Minister Farrakhan is no terrorist

Richard Muhammad
Richard Muhammad
Richard Muhammad

Minister Farrakhan is no terrorist

By Richard B.  Muhammad, NNPA Guest Columnist

The news cycle April 14 was filled with reports of the murders of three people in Overland Park, Kan. That these killings occurred during a time of religious observation, the Jewish celebration of Passover, and the killer may have targeted victims for their religious faith or presumed faith makes the loss of life even more reprehensible.

That a grandfather and his grandson could be shot down in the streets says something about the sickness of this society, the prevalence and continued cancer of hatred and an unhealthy and deadly obsession with guns and solving problems or disputes with violence.

Such activity is woven into the history of this nation and America cannot deny that her history is bathed in blood and oppression from the slaughter of the Native peoples to the April 13 killing of Dr. William Lewis Corporon and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood.

In the midst of this horrible reality, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), some Jewish leaders and organizations were speaking the name Louis Farrakhan alongside false charges of hate speech and trying to link the Nation of Islam minister to a climate or in the same philosophical universe as a man whose history is apparently tied to hate groups.

Their attempts to malign the Minister are beyond insulting and outside the bounds of any commitment to truth and any respect for the truth. Minister Farrakhan’s name must never be mentioned in the same breath as wicked murderers who exist among Caucasian people or accused killers like Frazier Glenn Cross, of Aurora, Mo., charged with first-degree murder after attacks at a Jewish community center and a Jewish retirement complex. His name must never be mentioned alongside anyone who takes life unjustly and anyone who foments violence and death.

Minister Farrakhan has never been arrested for spitting on a sidewalk, let alone physically assaulting anyone. He is far above such cheap charges and such vicious, malicious and vociferous lies.

The Minister speaks the truth and has spoken against Jewish misdeeds and organizations in relationship to the status of Blacks in this country and inordinate involvement in Black affairs and control of Black organizations and individuals.

For more than 30 years, he has called for dialogue to resolve this conflict. Neither he, nor any of his followers, has been arrested in 30 years for threatening, hurting, harming or denying one Jewish person the right to life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness.

Yet, wicked demons attempt to impugn his character and slander his name as families and a community suffers because of the unjustified taking of lives. This is not the history of Louis Farrakhan, this is not the spirit of Louis Farrakhan, this is not the way of Louis Farrakhan.

This violence is the product of America and her twisted psyche and mentality that Louis Farrakhan has warned of and has offered a medicine to heal. Instead of taking the medicine and getting into therapy, these wicked ones denounce the doctor and attempt to blame the doctor for the illness.

The Associated Press reported the accused shooter and killer as 73-year-old Frazier Glenn Cross, of Aurora, Mo. “At around 1 p.m. a gunman shot two people in the parking lot behind the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City. He then drove a few blocks away to a Jewish retirement community, Village Shalom, and gunned down a woman or girl there…. Officers arrested him in an elementary school parking lot a short time later.”

According to the SPLC, this same man founded the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and was its ‘grand dragon’ in the 1980s. The Army veteran and retired truck driver later founded another white supremacist group, the White Patriot Party, the center said. Miller was the subject of a nationwide manhunt in 1987 for violating the terms of his bond while appealing a North Carolina conviction for operating a paramilitary camp. The search ended after federal agents found Miller and three other men in an Ozark mobile home, which was filled with hand grenades, automatic weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

AP said Miller tried running for U.S. House in 2006 and the U.S. Senate in 2010, espousing a white power platform each time.

Nothing in this man’s history, life or activity connects him to Minister Farrakhan, despite the New York Times’ assertion that he was a so-called fan. More likely, Miller was a “fan” of the extremist Tea Party, right wing Republicans, hardcore gun enthusiasts and anti-government groups.

Absent of any evidence, the white media feels it’s okay to malign Minister Farrakhan’s good name. But we will not accept their lies. The killing of innocents is America’s history and America’s legacy and we will never allow her nor Jewish groups to assign such infamy to a noble man and a noble name.

 

 

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