![]() “I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well‐meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did. and in most instances, even beyond the level of intellect and reason. ![]() ![]() ![]() But as his then most faithful disciple, I represented and defended him at all levels. “For 12 long years I lived within the narrow‐minded confines of the ‘strait‐jacket world’ created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad was a messenger direct from God Himself, and my faith in what I now see to be a pseudoreligious philosophy that he preaches. He has spent many months in Mecca studying with the grand imams of Islam-ranking scholars of Islam-and working with the Muslim World League. Malcolm broke with Elijah Muhammad, who advocates black separatism, earlier this year and founded his own nonsectarian black nationalist organization. ![]() In a letter from Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to a friend in New York, Malcolm said he had embraced the brotherhood of man and “shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well‐meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.” Malcolm X has renounced the philosophy of black racism and denounced Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Black Muslims, as a. ![]()
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