@Arella Mae,
AM, did you read it?
Quote:"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."
"Brothers and sisters," Farrakhan said, "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."
Farrakhan points out that the man Nation of Islam followers refer to as "the Savior," Fard Muhammad, had a black father and a white mother, just as Obama did.
"A black man with a white mother became a savior to us," he said. "A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall.
"Would God allow Barack to be president of a country that has been so racist, so evil in its treatment of Hispanics, native Americans, blacks?" he asked. "Would God do something like that? Yeah. Of course he would. That's to show you that the stone that the builders rejected has become the headstone of the corner. This is a sign to you. It's the time of our rise. It's the time that we should take our place. The future is all about you."
Farrakhan suggested he would keep a low profile in the campaign, despite his enthusiasm for Obama.
"That's why you have never heard me make any comment," he explained. "I love that brother, and I want to see that brother successful. I don't want to say anything that would hurt that brother, and I don't want them to use me or the Nation of Islam."
Returning to the theme that Obama is a mystical figure, Farrakhan said, he "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."
He went on to point out that when religious scholars talk about Christ or the Islamic Mahdi, they never talk in racial terms " again, pointing to Obama's mixed racial background.
Farrakhan isn't speaking out of both sides of his mouth at all. Each of the Abrahamic traditions are waiting for a messiah. Christians are looking for the second coming while Jews and Muslims await the first.
Just as Christians think that Jews missed the boat when they didn't come on board with Jesus 2000 years ago, Muslims think Christians got on the wrong boat when they did. Everyone in the Abrahamic religions thinks a messiah will come but no one that I've heard thinks that Barack Obama is he; certainly not the Muslims. Here are the prerequisites for the Islamic savior.
1. He will be an Arab, from the tribe of Banû Hãshim.
2. He will be from the descendants of the Prophet Muhammad through his daughter Fatima.
3. He will be the descendant of Husayn, son of Fatima and ‘Ali.
4. He will appear in Mecca.
5. Finally, one of the most interesting thing that we find in the sayings of the Prophet is that Imam al-Mahdi will be helped by Prophet Jesus.
Oh... and LF calling Obama a "brother" could simply mean he's an African American.
