In 2013, Rev, Raphael Warnock, who is currently running for the U.S. Senate as a Democrat, called the Nation of Islam, which has been headed by anti-Semitic and racist Rev. Louis Farrakhan for decades, an “important” voice for blacks, adding, “we’ve needed the witness of the Nation of Islam.”
Warnock was prompted by a member of the audience of the 2013 event who said, “You referred to ‘the church,’ and I realize that there are many churches, but what would you say is the church’s relationship with the Nation of Islam and the Islamic movement that has a growing number of African-American members, and perhaps as a part of that, can you discuss whether the black church is having the same type of attendance problems that the so-called mainstream white churches and synagogues are having, and if so, why or why not?”
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