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nite t-te ee f- 106-084 9a9 ad > Mekey Caperg /- kn. UT AATTT anrapm Louw Lia ocey! RAGIST DOOTRINE Aiso Denounces Elijah as a Religious ‘Faker’ ty MS. HANDLER Maleoitu X has renounced the Pinlesopay of block racism and Genocnved: Elijah Muhammad, leader of Une Diack Musims, as ao religuoux “faker,” In a lefler from Mecca. Sandi Arabin, to a friend in New York. Miveotm raid he? had embrced the brotherhood of man and “shall never rest until T have undone (he harm Tiuini ta so many well-meaning, inneweal Neproes who through nv own evangelglic, zeal now YeLeve in fElijch Muhammad} evea more fanatically and more laamiy than T did.” i Malcom broke with) Elijan! Muhammad, whe advocates! Diack seporaticm, earlicr this year and founced his own non- sectaritn Brick nmationzist or- fanization, He has spent many months in Aleeca sbudying with; the rcrand imams of Isiam—' ranking scholars of Isiin— aul working with the Muslim World! League, - | ACSiraliduchet World | In his letter dated Sept. 22,! Afaleoim wrote: “Por 32 lone years I lived winin the narrow-minded con- fines of the ‘strait-jacket world’ erented by mv atrong belief, - that Blijah Muhawmnad was a mrs‘enzer direct from God ILead!, and my faith in what Tinawosee to be a pscudarclisi- om. En ophy that he preaches Truc as kis then most faithful: diccinlo, I repreatniied and de: fenied him at all levelx ... acd in most instanees, even be! yon! the level of intelicct and reas. 07" ~ ” /__ xerox ' OG 6 io ."T shall never rest have undone tae he's: fo many wellemens: i Ne s who thr: evangelistic zeat naw be him even more fanativea : and More blindly than foc. If, Western society had nei gone to much extremes to hice i cut the knowledge of True Fslam,: thore would not be such a re- lizious ‘vacuum’ amony Ameri-- can Necroes today into which any scicious faker can bring! afl foors of distorted rciigious concoctions and represent it to: our unmispecting people as True Islam.” All Men Brothers Malcolm continued: “I declare emphaticolky that, Iam no longer in Flijna Mure} hammad's ‘strait jacket,’ and 1; don't intend to replace his with one woven by someone cise. I am a Muslim in the most or- thodox sense; my religion is} Islam as it is believed in and: practiced by the Muslims here! in the Holy City of Merea. | “This religion recomnizes afl men as brothers. It accepts alli human beings as euals befurc Got, and as equal members in! the Human Family of Mankird.! { totally reject Elijah Muheri-; ned's racist philosonhy. which. heihas jabeled ‘Islam’ oniy Lai foul and misuse guliiule peopie,| as he fooled and misused me. But I blame only mvscif, and; no one else for the fool that T/ was, and the harm tht my, evangelic foolishness in his be-, half has done to ofhers.” t Maleoim wrote that he was neither antl - Americen, wie, American, seditious nor subver- sive, but an minded man who was trying to weigh every- thing objectively. : Vows Bellef in Aluh He waid he was “fed up with Strait-jacket nocicties.” “I reapect every matt's richt to believe whatever his intelli-. pence iets him te believe Is in-; telirclually , sound,” . Malcolm gaid, “and I respect my right to believe likewise.” BEL ON ede FORTARTED BE NY DIVISION NOT FORFARDED BY HY DIVISION ALL RYFORMATION CONTAINED wre " La) ih uc é DATE