Women's March Leader Refuses to Denounce Antigay, Anti-Semitic Louis Farrakhan [View all]

[Behind the Aegis]

Despite criticism from the LGBT and Jewish communities, Women's March cochair Tamika Mallory has refused to denounce Louis Farrakhan, a well-known homophobe, transphobe, and an anti-Semite. Mallory sat in the audience while Farrakhan gave a hateful speech in Chicago last week in which he said, "The powerful Jews are my enemy," CNN reports. She also received a shout-out from him and posted about the event on social media.

Louis Farrakhan's bigotry is well documented. Farrakhan is the leader of the Nation of Islam, declared a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which says, "The deeply racist, antisemitic and anti-LGBT rhetoric of its leaders have earned the NOI a prominent position in the ranks of organized hate."

Farrakhan is an open admirer of Adolf Hitler, having called the genocidal dictator "a great man." In a 2006 speech, Farrakhan said, "It's the wicked Jews, the false Jews, that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality." In 1996, he told a Kansas City crowd, "God don't like men coming to men with lust in their hearts like you should go to a female. ... If you think that the kingdom of God is going to be filled up with that kind of degenerate crap, you're out of your damn mind."

He has also denigrated transgender people by declaring, “The Jews were responsible for all of this filth and degenerate behavior that Hollywood is putting out turning men into women and women into men.”

Mallory has posted pictures with Farrakhan on Instagram, with captions such as "Thank God this man is still alive and doing well. He is definitely the GOAT [greatest of all time] Happy Birthday @louisfarrakhan!" She has also publicly praised Fidel Castro, who rounded up gay people and put them in concentration camps. He also attempted to hire former Nazi soldiers to train his army.

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