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Billy Graham doubts Louis Farrakhan
can be national unifying figure
WASHINGTON
(AP) The Rev. Billy Graham says
tion of Islam leader Louis
Isnot the person to preach
ity for all races and religions.
' Graham told Fox News Sunday
Farrakhan could not be the uni
ing figure he now says he wants o
be.
“1 doubt if he could,” the North
Farrakhan had asked to meet with
hm “His views and my views will be
very far apart, and it would be very
difficult for us We could be friends,
but it would be very difficult for usto
say that we are the same, or that we
cbuld be the same religiously ”
; InDecember, Farrakhan made his
first public appearance in months
following a bout with prostate cancer
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and a radiation-related rectal ulcer.
anti-Semitic remarks in the past,
Farrakhan said his health problems
have changed his outlook
“Only through our act of atone
ment can we be forgiven for what we
have said or done to injure other
human beings — a member of an
other race or a member of another
religious group, another nation or
another ethnic group,” Farrakhan
said at that time.
Graham alsooffered commentson
controversial plans by the Southern
Baptist Convention, hisown denomi
nation, to send evangelists into Chi
cago to try to convert Jews and Mus
lims.
“I normally defend my denomina
tion. I'm loyal to it,” Graham sad.
“But | have never targeted Muslims
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Inthesame Fox News interview,
Graham said it was “wonderful” te
hear Texas Gov. George W Bush
name Jesus Christ as the philoso
pher or thinker who had the most
impact on his life.
“Itwas a wonderful answer,” Gra
ham said. “I mean, to millions of
young people especially in the
United States, Jesus Christ is the
greatest man in this _ in the his
tory of the world. And to me, he's
the greatest person in the history
of mankind and the universe We
can't proveit, I can't put it in a test
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lowa, Bush responded to the ques
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