Louis Farrakhan
Louis Farrakhan ( born May 11, 1933, New York, NY, USA) is the leader of the African-American movement and Neureligion Nation of Islam.
Life
Farrakhan was born Louis Eugene Walcott under the name in the New York City borough of the Bronx and grew up in the West Indian community ( Roxbury section) in Boston, Massachusetts, on. His mother, Sarah Mae Manning, immigrated in the 1920s by St. Kitts and Nevis; his father, Percival Clarke, was a Jamaican cab driver from New York. In Boston, he attended Boston Latin School and the English High School (the latter he graduated ). He then attended the Winston -Salem Teachers College in North Carolina. He initially joined on as a Calypso singer under the name The Charmer. In 1955 he came under the influence of Malcolm X at the Nation of Islam and replaced his surname Walcott with an X - the usual custom of the Nation of Islam. The "X" stands for the unknown African name, which was lost in the wake of slavery. From Elijah Muhammad, the then head of the movement, he later took the name Abdul Haleem Farrakhan.
Farrakhan was first minister at Temple No.. 11 in Boston, and from 1965 to 1972 successor of Malcolm X in the Temple no. 7 in New York. After the death of Elijah Muhammad initially took over his son, Wallace Muhammad, the leadership of the movement. Louis Farrakhan was " special envoy " of the World Community of Al -Islam in the West ( WCIW ), such as the Nation of Islam is now called. In 1977, Farrakhan announced the WCIW and 1981, the Second Resurrection ( second resurrection ) of the Nation of Islam based on the teachings of Elijah Muhammad. Of the members of the Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan addressed with the honorary title of The Honorable and viewed as a national representative of Elijah Muhammad.
In 1984, he supported the civil rights activist Jesse Jackson in his unsuccessful attempt to become U.S. President, 2008, he praised repeatedly Barack Obama, however, clearly distanced himself from Farrakhan. Due to the military operation in Libya, however, he turned on Obama.
Farrakhan is married and has nine children.
Ideology and criticism
His propagated in numerous interviews and speeches ideology is viewed by many people as racist and anti-Semitic. Farrakhan strongly advocated racial segregation: blacks and whites should live together peacefully in the USA, but separated from each other. He warned against the " influential Jewish lobby " AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee ) in the media and compared the Zionists with Satan. As a result, he was compared in 1984 by a representative of the Jewish organization B'nai B'rith with Adolf Hitler. But this comparison he rejected.
1986 entry to the UK it was banned as a persona non grata, despite various attempts to challenge this prohibition. Farrakhan was the initiator, organizer and speaker at the million -man march in 1995 in Washington. Him the Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights was awarded in 1996. The Libyan dictator Gaddafi has repeatedly praised Farrakhan until its fall in 2011 as a model for Africa and the Third World, as well as Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe in power.