1. Louis Farrakhan is an American religious leader who heads the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist organization.
63 Facts About Louis Farrakhan
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Louis Farrakhan adopted the name Louis X before being named Louis Farrakhan.
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In October 1995, Louis Farrakhan organized and led the Million Man March in Washington, DC.
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However, Louis Farrakhan has continued to deliver sermons and speak at NOI events.
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Louis Farrakhan is known for antisemitic statements and racist remarks directed at white people.
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Louis Farrakhan has denied assertions that he is antisemitic, racist, or anti-gay.
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Louis Farrakhan was banned from Facebook in 2019 along with other public figures considered to be extremists.
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Louis Farrakhan is the younger of two sons of Sarah Mae Manning and Percival Clark, immigrants from the Anglo-Caribbean islands.
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Louis Farrakhan's mother was born in Saint Kitts, while his father was Jamaican.
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Louis Farrakhan completed three years at Winston-Salem Teachers College, where he had a track scholarship.
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When Louis Farrakhan first joined the NOI, he was asked by Elijah Muhammad to put aside his musical career as a calypso singer.
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Louis Farrakhan intimated that his performance of a concerto by a Jewish composer was, in part, an effort to heal a rift between him and the Jewish community.
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In 2021, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, Louis Farrakhan performed Violin Concerto in D Major Op.
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Louis Farrakhan memorized and recited verbatim the 10 questions and answers of the NOI's Student Enrollment.
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Louis Farrakhan then wrote a Saviour's Letter that must be sent to the NOI's headquarters in Chicago.
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Louis Farrakhan made substantial changes in the organization in the late 1970s, taking most of its members into a closer relationship with orthodox Islam, and renaming the group "World Community of Islam in the West".
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Louis Farrakhan rejected the deification of the Nation of Islam's founder Wallace D Fard, the Mahdi of the Holy Qur'an, and the messiah of the Bible.
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Louis Farrakhan joined Mohammed's movement and served as a Sunni Imam under him for.
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In 1979, Louis Farrakhan's group founded a weekly newspaper entitled The Final Call, which was intended to be similar to the original Muhammad Speaks newspaper that Malcolm X claimed to have started.
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Louis Farrakhan made numerous incendiary statements about Malcolm X, contributing to what was called a "climate of vilification".
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At the convention's keynote address, Louis Farrakhan announced his attempt to restore the Nation of Islam under Elijah Muhammad's teachings.
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Marriott Hotel in Washington, DC, Louis Farrakhan described a vision which he had on September 17,1985 in Tepoztlan, Mexico.
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Louis Farrakhan visited Turkey at invitation on February 18,1996, and met with the country's leading Islamist political figure, Necmettin Erbakan, and his Welfare Party's officials.
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Louis Farrakhan said that the Turkish people must decide whether it wants to have a secular or Islamic government.
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In October 1995, Louis Farrakhan convened a broad coalition of what he and his supporters claimed was one million men in Washington, DC, for the Million Man March.
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Louis Farrakhan threatened to sue the National Park Service because of the low estimate from the Park Police.
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Louis Farrakhan has been the center of much controversy with critics saying that his political views and comments are antisemitic or racist.
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Louis Farrakhan has categorically denied these charges and stated that much of America's perception of him has been shaped by the media.
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The NOI's division into two factions after Elijah Muhammad's death was caused in part by the fact that new leader Warith Mohammed wished to reject the Yakub myth, while national spokesman Louis Farrakhan wanted to reaffirm it.
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At an event in Milwaukee in August 2015, Louis Farrakhan said: "White people deserve to die, and they know, so they think it's us coming to do it".
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Louis Farrakhan has accused Jews of controlling large sections of the media, the US government and the global economy, regularly referring to these Jews as "Satanic".
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Louis Farrakhan has repeatedly described Adolf Hitler as a "great man" and claimed Jewish involvement in the Atlantic slave trade, Jim Crow laws and black oppression in general.
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In June 1984, after returning from a visit to Libya, Louis Farrakhan delivered a sermon that was recorded by a Chicago Sun-Times reporter.
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Louis Farrakhan wasn't great for me as a Black man but he was a great German and he rose Germany up from the ashes of her defeat by the united force of all of Europe and America after the First World War.
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On March 23,2002, Louis Farrakhan visited Kahal Kadosh Shaare Shalom in Kingston, Jamaica, which was his first visit to a synagogue, in an attempt to repair his relationship with the Jewish community.
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Louis Farrakhan was accepted to speak at Shaare Shalom in the native country of his father, after being rejected to appear at American synagogues, many of whom had fear of sending the wrong signals to the Jewish community.
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Jews, according to Louis Farrakhan, "have mastered the civilization now, but they've mastered it in evil".
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In March 2015, Louis Farrakhan accused "Israelis and Zionist Jews" of being involved in the September 11 attacks.
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Louis Farrakhan approvingly cited President Richard Nixon and the Reverend Billy Graham's derogatory comments about Jews' "grip on the media", claiming that Jews are responsible for "all of this filth and degenerate behavior that Hollywood is putting out turning men into women and women into men".
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In comments in 2005, Louis Farrakhan stated that there was a 25-foot hole under one of the key levees that failed in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.
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Louis Farrakhan implied that the levee's destruction was a deliberate attempt to wipe out the population of the largely black sections within the city.
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Louis Farrakhan further claimed that the fact the levee broke the day after Hurricane Katrina is proof that the destruction of the levee was not a natural occurrence.
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Louis Farrakhan has raised additional questions and has called for federal investigations into the source of the levee break.
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Louis Farrakhan asserted that the hurricane was "God's way of punishing America for its warmongering and racism".
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In 2008, Louis Farrakhan publicly criticized the United States and supported then-Senator Barack Obama who was campaigning at the time to become the president of the United States of America.
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On May 28,2011, Louis Farrakhan, speaking at the American Clergy Leadership Conference, lambasted Obama over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the intervention in Libya, calling him an "assassin" and a "murderer".
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On May 8,2010, Louis Farrakhan publicly announced his embrace of Dianetics and has actively encouraged Nation of Islam members to undergo auditing from the Church.
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Louis Farrakhan included the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in this group.
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Mr Louis Farrakhan urged the women to embrace his formula for a successful family.
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Louis Farrakhan encouraged them to put husbands and children ahead of their careers, shun tight, short skirts, stay off welfare and reject abortion.
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Louis Farrakhan stressed the importance of cooking and cleaning and urged women not to abandon homemaking for careers.
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In 1985, Louis Farrakhan obtained working capital in the amount of $5 million, in the form of an interest-free loan from Libya's Islamic Call Society to be repaid within 18 months which was to be used to create a toiletries firm with black employees.
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Louis Farrakhan said that he told Gaddafi that he preferred an economic investment in black America.
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In January 1996, when Louis Farrakhan visited Libya, Gaddafi pledged giving him a gift of $1 billion and a personal award of $250,000.
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At the time of the wider uprisings in the Arab world and the Tsunami in Japan in a Chicago press conference on March 31,2011, Louis Farrakhan said President Obama's action in supporting the rebels in Libya were going to advance the arrival of UFOs, or divine spaceships, as punishments for black sufferings.
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Louis Farrakhan lost his verified status on his Twitter posts in June 2018, denying him full verification, after asserting the Harvey Weinstein scandal was about "Jewish power".
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At the beginning of May 2019, Louis Farrakhan was banned from Facebook, along with other prominent individuals considered by the company to be extremists, with antisemitism believed to be the reason for Louis Farrakhan's removal.
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Louis Farrakhan insisted he was neither a misogynist nor a homophobe and that: "I do not hate Jewish people".
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Blase J Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, condemned the decision of the church in allowing Farrakhan to speak there.
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Louis Farrakhan is the father of nine children and the grandfather of basketball player Mustapha Farrakhan Jr.
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Louis Farrakhan announced that he was seriously ill in a letter on September 11,2006.
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Louis Farrakhan was released from his five-week hospital stay on January 28,2007, after major abdominal surgery.
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In December 2013, Louis Farrakhan announced that he had not appeared publicly for two months because he had suffered a heart attack in October.