who is louis farrahakan?

Answer 1

Louis Farrakhan (born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933 in the Bronx, New York), is the head of the Nation of Islam.
Farrakhan was raised within the West Indian community in the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts. His mother had emigrated from Saint Kitts and Nevis in the 1920s; his father was a Jamaican cab driver from New York, but was not involved in his upbringing.
Perhaps the most provocative aspect of Farrakhan's political philosophy is his alleged anti-Semitism, allegations Farrakhan has denied. Prior to 1984 Farrakhan was known for his anti-white rhetoric but had not singled out Jews. The controversies began during the 1984 presidential campaign of Jesse Jackson (with the Nation of Islam providing security). During a discussion with a black reporter, Jackson referred to New York City "Hymietown." Though Jackson thought he was speaking off the record, the reporter printed the quote. Jackson was widely criticized for the slur and received death threats, leading Farrakhan to announce "If you harm this brother, it'll be the last one you ever harm".

He was labelled anti-semitic and a Jewish journalist at The Village Voice referred to him as a "Black Hitler". In response to the allegations Farrakhan made one of his most controversial statements, for which he was censured unanimously by the United States Senate.

"So I said to the members of the press, 'Why won't you go and look into what we are saying about the threats on Reverend Jackson's life?' Here the Jews don't like Farrakhan and so they call me 'Hitler'. Well that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He wasn't great for me as a Black man but he was a great German and he rose Germany up from the ashes of her defeat by the united force of all of Europe and America after the First World War. Yet Hitler took Germany from the ashes and rose her up and made her the greatest fighting machine of the twentieth century, brothers and sisters, and even though Europe and America had deciphered the code that Hitler was using to speak to his chiefs of staff, they still had trouble defeating Hitler even after knowing his plans in advance. Now I'm not proud of Hitler's evil toward Jewish people, but that's a matter of record. He rose Germany up from nothing. Well, in a sense you could say there is a similarity in that we are rising our people up from nothing, but don't compare me with your wicked killers."
On October 24, 1989, at a Washington, DC. press conference, Louis Farrakhan described a 1985 Vision he had while in Mexico. In his Vision, he said he was carried up to "a Wheel, or what you call an unidentified flying object" to a "human built planet" known as the "Mother Wheel" as referenced in the Bible's Book of Ezekiel 1:15-18. During this Vision experience he said he heard the voice of Elijah Muhammad informing him that the President was planning a war and instructed him to "announce their plan and say to the world that you got the information from me, Elijah Muhammad, on the Wheel." Farrakhan concluded that the war was against the people of Libya and Muammar Qaddafi whom he traveled to warn in Febaruary of 1986. The U.S. launched bombing strikes against Libya in April 1986. He said he later came to realize that the war extended to "an even more significant and consequential war, .. "a war against the black people of America, the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan."

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Answer 2

Louis Farrakhan
Bio: Leader of the African American Nation of Islam, Founder of the Million Man March, and former confidant of both the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X. Rumored to have been involved in the assassination of Malcolm X. Has elicited controversy by espousing his views that the white race was invented by an evil scientist named Yacub in one of the craters on the dark side of the moon,

Answer 3

One of the leaders of the Nation of Islam that is not the real religion of islam. They worship allah as a man who existed around the early 1900s. His name is Wali Farad. This is not the real religion of islam. This only exists in the US. Off of this belief, there exists a group of people called 5 percenters. Who believe that the "so called" black man is original man(allah-arm, leg, leg, arm, supreme head). They believe that the white man is the devil and the black man is god. But it goes really deep. Like the comparison of "g" in GOD. And the study of 120 god lessons and islam. They consider themselves gods with a lower case g. To give respect to the one true GOD. That is believed existant in all of original man. Farfakhan is actually a very intelligent man and want liberation for the black man of america. The whole topic of Farrakhan and what surrounds him are a little too complex to understand unless you wanted to. And it would take years of dedication to truly know what he stands for.

But basically, he is a black freedom fighter. But his beliefs are beyond me. I walk a different road.

Answer 4

He is the leader of the group"Nation of Islam."

Answer 5

You should have asked this question in politics. Apparently you know who he is. He's a racist politician.