The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch blog reports that Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, is calling on NOI members to embrace Scientology in preparation for the end times.
NOI is a racist hate group that holds that white people are intrinsically, biologically evil — “blue-eyed devils,” in the group’s parlance. Scientology’s followers, who include several well-known celebrities and other wealthy people, are overwhelmingly white (although membership is open to all) and its founder reportedly was a racist who long defended South African apartheid.
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In a Feb. 27 speech on Saviour’s Day, NOI’s most important annual event, Farrakhan asked his followers: “Have you ever noticed why none of our organizations really reach what they’re supposed to reach? They start, they build up, they empty out; and if you’re still lucky, they come back again – but then they empty out again? Well, what’s wrong with us?” the aging minister asked a crowd of thousands. “Let’s go to the root of it, because the sickness is not somewhere else. It’s right in our minds.” He added: “We are Muslims but if Scientology will help us be better, then I want the technology of [Scientology] to help us to be better Muslims. Christians can accept it and be better Christians. I don’t care who gets it. Just get it and be better at who you say are.”
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NOI has a history of engaging in bizarre partnerships – on several occasions, the group has met Klan and other anti-Semitic white separatist groups. (The NOI shares these groups’ anti-Semitism and their doctrines of racial separation, if not their views of black people.) But Farrakhan’s enthusiasm for Scientology goes beyond his fleeting contacts with groups that might share parts of his agenda.Astoundingly, L. Ron Hubbard, the late Scientology founder for whom Farrakhan has nothing by praise, reportedly was a notorious racist who supported South African apartheid and described black Africans as barbarous, savage and primitive, and once allegedly wrote his wife, “You shouldn’t be scrubbing the floor on your hands and knees. Get yourself a nigger; that’s what they’re born for.”
