Good thing Farrakhan isn't only talking about killing whites. It's not about killing the devilish white man, it's about stopping those who are putting blacks down. Be it white, black, orange, yellow, green, blue, or red.
What is so unique about Blacks that they must be uniquely protected and represented within society?
Why is it that the laws written to protect you and I, both, regardless of color, are insufficient to represent the alleged interests of blacks?
As for the rest, it's essentially the same. Give me liberty or give me death. Both fighting oppressive forces.
No, they are not the same.
Farrakhan is basing his argument around not only the claim of racial oppression, but also around the notion of racial exceptionalism. He is not condemning oppression, he is condemning what he claims is an oppression of blacks.
Allow me to elaborate a little further:
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" Appearing on his Justice or Else! Tour at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal church in Washington DC, Farrakhan said, "Death is sweeter than watching us slaughter each other to the joy of a 400 year old enemy. Death is sweet. The Quran teaches persecution is worse than slaughter."
I wonder who he considers the enemy.
2:191 And kill them wherever you overtake them and expel them from wherever they have expelled you, and fitnah is worse than killing. And do not fight them at al-Masjid al- Haram until they fight you there. But if they fight you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers.
2:217 They ask you about the sacred month - about fighting therein. Say, "Fighting therein is great [sin], but averting [people] from the way of Allah and disbelief in Him and [preventing access to] al-Masjid al-Haram and the expulsion of its people therefrom are greater [evil] in the sight of Allah . And fitnah is greater than killing." And they will continue to fight you until they turn you back from your religion if they are able. And whoever of you reverts from his religion [to disbelief] and dies while he is a disbeliever - for those, their deeds have become worthless in this world and the Hereafter, and those are the companions of the Fire, they will abide therein eternally.
Those are the two specific verses from the Qu'ran he would be making reference to, there.
" In appealing to the Koran
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, Farrakhan said, "Retaliation is a prescription from God to calm the breasts of those whose children have been slain. So if the federal government will not intercede in our affairs, then we must rise up and kill those who kill us. Stalk them and kill them and let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling."
"So if the federal government will not intercede in our affairs, then we must rise up and kill those who kill us," he said. "Stalk them and kill them and let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling." "
Again, from the Qu'ran he is making reference to:
9:14 Fight them; Allah will punish them by your hands and will disgrace them and give you victory over them and satisfy the breasts of a believing people
That's from one of Muhammad's rants urging his believers to engage in religious conquest and slaughter.
You know...
The part where I was told I didn't understand the translation and was in error about what Islam was all about.
Anyway ...
I'll warn you, again, about following these types of people. They preach about how oppressed you are and how you have no future unless you become warriors for the likes of him - people in suits and ties in lavish houses with their own private security details. Keep in mind what he is offering throughout this speech of his.
He's offering death to those who follow him.
He doesn't even directly promise an end to the tyranny he says exists - merely proposes a form of tyranny against those who are alleged to be tyrants.
You were granted life for a reason. I would exercise caution around those who insist your only future is one in which death is the highlight.