Singh's work is notable in that it is among the first academic attempts to trace Farrakhan's rise as a national political actor and to situate him among other African-American leaders. 5) has achieved such widespread popularity among African-Americans. He states that the purpose of his book is to answer the question of "how and why such an unabashed leader of organized hate" (p. Robert Singh makes his interpretation of Farrakhan clear in the opening pages of The Farrakhan Phenomenon. For these reasons, Farrakhan is a compelling subject. He has publicly called Judaism "a dirty religion" and referred to Hitler as a "wickedly great man." In addition, he counts both Saddam Hussein and Muammar Qathafi as his political allies. At the same time, however, he is also controversial. Since 1978, he has led the Nation of Islam, an influential African-American religious movement according to a 1994 Time/CNN poll that asked African-Americans to name "the most important black leader today," he ranked second, after Jesse Jackson, and above Nelson Mandela. Louis Farrakhan is undeniably one of the most important African-American leaders of the twentieth century. Robert Singh: (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1997.
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