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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Barack Obama effect on The Nation of Islam, Islam and the West, NewAgeIslam.com

Islam and the West
Barack Obama effect on The Nation of Islam
By Anna Clark
June 9, 2009

As Walters points out, the uncomfortable intersection of the Nation and the Office of the President dates back to Malcolm X’s remarks in the wake of John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. Malcolm X described the assassination as a case of the “chickens coming home to roost”; meaning that the violence the Kennedy administration failed to stop came back to hurt him. Public anger at Malcolm X and the negative attention cast upon the Nation of Islam led then-leader Elijah Muhammad to officially silence his most famous minister. Malcolm X left the Nation a short time later.

Likewise, in 1984, Farrakhan vocalized his support for the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaign. But remarks that Farrakhan made that same year drew fire for being anti-Semitic. Farrakhan described the founding of Israel as ‘’an outlaw act’’ and Judaism as a ‘’gutter religion’’—though the minister fervently denied using that term and claimed, further, that he was referring to Israel’s use of Judaism rather than to the nature of the tradition itself.

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