely speaking.”
Supporter of Father Michael Pfleger
Farrakhan is a longtime friend and ally of Michael Pfleger, pastor of Chicago’s Saint Sabina Catholic Church. As of April 2008, he had preached in Pfleger’s church on three separate occasions.
Embracing Scientology
In 2010 Farrakhan publicly embraced Dianetics, a practice of Scientology. He urged all NOI members to become practitioners of Scientology’s one-on-one counseling technique designed to help people handle their “engrams,” which, according to Scientology teachings, are mental images of past experiences that have negative effects on their emotional life.
In 2011, Farrakhan said: “All white people should flock to [Scientology founder] L. Ron Hubbard. You can still be a Christian; you just won’t be a devil Christian. You can still be a Jew, but you won’t be a satanic Jew.”
Dinners with Ahmadinejad, New Black Panther Party, & Iranian Imams
In September 2010, Farrakhan dined with members of the New Black Panther Party (NBPP), Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (who was in the United States for the 65th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations), and several dozen Iranian Imams at New York City’s Warwick Hotel. According to NBPP leader Malik Zulu Shabazz, who attended the dinner, the participants talked “about perhaps bringing natural gas and oil and other reparations [in compensation for past Arab slaving activities] into the black nation,” along with “other things—unmentionable.” Indicating that the tenor of the New York meeting was positive, Shabazz said: “You know, there is no greater enemy than the white man. You know, uh, again we have to learn because it’s just as many Arabs who hate this white man as we do. So, am I not to ally myself, alliance myself with this Arab in fighting this white man?” Also present at the dinner was Imam Siraj Wahhaj, amir of the Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA).
On September 24, 2013, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani hosted a dinner-party reception for approximately 20 people at his One UN hotel room in New York City. One of those guests was Farrakhan, who was escorted to the event by Iranian secret-service officers. Also present at the dinner were Democratic congressmen Keith Ellison, Andre Carson, and Gregory Meeks.
Farrakhan’s Anger over the Police Shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson
Farrakhan was outraged when — on August 9, 2014 — a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri shot and killed an 18-year-old black male named Michael Brown, who had committed a strong-armed robbery of a convenience store just a few minutes before his death. Some witnesses initially claimed, falsely, that Brown, just prior to being shot, had his hands raised above his head and was trying to peacefully surrender. When compelling ballistic, eyewitness, and forensic evidence eventually (in late October 2014) indicated that Brown in fact had assaulted the officer and tried to steal his gun just prior to the fatal shooting, Farrakhan’s outrage over the incident was undiminished. And when a grand jury announced on November 24, 2014 that it would not indict the officer—because of overwhelming evidence indicating that the shooting was done in self-defense—Farrakhan delivered a speech at at Morgan State University — a black college located in Baltimore — in which he stated that a violent response by blacks would be entirely justifiable under by the scriptural “law [of] retaliation.” For example:
· “We going to die anyway. Let’s die for something,” he told the crowd to loud applause.
· He urged parents of black teenagers to teach their kids how to throw Molotov cocktails: “Teach your baby how to throw the bottle if they can. Fight.”
· “As long as they [whites] kill us [blacks] and go to Wendy’s and have a burger and go to sleep, they’ll keep killing us,” said Farrakhan. “But when we die and they die, then soon we’re going to sit at a table and talk about it! We’re tired! We want some of this earth or we’ll tear this goddamn country up!” restraint and calm. “And you preachers,” said Farrakhan. “Your day of being the pacifier for the white man’s tyranny upon black people, you got to know they’re [young blacks] not going to hear you anymore!”
· He demanded that President Obama tell “wicked” police departments nationwide “that your killing of Black youth and Brown youth is not going to hold no more.”
Urging Blacks to Murder Whites
In a July 2015 sermon at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Miami, Farrakhan issued what was, in essence, a call for black people to murder whites who allegedly oppress and terrorize them: “I’m looking for 10,000 in the midst of a million. Ten thousand fearless men who say death is sweeter than continued life under tyranny. Death is sweeter than continuing to live and bury our children while the white folks give our killers hamburgers. Death is sweeter than watching us slaughter each other to the joy of a 400-year-old enemy. Death is sweeter. The Quran teaches persecution is worse than slaughter. Then it says retaliation is prescribed in matters of the slain. Retaliation is a prescription from God to calm the breasts of those whose children have been slain. So if the federal government won’t intercede in our affairs, then we must rise up and kill those who kill us; stalk them and kill them and let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling!”
Farrakhan Celebrates Anniversaries of the Iranian Revolution
In early 2016, Farrakhan led a delegation to Iran to participate in the 37th Anniversary commemoration of the Iranian Revolution. During a news conference, he said: “Whenever America wants to destroy a nation, a people, they must first demonize them, and the Zionist controlled media in America has chosen to demonize Iran.”
On November 4, 2018, Farrakhan was in Tehran to participate in a celebration commemorating the 39th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. embassy by Iranian extremists in 1979. Iranians marked the event by using American and British flags to apply black polish to their shoes, and by trampling mock-ups of the U.S. dollar. Angered by President Donald Trump’s recent announcement that economic sanctions against Iran would be renewed, Farrakhan said: “Today, I warn the American government that sanctioning Iran is a big mistake.” He also helped lead the crowd in chants of “Death to America! Death to Israel!”
Farrakhan Leads Chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” in Iran
In November 2018 Farrakhan traveled to Iran, where he led a University of Tehran law-school audience in chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”
Defending Leaders of The Women’s March
During his Saviours’ Day Conference speech in Chicago in February 2019, Farrakhan spoke in defense of Women’s March national leaders who had recently been criticized for associating with him — specifically Tamika Mallory (of Black Lives Matter), Linda Sarsour, and Carmen Perez.
Condemning Trump for the Killing of Qassem Soleimani
Farrakhan was outraged when President Trump in January 2020 ordered the U.S. military to kill Qasem Soleimani, the longtime leader of the terrorist Quds Force division of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. Several weeks later, on February 23, Farrakhan delivered a three-and-a-half-hour keynote speech at NOI’s annual Saviors’ Day conference in Detroit. Some noteworthy excerpts from the speech include the following:
· “You know America is going to go to war. They killed Qassem Soleimani, and America is so powerful she has the right to define others. This Qassem Soleimani, I think we met him when we were in Iran.”
· “Mr. Trump killed my brother Qassem Soleimani. Mrs. Clinton killed my other brother Muammar Qaddafi. That’s why I couldn’t support Mrs. Clinton. And some of my little black friends [were] angry with me because I wasn’t going to vote for Mrs. Clinton.”
· “See Mr. Trump, I respect you because you’re the president of the United States of America. And you said that my brother is a terrorist. And you got the power to define people. Well you may not like me, so you may call me a terrorist tomorrow to justify what the government is planning to do to me and the Nation of Islam.”
· “See, Qassem, President Trump said, killed a lot of Americans – he’s a bad man, so I killed him, he’s bad – where was a man that he killed? Did he kill him in New York? Did he kill him in Philly? Did he kill him in Colorado, or California, or Florida? Where did he kill them!? He killed them in Iraq! What the hell were you doing in Iraq!?”
· “That man was no terrorist. He was killing members of an occupying army on the territory of Iraq. And he as the brother of them from Iran was trying to rid them of an occupying army. Now I’m naming you, and I got weight with God. An occupying army. What are you doing in the Middle East? Soldiers everywhere, who sent for them? Protecting your little flunky nations? So now if I speak like I speak, and you know I’m telling the truth, this is not hyperbole, truthful hyperbole, this is the real actual fact. You went there, not to save the Iraqi people. You went there and spent [a] trillion dollars to make Iraq a bulwark against Iran.”
· “Oh Mr. Trump, you shall not commit murder. You took credit – ah yeah, I had the boys kill Qassem… Sent the drone after him – how many have you killed? How many are you planning to kill? See, murder is your modus operandi. See here I am now. You want me dead. And after today you might want to speed it up. I don’t know. But Mr. Trump, America has become a habitation of devils, and a hole for every unclean spirit in a cage, for every hateful bird. Hateful birds mean those that are in foreign countries. You’re in Wuhan province, I didn’t know you were there. Now you have a little something that you want to bring home to America. You’re everywhere.”
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Barack Obama does his coded version of ‘from the river to the sea’
Barack Obama is not a learned man, but it’s a mistake to confuse that with stupidity. He is, in fact, an extremely clever man. Combine that cleverness with the fact that he truly dislikes Israel and has aligned himself with those countries and groups that wish to destroy the country, complete with the genocide of all of its inhabitants, and you end up with someone who covertly signals to Israel’s enemies his ideological allegiance with them, even while seemingly treading a morally meaningless line right down the middle.
Those of us who have paid close attention to Obama over the years know that he dislikes Jews and Israel. Here are just a few facts supporting that contention:
1. Jeremiah Wright, in whose church Obama sat for 20 years’ worth of Sundays, made no secret of his support for Arab “Palestinians” and the Nation of Islam. Once Obama became president, Wright blamed “the Jews” for his inability to get near a man who had decided his mentor was politically toxic.
2. In 2003, Obama attended a dinner honoring Rashid Khalidi, a mouthpiece for the PLO during the 1970s and 1980s, before Bill Clinton rehabilitated that terrorist organization. Obama apparently praised Khalidi so effusively that, to this day, the Los Angeles Times refuses to release an audiotape of the event.
3. One of Obama’s first official acts as president was to head to Egypt to give a speech to the Muslim world. During the speech, Obama claimed that the nation of Israel exists only as a sop to the Holocaust, something that denies the Jews’ 4,000-year connection to the land. He also said he supported a Palestinian state, something that, for the Palestinians, has always meant erasing a Jewish presence, with blood force if necessary.
4. Obama had a friendly relationship with Louis Farrakhan, who called Jews satanic and compared them to termites, called Judaism a “gutter religion,” and called Hitler a “great man.” Even the leftist ADL has conceded Farrakhan’s embrace of antisemitic tropes.
5. Obama worked hard to elevate Iran as a power in the Middle East, including making it possible for Iran to be days away from launching a nuclear weapon. He did this even though Iran has loudly and repeatedly voiced its desire to annihilate Israel. To this end, Iran has funded both Hamas and Hezbollah, which wage constant, genocidal war against Israel. Obama was unperturbed by Iran’s funding terrorism that also slaughtered U.S. troops or by the fact that Iran has officially been at war with America (“Death to America!”) since 1979.
These are just a few examples.
After Hamas’s maniacal, psychotic, brutal attack on Israeli civilians on October 7, Obama kept a very low profile. The other day, however, he agreed to give a full interview on the subject to Pod Save America, a left-wing media outlet.
Yesterday, the outlet released a snippet of the interview. Superficially, it sounds as if Obama is trying to split the baby. Everyone, he says, is at fault. It’s all very sad. Blah-blah-blah. But if you take a minute really to listen to what he says, a different message comes through:
Did you catch that little phrase in the torrent of pretend-neutral blah-blah? After acknowledging that “what Hamas did was horrific, and there’s no justification for it,” Obama says that “what is also true is that the occupation and what’s happening to Palestinians is unbearable.”
What occupation? Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005, forcibly removing Jewish settlers and leaving behind lush greenhouses that the Arabs promptly destroyed. There is no “occupation” in Gaza.
If he’s talking about an occupation, Obama can only be referring to the same occupation Gaza and its terrorist inhabitants decry: namely, the Jewish presence on the land between “the river [Jordan] and the sea [the Mediterranean].” If you look at a map, and I’m sure Obama has, Hamas and its blood-thirsty adherents want it all, and they want it just like Gaza itself: Free of living Jews and preferably littered with the bodies of dead ones.
Mostly, Obama is speaking meaningless garbage, but his friends know what he’s really saying.
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How Obama’s Muslim Childhood Became a Taboo Topic
https://www.frontpagemag.com/how-obamas-muslim-childhood-became-a-taboo-
Reflections on when a gigantic biographical inconvenience was successfully hidden and denied.
June 23, 2023 by Daniel Pipes 22 Comments
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Americans have an abiding fascination with their presidents, especially with their foibles and secrets. Who lied? Who ordered illegal operations? Who had mistresses?
Thus was the country transfixed by Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, and the tawdry drip-drip of their liaison. When newly declassified documents revealed hitherto unknown CIA connections to Lee Harvey Oswald, this made a media splash, with Tucker Carlson asking: “Did the CIA have a hand in the murder of John F. Kennedy?”
But that fascination dies when it comes to Barack Obama, the Left’s quasi-sacred figure. About him, no curiosity, please, no gossip, and no hint of impropriety. When he falsely claimed in 1991 to have been born in Kenya, and not in Hawaii, blame fell on a sloppy literary agent. When Stanley Kurtz proved that Obama lied about not being a member of Chicago’s socialist New Party and a candidate for it, the Obama P.R. machine smeared Kurtz and the story disappeared.
When clear evidence showed that Obama had lied about having been born and raised a Muslim, the researcher who made the case was reviled, his investigation scorned, and his argument vaporized.
I should know, as I was that researcher. I wrote five times on this topic in 2007-08, during Obama’s first presidential campaign (three of those times in FrontPageMag.com) and then aggregated all this information, plus new details, in a long and (so far) definitive September 2012 article, “Obama’s Muslim Childhood,” serialized in the Washington Times.
All those writings emphasized that Obama was now a Christian. The first one began with:
“If I were a Muslim I would let you know,” Barack Obama has said, and I believe him. In fact, he is a practicing Christian, a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ. He is not now a Muslim. But was he ever a Muslim or seen by others as a Muslim?
I answered in the affirmative and showed how contradictory evidence concerning Obama’s religious background – from Obama’s father and name, from years in Indonesia, from his family, and most of all from himself – conclusively points to his being born and raised a Muslim.
Throughout, I emphasized not the Islam issue but the character issue; if Obama lies about something so fundamental, how can he be trusted? His other lies, such as Kenyan birth and socialist party non-membership, confirm this problem.
Responses came fast and hard. Ben Rhodes’ “echo chamber” nearly fainted at the impudence of my lèse majesté. Like Kurtz, I was slandered without the facts I presented ever addressed. Here’s a small sampling of the deluge:
· Ben Smith in Politico derided my analysis as “the template for a faux-legitimate assault on Obama’s religion.”
· The Spectator called mine the “the worst article on the presidential election” and also deemed it “mad” and “despicable.”
· Martin Peretz in the New Republic said I had “simply gone bonkers … and malicious.”
· Vice ran an article “Would You Care If Obama Were Muslim?” that responded to my carefully-crafted argument with “BLARGHA BLARGHA BLARGH REPEAL OBAMA BIN HUSSEIN’S GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF OUR JOBS.”
The Atlantic published no less than three attacks on the article and me. Mark Ambinder rued “the false notion that Obama is or was ever Muslim.” Andrew Sullivan dismissed my work as “toxins.” Matthew Yglesias ridiculed my saying that I believe Obama is not now a Muslim with “I, for one, believe Daniel Pipes when he says he’s not a child molester.”
And so it went, howling with outrage at the very thought of Obama as a Muslim, mocking and taunting me with ad hominem attacks, speculating about my motives. So relentless was the onslaught, even the conservative press overwhelmingly shied away from the topic. The McCain and Romney campaigns both treated the topic like Kryptonite. The issue of Obama’s lies had no impact on either presidential campaign, both of which – of course – Obama won.
I expect that, at some future time when Barack Obama loses his sacral quality, historians will take great interest in his childhood religious affiliation. They will wonder how, in the information-heavy, politically-riven, and celebrity-mad culture of early twenty-first century United States, so gigantic a biographical inconvenience could be successfully hidden and rendered taboo. They will study how, in a modern democratic society, a determined candidate can suppress even the most important and relevant information.
I look forward to the vindication.
Mr. Pipes (DanielPipes.org, @DanielPipes) is president of the Middle East Forum. © 2023 by Daniel Pipes. All rights reserved.
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