The truth about Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam

The truth about Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam By FinalCall.com

News EditorialsUpdated Mar 10, 2008, 04:41 pm

Mosque Maryam, National Headquarters of the Nation of Islam.

It has been 40 years since the Kerner Commission (pdf), empaneled by President Johnson following the urban rebellions and riots in Newark and Detroit, issued its famous warning: “Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal. … Discrimination and segregation have long permeated much of American life; they now threaten the future of every American.”

At the dawn of the 21st century, Americans still lead highly segregated lives based on where we live, go to school and worship. We are separated by the things we watch on television. We are generally separated along racial lines when it comes to high profile and racially charged cases, like the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and when it comes to charges of police brutality. There is an economic divide, with Blacks earning less than Whites, on average, for the same jobs. There is a health divide, with the health status of Blacks lagging behind Whites—even when Blacks have similar incomes to Whites and health insurance. There is a penalty Blacks pay just for being Black, spending more for goods and services, whether the penalty is assessed in outrageous mark-ups at ghetto corner stores or in denial of home mortgage loans by banks and being steered to high interest loans by mortgage brokers. There is a justice divide with harsher sentences meted out to Blacks for crimes and fewer chances for rehabilitation.

We live in separate and often hostile realities. By the nature of our 400 year history, how can we see things the same way?

In particular, how can we see an extraordinary Black man and an extraordinary movement in the same way? The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam are well known, respected and loved by the Black community and the oppressed. And that love extends from far beyond the fact that the Nation has a track record for reforming those destroyed by and left at the bottom of American society.

The Black Muslims in America are generally seen as decent, hardworking, honest “brothers and sisters” dedicated to serving a community and people that White America has shown she does not care about and has little use for. Muslims are known for speaking straight words to those who enjoy power and influence and who force Black leaders, politicians, businessmen, activists, academics and intellectuals to bow at the altar of White Power and White Supremacy.

The Nation of Islam has inspired Black Americans to be proud of themselves and their heritage and inspired Black organizations and leadership to challenge injustice. There would have been no Alex Haley and no “Roots,” without the Nation of Islam and Minister Malcolm X. There would likely have been no Black Panther Party without Min. Malcolm’s words from the Hon. Elijah Muhammad that touched Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton. There would certainly have been no Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Imam W.D. Mohammed, Louis Farrakhan or other mighty Nation of Islam ministers without the Hon. Elijah Muhammad as their teacher.

The teachings of the Hon. Elijah Muhammad and his attacks on White Supremacy-laden Christianity as taught by our slave former slave masters and their children spurred many Black theologians to research and document the Black presence in the Bible and re-teach theology from the perspective of the Original People, tracing its origins back to ancient Egyptian writings and connecting religion to the struggle for liberation.

While the Black middle class may utter its disdain for mistreatment at the hands of Whites behind closed doors and stew in a seething rage, Min. Farrakhan has spoken boldly and honestly about the lack of opportunity and the humiliation many Black professionals still endure. He has spoken critically to Black men about the need to care for their children. He has spoken directly to Black youth in so-called gangs about the need to stop the violence and fratricide on city streets. He has challenged hip hop artists to clean up lyrics that degrade themselves and their people. He has urged Black women to show decency and respect for themselves and to command respect from their men. He has appealed to religious leaders, across lines of faith and denomination, to carry their beliefs into practice by going to serve the least in society, and to look beyond religious dogma to essential principles of truth found in all faiths to change America for the better.

The Minister has been a faithful warner to America about the divine judgment she faces for evil done to the children of her once slaves, her moral failures and her exploitation of people around the globe.

As American companies have exported jobs overseas, the Minister has sought international friendships and partnerships that could be used to rebuild neighborhoods suffering from Third World conditions in the richest nation on earth.

The Minister has spoken to nearly every major Black organization in America and has been invited to colleges and universities by Black students across the country. He has been lauded and feted, given awards, cheered and was prayed for by people across religious, racial, ethnic, philosophical, and political lines at the time of his most serious health crisis.

He has offered to dialogue with detractors and held private meetings to find a way to resolve differences, consented to probing media interviews and asked to be brought before Congress to answer questions about where he stands and what he believes.

Yet White America and the media continue to try to paint a divinely-guided man and a peacemaker as a hater and divisive figure in society. But can an oppressor and the oppressed see things the same way? Can a slave master and a slave see a liberator in the same way? Did the British Crown see Nathan Hale, who uttered “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country,” the same way as freedom-seeking American colonists? Obviously not, the British hanged Hale as a spy and a traitor.

Min. Farrakhan is a good man and Black America, many in White America and the world knows it. The shame is that many are still afraid to speak the truth. They fear censure of the oppressor and the loss of nearness to the slave master. Blacks understand that to curry favor with Whites, the desires of Whites must be appeased. Min. Farrakhan’s refusal to acquiesce to lies and pressure to reject truth is a major reason he is loved among the oppressed and those who believe in freedom, justice and equality. He is a man of strength and integrity. He is an example of what a free Black man looks like.

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The Gods at War: The Future is All About Y.O.U.t.h.

The Gods at War: The Future is All About Y.O.U.t.h.By The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

[Editor’s note: The following article contains excerpts from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s keynote address during the Nation of Islam’s annual Saviours’ Day Convention held Sunday, February 24, 2008 at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois. Click here to order DVD or CD.]

In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.

This is why I chose the subject “The Gods At War: The Future Is All About You; all about Youth.” You have to make decisions today for your life, and you have to be informed to make the right decision. They say that when war is fought, the first casualty is truth. If The Gods Are At War, who are they? Where are they? Can we see them? Because all of us are in The Valley of Decision, can we be taught enough about them that we might choose which one of them we will follow?

I thank the Mighty F.O.I. and M.G.T., and the Junior F.O.I. and M.G.T., and all our youth whose work in the seminars and meetings over this weekend dealing with the real problems of our young people and the young people of the world, and for what you offered of the Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to our young Brothers and Sisters. Young people: Regardless of your station in life today, know that you were born to lead tomorrow. Today, I hope to put you in the mind and spirit to accept the responsibility that Almighty God wants to place on the shoulders of young people all over our planet. The last thank you, of course is the greatest of all. I thank Almighty God Allah for His Grace and Mercy, and to let you all know how honored I am that Allah (God) has granted me another year after my horrific operation and near-death experience. I thank Him; I thank Him.

A World in Peril
Wicked people are never pleased at hearing the truth, but we live at a time when there must be present in the world those who are willing to speak the truth regardless of whom or what, and suffer the necessary consequences of telling the truth at the time of the demise of this present world.

The context of this message is a world in peril. The context of the phenomenal rise of Barack Obama is a world and a nation in peril. When you and I think of the conditions in America and the conditions in the world, where in the scriptures do we find a prophecy that fits the condition of America and the condition of the world?

In the New Testament, in 2 Timothy 3:1-5, it reads: “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come; For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy. Unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good. Traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof.” So Paul says to Timothy, “From such people, turn away.”

We are just not living in a time of universal integration. The hope of every decent human being is to see all human beings loving each other, at peace with each other, enjoying the spirit of brotherly love. That is the hope and the desire of every good person on this earth. The hope is not wrong, but there are those who don’t want that.

You cannot unite with wickedness if you love righteousness. You can’t have fellowship with this world that is in its last days and have the love of God at the same time. Now, either Jesus’ teaching is right, or he’s just wrong. In the Book of James, Jesus said, “The love of this world is enmity with God.” So if you like the way this world has tailored you and fashioned you; fashioned your neighbor, fashioned your school, fashioned your life—if you love that, something is wrong with you. But if you are dissatisfied with this world, and hate what this world has done and is doing to children, to women, to men, to nations, to governments, then you must be a seeker of truth, because it is only after knowing the truth that you will be able to see clearly. Not only see the condition that you are in, but the condition that the world in which we live is in.

The enemy’s ‘litmus test’ for Black leadership
No one can make an intelligent decision without being properly informed. This is why this world wants to control the media. This is why media hype can take you up and take you down, so you don’t know anymore who is really good, because the media can make a wicked man look good and make a good man look evil. That is why people in Jesus’ time said, “Crucify him.” If they were well informed they would never have chosen a thief.

The enemy is working right now. He wants to find a way to get at Farrakhan. What is wrong with Farrakhan that you have to make Farrakhan a “litmus test” for any Black person who strives for betterment; for elevation in the society? The enemy says, “Let’s give them ‘The Farrakhan Test.” Now, I’ve taken tests, but I have never been in a classroom where a test is only applied to one student in the class. If you’re going to give somebody a litmus test, give the test to all of them. Don’t single out one man, Sen. Barack Obama, and say, “Well, let’s give him ‘The Farrakhan Test.’” Why not give it to Senator Clinton?

What are you trying to do to our Brother? Why do you hate him so, that you want to make me a stumbling block for him? That is why you have never heard me make any comment. I love that Brother, and I want to see that Brother successful! I don’t want to say anything that would hurt that Brother, and I don’t want them to use me or the Nation of Islam. I didn’t tell anybody who to vote for; do what you want to do. I have taught you enough sense that I know you will vote your self interest, if you know what your self interest is.

America is spiraling downward
Right now, we can see extreme weather plaguing the United States, from floods, drought and famine—these are no longer just biblical prophecies. We see the drying up of lakes and rivers and water diminishing in certain areas to such a degree that states are now quarreling over who is going to get to use the water. Rare winter tornadoes in the Midwest; powerful Pacific storms with hurricane-force winds, fires, and mudslides; severe flooding in the Southwest; and over 1,000 cities in America experiencing record-high temperatures. Farmland once used to grown corn and soy beans for human consumption is now being used to make bio fuels for industrial consumption, which is naturally raising the price of food. Oil prices reaching over $100 a barrel.

How does that affect America? How much money do you have in your pocket, and how long will it mean anything? The dollar is collapsing against other currencies in the world. China has over one trillion U.S. dollars in her reserves, and they, along with Japan, Indonesia and Malaysia, may now own a substantial part of this nation. America is for sale. General Motors just said they lost over $30 billion. When the automobile industry in America is shutting down and steel mills are closing, you are being put out of a job.

Where will Pres. Bush get the money for the $150 billion he’s going to give back in a “stimulus package”? You know, when your heart is messed up they give you stimulation to keep you from dying, so Pres. Bush is offering a stimulus package to a dying economy. You’re in it; you are partying—but you don’t know what’s going on. You’re living from day to day, and your world can collapse in the twinkling of an eye.

The Gods Are At War
When we come close to home, there has never been as much dissatisfaction with government as we see in America right now. Pres. Bush has the lowest approval rating of any president in modern history. The Congress of the United States is just a hair or two above the president in approval from the American people. When the American people are so dissatisfied with their government, dissatisfaction is what brings about change. The greater the dissatisfaction, it means universal change.

Shootings on college campuses; people coming into churches shooting down pastors? Mothers putting their babies in the microwave? The country is spiraling downward. There is a high level of stress that we see manifested in children 10-years-old having strokes, diabetes, lethal obesity and heart problems. There are new and incurable diseases, viruses and plagues sweeping across the country. And guess what? Every day they are reporting more and more of these sightings of these so-called Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). It is hard for America to admit that a greater intelligence, a greater technology, a greater science is in the world than anything that they know or ever conceived of.

Why is all this happening at this time? It is because The Gods Are At War. And you don’t even know that The War has already started, and you are being victimized right now by the arch deceiver, who sees his world coming down, unraveling. And at the same time, we are witnessing the phenomenal rise of a man of color in a country that has persecuted us because of our color. Yet, this young man is capturing audiences of Black, Brown, White, Native American, and Asian.

Barack Obama: America’s best hope for change?
If you look at Barack Obama’s audiences, and look at the affect of his words, those people are being transformed from what they were. His language is raising them above their racial, ethnic, cultural, religious differences, and he is welding people into a bond that has never been seen before. You might say, “Gee. I don’t think Barack is Black enough.” He wasn’t supposed to be. If you want a Black leader, there is Reverend Jackson; there is Reverend Sharpton; and there is Louis Farrakhan—we are Black people, and we don’t apologize. But it is difficult for somebody that has an all-Black district to understand the skill and wisdom of a man who is not the Black candidate, but the American candidate, who wants to unite the American people. You may not agree with him, then stand on the sideline and watch. It’s never been done before.

A lot of impediments have been thrown in his path, but he seems to get around them, and there’s more to come. If this man is doing something that has never been done before by any politician, White or Black, where is God in this, and why now? We have never seen Caucasian people vote like this for a man of color.

Let’s look at it for a second: What’s going on? Who is this young man? When The Gods Are At War, you have to understand the kind of world that God wants to bring in against the kind of world that we live in that Satan has brought in. Right now, there are Caucasian people who don’t see Barack Obama’s color. They see that man as the only one able to save this country from itself.

The Valley of Decision
Now, I’m a dispassionate person; I am not political. I am not asking anyone to vote for anybody, because I know in the end the outcome is all in the Hand of God, and those are the hands that I want to be in. But when I see politicians like Tom Daschle saying, “Look, this Obama guy: He’s got something,” or when I saw Ted Kennedy introduce Barack with a passion that I had not seen in Mr. Kennedy for a long time, I said, “What is it that they see?” There is no racism in a foxhole! The hardest racist is not going to tell a Black hand, “Keep your Black hand off of me,” when they are dying in a foxhole! They will say to the Black hand: “Can you help me? Can you help us?”

Some say Mr. Obama doesn’t have experience. Nobody, White or Black, has experience to deal with the fall and decline of a world and the greatest nation in that world. It is not experience that is needed. The Bible teaches, “Where there is no vision, the people perish,” and that is where Mr. Obama is ranking over all of them.

Look at Brother Barack Obama’s cultural ties: His White nurturing; having visited Indonesia; being born in Hawaii—there is not any politician that has that kind of root. He went to Africa, and how did they receive him? Do you think they would trust him in Africa as a President of the United States, that he might help to reshape America’s foreign policy toward Africa? How would they see him in the Middle East? How would they see him in Central and South America? How would they see him in Asia? Whether you are broad enough to open your eyes, this young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better, because a better man may become her leader.

This is why I chose the subject “The Gods At War: The Future Is All About You; all about Youth.” You have to make decisions today for your life, and you have to be informed to make the right decision. They say that when war is fought, the first casualty is truth. If The Gods Are At War, who are they? Where are they? Can we see them? Because all of us are in The Valley of Decision, can we be taught enough about them that we might choose which one of them we will follow?

Master Fard Muhammad: The Saviour Has Come
If the future is all about you, individually; and you, plural; and it’s all about youth, I would like to close my subject today concerning The Man Whose Birth we came here to celebrate.

We have been taught by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad that Master Fard Muhammad had a Black father and a White mother. The man that we call our Saviour was born of the two people. I was on an airplane one day with one of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s sons, Jabar Muhammad, who asked me: “Why do you think Master Fard Muhammad had a Black father and a White mother?” I answered, “So that He could give justice to both people.”

God is real. Satan is real. Both God and Satan have been hidden under a cloud. I am not going into it today, but before this series of lectures are over, you are going to see Satan exactly how Satan looks. That is why we will be hated of all men. You, my beloved Christian family, you do not understand Jesus The Christ. You don’t understand him. I know that seems rather arrogant for me to say something like that, but I am not trying to be arrogant. Jesus is the instrument that God will use to uncover, reveal and destroy Satan and his power to deceive. The Christ figure of the New Testament is the same as The Mahdi in Islamic theology. The Mahdi is a human being Who comes into the world to sit down every tyrant and set justice in the earth. No man; no human could do that unless He was operating under The Power of The Eternal God, so The Mahdi becomes The Manifestation of God in Person.

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For those of you who believe in Jesus Christ, Jesus is not a little “rooty-poot” fellow. From the Christian perspective, Jesus is the greatest human being in human history. Jesus The Christ redeems the whole of humanity, breaks the power of Satan, crushes Satan’s world and brings in a new and better world where human beings can live together in peace and brotherhood. When the scriptures talk of Christ, and when they talk about The Mahdi, they never talk in racial terms. With Christ there is no Jew, no Greek, no male, no female, no bond and no free. All are one in Christ.

When you look at the line from Prophet Muhammad to Muhammad The Mahdi, you can’t bring color into it. In reality, you defile Islam because The Mahdi, from the lineage of the Prophet, is not to set up one color against another; one race against another; one ethnicity against another—The Mahdi is to raise human beings where color sinks into insignificance, and character and moral correctness is the yard stick by which you measure True Greatness.

Master Fard Muhammad looked White, but he was not White. That made it easier for Him to come in among us. White people didn’t suspect Him because He looked like one of their own. The scripture says, “I come as a thief in the night. I come without observation.” Somebody came; how do you know? Because things have never been the same since He came for Black people. We have been constantly on the move; moving on up. There is no stopping us now! God is not raising us that we should be mockers of other people or that we should talk about how great we are and how little they are. God is raising us to do a great service for our people and for the whole of humanity.

Master Fard Muhammad first talked to us on our Blackness. He was of a Black father and a White mother, but He knew that the enemy had robbed us of the knowledge of self, so He talked to us on our Blackness to try to get us to see the value of who we are. Master Fard Muhammad taught us the nature of the Caucasian people; how they came into existence and their purpose. It wasn’t about hate. It was about absolute science. Master Fard Muhammad wasn’t trying to make a nation of haters; He was trying to raise a Nation of Scientists who are going to have to deal with the whole human family and the problems of the human family, starting first with the problems of self.

A Herald for The Messiah
Some people think Barack Obama should wait 10-12 years before he running for president, thinking that he would be more “seasoned” and “mature.” But America doesn’t have that long to wait, at the rate she’s going.

Barack Obama said “My time is now.” Don’t worry about his shoulders; God never lays on a soul a burden beyond its scope. Would God allow Barack to be president of a country that has been so racist; so evil in its mistreatment of Hispanics, Native Americans, Indians, Blacks? Would God do something like that? Yes, of course He would. That is to show you that the stone that the builders have rejected is becoming the headstone of the corner. This is a sign to you. It is the time of our rise. It is the time that we should take our place. The Future is All About You.

I ask that we pray for our Brother, Barack Obama. I am not asking for votes. I am asking a Nation—not just the Nation of Islam, but all people of good will—to pray for this young man. Pray for his family. Pray for his blessed wife and children, we don’t want to see another Coretta Scott King.

This man says he not only is talking about changing who sits in the White House; he is talking about changing the mindset of those that led us into the war in Iraq. Did you hear Alan Greenspan, the former head of the Federal Reserve, say that the war in Iraq is all about oil? You mean our sons and our daughters are dying and being maimed over America’s junkie spirit toward oil? Did you read that the amount of oil that is under the ground in Iraq is $30 trillion? That is why Republican Presidential candidate John McCain said, “We need to stay there about a hundred years. We need to make sure that we get this thing.”

Brothers and Sisters, Barack Obama, to me, is a herald of The Messiah. Barack Obama is like the trumpet that alerts you that something new; something better is on the way. Do you know the kind of fear that he is evoking in those that have the mindset that sent America to war? Do you think the international bankers that control all the politicians of the world are going to allow this young man to change the mindset of those that rule who are really Satanic? What is in their hearts toward that young man?

Our Youth: God’s Instruments for Universal Change
One of the Brothers went to a shop the other day, and the Caucasian owner of the shop said, “You all do everything in your power, please, to help Barack Obama win because if he loses, all of us are lost.” Now, just think about what it took for a man to come out of his mouth like that. Barack Obama is not The Messiah for sure, but any time he gives you a sign of uniting races, ethnic groups, ideologies, religions, and makes people feel a sense of oneness, that is not necessarily Satan’s work. That is, I believe, The Work of God.

I thank Master Fard Muhammad for His coming. I thank Master Fard Muhammad for raising the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. I thank Allah (God) for sparing my life as we go through these trying times. We must clean up our lives, clean up our communities.

Young people: You are the instruments that God is going to use to bring about universal change. That is why Barack Obama has captured the youth, and he has involved young people in a political process that they didn’t care anything about. That is a sign: When The Messiah speaks, the youth will hear. And The Messiah is absolutely speaking.

Thank you. As-Salaam Alaikum.
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