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A ‘Strait-Jacket World’ In his letter dated Sept. 22, | Malcolm wrote: “Per 12 long years TI hved: within the narrow-minded con¢ fines of the ‘strait-jacket world}. ‘roated by my strong belied: that Elijah Muhammad was messenger direct from God: Himself. and my faith in what. I now see to be a pseudo religi- ous philosophy that hc preaches. Bur as his then most faithfull disciple, I represented and de-| fended him at all levels - and in most instances, even be- yond the level of intellect and) Teason. | “T shall never rest until 1! save undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Necroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did. If Western society had not gone to such extremes to block out the knowledge of True Islam, there Would not be such a re- tizious ‘vacuum’ among Ai-eri- can Negroes today into which any religious faker can bring ail forms of distorted ‘religious concactions and represent it to! our unsuspecting people as True Tsiam." All Men Brothers vt Malealm continued: “I declare em "I declare em-: phaticaily thai I am no longer! in| Etifah Muhammad's ‘strait "fi ” lod Hine o tp 4 - th a “ sacket.' and T don't intend to! ooypeniace oct ace, Tam a Muslim it ovihodox sense; m | iF era oa it fe ‘eee! hs with one woven “a is Se: : Vitieal, economic. psychologica! ’ plete.” CUE BS 1g gual responsibilities.” a id [oY aa “This religion ‘recognizes alt| mien as brothers, It accepts ait} human beings as equals befor?! God, and as cqual mombers ih the Human Family of Mankind.|, I totally reject Elijjah Muhami} ~y mad’s racist philosophy, which| he has labeled ‘Isiam' only to fool and misuse gullible people, as he focled and misused me. But I blame only myself, and no one else for the fool that I was, and the harm that my evangelic foolishness in his be- half has done to others.” © Malcolm wrote that he was neither anti - American, un- American, seditious nor subver- sive, but an open-minded man who was trying to weigh every- thing objectively. Vows Belief In Allah He said he was “fed up with strait-jacket societies.” : “I respect every mans right to believe whatever his intcili-| gence leads him to believe is in-| telicctually saund,” Matcolm said, “and I respect my right to| believe likewise,” } After reaffirming his helicf, fn Allah as the Supreme Being, and in the Prophet Mohammed.’ Malcolm said, “yet some of my; dearest fricnds are Christians,, Jows, Buddhists, Hindus, agnos-; dics; and cven atheists—somc, are capitalists, Socialists, and. Communists—some are modcr- atcs, conservatives, extremists, —some are even Uncle Toms.’ “It takes all these religious, po and racial ingredients," he said,[ "tq make the Human Family and the Human Society com- Turning to the racial situa- tlon in the United States, Maleolm said, “no one has to stir up the Negroes,” and that the “sociological dynamite” stemming from unemployment, pad housing and inferior educa- tion existed in American society.” Asks ‘Meaningfal Actions’ "It takes no one ta set it off... Putting the hl ne on me and other militants will never decrease nor stop these racial explosions tdoay, Nothing will stop [them] but reaj méaning=+ ful actions, sincerely motivated) by a deep sense of humanism} and moral responsibility to re-} move once and for the _ basic causes that produce the ‘materials’ for these ¢xplosive conditions. . “We must forget politics and propaganda and approach this as a Human Problem which ail of us as human beings are obti-| gated to correct. 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