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Farrakhan charges Jews with 'anti-black' behavior
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Published: 30.06.10, 12:11
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61. Farrakhan, I am your enemy too.
Pedro ,   Brazil   (06.30.10)
62. Will Obama denounce this anti-Semite friend of his?
Judy S. Silver ,   Florida, U.S.A.   (06.30.10)
63. Shame on you, Observer, for denying the historical record
Cameron ,   USA   (06.30.10)
#8 & #9 spoke historical truth. No group reels back from hard truths and self-examination like Muslims. You play the yellow coward. Don't run away from those facts in History which shame you.
64. A black man is the most powerful person in the world!
Flabbergasted   (06.30.10)
And his name is Barack Hussein Obama. So how can Farrakhan spew these slanders with a straight face? Where does he get the nerve to keep blaming Jews for ruling the world and keeping blacks down, when in fact Jews voted for a black man and helped to make him the most powerful person in the world? Jews helped blacks achieve civil rights. Jews helped to make a black man President. How much more does this ungrateful parasite Farrakhan want? Nothing any Jew could say or do will ever be enough to assuage the envious bitterness gnawing away at Farrakhan's heart...or the hearts of his many supporters.
65. #3 Obama's ties to Farrakhan makes it "news"
Sue ,   Los Angeles   (06.30.10)
Obama's spiritual mentor/2nd father, Rev. Jeremiah Wright is a close friend of Farrakhan. Obama attended Wright's church for 20 years. In 1994, Wright, Farrakhan and Jesse Jackson (another Obama friend) travelled to Libya to meet with Qaddafi. In 2001, Wright and Farrakhan gave similar speeches blaming the Jews and Israel for 9-11. In November 2007, just days after Farrakhan called Jews "satanic," Wright honored Farrakhan by presenting him with a "Lifetime Achievement Award." In addition, there is a 2004 photo of Michelle Obama (who grew up with Jesse Jacksons' family) with Farrakhan's wife, Khadijah and members of Jackson's organization.
66. Obama has much to atone, having unleashed anti-Jewish hate
Gerry F. Gold ,   Seattle, WA USA   (06.30.10)
in America and around the world. Will this "progressive" racist President do so? I suspect that after having "set under" Rev. Wright there is little chance we can expect it, and therefore we shall have to express ourselves in the forthcoming November elections and in the toward the next Presidential ones. Being a life-long member and a contributor to the Democratic Party, I shall not be there any more as long as Obama and Clinton are there.
67. Slavery is a widespread phenomenon in the Arab Middle East,
Nancy Segal ,   Baltimore, U.S.   (06.30.10)
yet neither Frakhan nor Wright, Jackson or Obama - all members of the same mutual admiring society - have anything negative to say about it. Don't you wonder, why?
68. Farrakhan owes a great debt to self-destructive Jews
Taken Aback   (06.30.10)
Jews not only paid a price to help blacks during the Civil Rights movement. Jews were also instrumental in bringing the first black man to power in the USA: 78% of Jewish voters voted for Obama. Wealthy Jews contributed generously to Obama's campaign. Jews in academia exerted a pro-Obama influence over the young voters in their classrooms. Influential Jews in the media advanced Obama's cause on TV and penned endless articles and columns in praise of Obama to help him get elected. (I've never witnessed such blatantly fawning partisanship on the part of journalists before. Most Jews in American media have been in the tank for Obama from Day One.) Jews in Hollywood helped Obama get elected as well, such as Sarah Silverman (who badgered and hectored and guilted elderly Jews in Florida into voting for him). Jews worked tirelessly on Obama's campaign, and a number of high-profile Jews assist him in office right now, such as Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod. By bringing the prejudiced Obama to power, Jews indirectly (and moronically) empowered Farrakhan and his fellow anti-Jewish bigots. Farrakhan should be THANKING Jews, not blaming them.
69. 15
Rosie   (06.30.10)
"What do ou think would happen is American Jews moved to Israel? Do you think there is enough room for another 5 million Jews or so? More importantly, who will ensure American support when all the Jews are gone? " 1. Don't worry about "room". 2.Support - in politics there is nothing but INTERESTS. The moment America has no INTEREST in supporting Israel, there will be NO support, anyway.
70. Farrakhan
RC ,   USA   (06.30.10)
Farrakhan’s remarks can be funny, but unfortunately he is a sad case. He talks like he is on an LSD trip. He is just as racist as the KKK. If he thinks blacks have it so bad in America then why doesn’t he tell them to go back to Africa? Anyone that does not take advantage of democracy, free education, and government aided education to get ahead in life has no one else to blame but him or herself. We are not all born with wealthy parents to depend on, but with effort and self determination one can get ahead in life. Some people like him make a business from spewing out hate, and even curse the land and the freedom they live in. Numbers 39 and 65 wrote something to think about. Americans should consider well who they vote for.
71. Throwing money at the low IQ won't help!
Hama ,   Timbuck Teeth   (06.30.10)
It won't!
72. 62
ABC   (06.30.10)
And if he will, so what? It's politics, so he can be politically correct in order to keep the post.
73. # 2 Talula
J.K. ,   Brooklyn USA   (06.30.10)
Talula ! you are wrong,parents have ewery right not to send their children to a school where there are children who watch TV at home,why expose their children to what their classmates see on TV.
74. Farrakhan never protested the genocide of blacks in Darfur
Joe ,   Canada   (07.01.10)
Farrakhan so encensed by the scurrulous pretence of Jewish hostility to blacks easily forgets the fate reserved to blacks massacred by the army of Omar al-Bashir. He never raised the voice to have the genocide stopped. He was too concerned to displease fellow Moslem dictators in Lybia & Iran who support him materially in exchange for his dissemination of hatred against Jews & against the USA in general. He is the promoter of the big lie as tool of his propaganda: he hopes the more extragant the claim the more likely it will be believed if repeated a sufficient number of times.
75. #15
Ray ,   Canada   (07.01.10)
American Jews are losing influence with their nations leaders. Advising them to remain in a country who's attitude towards them is rapidly degrading into hostility is not logical. The alliyah is a commandment, and following that commandment would be a blessing.
76. 35% of US blacks were polled anti jewish
bernard ross ,   st anns bay, jamaica   (07.01.10)
77. Anti-Semitin and Islamism in America
Norma Fares   (07.01.10)
Anti-Semitic Farrathan --like Helen Thomas and Islamists like Dr. Naik (banned to enter UK and Canada recently) and Islamist cleric Dr. Leghaei's just deported from Australia—Farrakhan must be deported back to the place he belongs to. Dr. Pipes wrote tens of documented articles about Farrakhan's real identity, thought and threats in to American society in i.e. 1984, 1995, 2005…: http://www.danielpipes.org/search.php?cx=015692155655874064424%3Asmatd4mj-v4&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=articles+about+farrakhan#880. Isn't already very high time that the US administration –instead of re-allowing Islamists like Tarek Ramadan to enter US in 2010-- takes necessary actions against likeminded anti-Semitic/Islamist preachers, academics, clerics and organizations?
78. Anti-Semitism and islamism in America: Obama's contributuion
Jehudah Ben-Israel ,   Qatzrin, Israel   (07.01.10)
Obama's denial - in his Cairo speech - of the Jewish people's historic right to Israel; Obama's insistence - in his Cairo speech - on comparing the Jewish Holocaust to the situation in Gaza; Obama's on-going humiliating attitude towards Israel's prime minister and insulting approach to other Israeli elected officials, to its government and to its courts and their decisions; Obama's insistence that Jews, only because they are Jewish, must refrain from moving into certain neighborhoods of Israel's capital city (not others, mind you, only Jews!!!), and Jews, by virtue of being members of the Jewish people, must not be permitted to reside in certain villages and towns of their ancestral homeland; These and other forms of hostility and racism against the Jewish people and its individual members have unleashed waves of anti-Semitism/anti-Jewish racism that humanity has not experienced since 1945. Obama must atone for this "contribution" to humanity and apologize to the Jewish people, along with members of his mutual-admiration-society: Wright-Farakhan-Jackson-Obama.
79. To: Joe at No. 74
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (07.01.10)
Excellent point. Neither has Farrakhan the fakir spoken up about the five million dead in the Congo (and counting) due to tribal violence. He has yet to offer up commentary on the evil that transpires in each of Liberia, the Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. To the extent I am aware, he has never addressed the issue of several hundred million souls on the African continent who are considered refugees. No, he focuses his ire on the 12.5 million Jews in the world. He is a fraud, a phony, and a REALLY lousy violinist. Just ask Itzhak Perlman!
80. These days, all the Brown Shirts have brown skin
Deano ,   Timbuck Too   (07.02.10)
Statistics show that on average 10% of Europeans are anti-Semitic, while 30% and higher of non-whites are anti-Semitic. Yet liberals and conservative leaders in the West keep bringing them in, in ever increasing numbers. It won't be long till *it* happens all over again.
81. Farrakhans Letter to Jewish Leaders
Francis   (05.27.13)
I notice that your article completely and utterly fails to address any of the facts mentioned in the books published by the NOI research team. Yet again, you adopt a position that is without substance or foundation and more and more people are seeing through this false outrage. Deal with the issues raised by The Ministrr and take up his challenge to debate.
82. This Farrakhan is criminal insane,
J.K. ,   Brooklyn USA   (05.27.13)
This is how blacks express their gratitude to Jews for the help they were given,the founder of the NAACP was A Jew,named Julius Rosenwald,,the founder of sears and roebuck,why do blacks hate Jews more than they hate the Irish,the Italians ?,for 2 reasons,1,at least on one topic blacks want to be equal to whites,2,The Irish and Italians never did them any favors,and as the saying goes :no good did goes unpunished.
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