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ADL blasts recent Farrakhan speeches

By HAVIV RETTIG GUR
22/03/2010 02:28

NGO calls addresses "virulently anti-Semitic rhetoric."

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A recent spate of speeches delivered by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan have drawn angry condemnation from the Anti-Defamation League.

Farrakhan has “returned again to his old bigotry, and ramped up his virulently anti-Semitic rhetoric,” the ADL said, in a statement released over the weekend in response to speeches in Chicago’s Mosque Maryam during the past two weeks.