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Tle re ete See a De eae La ee el le ee NY 105-8999 g PFT The New York "Amsterdam News", local New York Negro newspaper, dated May 23, 1964, contained an article captioned "Is Mecca Trip Changing Malcolm X?". This article in part states: "Has the visit of Malcolm X, now El Hajj Malik El Shabbazz, to Mecca ami with Muslim leaders in Africa changed him to bem me soft in his anti-white feelings and to become more religious? "This is the feeling of this reporter following receipt of a newsletter this week from Nigeria in which Malcolm, who is due to return to New York next week, said that he was being received with warm hospitality throughout Africa where he said 'they love us as their long ~- lost brothers. ' “Asserting that his trip to Mecca had officially established his new religious Muslim Mosque, Inc., at the Hotel Theresa, Malcolm said his trip had also establihed that Africans are interested in the plight of the nation's 22 million African Americans. "A--possible clue to Malcoim's suspected change in his militant racial attitudes was seen in a newsletter received thie week by the Amsterdam News. : "tas far as the Muslims of Asia, Arabia, and even Europe, are concerned, in regerde to the plight of the 22 million African-Americans, the Koran compels all people who accept the Islam religion to take a firm stand on the side of anyone whose human rights are being violated, no matter what the religious persuasion of the victims may be. , -97~ CMPRET