Farrakhan: Obama and "The Messiah"

Here's a video recorded last February in which Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan apparently pronounces his faith that B. Hussein Obama is "The Messiah":

You'll note the Nation of Islam Saviour's Day 2008 sign on the podium -- that dates the video to last February (yet the video took until the day before yesterday to make it to YouTube). In the video, Farrakhan proclaims:

You are the instruments that God is going to use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn't care anything about. That's a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking."

Not shown in the video, but documented from the same speech, Farrakhan backed off from the Messiah pronouncement:

[Obama] is not the Messiah for sure, but anytime, he gives you a sign of uniting races, ethnic groups, ideologies, religions and makes people feel a sense of oneness, that’s not necessarily Satan’s work, that is I believe the work of God.

But an association with the Messiah was again generated with:

Brothers and sisters, Barack Obama to me, is a herald of the Messiah. Barack Obama is like the trumpet that alerts you something new, something better is on the way.

Also, Farrakhan compares B. Hussein Obama to the founder of the Nation of Islam:

"We have been taught by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad that Master Fard Muhammad had a Black father and a White mother. The man that we call the Saviour was born of the two people,” Min. Farrakhan said, describing the founder of the Nation of Islam in North America and Mr. Muhammad’s teacher, who was born in Mecca, Arabia Feb. 26, 1877.

“A Black man with a White mother became a saviour to us. A Black man with a White mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall.

Note that Fard Muhammad was later deified by Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam from 1934 until his death in 1975, when he said that Fard was Allah in the flesh, who unexpectedly turned up on the streets of 1930's Detroit. The Nation of Islam is rather lax about following the rules of traditional Islam, which as far as I know does not deify anyone other than Mohammed.

This video has been ignored by the MSM to date, as have the reports of what was said on "Savior's Day" (Fard Muhammad's birthday). It will be interesting to see if this ever gets picked up, even if only below the fold.

HT to World Net Daily.

Blog post #7066 in category Obama, Barack
posted 10 October 08