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Malcolm X — Part 22
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MALCOLM:
"Well, as a Muslim, since I left ELIJAH MUHAMMAD's
Black Muslim movement, I should say since they put me out cause
that is what they did, I have had a chance to do some traveling
and travel does broaden your scope and as a Muslin whose
religion is Islam, as it is practiced and taught in the Muslin
world, I realize that it is impossible to call oneself a
Muslin, to call one's religion Islam and at the same time
judge a man by the color of hia skin, When I went © Mecca,
I was faced with a decision, I was faced with the décision
of believing what ELIJAH MUHAMMAD had taught me and using
the criteria of judgment by the color of skin, or I had to
accept Islam as it was taught in the Muslin world whick
doesn't use color of the skin as the criteria, rather in the
Muslim world, in the religion of Islam, you judge a man by’
his behavior, by his conscious behavior, by his intentions,
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KUP:
"This poses two very interesting things. In other
words, you no longer believe as ELIJAH MUHAMMAD has been quoted
as saying that all white men are devils. You have changed
everything.
MALCOLM:
"If ELIJAH MUHAMMAD says that all white men are
devils, then you ve the King of Arabia, the King Faisal,
who is white. He is the keeper of the Holy City’of Mecca and
many other Arabs in Arabia, in Egypt, in Algeria, and in
other places. They are from all appearances white.
KuUP:
“Kow this poses a second problem I would Mike to get
your opinion on. Of course, you may be biased because you no .
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