Farrakhan, Haider & Griffin

Date: 3rd Aug '01

Name: Craig

What are the views of Red Action members on Louis Farrakhan? Should he be allowed into the country? Should anti-fascists oppose him? The evidence that he is a racist/nazi/fascist etc is similar to that against Haider and Griffin ie a tedious stream of past quotations repeated again and again as if are all so thick we can't judge his ideas for ourselves and have to be told: 'this man is a bad man.' But Farrakhan's past statements are more extreme and 'racist' than those of Griffin or Haider, so wouldn't it be hypocritical for anti-fascists/anti-racists not to oppose him? I think he should be allowed to visit and speak because he's one of the only political leaders in the world that has something positive (not the patronising drivel from the liberal left) to say to black people.

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