Have u guys read the autobiography of Malcolm X?

[numba1stunna]

Salaams all

i just finished reading this book and Masha Allah, this is one of the best books i've read, much better then the film and there were a couple of things that really got to me about the autobiography, a couple of things that werent really shown in the film, like here are a couple of examples

1) when Malcolm made the pilgrimage, one of the things he emphasised on was dawah

" it was the largest Hajj in history, i was later told. Kasem Gulek, of the turkish parliament, beaming with pride, later informed me that from turkey alone over 600 buses over 50 thousand muslims had made the pilgrimage. i told him that i dreamed to see the day when shiploads and planeloads of american muslims would come to mecca for hajj. ( page 458)

" behind my nods and smiles, though i was doing some am4erican type thinking and reflection, i saw that islams conversions around the world could double and triple if the colorfullness and the true spiritualness of the hajj pilgrimage were properly advertised and communicated to the outside world. i saw that arabs were poor at understanding the psychology of non arabs and the importance of public relations. the arabs said insha Allah (God willing) and then they waited for converts. even by this means Islam was on the march, but i knew that with improved public relations methods the number of new converts turning to Allah could turn into the millions (page 459)

2) another wicked part in the book that wasnt emphasised in the film was that Malcolm confronted and outsmarted the C.I.A agent that was following him whilst he was abroad in the middle east

" through ,y trip i was aware that i was under constant surveillance. the agent was particularly obvious and an obnoxious one; i am not sure of what agency, he never identified it, or i would say it. Anyway, this one finally got under my skin when i found out i couldnt eat a meal in the hotel without seeing him somewhere areound watching me. you would have thought i was john dilliger or somebody.

i just got up from my breakfast one morning and walked over ot where he was and i told him that i knew he was following me and if he wanted to know anything, why didnt he just ask me. He started to give me one of those too-lofty-to-descend-to you attitudes. i told him then right to his face he was a fool, that he didnt know me, or what i stood for, so that made him one of the people that led somebody else do their thinking. and that no matter what a job a man had, at least he ought to think for himself, that stung him;he let me have it.

i was, to hear him tell it, anti-American, un-American, seditious, subversive and probably cimmunist. i told him that what he said only proved how little he understood about me. i told him the only thing the F.B.I, the C.I.A or anyone else could only find me guilty of was being open minded. i said i was for truth and i was trying to weigh out - objectuvely - everything on its own merit.

i said was i was against was straight jacketed thinking and strait jacketed societies. i said i respect every mans right to believe whatever his intelligence tells him is intellectually sound and i expect everyone else to respect my right to believe likewise. this 'super-sleuth' then got off on my 'black muslim' religious beliefs. i asked him hadnt his headquarters bothered to brief him - that my attitudes and beliefs were changed? i told him that the Islam that i believed in was the one being taught in Mecca - and that there was no God but Allah and that Muhamamd Ibn Abdullah whol lived in the holy City 1400 years was the last messenger of Allah.

almost from the first i had been guessing about something; and i took a chance - and i really shook up the 'super-sleuth'. from the consistent subjectivity of everything he asked and saidm i had deduced something and i told him, 'You know i think your a jew with an Anglicized name.' his involuntary expression told me i'd hit the button. He asked me how i knew. i told him i'd had such experience with how jews would attack me that i could identify them. i told him that i held against the the jew was that so many jews actually were hypocrites in their claims to be the friend of the american black man, and it burned me up to be so called 'anti-semetic' when i spoke things that i knew were the absolute truth about the jews.

i told him that yes, i gave the jews credit for being amongast all other whites the most active, and the most vocal financier 'leader' and 'liberal' in the negro civil rights movement. but ibut at the same time i told him that i knew that the jew played these roles for very strategic reason; the more prejudice in America that could be focused upon the negro, then the more white gentiles prejudice would keep diverted off the jew.

i said that to me one proof that all civil rights posturing of so many jews wasnt sincere that so often in the north the quickest segregationist were jews themselves. look at practically, everything the black was trying to integrate into, for instance; if the jews were not the actual owners, or are not in controlling positions, then they have major stockholdings or they are otherwise in powerful leverage positions - and do they actually sincerely exert these influences? No!

and even clearer proof for me of how the jews truly regard negores, i said was invariably happened whenever a negro moved into white residential neighbourhoods that was thinckly jewish. who would always lead the white exodus? The Jews! Generally in these situations, some white guy stays put - you just notice who they are; they're irish catholics, they're italians, they're rarely ever any jews and ironically, the jews themselves still often have trouble being 'accepted'

saying this i knoqw i'll hear 'anti-semetic' from every direction again. Oh Yes! but truth is truth" (page 489 - 491)


May Allah reward him with jannatul-firdaws, ameen

[lilmiss_petite]

amazinggggggggggg autobiography, read it twice, reading it for the third time at mo. truley inspiring, his life story is just amazing, and so well told.

[*Kiran*]

Oooh i wanna read this, where can you get it from?
I love books, Is it actually from Malcolm X himself, or has it been written by someone else like most authors do.

Where you get yours from .. gimme it.. i wanna read..

[ßåߥ G¥äL]

It's an autobiography, so it's his ideas, emotions, feelings etc but I think it's from interviews he's given someone?

[*Kiran*]

yea cuz sometimes an autobiography of a person can be written from someone else, thats why i asked is it from Malcolm X himself or another author?

Some authors do that you know, snidy lil gits, but still..

All i need the name of the book and the authors name, i'll find out where i can buy it myself after that..

[lilmiss_petite]

Originally Posted by *Kiran*

Oooh i wanna read this, where can you get it from?
I love books, Is it actually from Malcolm X himself, or has it been written by someone else like most authors do.

Where you get yours from .. gimme it.. i wanna read..

his story been told by alex haley, reporter and author, who interviewed him a few times and they collaborated together. *throws her the book*
it is got to be one of the best biographys ive ever read.

[*Kiran*]

Originally Posted by lilmiss_petite

his story been told by alex haley, reporter and author, who interviewed him a few times and they collaborated together. *throws her the book*
it is got to be one of the best biographys ive ever read.

Your fantastic thank you

x

[Paki Gyal]

Yeah, I've never got round to finishing it... this summer Insh'Allah. But from what I've read so far and from what you've posted up its brilliant.

[Imy786]

I chose this for a project at school and yeah it was very inspiring.