This Deserves Our Scorn

Remember Jerry Falwell's disgusting claim after 9/11 that it was in part a punishment from God? I wonder if people will express the same level of outrage at these comments...

Speaking to a large crowd in South Philadelphia tonight, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan suggested that the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina was divine punishment for the violence America had inflicted on Iraq.

"New Orleans is the first of the cities going to tumble down... unless America changes its course," Farrakhan said.

"It is the wickedness of the people of America and the government of America that is bringing the wrath of God down," he told several hundred people at Tinsley Temple United Methodist Church.

His remarks were enthusiastically received.

I'm ashamed, in this instance, to be a person who grew up near Philly and considers himself a Philadelphian. The people applauding are idiots. I don't even want to try to find a term to describe the speaker.