Helsinki’s Hotel Torni, once the tallest building in Finland, celebrates its 80th anniversary

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In the autumn of 1944, Pentti Lehtola and his classmates received a threatening note from Soviet Soldiers who guarded the hotel which then acted as the headquarters of the feared Allied Control Commission.

 The headmaster assumed his position in front of the boys and cleared his throat. It was time for the morning assembly and prayers, but this time the head had a serious matter to communicate.

The school had received a letter from the Allied Control Commission.
A wave of fear and dismay swept through the boys.

Pensioner Pentti Lehtola, 83, sits in a restaurant in Helsinki’s Hotel Torni, which is celebrating its 80th anniversary, and reminisces on the events that took place in the 1940s.
Lehtola attended the Ressu (slang for Helsingin Reaalilyseo) Boys’ School in 1939-1947. During those eventful years a lot transpired in the hotel across the street.

During the so-called Continuation War from 1941-44, Hotel Torni was used to billet German soldiers.
The Wehrmacht soldiers dressed in green marched on the streets of Helsinki with the metal heels of their boots click-clacking against the cobblestones.
The war ended, but the uncertain times continued.
In the autumn of 1944 the Allied Control Commission – monitoring Finnish compliance with the obligations of the Moscow Armistice – assumed control of the entire hotel.
Soldiers of the Soviet Red Army guarded the building and those Helsinki residents who had to walk past did so with much prudence and considerable anxiety.

“It was a big blow for us boys” , Lehtola recalls. “The former comrades-in-arms were no more. They had been replaced by the former enemies.”

During a recess
, the Ressu secondary school students rushed to a stationery shop on the corner of Kalevankatu and Yrjönkatu to buy some pencils.
“It was cold, and we ran to the shop and back bent double and without our jackets”, Lehtola describes.
“This ticked off a sentry outside the hotel that now served as the Allied Control Commission HQ. Apparently we had imitated and insulted the people of the Soviet Union.”

The headmaster was given the task of passing the issued “diplomatic note” to the boys.
“Stipulations by the Control Commission had to be adhered to to the letter, and therefore the headmaster rebuked us harshly. Unknowingly we had caused a minor foreign policy crisis.”
The boys were afraid of what kind of repercussions might follow the note.
“All sorts of alternatives crept into mind. In the end the letter did not result in any very serious repercussions. “

There was one other incident that caused Lehtola’s class to receive a talking-to from the headmaster.
“It was around the time of the war tribunals [the Allied Control Commission, basically in Soviet hands although there were a handful of British officers, provided Finland with a list of war criminals against whom judicial proceedings were to be instigated]. Word started spreading among Helsinki’s school kids that a protest demonstration should be organised.”
The headmaster found out about the plan. “He forbade us in advance from taking part in the demonstration.”
It was not easy being the headmaster. Sometime later the Ressu boys came up with the idea of painting the schoolyard’s pigeons red. But in this episode Pentti Lehtola was not involved.

When the Control Commission left the hotel in the autumn of 1947, the building was in an awful state: the furniture was broken, the sinks had cracks in them, the sheets were stained with blood.
In later years Pentti Lehtola has on occasion had dinner in the hotel’s restaurant. Each visit has brought back memories from his school days.

Once when Lehtola walked past the hotel he noticed that a plaque had appeared next to the door.
“It read that the Allied Control Commission had operated in the building in 1944-1947.”
“When I came home I wrote a letter to the director of the hotel. I said that if such a plaque is posted on the wall, then applying the same logic another plaque should be added, stating that the Wehrmacht was here from 1941 to 1944.”
Lehtola never received a reply from the hotel.
”But a little bit later I did notice that the plaque had disappeared from the wall.”

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Nigeria ‘risks revolution’

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Abuja – Nigeria risks revolution if the government does not address mounting frustration in one of the world’s most corrupt countries, a committee appointed by the president to probe post-vote violence said Monday.

“General insecurity of life and property in people’s houses and on the highways and kidnapping are adding fuel to the fire of public frustration and disappointment,” committee chair Sheikh Ahmed Lemu said when presenting its report.

“The true state of affairs could escalate to social revolution if preventive measures are not taken in time.”

The committee appointed by President Goodluck Jonathan issued the warning in its report to the government after having spent months investigating riots following April elections that left more than 800 people dead.

Jonathan pledged to implement recommendations in the report.

“How do we prevent subsequent occurrence is the key thing that is dear to me,” the president said when receiving the report. “On our part, we will follow your recommendations.”

Three days of rioting broke out in Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north, where there was harsh opposition to Jonathan, who handily defeated his main opponent, former military ruler and northerner Muhammadu Buhari.

Jonathan is a Christian from the oil-producing south.

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, is roughly divided in half between a mainly Muslim north and predominately Christian south. The north is the poorer and less educated of the two regions.

The country has long been held back by deeply rooted corruption that permeates nearly all levels of society.

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Nigeria: Insecurity – What Hope for the Common Man?

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(Codewit World News)The security situation in the country has degenerated to the extent that public functions are now held in secluded places amidst tight security. ROSE ADAH reports that governments seeming inability to handle the situation may have left ordinary Nigerians to their fate.

In a twinkle of an eye, Nigeria has become a violence filled state with crises prevalent in many parts of the country. A country that has been known for peace, unity and love has become troubled, divided and insecure.

Security of lives and property which ought to be one of the responsibilities of the government does not seem to be the case anymore, as people no longer sleep with two eyes closed or move about freely without looking back for fear of been attacked by armed robbers, kidnappers or terrorist groups.

Every individual has become so security conscious that security gadgets are seen in homes that can afford it, banks, corporate organisations and embassies.

Churches are not left out too, as worshippers are thoroughly screened before they are allowed entrance into worship centres in some parts of the country, while some churches have banned the use of big handbags by women in their churches.

Security has been beefed up in every part of the country and people no longer go in and out of places freely, as everybody has become a suspect.

The security of the life and property of citizens lies with the government, as enshrined in Section 14(2c) of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which states that “The security and welfare of the people shall be a Primary purpose of the government.”

For the first time since Nigeria got her independence in 1960, independence anniversary celebration was held within the secure walls of the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, and not the public square where such events are held.

The decision of the government to mark the anniversary with low key celebrationat the Villa, was perceived by many to be an act of fear on the part of the government, as there were bomb threats by the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, ahead of 51st Independence Day celebration.

In a statement circulated via the internet, the spokesperson of MEND had said “October 1, 2011, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta intends to place bombs within and in the vicinity of the proposed 2011 independence anniversary celebrations. After 51 years of independence, Nigerians still have nothing to celebrate. The general public is strongly advised to consider this as a 1st and final warning, no additional warnings will be issued subsequent to deployment or detonation of these devices, which will be novel in nature.”

The government was later to clear the air on this, as the information minister, Labaran Maku, said attributing the decision of the government to fear was unfounded, as the decision was intended to save cost from the elaborate celebration, and added that the decision was in good faith and in the best interest of the country.

But the question on the minds of many Nigerians is how a small fraction of the population of the country can subject a large majority of the populace and the government to so much trauma and fear, with no drastic step from the government to put an end to the situation.

Despite efforts by individuals and the government to beef up security, armed robbery has been on a steady rise, kidnappers are still at their game just as the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, appears to be more resolute in its determination to bomb the country at the slightest provocation.

Recently in Zamfara State, when people were supposed to be celebrating the country’s independence, armed bandits killed 19 persons, including a man, his wife, son and brother, in a single operation.

On October 2, 2011, a day after the robbery incident in Zamfara, kidnappers abducted the father of Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio’s security aide from a church in the state. According to media reports, the abductors seemed not to be in a hurry as they took their time to carry out the operation, while the women in the church kept screaming for help.

On the same day in Nnewi, Anambra State, suspected kidnappers abducted the father of a member of the House of Representatives in his house, while he was preparing for church service.

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) recently cancelled its passing-out parade for the Batch C corps members, citing insecurity.

The Nigeria Law School, Bwari, Abuja, on October 5, 2011, also shifted its call to bar ceremony from the school premises, to the International Conference Centre, Abuja, as part of security measures to forestall any eventuality.

The event was held amidst tight security, and only guests with invitation cards to the ceremony were allowed entrance into the venue.

A legal practitioner at the venue, Mr. Benson Agada, lamented the security situation in the country. He said, “The security situation in the country has become so bad that the venue of this ceremony had to be moved from the Law School to this place. The director-general of the Nigerian Law School, Tahir Mamman was trying to explain that the change in the venue is due to the ongoing road construction but I think we all know why the venue was changed because the road to the school is not affected by the construction.

“Could it be that the government is not capable of tackling this menace? The government needs to have a headlong confrontation with these militants, Jonathan has to fight them because, they had threatened earlier that they will make his government ungovernable if he becomes president, and that is exactly what they are doing.”

A group of women, seating outside the gate were seen scampering and when confronted, one of them, who spoke on anonymity said, “A lady who was sitting with us told me she wanted to get some snacks and that I should watch over her handbag. When she was gone, I had no option than alert the others to flee since we didn’t know what was contained in that bag. You know one has to be security conscious with all these happenings here and there, you can’t trust anyone. That is why the security here is so tight that we can’t even go in to celebrate with our loved ones.”

With all the measures the government says it has put in place to fight this menace, one cannot but wonder why violence still persists and why the Boko Haram sect appears to be such a hard nut to crack.

This may justify the suspicions by the government and some security agencies that there could be an infiltration of the Boko Haram sect in the security agencies in the country. Otherwise, how else can one explain the sect’s success at launching attacks on their targets, especially in Borno State, despite the presence of the Joint Task Force in the state.

A source in one of the security agencies, who craved anonymity, told LEADERSHIP that “We are suspecting infiltration of security agencies by Boko Haram members. They seem to have more intelligence information on our security agencies than we had thought; and the manner in which they beat security agencies to attack, point to some moles within the security network. Some security operatives have not risen above ethnic and religious persuasions. We think such operatives might be leaking information. If there are no moles, why will a security chief release a Boko Haram leader in detention? This infiltration is being addressed. I won’t say more than this.

But the leader of the Shiites Islamic sect, Mallam Ibraheem el-Zakzaky, has accused some politicians and officials within the country’s security agencies of being the brain behind the security situation in the country.

Recently, a self-acclaimed co-founder of Boko Haram, Mallam Aliyu Tishau, who was in detention was released and the only explanation given was that he was released to a sister security agency; but the Army and the SSS denied that Tishau was released to them, only to agree after a meeting that Tishau was released based on a court order. But why the confusion, what do Nigerians believe?

While the blame game continues between the security agencies, Nigerians are yearning for the Nigeria where security and value for life was the order.

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Nigeria: Prostitutes Sell Sperm to Ritual Killers in Abuja

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Randy men in Abuja stand the chance of having their semen taken away and sold to ritual killers by commercial sex workers who have laid siege to the city.

This demonic practice may have been responsible for the woes suffered by some men including sterility, erectile dysfunction, marital crisis, failure in business and even death, said observers.

Our correspondents reported that some prostitutes with condoms filled with fresh semen were arrested by officials of the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB), while raiding some red light areas of the city.

A total of 104 suspected commercial sex workers have been arrested for prosecution during raids carried out by the board in collaboration with the Society Against Prostitution and Child Labour (SAP-CLN)

SAP-CLN is an Abuja-based non-governmental organization involved in the rehabilitation of prostitutes and street children.

An AEPB official, who pleaded anonymity, said some of the commercial sex workers were found with condoms containing fresh male semen after they were picked from the streets. He said the recoveries of the used condoms were made when officials searched bags brought in by the commercial sex workers.

Other items recovered include Benelyn cough syrup laced with codeine, Indian hemp, cigarettes and Dunlop Plastic Solution, an adhesive used in vulcanizing tires.

He said, “It is a recurrent thing here. We find condoms with sperm when we search their bags. The necks of the condoms are tied to prevent the contents from spilling and are carefully wrapped in toilet tissue.

“We also found Benelyn cough syrup, marijuana, cigarettes and an adhesive used by vulcanizers in fixing tyres. Some of them become very wild after taking drugs and one has to be careful when going for the raid.”

A commercial sex worker, who gave her name simply as Joy, told our correspondent that the semen found with some of her colleagues were secretly taken away after they had sex bouts with their patrons.

In an attempt to extract the semen from unsuspecting male “clients,” she said, commercial sex workers exhibit extraordinary care and sex appeal, attributes which, she further claimed, caused many men to lose their guard.

As soon as the man gives in fully to the pleasure of the illicit affair, she said, the prostitute moans and screams wildly in fake ecstasy thereby setting the stage to carry out her mischief.

But where the male “client” refuses to succumb to the trappings of the fake expression of passion, she said, the girl would rub fetish powder on her nipples and offer them to the man to suck. After sucking the breasts, the man loses consciousness and the sex worker would steal all his valuables and collect his semen.

She said some of her colleagues also use drugs to knock out some of their patrons and entice them into having sex in a semi-conscious state. She said: “After pulling the condom, the girl would go into the bathroom and flush the tissue she used in cleaning the man while tying the neck of the condom.

“She would tie the neck of the condom to avoid spillage and carefully hide it away until she is ready to go. Sperm is a very hot thing for people, who use it for medicine. I don’t know how much they sell it because am not into that kind of line.

“But I know that a lot of girls do it and they make so much money from it. I don’t want to carry somebody’s blood because I don’t know what the juju priest will do with someone’s sperm. I only do ashawo (prostitution) business. I don’t sell sperm.”

But determined to stamp out the criminal practice, the Federal Capital Territory Administration, through the AEPB, has launched an operation to dislodge prostitutes from the city.

The operation, which is carried out in collaboration with the Society Against Prostitution and Child Labour (SAP-CLN) has led to the arrest of 104 commercial sex workers in various parts of the city during three raids.

At the raid which was carried out on Thursday, September 29, a total of 44 suspected prostitutes where arrested and held for prosecution.

However, on Monday, October 3, the team arrested another 33 suspected commercial sex workers, while 26 suspects were arrested during another raid on Thursday, October 6.

The operation is carried out based on the provision of Section 35 (1g) of the AEPB Act No. 10 of 1997, which prohibits sex trade in the capital city.

The suspects were arraigned before a mobile court presided over by Mr. Aminu Abdulahi, a magistrate with the FCT.

Out of the 44 suspects that were arrested during the September 29 raid, a total of 31 pleaded guilty to the charge, while 13 pleaded not guilty and were granted bail.

About 16 convicts who could not afford a fine of N5, 000 as stipulated in the AEPB law were sent on one-month imprisonment at Suleja Prison.

However, 13 other convicts, who could afford the stipulated fine, were sent for rehabilitation at the SAP-CLN center located in Sabo Lugbe, off Umaru Yar’Adua Way.

Out of the 33 suspects arrested on Monday, October 3, five of the suspects were released on bail, four were freed after they were screened and an undertaking extracted from them by the court.

The remaining 25 people pleaded guilty to the charge and were accordingly convicted but only seven were sent to Kuje Prison, while 17 paid fine and opted for rehabilitation.

The coordinator of SAP-CLN, Mrs. Grace Adogo, said the organization was touched by the plight of the commercial sex workers who were sent to prison.

She said a lot of the commercial sex workers saw what they did as business and not as a criminal activity. Adogo recounted the story of an inmate who, after spending one month at the rehabilitation centre, suddenly stripped herself and shouted on top of her voice that she could no longer cope.

According to her, the inmate said she used to sleep with several men in a day and send some of the proceeds home for the upkeep of her family.

She said, Our security men ran away on sighting her. “She shouted that she should be released immediately and we did, because we couldn’t keep her against her wish. She said she used to sleep with several men in a day and could not continue to cope without seeing a man.

“She told me that her mother called and said she had lost so much revenue during the one month she was in the center and that she should come out and continue the business. The girl went back home.”

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Nigeria: Okonjo-Iweala Kicks NAFDAC, SON, Others Out of Ports

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Minister of Finance and Head of the Economic Management Team (EMT), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala yesterday ordered the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) and other eight federal agencies out of the ports, saying the action is aimed at reducing cost of doing business in Nigerian ports as well as eliminating delays caused by the multiple government agencies at ports.

Addressing port industry stakeholders shortly after touring the Lagos ports yesterday, she said the decision to prune down the number of government agencies in the ports from 14 to just four was ordered by President Goodluck Jonathan who according her has expressed his determination to ensure that the Nigerian ports start to working like others elsewhere in the world.

Aside from Nigerian Ports Authority, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, the four other government agencies allowed to operate in the ports are: Nigeria Customs Service, Nigerian Immigration Service, Nigerian Police and Port Health. The State Security Service can still operate in the ports. Others will have to commence winding down their port operations immediately and should be completely out of the ports in two weeks time. The Nigeria Customs Service will invite any other them from time to whenever it needs their attention as is the standard practice all over the world, Okonjo Iweala said.

The Minister who was on the tour in company with the Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar and other members of the Economic Management Team including the Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority, Engr. Omar Suleiman, the Director General of Bureau of Public Enterprises, Ms Bolanle Onagorowa and the Comptroller General of Customs, Alhaji Dikko Abdulahi noted that the objective of the port reform is to reduce time of doing business in the Nigerian ports to at least one week as well as eliminate extortion and achieve faster turnaround time of cargo. To this end, she ordered the Nigeria Customs Service to commence 24 hours operations seven days a week.

She also ordered the Comptroller General of Customs to immediately disband his Taskforces on 100 percent inspection and anti-smuggling and remove them out of the roads immediately. According to her, the aim of the directive is to remove all the obstacles that inhibit trade facilitation for honest people who want to invest in the Nigeria economy.

The Minister further ordered the Nigerian Ports Authority to take responsibility for the regulation of the Concessionaires to ensure that they comply fully with the Concession Agreement particularly with regards to investing in port infrastructure and cargo handling equipment.

She explained that the directive is an interim measure, saying the Transport Commission Bill, which aims to have a commercial regulator for the ports will be accelerated to ensure its early passage by the National Assembly.

She assured that in the next three months, most of the government plans to ensure that the ports are working will start to materialize.

She also assured that no government agency asked to leave the ports will be able to get any letter of authority from the presidency to come back to the port.

In a remark, the Managing Director of Nigerian ports Authority, Engr. Omar Suleiman describe the action of the government as a landmark move which would bring efficiency to the ports. She further assured that in no distant time the port access roads “would be full rehabilitate and step by step we will reach our target of transforming our ports to become the hub of the West and Central Africa,” Suleiman said.

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Nigeria Arrests Three More Independence Day Car Bomb Suspects

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Oct. 11 (Codewit World News) — Nigeria’s State Security Service said it arrested three additional suspects in connection with a double car-bombing on Independence Day last year that killed 12 people in Abuja, the capital.

Investigators recovered three vehicles, more than 650 rounds of ammunition and three pistols from the suspects, Marilyn Ogar, a spokeswoman for the service, said in an e-mailed statement today. The suspects include a banker who allegedly handled financial transactions related to the bombings for Henry Okah, the accused mastermind of the attacks, Ogar said.

Okah is facing terrorism charges in South Africa for his alleged involvement in the incident. South African law allows trials of alleged terrorists arrested or resident in the country no matter where their acts were committed.

The bombs were detonated close to where Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was celebrating the country’s 50 years of independence.

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, the main armed group in the southern Niger River delta, claimed responsibility for the Abuja bombing.

Charles Okah, the brother of alleged rebel leader Henry Okah, and four others are facing charges of terrorism and treason in federal court in Abuja over the Independce Day bombings.

–Editors: Jeran Wittenstein, Vivek Shankar

To contact the reporter on this story: Elisha Bala-Gbogbo in Abuja at ebalagbogbo@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Antony Sguazzin at asguazzin@bloomberg.net

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Farrakhan: We are at war! Future of our people is at stake

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PHILADELPHIA (FinaklCall.com) – At the 16th anniversary and commemoration of the historic Million Man March, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan served notice to leaders still selling the failed promise of America and warned Black people to accept responsibility for their own destiny or face chastisement from God—and ultimately complete elimination.

“Whether you know it or not, we are at war! Our survival as a people is at stake and no weak kneed cowardly leaders need to stand in front of Black people today! This is a time for real men! Men that understand that in order for people to be free, sacrifice has to be made, the loss of life has to take place, blood must flow in order for people who are enslaved to be free!” declared Min. Farrakhan almost at the start of the passionate address.

With thousands at the Philadelphia Convention Center and others viewing internationally via Internet webcast, Minister Farrakhan said the time for marching is over and the time for action, production and independence was at hand.

Called “the seat of liberty,” Philadelphia is where the Declaration of Independence was signed and where the U.S. Constitution was formed indicating the beginning of a new nation. Philadelphia—also a key city mentioned in scripture— would again be an important place in the formation a new nation, a nation for Blacks stolen and held captive in America.

Audience listens intently to message as thousands came out to hear Min. Farrakhan. Photo: Ansar El

“I came here today to talk straight talk. I came here today not to pussyfoot around the truth. I came here today not to be a politician. I came here today not to use diplomatic language. I came to put my foot so deep into the behind of the weak and the wicked that you will have to move my shoe leather out of your mouth to begin to speak again,” said Min. Farrakhan. “It is no accident that after all this time, Philadelphia, which means the city of brotherly love, becomes that place again for us from which we can see the coming into existence of a new nation.”

The crowd roared with applause as the Minister spoke: “There’s something about this city, something about the time, something about what God has laid on my heart today that if I never make another speech as long as I live, I’m asking you to take this one and piece it apart and decide today whether you really want to be free. Let me tell you something about being free! If you like the dollar bill with the enemy’s face on it, and that means more to you than to carve out a future for your children, then die when the dollar dies. If being popular means more to you than being free, if being accepted by White people means more to you than seeing your babies free, then you have chosen death rather than life.”

Long lines stretched down the hallways of the convention center as thousands came to hear Min. Farrakhan’s keynote address

“Our babies are dying, and so are we, and they’re dying because leadership is rotten to the core,” he said.

Though he cited examples from American history and her strike for freedom, Minister Farrakhan said he came to bury the attitude of America’s founding fathers and their “short-sighted vision” which kept them from seeing their country would house all of the different races and ethnicities of the planet.

“So when we look back at the constitution, we want to know today: Do you really mean that we are citizens or is that a trick? Because if we are citizens then our rights should be protected by the constitution, but not only are our rights not protected, that’s why White children are marching, because they’ve lost their rights as well,” said Min. Farrakhan referring to the “Occupy Wall Street” movement taking place in cities nationwide including Philadelphia.

Support for Million Man March

Present at the convention center were many who worked diligently years ago to make the Million Man March a success. The Minister thanked Bev Smith, whose fiery words of support for the Minister and her own declaration of “no compromise” drew audience applause. Dr. Benjamin Chavis, who was the executive director of the Million Man March and beloved former Washington D.C. mayor Marion Barry who opened the doors of the nation’s capitol to organizers of the march and those who attended were thanked by Min. Farrakhan, who detailed their work and contributions, despite fierce opposition.

Bev Smith excites the crowd during remarks at convention center.

Although the call 16-yearsago was specifically to Black men, Newark’s Fredericka Bey of Women in Support of the Million Man March and those with her spent many days and nights organizing and working to make the march a success. She was seated on the dais as a tribute to her work and as a symbol of support extended by Black women around the country. Present was Rev. Willie Wilson, the pastor of Union Temple Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., whose tireless efforts in backing the march helped propel it forward. His efforts also represented the vital role played by Black Christian pastors in backing the march. The stalwart pastors refused to bow to pressure and calls that no Christian should support a march called by a Muslim. The detractors’ efforts failed miserably as polling done at the gathering on the National Mall found over 85 percent of those in attendance Oct. 16, 1995 called themselves Christians.

“The Million Man March could never have happened unless Christian pastors joined with us to make it happen,” said Min. Farrakhan. “If we could rise above our differences to produce what was never seen before and hasn’t been duplicated since, then what is our call today? To rise above the things we differ about because the future of our people depends upon our ability to mobilize for action to bring about the results that we’ve been begging others for which will never come to us.

“We have got to do it ourselves and if we don’t have the mind and the spirit to bring ourselves out of the condition that we are in, then we deserve whatever chastisement Allah (God) will bring upon us for our refusal to accept our responsibility.”

Kenny Gamble, a pillar in Philadelphia’s religious and business community and music industry legend, was also present as was Delaware Valley regional Nation of Islam representative Rodney Muhammad. Organizers said one of the largest contingents of Black men present for the march, over 200,000, came from Philadelphia. Mr. Gamble, who is also a Muslim and is known as Brother Luqman, was a major supporter of the initial march and the commemoration.

 

“Our coming to Philadelphia is long overdue. Philadelphia is one of the greatest cities not only in America, but in the world, and it is one of the most Islamic oriented cities in America with some of the strongest Black people in America,” said Min. Farrakhan.

The Minister spoke of the long storied history of Islam in Philadelphia, telling the audience in the huge convention hall Philadelphia’s Muhammad Mosque No. 12 was started by Malcolm X, and included the leadership of the late Muslim Minister Jeremiah Shabazz and the late Imam Warith D. Mohammed, a son of the Hon. Elijah Muhammad. The mosque closed in Philadelphia when Imam Mohammed was jailed as a conscientious objector. The Minister used that closure to make a larger point regarding America’s bloodthirsty, global warmongering.

“I would respectfully submit to you that we all should conscientiously object to the wars going on in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan Somalia, Yemen and Libya and we must not let our government send our babies to die on the basis of a lie!” Minister Farrakhan stated emphatically. “The media is stoking the fi re for war with Pakistan and war with Iran. As a Muslim, never will we fight against our Muslim brothers for the Zionists of America that have locked down the government of America. Never will we die for the state of Israel!”

The crowd stood on its feet and applauded his strong words.

Philadelphia: A symbol of liberty

In the city where America was conceived and came to birth, 56 White men from 12 of the 13 original colonies met to discuss their grave concerns, despite their differences regarding territorial rights and other issues they formed a coalition, rebelled and challenged the tyrannical rulers who were their oppressors.

In the very same way, the “rebel group” known as the Nation of Islam will be the cornerstone of a brand new nation, said Minister Farrakhan.

“If we are guided by Allah, then there is nothing that we cannot do. We are more than qualified to erect a new nation on the foundation of the old,” said Min. Farrakhan. “There’s a new nation coming into being, and the door of that nation is like the New Jerusalem. Jerusalem had 12 gates to the city. And like Moses when he struck he rock and there were 12 springs coming forth out of the rock and every member of the Children of Israel knew their drinking place, well, the people will drink. We are going to smite this rock—a hard hearted people, a recalcitrant government yet with the Rod of God out of a rock will come water and life for us, if we are willing not to be a freed slave anymore.”

America’s false promises

Black people were considered three-fifths of a person so slaves on plantations aided the South’s population numbers and gave the South political domination with congressmen allocated based on population. Black people have always been used as pawns in political games of the power elite, said the Minister. Black elected officials should stop begging and consider coming out of America’s political system and pooling their political knowledge to work to build a new nation, he said.

Audience shows its approval of Min. Farrakhan’s message. Photos Mikal Veale

Minister Farrakhan noted most marches are controlled by outside Jewish philanthropists who determine the public program and who will participate in exchange for Jewish financial support.

“A whore in religion, a whore in politics that you can be bought to sell out your own dignity, see you’ve got to say like Jesus ‘Get thee behind me Satan.’ I’m not for sale, and this is one Black man that is not for sale and I don’t know too many more! But let me tell you, if you’re going to walk with me, your days of being a whore and a pimp are all over! You either live for your people or die for your people!” said the Minister. The audience again roared its approval.

It was fitting that the dedication of the MLK memorial would be held Oct. 16 since the message at the Million Man March revolved around three words, atonement, reconciliation and responsibility, said the Minister. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his person was a symbol of atonement, reconciliation and responsibility, he added. Hurricane Irene came through Washington, D.C., and changed the plans for the originally scheduled unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial. There was also an earthquake that shook the nation’s capitol damaging the iconic Washington Monument.

“God is trying to show you, you don’t have no hiding place when he gets ready for you, He will find you and kill you wherever you are!” the Minister said.

President Barack Obama is expected to speak at the memorial’s dedication and the Minister said he had a question for the president: “I’d like to ask him this question: My dear sir, always with respect, because he’s our brother and I truly love him and we are wrong to expect from him what he can’t deliver. But I want to ask him, how Mr. President, can you come to the mall and honor that man and the unveiling of the statue without addressing the pressing needs of the poor for which he gave his life?”

“So don’t forget my dear brother president that you were there 16 years-ago on the mall with nearly two million of your brothers and now you go to the mall to unveil the statue of the man who laid down and paid a price and laid a foundation for you to step up on, but he laid his foundation fighting for the poor, fighting against war and the shedding of innocent blood for the material progress for this nation,” said the Nation of Islam minister.

“So my dear brother when you are standing on that mall, you cannot be hypocritical in the unveiling of the statue of a man whose name you invoke. So invoke his name, dedicate that statue and go back to the White House and fight like hell, even if you are only a one term president. Fight like hell for the people who put you in that office and may God bless you to find the voice to do it!”

Many Black leaders are still what Min. Farrakhan called “back door n—-s” who eat dinner at the White House and are enlisted by the administration to get Black votes and support.

“An invite to the White House wouldn’t mean a damn thing to me in fact I’d turn it down. I’d tell the president where I live, he lives right around the corner from me— ‘come see me brother’—because I’m damn sure not going to the White House and act like that’s a big honor. What the hell am I going there for if it can’t better your condition?” Min. Farrakhan asked.

“I don’t want nobody’s friendship if you don’t truly want the liberation of our people. God has brought me this far and He will carry me all the way and if it pleases God that I die in the struggle, I want to go out like a man! I want to go out like a warrior! I want to go out like a soldier for God! And know this, there is no death for Louis Farrakhan! I just don’t think you’ve got a gun big enough to kill me unless it pleases God and if it pleases God then it pleases me. But I think you’ve killed your last one. And even to come after me—God will set you house on fi re! God is anxious to pay you back for your evil done to his people and I am the trigger that will explode God’s wrath on this wicked nation!”

America’s political and economic trouble

The political game is a very dirty game which compromises the integrity of leadership, said Min. Farrakhan. He noted President Obama’s strong tone when he spoke to the Congressional Black Caucus but completely different tone when talking to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the members of the gay and lesbian lobby.

“The system that the politicians represent is of this world and it is already corrupted,” said Min. Farrakhan. “Politics has become infected with the poison of partisanship.”

Policemen, teachers and firemen are being laid off nationwide, 46 million people are without health insurance, 46 million are functionally illiterate and 14 million are unemployed, he said.

People are going to be forced to consider the wise guidance and plan of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, because everything he said would happen is happening, and Black leaders are still impotently marching for jobs and justice, Min. Farrakhan noted. “What in the hell is wrong with your hands, your head, your bank account, your pocketbook, your labor that you are going to beg another man to do for you what you can get up off of your backside and do for yourself?”

Minister Farrakhan then grabbed the microphone and began to walk the stage. “I’m clear that they aren’t preparing a future for us, but I am also clear that we are going to have to provide a future for ourselves. That is not their responsibility,” he said.

“He (the Honorable Elijah Muhammad) gave us a plan way back in the ‘60s,” said Min. Farrakhan.

Members of the Nation of Gods and Earths attend speech in Philadelphia. Photo: Ansar El

The Minister says he has heard the cries of the Tea Party, saying they want to take their country back, but they don’t realize who is actually controlling it.

It is not Black people simply because Mr. Obama occupies the White House, he said. Those who want America to survive would have to break the control of the corporate media, break the control of multinational corporations and the international “robber baron” bankers and break control of the Zionists who use America and the sweat and blood of American children to annually funnel $3 billion to Israel, he said.

Integration that produces separation

Black people already live in a separate reality in the United States however they do not benefit from their separate status, observed Minister Farrakhan. Other ethnic groups, Italians, Jews, Irish, Chinese and Mexicans, form ethnic clusters in the cities where they reside, and then control the politics, economics and resources within their boundary, he said.

Minister Farrakhan suggested buying up land in the city that is currently vacant and setting up urban agricultural projects to grow food. He urged pooling financial resources to create a new Black banking reality. The Minister described independence as similar to a woman giving birth to a baby. The baby is a part of and is nourished by the mother’s body, however at an appointed time, the baby is born and becomes a separate and independent being once the umbilical cord is cut. This is integration that ultimately produces separation, he said.

All of this is designed to break the control of those who benefit from the exploitation of powerless and weak Black communities, he said.

America’s leaders do not have the best interests of Black people in mind, said the Minister. However as it says in scripture that God takes the kingdom from whom he pleases and gives it to whom he pleases, however with it comes responsibility.

“We live in America. We have suffered here. This is our country. When you paid the price that we paid…when you worked on the plantation made them rich,” said the Minister. “When we picked the cotton that gave them an agrarian economy based on our picking cotton, tobacco and sugar cane? We made them bankers, we helped them set up Wall Street, we fueled the industrial revolution. We fought in all the wars—this is ours. We need to claim what we built.”

“If you came into power would you treat White people the way they have treated us, or would you seek to treat people fairly with justice and equity? What kind of heart do you have? Are you a vengeful person now that when you get power you will do to other what they did to you or will you act in a godly fashion? See this is why God looks at the heart of people (because) He is about to give you the kingdom. You have suffered for it, and now he’s preparing you to handle it,” said Min. Farrakhan.

Reactions to a powerful message

Dr. Leonard Jeffries participated in the entire weekend of events as a panelist and listened to the full speech. He was at the Million Man March in 1995 and said he waited all his life for a moment like it.

“Certainly it’s been a wonderful weekend and we had a chance to talk about what we need to do in reference to our education and publication of the book The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews Volume Two. This was a wake-up call for Black people to take control of their own destiny, to depend upon their own community and start developing a place for themselves,” said Dr. Jeffries. “It was good to see so many of those he’s worked with and trained, it was good to see his family and the message of not depending upon others is key. As the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad said early on, you need your own economics you need to work your own politics, you need to develop your own family and then keep your cultural unity together and that’s the key to success.”

“I thank Allah once again for allowing me to be a witness here. He is serving among us to give us a worldview of what we have to do as Black people throughout the whole planet in rising up and taking responsibility for ourselves and our destiny and our children and our place in history,” said UK Nation of Islam representative Hilary Muhammad.

New Black Panther Party National Chairman Atty. Malik Zulu Shabazz called the Minister’s message “honest and blistering” and found the emphasis on Nation building to be the key.

“The focus on Nation building and where we must go in the future is where I’m most impressed and what resonates with me right now with what I’m trying to do and what we’re trying to do in the Black Nationalist Movement,” said Atty. Shabazz. “He sets the pace and the tone for all of us so I think that he understands that the time is upon us.”

“I think Minister Farrakhan showed how we can become a people who can be independent and make progress and stop begging people to do something for us that we can do for ourselves,” said Mr. Gamble. “I’m really inspired I’m glad he was here in Philadelphia and I think that this is a new beginning.”

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Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan speak about Let Us Make Man

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[Editor’s note: On January 24, 1994, approximately 20,000 men learned principles of manhood at the 369th Armory in New York, N.Y. when the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan started his first of a series of “Let Us Make Man” men-only lectures. The following article contains excerpts from this message highlighting the need for Black men to discover their own God-given ability to produce and cultivate, and to serve as the head of their families and a force of good in their communities.]

In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.

To all of the ministers of the Gospel who are present tonight; imams, political leaders, teachers, professionals, intellectuals; the brothers on the street, and the homeless: It is one of the greatest honors of my life to be in New York tonight to speak to you, the men of our community.

It has never been in the Nation of Islam’s history to call a meeting to discriminate against women, for we know, as students of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he taught us that where there are no decent women, there are no decent men; and that no nation can rise any higher than its women, so we are not discriminatory against women.

Nor are we trying to be discriminatory against White men. However, when we look at the condition of our community, it is not White women, or Black women, for that matter, who are filling the morgues of the cities of the United States; it is young Black men being killed by young Black men. Therefore, that tells any human being who loves his people that we have a problem in our community that can’t be solved by more police and more jails. The problem in the inner cities of America can only be solved by more justice, particularly to the man. So I came here tonight to have a brotherly, fatherly chat with the men.

To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time in history that a Black man has called together in a city, men—Black men. And naturally, it induces fear, because some say, and fear, that we will “radicalize” Black men, and create mischief in the society. That is not our purpose. Our purpose is to discuss with men how God intends for a man to act; and then let us choose whether we want to act like the product of a slave past, or whether we want to act and become the product of God’s presence among us.

Before our talk is over, I want White America to see that genocide against Black people is not necessary. First of all, it can’t happen; and lastly, it is not in the best interest of this nation to kill Black men wholesale. Nor is it in our best interest for us to kill one another to the joy of those who have already destroyed us and our families.

Rise up and accept your responsibility

Too many of us are locked down and too many of us are locked up, meaning, locked up in the prison of ignorance that does not allow us to be the men that we know we are capable of being.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad developed a methodology of bringing out of the Black man what God has put within, so that we could learn to respect ourselves and to respect one another. He refused to allow us as men, in the men’s class which is called the Fruit of Islam (F.O.I.), to “front each other off,” even playing like we were going to fight one another, because he was teaching us that our flesh and blood are sacred. It’s not only sacred to you, but your flesh and your blood must be sacred to all of us, so that we understand that to harm one of us is the same as an attack on The God Who created our flesh and our blood, and made it sacred to us. He also told us to refer to one another as “brother”—so we stopped using “slang names.” We had to call each other brother, because he wanted to reinforce the fact that we are brothers. And as brothers, we should never harm one another.

Then the Honorable Elijah Muhammad asked us, as I am asking you: “Take all the weapons out of your pockets and out of your homes. You don’t need a weapon, if you have Allah (God).” In a world like this, we all carried something for our protection, but we never knew how to walk with God. Once the Honorable Elijah Muhammad made The Knowledge of God clear to us that He is not some spook way out in space, but He is a Reality that is so present, we found out that when you call on Him, it doesn’t take time to receive an answer. You get an instant answer.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said we were too ignorant and savage in our behavior to have weapons, because the moment we make each other angry, the first thing we do is what? Reach for the weapon. We don’t reach up for intelligence; we reach in for something to harm our brother. So, statistics bear witness that most of the killing that is done is in the home. It’s done to members of our families, or someone who we are very well acquainted with. In passion and in anger, after argument over some frivolous thing, we reach for the weapon at hand and do each other in—and then spend the rest of our life regretting what we have done. But if we didn’t have the weapon, and had a system by which we could settle our disputes one with another, then we could argue our point, seeking truth and justice, and never have to resort to violence among the brothers. We have to make a pledge that we will not lift our hands to harm our brother or sister, and that we will suffer the insult of one another peacefully, and will not reach for a weapon to solve a problem between the members of the family.

But the problem has been that we really have grown so cold; that we don’t have love for ourselves, much less a fellow member of the family. That is a condition produced by this society. This society is, and has been, destructive to the Black male. This is why it is necessary for us to come together, because the problem of our community is our problem. And unless we, as men, rise up to take our responsibility, then our women and girls and our children will have no reason to honor us and respect us as the head of our house and the head of our own community.

Cultivate the God in you

Black man, Hispanic man; Black brother, Hispanic brother: We are family. Let’s take a deeper look now at what society has done and what we must now do, to get out of the condition that we’re in. Together, we’ll get out of it.

In the Bible, after God created the heavens and the earth, parted the waters, created day and night, He realized that there was no man to till the ground that He made. “I made the ground, but there is no man.” There is no man. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us that “no man to till the ground” means that you are already here, but are uncultivated, undeveloped. You are the ground; you are like the earth itself. All of the things that we need to be successful are not out in space—it’s right here in you. The field is ready, so the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, “Big fields are awaiting the wide awake man to work out.” It was a field, but there was no man to till the ground.

In the Muslim prayer service, the caller to prayer says, Haya ‘ala Salat (Come to prayer; the Remembrance of God); and then he says, Haya ‘ala Fallah. The scholars translate the word fallah to mean “success,” but success at doing what? The word fallah is the basic word for fallahin, an Arabic word describing the people who till the soil and cultivate the earth.

“Come to prayer; come to cultivation.” Without God, you cannot cultivate, or develop, what God has put within you. We need a Divine farmer to cultivate the earth. But there was no man, so God said: “Let Us make man.” How are you going to make him, God? “In Our image, after Our likeness.” There is a lot in those words.

“Let Us make a man in Our image and after Our likeness,” means, “Let Us make a God—less than We, but he will have force and power, like God. And Let Us give him dominion; give him rule. Let’s give him power, so that he can exercise his will in his domain, like we exercise Our Will over the heavens and the earth. Let’s make man in Our image and after Our likeness. Let’s give him power and dominion over the fowl of the air, the fish of the sea and every creeping thing that crawls upon the earth. And let’s order them to multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it.”

A producer is never hopeless

In my message at the Jacob Javits Center (“Stop The Killing!” December 18, 1993), we were saying to you brothers that any man who is not producing is a man who is not living up to the nature in which he is created.

Every one of you is a producer. Not some of us—all of us. But look: We weren’t brought to America to be made producers. That’s the critical thing to understand. By bringing us to America to make us slaves, the enemy was, in effect, interfering with the Divine Order of God in us to be producers. So since two things cannot occupy the same space at the same time, if the White man is to rule, then in order for him to rule, the power of rulership in us would have to be put to sleep; or, to death.

How do you put to sleep the power of productivity and rule in a whole people?

When Adam was made, the scripture teaches, “God breathed into him and he became a living soul.” How did you breathe into him, God? If atmosphere is already here and the power in oxygen, inhaled by the new life, is what energizes the blood, and the heart starts pumping, then God did not have to actively intervene, to breathe. All we had to do was inhale, and the breath physically came in and started the body to become alive.

But no man—please pay attention—is alive with just physical breath in his body. The only way we, as men, are considered alive is if God breathes into us The Breath of His Life. Only then we become a living man who has power; who is going to take dominion, and you’re going to become a producer. But if God doesn’t breathe into you, then you’re alive from the neck down, but dead from the neck up, so another man can put you to work to produce for him, and you never enjoy the fruit of your labor.

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Since slavery, White men have feared the rise of the Black man. And it seems as though they have a whole wing of scientists that work to keep us in the condition that we are in.

Did you know that the economics of this world has sentenced the Black man to death? How many of you don’t have a job? Of those of you who don’t have jobs, how many of you have families to support? Question: How can a Black man support his family without employment or without money? That’s why the drug man enters; that’s how we become accustomed to thinking now. We use our brain to think up all kinds of schemes to make a dollar, because in this world if you don’t have money, you can’t make it.

The enemy to our rise acts as though Black men don’t have dreams; Black men don’t have high desires. They put on television these fine automobiles and homes. They show us the “Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous,” as though they don’t think that is inspiring to us to want what some others have, particularly since our fathers worked from “can’t see morning to can’t see night”—every day of the week and every day of the year—for 310 long years to build the economy of the families and cities and states in America. We have never benefited from our fathers’ sweat and blood.

Don’t you think Black men want the best for themselves and their families? Of course we do. But if every opportunity for gainful employment is closed to us, but open to our wives, or our girlfriends, then the very economic structure in America is undermining the Black man.

Brothers, what does it do to you as a man with your wife making more money than you? What does that do to your esteem, when you don’t have a job and you’ve got to go to your girlfriend and beg to borrow money, or her car? You become like her grown child and her voice is not soft and sweet when she talks to you. The children don’t like you, because you can’t even buy the children the cheapest of toys. After a while, you ease out of the house; and you’re down on the corner with the other brothers who are not working either. You’re in the barber shop or in the pool room, talking stuff. You want to be a man, but you get to the point when you lose all hope. You get to the point when you don’t expect anything better than what you’ve already have.

You live in a project house, where your mother lived, and your grandmother lived, so you say, “Aww man! I’m not going to get out of this.” You don’t even expect to get out of the condition that you’re in. You’ve lost hope, and you’ve become so angry, so bitter, so filled with self-hate that a man can come in your community and sell you a gun. God did say that He would give you power, but when you put that gun in your hand, it gives you a false sense of power. And that sense of power, because of the condition of your mind, causes you to commit murder.

Do for self and community

By Divine Providence, I was blessed to come to the Jacob Javits Center, where I asked the question of the Black men in that audience, “Would you help me to make our communities a decent place to live?” And by Divine Providence, you stood and you said, “Yes Brother Farrakhan, we will do it.” And so I proposed a meeting of Black men and here we are. But it’s bigger than us in this room tonight. Each one of you is now being deputized to help save our people, not just in New York. But if we can do it in New York, which is the capital of Black America, we can save our nation all over the country and send a signal throughout the world!

Brothers: This is a sacred gathering tonight, and the destiny of Black America will be in our hands tonight. If we can clean up our community in New York, then we can do it all over America. I’m going to ask the aid of all of the leaders, preachers, imams and congressmen. Why? Because if you accept to discipline yourself as of tonight, to make a commitment to clean yourself up just a degree, by tomorrow, you’ll be better than what you are tonight. We, your brothers, are not doing anything that you can’t do, and do even better than we are doing it. We are before you to show you what can be done when Black men, in The Name of God, decide that we want to make a change in our lives.

This body of men can save a nation. We want to breathe into you the knowledge that was breathed into us, that you, like we, can strive to become men that our wives and children will love and respect. My wife of 40 years loves her husband more today than she did 40 years ago, because I am more of a man today than I was 40 years ago. My children stand with me and work with me for the elevation of Black people, male and female. So, I don’t want this to be a one “happy night,” and then we go back to “business as usual.” In this audience tonight are some of the most brilliant and prepared Black men in the city of New York. But what good will our brilliance do if it is not used and shared with all of these young men so they can become as brilliant as those who have this brilliance?

Brothers, first we have to get the knowledge, and the training of how to use the knowledge. But without money, this isn’t going to work. We can’t tell a man who’s making money selling drugs, put down the drug if you don’t give him something to pick up on. Brothers, you ought to know that Caucasians are not going to open their factories for you, so unless we are prepared to create jobs for ourselves, it’s not going to happen. You may say, “That’s real difficult.” No it’s not. The only difficulty is the difficulty in getting past negative thinking. That’s the difficulty.

Brothers, if we don’t have any jobs, then we must create a job. And the way we create jobs is “take what you’ve got.” And what you have is yourself. Train yourself to become a master salesman. Every day we’re selling something, and we have in this audience tonight master sales people. So, you’ve got yourself; now all you need to do is to grow the knowledge and the technique. We must not only go to discipline our community, but we must go to offer our community a product that our community needs that will put money in our pocket, so that we will be gainfully employed.

I want you to commit yourself that you are willing to work, to make an example for the hopeless. That you came, you heard Farrakhan, and you said, “Man I’m going to make a change.” The people outside may say, “Aww! That jive turkey, he ain’t going to…” But when they see you make the move, and become successful, they will want to follow the path you are taking for good.

May Allah (God) feed life into this body of men, that we may go forward to make our own communities a decent place to live. May His Word bury deeply into the hearts of each one and bring up new life in us and give us power over the things that have made us a mockery.

Thank you.

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Minister Louis Farrakhan speak about Fear, Faith and Truth

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In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.

Our subject today deals with three words which represent essentials that would allow us to live life successfully, the way God intended for human

Your real power is in trying to be right. Our people will love you if you are right, and are trying to be right! Because no matter how bad you are in your actions, you really are The Righteous. You don’t have to be afraid to be right. You should be terrified of being wrong.

beings to live: Fear. Faith. Truth. These three words, if understood and acted upon properly, will give us a key to mastering every situation that life could pose.

I want each of us to think about something in life that is troublesome to us. I want us to think about something in our own life that we need to overcome. I want us to think about something in our life that we desire, but as yet have not been able to attain it. Mastery of the principles underlying each of these three words will not only give you The Solution to that particular problem that you and I personally may have, but it gives you The Key to any problem you will ever face at any time in your life.

Fear: The Source of our insecurities

Is “fear” natural? If fear is a natural thing, then is it something that we must overcome? And if so, how?

According to the dictionary, “fear” is a distressing emotion aroused by impending pain, danger, evil, whether that pain, danger or evil is real, or imagined. If you become afraid even of some imaginary thing that has not yet happened, the distressing emotion will still be present. “Fear” is the feeling, or the condition of being afraid.

Fear restricts: Whatever we are afraid of, that which we fear makes us insecure; and whatever makes us afraid and insecure could cause us to bow. When we are afraid, fear causes us not to think properly. Fear causes us not to act properly. Fear makes you so insecure that you have a tendency to acquiesce, to submit, to surrender to the thing that you’re afraid of. And if you acquiesce, submit and surrender to what you are afraid of, then it becomes a god to you beside God!

If God made man and woman in His Own Likeness, then can you imagine God being afraid? I mean, just think about God being afraid of a lion, or a bear! How could He be afraid of what He created? So if He is The Creator, and this is the creature, then He has Natural Mastery over it if He does not allow what He created to terrify Him. This is no “Frankenstein,” that the thing which is created can, now, terrify its creator. There is nothing in Creation that can make God afraid!

Well, then if God is not afraid of anything that He created, and you and I are in His Image and in His Likeness, will you tell me please how we can justify being afraid of anything in Creation?

***

There is another kind of fear that has reverence to it, and that is the fear of God.

Once when I was out in Arizona taking a month to fast and pray and discipline myself for a fight against cancer, I was listening to a tape by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. He was saying that God did not make The Original Man, Black man, to be afraid of anything in His Creation. He only made you, and me, to fear Him. And it is The Fear of God, and God alone, that gives you Mastery over The Creation. But if you don’t know God, and won’t trust God and have faith in God, then things that make you afraid will become your master.

God is worthy to be afraid of. You just have to believe and know that a God exists. The Bible teaches in Proverbs 9:10, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.” So if the fear of God makes you a beginner, then what is wisdom? “Wisdom” is that which allows you mastery, and you cannot begin to become wise in life if you don’t learn the fear of God. And once you learn the fear of God, then nothing in creation becomes able to terrify you. Then you are in the Beginner’s Class of Mastery.

I want you to internalize this: Anytime we allow anything to make us afraid, and we refuse to challenge our fear of that thing, then we can never be that man, or that woman, that God intended us to be. Fear will not allow you to be yourself!

It is not that you won’t ever be made afraid, because there are some terrifying things in this world. But when you are afraid, that’s the Test of Faith! This is when you have to call on what you’ve got faith in! What am I saying to you? You’re going to be made afraid.

I don’t want you thinking that every time you’re made afraid that you will come out “all right,” because the other part of this is: Being “fearless” is not going to get you victory in every circumstance. This is where faith comes in.

Faith: Making the impossible, possible

“Faith” is confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing. Study the prophets’ life examples: How they challenged Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, and great armies (phalanx)—that’s beautiful, you know, when you read it in the Bible. But when you read it in the Bible, if it doesn’t give you courage in your time period, then reading it yesterday you might think that it can’t happen today! But God is able in every generation; and He will never let you down. He will never let you down if you put your trust in Him!

Now, some of us might have faith in our own strength; you have a lot of “macho” strength: “I go to the gym every day, I work out; I built my muscles, and so, nothing makes me afraid. I’ll rely on my strength.” But there are some things you can’t challenge with your strength. There are some things that only can be challenged with The Strength of God.

I’m saying this to all of us, and I’m sure you know it: The government of the United States cannot be challenged with your strength and mine. It can only be challenged with The Strength of God. There are forces in this world that you cannot challenge with your strength, and that’s why faith is absolutely necessary to overcome fear.

***

Dear beloved followers and believers of God: Without faith, you cannot achieve the impossible. But with faith there is nothing impossible. A lot of things are impossible without Him, but there is nothing impossible with Him! When you don’t have faith, real faith in God, you don’t even attempt things that people say are impossible. But when you have faith in God, you will try the impossible and find that it’s quite possible! So, “faith in God” is a Key to accomplishing anything in life that you desire.

Just as a baby on its mother’s breast for the first time does not know that milk is there, but will keep on pulling until some milk appears, that’s “faith.” Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not yet seen.

Look at this Universe, and think of anything you want: Everything that you need to make life beneficial to you is already here! You don’t have to “create” anything. But the question is: How strong is your pull on the mammary gland called “The Universe,” because The Universe is a giant breast! I’m not being vulgar, but that’s exactly what it is! The baby can pull on the breast believing, hoping, something is going to be there, and that hope and that belief is rewarded because milk comes! And it won’t dry up as long as somebody’s pulling… Then we must do the same: You have to learn how to pull on this Universe to get the things out of life that The God Who created this, and you, promised.

What do you want? “Well, I want to pay my bills.” It’s done! But is that all you want? Oh, that’s “punk stuff”—you haven’t even begun to pick up on the heavy stuff if you can’t get by the “little stuff.” And the “little stuff” that is messing your head up is denied to you because you don’t have faith!

In Matthew 17:20, Jesus said if you had faith the grain of a mustard seed, you could say to the mountain: “Be removed,” and it would be so! Have you ever seen how small a “mustard seed” is? It is so tiny! Well, what kind of “mountain” do you have in your life that is troubling you, and you can’t move? “Well, I’ve got a lot of problems…”—Tell me something new! That’s what life is! “Life” is “problems”: If you don’t have a problem, you’re not alive! So where are you? When God brought you here He brought you here to give you a problem! And the solution to your problem is also here! But if you lack faith, you’ll walk around like a dog chasing your tail, you will never quite make it in life because you are a faithless individual!

That’s your problem: You’re afraid, and you don’t have faith, so you have to live by schemes; you always have to try and “trick” somebody! When they’re not looking, you take their wallet; you learn craft in stealing! You learn how to lie to manipulate silly people in order to take from them, while there is a Universe out here ready to give you its treasure…

Brothers and sisters: Your real power is in trying to be right. Our people will love you if you are right, and are trying to be right! Because no matter how bad you are in your actions, you really are The Righteous. You don’t have to be afraid to be right. You should be terrified of being wrong.

Truth: The Right Foundation that sustains life

I want you to think about “Truth.” Allah says in the Qur’an that He created the heavens and the earth with truth. You are a creation of Truth. If God built all of this and sustains it with Truth, how can you sustain your life living a lie?

Brothers and sisters, when we want to look beautiful, we spend time in the mirror; we make sure our hair looks right, we smell right, we dress right, and then we come out to meet the people. You are so concerned about how you appear, but appearance is not what you are! The real you is on the inside of what you appear to be.

Now, the thing that I see going on, no matter your religion, is that some of us can learn the Wisdom, and we can articulate the Wisdom, but I don’t care how much we know: To sustain the Knowledge that you have requires you to have The Right Foundation. And the Right Foundation for the Sustenance of Life and Knowledge starts with Truth.

All of us lie too much. If I tell you a lie, I’m robbing you of the truth! And if you believe my lie, and act on a lie, then I’m murdering the spirit! So a liar is a thief, and a murderer! And no liar, no thief, no murderer can find a way in The Kingdom of God! It looks like our mouths are bent in a lie… I have found that we’ve got a lot of people that can speak well, but they don’t have any “character.” So if you’re the type of person that is “knocked out” by good words, you’ll always be knocked out because there’s people that can give you good words all day long! But do they have character? Do they have integrity? A liar can have neither.

***

“Seek ye first The Kingdom of God…” “The Kingdom of God” is built on Truth. But we just lie, and lie and lie, and there’s no reason for it!

Who is anybody that you should lie to them? Who is there to lie to if God, already The All-Seeing, The All-Knowing, knows the truth? So whether you want good character or not, that’s on you! I mean, if there was something that I failed to do, and you asked me, “Did you do it?” I would have to tell you, “No, brother. I’m sorry.” You may be disappointed in me, but it is better that you be disappointed in me, than me be disappointed in myself for lying!

If you lie, it starts eating at The Foundation of Character, because all character is built on truth, honesty and integrity. This is what too few of us have. Every time you lie, it’s like taking a sledge hammer, knocking The Foundation out from under your Good. Every lie breaks you down. Every truth builds you up.

Why do you lie? “Because I’m insecure; I am afraid of consequences, and therefore I lack faith in God.” So you see, all three of those words, fear, faith and truth, are related.

So I’m challenging us today: Stop Telling Lies! Stop Living Lies! When you would tell a lie, just think for a moment, and try forcing yourself to speak the truth. Every time you speak the truth, you get stronger in the truth! But every time you lie, and you know you’re lying, you just weaken yourself, because The Truth supports the Universe! A lie supports nothing.

And don’t exaggerate, because the moment you add to the truth, you take away from the truth, turning it into a lie.

Every time you lie, you undercut your ability to be what only Truth can make you into.

***

I hope and I pray that God will make us fearless. Can God make you fearless? He said, “Those who believe and are the doers of good to others, there is no fear for them nor shall they grieve.” And I heard Elijah Muhammad say, “They could bring 10,000 outside my door. I will not be afraid.” Why won’t you be afraid, Elijah? “Because God is with me, and as long as God is with me, there is no army that can defeat me.”

You have to know that God is with you, and He will prove to you that He is with you! If you are with Him and with Truth, God will take little things, and begin building your confidence in Him. And after awhile, He’ll keep on building your confidence until you just become so trusting in Him, that you don’t think anything or anyone can harm you except it pleases God, because The Arm of The Lord has been revealed to you.

And brothers, sisters, I can tell you: It is a wonderful feeling to be able to know that you can put your trust in God.

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In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.

Our subject today deals with three words which represent essentials that would allow us to live life successfully, the way God intended for human

Your real power is in trying to be right. Our people will love you if you are right, and are trying to be right! Because no matter how bad you are in your actions, you really are The Righteous. You don’t have to be afraid to be right. You should be terrified of being wrong.

beings to live: Fear. Faith. Truth. These three words, if understood and acted upon properly, will give us a key to mastering every situation that life could pose.

I want each of us to think about something in life that is troublesome to us. I want us to think about something in our own life that we need to overcome. I want us to think about something in our life that we desire, but as yet have not been able to attain it. Mastery of the principles underlying each of these three words will not only give you The Solution to that particular problem that you and I personally may have, but it gives you The Key to any problem you will ever face at any time in your life.

Fear: The Source of our insecurities

Is “fear” natural? If fear is a natural thing, then is it something that we must overcome? And if so, how?

According to the dictionary, “fear” is a distressing emotion aroused by impending pain, danger, evil, whether that pain, danger or evil is real, or imagined. If you become afraid even of some imaginary thing that has not yet happened, the distressing emotion will still be present. “Fear” is the feeling, or the condition of being afraid.

Fear restricts: Whatever we are afraid of, that which we fear makes us insecure; and whatever makes us afraid and insecure could cause us to bow. When we are afraid, fear causes us not to think properly. Fear causes us not to act properly. Fear makes you so insecure that you have a tendency to acquiesce, to submit, to surrender to the thing that you’re afraid of. And if you acquiesce, submit and surrender to what you are afraid of, then it becomes a god to you beside God!

If God made man and woman in His Own Likeness, then can you imagine God being afraid? I mean, just think about God being afraid of a lion, or a bear! How could He be afraid of what He created? So if He is The Creator, and this is the creature, then He has Natural Mastery over it if He does not allow what He created to terrify Him. This is no “Frankenstein,” that the thing which is created can, now, terrify its creator. There is nothing in Creation that can make God afraid!

Well, then if God is not afraid of anything that He created, and you and I are in His Image and in His Likeness, will you tell me please how we can justify being afraid of anything in Creation?

***

There is another kind of fear that has reverence to it, and that is the fear of God.

Once when I was out in Arizona taking a month to fast and pray and discipline myself for a fight against cancer, I was listening to a tape by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. He was saying that God did not make The Original Man, Black man, to be afraid of anything in His Creation. He only made you, and me, to fear Him. And it is The Fear of God, and God alone, that gives you Mastery over The Creation. But if you don’t know God, and won’t trust God and have faith in God, then things that make you afraid will become your master.

God is worthy to be afraid of. You just have to believe and know that a God exists. The Bible teaches in Proverbs 9:10, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.” So if the fear of God makes you a beginner, then what is wisdom? “Wisdom” is that which allows you mastery, and you cannot begin to become wise in life if you don’t learn the fear of God. And once you learn the fear of God, then nothing in creation becomes able to terrify you. Then you are in the Beginner’s Class of Mastery.

I want you to internalize this: Anytime we allow anything to make us afraid, and we refuse to challenge our fear of that thing, then we can never be that man, or that woman, that God intended us to be. Fear will not allow you to be yourself!

It is not that you won’t ever be made afraid, because there are some terrifying things in this world. But when you are afraid, that’s the Test of Faith! This is when you have to call on what you’ve got faith in! What am I saying to you? You’re going to be made afraid.

I don’t want you thinking that every time you’re made afraid that you will come out “all right,” because the other part of this is: Being “fearless” is not going to get you victory in every circumstance. This is where faith comes in.

Faith: Making the impossible, possible

“Faith” is confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing. Study the prophets’ life examples: How they challenged Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, and great armies (phalanx)—that’s beautiful, you know, when you read it in the Bible. But when you read it in the Bible, if it doesn’t give you courage in your time period, then reading it yesterday you might think that it can’t happen today! But God is able in every generation; and He will never let you down. He will never let you down if you put your trust in Him!

Now, some of us might have faith in our own strength; you have a lot of “macho” strength: “I go to the gym every day, I work out; I built my muscles, and so, nothing makes me afraid. I’ll rely on my strength.” But there are some things you can’t challenge with your strength. There are some things that only can be challenged with The Strength of God.

I’m saying this to all of us, and I’m sure you know it: The government of the United States cannot be challenged with your strength and mine. It can only be challenged with The Strength of God. There are forces in this world that you cannot challenge with your strength, and that’s why faith is absolutely necessary to overcome fear.

***

Dear beloved followers and believers of God: Without faith, you cannot achieve the impossible. But with faith there is nothing impossible. A lot of things are impossible without Him, but there is nothing impossible with Him! When you don’t have faith, real faith in God, you don’t even attempt things that people say are impossible. But when you have faith in God, you will try the impossible and find that it’s quite possible! So, “faith in God” is a Key to accomplishing anything in life that you desire.

Just as a baby on its mother’s breast for the first time does not know that milk is there, but will keep on pulling until some milk appears, that’s “faith.” Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not yet seen.

Look at this Universe, and think of anything you want: Everything that you need to make life beneficial to you is already here! You don’t have to “create” anything. But the question is: How strong is your pull on the mammary gland called “The Universe,” because The Universe is a giant breast! I’m not being vulgar, but that’s exactly what it is! The baby can pull on the breast believing, hoping, something is going to be there, and that hope and that belief is rewarded because milk comes! And it won’t dry up as long as somebody’s pulling… Then we must do the same: You have to learn how to pull on this Universe to get the things out of life that The God Who created this, and you, promised.

What do you want? “Well, I want to pay my bills.” It’s done! But is that all you want? Oh, that’s “punk stuff”—you haven’t even begun to pick up on the heavy stuff if you can’t get by the “little stuff.” And the “little stuff” that is messing your head up is denied to you because you don’t have faith!

In Matthew 17:20, Jesus said if you had faith the grain of a mustard seed, you could say to the mountain: “Be removed,” and it would be so! Have you ever seen how small a “mustard seed” is? It is so tiny! Well, what kind of “mountain” do you have in your life that is troubling you, and you can’t move? “Well, I’ve got a lot of problems…”—Tell me something new! That’s what life is! “Life” is “problems”: If you don’t have a problem, you’re not alive! So where are you? When God brought you here He brought you here to give you a problem! And the solution to your problem is also here! But if you lack faith, you’ll walk around like a dog chasing your tail, you will never quite make it in life because you are a faithless individual!

That’s your problem: You’re afraid, and you don’t have faith, so you have to live by schemes; you always have to try and “trick” somebody! When they’re not looking, you take their wallet; you learn craft in stealing! You learn how to lie to manipulate silly people in order to take from them, while there is a Universe out here ready to give you its treasure…

Brothers and sisters: Your real power is in trying to be right. Our people will love you if you are right, and are trying to be right! Because no matter how bad you are in your actions, you really are The Righteous. You don’t have to be afraid to be right. You should be terrified of being wrong.

Truth: The Right Foundation that sustains life

I want you to think about “Truth.” Allah says in the Qur’an that He created the heavens and the earth with truth. You are a creation of Truth. If God built all of this and sustains it with Truth, how can you sustain your life living a lie?

Brothers and sisters, when we want to look beautiful, we spend time in the mirror; we make sure our hair looks right, we smell right, we dress right, and then we come out to meet the people. You are so concerned about how you appear, but appearance is not what you are! The real you is on the inside of what you appear to be.

Now, the thing that I see going on, no matter your religion, is that some of us can learn the Wisdom, and we can articulate the Wisdom, but I don’t care how much we know: To sustain the Knowledge that you have requires you to have The Right Foundation. And the Right Foundation for the Sustenance of Life and Knowledge starts with Truth.

All of us lie too much. If I tell you a lie, I’m robbing you of the truth! And if you believe my lie, and act on a lie, then I’m murdering the spirit! So a liar is a thief, and a murderer! And no liar, no thief, no murderer can find a way in The Kingdom of God! It looks like our mouths are bent in a lie… I have found that we’ve got a lot of people that can speak well, but they don’t have any “character.” So if you’re the type of person that is “knocked out” by good words, you’ll always be knocked out because there’s people that can give you good words all day long! But do they have character? Do they have integrity? A liar can have neither.

***

“Seek ye first The Kingdom of God…” “The Kingdom of God” is built on Truth. But we just lie, and lie and lie, and there’s no reason for it!

Who is anybody that you should lie to them? Who is there to lie to if God, already The All-Seeing, The All-Knowing, knows the truth? So whether you want good character or not, that’s on you! I mean, if there was something that I failed to do, and you asked me, “Did you do it?” I would have to tell you, “No, brother. I’m sorry.” You may be disappointed in me, but it is better that you be disappointed in me, than me be disappointed in myself for lying!

If you lie, it starts eating at The Foundation of Character, because all character is built on truth, honesty and integrity. This is what too few of us have. Every time you lie, it’s like taking a sledge hammer, knocking The Foundation out from under your Good. Every lie breaks you down. Every truth builds you up.

Why do you lie? “Because I’m insecure; I am afraid of consequences, and therefore I lack faith in God.” So you see, all three of those words, fear, faith and truth, are related.

So I’m challenging us today: Stop Telling Lies! Stop Living Lies! When you would tell a lie, just think for a moment, and try forcing yourself to speak the truth. Every time you speak the truth, you get stronger in the truth! But every time you lie, and you know you’re lying, you just weaken yourself, because The Truth supports the Universe! A lie supports nothing.

And don’t exaggerate, because the moment you add to the truth, you take away from the truth, turning it into a lie.

Every time you lie, you undercut your ability to be what only Truth can make you into.

***

I hope and I pray that God will make us fearless. Can God make you fearless? He said, “Those who believe and are the doers of good to others, there is no fear for them nor shall they grieve.” And I heard Elijah Muhammad say, “They could bring 10,000 outside my door. I will not be afraid.” Why won’t you be afraid, Elijah? “Because God is with me, and as long as God is with me, there is no army that can defeat me.”

You have to know that God is with you, and He will prove to you that He is with you! If you are with Him and with Truth, God will take little things, and begin building your confidence in Him. And after awhile, He’ll keep on building your confidence until you just become so trusting in Him, that you don’t think anything or anyone can harm you except it pleases God, because The Arm of The Lord has been revealed to you.

And brothers, sisters, I can tell you: It is a wonderful feeling to be able to know that you can put your trust in God.

About Post Author

Anthony-Claret Ifeanyi Onwutalobi

Anthony-Claret is a software Engineer, entrepreneur and the founder of Codewit INC. Mr. Claret publishes and manages the content on Codewit Word News website and associated websites. He's a writer, IT Expert, great administrator, technology enthusiast, social media lover and all around digital guy.
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