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FIRST ON FOX: A prime coordinator at a outstanding left-wing nonprofit traveled to Chicago over the weekend to attend the Nation of Islam’s annual Saviours’ Day commemoration, which has been rife with controversy up to now because of Louis Farrakhan’s antisemitic speeches on the annual gathering.
Terence Muhammad, who serves on the Hip Hop Caucus’ nationwide management workforce because the occasions and discipline coordinator, posted a number of occasions during the last week on his social media profiles that he was attending Saviours’ Day festivities and repeatedly requested his followers to donate to the Nation of Islam if they’ve been “touched and benefited” by Farrakhan’s message.
Farrakhan is notorious for his hateful feedback towards White folks and Jews, which have been carefully monitored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Southern Poverty Legislation Heart (SPLC) for a number of years. The ADL, which has referred to as Farrakhan “probably the most outstanding antisemites,” lists dozens of his quotes on its web site, together with a number of from previous Saviours’ Day speeches. SPLC has categorized Nation of Islam as a hate group.
In 2018, Farrakhan mentioned, “The highly effective Jews are my enemy” and used an antisemitic trope about Jews controlling the leisure trade throughout his 2012 Saviours’ Day deal with.
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Terence Muhammad, left, who beforehand posted a photograph of himself carrying clothes from “Fruit of Islam,” the paramilitary wing of the Nation of Islam, was current on the Saviours’ Day celebration over the weekend in Chicago. (Getty)
Throughout a 2013 speech, Farrakhan referred to Jews as “not good folks” and mentioned they’ve “satanic minds.” In one other 2018 speech, Farrakhan mentioned, “You and I are going to must study to differentiate between the righteous Jew and the satanic Jews who’ve contaminated the entire world with poison and deceit.” He additionally infamously in contrast Jews to termites.
Regardless of Farrakhan’s lengthy historical past of antisemitism, Muhammad promotes Farrakhan on his social media profiles nearly each day and contains him on all his social media profile photos.
“Wheels Up with My Squad Bro,” Muhammad wrote late final week on Fb, together with a selfie with a fellow Nation of Islam pal on a aircraft. “HAPPY SAVIOURS’ DAY!! CHITOWN!!”
Muhammad later posted a video in entrance of Mosque Maryam, the Nation of Islam’s nationwide headquarters, hyping up the occasion and exhibiting the place tents have been going to be arrange.
Terence Muhammad posted a collage of pictures of himself and Farrakhan through the years in a now-private Instagram publish from October 2023. (Terence Muhammad/Instagram)
Muhammad, described as a “key pressure behind executing a lot of Hip Hop Caucus’ campaigns, excursions, and main occasions,” in keeping with an archived model of the Hip Hop Caucus’ web site, additionally shared social media posts from a number of attendees of the Saviours’ Day commemoration on his Fb, together with an undated photograph of him and Farrakhan. A number of of the pictures he shared over the weekend included a caption that mentioned “My squad.”
Whereas it’s unclear the date of the photograph he shared, he has beforehand posted a number of pictures of himself posing with Farrakhan. In a now-private 2023 Instagram publish, which included a Farrakhan photograph collage, Muhammad mentioned, “I completely love the Honorable Minister Louis FARRAKHAN.”
“He’s a lovely, loving, form, and deeply religious Divine Man of God,” he added.
Along with Muhammad, Hip Hop Caucus President and CEO Lennox Yearwood, who visited the Biden White Home a number of occasions, beforehand referred to Muhammad as certainly one of Farrakhan’s “prime troopers” and thanked Farrakhan for permitting Muhammad to be a part of his group.
“Bless Minister @LouisFarrakhan permitting certainly one of his prime troopers [Muhammad] 2 be w/ me for #MOW50. A lot LOVE to the NOI,” Yearwood wrote in a now-deleted 2013 publish, referring to Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam.
“Glad Birthday [Terence Muhammad] You are a blessing to our Motion & our Folks!” Yearwood wrote in 2016. “Thanks to your love [Louis Farrakhan].”
In a 2014 Fb publish, Muhammad posted a photograph of Yearwood and Farrakhan with the caption, “I’m that I’m(The Good) as a result of I used to be launched to a person named the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and a Life giving instructing from the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. I can transfer/assist my folks like I do reason behind Rev Lennox Yearwood, CEO/President of the Hip Hop Caucus. I work for these nice males.
“I am holding my coronary heart trigger I like this man with all of my coronary heart/soul,” Muhammad mentioned in the identical 2014 Fb publish, which included a photograph of him and Farrakhan. “What’s extra superb than something is that [Farrakhan] knew my title and advised me that he beloved me too. I’ll/should proceed to battle for our folks.”
Terence Muhammad, left, and Lennox Yearwood, heart proper, posed for a photograph with Michael Regan, heart, the chief administrator of the Environmental Safety Company below President Joe Biden. (Terence Muhammad/Fb)
The Hip Hop Caucus has obtained thousands and thousands of {dollars} in grants from left-wing nonprofits, together with a minimum of $1 million from the Sixteen Thirty Fund darkish cash group, and has collaborated with prime Democrats in Congress, together with Rep. Maxine Waters of California and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey. The Hip Hop nonprofit has additionally collaborated with the Congressional Black Caucus and prime environmental teams, together with the Pure Assets Protection Council.
Throughout the 2024 Democratic Nationwide Conference, Muhammad and Yearwood posed for a photograph with Michael Regan, the chief administrator of Environmental Safety Company (EPA) below President Joe Biden.
The Hip Hop Caucus beforehand distanced Yearwood and the nonprofit from Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam when Fox Information Digital pressed them final fall, prompting them to say, “The Hip Hop Caucus and Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. don’t have any relationship with the Nation of Islam and condemn the antisemitic statements by Louis Farrakhan.”
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Terence Muhammad takes a photograph with Rep. Maxine Waters through the 2023 Hip Hop Summit in Selma, Ala. (Terence Muhammad/Fb screenshot)
A Hip Hop Caucus spokesperson responded to the latest inquiry with an nearly verbatim quote, however once more failed to deal with Muhammad’s involvement with the NOI.
“The Hip Hop Caucus has no relationship with the Nation of Islam and has condemned antisemitic statements by Louis Farrakhan,” a Hip Hop Caucus spokesperson mentioned. “We stand towards antisemitism and all types of hate.”
Along with Muhammad locking down his X and Instagram accounts after Fox Information Digital’s media inquiry, the Hip Hop Caucus’ “workforce” part is not obtainable on its web site. Over the weekend, guests to the web site may view all of the bios of the management workforce. Nonetheless, not one of the bios have been seen on the web site Tuesday afternoon.
Cameron Cawthorne is a politics editor for Fox Information Digital. Story suggestions could be despatched to Cameron.Cawthorne@Fox.com and on Twitter: @cam_cawthorne
Prime coordinator of left-wing group attends infamous antisemite’s annual gathering
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