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Nation of Islam — Part 3
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and his whole staff."" Wallace
: He also said,
| corruption; Iam referring to Mr. Muhammad
to the accusations against the Muslim hierarchy, telling the paper,
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"Not only are they true, they are mild."
Another son of Elijah, 25-year-old Akbar, was publicly denounced
in the January 1, 1965, issue of Muhammad Speaks." Better
as a “hypocrite”
| educated than other members of the family, Akbar graduated from a business
of 1961, has been attending a
| school in Chicago in 1958 and,since the Fall
da visit
university in Cairo, Egypt. Akbar's expulsion from the cult followe
nd wife and child made to this country during
while here, to denounce publicly
he and his Egyptian seco
November, 1964. Elijah had expected Akbar,
| Wallace, Malcolm X, and other "hypocrites. "’ Instead, Akbar told a New York
newspaper that while he was in Cairo his eyes had been opened. He said his
| | father's "brand" of religion was "a homemade one with its own tight rules and
' pegulations that tend to stifle any criticism of its leader.’ Akbar and his
family shortly returned to Egypt.
Elijah indeed has had trouble in his “royal family"!
Further confusing the image of Elijah Muhammad and the NOI were
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