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r (Want Te—Undo My The New Y, wee losophy/ of racism and has denounced Elijah M Fam ' mad, Header of the Chicago-based Black Muslim move- ment, as a religious ‘ “faker.” In two long letters from Mecea, Saudi Arabia, to a friend in New York, Malcolm X said he has embraced _ the brotherhood of man and “shall never rest until I ‘ bave undone the harm { did to so many well-meaning, = innocent Negroes who through my, own evangelistic _. & teal notp believe in him (Muhammad) even more farypt- ically more blindly than | did.” The erstwhile national spokesman of the Black Mus- lim movement broke with Elijah Muhammad earlier thls year and founded his own non-sectarian Nationalist organization. He has spent many months in Mecca studying with the grand jmams of Islam and working , With the Muslim World League. In a letter dated Sept. 22, Maleolm wrote: “Bie 12 long years (hived within the naripw- minddf confines of the ‘strait-jacket-world’ created by my sitong belief that Elijah Muhammad was a mes- senger direct from God Himself, and my faith in © _ what I now see to be a pseudoreligious philosophy that he preaches.’ . “But as his then most faithful disciple, T represent: _ed and defended him at all levels “ instances, Te did ‘to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes jhe through my own evangelisile zeal now believe in bim * even more fanatically and more blindly than I did. Negroes today into which any religious faker can bring * all forms of distorted religious concoctions and re it to our unsuspecting people as True Islam." ‘I declare emphatically,” Malcolm continued, * : I po longer in Elijah Muhammad's ‘strait-ja et, £ and 1 don’t intend to beplace his with one woven by _ 64 OCT 15.1364. Oo ee ee a aie rom ae | NEW YORK ~- Malcolm X has renounced the phi- . and in most | even beyond the level at intellact and | '§ shall never rest until | have undone the h 1 “IE Western society had nol § gone to such extremes to block cut the knowledge 41 true Islam, there woukl - * mot be such a religious ‘vacuum’ among American ~ "sen Wrongs’ —Malcolm X nf else. I am 2 Muslim. in the most 0} ; my religion is Islam as it fs believed in, practiced by the Muslims here in the holy ci Mecca. “This religion recognizes all men as brothers. It ° accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind, “I tetally reject Elijah Muhammad's racist- philosophy which he has labeled ‘Islam’ only to fool and misuse gullible people, as he fooled and misused me. But I blame only myself, and no one else, for the (ol that I was, and the harm that my evangellstic foolishness in his behalf has done to others.” lcolm wrote that he is not aliAmerican, un- American, seditious nor subversive, but an open- minded man trying to weigh everything objectively. we OST 14 1904 . - al oma