A Catholic church hosted by Louis Farrakhan for anti-Facebook speech. At least one Jewish group was not happy

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Saint Sabina live-streamed Farrakhan's speech on its website and Facebook page, despite the controversial leader.

Farrakhan said he used the social media platform "with respect." "I never allow those who follow me to go to those who speak evil of us," he said.

Farrakhan denied being misogynistic and homophobic. He said, "The white people who think I'm a hater," do not know him.

"You have never had a conversation with me, but somebody made you hate me." But after you got acquainted with me, love, "he said.

Nearing the end of his address, Farrakhan said, "I do not hate Jewish people."

"No one is with me against the Jewish people, black people, white people, no matter what your color is."

Before the speech, Ishmael Muhammad, an aide to Farrakhan said: "This unjust sanction deprives the American public and others of the basic right to know.

"It's an abridgement of free speech in a country that presents itself to a democracy and does not public good," he said.

"This is a free-speech issue," Pfleger told CNN. "I do not agree with everything Minister Farrakhan has said I do not agree with anyone on everything, but we are in a dangerous time.

Before the address, Flager said: Farrakhan "has been a bold voice against injustice done against black people in this country and his voice deserves and needs to be heard."

Some groups are pushing back on Farrakhan's appearance

But one local Jewish-led organization is Saint Sabina's blasting for hosting Farrakhan, who has a long history of anti-Semitic statements.

"The Holocaust started with hatred and prejudice," said Fritzie Fritzshall, an Auschwitz survivor and president of the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie, Illinois. The museum is holding a press conference Thursday to protest Saint Sabina 's decision to host Farrakhan.

"When community leaders like Father Pfleger provide a platform for bigotry and anti-Semitism, it increases the threat against all of humanity," Fritzshall said.

Phil Andrew, the Archdiocese of Chicago's director of violence prevention, was the subject of the Holocaust Museum denouncing Saint Sabina for hosting Farrakhan, according to a spokesman.

In a statement, the Archdiocese of Chicago, that its leader, Cardinal Blase Cupich, was not consulted before Pfleger announced the event with Farrakhan and that the archdiocese is "not sponsoring" the speech.

The minister has long been a controversial figure

The Southern Poverty Law Center lists Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam as a "hate group," saying that "deeply racist, antisemitic and anti-gay rhetoric of its leaders, including top minister Louis Farrakhan, have earned the NOI a prominent position in the ranks of organized hate. "

Pfleger, who has long worked with African-American leaders in Chicago, said Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam are respected locally for their anti-violence and anti-drug campaigns.

"Nobody has done more in the saving of young men and lives around the lives of the Nation of Islam." His respect in the African-American community has been consistent.

But Pfleger said these emails and phone calls have been made in this week of criticism for him Farrakhan and threatening to withdraw donations to the church and its programs.

"If you would have heard and felt the stuff," he said. "I was shocked – and I have gotten a lot of hate in my life.