The New York City Council approved a plan Thursday to name a block in Harlem after National of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad.
“Early on, Elijah Muhammad preached about greedy Jews and advanced the longstanding antisemitic trope that Jews turned [Yoshke] in to the authorities,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“Muhammad invited American Nazi Party boss George Lincoln Rockwell to the NOI’s 1962 Saviours’ Day Convention,” where Rockwell dubbed Muhammad “the Adolf Hitler of the black man,” the center added.
Still, the council supported naming the Manhattan intersection of West 127th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard “The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad Way,” reported the New York Daily News.
“He fails every test we could possibly put forward: the test based on the values and views of today, and the values and views of the times in which he lived and worked,” David Carr, a Republican council member said at a committee hearing.
Kristin Richardson Jordan, a far-left council member who represents Harlem and who proposed the street naming, called the honor “way overdue.”
“It is actually not OK to erase black leaders who are not pleasing to white people,” she said during the vote. “I profoundly vote aye on Elijah Muhammad Way.”
“The corner is the site of the NOI-owned Mosque Temple No. 7, where Malcolm X long preached,” according to the editorial board of the New York Post, “and where an NYPD officer was slain in 1972 (three years before Mohammad’s death) by unidentified NOI radicals while responding to a false emergency call at the mosque. That is, this renaming would be a dishonor in multiple ways.”
“This renaming would be an utter obscenity,” the Post board added.
Per recent reporting, Illinois taxpayers are funding at least $500,000 for a group that is inspired by the Nation of Islam, whose leadership held official roles in the Nation of Islam and which calls itself “the archives for the Nation of Islam.” JNS
However, New York City Council officials refused to say whether the street would be renamed in time for Saturday’s National Day of Hate.
“We’ve been receiving a lot of emails and phone calls requesting that the street be renamed in time for Saturday’s National Day of Hate,” a NYC Council and NOI member told reporters on Friday. “It would be nice to honor not only the memory of the late NOI antisemite, but also the special Day of hate by renaming the street before Saturday arrives, but I don’t think we’ll be able to get the street sign completed in one day.”
“We’ll see what we can do,” he said. “I’d hate to spoil the holiday spirit by not renaming the street in time. We’ll try to get the street sign up by Saturday, if possible. In the meantime, I’d like to wish everyone a happy, hate-filled holiday. Have a Happy Day of Hate everyone! Thanks.”
In addition to voting in favor of renaming the Harlem street after the late NOI antisemitic leader, the NYC Council also voted to remove dozens of statues of America’s founding fathers from NYC public properties.
“Hate has no place in this country,” a NYC council member and senior NOI official told reporters on Friday. “Hence, on this auspicious day, when we are voting to rename a street in honor of the late NOI antisemitic icon, we are also voting to remove dozens of statues of our country’s founding racists.”
That’s alright.
All the crime perpetrated on that block by those who honor this man will now be accredited to his name, in every police report and news item. He earned it.
They can reserve the next block to be renamed Louis Farrakhan Way once he pops his clogs.
That way all the anti semites will be in one place.
“It is actually not OK to erase white leaders who are not pleasing to black people”
But it only works in one direction with these hypocritical bigots
If there is a sign there I will make a point of spitting on it.
Next there will be a Yassir Arafat Street, a George Habash Street, and an Amin al-Husseini Street. And a George Lincoln Rockwell Street, a Thomas Edward Watson Street, and a Nathan Bedford Forrest Street.
He’s one of your guys.