SPIRITUALITY
MALCOLM X and KSA By Ahmad Sabri
This year many people in America and across the world commemorated the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, the influential Black Muslim leader who was shot dead in Harlem in 1965. But what does this have to do with KSA?
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It turns out it has a lot to do with Jeddah and Makkah. Malcolm X was known for his defiance, his militant stances, and for being unapologetically supportive of the right to selfdefense even if it was in the form of armed self-defense.
But he was also a member of the Nation of Islam, an ideologically opaque group that preached racist notions. However, this changed towards the end of his short life when Malcolm X traveled to Hajj and received the cultural shock of his life. The shock
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You’re thinking, “How are Malcolm X and KSA related?”