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Article: Farrakhan. (inability of blacks to resist the dogma and violent rhetoric of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan) (Editorial)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- April 4, 1994
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CRITICS OF Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam tend to take a fever-chart approach to their bigotry--bad outbreaks in New Jersey and Baltimore; milder readings from appearances on Arsenio Hall and in New Jersey a second time. This therapeutic analysis misses the point. As James Carville might say, It's the religion, stupid. Farrakhan and his group are the heirs of a black triumphalist sect founded in Detroit in 1930 by one W. D. Fard. From the beginning, its disciples have believed that all non-black races are the products of a prehistoric breeding experiment conducted on the island of Patmos by Dr. Yacub, a malcontent exiled from an original black Eden centered in ...