Word: farrakhan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jackson's problems with the Jewish community grew when Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, issued an ultimatum to Jewish leaders last week. Referring to Jackson, who was appearing with him at a Chicago rally, Farrakhan declared: "If you harm this brother, I warn you in the name of Allah this will be the last one you harm. Leave this servant of God alone." Founded in 1930, the radical organization boasted a following of 500,000 in the 1960s but has dwindled to fewer than 100,000. Lately it has moderated its earlier antiwhite views...
...February 25: Jackson flies to Chicago to attend a Nation of Islam meeting. Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, referring to the "hymie" incident, warns Jackson's opponents. "If you harm this brother, I warn you in the name of Allah, this will be the last one you harm...
...February 27: Jackson defends Farrakhan's remarks in Chicago, telling The Times, "Jews went to the chambers silently. They should have gone fighting if they...
Apparently, he doesn't. While calling for a move to a "higher moral plane," he provokes extremists such as Farrakhan and Meier Kahane and further damages any possibility of meaningful reconciliation. And by neglecting to hold all to the same moral standard, he damages his own credibility, turning calls for reconciliation into self-serving hypocrisy...
...delegitimize the value of the achievements of young Black scholars. Revolutionary Black scholars, however, must not be bound by these limits nor should we be persuaded by their demagogy. Our responsibility must be determined by the internal rather than the external demands of our situation. As Minister Louis Farrakhan warned a group of Black scholars at Cornell University on September 28, 1980, "the black intellectual is being set up by the white American power structure to be scapegoats of the country's failure to deal with black America. If we allow this to happen, we will be doomed by history...