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Nation of Islam Looks to UFOs to Save the World
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsIt isn't often you hear about entire religious groups seriously interested in unidentified flying objects. But UFOs are what the Nation of Islam, led by the controversial Minister Louis Farrakhan, considers among its core beliefs. The Nation of Islam was founded in 1930 in Detroit by a former clothing salesman, Wallace Dodd Fard (Muhammad later added to his name), a minister whose followers believed was the personification of God on Earth. His student and successor, Elijah Poole (who later became Elijah Muhammad), referred to Fard as a spokesman of God or Allah. NOI followers believe they ...
Condoleezza Rice Talks Race, Relationships in Book
By Andrea Stone - AOL News
WASHINGTON (Oct. 16) -- Partisans on both the left and the right are "too easily driven to calling each other racists," says Condoleezza Rice, the highest-ranking black woman in U.S. history. "There is nothing that is a bigger hot button than to question somebody's motives and to call it racist, and unfortunately people do it on both sides," she says. In a wide-ranging interview with AOL News on a day filled with speeches and TV appearances to promote her new book, Rice spoke candidly about the misconceptions and assumptions about herself and the black community. Crown ...
Snoop Dogg Scuttles Presidential Hopes, Pals Around with Farrakhan
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama can attest to the radioactivity of even a wisp of a pseudo-connection to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. In that light, it looks like Snoop Dogg can kiss goodbye any national political aspirations.The Washington Post is reporting that Snoop, along with Doug E. Fresh, appeared with the minister at a Saviours Day celebration.Snoop, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, gave a $1,000 donation to the Nation and said he will always seek the minister out. The rapper called himself the "leader of the hip-hop community" and said it was his first Saviours Day event. He told ...
Farrakhan, Ayers Vote at Obama's Polling Place
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyFrom Jake Tapper: CHICAGO, Ill. -- Among the other voters who have shown up to vote at Shoesmith Elementary School this morning, where Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will vote: Louis Farrakhan and William Ayers. Who cares? Maybe people like Joe the Plumbish, who make decisions that affect the course of our country based on "logic" that equates a 3% marginal tax rate increase for quarter-millionaires with Chairman Mao, and a vociferous pledge of friendship and protection to Israel, with the imminent death of same. People who barely stay awake in church themselves, but suddenly care what someone ...
Obama: 'Whitey' Video Rumor is Crap
By David Knowles - Politics DailyYou may have seen the link floating around in our comment section. It leads you to one of many a breathless story, or perhaps a Fox News video clip, where the urgent topic is when we'll be seeing the YouTube file showing Michelle Obama on-stage with Louis Farrakhan lambasting Caucasian America with the term "whitey." The story goes that tape has been kept under wraps, out of view, for use as the ultimate October surprise, sure to kill Barack's chances faster than Hillary Clinton can say "I told you so." The problem? As with so many slurs against Obama, there's no there there. There is no tape. ...
Obama's Answers Create More Wright Questions
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailySen. Barack Obama finally tried to distance himself from his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, last week after Wright made an appearance at the National Press Club. During the question and answer session following that appearance, Wright repeated and amplified many of the incendiary comments, first brought to light in March, that he has made in various sermons from the pulpit of his Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. He said, among other things, that he believed the government is, "capable of doing anything," when asked if he really believed that the AIDS virus was created in a ...
PA Gov. Ed Rendell Hearts Louis Farrakhan's NOI
By Denise Williams - Politics DailyDemocratic Pennsylvania Governor and Hillary Clinton main champion, Ed Rendell, spent some time in 1997 praising Louis Farrakhan and The Nation of Islam while Mayor of Philadelphia. Slate reports: Back in April of 1997, Rendell, then the Mayor of Philadelphia, took the highly controversial step of inviting the Reverend Farrakhan to appear on the podium with him at the Tindley Temple United Methodist Church. The occasion was a rally attempting to ease racial tensions in the city after several high-profile black-on-white and white-on-black attacks. Farrakhan agreed to attend and praised ...
Obama Responds to Pastor Pile-On
By Denise Williams - Politics DailyIf you've had a TV tuned to cable news today, you would have seen video clips of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright - Barack Obama's pastor from Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago - plastered all over your TV screens. David Knowles commented in detail on Reverend Wright's controversial pulpit fulminations, and his take on it, here.While this probably should have happened sooner, the Obama campaign has quickly sought to distance the candidate from the Pastor's remarks. Obama has in the past removed himself from Wright's statements and his association with Louis Farrakhan. I am confused why it ...
Obama and the Question of Israel
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailyObama has become the center of gravity for much controversy over Jewish issues as of late. Eschewing the pestilent circulation of nauseating e-mails postulating upon his secret Muslim professions, issues of Jewish concern continue to arise in conjunction with the candidate. First, the Farrakhan endorsement caused a tempest-in-a-tea-cup, guilt-by-association scandal last week. M.J. Rosenberg raged against Tim Russert's question to Obama regarding the Islamic demagogue's support, concluding, "The bottom line is that Obama, like Senators Clinton and McCain, is a friend of Jews and Israel." On ...
The Reality of Recent Religious Endorsements
By Denise Williams - Politics DailyWhile we contemplate the actual efficacy of any endorsement conferred on any candidate, one thing is for sure - if it prays it brays. Not much has captured the American media quite so much this past week as the endorsement by the hateful Louis Farrakhan of Barack Obama. An endorsement, I might note, that was not sought by the candidate and was quickly denounced and then rejected. On the other side, which I'm sure you've heard much less about, are two recent religious community endorsements received by John McCain that not only were not rejected, renounced and denounced, but actively ...
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