Farrakhan Says 'My Time Is Up'
By JEFF KAROUB
AP
DETROIT (Feb. 26) - Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan was greeted by cheers, tears and chants from tens of thousands as he returned to the public eye just long enough to say he would be leaving it soon.
Farrakhan, who ceded leadership duties last year because of illness, spoke for nearly two hours Sunday. Looking healthy and fit, he credited the prayers of millions from all walks of life for allowing him to take the stage at Detroit's Ford Field.
His vitality seemed at odds with his message, that his time left in the spotlight was short.
"My time is up," the 73-year-old Farrakhan said, describing his exit from leadership. "I believe ... that my time to be with my spiritual father and his sender has come. And your time to go through serious trial has come."
The topic of the speech was "One Nation Under God." But Farrakhan said the world is at war because Christians, Muslims and people of other faiths are divided.
Farrakhan said Jesus Christ and the Prophet Muhammad would embrace each other with love if they were on the stage behind him.
"Our lips are full of praise, but our hearts are far removed from the prophets we all claim," he said. "That's why the world is in the shape that it's in."
The leader of 1995's Million Man March said he is leaving at a time of great conflict, citing the war in Iraq specifically, and he believes God is angry with leaders who are putting politics and greed above service to others. He predicted "the fall of the great Babylon, the United States of America."
He said President Bush should be impeached or at least censured for his "wicked policies," and urged young people to avoid joining a military that will have them "leave one way and come back another."
The speech at the home of the National Football League's Detroit Lions capped the Nation's three-day convention in the city where it was founded in 1930.
The downtown venue was not filledto capacity, but seats on the field and in the lower levels of the 65,000-seat stadium were packed.
Anita Baker performed two songs before Farrakhan took the stage and speakers from various religious and ethnic groups welcomed him. Among those on the stage behind him were U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.; Russell Simmons, hip-hop pioneer and entrepreneur; and Joe Shirley Jr., Navajo Nation president.
The annual convention, usually held in Chicago, honors Nation founder Wallace D. Fard, who attracted black Detroiters on the margins of society with a message of self-improvement and separation from whites. Fard said whites were inherently evil because of their enslavement of blacks.
The Nation of Islam, which promotes black empowerment and nationalism, was rebuilt by Farrakhan in the late 1970s after W.D. Mohammed, the son of longtime leader Elijah Mohammed, moved his followers toward mainstream Islam.
Farrakhan became notorious for calling Judaism a "gutter religion" and suggesting crack cocaine might have been a CIA plot to enslave blacks. He met with foreign leaders at odds with the United States - Moammar Gadhafi, Fidel Castro and Saddam Hussein - prompting the State Department in 1996 to accuse him of "cavorting with dictators."
Farrakhan, who embraced W.D. Mohammed on stage in 2000 after years of discord, has credited his steps toward reconciliation to what he called a "near death" experience related to prostate cancer, which he began battling in 1991.
Detroiter Che-Lin Aldridge, who described herself as spiritual but not a member of the Nation, welcomed Farrakhan and what he had to say.
"This message is something everybody needs to hear - a message that's universal," Aldridge said. "What he said was critical for our lives today."
Farrakhan recalled the story of the final message delivered by the Prophet Muhammad, who was dying at the time. "Within 80 days ... he expired," Farrakhan said.
"I don't see expiration for me," he said, "but I do see exaltation."
Farrakhan, who ceded leadership duties last year because of illness, spoke for nearly two hours Sunday. Looking healthy and fit, he credited the prayers of millions from all walks of life for allowing him to take the stage at Detroit's Ford Field.
His vitality seemed at odds with his message, that his time left in the spotlight was short.
"My time is up," the 73-year-old Farrakhan said, describing his exit from leadership. "I believe ... that my time to be with my spiritual father and his sender has come. And your time to go through serious trial has come."
The topic of the speech was "One Nation Under God." But Farrakhan said the world is at war because Christians, Muslims and people of other faiths are divided.
Farrakhan said Jesus Christ and the Prophet Muhammad would embrace each other with love if they were on the stage behind him.
"Our lips are full of praise, but our hearts are far removed from the prophets we all claim," he said. "That's why the world is in the shape that it's in."
The leader of 1995's Million Man March said he is leaving at a time of great conflict, citing the war in Iraq specifically, and he believes God is angry with leaders who are putting politics and greed above service to others. He predicted "the fall of the great Babylon, the United States of America."
He said President Bush should be impeached or at least censured for his "wicked policies," and urged young people to avoid joining a military that will have them "leave one way and come back another."
The speech at the home of the National Football League's Detroit Lions capped the Nation's three-day convention in the city where it was founded in 1930.
The downtown venue was not filledto capacity, but seats on the field and in the lower levels of the 65,000-seat stadium were packed.
Anita Baker performed two songs before Farrakhan took the stage and speakers from various religious and ethnic groups welcomed him. Among those on the stage behind him were U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.; Russell Simmons, hip-hop pioneer and entrepreneur; and Joe Shirley Jr., Navajo Nation president.
The annual convention, usually held in Chicago, honors Nation founder Wallace D. Fard, who attracted black Detroiters on the margins of society with a message of self-improvement and separation from whites. Fard said whites were inherently evil because of their enslavement of blacks.
The Nation of Islam, which promotes black empowerment and nationalism, was rebuilt by Farrakhan in the late 1970s after W.D. Mohammed, the son of longtime leader Elijah Mohammed, moved his followers toward mainstream Islam.
Farrakhan became notorious for calling Judaism a "gutter religion" and suggesting crack cocaine might have been a CIA plot to enslave blacks. He met with foreign leaders at odds with the United States - Moammar Gadhafi, Fidel Castro and Saddam Hussein - prompting the State Department in 1996 to accuse him of "cavorting with dictators."
Farrakhan, who embraced W.D. Mohammed on stage in 2000 after years of discord, has credited his steps toward reconciliation to what he called a "near death" experience related to prostate cancer, which he began battling in 1991.
Detroiter Che-Lin Aldridge, who described herself as spiritual but not a member of the Nation, welcomed Farrakhan and what he had to say.
"This message is something everybody needs to hear - a message that's universal," Aldridge said. "What he said was critical for our lives today."
Farrakhan recalled the story of the final message delivered by the Prophet Muhammad, who was dying at the time. "Within 80 days ... he expired," Farrakhan said.
"I don't see expiration for me," he said, "but I do see exaltation."
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Farrakhan says he is for peace, but he is the leader of a black seperatist movement. He is also a prominent figure is a religion based in part on destroying its emenies by whatever means possible. Her are a few thoughts on the qu'uran;
sura 9.120-123
Translation: Those who followed Mohammed did not lack for anything. This is because if they behaved offensively to unbelievers, allah rewarded them for their good deeds. If they got anything from unbelievers, allah rewarded them for their good deeds (this kind of makes one wonder just how they "got" anything, especially in light of how they can "walk a path that enrages the unbelievers.")
Don't send people out to other cultures alone (good advice). Send them in small groups so that they can report back to the main camp (sounds like spying, to me.)
Then, fight the unbelievers! Be Hard! Do not show them love! Do not have compassion! Allah, who teaches love and compassion, will protect you!
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
susa 47.1-6
Translation: Mohammed says that allah, the beneficent, says that if you do not believe as I say your works will come to naught. Believe in allah as Mohammed says and do as Mohammed says and allah will improve your condition (sure works for the women of Islam, huh?)
Unbelievers beware! you will be ineffective in everything you do! (I am sure glad all those Muslims came over to America and wrote the constitution!)
This is because of the "truth" that Mohammed shares! Muslim countries are so-o-o much better off than any other. There are no poor. There is no abuse. It says in other places to wage war on the unbeliever, so it is not "if" but "when" you meet unbelievers in battle cut off their heads, kidnap them, ask for money from their families.
And for the martyrs, don't worry. The next life is much better than this one. You will live in a garden in heaven (sorry, no mention here of 72 virgins.)
this clown can't die soon enough
GOOD RIDDANCE TERRORIST MAKER!!!!!
Mohammed and Farrakhan are false prophets and Mohammed is the anti-Christ. All of Islam will soon realize they are the religion of the devil. Why else would people kill others if they were not from the womb of the devil. Mohammed is a false prophet and anyone who believes in him will spend the rest of their days in Hell! Islam is a political cult and not a religious belief. Mohammed was confused and his followers have never learned right from wrong. Jesus Christ will save the Muslims when they learn right from wrong. The only Messiah is Jesus Christ.
Why we allow such people as Farrakhan to speak as he did in America is something I will never understand. I mean he says our president should be impeached or at least censured for his "wicked policies," and urged young people to avoid joining a military that will have them "leave one way and come back another." Would our president or any Christian be allowed to go into Iran or any Muslim nation and say things like that? Not if they didn't want to be beheaded! People of America, wake up and start standing up for what we believe in. I don't care if you like President Bush or not. This is not about our president. This would happen no matter who occupied the White House. This war is going global, and we are fighting for our very survival, and this crazy man predictes "the fall of the great Babylon, the United States of America." Let's start supporting our country, our leaders, our troops and not the terrorists, Islam, who want us dead. Jesus the Christ is the Son of God and the only true Messiah. Please wake up and let your voices be heard.
Louis Farrakhan says........."my time is up".
His time was up when he was in utero.
This world has no place for people who preach hatred and separation and divisiveness.
Best he go back to his original chosen profession......calypso singer.
For all the hate you have preached, and all the harm you have caused.......individually and collectively, the G-d you speak of, will certainly have a serious conversation with you, Mr. Farrakhan. After that, I hope he sends you packing.
I guess his space ship is coming for him.
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