Nation IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : Farrakhan’s Ex-Aide at Holocaust Museum
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Khalid Abdul Muhammad, the former top aide to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan who has been denounced for expressing anti-Semitic views, toured the Holocaust Museum and emerged contending that the genocide experienced by blacks has been far worse than what happened to Jews. After his 90-minute visit, Muhammad told reporters that the suffering inflicted by Nazis on “so-called” Jews and other minorities was minuscule compared with the pain that blacks have endured from whites for centuries.
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