Basically all of them were deceived and tricked into following a bastardized version of Islam. Malcolm was even killed over it. There's a reason Ali converted to Sunni Islam and left the Nation.
"Ali understood strength," Dr. Ferdie Pacheco, Ali's corner man and personal physician, once explained. Just like Sonny Liston understood the Mafia, Ali understood that you did not f*** with the (Black) ******s ?Many of the promoters who were used to skimming a bit off a fighter's purse and divvying it up with the mob, now faced the wrath of the Nation of Islam if they tried pulling such a stunt with Ali."
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