Word: islam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still shaken by what I'd read of the hateful diatribe delivered by Nation of Islam spokesperson Khalid Muhammad at Kean College in November, and remembering Sharpton's history, I was prepared to hear a no-holds-barred attack on white Americans...
...ALGERIA: Islam's Fearsome Sword...
...leaders are forced to condemn the offending words and the offensive speaker. It happened to Professor Griff, formerly of the politically charged rap group Public Enemy. It also happened to Farrakhan, when he called Judaism a "gutter religion." Now Muhammad's words have put him -- and the Nation of Islam -- in the cross hairs...
...Rosenthal of the New York Times called for black leaders to repudiate Muhammad publicly. The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith took out a full-page ad in the New York Times with excerpts from the speech and the headline "Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam claim they are moving toward moderation . . . you decide." Feeling the heat, black leaders began the ritual of condemnation and racial correctness. Jesse Jackson called Muhammad's words reprehensible, "antipapist and inane." But Farrakhan, defiant, gave a speech in Harlem during which he embraced his controversial aide onstage...
...York City, which never sleeps because it's too busy fretting about race. The Justice Department recently announced plans to look - into Brooklyn's 1991 Crown Heights riots, sparked when a Jewish motorist struck and killed a black youngster. In January, New York police mistakenly raided a Nation of Islam mosque after a false robbery report...