Farrakhan and Gaddafi discuss persecution of Muslims in USA

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has received the leader of the US Nation of Islam Movement, Louis Farrakhan, in Tripoli, Libyan TV reported.

It said they discussed the situation facing Muslims in the USA and ways of "unifying and mobilizing them so as to put an end to the life of misery they are living and stop their persecution by the exploiting capitalist circles" .

Farrakhan told Gaddafi he was seen by members of the Nation of Islam "as an Islamic leader who incites the blacks in the USA to get their rights from those who are stealing their efforts, subjugating and persecuting them" , the television said.

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