Selective,
dogma 
Doug Guiles (?Fundamental-

ism isn?t Christianity; it is a
religion of hate. intolerance."

Opinions. Nov. 21) put into
words some of my. frustrations
with the fundamentalist Christian
As well as apparently
discouraging followers from
looking for any truth outside
certain translations of the Bible,
the fundamentalist leaders seem
to pick and choose within the
Bible for these ?verses which
support their world view.

For instance, fundamentalists
claim homosexuality is against
God?s will because among the list
of God?s laws in the Old Testa-
ment is one against ?men lying
wiih men.? But. only a few verses
away. there is a law condemning
the wearing of cloth made from
mixed ?bers.

When I see Jerry Falwell giving
up his non-iron poly/cotton
shins. then I will at least give him
and his ilk credit for not indulg-
ing in religious hypocrisy.

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Here?s what?s wrong with Johnny Haa-

al?d's plea: titled ?Despite rhetoric, Louis

Farrakhan is no Malcolm (Nov. 17).

First. with police shooting [3-year-old
Asian kids in the back. with Yuaef Hawk?
ins? racially motivated murder in Benson-
lturst. N.Y.. and with the mass beating of
black college Students in Virginia Beach.
there must be a better way of undoing
racism than mstigating the Nation of
Islam. Whom did the Nation ever 
Whose neighbode did the Nation ever
redline? Against what people did the
Nation ever wage genocide?

Second, Hazards piece has a ?awed
premise. Unlike Vice President Quayle.
who attempted to garner support by asso-
ciating himself with John F. Kennedy.
Minister Louis Farrakhan never associated
himself with til-Hajj Malik Shabazz (Mal-
colm X). The Honorable Elijah Muham-
mad resurrected Shabazz and Minister
Farrakhan. Minister Farrakhan continues the
Honorable Elijah Muhammad?s legacy; Sha-
bazz abandoned it Therefore. Minister Far-
rakhan might not be another Elijah
Muhammad, but he de?nitely is not another
Maloom X. He never claimed to be.

Third. Hamrd wrote, ?Ironically. King
t'was more progressive than the Nation of
Islam crowd because he understood the
economic nature of racism." Wrong again.
The single'rnost distinguishing character-is
tic of the Nation of Islam. from a black
perspective. is the Nation?s message of
economic self-determination. Considering
- the Power Program, the bean pies and the
?sh stores. the black community knows the
Nation to have a de?nite economic thrust.
M.L King. by contrast. was essentially a
social refonner._ .

Fourth. there?s nothing trendy about the
upsurge in interest among black youth
concerning Sbabazz. This is a response to
the upsurge in white barbarism on Ameri-
can college campuses. including this one.

Jews will not

Editors Nata: The decision to write a
rebuttal to the above piece was a dif?cult
one. Normally opinions pieces from all
sides are printed. then opponents are
given space to respond. I break tradition
here because I see Hakim?s piece as a
genuine throat to the long-term safety and
well-being of the Jewish people. a threat
that history dictates must not be ignored.
It tribunals (or cancurring views) 0! this
place are received. they will be printed. 

 

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Keith Hakim should name the ?certain

forces? who were opposed to Dr. Muham- 

mad?s speech on campus.

These ?forces? are Jews. myself in-
cluded. 
The rmson Hakim didn?t mention us is
becauserhe arrogantly decided that we

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separate WP- 

.Rooent events are causing a rift in the
U5. A?ican-Ama-ian?ewish population.
0n campus. Jewish people are pained, and
becoming angered. at the Africana Student
Cultural Collier, which repeatedly invites
infamotu anti-Jewish speakers to speak
at the University.

It would appear to be more than a
coincidence that every speaker ever

these are willing to tell the world
it should hate Jews. too. .

It is true that these speakers originally
came under the pretense thatthey were

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It?s a response to Howardaeach. Virginia
Beach. Smalley and Weisse. the Embassy
Suites Five most recently. the savage
murder of two Asian children.

This upsurge indicates that young people
are no longer willing to depend on white
largess for material gains. It's an acknowl-

edgment that power concedes nothing

without a-demand. And. of course. Sha- -



Fifth. Shabazz made a clear distinction
between the imperialist/slave traders and
the other ?white.? peoples he met in Akebu
Lari (Africa) and the Middle East. It?s true
that Shaban came to understand that
?whites? living in Libya. Egypt. Palestine.
Algeria. Turkey and other places were not
devils. but he never came to any similar
understanding about the colonial masters
and slavers of Western Europe. America.
Australia. South Africa and Israel. Shabazz
still considered these people very devilish.

In fact. upon his return from Half. a
young white woman asked Shabazz if he
would permit any white person to join his
new organization. the Organization for
Afro-American Unity. Shabazz said.
?maybe John Brown.? Brown is a white
man who led an armed rebellion to
overthrow the slavocracy. He was hanged.

Lastly. Hazard. like more and more
people. uses the term ?racism? in a very
loose and emneous way. Any situation in

?Hitler was a great man.?

It was upsetting to have Farrakhan
spouting his Nazi rhetoric. panly at our
expense through monies the A?icana Stu-
dent Cultural receives from the_
University. But we tolerated it.

Next came Steven Cokely. This great
spokesman told his University audience
that Jews are building gas chambers to kill
blacks. He has also said that Jewish

 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
  
  
 

doctors are injecting black babies with the
vims that causes AIDS.
with Cokcly?s arrival. we smelled a

sickenineg familiar breeze blowing across

campus. a breeze of hate and intolerance
toward us. But like our German ancestors,
we remained quiet.

Then came Muhammad. This guy gave
lolly advice to Mayor Marion Barry of
Washington. DC. last month. telling the
mayor that if people see Barry ?bowing down
to the Jews? they?ll lose respect for him.
Maybe he was brought here to enlighten the
1.000 high school students and college
students with similar racial epithets

in his piece. Hakim sinks to the level of
these foul racists by not even mentioning
that he is writing about Jews.

?many ers 
.Africana Student Cultural Center couldn?t
get away with such a vicious attack on

   

     

     

which an individual of one racial class
causes displeasure among members of
another racial class is not racism. Under
that de?nition. any black person who
speaks of America's genocidal crimes in
un?attering terms is labeled a ?racist.? In
the same way. people label everyone from



the Rev. Al Sharpton to the Rev. Jesse
Jackson as ?racists.?

Racism. however. has very definite
characteristics. It means subjugation of one
racial class by another. For Farrakhan to
be a racist he would have to be. at least.
preaching subjugation of whites. Farra-
khan. however. preaches cultural pluralism
and repatriation. as opposed to integration.

Racism means conspiracy to subjugate
and actual subjugation. That means
planned social. economic. military. reli-
gious and political subjugation of whites. It
cannot be intelligently argued that ?the
Nation of Islam is doing this. In fact,
blacks have no history of harming or
subjecting whites as a class. On the other
hand. whites have it written into their very
Constitution that blacks shall be consid?
ered three?fifths of a person for purposes of
taxation and representation of their white
owners. Their Constitution also makes provi-
sions for the return of ninaway slaves. Their
constitution is the bedrock of American law;
it's the best evidence of a white racist
conspiracy to subjugate other peoples.

decency without at least a token voice of
protest. But in Minnesota. and especially at
the University. they?re in good company.
Remember Charles McGuiggan'? He is
the former regent who was accused of
making rabidly anti-Jewish remarks. lfthis
man had made alleged anti-woman or anti-
bla?ck remarks. there would undoubtedly
have been an outrage. Instead?. there was a
half-hearted investigation of which

 

 

nobody i know can remember the outcome
and the-case was closed

The. belief that Jews are money-growing
people. willing to do anything (including
enslaving black people) to get ahead. is one

that has been perpetuated for a long time. 

and is. of course. completely untrue. 
Nevertheless, the Jew-haters use these
examples to show how Jews must be
secretly manipulating things to get and stay
ahead thus the comments of .
Coker and Muhammad These people tell
their followers that there?s a secret group of
Jewsthateontrolstbeworid. thensays. in
effect. ?kill the Jews and you'll get what
they have n0w.? I .
This theory would seem stupid if it hadn?t
worked so well in the past Time and ti
the words of Hakim and those like him
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War. whites and blacks lived comic
according to the diaries of slave 
Many whites. like Thor-Iris Jeff:
thought so highly of their? slaves tin
granted them freedom in thetr? wills.

. blacks were nevertheless victims of i_

Hatred emerges only when the 511
class attempts to alter tbe?vertiq
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'Farrakhan's speech evokes feel:

hatred in some people doesn't ma
rakhan a racist.

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why anyone who boldly asserts to
cats of blacks is assailed as a r.

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those old American laws forbiddi;
one from assisting a slave to gain 
Any person. black or white. who a
to disrupt the slavocracy or white st
cisl hierarchy will come under at
the white supremacists and their

stooges.

Farrakhan. Dr. Abdul Aloem I
mad. Spike Lee. the Black law
Association (ELSA) and the Afric:
dent Cultural Center (ASCC) have 
under ?re because they are all a
helping slaves. Assistance of the 5'
class (slaves) is only permitted wl
assistance is severely limited. higli'
cized and actually bolsters white
lions af?rmative action).

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the entire world. This fact. comb
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in the face of opposition. makes 
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believe them.

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