What's nonsensical to me is how in this thread below:
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/who-are-5-black-people-in-history-you-admire.313243/
There are 11 mentions of Malcolm X
3 for Dr. Khallid Abdul Muhammad
1 for Muhammad Ali
But not one single mention of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad
Let me shut down the mythical notion that one can legitimately separate Malcolm from Elijah
We all know the silly narrative of Malcolm going to Mecca, inhaling too much camel sh-t and blah-blah-bah...
Now he's El Hajj Malik el Shabazz
Okay, where did he get the surname "Shabazz" from?
If one knows anything about the teachings of Elijah, which most people that blindly stan Malcolm don't, they would understand the significance of that surname "Shabazz." The teachings of Elijah Muhammad is 1 of the only, if not the primary, places where one would ever encounter the surname Shabazz. Malcolm did not go to Mecca and meet a bunch of people named Shabazz, if he met any at all. That name is almost exclusive to Elijah's teachings. Out of all of the holy, Arabic, "orthodox Muslim" names he could have took for himself, he still kept the name that ties him directly back to his teacher, The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad
Blind Malcolm stans never seem to think critically and realize that Elijah Muhammad is the man that white folks are trying their best to wipe out of history. If anyone knows of an Elijah Muhammad street, avenue, school, park, stamp, etc...let me know, I've never seen or heard of 1 (obviously unless it is done by the NOI )
If Martin Luther King is the "safe" alternative to Malcolm X per American propaganda, then in the same vein, Malcolm is the "safe" alternative to Elijah.
Pardon me for quoting myself, but to further this point:
If you type "Malcolm X travel 1959" into your search engine you will get links that say Malcolm visited Egypt, (then known as United Arab Republic) Sudan, Nigeria, Ghana, Holland, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, Syria... The point being, he was in the region of North Africa and the Middle East 5 years before he visited Mecca in 1964, and was so-called enlightened to "real Islam"
Regardless of any specific 1959 destinations, Malcolm already knew that Elijah Muhammad's teachings were different from Islam in the East. No one was more disciplined in following the teachings and training of Elijah Muhammad than Malcolm X. So the idea that these differences some how slip past Malcolm is straight up stupid.
Certain people wish to promote Malcolm's 1964 trip to Mecca as a mind blowing, earth shattering revelation of new information for Malcolm, but it was not.
Abdul Basit Naeem, Editor-Publisher of Moslem World & The U.S.A. wrote an introduction to Elijah Muhammad's "The Supreme Wisdom" First Edition 1957. Here is a quote:
I am, of course, fully aware of the fact that some of the teachings of Mr. Elijah Muhammad, which have been included in this book, would not be acceptable to Moslems in the East, without perhaps, some sort of explanation by the author or by someone who can interpret them well. The Moslem leader himself knows this, and he is perfectly frank about it...
I quoted Mr. Naeem's introduction to this book circa 1957, because Malcolm X wrote the preface to this book circa 1957.
The notion that Elijah Muhammad was hiding "real Islam" from Malcolm, or anybody else for that matter, is beyond asinine.
And for anyone trying to separate Dr. Khallid Abdul Muhammad from the Nation of Islam:
Dr. Khallid made Message to the Blackman in America, written by Elijah Muhammad, required reading when he became the head of the New Black Panther Party
And for good measure
Kwame Ture got 3 mentions in the above thread
Watch him here as he speaks of his affinity for The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, specifically the Million Man March:
(start at 7:48 of part 2 then the first 2 minutes or so of part 3)