Rep. Danny Davis
Posted on 02/05/2018 7:02:07 PM PST by markomalley
Democratic Illinois Rep. Danny Davis defended Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan as an “outstanding human being” on Monday.
Farrakhan is known for embracing radically anti-Semitic and anti-white views, as even the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center has acknowledged. Farrakhan’s history of racially extreme comments includes blaming Jews for the September 11 attacks, saying white people “deserve to die” and praising Adolf Hitler as a “very great man.”
A bombshell new photo emerged last week, showing former President Barack Obama smiling with Farrakhan at a Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) meeting in 2005. The journalist who took the photo said he suppressed its publication to protect Obama’s presidential aspirations.
Davis, who has been in Congress since 1997, defended Obama for meeting Farrakhan and was open about his own ties to the hate group leader in an interview with The Daily Caller on Monday.
“I personally know [Farrakhan], I’ve been to his home, done meetings, participated in events with him,” Davis told TheDC.
“I don’t regard Louis Farrakhan as an aberration or anything, I regard him as an outstanding human being who commands a following of individuals who are learned and articulate and he plays a big role in the lives of thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of people,” he emphasized later.
Davis told TheDC “it wouldn’t be anything out of the ordinary” for him to meet with Farrakhan and said that Farrakhan isn’t considered a fringe character in his hometown of Chicago.
When asked about Davis’s history of anti-Semitic comments, Davis was dismissive and said that many people in politics have a history of inflammatory comments.
Obama and Davis aren’t the only prominent Democrats with ties to Farrakhan.
Several current House Democrats were seen hugging Farrakhan in 2006, a year after Obama met with Farrakhan.
Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, who also co-chairs the Democratic National Committee (DNC), once defended Farrakhan against charges of anti-Semitism.
During his campaign for DNC chair last year, Ellison wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post apologizing for his defense of Farrakhan. Ellison still managed to blame a “right-wing smear campaign” for questions about his ties to anti-Semitic figures.
A spokesperson for the CBC did not return multiple requests for comment on Farrakhan.
I’ll start:
“The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the late of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us for 400 years.”
-Louis Farrakhan
The stupidity is strong in this one......
First time I’ve heard a “democrat” call a racist bigot an “outstanding human being”. It’s a wacky world out there these days.
Another classic!:
God will destroy America by the hands of the Muslims. God will not give Japan or Europe the honor of bringing down the United States; this is an honor God will bestow upon Muslims.
-Louis Farrakhan
Rep. Danny Davis
“A bombshell new photo emerged last week, showing former President Barack Obama smiling with Farrakhan at a Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) meeting in 2005. The journalist who took the photo said he suppressed its publication to protect Obama’s presidential aspirations.”
Enemedia; fake news includes news that is suppressed/hidden.
Louis Farrakhan aka Calypso Louie! From Calypso singer to fake preacher/bigot.
Hey Louie “tally me banana!”
[ Democratic Congressman Claims Louis Farrakhan Is An ‘Outstanding Human Being’ ]
Is there any elected Democrat that isn’t a pathological liar or a complete kook?
Wait, don’t answer that......
Is he a Rocket Surgeon or a Brain Scientist?
(yes, I did that on purpose)
That’s all anyone needs to know about Calypso Louie.
Through the ensuing years, that magazine ran a few more, updated articles.
Yes, I am going back some, but this idiot Dem is old enough to have NOT missed these articles!
Also, Rev. Wright was thick as thieves with the NOI and Screwy Louis! And whilst Obama was attending that "church", he was well aware of what was going on and even had a hand in presenting an award to screwy Louis, from that church! Bet that Danny Davis knows ALL about this too!
Part and parcel of the democrat love affair with enemy islam.
He must have a lot of NOI in his district .... perhaps a few have been inmates. /cough
How does Calypso Louie explain Allah in regards to Africa? Does he smile upon them?
Not sure just where Davis was elected from, but THAT really doesn’t matter at all! Just as long as the person is black and NOT a GOPer nor Conservative, then these FREAKS will go to no end to praise them! After all, look how these people LOVE black cop killers and black criminals of ALL stripes.
Is it any wonder why our country is in the shape it’s in. . . especially the state of Illinois.
He is right about that. Most blacks are just like him.
Trying to normalize Farrakhan so the picture & any association with Berry won’t be questioned.
Great. Let’s hope more democrats come forward and tell us how they view Farrakhan.
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