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The
Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan |
The thinking of
the neo-conservatives is written of in
scripture. In the Book of Revelations 2 and 9,
it reads: “I know the blasphemy of those who say
they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue
of Satan.”
What is the blasphemy?
A Jew is a noble thing. A Jew means one who is
in a covenant relationship with God in obedience
to the Divine laws, statutes and commandments of
God. But these people claim to be Jews, but
they’re not in obedience to God’s law. They have
given a mission of evil a divine look on it, and
George W. Bush has swallowed that bait—hook,
line and sinker.
“Synagogue of Satan” is
a gathering of persons of like mind and spirit
who are in opposition to the will of God. So, in
the Bible, Paul said, “We wrestle not against
flesh and blood, but against principalities and
powers and the rulers of the darkness of this
world and spiritual wickedness in high places.”
In the peace process,
no American president has been able to deliver,
and President Bush is the worst in that line to
deliver, because he is so in line with the
thinking of those in opposition to peace.
I warned the President
that there were two fronts in this war, one
right here in the United States of America. In
order for them to complete their objectives,
there must not be what happened in the sixties—a
rise of the people in the streets of America.
So, they must silence voices of dissent, silence
activists, bring organizations that would oppose
this war into court, call them enemy combatants
and remove from them due process. Thus, the
Patriot Act was rushed through Congress to give
power to this country to take away the rights of
the American people.
As Black people, we
already understand. We know what America is
capable of doing. The reports that you’ve seen
on television recently, that show Iraqi soldiers
being tortured, stripped naked, being made to
look like they were performing lewd acts on one
another and the rape of Iraqi women by American
soldiers; the whole Muslim world is seeing this
and the whole Muslim world is rising in an anger
and a hatred that has never been seen before
towards America. Soon, it will be that no
American will be able to travel in the Muslim
world because they will kill Americans in the
Arab and Muslim world.
You may not like what
I’m saying. You may be angry with me. But I have
a mission and I’m looking to Allah (God) for my
protection. I’m saying to you, beloved brothers
and sisters and the people of America and the
people of the world, this time is so dangerous
that, if America does not change course, as a
George W. (Washington) brought America into
existence as the first president, a George W.
will take America out of existence and you will
witness the ruin of the greatest nation in the
history of the present world.
The Patriot Act
deprives us of First Amendment rights. The
Patriot Act deprives us of Fourth, Sixth,
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Amendment guarantees.
The soldiers are in the Middle East fighting for
“Iraqi freedom,” while the freedom that they
thought they had is being diminished at home.
When Senator John Kerry
came back from Vietnam, he was a dissenter. He
could throw away medals; he could stand up and
speak against the war in Vietnam. If these
soldiers come back, they will come back to a
different environment. The Patriot Act will
silence them.
Did you know that in
Iraq, for the last 12 years, the people have
lived under the poison of dirty bombs that have
poisoned their water, air and the land? Now,
American soldiers have been in that environment
for over a year, going on two years. When they
come home and diseases begin to afflict them
like Agent Orange began to afflict the Vietnam
veterans, will the government of America deny
them the help and support they need?
They’re talking about
the soldiers that are dead, but at Walter Reed
Hospital there are thousands that have been
wounded by this war, their limbs gone, their
faces disfigured—over nothing but the greed of a
few people who have hijacked the government of
the United States of America.
An election is coming
up—the most serious election in the history of
this nation, because whoever becomes president
will have the awesome responsibility of saving
the lives of the American people.
My dear Black brothers
and sisters and Hispanic brothers and sisters, I
know that you are Democrats. I know that you
want Senator Kerry to win. You’re registering
people to vote in unprecedented numbers. But I
say to the Black leadership, don’t you herd our
people to the polls before you put before
Senator Kerry an agenda that is in the best
interests of the masses of our people. If you
betray our people and the suffering masses that
want to be relieved, then your leadership is
finished. This is the last time that you will
herd our votes into the hands of any political
leader without having the necessary strength to
put before such a leader those issues that
affect our lives.
Senator Kerry, at a
recent visit to Howard University, when the
question of reparations was raised, he said “no”
to reparations, because he said it would divide
the country and it would not heal the wounds.
Congressman John
Conyers put before the Congress H.R. 40, a
resolution to simply study the question of
reparations and Congress refuses to even study
this question—which means to Black people that
the Congress is not interested in justice for
us.
Martin Luther King Jr.,
before he passed from us, said: “I have been
gravely disappointed with the White moderate. I
have almost reached the regrettable conclusion
that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the
stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens
Counselor, or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the White
moderate who is more devoted to order than to
justice, who prefers a negative peace, which is
the absence of tension, to a positive peace,
which is the presence of justice.”
Senator Kerry appears
to be a White moderate who prefers order:
“Don’t disturb order by asking for a study of
whether Black people deserve reparations. Let’s
not go back to the past.” Yet, Americans say,
“Remember the Alamo,” “Remember Pearl Harbor”
and “Remember the Holocaust,” but forget what
Black people have suffered.
We, the Blacks in
America, deserve to be repaired. We are a broken
people and we need to be repaired. How, Senator
Kerry, can you heal the racial divide by
sweeping the principle of justice under the rug?
When a husband and a
wife have disagreements, if they don’t address
the reason for the disagreement, the gap between
the two continues to widen until the division
between them is irreconcilable. Therefore, they
have to go before a judge for separation or
divorce and then the court must look at the
assets that the wife helped the husband to
accrue and share it with the woman who is
seeking relief.
Well, here we are with
you. We helped you build this country. We
fought, bled and died to maintain this country.
You don’t want to see the horror of the
trans-Atlantic slave trade and the inhumanity of
what we’ve suffered.
You say, “But the
present generation had nothing to do with it.”
That is true. But the present generation of
Germans had nothing to do with what happened to
the Jews of yesterday, but they’re paying
reparations. It’s not about what you did; it’s
about a responsibility to correct a wrong that
must be corrected.
We were robbed of the
knowledge of ourselves. For 300 years, Black
people were reduced to a subhuman level as
chattel. We lived under lynching, segregation,
Jim Crow, injustice, police brutality and racial
profiling up to this very moment. Don’t we
deserve consideration?
If you want our vote in
this most critical election, I’m warning the
Black leadership, don’t sell out your people for
that which the Qur’an says happened to the
magicians of Pharaoh: They were promised wealth
and nearness to Pharaoh. A slave may want some
money and to be seen in the halls of power,
while justice does not come to the suffering
masses.
I have been a faithful
Warner to you. I know that the Sanhedrin will
meet after this speech and they will decide what
to do with me. You may do as you please. But if
this country is to survive, it must renounce and
repudiate the doctrine of the neo-conservatives
and distance this country from their agenda.
If America is to
survive, she must not use the might of America
to fight the battles of Israel and allow herself
to be used to destroy the real or perceived
enemies of Israel. I must say, with truth, that
I know this President is bound to the
neo-conservative agenda and it is in their best
interest to have President Bush reelected.
So, I am hoping that
the neo-conservatives will not contrive some
terrorist activity in America—which the
government continues to warn us will happen—that
will kill many more Americans in order to
facilitate a political and economic agenda.
I warn you, if you go
into this wider war with Syria, Iran, Sudan,
Libya and other members of the Arab and Muslim
world or if you plan a preemptive strike against
Cuba, America will fight the War of Armageddon.
It is right at your door. Soon, you’ll be
fighting in Asia, in the South Pacific. If China
fulfills her word that if Taiwan seeks
independence, China will attack Taiwan, and the
neo-conservatives are saying to the President,
“You must uphold your word to defend Taiwan,”
then American soldiers will be sent to Asia to
fight.
You’re drawing away
your troops from Eastern Europe. Homeland
security is weak because the National Guard is
supposed to protect the nation, but the National
Guard is now in Iraq. The military is spread out
all over the world—while this country now has 12
million undocumented aliens. You want them to
give their names. Is it so that, like ancient
Rome, you may use those without any benefit now
in this country to fight for America in order to
gain their citizenship?
Will you advance a
draft next year to draft American children to
fight and die for neo-conservative aims? If you
do, American soldiers will go away to fight by
the tens of thousands, but they will come back
to America by the fives and tens—these are the
words of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
America will not win
another war. Allah (God) has set His hand
against you. America is a preserved area. No
foreign enemy will destroy this country. This
country was allowed to become great and powerful
like the ancient Pharaoh in Egypt, for God
Himself to make Himself known. Please, do not
force Allah (God) to destroy you.
How you
handle me will determine how long you will live.
Thank
you for listening (reading these words). May
Allah (God) bless you as I greet you in peace,
As-Salaam Alaikum.