The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, former pastor of President Barack Obama, offered the traditional Muslim greeting — “salaam alaikum” — at the beginning of his speech at the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March in Washington on Saturday.
Then the pastor emeritus of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ launched into an appeal for “Palestinian justice” and for blacks to stand with them.
Not mentioning Israelis, he called Palestinians the “original people” — and then offered the crowd a reminder.
“Please remember, Jesus was a Palestinian,” Wright said.
He added that Palestinians are fighting against those who say “their god told them they could have somebody else’s country,” calling it “one of the most egregious injustices in the 20th and 21st centuries.”
Wright also said that youths in Ferguson, Missouri, and youths “in Palestine” have “united” and that blacks should join them.
Wright made headlines in 2008 after his sermons were examined and Barack Obama — then campaigning for the presidency — was forced to renounce his former pastor‘s controversial statements (e.g., “No, no, no, not God bless America! God damn America — that’s in the Bible — for killing innocent people.”)
After Obama’s election, Wright commented in 2009 that “them Jews” were keeping him from the new president. ”Them Jews ain’t going to let him talk to me,” Wright told the Daily Press of Newport News, Virginia. “I told my baby daughter that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office.”
And you wonder why Obama treats Israel the way he does. He shares the same sentiments with Wright and Farrakhan. Wright seems to forget that Jesus was a Jewish rabbi. He has no particular use for the truth. He looks for areas where facts are fuzzy and then invents facts and demands that you defend your beliefs. If they just make it up and say it often enough, it will eventually be treated as the truth. Notice how once again Black Liberation Theology is linked with Islam as well. It’s just lie after lie after lie. The event was hate-filled rhetoric delivered in soothing tones, meant to unite young black men for violent ends. It figures a reprobate like Wright would be a speaker there. It’s just sad that people will listen to this dirt bag and believe him.