http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/749116.stmFard/Ford dissapeared after 1934. Its plausible he was killed; he, and his followers in the Moorish Science Temple were involved in a number of homicides, and ritual murders. A journalist claims Fard was of Pakistani descent.
Concerning Farakhan and Malcolm, Farakhan admitted to fostering a environment that was conducive to Malcolm's killing.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/749116.stm
I think Malcolm would have been taken out anyway.... it's not like the gov decided to kill him once he split from the NOI - they already wanted him gone. Farrakhan just made the shyt easy for them to do the usual divide and conquer...
Farakhan routinely called Malcolm a hyprocite, or a Judas. What do you do with a hyprocite? Do you allow them to further spill slander against your leader, or do you deal with them with extreme prejudice? One of the reasons why I think it was possible for the NOI to be complicit in Malcolm's death is becuause of the murders some of their members from Philadelphia committed in N.W. D.C. in1973 in which 4 children were drowned. All because the man they wanted to kill broke away from the NOI, and spoke about some of the chicanery he felt Elijah was practising.
http://books.google.com/books?id=hvM8cFfb1X0C&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=hanafi killings in d.c.&source=bl&ots=QHiXe5BrWv&sig=hZjGlxI4uCp_GIBpGyNhdbuoh-U&hl=en&sa=X&ei=utsIUqC_Fsjb2AWE_oCwAw&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=hanafi killings in d.c.&f=false
Its also possible the government was involved in Malcolm's killing as alleged in these books.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Judas-Factor-Plot-Malcolm/dp/1560250666
http://www.amazon.com/To-Kill-Black-Man-Shocking/dp/0870679821
That running through the crib murking people shyt was some crazy shyt... the man they were targeting was getting money from madd people and doing corrupt shyt just like Elijah, he was hypocritical. Since the beginning of Islam orthodox, cult, or other... That's pretty much how hypocrites are dealt with. Combine that with hood shyt and there u go. I have cuz who murked some people and kidnapped a dudes daughter... over some drugs. He was dealt with in a crazy way and burned.. Point is, fire is usually met with fire. That dude got upset at getting demoted within the nation - then left and sent our nationwide letters blasting the nation, then had his own goons doing goon shyt - so it was expect that goon shyt would happen to him. Not that it's right, but you know "live by the sword"... But just to keep it in prospective - that situation wasn't a case of some dudes from a Mosque murking. it was gangsters and gangs with affiliations to Elijah who had beef. Those dudes were doing that same shyt before they ever even heard of Islam.
I think that was a bad look for the nation. The black mafia in phili was a drug selling drug using group. The nation wasn't. It's just that some of the nation members met them in prison and then joined the nation and the partnership was formed. The Nation provided empowerment to youth - that gang provided drug money to support that shyt. The nation provided black businesses... that gang used those business as fronts for illegal activities. It's not like the NOI was getting bank loans or government support -- so it was a partnership. The gang members murked people who fukked with the nation because they felt like that was fukking w their money. But no one who was 'targeted' was innocent w/o bodies on their own hands.