Flashback to the olden days of last month. On the same day that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel told Chick-Fil-A they were not welcome in Chicago because they didn’t share “Chicago values,” Emanuel welcomed the National of Islam as a crime-fighting partner. Emanuel’s comments helped spark the vitriolic weeks long campaign against Chick-Fil-A that dominated July, a campaign that may have played a role in yesterday’s shooting at the Family Research Council in Washington. Emanuel’s welcoming of the Nation of Islam drew considerably less national media attention.
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.
Farrakhan has more than just a history of making anti-Semitic remarks, it turns out. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Farrakhan is the leader of a national hate-group. The SPLC’s “hate map” — yes, they have one of those — identifies every Nation of Islam chapter in the country, and the Illinois section specifically identifies the Chicago group which Farrakhan leads as a “hate group.” Right on the SPLC’s web site can be found the following quotes.
“[T]he Jews don’t like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that’s a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He wasn’t a great man for me as a black person, but he was a great German. Now, I’m not proud of Hitler’s evils against Jewish people, but that’s a matter of record. He raised Germany up from nothing. Well, in a sense you could say there’s a similarity in that we are raising our people up from nothing.”
— Louis Farrakhan, radio interview, March 11, 1984“Jews have been conclusively linked to the greatest criminal endeavor ever undertaken against an entire race of people … the black African Holocaust. … The effects of this unspeakable tragedy are still being felt among the peoples of the world at this very hour.”
— The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews (NOI book), 1991“Who are the slumlords in the Black community? The so-called Jews. … Who is it sucking our blood in the Black community? A white imposter Arab and a white imposter Jew.”
— Speech by NOI national official Khalid Muhammad, Nov. 29, 1993
And so forth. The SPLC’s site even details the NoI’s attempts to establish a working relationship with the American Nazi Party in the 1960s.
If the Southern Poverty Law Center is an authority on hate, and groups like the Human Rights Campaign say that it is, then Rahm Emanuel has a whole lot of explaining to do. Why is he allowing a group that one of the left’s leading lights considers a “hate group,” and which agrees enough with the Ku Klux Klan that they tried to work together, to patrol Chicago’s bloody streets?
When haven’t Nazis wanted their stormtroopers in the street?
And I hate Illinois Nazis.
Orion
Hey, leave the Jews out of this one; Farrakhan claims to be a Muslim of some sort, with his “Nation of Islam” gang.
Last I heard, Muslims didn’t just “support the traditional family” the way the FRC does; they don’t merely “decry the homosexual lifestyle.” Muslims advocate killing adherents of the “homosexual lifestyle,” often by very painful and public means, and in areas ruled or controlled by Muslims—as Chicago may well be, given Rahm Emanuel’s inviting their enforcement efforts—they have actually killed homosexuals on religious grounds.
So why aren’t the Chicagoans who rallied to protest the “homophobia” of Chick-Fil-A out in the streets protesting their Mayor giving the streets of the city over to the bullyboys of a homophobic hate group?
If this group is flipping the finger at the Establishment, and so is that group, then both are considered natural allies (whether they are or not — the Progs making the assumption don’t care.)
The essential thing is that the Establishment be … whatevered, which is what Emanuel is most-interested in doing.
I think I shall suggest to buzzsawmonkey that he rework the lyrics to the tune “Chicago”.
It is time.
When I first heard that the “Fruit of Islam” was going to be “patroling” the streets of Chicago the first thing that popped into my mind was the SA (Brownshirts) so I looked up the Fruits in Wikipedia. Turns out that the founder of the Nation of Islam, W. D. Fard, created the FoI in 1933 as the paramilitary arm of the NoI. The FoI was inspired by the Hitler’s SA. This arm of the NoI is now and always has been the black equivalent of the German-American Bund.
As a matter of fact, the alternate uniform of the “Fruits” is a military one with a 1930′s German-style peaked cap.
Farrakhan was also complicit in the murder of Malcolm X.
When a thug-politician puts a thug-hate group on the streets to patrol I think it is time to reorder the Bill of Rights. Like moving the 2nd to the top of the list. Just wait until these cats start violating the 4th amendment on the streets….
Chicago, Emanuel’s Town
Chicago, Chicago,
Emanuel’s town, Emanuel’s town
Chicago, Chicago,
Gunplay’s shuttin’ it down
(You’ve been warned)
Just to make sure youse will be confused
The Mayor brings in Farrakhan’s thugs to shut gangs down
On State Street, once a great street, heard an alderman say
Anything goes, except for Chick-Fil-A
The local “values” are internecine strife
You’ll be lucky to get away with your life
From Chicago
Chicago—Emanuel’s town!
– Chicago Died.