At Holocaust Remembrance Day in Illinois, media remembers Nation of Islam member on state hate crimes panel
Crossposted on Marathon Pundit. (Oh, there's a DePaul post right below this one.)
Yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Flashback to last summer: Ill. Governor Rod Blagojevich appointed Sister Claudette Muhammad, the minister of protocol for Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, to the Governor's Commission on Discrimination and Hate Crimes.
Her membership in the group only became widely known when she invited her fellow panel members to Louis Farrakhan's annual "Saviour's Day" speech in February.
Calypso Louie was in top-form that day, as this snippet from that speech shows:
"These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood that is seeding the American people and the people of the world and bringing you down in moral strength...it's the wicked Jews, the false Jews that are promoting Lesbianism, homosexuality. It's wicked Jews, false Jews that make it a crime for you to preach the word of God, then they call you homophobic!
Blagojevich, a Democrat, refuses to fire Sister Muhammad, and the minister of protocol refuses to quit. Five Jewish members of the hate crimes panel did resign from the panel to protest Muhammad's presence on it.
Outside the commission, besides Jews, gays have expressed outrage over the Nation of Islam member being on that panel
Blagojevich was in Springfield yesterday (a story in itself, Blago refuses to live in the governor's mansion, preferring his Northwest Side Chicago home), for a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony. And reporters hammered Blagojevich over the hate crimes panel controversy. Blagojevich answered in predictable Blago fashion.
From the Springfield State Journal-Register:
"We're making real progress there, and we're just going to keep doing that," he said. "It's working well, and it's been sort of below the radar screen, and I think, frankly, that's probably the right way to do it as some of the wounds from what happened before heal."
Although Muhammad has remained on the commission, Blagojevich said it's important to condemn Farrakhan's anti-Semitic comments.
"There were maybe some voices in the hate crimes commission who should have stepped up and done that," Blagojevich said.
Hey Gov, uh, some did that--then they quit.
As far as I know, there are two gays on the panel, Rick Garcia and Larry McKeon.
I believe State Senator Carol Ronen of Chicago is the only Jewish member left on the panel. As far as can gather, she's on the committee for the long haul--if she leaves, then the panel could be Judenrein, that is, free of Jews.
Oh, click on Carol's link, you'll notice a rainbow flag in the background.
14 comments:
There should be another rule here, you can't take stuff off capitolfax blog, then make it your own post here.
What if Farrakhan was right?
You shouldn't worry... I'm sure the next Governor will be able to appoint several Jewish members to the panel right after Inauguration Day, barely eight months from now.
Nice try, brave anon 1:29. Obviously I struck a nerve with your anonymous self.
Couple of things: On C. Fax. I've had about dozen entries on Sister Muhammad on Marathon Pundit.
Under the "fair use" doctrine," Ideas from stories cannot be put under copyright. And the only similarity between Rich's post and mine is that I wrote about the same subject. We didn't even use the same links, and Rich didn't touch into the gay issue.
Although I'm not Jewish, I write regularly about Jewish and Israeli issues, so I believe my viewpoints add to the discussion.
Oh, why don't we just go back and delete every George Ryan post?
Brave anonymous poster # 2: Care to clarify your comment? What might "Calypso Louie" be right about?
Anon. posters: I suggest starting your own anon. blog. This one, which regularly trashes me, is a Ward Churchill apologist site, and is a model of what you can accomplish.
tryworks.blogspot.com/
Go there, tell them you hate me, and they'll love you.
I'm totally serious.
Maybe Louis Farrakhan is right about
#1. Jews having a lot of control in Hollywood and the entertainment and movie industry. That is objective statistical fact.
#2. Hollywood and the entertainment industry promoting homosexuality or what they would view as tolerance of homosexuality very agressively in TV shows, movies and pressuring stars to agree.
Harry's Place has a good post on the lastest cover of the UK magazine Extra on Jews controlling things.
There is a growing wave of anti-semitism. Blagojevich seems content to roll with it. I suspect out of sheer ignorance.
I don't buy the argument he hangs onto Sister Muhammed for the African-American vote. There's more to it than that.
Those would be the "wicked" and "false" Jews. Bill's right, anti-semitism is becoming acceptable.
Rod grew up in anti-semitism since he suckled from his mothers breast in a long tradition of Serbian and Orthodox anti-semitism. The Liturgy of St. John Chrystostom curses the Jews in it and the Early Church Fathers also known as the Elders of the Church had many serious qoutes of real anti-semitism. Serbian polemics that Milorad Blagojevich listened to as a child were seriously anti-Jewish.
This affected his subconscious and even concscious thinking.
Well, Orthodoxy Today had one of the most informative articles on indifference to the fate of Jews amonth mainline Churches in the US during the late 30s and early 40s...
By Joseph Loconte titled Auschwitz.shtmlAuschwitz, and Yesterday's Religious Left.
These "progressive" religious thinkers preserved their political and moral neutrality only by downplaying Hitler's anti-Semitic rage. Methodist leader Ernest Fremont Tittle claimed that Nazism could be overcome non-violently -- "with truth and love even unto death" -- yet said almost nothing about the Jewish deaths demanded by his pacifist ideal. When thousands protested the persecution of German Jews during Kristallnacht, Catholic writer Paul Blakely saw only "a fit of national hysteria" orchestrated to drag America into war.
They knew better. The arrests, deportations, and imprisonment of Jews across the continent were widely reported in the American press. Yet the nation's Christian leadership failed even to lobby for immigration reform to absorb more refugees. No wonder: From 1933 to 1941, more than 100 anti-Semitic groups appeared in the United States, many with a Christian hue.
So there is plenty of guilt to share.
I more inclined to look at today and tomorrow. When you have a nut in Iran talking nuclear war against Jews, I think it worthwile to at least disown someone on your anti discrimination commission.
It's a small thing to do; besides being the right thing to do.
sorry, here is link http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles5/LoconteAuschwitz.shtml
Great Post Rubes! The tin-foil hat Progressives will not like it - of course.
Minister Louis's agenda meets the requirements of the progressives: turn morality and ethics on its ear with earnestness.
"you really don't belive in what you beleive - do you? How odd."
It looks like they put Cheryl Jackson in the closet, she was the go to woman to put NOI on this Commission and get others contracts.
Isn't Carol Ronen a complete Blagojevich suckup.
I doubt that her continued presence on the committee reflects
any kind of thoughtful consideration of the issues.
Blagojevich could be on his way to jail and she'd probably volunteer to take his place.
Amazing that her consitutents are
too clueless to see how little
she represents their interests.
Only Blago's.
Carol Ronen is a real joke and hypocrite. Watch Debby Mell to run against her.
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