>
>Justin wrote:
>
>>Farrakhan said "Judaisim is a gutter religion."
>
>which, as fans of Jude Wanninski will be aware, he actually didn't.
Thanks, Doug, I stand corrected. I didn't know that.
>>Farrakhan has never used the phrase "gutter religion" to describe
>Judaism
>and has extracted a fair few corrections from newspapers which said he has.
>
>The actual phrase in context is a bit more ambiguous; he was talking about
>the Palestine situation and said (from memory; this may not be exactly
>right) "and then they try to justify this with their dirty religion", which
>fails the smell test as far as I'm concerned,
Yes it does.
but which does leave
>him a
>bit of wriggle room (which he in fact used) to claim that he was not
>referring to Judaism per se, but rather to a nationalistic perversion of
>it.
Not to my way of thinking.
>
>Farrakhan is squarely on the hook for "Hitler was a great man", though, in
>fairly damning circumstances, and people like Professor Griff have said
>enough things which were straight up anti-Semitic, so I'm not inclined to
>give him the benefit of the doubt.
Indeed.
jks
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