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PW - 12/15/01 . ~i:e#tet~e an h~re in this ancient'Rf1ty Land, the home of ~ent~t#~~dc~ctivist.;preadiing· t6 all his Abraham,jv~u~cmztnad and alt the other ":::feIfQ,~·~:·blac.k;ihmates. He b~came an P-rophets. ofthe ..FlolYS criptures;." Malcolm 's ~':ext~emblyi~nuential.preacher, and·discov· letter from Saudi Arabia, in 1964, dis­ ered th~t black inmates were among the played his religiollstransformation illus­ easiest converts because of the Nation of trated by his statement, "The whites as well Islam's message of black prid~ and racial , ,as the ?lon-whites who accept t17te Islam. become separation. In an attempt to attain sup­ a cha11ged p~{jple. I have eaten with people port for the Nation, Malcolm traveled to whose eyes w~l"e the blttest 0/ blue;wh()s~hair religious trans­ Asia. and Africa in 1959. Driven by a was the blondest of blond,' and whoje skin was formation. realized the pblidcalobjective, Malcolm did not real-. the whitest of white ... arid Ifilt !he same sin­ Many key inci~ fact that he itethathis continual attempts to recon- " cerity in the words and deeds of these 'white' dents, people, had allowed' cile the ideology of the Muslims that'ifohamongthe African . and appeals to his intellect aI'ld~the "Islam of Makkah"- or authentic MttJIims of Nigei-u) Sudan and Ghana. True logical argu­ Y"- and soul to Islam- would spark a series of questions Islam removeS'racis7fl, be,·attse people of all col­ ments framed plummet· to about what he as a Muslim believed. ors and 1'aces who atcept its 'reiigiol£s principles Malcolm's con­ a dark abyss. Malcolm would now undertake one of the and bow to the.One God, Allah, also automat- version, Even ,As a salva- most influential periods of his quest for truth. His transition from the first to the second conversion had now commenced.

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'Whereas,~ev&dence has shown that MALCOLM SHABAZZ was in such a fragile state of mind that he did not and could not have foreseen that a fire he allegedly started would c~use injury to his grandmother, the Honorable DR. BETTY SH-.WAZZ, (the ,widow of MALCOLM X-whom MALCOLM SHABAZZ loves dearly), and ~ereas, prosecutors are aware that MALCOLM SHABAZZ 'need$ psychological att ent' Ion IDS. t eac1" otl~rrr!."nna . . 1 procecu' t' lon, 'We,the undersigned, are hereby requesting that any and all pending or " contemplated criminal charges against MALCOLM SHABAZZ be dropped, and that 'such prosecution be cancelled on the condition that MALCOLM SHABAZZ gets the emotional and psycholigical counseling he so cUrely needs.

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