Americans often say that Malcolm X was ¡°the angriest Negro in America¡± (p. 366). They assume that Malcolm X emphasized only violence to the white and separation of the black from the white. However, is this assumption about Malcolm X really true? Not, at all. The image of Malcolm X as an icon of ¡°black power¡± is not a truth but a myth made by media. Although I grant that Malcolm X had been a radical activist who had tried to improve life of the black and to separate the black from the white before quitting the Nation of Islam, I still argue that Malcolm X eventually realized that the white and the black could exist together with harmony under GOD, Allah, after Hajj.
While orthodox Islam is completely a religion, the Nation of Islam is a religious socio-political organization not merely a religion. As a socio-political organization, the Nation of Islam aims at improving life of the black rather than worshiping GOD. Although the believers in the Nation of Islam would......

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