{"id":1576832,"date":"2022-07-28T14:34:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T18:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1576832"},"modified":"2022-07-28T14:34:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T18:34:43","slug":"this-georgia-dem-once-praised-louis-farrakhan-as-impressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-georgia-dem-once-praised-louis-farrakhan-as-impressive\/","title":{"rendered":"This Georgia Dem Once Praised Louis Farrakhan as \u2018Impressive\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthis-georgia-dem-once-praised-louis-farrakhan-as-impressive%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1576832&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Rep. Sanford Bishop considered joining Farrakhan&#8217;s anti-Semitic organization<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tDemocratic Georgia representative Sanford Bishop (C) \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/alana-goodman\/\" title=\"Posts by Alana Goodman\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Alana Goodman<\/a> \u2022 July 28, 2022 2:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A Democratic congressman running in a competitive House race once praised Nation of Islam leader and infamous anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan as &#8220;impressive&#8221; and said he considered joining Farrakhan&#8217;s organization.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Sanford Bishop (Ga.), who has served in Congress since 1993, made the comments during a 2005 interview series with the former leader of the NAACP, the <em>Jewish Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishjournal.com\/news\/united-states\/350349\/ga-dem-congressman-once-called-farrakhan-impressive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop said he met Farrakhan after graduating from college, while the two were attending an event at Morehouse College in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, I had the opportunity for the first time to be acquainted with a man known as Minister Louis Farrakhan, who was so impressive that night that people stopped in mid-stride,&#8221; said Bishop during the interview. &#8220;I was just so taken by his message and his manner that I rushed out to the mosque the next day to hear him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The interview could be an obstacle for Bishop in his closely contested race against Republican challenger and Air Force officer Chris West. Bishop&#8217;s remarks drew criticism from Jewish leaders who noted Farrakhan&#8217;s history of anti-Semitic and anti-American rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop said he considered joining the Nation of Islam, a group led by Farrakhan that mixes black nationalist ideology with some elements of the Muslim religion. The organization also promotes anti-Semitic, anti-white, and anti-gay conspiracy theories. Bishop said his father opposed the idea and encouraged him to &#8220;pause&#8221; and reconsider it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had so much exposure, so many influences, and of course when I even mentioned the possibility of joining the Nation, my father, he had a real time with that,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop, who was raised Christian, said he didn&#8217;t end up joining the group and went on to learn about different religions, including Judaism.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Jewish Journal<\/em> noted that Bishop declined to denounce Farrakhan when asked by the <em>Daily Caller<\/em> in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop told the <em>Jewish Journal<\/em> that he &#8220;denounce[s] anti-Semitism just as I denounce all forms of racism.&#8221; The congressman added that he has &#8220;been a strong supporter of the State of Israel&#8221; and has &#8220;the support of the Georgia Jewish community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Farrakhan has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/resources\/blog\/farrakhan-remains-most-popular-antisemite-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dubbed<\/a> the &#8220;most popular anti-Semite in America&#8221; by the Anti-Defamation League. Farrakhan preaches that &#8220;Satanic Jews&#8221; have &#8220;infected the whole world with poison and deceit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To my Jewish friends, I shouldn&#8217;t use the word \u2018friends&#8217; so lightly, you have been a great and master deceiver, but God is going to pull the covers all off of you,&#8221; said Farrakhan in one 2017 speech.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told the <em>Jewish Journal<\/em> that Bishop&#8217;s praise for Farrakhan seems consistent with some of the congressman&#8217;s policy positions.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop, who supported the Iran nuclear deal, appears to have &#8220;no concerns about a regime that crushes human rights, religious freedoms of its own citizens, executes gays, threatens nuclear Holocaust against [the] Jewish state, and continues to support and deploy terrorist assets from Iraq to South America,&#8221; Cooper said. &#8220;No surprise then he would have no problem with Farrakhan&#8217;s anti-Semitism and anti-American rhetoric.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Rep. Sanford Bishop considered joining Farrakhan&#8217;s anti-Semitic organization  Democratic Georgia representative Sanford Bishop (C) \/ Getty Images  Alana Goodman \u2022 July 28, 2022 2:30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}