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  1. The nation condemned the Westboro Baptist Church and its leader Fred Phelps – are the words and antics of Farrakhan acceptable?

    As reported by Truth Revolt, “In a speech at a black college in Baltimore the Saturday before the Ferguson grand jury announcement, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said that if the demands of the Ferguson protestors for the indictment of Officer Darren Wilson were not met, “we’ll tear this go!@amn country up!” In front of an enthusiastic crowd at Morgan State University, Farrakhan claimed that both the Quran and the Bible justified violence by the “law of retaliation” and accused the American judicial system of working only in the interest of whites. To the applause of his audience, the radical leader said “We going to die anyway. Let’s die for something.”

    “White people, Farrakhan argued, will only begin to listen to minorities through violence against whites:
    “As long as they [whites] kill us [blacks] and go to Wendy’s and have a burger and go to sleep, they’ll keep killing us. But when we die and they die, then soon we’re going to sit at a table and talk about it! We’re tired! We want some of this earth or we’ll tear this goddamn country up!” Rather than a peaceful response, Farrakhan encouraged the parents of teenagers to teach them to throw Molotov cocktails: “Teach your baby how to throw the bottle if they can. Fight!”

  2. Thanks for remembering this anniversary, no one else seems to have any recollection of it. I was living in Manhattan at the time and lost a dear friend on that flight who was returning from work in Italy. A very talented and gifted man died very young; a tragic loss as was the loss of everyone on that flight and on the ground. I’m very grateful to the people of Lockerbie for maintaining that memorial and remembering the innocents killed that horrible day.

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