Louis Farrakhan

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{{cquote|I am not an illogical person|||[[Black supremacy|Black supremacist]], Louis X<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGBScQSR9Ko&feature=youtu.be&t=33 Minister Farrakhan- "Do you hate white people?"] [[YouTube]], 25 August 2016.</ref>}}

'''Louis Farrakhan''' (born '''Louis Eugene Wolcott''' in 1933 and formerly known as '''Louis X''') is an [[United States|American]] [[black supremacy|black supremacist]], [[antisemitism|antisemitic]] and anti-white [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy theorist]]. He is the leader of the [[Nation of Islam]], a [[radical]] [[African-American]] religious, political and social movement. Farrakhan also happens to be a massive [[racism|racist]] and [[bigot]], having made innumerable hateful statements against [[white people|whites]], [[Jew]]s, [[Christianity|Christians]], [[Asia]]ns, [[women]], [[hispanic]]s, [[homosexual|gay]]s, and anyone else who isn’t a straight black Muslim man.<ref>Farrakhan's profiles at the [https://web.archive.org/web/20040510113147/http://www.adl.org/special_reports/farrakhan_own_words2/farrakhan_own_words.asp ADL] and [http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/louis-farrakhan SPLC.]</ref> As with any cult leader, a depressingly large number of people genuinely believe he is in this for something besides self-aggrandizement and that he truly looks out for the best interests of all black people. For someone who explicitly advocates the use of violence towards so many people, he has an extremely unintimidating and alarmingly high pitched voice.

==Malcolm X assassination==
The family of [[Malcolm X]], a black power activist and former Nation of Islam member, believe Farrakhan was behind his assassination. Members of the Nation of Islam assassinated Malcolm after he left the nation due to the [[hypocrisy]] of various leading figures preaching against and simultaneously indulging in various vices. Farrakhan has publicly condoned the assassination, saying it was justified because Malcolm was a traitor to the Nation of Islam, although he later backtracked these comments.

==Misogyny==
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He has banned women from attending his rants, and has also given women-only speeches. He clearly did not appreciate the [[irony]] when addressing a women-only audience close to where he was raised by his single mother: "Your professional lives can't satisfy your soul like a good, loving man."<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/31/us/facing-complaints-of-bias-farrakhan-speaks-to-women-only.html Facing Complaints of Bias, Farrakhan Speaks to Women Only.] ''[[The New York Times]]'', 31 July 1994. {{quotebox|Mr. Farrakhan urged the women to embrace his formula for a successful family. He encouraged them to put husbands and children ahead of their careers, shun tight, short skirts, stay off welfare and reject abortion. He also stressed the importance of cooking and cleaning and urged women not to abandon homemaking for careers.}}</ref> In a bizarre display of [[cognitive dissonance]], three of the leaders of the {{wpl|Women's March}} have effusively professed their admiration for him and his ravings; even ''these'' comments would not persuade them to back away from him.<ref>[https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/555332/ Why Tamika Mallory Won’t Condemn Farrakhan]</ref><ref>[https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/womens-march/555122/ The Women's March Has a Farrakhan Problem]</ref>

==Support for dictators==
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Farrakhan supported [[Robert Mugabe]]'s unconstitutional seizures of white [[Zimbabwe]]an farmland that resulted in that country's food production crashing.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2126648.stm Farrakhan backs Zimbabwe land grab.] [[BBC]], 13 July 2002.</ref>

Farrakhan expressed admiration of [[Muammar al-Gaddafi]] on many occasions and received the Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights in 1996.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110306024739/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/28/louis-farrakhan-libyas-ga_n_829024.html Louis Farrakhan: Libya's Muammar Gaddafi Remains A Friend.] [[The Huffington Post]], 28 February 2011.</ref> He called [[Barack Obama]] "America's first Jewish president" because of the 2011 intervention in Libya.<ref>[http://www.ihatethemedia.com/louis-farrakhan-says-obama-is-first-jewish-president In case you needed any more proof that Louis Farrakhan is nuts, he says Obama is “the first Jewish President”] ihatethemedia.com, 28 March 2011.</ref>

Farrakhan is a supporter of [[Fidel Castro]] and the [[Cuba]]n Revolution, and has had medical operations performed in Cuba.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20061016083412/http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_2931.shtml Letter from the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan.] Archived from the original at finalcall.com, 26 September 2006.</ref> He also [[denialism|denies]] Cuba's human rights violations.<ref>Ridgely Muhammad, [https://web.archive.org/web/20060604043908/http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_2547.shtml Why does the U.S. government hate Cuba?] Archived from the original at finalcall.com, 10 April 2006.</ref>

==Conspiracy theories and general woo==
===Race and religion===
{{cquote|It is now becoming apparent that there were many Israelis and Zionist Jews in key roles in the 9/11 attacks. Israelis had foreknowledge of the attacks... We know that many Jews received a text message not to come to work on September 11|||Minister Farrakhan showing us what [[crank magnetism]] is.<ref>[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/minister-louis-farrakhan-in-his-own-words Black-Jewish Relations: Minister Louis Farrakhan - In His Own Words]</ref>}}
In accordance with the Nation of Islam's teaching on race, Farrakhan believes that all white people were made "a race of [[Devil]]s" by an evil scientist called {{wpl|Yakub (Nation of Islam)|Yakub}} (supposedly based off [[Jacob]] of the [[Old Testament]]). Given these somewhat insane views, it should come as no surprise that Farrakhan found a friend in [[Scientology]] and urges all his followers to take the white devil's [[Dianetics]].<ref>[http://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-nation-of-islam/ Scientology & Nation Of Islam.] mikerindersblog.org, 11 August 2015.</ref> He also did an interview with [[Alex Jones]] lasting for over two hours, in case you're interested.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160121072720/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NpHs-SlVnA&gl=US&hl=en 2nd Most Influential Black Man in The World Speaks Out: Full Interview.] [[InfoWars]], 20 January 2016.</ref>

He also [[Conspiracy theory|believes]] that the U.S. government deliberately demolished a levee following [[Hurricane Katrina]] in an effort to force black people out of New Orleans, despite multiple [[engineer]]s pointing out that this bizarre idea is [[not even wrong]].<ref>Jesse Muhammad
and Stacey Muhammad, [https://archive.ph/YPf86 Katrina survivors speak out.] 21 September 2005, archived from the original at finalcall.com.{{quotebox|[Farrakhan] also revealed to the press a report that he received, from a “very reliable source” he said, that there was a 25-foot hole under one of the levees that broke, which suggested it may have been busted on purpose to destroy the part of the city where Black people lived.}}</ref> As a raving [[antisemitism|antisemite]], Farrakhan has promoted various forms of an [[international Jewish conspiracy]], including Jewish ownership of the [[media]] and Jews being responsible for the [[slave]] trade.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100409233324/http://www.adl.org/NR/exeres/E1F02C20-88E6-4ACC-A258-C60803BD216C,0B1623CA-D5A4-465D-A369-DF6E8679CD9E,frameless.htm Louis Farrakhan Puts His Anti-Semitism On Full Display; Deepens Conspiracy Theories About Jewish Control], ADL.</ref> Speaking of [[Bernie Sanders]], Farrakhan has said "He's a Jew … [but] he's trying to be decent".<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7A3H8-3siw Farrakhan on Bernie: 'He's a Jew ... He's Trying to Be Decent.'] [[YouTube]], 2 March 2016.</ref> Farrakhan is within the statistically 0% of Black Muslims who support [[Donald Trump]] for president. He also dislikes [[Freemasons]].<ref>[https://archive.org/details/youtube-466NeRHc9a0 Minister Farrakhan Exposes The Secrets of Freemasonry (1 of 2) (Feb 27, 2011).] [[YouTube]], 2 March 2011.</ref>

===Medicine===
Farrakhan and the [[Nation of Islam]] have been heavily influenced by medical "expert" [[Leonard Horowitz]],<ref>Peter Knight, ''Conspiracy Culture: From the Kennedy Assassination to the X-files'', ISBN 0415189780, p. 202.</ref><ref>Sultan Muhammad, [http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Perspectives_1/AIDS_The_greatest_weapon_of_mass_destruction_439.shtml AIDS: The greatest weapon of mass destruction.] finalcall.com, 29 January 2003.</ref> and as a result, they have embraced and promoted a large amount of dangerous pseudoscience to the black community. In 2009, Farrakhan got on the [[vaccine hysteria]] bandwagon, claiming that the [[H1N1]] vaccine was in actuality a part of a plan to kill off people in order to ease [[overpopulation]]<ref>[http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2009/10/19/Farrakhan-suspicious-of-H1N1-vaccine/UPI-63931256011008 Farrakhan suspicious of H1N1 vaccine.] UPI, 19 October 2009.</ref> and calling for black people to boycott vaccines. He also believes that [[Ebola]] was made by whites as a way of killing blacks off.<ref>Jessica Chasmar, [https://web.archive.org/web/20141002214706/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/2/rev-louis-farrakhan-calls-ebola-a-race-targeting-b/ Farrakahn suggests Ebola is a ‘race-targeting bioweapon'] [[The Washington Times]], 2 October 2014.</ref> Farrakhan has made similar claims in the wake of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] claiming that vaccines are a plot to [[genocide conspiracy | kill off non-white populations]] and encourages the black community not to get vaccinated.<ref> [https://new.finalcall.com/2020/12/08/the-covid-19-vaccine-and-the-u-s-policy-of-depopulation/ The Covid-19 Vaccine and the U.S. policy of depopulation]</ref>

==Music==
Farrakhan happens to be a good violinist, and as [[Stopped clock|an olive branch contrasting with his antisemitism, he performed the violin concerto by Jewish composer Felix Mendelssohn]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120726175142/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Ei2XwrEnA&gl=US&hl=en Louis Farrakhan performs Mendelssohn Violin Concerto.] [[YouTube]], 20 March 2008.</ref> He’s also a pretty good singer, and has played other instruments like drums.

==Facebook==
In 2019, [[Facebook]] banned Farrakhan and several other individuals ([[Alex Jones]], [[Paul Joseph Watson]], [[Paul Nehlen]], [[Milo Yiannopoulos]] and [[Laura Loomer]]) as "dangerous individuals and organizations".<ref>[https://www.npr.org/2019/05/03/719897599/facebook-bans-alex-jones-louis-farrakhan-and-other-dangerous-individuals Facebook Bans Alex Jones, Louis Farrakhan And Other 'Dangerous' Individuals] by Matthew S. Schwartz (May 3, 20198:12 AM ET) ''NPR''.</ref><ref>[https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/dangerous_individuals_organizations Community Standards: 2. Dangerous Individuals and Organizations] ''Facebook''.</ref>

==Stopped clock moment==
A 1990 video of Farrakhan on ''{{wpl|The Phil Donahue Show}}'' addressing institutional racism, race relations, and plight of black people in the United States surfaced on social media. The video plays just a ''little'' fast and loose with the facts, but nonetheless highlights why many people, especially in the black community, support him and tend to overlook his history of racial bigotry, antisemitism, sexism, and homophobia.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwbRugNYcVk Minister Louis Farrakhan on Donahue (1990)] reelblack, YouTube.</ref><ref>[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Epjb-A6vOhQ Minister Louis Farrakhan handles the Donahue audience!] Britter Hart, [[YouTube]].</ref><ref>[https://jewishjournal.com/culture/317455/chelsea-handler-calls-farrakhan-video-powerful/ Chelsea Handler Calls Farrakhan Video ‘Powerful’] jewishjournal.com, 15 June 2020.</ref>

==Support amongst the black Community==
Due to his charisma and social work as the leader of the Nation of Islam, Farrakhan has gained a sense of legitimacy amongst African American leaders and celebrities. This has [[inverse stopped clock|unfortunately lead to some major gaffes]] by celebrities who repeat (and in some cases double down on) some of his antisemitic rhetoric as they often believe his [[Evil Jew|conspiracy theories about Jews controlling the world]] and/or [[Khazar myth|Jews of European descent not being true Jews.]]<ref>[https://www.adl.org/blog/farrakhan-remains-most-popular-antisemite-in-america Farrakhan Remains Most Popular Antisemite in America]. adl.org, 15 July 2020.</ref>

==See also==
*[[James Manning]] - his Christian counterpart, only more batshit insane.
*[[Tariq Nasheed]] - his much younger successor.

==References==
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