Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Louis Farrakhan" in English language version.
Farrakhan denied being misogynistic and homophobic. He said, 'The white people who think I'm a hater,' don't know him. 'No one that is with me has ever committed a crime against the Jewish people, black people, white people, no matter what your color is'.
I am called and [sic] anti-Semite, I am called a hater, but if you look at those who follow me, you do not have one record of one of my followers doing one thing against a member of the Jewish faith, a member of the white community, or the black community, so if I am such a hater, why don't my followers demonstrated that hate, we have never picketed one Jewish establishment, because we have always related well to the Jewish people.
They tell lies to make you think I am a bigot or antisemite, so that you won't listen to what I'm saying. So far they've been pretty successful.
the propaganda that makes me appear to many as anti-White, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Gay. None of these names accurately describe who I am.
Mr. Farrakhan acknowledged the symbolism in his playing of music by a European Jew. … Speaking in a quiet but insistent voice, he said he would "try to do with music what cannot be done with words and try to undo with music what words have done."
Astoundingly, L. Ron Hubbard, the late Scientology founder for whom Farrakhan has nothing but praise, reportedly was a notorious racist who supported South African apartheid and described black Africans as barbarous, savage and primitive.
Facebook has banned the longtime leader of the Chicago-based Nation of Islam as part of the tech giant's efforts to rid its websites of hate speech and "dangerous" people and organizations.(subscription required)
Recordings of Farrakhan's pre-Nation of Islam work are exceedingly rare, if they exist at all.
I am called and [sic] anti-Semite, I am called a hater, but if you look at those who follow me, you do not have one record of one of my followers doing one thing against a member of the Jewish faith, a member of the white community, or the black community, so if I am such a hater, why don't my followers demonstrated that hate, we have never picketed one Jewish establishment, because we have always related well to the Jewish people.
Recordings of Farrakhan's pre-Nation of Islam work are exceedingly rare, if they exist at all.