A taxpayer-funded Black Lives Matter mural in a tony Westchester town is causing outrage after the artist quietly slipped in an image of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, sources said.
The painting of the firebrand minister — who has in the past ranted about “Satanic Jews” — was inserted among depictions of sports heroes and cops as part of a $100,000 government work in the town of Greenburgh.
Town Supervisor Paul Feiner said Friday Farrakhan’s face was not on the approved mural and demanded his removal.
“My feeling is if someone thinks Farrakhan is a great person they could put his picture on their house or in their living room but it shouldn’t be on a taxpayer-funded wall,” said Feiner, who is white.
Feiner, a Democrat, said members of the local Jewish community called him to say they were “very offended” by the inclusion of Farrakhan, who once told followers they needed to distinguish “between the righteous Jew and the Satanic Jews who have infected the whole world with poison and deceit,” according to the Anti-Defamation League.
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