Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said on Tuesday that Jews and Zionists
are “trying to push the US into war” and that “Zionists dominate the US
government and banks.”
Farrakhan, 77, made the comments at the Nation of
Islam’s annual meeting near Chicago.
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were meant “to pull the cover off Satan.”
“President Obama,” Farrakhan
said, “if you allow the Zionists to push you, to mount a military offensive
against Gaddafi and you go in and kill him and his sons, as you did with Saddam
Hussein and his sons... I’m warning you this is a Libyan problem, let the
Libyans solve their problem among themselves.”
Farrakhan called Muammar
Gaddafi “my brother and my friend.”
The Nation of Islam leader also
accused American Zionists of attempting to push Israel into war with Iran,
stating that “Zionists dominate the government of the United States of America
and her banking system.”
“Some of you think that I’m just somebody who’s
got something out for the Jewish people,” Farrakhan said. “You’re
stupid.
Do you think I would waste my time if I did not think it was
important for you to know Satan? My job is to pull the cover off of Satan so
that he will never deceive you and the people of the world again.”
ADL
National Director Abe Foxman said in response that, “Anti-Semitism has suffused
the Nation of Islam’s message, and Farrakhan is the standard bearer and bigot in
chief... Perhaps what's more disturbing is that despite his anti-Semitic rants,
he has not been made a pariah in his own community. What does it take for him to
stop being a pied piper of hatred?”