NYC council votes to name street after antisemitic Nation of Islam leader

“The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad Way” honors a dishonorable man who cozied up with neo-Nazis and called Jews greedy.

The New York City Council approved a plan Thursday to name a block in Harlem after National of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad.

“Early on, Elijah Muhammad preached about greedy Jews and advanced the longstanding antisemitic trope that Jews turned Jesus Christ in to the authorities,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“Muhammad invited American Nazi Party boss George Lincoln Rockwell to the NOI’s 1962 Saviours’ Day Convention,” where Rockwell dubbed Muhammad “the Adolf Hitler of the black man,” the center added.

Still, the council supported naming the Manhattan intersection of West 127th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard “The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad Way,” reported the New York Daily News.

“He fails every test we could possibly put forward: the test based on the values and views of today, and the values and views of the times in which he lived and worked,” David Carr, a Republican council member said at a committee hearing.

Kristin Richardson Jordan, a far-left council member who represents Harlem and who proposed the street naming, called the honor “way overdue.”

“It is actually not OK to erase black leaders who are not pleasing to white people,” she said during the vote. “I profoundly vote aye on Elijah Muhammad Way.”

“The corner is the site of the NOI-owned Mosque Temple No. 7, where Malcolm X long preached,” according to the editorial board of the New York Post, “and where an NYPD officer was slain in 1972 (three years before Mohammad’s death) by unidentified NOI radicals while responding to a false emergency call at the mosque. That is, this renaming would be a dishonor in multiple ways.”

Per recent reporting, Illinois taxpayers are funding at least $500,000 for a group that is inspired by the Nation of Islam, whose leadership held official roles in the Nation of Islam and which calls itself “the archives for the Nation of Islam.”

Every now and then the SPLC speaks out against the NOI, but it's more of an afterthought. As if to avoid exposing the fact that Black anti Semetism is more widespread than the Woketards want to admit. Speaking of which, has ILLhan Omar disavowed David Duke's endorsements? Did she so much as issue a lameass meaningless statement that Duke's anti Semetism doesn't"align with her 'values'"?

there’s already numerous streets across our country that are dedicated to demonrats...

they’re called “one-way”...

2 posted on 02/25/2023 12:21:01 PM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)

The Jewish population of NY should keep voting Democratic and eventually they will realize what the NAZIs were like.

Bigots plain and simple, and no one should be surprised. Democrats are the worst kind of racists.

4 posted on 02/25/2023 1:07:01 PM PST by Bullish (Either we don't see it coming or they don't... But somebody's got it coming.)

We were in W VA and it seemed every other road was named for Robert Byrd, and this was before he died. There’s even an abort-o-mat, in Lewisburg, the Robert K Byrd Women’s Health Care Center.

5 posted on 02/25/2023 1:37:09 PM PST by Impala64ssa (If a liar's pants really did catch on fire NPR, CBC, ABC, CNN and MSNBC would be more fun to watch)

6 posted on 02/25/2023 6:35:19 PM PST by A strike ("The worse, the better."- Lenin (& Schwab & Soros)

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