Why did Malcolm X leave the Nation of Islam?

Question

I know that he disobeyed a direct order from Elijah Muhammad... but I'm not clear as to why exactly he left and made his new organization....

Answer 1

Malcolm X originally believed that the Nation of Islam's message of black superiority and violent rebellion was right. After a pilgrimage to Mecca, he realized that people of all races could come together peacefully and he began to have doubts about the NOI. He also disagreed with Elijah Muhammad's claim that the NOI founder Warith Muahmmad was literally God in person. Read the article below to learn more about the Nation of Islam. The NOI (Black Muslims) are not considered to be Muslims by Muslims.

In an interview in 1965, he said, "I realized racism isn't just a black and white problem. It's brought bloodbaths to about every nation on earth at one time or another. Brother, remember the time that white college girl came into the restaurant — the one who wanted to help the Muslims and the whites get together — and I told her there wasn't a ghost of a chance and she went away crying? Well, I've lived to regret that incident. In many parts of the African continent I saw white students helping black people. Something like this kills a lot of argument. I did many things as a [black] Muslim that I'm sorry for now. I was a zombie then — like all [black] Muslims — I was hypnotized, pointed in a certain direction and told to march. Well, I guess a man's entitled to make a fool of himself if he's ready to pay the cost. It cost me 12 years. That was a bad scene, brother. The sickness and madness of those days — I'm glad to be free of them."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_Islam

Answer 2

Elijah Muhammad was Malcolm's right hand man, But, Elijah was having extramarital relationships with his secretaries. Adultery was condemned by the Nation of Islam. Also, Malcolm made controversial remarks about the Kennedy assassination which led to his censorship by Elijah. Ultimately, these two things caused his departure.

Answer 3

Because he wanted to enter a Samba dance contest and dancing was forbidden in the nation of islam after louis farakhan enter a rumba contest and only placed second.

Answer 4

"They're afraid that I will tell the real reason that they've been -- that I'm out of the Black Muslim movement, which I never told, I kept to myself. But the real reason is that Elijah Muhammad, the head of the movement, is the father of eight children by six different teenaged girls, six different teenaged girls who were his private personal secretaries

Answer 5

he left cuz he found out the chief, elija muhammad grow to be a fraud, that he did no longer prepare what he preached. In Malcomes very own words (im tyring to keep in mind superb i'm able to from his e book) he pronounced "i assumed in elija Muhammad greater desirable than elija Muhammad believed in himself" additionally what Malcome found out approximately Elijah grow to be that he has toddlers with under elderly women, which grow to be agaisnt the NOI regulations, and upon figuring this out malcome ought to no longer believe it, that the guy he observed and can die for grow to be a phoney. Which prompted him to return and forth to mecca Malcome discovered real islam while he made his pilgrimage to mecca and delivered its coaching lower back to u.s., as to the way it replaced African american justice in the west? properly, Malcome got here lower back no longer hating all white form, yet fairly merely whites who lived in u.s. with the aid of their lack of ability to verify Blacks as equals, nevertheless after mecca Malcome knew properly that no longer all white men are evil as he as quickly as concept under the coaching of Elijah Muhammad

Answer 6

he left his phone at home

Answer 7

He wanted to get physical. Muhammad did not.