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House Defers Vote
On Aide's Speech

Washington (JTA) — An-
other controversy about the
Nation of Islam came to a
boil last week on Capitol
Hill.
The House of Represent-
atives deferred action on a
resolution condemning a
speech by the Nation of
Islam's Khalid Abdul
Muhammad after several
members objected to various
aspects of the resolution.
In a related development,
one of the resolution's co-
a sponsors, Rep. Pete King,
R-N.Y., called for a halt in
federal financing for two
programs associated with
the Nation of Islam. One
program deals with security
services, while the second is
concerned with AIDS
awareness.
"Although the Nation of
Islam has correctly targeted
the drug problem in the in-
ner cities," Mr. King said in
a statement, "any continued
federal funding of their pro-
grams • would constitute the
government's tacit approval
of the vile, racist message of
its leadership."
After an emotional debate
among House Democrats,
the House leadership decid-
ed last week that the resolu-
tion to condemn Mr.
Muhammad's remarks
should be detoured to a
committee, instead of
heading straight for a quick
vote on the House floor.
The resolution, introduced
by Rep. Tom Lantos, D-
Calif., and co-sponsored by
at least 18 other members,
condemns Mr. Muhammad's
speech as "outrageous
hatemongering of the most
vicious and vile kind; and
condemns all manifestations
and expressions of racism,
anti-Catholicism, anti-
Semitism and ethnic or re-
ligious intolerance."
Among the co-sponsors of
the unusual resolution to
condemn someone's speech
— not something the House
normally does — were
several African-American
members.
Mr. Muhammad's speech
at Kean College in New
Jersey last Nov. 29, in which
he verbally attacked Jews,
Catholics, whites and gays,
has exploded into a con-
troversy with wide repercus-
sions.
At a meeting of House
Democratic leaders and
other Democratic members,
several representatives

—black and white — raised
objections to the resolution,
sources said.
Members questioned it on
free speech grounds . and
wondered what sort of
precedent the resolution
would set and whose speech
would or should be con-
demned.
The resolution was also
criticized for not including
any reference to
homophobia.
Defending the resolution
at the meeting, Rep. Charles
Schumer, D-N.Y., argued

Tom Lantos:
Introduced the resolution.

emotionally that people had
ignored hate speech in the
1930s and had not taken the
Nazis seriously, which had
been a terrible mistake.
"That cannot happen
again," he said.
The Senate voted
unanimously Feb. 2 to con-
demn Mr. Muhammad's
Kean College speech.
At a Feb. 3 press con-
ference in Washington,
Louis Farrakhan, the con-
troversial leader of the
Nation of Islam, announced
that he was disciplining
Muhammad for his remarks.
Mr. Farrakhan criticized
Mr. Muhammad for the
manner in which he had
spoken at Kean College, but
not for the content of the
remarks themselves.
Mr. Lantos' office played
down any hint of controversy
over the resolution's detour
and said the vote was put off
because of scheduling.
The speaker of the house,
Tom Foley, D-Wash., releas-
ed a statement calling
Muhammad's remarks "a
contemptible, hate- filled
expression of intolerance

and bigotry." 0

