Louis Farrakhan Calls Barack Obama the Messiah
Highly controversial Muslim leader in the United States Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, called Barack Obama the “Messiah” in a sermon recently.
“You are the instruments that God is going to use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth,” Farrakhan said.
“And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn’t care anything about. That’s a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking,” he concluded.
Obama has been accused of the past of having ties to Farrakhan, a highly controversial black Muslim leader. The Obama campaign countered the attacks by denying any true, significant ties.
Although those ties may certainly not exist, one thing is clear: Louis Farrakhan thinks very highly of Barack Obama, he even uses the same words Obama uses frequently.
Does this say anything about Obama? Of course not. Politicians are not responsible for what any religious leaders say. It is worth reporting, though, that Farrakhan calls Obama the “Messiah” and clearly instructs his followers to vote for him. This is fascinating from a political, but also religious perspective; as a Muslim myself, I cannot help but be fascinated by the Islam of the Nation of Islam, which differs tremendously from Islam as I know it. It is a completely different, African American, kind of Islam which, in my humble opinion, is not ‘Islam’ at all. It is more of a distinctly African American religious sect than anything else.
It is interesting that the video of Farrakhan surfaces shortly before MSNBC reported that Obama’s Muslim outreach advisor secretly met with many controversial American Muslim leaders in September of this year, apparently in order to coordinate a get out of the vote effort. These controversial figures included Hamas and Hezbollah supporters Mahdi Bray and Nihad Awad. The conservative blog Gateway Pundit explained their views in a post published yesterday.
Watch Farrakhan say it:
as someone who has listened to min. farrakhan’s address 2-3 times, i can assure you that he did not call obama the messiah. in fact, he specifically said obama is not the messiah. for decades now, min. farrakhan has referred to the honorable elijah muhammad as the messiah and that is who he is referring to whenever he uses the term "messiah."
so, him saying obama is the "herald" of the messiah means…. well, look up the definition of herald and then it should be clear what he was attempting to get across, to those who have ears to hear it.
"Highly controversial Muslim leader in the United States Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, called Barack Obama the “Messiah” in a sermon recently."
Interesting. I wasn’t aware that LAST FEBRUARY was considered "recent."
Herald or Messiah, doesn’t matter to me whether Farrakhan was calling Obama a Herald or the Messiah. He is clearly neither, and to call him either seems awfully blasphemous to me. I would expect a Herald to conform much more closely to Biblical teaching than Obama has. I’m not terribly surprised, though, because we are talking about Louis Farrakhan here. This isn’t the first (nor will it be the last) time he has said something controversial.
The video abruptly ended because Farrakhan’s words in context would have contradicted the right-wing spin cycle:
“Sen. Obama is not the Messiah for sure, but anytime, he gives you a sign of uniting races, ethnic groups, ideologies, religions and makes people feel a sense of oneness, that’s not necessarily Satan’s work, that is I believe the work of God.”
-FinalCall.com News, March 5, 2008
RH, do you know what the definition of “herald” is? one definition is this: “harbinger: something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone .” how is that blasphemous? you have your opinion that the “phenomenal” rise - as min. farrakhan said - of barack obama, a black man at the door of the US presidency, is not a “sign” of something, but min. farrakhan’s opinion and view is that such a reality is a big sign of something. just like he views the unusual weather patterns tearing america up as a sign - or herald - of something.
it’s clear that you, like so many others who chime in on that which they don’t understand, do not have enough knowledge of what the minister teaches to be able to give balanced responses or comments to little sound bites that manipulative media personalities pull out of context.