Posted on 02/24/2008 8:14:09 PM PST by indcons
In his first major public address since recovering from complications due to cancer, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Sunday that presidential candidate Barack Obama is the "hope of the entire world" that the U.S. will change for the better.
Farrakhan and his family have a farm in New Buffalo Township in southwestern Michigan's Berrien County.
Farrakhan, addressing an estimated crowd of 20,000 people at the annual Saviours' Day celebration, never outrightly endorsed Obama but spent the majority of the nearly two-hour speech praising the Illinois senator.
"This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better," he said. "This young man is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow. If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed."
Farrakhan compared Obama to the religion's founder, Fard Muhammad, who also had a white mother and black father.
"A black man with a white mother became a savior to us," he told the crowd of mostly followers dressed in Nation of Islam attire including long white suits and matching head scarfs for women and navy-colored uniforms with caps for men. "A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall."
Obama's campaign spokesman Bill Burton said, "Senator Obama has been clear in his objections to Minister Farrakhan's past pronouncements and has not solicited the minister's support."
Farrakhan also leveled small jabs at Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama's rival for the Democratic nomination, suggesting that she represents the politics of the past and has been engaging in dirty politics.
Farrakhan's keynote address at McCormick Place, the city's convention center, wrapped up three days of events geared at unifying followers and targeting youth.
It had a remarkably different tone than a year ago, when Farrakhan made what was called his final public address at a Saviours' Day event in Detroit. The 74-year-old was recovering from complications from prostate cancer and months earlier had temporarily passed on leadership duties of the organization's day-to-day activities to an executive board.
In a letter to followers dated Sept. 11, 2006, he said he was seriously ill and had dropped more than twenty pounds. He said Sunday he once weighed as little as 158 pounds.
But over the past year, Farrakhan has been regaining strength and slowly increasing his public appearances, giving lectures at the Nation's Mosque Maryam on the city's South Side, speaking in churches about unity and granting occasional interviews.
"I spent most of the year working on the inside of the Nation," he said.
He told the crowd that he flew back to Chicago from one of his homes in Phoenix last week after complaining of pain and underwent many hours of medical tests. A Nation of Islam spokesman later told The Associated Press that the tests revealed no further problems.
"The Minister Farrakhan is back," said Ishmael Muhammad, an assistant minister at Mosque Maryam for 17 years who is largely expected to be Farrakhan's successor. "The doctors have even said it's truly a miracle, his recovery and health."
Muhammad said Farrakhan has assumed all his previous leadership duties at the Chicago-based Nation of Islam.
On Sunday, Farrakhan appeared healthy and joked that he's "a little on the pudgy side" at a robust 192 pounds.
"People are wondering 'Is he sick? How's he doing?'" he said. "I'm doing fine."
Ford was the founder of NOI, but left town after a few years and never resurfaced.
Elijah Muhammed was the long time leader who succeeded Ford.
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According to the revered founder of the Nation of Islam, there are no white folks, only blue-eyed devils who were invented by an evil Jewish scientist as a tool with which to control the world. I'm not making this up.
Whoops! Wrong mohammad.
FREEDOM'S ENEMIES:SAVE THIS CONSTANTLY UPDATED FILE ON OBAMA -
...black, brown, red and yellow...
beyond the pale eh?
Obama’s ‘Mentor’ Gave Farrakhan An Award (youtube video at link) http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obamas-mentor-gives-farrakhan-his-award
The Muhammed Farrakhan was comparing Obama to, Wallace Ford, was not a pedophile, but was a convicted dope pusher who shirked his child support allegations.
“I’m Barack Obama and I approve this ad.”
From your link, Fred:
2001 Beyond the visits to his Muslim relatives in Africa, Obama has little to say about Islam and Muslims until the events of 9/11. After that date, Obama begins to become more public in his support of Muslims and their cause.
2001 Obama is protective of civil rights for Muslims in the U.S., saying, “In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging,” he laments. “I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
2001 Obama sponsors Illinois Senate Bill 750 creating the “Halal Food Act,” providing for inspections by the Department of Agriculture to ensure that all food labeled Halal is prepared according to Islamic law.
Islamization — here’s how it works and why Halal food plays a role [link in the original].
2003 Obama calls the Iraq war “a botched and ill-advised U.S. military incursion into a Muslim country.”
2007 On April 8th, Obama shows his Muslim/Palestinian solidarity and sensitivity, by telling Muscatine, Illinois Democratic party activists that he supports relaxing restrictions on aid to the Palestinian people.
He said they have suffered the most as a result of stalled peace efforts with Israel. “Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people.”
2008 On January 31st, Obama told a French magazine in an interview that if he wins office, he will hold a summit with Muslim countries to better the United States’ image in the world.
“Once I’m elected, I want to organize a summit in the Muslim world, with all the heads of state, to have an honest discussion about ways to bridge the gap that grows every day between Muslims and the West.”
Imagine a Farrakhan firebrand endorsement of Barry Obama if he was really a Barry Schwartz?
Ole ferrycan won’t be to happy with bama when he finds out he was getting homosexual with LARRY SINCLAIR.
Yeah, Hillary needs to catch up so their convention is full of lawyers and law suits. Go Beast!!
Several years ago I saw on TV Farrakhan and a group of his black boys standing behind him as he made a long winded speach. They were all dressed in black suits,the expression on their face never changed. No smiling,nothing, military in their stance. They gave me the creeps.
When I first saw Obama that was my first thought,he's Farrakhan groomed.I've been watching for a Farrakhan connection and now this is the second connection I've seen.
Obama must never become president,never.
Thanks for the endorsement “Screwy Louie”
Nation of Islam likes him.
And he’s clueless about the military:
http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/obamas_platoon#comment-692247
Obama - muslim link PING
More Obama truth stuff:
http://obamatruth.org/
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