Supporting the First Amendment right of free speech while challenging those who use it to spread vitriolic hatred is not simple. Nowhere is this more evident than in ADL's aggressive stands

Full-page ADL newspaper ad exposing Khalid Abdul Muhammad and alerting parents to his hatemongering agenda for the "Million Youth March" in New York.

against the hate-filled rhetoric of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and his former lieutenant Khalid Abdul Muhammad.

When Mr. Farrakhan was given a platform by NBC's "Meet The Press" news program, ADL was outraged, and ran a full-page newspaper ad in The New York Times and The Washington Post. On the program, Mr. Farrakhan labeled Jews "the greatest controllers of Black minds, Black intelligence" and called NAACP Chair Julian Bond "a slave" to Jewish philanthropists.

ADL also took action when Mr. Muhammad, who had been dismissed from the Nation of Islam for being too extreme even for Mr. Farrakhan, announced his plan to lead a "Million Youth March" in New York City in September. The League alerted parents to Mr. Muhammad's hatemongering agenda by running full-page ads in The New York Times, the New York Daily News, the Forward, and several other newspapers just before the march. Under the headline "Armed. Dangerous. And Filled with Hate," the ad quoted some of Mr. Muhammad's most vicious statements against Jews, whites, gays, and the Pope, and urged African-American parents not to let their children participate in the march.

ADL's position and strategy remain in place: to challenge the rhetoric of Mr. Farrakhan and Mr. Muhammad at every opportunity; to counter their efforts to gain mainstream acceptance and legitimacy.