Farrakhan denounced “Satanic Jews”
To the surprise of no one who was paying attention, it turns out that the leaders of the Women’s March have a Farrakhan problem.
Mass movements are sewn together from a wide variety of sources, so they often sweep in unwanted companions as they move toward their goals. No one, however, expected to discover that three Women’s March co-chairs—Linda Sarsour, Carmen Perez, and Tamika Mallory—had ties to Farrakhan.
No one at all? When Sarsour’s hijab was on all those March posters?
It all came to a head last week, after Farrakhan delivered his address to the annual Nation of Islam gathering for Saviours’ Day, the sect’s three-day holiday honoring its founder, Wallace Fard Muhammad. Farrakhan denounced “Satanic Jews,” said that “when you want something in this world, the Jew holds the door,” and at the climax of his speech, proclaimed, “White folks are going down, and Satan is going down, and Farrakhan by God’s grace has pulled the cover off of that Satanic Jew—and I’m here to say, your time is up.”
Naturally, this renewed interest in just what the Women’s March was thinking. Mallory further stoked controversy when a woman questioning her about Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism drew a response from a preacher asking her to condemn Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and praying for Jesus to cast out the “wicked spirit laying on her heart.” Linda Sarsour surfaced to say the man was “too blessed,” and Mallory tweeted, “If your leader does not have the same enemies as Jesus, they may not be THE leader!”
Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism has been an issue for decades. Tensions over Islam and Palestine and anti-Semitism have been a thing for decades. None of this is new or particularly surprising.
“…your time is up.”
Didn’t NRATV just copyright this phrase?
The number of supposedly progressive people discounting this as conservative hypocrisy is depressing, because antisemitism is a real and dangerous cancer in many walks of intellectual and political life.
“a real and dangerous cancer ”
Certainly the whole “globalist” dogwhistle that Ophelia noted a few posts ago is an indication of this. Hiding the antisemitism under a veneer, however thin, lets it slip past people not (yet) attuned to the code being used. I guess Farrakhan was not worried about the reaction of his immediate audience, or the reaction of the wider audience that would eventually hear what he said (not that his views were a secret or anything). Giving a pass to this in the name of “unity” or “solidarity” is a bad idea. I hope this gets resolved in such a way that the March regains/retains its legitimacy while denouncing and distancing itself from such poisonous ideas.
I think they’re well beyong whistling; they’re pretty much calling the dogs by name nowadays.
As the dogma goes, “racism equals prejudice plus power.”
Bullshit. Utter Bullshit.
So long as Farrakhan, Sarsour etc. can operate like this, the Left cannot be said to exist.
The Nation of Islam is a cult, as fake as the LDS or Scientology. They killed Malcolm X for growing a conscience. But they still get the ‘Community Leader’ treatment from people who have no excuse for not knowing better.
John – what are you quoting, and why?
I’m just quoting from the article you linked to.
That line of *reasoning* is precisely why so many not-so-progressive ( ie reactionary) people now lead what we’ve always considered progressive movements.
Toronto Sun… ( The Toronto Star won’t print this kind of article)
http://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/hassan-enough-with-the-feminists-who-stay-silent-on-islam
Well then say so! Don’t just go “bang” and leave it at that.