Quote Originally Posted by El Kabong View Post
The Nation of Islam is nothing but a group of segregationists hiding behind a veil of "religion"....Malcolm X started to stray from the flock when he actually WENT to Mecca and saw Muslims of all colors and then he understood Elijah Muhammad was a bullshit artist who was scamming money off of loads of people to take care of his many many many children. And Malcolm X was a bum too. In boxing The NOI were no better than the Mafia, they fixed fights and bullied opponents quite a bit. All the better to line their pockets.


I don't care about a boxers politics, it shouldn't be an issue, it's a person who gets paid to punch people in the head....you want to put your faith in a brain that's taken shots from Joe Frazier and George Foreman and Earnie Shavers? Be my guest.


I don't think we're defending Islam here as much as we're defending the right of people who change their name based on some conscientious reason, as opposed as to how it sounds in Spanish.