Jerrold Nadler: “in his Kean College speech, Mr. Khalid Abdul Muhammad urged racial genocide in South Africa, which has seen quite enough…”

“in his Kean College speech, Mr. Khalid Abdul Muhammad urged racial genocide in South Africa, which has seen quite enough of that over the years, and used ugly, contemptuous language directed at lesbians and gay men and at Pope John Paul II. But the greatest share of his venom, as is so often the case with spokesmen for the Nation of Islam, was reserved for that special favorite target: the Jews. Mr. Muhammad told his audience that Jews control the Government of the United States; that Jews are "the bloodsuckers of the black nation and the black community;" and, perhaps more chillingly, that the German Jews had brought Hitler's Holocaust on themselves. "They went in there, in Germany," Mr. Khalid explained, "the way they do everywhere they go, and they supplanted, they usurped * * * they had undermined the very fabric of society." These remarks surely merit condemnation, and I was heartened to see, in the weeks since he made them, that they were condemned by a wide range of political, religious, and civil-rights leaders, including those of my colleagues who had the courage to speak out despite the large Nation of Islam following in their own districts.”