Rahm welcomes help from Farrakahn, ignores anti-Semitic remarks

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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.

[Zionist Conspirator]

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.

Your self-admitted "hate" for "Jew commies" (or was it "commie Jews?) seems to indicate that you believe Communism is a Jewish plot. There are lots of people who believe that, and there used to be lots of them on this very forum.

Granted people often say stupid things when they're very emotional, but you really need to pay more attention to what you're posting.

[EyeGuy]

“Granted people often say stupid things when they’re very emotional, but you really need to pay more attention to what you’re posting.”

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Says the faux “redneck” who vaulted well beyond pedestrian “stupidity” with a post featuring an incredibly surreal flight of “emotional” idiocy.

[EyeGuy]

I DID unbottle it.

Bluntly.

Self-congratulatory, smug and “thoughtful” people like you, confuse plain, factual speaking with inferior intellect and “hate”.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Says the faux “redneck” who vaulted well beyond pedestrian “stupidity” with a post featuring an incredibly surreal flight of “emotional” idiocy.

Perhaps you are unaware that personal attacks are against the rules here?

I've been defending rednecks and Fundamentalist Protestants on FR for over thirteen years. For you to (in so many words) accuse me of lying is quite over-the-top.

I don't know what has gotten you so mad at me now, since I thought we had reached a truce. Was it because I was honest in stating my religious beliefs? I'm a Noachide and most people at FR know that (since I've been here over thirteen years). The world is full of people who are anti-religion and lie about it. I merely openly state my belief as a Noachide that chrstianity is a false religion and that all non-Jews are supposed to be Noachides, just as all Catholics think everyone should be Catholic and all Protestants think everyone should be Protestant. You're mad at me for simply revealing my religious affiliation?

[Tijeras_Slim]

I don’t think he can hear you.

[HenpeckedCon]

I'd bet Louie would smile at Rahm all the way to the “shower.”