The Reverend Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam in America, took umbrage at Rudy Giuliani's assessment of Barack Obama's formative years. In response, Farrakhan launched into a pejorative racial ad hominem attack on America's Mayor as well as all Americans of European descent.
This invective is rather ironic as President Obama's lineage does not include ancestry of slavery. Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was a Kenyan and Stanley Ann Dunham was a white woman hailing from Wichita, Kansas. So the Reverend Farrakhan is conflating the struggle against someone who neither suffered from the disadvantages of slavery nor really lived in society which did not seek to redress those iniquities.
Rudy Giuliani could point to Barack Obama's two autobiographies, which chronicle how the future President was raised in Indonesia during formative years in which the love of country tended to be instilled.
Where was Louis Farrakhan drawing for his assessments? Well, it seems that the Rev. Farrakhan has again shifted from knowing Issa (Jesus) better than Christians back to a ministry of rage with a racially apocalyptic eschatology.
Last week, the White House conducted a three day summit on Countering Violent Extremism, which contorted itself so as not to associate religious motivations to terrorism, especially towards Islam. However, at the same time voices from the Obama Administration have been quick to point out the Lord's Resistance Army in Central Africa as an example of Christian militant terrorism. And a 2014 PC DOD presentation listed Catholics, Mormons, Orthodox Jews, evangelical Christians and Islamaphobes along with Al Qaeda as examples of "extremists groups".
No wonder why we currently have such a whacked weltanschauung in the District of Calamity (sic).
h/t: Michael Ramirez
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