Following the success of the Million Man March in October, Louis Farrakhan announced the formation of a “third political power” in American politics to elect candidates who have “the interests of our people and the poor and the vulnerable of this nation” at heart.
Since then, he has been engaged in the traditional chores of electoral politics like fundraising and political outreach in untraditional places like Libya, Iraq, and Iran. A few weeks ago, he visited Colonel Moammar Gadhafi, who pledged up to $ 1 billion. On the heels of his visit to the home of the butchers of Pan Am 103, Farrakhan then paid a call on a government that funds and directs the Islamic terrorist group Hizbollah — you remember them, the ones who massacred 241 U.S. Marine peacekeepers in Beirut in 1983? From there, it was on to Iraq.
In Teheran, Farrakhan actually addressed the Iranian parliament. Some highlights:
“The Islamic Revolution is a perfect example of a government based on the Koran.”
“We [Farrakhan] live in the center of corruption and struggle in the heart of the Great Satan. Thus we need your spiritual aid.”
“We shall utilize American Muslim unity as a lever of pressure against the United States” arrogant policies.”
So Louis Farrakhan has befriended nations that have promoted the terrorism of Abu Abbas, Ahmed Jibril, and Abu Nidal. And the media and politicians (with the honorable exception of the Clinton State Department) who participated in the rehabilitation of Farrakhan in October are unnaturally quiet.
