As the NY Times acknowledged, even the absurd Southern Poverty Law Center has condemned the Nation for its “deeply racist, anti-Semitic and anti-gay rhetoric,” but apparently the editors thought a little nuance was in order.
To learn more about the Nation of Islam read Sucker Punch.
To help answer the question of Green’s motive in the April 2 attack, they dispatched a five-person squad of multi-ethnic reporters to find a specialist “in American Islam.” They came up with Michael Muhammad Knight, an assistant prof at the University of Central Florida.
“The Nation has a very strong anti-violence discourse that goes all the way back to the beginning,” Knight told the credulous reporters. “Consistently, if you look at the Nation, you don’t see the body count that white supremacist organizations have.” That’s it. Knight’s word is allowed to stand uncontested. The Nation doesn’t believe in violence; thus, Noah Green’s motive can remain officially “unclear.”
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