CHICAGO - The Nation of Islam based in Chicago was in the news this past weekend when the man that assassinated three Baton Rouge policemen Sunday morning was found to have self-identified as a former member.
How radical are the teachings of Louis Farrakhan, the leader of Chicago's Nation of Islam?
“We believe that the offer of integration is hypocritical and is made by those who are trying to deceive the black peoples into believing that their 400-year-old open enemies of freedom, justice and equality are, all of a sudden, their ‘friends,’” Elijah Muhammad - one of Farrakhan's mentors - wrote.
Other tenets include that African-Americans should be “freed from the names imposed upon him by his former slave masters” and that its followers “should not participate in wars which take the lives of humans” unless “America agrees to give us the necessary territory wherein we may have something to fight for.”
In March this year, Farrakhan made a trip to the Islamic Republic of Iran to meet with the nation's ayatollah during the Muslim nation's celebration of its revolution, and while there, he interviewed with Iranian journalist Nader Talebrzadeh.
During the recorded conversation, Talebrzadeh asked Farrakhan how he thought his people in the Nation of Islam would be able to survive the terrible future ahead for America, and Farrakhan answered:
Separation is the best answer. America is on a downward trajectory and some of those that I've been watching who want to be president will hasten the trajectory downward when you listen to their speeches for their so-called desires for America.
But the black man, he has to taste some of the punishment because every great leader that we've ever had, we've never followed him well. We cheer them, and when they were gone we go right back to sleep.
So we're headed for a divine whipping. But America is headed for divine destruction.
So when I go back - God willing - I have to point out to America her only way out of what's come upon her. Then it's up to her to desire to do what she pleases and to do with what we say. But the calamities are increasing daily and Allah is whipping America with the forces of nature and America can escape it, but there's something America has to do, and it starts with the word "repentance."
If American will not repent - and I doubt she will because she's so arrogant over her perceived power. She thinks she can make the whole world afraid of her and most of the world is afraid of her.
But today, ask North Korea, you afraid of America? Ask China, how about you? Ask ISIL - America's talking about there's 30,000 of them and you've got to get the whole Western world together to fight ISIL? What happened to you? You can't go it alone no more? Suck your brothers into your demise.
Yes, we're in a great and a dreadful day right now. America can escape it - it's a very narrow window, but we will present to America that narrow window and see what she will do. She's at the end.
The video in its entirety, in which Farrakhan also reviews a 40 minute conversation with Iran's ayatollah:
