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... Louis Farrakhan--a homophobic anti-Semite with ties to Scientology.
Celebs ranging from Chelsea Handler and Jessica Chastain to Jennifer Aniston and Ice Cube have been fawning over Louis Farrakhan—a homophobic anti-Semite with ties to Scientology.
I regret to inform you the celebs are at it again.
On Sunday, in lieu of posting Instagram-friendly protest content, discussing White Fragility in a Zoom book club, or recording a mortifyingly tone-deaf PSA renouncing racism, the comedian Chelsea Handler shared a video clip to her 3.9 million Instagram followers. The clip featured Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, during a 1990 appearance on The Phil Donahue Show.
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On top of his rabid anti-Semitism, Farrakhan, 87, has banned women from his speeches; said they should eschew short skirts and abortion, and opt to be homemakers who dote on their husbands; and, during the aforementioned 2018 speech at Mosque Maryam, floated a bizarre conspiracy involving Barack Obama, the Jews, the World Bank, and the gay community. “Brother Barack [Obama], under Jewish influence, trying to introduce same-sex marriage to African people, and the Africans say, ‘We don’t have nothing like that in our history. We can’t identify with that.’ Then the Western man says, ‘If you want this money from the World Bank or the IMF, you have to make a law that allows same-sex marriage.’ Look, brothers and sisters, this is satanic,” he said.
Farrakhan has also repeatedly praised Donald Trump, saying in a 2016 speech that he was “the only member who has stood in front of the Jewish community and said, ‘I don’t want your money.’” When Farrakhan praised Trump again in 2018, right-wing trolls Candace Owens and Glenn Beck celebrated Farrakhan’s endorsement of their Dear Leader.
Oh, and let’s not forget Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam’s strange ties to the Church of Scientology. As I reported in 2018, “The alliance between the Nation of Islam, a black organization, and Scientology, an almost entirely white one, was hatched in the mid-Aughts, when the late Isaac Hayes, one of the only famous black Scientologists, approached Scientology leader David Miscavige and asked why the “religion” wasn’t doing more to court black Americans. So Miscavige reached out to the Nation of Islam, and by 2010, they began promoting the “benefits” of Dianetics, the core set of ideas preached by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. During a sermon in Chicago on July 1, 2012, Farrakhan proclaimed to his acolytes, ‘I found the tool that I know can help us. And I thank God for Mr. L. Ron Hubbard. And I thank God for his research and teaching.’”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hollywood-celebs-like-chelsea-handler-and-jennifer-aniston-praise-anti-semitic-hatemonger-louis-farrakhan?ref=home&via=twitter_page
I regret to inform you the celebs are at it again.
On Sunday, in lieu of posting Instagram-friendly protest content, discussing White Fragility in a Zoom book club, or recording a mortifyingly tone-deaf PSA renouncing racism, the comedian Chelsea Handler shared a video clip to her 3.9 million Instagram followers. The clip featured Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, during a 1990 appearance on The Phil Donahue Show.
...
On top of his rabid anti-Semitism, Farrakhan, 87, has banned women from his speeches; said they should eschew short skirts and abortion, and opt to be homemakers who dote on their husbands; and, during the aforementioned 2018 speech at Mosque Maryam, floated a bizarre conspiracy involving Barack Obama, the Jews, the World Bank, and the gay community. “Brother Barack [Obama], under Jewish influence, trying to introduce same-sex marriage to African people, and the Africans say, ‘We don’t have nothing like that in our history. We can’t identify with that.’ Then the Western man says, ‘If you want this money from the World Bank or the IMF, you have to make a law that allows same-sex marriage.’ Look, brothers and sisters, this is satanic,” he said.
Farrakhan has also repeatedly praised Donald Trump, saying in a 2016 speech that he was “the only member who has stood in front of the Jewish community and said, ‘I don’t want your money.’” When Farrakhan praised Trump again in 2018, right-wing trolls Candace Owens and Glenn Beck celebrated Farrakhan’s endorsement of their Dear Leader.
Oh, and let’s not forget Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam’s strange ties to the Church of Scientology. As I reported in 2018, “The alliance between the Nation of Islam, a black organization, and Scientology, an almost entirely white one, was hatched in the mid-Aughts, when the late Isaac Hayes, one of the only famous black Scientologists, approached Scientology leader David Miscavige and asked why the “religion” wasn’t doing more to court black Americans. So Miscavige reached out to the Nation of Islam, and by 2010, they began promoting the “benefits” of Dianetics, the core set of ideas preached by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. During a sermon in Chicago on July 1, 2012, Farrakhan proclaimed to his acolytes, ‘I found the tool that I know can help us. And I thank God for Mr. L. Ron Hubbard. And I thank God for his research and teaching.’”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hollywood-celebs-like-chelsea-handler-and-jennifer-aniston-praise-anti-semitic-hatemonger-louis-farrakhan?ref=home&via=twitter_page
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