Category Archives: Muslim Scholars

On May 21, Israel’s Jewish advocacy group, Anti-Defamation League (ADL), in a statement slammed Detroit City Council members and Christian religious leaders for welcoming and honoring Nation of Islam (NOI) leader Louis Farrakhan during his 2-day visit to city where the Black Muslim movement started in the 1930s.

While in Detroit, Minister Farrakhan was invited by Rev. Horace Sheffield III, leader of the New Destiny Baptist Church on May 16. Farrakhan was also invited by Rev. Wendell Anthony, President of Detroit branch of NAACP, a Black Civil Rights group dominated by Jews, to address the Fellowship Chapel on May 17, 2013. The event was attended by Rep. John Conyers, Detroit Councilmen Charles Pugh, the president of the city council, Spivey, Joann Watson, Kwame Kentatta, Brenda Jones, James Tate, Ken Cockerel, Saunteel Jenkins, Gary Brown and several other prominent city leaders.

“It’s deeply disappointing that so many Detroit leaders are apparently so willing to turn a blind eye to Farrakhan’s antisemitism. Where are voices in our community who are willing to stand up and say no to racism and antisemitism?,” said Heidi Budaj, ADL Detroit regional director. 

On May 17, Farrakhan held a meeting with Detroit Mayor Dave Bing.

Farrakhan told his Christian audience at the church: “I know you love Jesus, but I don’t know if you know him as much as you love him. Singing about Jesus is good thing. Praising Jesus is better, but following Jesus is best of all.”

Jesus was the last hope for the Israelites, but they rejected him. They’re now in control of the media and airwavws, gaining exccess to the “sacred territory”, which is the minds of people. “They have mastered the civilization now, but they’he mastered it in evil. Satan has devoured much of humanity,” said Farrakhan.

“You don’t follow politicians, you guide politicians. The preachers are key to the salvation of people or you’re the key to their damnation and if you don’t preach the Gospel, then you’re headed to death yourself for being a betrayer of Christ,” he added. Read more of it here.

Farrakhan delivered a passionate speech at Detroit City Council on May 17 in which he described the history and the vision of Islam for a tolerant and peaceful world. He urged Muslims to buy property and invest in Detroit city which once was known as the “Motor City”, and is in decay now.

“The nation of Islam is disciplined. We gotta come home and help this city. We gotta come home. We can help the police force [audience agrees] cause once these young black men are trained in the building arts and science, they become partners, not gangbangers where you’re afraid to walk your streets. I got in the elevator today with my beautiful sister, and all the brothers got in there with here but she made this remark: “I haven’t felt this safe in a long time.” But the whole city can be like that. The elderly will be able to come out of their houses and walk their streets. The young will be able to go to school and get a good education. Gang warfare can stop if we put our hands to work. That’s a vision. It can be done,” said Farrakhan. His entire speech can be read here. Also watch a video below.

French socialist thinker, politician, writer and author of 60 books on history, religion and Communism – Roger Garaudy (1913-2012) died in Paris on June 15, 2012.

“Inna lillah wa inna ilayhi raji’un” (To Allah we belong and to Him is our retun).

Roger Garaudy was author of book, The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics, for which French Zionist Occupied Government (ZOG) fined him US$40,000. Following his conviction on grounds for being anti-Israel and anti-Zionism. Roger Garaudy was hailed in the Muslim world and 160 members of Iranian Majlis signed a petition in his support. Iranian leaders condemned the West and the Zionist entity for bringing Garaudy to trial. Garaudy visited Tehran as guest of the Majlis. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenie cited Garaudy for his work for exposing Zionist regime’s Zionazi-like policies against Muslim and Christian Native Palestinians.

Roger Garaudy was born into a Catholic-Atheist family on July 17, 1913 in Marseille in France. He joined French Communist Party in 1933 and was imprisoned inside Camps Vichystes during 1940-42. During 1959-62, he served a Senator de Paris. In June, 1970, Roger served as the Director of the Center of Marxist Studies. Roger taught at the University of Clermont-Ferrand. Roger converted to Islam in 1982.

In recent years, Garaudy claimed that 9/11 attacks in the US were carried out by Bush Zionist-controlled administration to invade Afghanistan and later Iraq, in order to destablized the Muslim East. He also claimed that Israel exploited the Holocaust for financial and political gains.

In 1996, one of French hero, Catholic priest Abbe Pierre wrote a 5-page letter to Garaudy lauding his ‘passion for truth’, his ‘atonishing and illuminating erudition’ and his ‘scrupulous’ research. The Jewish lobby groups ran a vicious anti-Pierre campaign calling him a ‘Jew hater’ for endorsing Garaudy. Even after the campaign, French TV viewers in 2005 voted Abbe Pierre the third greatest French person of all times, after Gen. Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) and Louis Pasteur (1822-95), the great French scientist whose work has saved millions of lives.

65 million Iranians and millions of other Muslims around the world pay homage to the Leader of Islamic Revolution (1979), Imam Rouhollah Mousavi Khomeini, who met his Creator on June 3, 1989, eleven days after he was taken to hospital for an operation to stop internal bleeding in May 1989.

Yesterday, addressing tens of thousands of mourners at Imam Khomeini’s mausoleum in Southern Tehran, Iranian president Dr. Ahmadinejad reminded the audience that Imam Khomeini was against injustice to all people and nations.

“Imam affirmed that we revolted and stood firm to claim the rights of nations and establish justice, and it was for this very cause that he took a stand against the Zionist regime that was obvious injustice and an insult to nations and humanity“.

An international conference attended by scholars from 60 countries is held in Tehran to commemorate the event. All speakers agreed that the teachings of Imam Khomeini will continue to inspire Muslims around the world in the years to come.

“Imam Khomeini’s Islamic movement shook up the equation of power in the world and created a new order in the bipolar world. In this new order Islam came into prominence as the democratic and religious power on the world stage,” Khalil Ismail, a Turkish participant said.

Shirin Mostowfi, an Afghan MP said that “Imam Khomeini had proved to the world that Islam is not only a religion but it is a complete political system“.  

Canadian Islamic scholars and academics held a conference at Ottawa’s Carleton University to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of Imam’s passing. Both Muslim and Christian speakers lauded the Imam as a religious and political role model. They also discussed the role of Islamic Republic has played in inspiring Islamic thinking and political resistance to foreign occupations in the Muslim world.