Gee, who could have predicted that would happen?
Via Daily Wire:
Chicago’s archbishop, Cardinal Blaise Cupich, was forced to apologize to the city’s Jewish community after controversial priest, Fr. Michael Pfleger, invited the virulently anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, to deliver a speech from the pulpit of St. Sabina church.
Fr. Pfleger, who is often at the center of controversy, and well-known for his outspokenness on social justice issues, says he invited Farrakhan after Farrakhan was booted from Facebook as a way of demonstrating his commitment to preserving the freedom of speech. The idea was to allow Farrakhan to refute allegations that he preaches hatred against the Jewish people.
Pfleger praised himself for extending the invitation ahead of the event Thursday night, labeling himself a “defender of free speech.”
But Farrakhan’s address was far from unifying. As he ascended the platform at St. Sabina’s last week, Farrakhan railed against “Satanic Jews” and referenced the sorting of Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz into lines destined for Nazi work camps and those those destined for gas chambers. Farrakhan claimed that he was imbued with the divine right to label some Jews “good” and some bad.
“I stand on God’s word,” Farrakhan told the crowd according to Haaretz, adding that he knows “the truth,” and that his mission is to “separate the good Jews from the Satanic Jews.”