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= i 7 a a ¥ » cele nye 4 TS , eal Matcolm X Finds Africans, Arabs Fret More About Us Than Selves EDITOR'S NOTE—This feature represents an arrangement In which Malcola x, son of the leader of an American mevement in the Islamlo faith, has communicated with the na- tional desk of The Pittsburgh Courier. _terpreted by Maleolm X are herewith presented. impressions of Africa and the aren east of Suez as tn- K_ ANDARAH PALACE HOTEL, “Saudi Arabia—The people of Arabia : are 8 Just like our pedple in America in facial appearance, They are of many differing shades, rang- ing from regal black te rich brown, but none are white, It is a safe postulation to say that 99 per cent of them would be jim-crowed in the United States of America, The people of Arabia know more about the color problem, and sem even more concerned and angered by the injustices our people receive in America than the socalled Negroes themselves, The predominant religion of Southwest Asia, Arabla and Afcica, of course, is Islam. Since the Pittsburgh Courier is the first newspaper In Amer- ica to carry Mr. Muhammad's column, it is the most widely read of the American joumala News about the rapid increase of Mosiems in America, plas other-ectensive news items on Africa and Asia, make your sheet very important fer Ara blans, The majority of this Arabian population cannot be distin- guished fram the people ef Af ts ‘rica. In tact, the darkest Arabs. I have yet seen are right here en the Arabian peninsular: Most of these people would be right at home in Harlem. And all of them refer warmly to. our people in America as their “brothers of color.” There is no color prejudice among Moslems, for Islam teaches that all mortals are equal and brothers. Whereas~- the white Christians In the Western world teach this same thing without practicing lt. Here In the Moslem world not oaly is & taught, ié ts actually “sa way of life.” Even the white Christians are forced {o admit, in this area, that Moslemg have the truest (and most intelligently eonceived) form of devotion to the Que True God—the Su- “ preme: Being, “whose proper name is Allah, 8 | AM LEAVING Arabia without visiting the Holy City, Mecca; an experience which would break the average Mos- Iem's heart; but if it is Allah's will, I shall return with Mr. Ekijah Muhammad, spiritual head of the American Mos- lems when he comes to this area during the fall — Something I ate just before leaving Cairo gave me a seri- ous seige of upset stomach (dlarrhea), a bacifiary expo sure which made it impossible for me to travel 6$ miles into the desert, through 110-degree ; temperatures, beneath a piti- Jess sun. - Bad plane connections from Jeddah, te my regret, mean that if I miss my plane this morning, I will have, te cancel my tour to Afri «ll. So, I am postponing my jour- ney to Mecca, cancelling my stay In Asmara {Eritrea} and Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), and gcing southwards, straight to Khartoum (Sudan) and Lagos {Nigeria}. - I regret the tact, because I should have felt the pulse of as many of the African masses as~pessitfe before returning tg the United States. |