Farrakhan: Despicable American Traitor

As he roams the Middle East, offering aid and comfort to anti-American dictators, Louis Farrakhan is breaking new ground.

Not that he’s the first well-known American to admire an enemy of the United States. In 1938, Gertrude Stein proposed Adolf Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize. Lincoln Steffens was infatuated with V.I. Lenin’s Bolsheviks. “Hanoi Jane” Fonda made propaganda broadcasts for the North Vietnamese.

But Farrakhan’s pilgrimage to the butchers of Tehran, Khartoum and Tripoli and his open endorsement of their calls for America’s downfall are unprecedented. Never before has someone with Farrakhan’s fame and media access - someone who claims to speak for millions of Americans - so brazenly joined hands with tyrants who hate and plot against the United States.

On Sunday, Farrakhan was in Iran, celebrating the 17th anniversary of the revolution that brought the Ayatollah Khomeini to power.

Since 1979, the fanatic mullahs who rule Iran have made that country the world’s chief sponsor of state terrorism and assassination. In the name of “jihad” - holy war - Iran hijacks airliners, kills U.S. Marines, bankrolls kidnappers and explodes car bombs. It hunts down dissidents and slits their throats. It amasses stockpiles of biological weapons. It controls terror cells on four continents. It swears undying enmity toward the “Great Satan” - America. It executes journalists for reporting facts, flogs women for wearing makeup and tortures children in front of their parents.

And Farrakhan cheers it on.

“You must not despair because … enemies are all around this marvelous revolution,” he cried at a rally in Tehran. “You must not get weak or weary in your vanguard position. Imam Khomeini lives!”

He was speaking not just for himself, Farrakhan claimed, but for every Muslim in America.

“We shall utilize American Muslim unity as a lever of pressure against the United States,” he vowed. “We live in the center of corruption and struggle in the heart of the Great Satan.

“Thus,” said the leader of the Nation of Islam to the medieval fundamentalists who have shed so much innocent blood, “we need your spiritual aid.”

Three days earlier, Farrakhan had been in Sudan, hailing the “wise Islamic leadership” of dictator Hassan al-Turabi.

Sudan is dominated by Muslim Arabs from the north who have made savage war for years against the black Christians and animists of the south.

According to Freedom House, the respected human-rights monitor, “Sudanese live under a repressive, military government that has curtailed virtually all meaningful political rights and civil liberties while implementing Islamic law. … Illegal detentions, kidnapping, torture, murder, rape, summary executions and disappearances (are) rampant.”

Like Iran, Sudan is on the U.S. State Department’s short list of nations that sponsor terrorism. Farrakhan, however, brushes this off as slander against “the Muslims in Sudan, whom the Western enemy” - i.e., America - “wants to eliminate.”

But Sudan boasts a distinction that even brutal Iran cannot match: It is one of the few places on Earth where black slaves still are bought and sold.

Arab raiders from Khartoum ride into villages in the south, burn the houses, kill the men and seize the women and children. In the Nuba mountain region, some 30,000 boys and girls have been sold into slavery in recent years; a child can be owned for the price of two chickens.

And what does “Minister” Farrakhan, organizer of the recent Million Man March in Washington, say about black chattel slavery in Sudan? He says American Muslims will stand in solidarity with Sudan’s rulers, whom he urges to “hold to this Islamic faith.”

Two weeks before his trip to Khartoum, Farrakhan was the honored guest of yet another cruel despot: Moammar Gadhafi of Libya.

In Tripoli on Jan. 24, Gadhafi offered Farrakhan $1 billion to mobilize a black Muslim lobby in the United States. The Libyan leader already has funneled at least $5 million to the Nation of Islam - and he clearly shares Farrakhan’s passion for racial separatism. Gadhafi called for creation of a separate black American state to be defended by “the biggest black army on the planet,” recruited from the U.S. armed forces.

Gadhafi’s hatred of Americans is so vitriolic that he has granted sanctuary to two of the murderers wanted for blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. Most of the 270 people who died that day were American college students heading home for Christmas.

But Farrakhan isn’t about to let dead students imperil his friendship with the Libyan.

“Our confrontation with America used to be like confronting a fortress from outside,” Gadhafi said during Farrakhan’s visit. “Today, we have found a loophole to enter the fortress and confront it from within.”

There is a word for people who encourage their nation’s enemies. There is a word for people who conspire to mobilize against their country from within. There is a word for those who take millions of dollars from malevolent foreign powers.

The word is “traitor.”

And even if no one wants to say it, it is the word for Louis Farrakhan.

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