Posted on 07/26/2012 6:17:30 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Rahm welcomes help from Farrakahn, ignores anti-Semitic remarks
BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter fspielman@suntimes.com July 25, 2012 4:56PM
Updated: July 26, 2012 2:21AM
Ignoring Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s history of anti-Semitic remarks, Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday welcomed the army of men dispatched to the streets by Farrakhan to stop the violence in Chicago neighborhoods.
Ald. Debra Silverstein (50th), an Orthodox Jew, has said it’s good that Farrakhan is “helping” in the fight against crime, “but it doesn’t eradicate the comments that he’s made about the Jewish community.”
Emanuel offered no such caveat. Although Farrakhan has a history of making anti-Semitic statements, Chicago’s first Jewish mayor has no interest in revisiting that controversy.
He’s more concerned about reducing a 40 percent surge in Chicago homicides that’s become a media obsession and threatens to undermine his efforts to market Chicago to international tourists.
“People of faith have a role to play and community leaders have a role to play in helping to protect our neighborhoods and our citizens. You cannot get there on just one piece of an anti-crime strategy,” the mayor said.
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I don't think it was hateful it all - except hatefully accurate perhaps.
And a dual citizen with the nation of Israel. It isn't hard to see where his loyalties are.
Just curious . . .
That's a very perceptive question, and one most people don't ask themselves. We are conditioned to jump from one "angle" to another; ie, from fighting the "gays" to fighting the moslems; from fighting the moslems to fighting the secular humanists; from fighting the secular humanists to fighting angry Blacks (who worship as if they were right wing snake-handling hillbillies but who don't vote that way).
I learned from a lifetime of watching professional wrestling (the old timey kind, not the kind we have now) that the marks aren't supposed to think about the contradictions too much. They're supposed to go from booing one heel to booing another, whether the heel is an evil foreigner or the local bully.
Farrakhan may claim to be against "gay marriage." I believe he delivered a speech once blaming homosexuality on "Hollywood Jews." I believe he also claims to be against abortion. BUT--he always endorses, works with, and campaigns for the Black Left. And yes, he uses those very words. He supports the Black Left, all the while claiming to disagree with the Left's social positions.
My personal conclusion: the man is a fraud. Also, according to some FReepers the entire NOI is a fraud. We all know it's not really islamic at all, but some FReepers claim that it doesn't believe in G-d at all; that it claims the G-d that exists outside oneself is a creation of the white man but the "real 'gxd'" is within oneself.
I can't imagine a more mixed up movement.
In Hebrew the name is spelled `ayin-mem-nun-vav-'alef-lamed. The mem has a dot called a dagesh in it that means it is doubled. "Emmanuel" and "Emanuel" are both transliterations of the same name; one simply ignores the dot. But they're both trasliterations of the exact same word.
Me? I ain't worried. Louie done promise me the Kenny Bunk.
Seriously though, Calypso Louie and the President's revival of The Freedman's Bureau for Negro Education should do the trick on the black-on-black murder rate, especially if the Treasury Department follows through on my suggestion to confiscate gold "grillwork." That, and taking every last cent from those who make more than $35,000 per year ought to snap us right out of this Depression.
Attention Jews of Chicago: Your safety and that of your families apparently now depends upon Calypso Louie and a fegelah ballerino. Please check out
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“I don’t think it was hateful it all - except hatefully accurate perhaps.”
It impressed me as the kind of expression that is counter-productive and chases thoughtful people from this forum. In any event, I’m not about re-fighting the Crusades.
If I'm not mistaken, isn't Rahm Emanuel a Jew?
And a dual citizen with the nation of Israel. It isn't hard to see where his loyalties are.
So you're saying that by supporting "gay rights" and the Nation of Islam Emanuel is carrying out policies of the Israeli government? Would you care to support that assertion?
“I’ve seen comments, similar to this, on FreeRepublic before but the virility of the hate in that statement is stunning!”
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Yeah, I admit it.
I hate my enemies, with all the “virility” I can muster.
Nuance, niceties and ignoring the CLEAR demographics will not get the job done.
When Jack Kemp was running for Vice President, he said some positive things about the Black Muslims, and got publicly lambasted for it. I guess if your a good Democrat, it doesn’t matter.
And Jews are your enemies?
You should consider joining Farrakhan's organization. I'm sure the two of you would get along swimmingly.
When I first came to FreeRepublic there were a great many thoughtful, energetic, patriotic folk here, who were dedicated to the goal of maintaining freedom for our republic. Nowadays, more often than not, it’s about assuaging one’s ego and venting bile. It’s not persuasive. This is the wrong forum.
When I first came to Free Republic it was crawling with anti-Semites (though there were just as many, if not more, philo-Semites). Some people even used the names of notorious Nazis as their screen names.
One by one they gradually got kicked off. The big turning point was 9/11. There have been very few anti-Semites here since then. Unfortunately, there are still some here, as this thread demonstrates.
Believe me . . . FR is much better than it was back in '99 when it was polluted by people like Okierddust, Gecko, The_King_of_Ithaca, Tex-Oma, etc.
“And Jews are your enemies?”
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Parse much to fit your agenda?
Communists are my enemy. The proclivity of Jews, (or perhaps you prefer “jews”), toward that political orientation is a known fact.
If seek to align with a “jew” like Emanuel that is much more YOUR problem than mine.
To play your ignorant insulting game, which anti-Christian groups do you get along with “swimmingly”?
“Nowadays, more often than not, it’s about assuaging one’s ego and venting bile. It’s not persuasive. This is the wrong forum.”
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Gross mischaracterization. “Ego” has absolutely nothing to do with it.
You just don’t like the plain fact that I pointed out that the odious commie Emanuel is a Jew.
I’m Catholic and have even GREATER disdain for “catholic” Commies. I have stated the same here often.
Perhaps you haven't noticed that there are more chrstian liberals than Jewish liberals. Black chrstians (who worship like hillbillies) are much more responsible for what has happened in this country than are any Jews. But perhaps they don't count. What about Hispanic Catholics? They're part of the grand liberal alliance and there are many more Hispanics than there are Jews. Why are "chrstian" Blacks and Hispanics so liberal? Did the Jews do that to them?
Then there are the mainline "liberal" Protestants, the Catholic Bishops (who are Marxists on all but social issues), and the many ancient ethnic churches who either never utter a peep about the moral crisis or automatically vote Democrat because the Republicans are "mean" to immigrants.
Finally, I am anti-chrstian for a very simple reason: it's a false religion! It is unauthorized by the Torah. It's no different than islam, mormonism, sikhism, b*ddhism, hinduism, or any other false religion. G-d spoke at Sinai and gave His laws to the world (the Torah for Jews, the Noachide Laws for non-Jews). It was chrstianity that introduced the idea of "change" and evolution in religion (G-d said this once, but He's allegedly changed His mind) and said "render unto Caesar," planting the seed of separation of religion and state. Much of the liberal rot attacking chrstianity is the natural result of its claims that G-d's laws changed at some point. If they changed once, why shouldn't they change again and again?
But never mind. You're all worked up against Bibi Netanyahu for ordering Ram Emanuel to support "gay rights" and the NOI. So just go ahead and spew.
Context is everything. I’m a big proponent of saying what you mean and meaning what you say.
“I’m a big proponent of saying what you mean and meaning what you say.”
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I’m doing the best I can. You are the one who has the problem with blunt, factual plain-speaking.
It is a societal malady.
Incredible! Just wow.
Have a nice day.
PS. You are battling someone ELSE over Netanyahu and homosexuality ?!?. Personally, I love Bibi and wish we could elect a man like him as President of the US.
C’mon, spit-it-out! Get it off your chest. Don’t keep it all bottled-up (it’s not healthy). I am a... and I hate....!
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