Louis Farrakhan, Guardian of Chicago?

Here’s a salient point about Chicago, location of the president’s much-touted birthday bash and home of a people far too progressive and enlightened to ever keep a Chick-fil-A in business: A lot of murders happen there. As the Daily Beast reported, the Windy City had more than 250 murders in the first half of 2012. Meanwhile, New York City, which is three times Chicago’s size, had 193, a record low. While the nationwide homicide rate has been falling, Chicago’s has been moving in the opposite direction — and its murder rate is now more than twice Mexico City’s. A few especially horrifying killings, like that of seven-year-old Heaven Sutton, have left Mayor Rahm Emanuel sounding — understandably — a little desperate. In an interview with CBS News, he said, “We’ve got two gangbangers, one standing next to a kid. Get away from that kid. Take your stuff away to the alley.”

But suggesting that gang members try not to shoot at each other when children are around isn’t the mayor’s only new crime-fighting tactic; he’s also welcomed the help of Louis Farrakhan, noted anti-Semite and supporter of the late Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi. “They have decided, the Nation of Islam, to help protect the community. And that’s an important ingredient, like all the other aspects of protecting a neighborhood,” the mayor said, speaking of an army of men Farrakhan formed, called the Fruit of Islam. Its members have been spreading throughout the city “to form a human wall of protection against any sudden outbreak of gunfire,” reports the Chicago Sun-Times. So it’s safe to assume that “something really bad is going on in Chicago,” as David Muhlhausen, a crime analyst at the Heritage Foundation, puts it.

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