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RE: MALCOLM K, LITYLE MN. honest analysis of the real negative defects in our characteristics or the characteristics of our community, these Negroes get their feelings all upset so the only way we can get to the root of our problem is to put the white man out and discuss it among ourselves. "You are advocating that 20,000,000 Muslims will be in the sect by 1970; that is about seven years away. Aud that, and aleo you are advocating that more than 90 per cent of the Negroes will have turned to the Muslim religion. That is such a short time. How do you think you can get so many? "The Honorable Elijah Muhammad has taught us that Islam is the religion of God, There is only one God, the creator of the Universe. "Let us take the matter of the religion of Islam now. How do you differentiate, if I may interrupt hére, Muslim, M-U-S-L-I-M from Moslem, M-O-S-L-3-N. "Well, ‘42 you were to go to the Moslem world and ask them what they are, they would say they are Muslias. Muslims is how it is pronounced in the Moslem world. Moslem itself, that word is only to gpologize or westernize or white mans' way for saying Muslin, So a Moslem is a Muslim, a Muslim and Moslem is just the way the white man says it, And because most Negroes don't understand this and they belive in imitating the white man, they go.around sayfng that we are not Moslems, we are Muslims, because actually they don't understand, they are just parroting what their white master has put inside their mouth. I." There is a separate language, is there not? “Arabic igs, well Arabic is the language that is spoken, that is most commonly spoken in the Muslim world, although the Muslim world stretches from China to the shores of West Africa. The religion of Islam is the # - 10 ~ fe as ae ana HEE Soe ene Ca Se ee