Enforcing Correctness

IN A SPEECH TO A FEW DOZEN STUDENTS at Kean College in Union, New Jersey, Khalid Abdul Muhammad, a senior official with the Nation of Islam, got thousands of people mad. He called Jews "hook-nosed, bagel-eatin', lox-eatin' " imposters. He attacked Catholics: "The old no-good Pope . . . somebody need to raise that dress up and see what's really under there." Gays: "God does not name holy books after homosexuals." And even other blacks, including Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates: "Who let this Negro out of the gate?"

And so it began. Muhammad, who is a top aide to Louis...