Addressing Islam’s role in rising urban black anti-Semitism. By Andrea Widburg
Bill DeBlasio insists that Trump’s rhetoric and growing white supremacy are the cause for the increase in the number and intensity of anti-Semitic attacks in New York City and surrounding communities. However, those are peculiar root causes considering that the assailants have consistently been minorities, usually blacks, none of whom are part of the recognized Trump demographic.
Like DeBlasio, Democrat Jews also try to deny this reality, for they find mystifying the fact that the black community they marched arm-in-arm with during the Civil Rights Movement should now turn on them. Their befuddlement and misdirection ignore the role that Islam plays in rising anti-Semitism among an activist segment of Leftist, urban blacks.
Before going any further, let me hasten to state that this post is not meant to accuse American blacks generally of being anti-Semitic. It is meant, however, to investigate one reason behind the reality that a narrow subset of blacks is becoming more violently anti-Semitic.
Andrew Bostom, who has spent decades studying Islam, has issued a series of tweets showing that the anti-Semitism that animates Louis Farrakhan and his supporters has been incubating among urban blacks since the early 1960s. For example, Dr. Bostom quotes from Louis E. Lomax’s When the word is given; a report on Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and the Black Muslim world. (Cleveland, World Pub. Co., 1963, pp. 72-73):
Malcolm [X] has always maintained excellent relations with top Arabs at the United Nations. Few, if any, of these meetings were ever public. But they did occur and there is every indication that they are still going on. The road to Mecca was cleared long before Malcolm and Elijah [Muhammad] left these shores; powerful pro-Nasser Arabs are quietly in Malcolm’s corner, and many Black Muslim bazaars open with the reading of cabled greetings from ‘Our Beloved Brother Gamal Abdel Nasser.’ . . . [B]oth (black) Muslim and Moslem (orthodox Muslims) worship Allah. And that – at least so the hajj committee said – is all that matters. . . . The Black Muslims carefully describe themselves as ‘anti-Zionist’ rather than as against the Jews. (Emphasis mine.)
Dr. Bostom also quotes Malcolm X, who is still an admired figure in the American black community, reveling in his meeting with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini — a man whom Hitler considered an Ally in part because of their mutual and murderous hatred of Jews. Malcolm X, however, appeared untroubled by el-Husseini’s Nazi ties and anti-Semitism:
When I opened my door, just across the hall from me a man in some ceremonial dress, who obviously lived there, was also headed downstairs, surrounded by attendants. I followed them down, then through the lobby. Outside, a small caravan of automobiles was waiting. My neighbor appeared through the Jedda Palace Hotel’s front entrance and people rushed and crowded him, kissing his hand. I found out who he was: the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Later, in the hotel, I would have the opportunity to talk with him for about a half-hour. He was a cordial man of great dignity. He was well up on world affairs, and even the latest events in America. . . . I talked at length with the blue-eyed, blond-haired Hussein Amini [sic], Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. We were introduced on Mt. Arafat by Kasem Gulick of the Turkish Parliament. Both were learned men; both were especially well-read on America.
One could argue that Malcolm X’s opinions are more than fifty years old and therefore meaningless today. However, that argument ignores the fact that Louis Farrakhan, a man given center stage just over a year ago at Aretha Franklin’s funeral, continues to speak of Jews in Hitlerian terms:
- Jews, among others people, are “financial bloodsuckers,” he said in October 1995, at the well-attended Million Man March.
- “I’m not an anti-Semite. I’m anti-Termite,” Farrakhan tweeted out on October 15, 2018.
- While there are good Jews, they have to be distinguished from “Satanic Jews,” he told a Chicago audience in May 2019.
Thankfully, Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam has a relatively small membership. The problem, though, is that it has a large reach into radical black culture, as was demonstrated when one of the Founders of the Women’s March couldn’t stop herself from offering gushing praise for Farrakhan.
Islam, whether traditional or Farrakhan’s brand, also has a large reach in American prisons. As my cousin the prison chaplain wisely said long ago,
It is not a contradiction to be a Muslim and a murderer, even a mass murderer. That is one reason why criminals “convert” to Islam in prison. They don’t convert at all; they similarly [sic] remain the angry judgmental vicious beings they always have been. They simply add “religious” diatribes to their personal invective. Islam does not inspire a crisis of conscience, just inspirations to outrage.
One of the many benefits of Trump’s prison reform, in addition to (one hopes) stemming the dangerous tide of fatherless children in the black community, may be to remove more blacks from Islam’s reach in prison and place them back into their more traditionally Christian communities.
Another thing to consider in terms of black anti-Semitism is that, thanks to the Democrats’ relentless push for the black vote since LBJ’s Great Society, blacks hew Left politically and anti-Semitism is baked into Leftism. This arises in part because the Left sees both Christianity and Judaism as moral religions standing in the way of the Left’s plans. The Left also reserves special animus for the Jews because Karl Marx, a virulent anti-Semite who was himself the son of a converted Jew, forever identified Jews with the sins he assigned to capitalism.
All is not lost, though. Candace Owens and other courageous blacks are leading a Black Great Awakening, so I’ll leave you with this uplifting video:
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