The
following
are
excerpts
from an
interview
with
Louis
Farrakhan,
leader
of the
"Nation
of
Islam",
which
aired on
Al-Jazeera
TV on
March
18,
2007.
"The
Time for
Warnings
is Up"
Louis
Farrakhan:
"I
believe
that my
teacher,
Elijah
Muhammad,
came as
a
warning
to
America,
on
account
of the
evils
that it
committed
for 400
years,
against
millions
of black
slaves.
He came
as a
warning
to
America
that its
policies
around
the
world
will
bring
upon it
the fate
of
ancient
Egypt,
Sodom
and
Gomorrah,
ancient
Babylon,
and
ancient
Rome -
that
this was
coming
to
America.
I am an
extension
of
Elijah
Muhammad.
"When
I said
my time
is up, I
meant
that
warnings
can't go
on
forever.
I have
warned
President
Bush, I
have
warned
his
government,
I have
warned
his
people,
and I
have
warned
my own
people.
The time
for
warnings
is up,
and the
time for
the
chastisement
of Allah
is
here."
[...]
Interviewer:
"Mr.
Farrakhan,
are you
still
being
accused
of being
antisemitic,
and if
that's
so, by
whom and
why?"
Farrakhan:
"Are you
a
Semite?"
Interviewer:
"Yes,
I'm
Arab."
Farrakhan:
"Am I
against
you? Am
I
against
Muslims?
No. Are
the Jews
that
came out
of
Europe
Semitic?
Who are
the
Sephardic
Jews?
Are they
Semitic?
Am I
against
them?
Who has
segregated
them and
the
Ethiopian
Jews? Is
it not
the
Europeans?
The real
antisemites
are
those
who came
out of
Europe
and
settled
in
Palestine,
and now
they
call
themselves
the true
Jews,
when in
fact,
they
converted
to
Judaism."
[...]
Saddam
Was No
Threat
to His
Neighbors
Farrakhan:
"Saddam
Hussein
had no
weapons
of mass
destruction.
He was
no
threat
to his
neighbors.
If he
were a
lion, he
had no
teeth.
His paws
had no
claws.
He never
shot
down one
American
or
British
plane,
which
flew all
over
Iraq for
twelve
years.
Iraq had
lost its
power to
protect
its own
sovereign
airspace.
So when
America
went to
war with
Iraq,
and
called
it
'Shock
and
Awe,'
and used
all
these
weapons
against
Iraq, it
was
committing
murder,
in order
to get
the oil
of Iraq,
to
establish
a
democracy
- that's
lying
and
murder."
[...]
No
Muslim
Who
Studies
the
Koran
Would
Bomb a
Mosque -
Where is
the Hand
of the
Mossad
and CIA?
Farrakhan:
"It is
anti-Islamic
to bomb
a
mosque,
so what
Muslim
who
studies
the
Koran
would
bomb a
mosque,
whether
he is
Shi'ite,
or
Sunni,
or Sufi,
or
Hanafi,
or
Hanbali?
No
Muslim
would
destroy
even a
synagogue,
a
monastery,
or a
church,
much
less
bomb
another
mosque.
Where is
the hand
of the
Mossad
in all
of this?
Where is
the hand
of the
CIA in
all of
this? I
didn’t
mis-describe
the
administration
of the
United
States.
They are
liars,
and they
are
murderers,
and they
are
guilty
of
heinous
crimes,
and they
should
be
removed,
for they
have
violated
the
constitution
of the
United
States
of
America,
and have
violated
the
peoples
of the
world."
[...]
"Iran
Should
Not Be
Denied
Human
Right"
to
"Atomic
Knowledge";
If It
"Believes
in the
Power of
Allah,
It Can't
be
Frightened
by
America"
Farrakhan:
"Iran
should
not be
denied
the
human
right to
knowledge.
Atomic
knowledge
should
be in
the
arsenal
of
knowledge
of every
nation,
and if
Iran
wants to
use
atomic
knowledge
for
peaceful
purposes,
she's in
accord
with
international
law. But
the fear
of
America
is
Iran's
attitude
to
Israel,
and the
cornerstone
of
America's
foreign
policy
is the
protection
of
Israel.
So they
don't
want
Iran to
have
atomic
knowledge.
But Iran
is
saying:
'I'm
going to
get that
knowledge.
I'm
going to
use that
knowledge,
so that
we will
no
longer
be
dependent
on oil.'
Now,
America,
of
course,
is a
powerful
bully. I
heard
Vice-President
Cheney
say that
all
options
are on
the
table.
They're
not
frightening
Iran. If
Iran
believes
in
Allah,
and if
Iran
believes
in the
power of
Allah,
Iran
can't be
frightened
by
America.
You
can't
frighten
a true
Muslim."
