I'm in the middle of chapter 16 and something very shocking has happened. Elijah Muhammad committed adultery not once, but twice. Mr. Muhammad, the epitome of morality and justification, has betrayed everyone who has ever followed him. Especially Malcolm. Okay, I get that Elijah Muhammad is "silencing" Malcolm for disobeying him and telling the newspapers something that backfired on him: "Black Muslims' Malcolm X: 'Chickens Come Home to Roost'". What I don't get is how Elijah Muhammad justified his immorality...
When Mr. Muhammad meets with Malcolm he says: "I'm David. When you read about how David took another man's wife, I'm that David. You read about Noah, who got drunk--that's me. You read about Log, who went and laid up with his own daughters. I have to fulfill all of those things."
LKAJDLFASDJSLF?!?!
WHAT?!
Are you trying to tell Mr. X that you must mock anything that our biblical ancestors have done?Even if it was morally wrong?! That goes against everything he has ever stood for! This doesn't make any sense! What is even more appalling is that Malcolm ACCEPTS this fact. He ACCEPTS the fact that Muhammad is a copycat who disobeys the laws he himself made!
And theeeeen, when Muhammad "silences" Malcolm, Malcolm accepts this.
I know it is good to be an activist. And I know it is good to be passionate about your religion. But at a certain point, you are blind to the things around you. Maybe Malcolm knows this because he writes that he realized what Mr. Muhammad did was wrong, but even so; when this incident did happen with adultery, Malcolm's mind refused to believe what his sub-conscience already knew...
There will be more things in the next post and a link :] stay tuned!
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