Black Britons packed out a London nightclub on Sunday to hear U.S. black activist Louis Farrakhan preaching an anti-war message, circumventing his ban from the UK by appearing via videolink.
Several hundred followers, the men in trademark black suits and the women in white robes, flocked to The Fridge nightclub in Brixton, south London to hear what Farrakhan said would be his last message before America goes to war with Iraq.
Hilary Muhammad, Farrakhan's representative in London, warned of "serious ramifications for us here in the UK" if Prime Minister Tony Blair backed the U.S. in its plan to strike Iraq.
"We are living in an endangered democracy, because the ruling party is not listening to those who elected them," said Muhammad.
Close to one million Britons marched through London last Saturday demanding Blair pulled back from war.
Farrakhan, 69, who once called Judaism a "gutter religion," was banned from entering Britain in 1986 because the government said his views were anti-Semitic and racially-divisive.
He has been welcomed by some world leaders, last year visiting some of the West's biggest bogeymen, including Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe.