In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, terrorist Gavin Eugene Long was identified as the perpetrator of a terrorist act on July 17, 2016, which resulted in killing three police officers.  Long also went by the name Cosmo Ausar Setepenra.  The terrorist Long was killed after his sniper attack on the police officers, including a black police officer.  The victims were: Deputy Brad Garafola, Officer Matthew Gerald,  and Corporal Montrell Jackson.   In videos online, Long also described himself as a member of the racist extremist group “Nation of Islam.”  Terrorist Long received weapons training in the U.S. Marine Corps, and had left the military; his final Marine rank was E-5.   He expressed hatred for “crackers,” which is a slur term for whites.

 

In a video under his Conversations with Cosmos social media account, terrorist Gavin Eugene Long provided a video stating that he was a member of the Nation of Islam extremist group.  In what appeared to be a way to then protect the extremist group from accountability in its racist incitement, he then did not want his actions to be “affiliated” with the NOI extremist group, stating: “If anything happens with me, because I’m an alpha male, I stand up, I stand firm, I stand for mine, until the end… Yeah, I also was also a Nation of Islam member. Don’t affiliate me with it. Don’t affiliate me with anything.”

This is the second recent terrorist attack associated with the Nation of Islam extremist group; a previous recent terrorist attack was on July 8, 2016 in Dallas.  Baton Rouge terrorist Gavin Long called the Dallas terrorist shootings of five Dallas police officers an act of “justice.”

Extreme hatred of whites is part of the ideology of the NOI extremists, which is described by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).  The SPLC states regarding the NOI: “NOI members continue to promote racist and anti-Semitic ideas,” and regarding its leader Louis Farrakhan that: “the deeply racist, anti-Semitic and anti-gay rhetoric of its leaders, including top minister Louis Farrakhan, have earned the NOI a prominent position in the ranks of organized hate.”  SPLC has also stated regarding the NOI that: “Founder Wallace D. Fard (alternately, Farad Muhammad) and his ‘messenger’ and successor Elijah Muhammad preached a hybrid creed with its own myths and doctrines. These held that over 6,000 years ago, the black race lived in a paradise on earth that was destroyed by the evil wizard Yacub, who created the white ‘devil’ through a scientific process called ‘grafting.’ Fard and his disciple preached of a coming apocalyptic overthrow of white domination, insisting that the dominion of evil was to end with God’s appearance on earth in the person of Fard. Following this, NOI predicts an epic struggle in which the Nation of Islam will play a key role in preparing and educating the Original People, who ruled the earth in peace and prosperity until Yacub’s ‘blue-eyed devils’ came along to gum things up. The Nation of Islam teaches that intermarriage or race mixing should be prohibited. This is point 10 of the official platform, ‘What the Muslims Want’ published 1965.  NOI’s connection to Islam is through its founder Fard. NOI believes, like other Muslims, that there is no other God but Allah, but they redefine ‘Allah’ by saying that he ‘came in the person of W. D. Fard.'”

SPLC also states regarding the NOI that “During the early 1980s, the deeply bigoted language for which NOI is infamous for today became daily fare, exacerbated by the charged atmosphere surrounding Jesse Jackson’s 1984 presidential bid. Farrakhan made several of his most infamous remarks during the campaign, including calling Hitler ‘a very great man’ and Judaism a ‘dirty religion’ (some say he actually termed it a ‘gutter religion’). While these and other remarks ultimately spurred Jackson to publicly disavow Farrakhan, the controversy actually increased the NOI leader’s visibility and appeal to many African Americans angered at the attacks on him.  Farrakhan’s racist venom continued, to the point that he was banned in 1986 from entering the United Kingdom, where officials cited concerns for racial harmony. He frequently reiterated the ‘dirty religion’ theme along with references to the ‘so-called Jew’ (arguing that the ‘true’ Jews were black North Africans) and constant accusations of secret Jewish control of financial and political institutions. One of the most baseless attacks came in the form of a 1991 ‘study’ ordered up by Farrakhan and written by NOI’s “Historical Research Department.” Entitled The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, the book uses isolated examples of Jewish merchants’ involvement in the purchase and ownership of slaves to place the onus of the slavery industry squarely on Jewish shoulders — a historical falsehood.  While Jews remain the primary target of Farrakhan’s vitriol, he is also well known for bashing gay men and lesbians, Catholics and, of course, the white devils, whom he calls ‘potential humans … [who] haven’t evolved yet.’ ”

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Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) supports our shared universal human rights, including equality, security, dignity.  R.E.A.L. rejects all racist, extremist, hate, and violence, and all terrorist acts, as an attack on our shared universal human rights.