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  Louis Farrakhan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis Farrakhan (born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933 in the Bronx, New York), is the head of the Nation of Islam.
Louis Farrakhan is currently the leader of the Nation of Islam and lives in Chicago, Illinois at the former home of Elijah Muhammad, near the campus of the University of Chicago.
Farrakhan's son Mustapha Farrakhan is the supreme captain of the Nation of Islam is Louis Farrakhan's likely successor[15] [16].
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 Louis Farrakhan - MSN Encarta
Louis Farrakhan, born in 1933, American religious leader, head of the Nation of Islam, a fl religious organization in the United States that combines some of the practices and beliefs of Islam with a philosophy of fl separatism.
Farrakhan's message has appealed primarily to urban fls and draws on a long history of fl nationalists who have called for fl self-reliance in the face of economic injustice and white racism.
Their reconciliation was part of an effort by Farrakhan to move the Nation of Islam closer to the mainstream of Islamic belief and practice, including the observance of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting, and the belief that Muhammad, the founder of Islam, was God’s final prophet.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761580649/Louis_Farrakhan.html   (1123 words)

  
 BookRags: Louis Farrakhan Biography
Louis Farrakhan (born 1933) is a leader of one branch of the Nation of Islam, more popularly known as the Black Muslims.
Farrakhan's movement, which in 1983 was estimated to have between five and ten thousand members, remained relatively obscure until March 1984, when controversy suddenly erupted over his association with presidential candidate Jesse Jackson.
Farrakhan explained that he sought to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for African American self-improvement programs from all of the groups, including Arabs, that had been involved in the slave trade and the destruction of African culture.
www.bookrags.com /biography/louis-farrakhan   (1327 words)

  
 Louis Farrakhan - Calypso Singer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
he controversial leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, was in the Fifties a leading calypso singer in the United States.
Farrakhan was born Louis Eugene Walcott on May 11, 1933 in the Bronx and was raised in the West Indian community in the Roxbury section of Boston.
The liner notes to the CD surmise that Farrakhan is the author of three selections, "Is She Is, or Is She Ain't", "Don’t Touch Me Nylon", and "Female Boxer" and that is quite possible.
www.nalis.gov.tt /Biography/calypsomusic_LouisFarrakhan.htm   (1095 words)

  
 Bio Sketch of The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
The Nation of Islam under the leadership of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan is the catalyst for the growth and development of Islam in America.
Minister Louis Farrakhan, born on May 11, 1933 in Bronx, N.Y., was reared in a highly disciplined and spiritual household in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Minister Farrakhan was inspired to call the March out of his concern over the negative image of Black men perpetuated by the media and movie industries, which focused on drugs and gang violence.
www.noi.org /mlf-bio.html   (1194 words)

  
 CNN.com - Farrakhan visits Baghdad - July 6, 2002
Louis Farrakhan, left, met with Syrian President Bashar Assad on Tuesday in Damascus, Syria.
Farrakhan was greeted at Saddam International Airport by Abdelrazzaq Al-Hashemi, the head of the government's Iraqi Friendship and Peace Organization.
Farrakhan said he would be in Baghdad for just two days, and he hopes to meet with Hussein while there.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/meast/07/05/farrakhan.iraq/index.html   (480 words)

  
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Louis Farrakhan is the current leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI), the fl Muslim group founded in 1930 by Fard Muhammad and thereafter led to prominence from 1934 to 1975 by Elijah Muhammad.
Farrakhan was born Louis Eugene Walcott on May 11, 1933, in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Farrakhan was outraged at what he perceived as Malcolm's disloyalty and called him a traitor.
www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1325   (1083 words)

  
 The Nation of Islam - The Peace Encyclopedia
Minister Louis Farrakhan, born Louis Eugene Wolcott in the Bronx, New York, in 1933, was a calypso singer in the 1950s when he attended a speech by Elijah Muhammad, founder of the Black Muslim movement.
Even though Farrakhan managed to confuse some with the meaningless criticism of his assistant's "tone," leaders in the fl and Jewish communities-who found the issue of Farrakhan distracting them from their important communal and intergroup activities-hoped that the issue had been put to rest for the moment.
Farrakhan, a little more than a year after the Million Man March, is still feared by many within the fl community: feared for the numbers he can draw, but feared as a kiss of political death by people who aspire to work within the mainstream.
peace.heebz.com /noi.html   (6343 words)

  
 Louis Farrakhan
Louis Farrakhan is known by his followers as being "a better orator than Martin Luther King Jr., a better author than Norman Mailer, a better diplomat than Henry Kissinger, and more handsome than Muhammad Ali." Let's take a look at one the best known and most articulate Black Muslims in America and his ideology.
Louis Eugene Wolcott, also known as "Calypso Gene," an inspiring singer and songwriter with a "smooth charismatic stage presence" and a voice that rivaled that of the legendary Harry Belfonte, was an entertainer insured of a promising and successful career.
Farrakhan continues today with recruitment of youth gang members, prison inmates, college educated youth and the African American middle-class with the same message that many critics term as "words of hate and racism." In a speech given March 11, 1984, Farrakhan proclaimed, "Some white people are going to live....
www.forerunner.com /forerunner/X0065_Nation_of_Islam.html   (958 words)

  
 Louis Farrakhan: The Man, The Myth...
Louis Farrakhan is a very complicated man. He is not a clown or a buffoon.
Farrakhans early teachings to his Nation, like Fard and Elijahs', maintained that the fl man was the original man, and was being held down by a vast conspiracy concocted by the white man. He held that the fl man had actually created the white man, "simply a germ."
Farrakhan, while claiming to own nothing, now lives in the opulent 6 bedroom, 19 room Hyde Park, Chicago mansion that was built for Elijah Muhammad in 1972, and which he bought in 1986.
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 Louis Farrakhan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Louis Farrakhan (1933-...) became the leader of the Nation of Islam in 1977.
Farrakhan disagreed with the new leader's teachings, which involved the abandonment of radical fl nationalism and the adoption of orthodox Sunni Islam.
In 1995, Farrakhan became the chief organizer--and a leader--of a large rally of African American men in Washington, D.C. Known as the Million Man March, the event was designed to encourage fl men to take personal responsibility for improving conditions in fl communities.
afgen.com /louis_farrakhan.html   (349 words)

  
 Majikthise : Louis Farrakhan speaks at Southern University
Farrakhan has a point that fls are being shut out of the rebuilding process, but as much as race operates on a personal level in this country, the model of race as a primary factor is missing a great deal.
The Farrakhan speech had not yet been reported in the media at the time Lindsay wrote this post, so, since she was making the first report, I think she felt some obligation to do straight reporting and refrain from commentary.
Farrakhan is Farrakhan and we are who we are we cant knock his views after all you cant teach an old dog new tricks does he makes sense in a way reading between the lines yes he does.
majikthise.typepad.com /majikthise_/2005/09/louis_farrakhan.html   (6082 words)

  
 Farrakhan, Louis - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
A former calypso singer known as "The Charmer," he joined the Nation of Islam (Black Muslims) in 1955, eventually becoming minister of the Harlem Temple after Malcolm X broke with the religious group.
After Elijah Muhammad died and his son steered the Black Muslims toward Sunni Islamic practice, Farrakhan founded (1977) a reorganized Nation of Islam that adhered to the elder Muhammad's teachings.
In 1995 he was one of the chief organizers of the Million Man March, a day of renewal for African-American men in Washington, D.C. In 2000, Farrakhan publicly reconciled with W. Deen Mohammed, Elijah's son.
encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/F/Farrakhn.asp   (267 words)

  
 Min. Louis Farrakhan 2005 'Person of the Year'
They agreed that he has done what no other African American leader has: "mobilize hundreds of thousands of Blacks around the issues of atonement and empowerment, and to convince the masses of our people that we must be the primary catalysts and engines for positive change in our communities," she said.
Minister Farrakhan said his next move is to continue the work of building the Millions More Movement, which he said will utilize the skill and talent of our people to lift us up.
In 1995, Farrakhan became the chief organizer --and a leader -- of a large rally of African-American men in Washington, D.C. Known as the Million Man March, the event was designed to encourage Black men to take personal responsibility for improving conditions in Black America.
www.bet.com /News/personoftheyear_farrakhan.htm?wbc_purpose=Basic&WBCMODE=PresentationUnpublished&Referrer={03CE5360-2620-42CB-AD7E-77E4249C5FB7}   (613 words)

  
 Louis Farrakhan Is Not a Muslim - article by Daniel Pipes
Louis Farrakhan is not a Muslim; Islam says nothing about fls voting in U.S. elections.
Farrakhan is as much a Muslim as the Shriner is an Arab.
Farrakhan's reprehensible statements must not be ascribed to the fair-minded traditions of Islam.
www.danielpipes.org /article/167   (1047 words)

  
 Louis Farrakhan's Rise & Decline
Farrakhan's message of atonement, male supremacy, personal responsibility, voluntarism, and fl capitalism was largely successful because it appealed to the fl bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie, the African-American strata best situated to come to Washington and to benefit from his plans.
Farrakhan's explication of the Lynch myth preceded his explanation that the heights of the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials, 19 feet each, and the number of their presidencies, three and sixteen (which also add up to 19) holds the secret of African influence on the conception of the mall.
Farrakhan can probably mask the distinctions between his views and certain liberal conceptions of white supremacy, but his biological and religious concept of racism is antithetical to radical conceptions.
www.wpunj.edu /~newpol/issue22/chajua22.htm   (11355 words)

  
 NPR : Minister Louis Farrakhan
The Tavis Smiley Show, June 25, 2003 · Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan has been praised for his messages of personal responsibility and self-sufficiency, and for his dedication to the civil rights struggles of African Americans.
Farrakhan was quoted in October 2002 as describing President Bush as being "off-course" and "victimized by the greatness of the power of America" in his push for war against Iraq.
Farrakhan talks says much of the criticsm of the Nation of Islam is fed by what he calls misconceptions about the organization that are "promoted in the American media."
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1308840   (493 words)

  
 Louis Farrakhan - Salon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Louis Farrakhan says it's punishment for Iraq -- and that the government intentionally made it worse.
Louis Farrakhan's bitter voice may get the most media play, but he represents only a sliver of fl Islam -- and after Sept. 11, the more orthodox mainstream wants to be heard.
Sun Myung Moon is the surprise backer of Louis Farrakhan's big event in Washington next week -- and it may be his biggest remarriage shindig ever.
dir.salon.com /topics/louis_farrakhan   (360 words)

  
 How Louis Farrakhan has duped the Muslims
Farrakhan with the traditional lamb skin coat and staff at the airport during Min.
As you know, Louis Farrakhan and his entourage recently visited Australia wherein they were invited to attend Australia's largest mosque by the "Mufti of Australia" and his Lebanese Muslim Association.
Farrakhan must abandon the belief that Allaah came in the person of Fard Muhammad, that Elijah Poole is a messenger of Allaah, and all the other deviant beliefs that al-Farrakhaniyyah hold, leave NOI, and become a Muslim in order for his good works to be accepted on the Day of Judgement, insha'Allaah.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Olympus/4222/noi_duped.html   (4310 words)

  
 ABC News: Farrakhan Gathering to Focus on Katrina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The 10th anniversary of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 15, 2005, in Washington, is shaping up as a stage for fl America to respond to the devastation in New Orleans.
The occasion is the 10th anniversary of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, a long-planned event that now is shaping up as a stage for fl America to respond to the devastation in New Orleans.
At the 1995 rally, Farrakhan was "a facilitator," said Ronald Walters, a political scientist at the University of Maryland.
abcnews.go.com /US/wireStory?id=1197766   (436 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: The Hate Tour by Lowell Ponte
From Syria and Iraq, Farrakhan’s entourage trekked to Durban, South Africa, for the birth of the new African Union.
Muhammad acknowledged that the Iraqi News Agency "was in part correct" when it reported that Farrakhan "expressed admiration for the Iraqis’ steadfastness against the aggression and continued embargo" (that Farrakhan, parroting Saddam Hussein’s propaganda, claims has starved to death 1.6 million Iraqis).
The answer seems to be that Minister Farrakhan — who once upon a time as then-Christian 14-year-old Louis Eugene Walcott was violin virtuoso and showman enough to win on the "Ted Mack Amateur Hour" -- has the power to cloud at least some men’s minds.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1956   (1013 words)

  
 Louis Farrakhan
Louis Walcott Farrakhan was born in New York on 11th May, 1933.
In 1955 Farrakhan joined the Nation of Islam (sometimes known as Black Muslims), a fl nationalist and religious organization that had been founded by Wallace Fard.
Farrakhan moved to New York where he worked closely with the two main leaders of the Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X. After Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam to form Organization of Afro-American Unity in March, 1964, Farrakhan replaced him as minister of Mosque Number Seven in Harlem, New York City.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAfarrakhan.htm   (292 words)

  
 The Ugly Influence of Louis Farrakhan
Farrakhan was born Louis Eugene Walcott in Bronx, NY in 1933, but moved to Boston, Mass.
Farrakhan and the NOI in general, have had a profound impact on the fl youth.
This possible acceptance comes after Farrakhan's proclamation of "ending the cycle of violence and hatred" in the world and "uplifting fallen humanity regardless of race, color or creed." Whether or not Farrakhan adheres to this new ideology still remains to be seen.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1344288/posts   (8148 words)

  
 Louis Farrakhan Encyclopedia Article @ CompleteIdiotsGuide.com (Complete Idiots Guide)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Louis Farrakhan: Servicing the People, Essence of the Revolution
Prensa Latina) Servicing the needs of the people rather than the idea of gaining material wealth is the essence of the revolution, said Louis Farrakhan, the US More Louis Farrakhan news...
At an NOI-sponsored event in February 2005, Farrakhan provoked accusations of anti-semitism in Illinois by stating that "These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood.
www.completeidiotsguide.com /encyclopedia/Louis_Farrakhan   (1566 words)

  
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New York, NY, February 28, 2006 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said today that Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's remarks at his annual Saviours' Day event in Chicago demonstrate that he is an "unrepentant bigot" who continues to spew hate, as he has done for more than 30 years.
"Louis Farrakhan has once again used Saviours' Day to spread his hateful message of anti-Semitism, homophobia and racism," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director.
Farrakhan shared the stage on Saviours' Day, held at the United Center in Chicago on Sunday, with Malik Zulu Shabazz, leader of the anti-Semitic and racist New Black Panther Party.
www.adl.org /PresRele/NatIsl_81/4878_81.htm   (464 words)

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