Farrakhan adviser a member of Illinois' hate crime panel

More bad news for Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois. It should be no surprise that he overlooked the fact that Claudette Marie Johnson, an appointee to the governor's Commission on Discrimination and Hate Crimes, is the minister of protocol for Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam. Why is this "more bad news" for Rod? As you'll see a couple of posts down, "Blago" didn't know the Daily Show was a comedy program, and he made of fool of himself when he appeared on the Comedy Central show earlier this month.

As for Ms. Johnson and her title "minister of protocol?" Is that like minister of propaganda and enlightenment, Joseph Goebbels positon?

The Anti-Defamation Leage blew the whistle on the protocol queen at the NOI, as the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

Johnson, also known Sister Claudette Marie Muhammad, can't be too bright either. Her role in the Nation of Islam became known when she invited the other members of the Commission on Discrimination and Hate Crimes to this Sunday's Nation of Islam Saviour's Day rally in Chicago.

Here's a lowlight from last year's Saviour's Day event, from the mouth of Louis Farrakhan:

Jewish people don't have no hands that are free of the blood of us. They owned slave ships, they bought and sold us. They raped and robbed us.

Pretty hateful stuff.

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