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Muhammad, an aide to Farrakan, attacked Jews, Catholics, and homosexuals. He said that in the antebellum South 75 percent of all slaves were owned by Jews. He also called for violence in South Africa...
Columnists and leading college administrators, including the president of Wellesley, have recently denounced what they call anti-Semitism by Black leaders, most notably Minister Louis Farrakan of the nation of Islam...
Under political pressure, Farrakan demoted the aide on Thursday--two months after the speech. While calling Muhammad's remarks "mean spirited" and "against the spirit of Islam," Farrakan defended the "truths that he spoke...
...chair of Kean's board of trustees, Larry Lockhart, praised Farrakan's action in demoting the aide. And the leader of the group that initially invited Muhammad said he was glad the aide had been rebuked...
That Mr. Kenxatta and BALSA could violate fairness and free speech for Jewish students indicates further their crass indifference to the unfortunate cleavage in national politics between some Jews and some Blacks, stemming in part from Rev. Jesse Jackson's irresponsible "Hymie" remark and from Rev. Louis Farrakan's idiotic comment on Hitler's "greatness." Whether Mr. Kenyatta and BALSA recognize it or not, such events at Harvard University are events "in-a-fishbowl"--readily transmitted by the media to the country as a whole, and thus subject to becoming fuel to a fire capable of getting out of control...