America Is Investigating the Murder of Malcom X after 55 Years of the Incident

Malcolm Little or Malcolm X, or "Malik Shabazz" the name he chose for himself a year and a half before his death. His life depicts the aspects of racism encountered by blacks during the nineteenth century in the United States of America.

His life was full of exciting details, filled with enduring suffering. Since his birth, racial discrimination was practiced against blacks and they were called niggers and treated as animals in that period of time.

Malcolm X grew up rebellious and dropped out from school after completing high school with distinction. When his teachers felt afraid of him, they destroyed him psychologically and morally so that he lived a life of perversion and behavioral deviation and was imprisoned more than once.

The last time he had been in prison, his life radically changed to become a famous preacher. Yet the messages he was representing at that time were totally perverted from Islam. After visiting Saudi Arabia and performing the Hajj, he became acquainted with the true religion. Then he returned to America and established an organization to introduce and advocate Islam.

Just as his life was exciting, so was his death. 55 years after the assassination of the Islamic preacher Malcolm X.The US Federal Bureau of Investigation decided to re-investigate his murder.

Ruthless Upbringing Environment

Malcolm X's life was not easy. At the time he was born in the US state of Nebraska, specifically on May 19, 1925, racism against blacks in the United States was extremely intense. Six years after his birth, his father was murdered by a white racist group. They  smashed his head and put him in the path of a bus that ran over him until he died.

It was later claimed that he had committed suicide, which was a great shock to his family, especially the mother, who became a widow at the age of 34 and has to support eight children. Malcolm also lost four of his uncles at the hands of these racists.

With the loss of the father, the situation of the family exacerbated. They were unable to afford the basic needs for living and incapable of finding a source of income. At a time of growing racism against blacks, all requests for support submitted by Malcom’s mother were rejected. Therefore, she had to work as a domestic servant to be expelled quickly for racist reasons and ended up in a psychiatric hospital in 1939. Then the children were distributed to different homes.

In Prison

With the growing racism of the American people against people with brown skin and with the harsh conditions that Malcolm X lived through, Malcom regarded the words “Negro” or “Black” as part of his name. His morals worsened and he lived a life of loitering, intrusion and theft, so he was expelled from school at the age of sixteen and entered a juvenile prison and completed his high school from it.

The young man was superior to all his peers in high school and he dreamed of becoming a lawyer at that time, but his teachers had a great role in destroying his dreams because of the color of his skin and made the young man who graduated from high school with distinction to drop out and start working different dead-end jobs.

Malcolm moved from Michigan to Boston to live with his half-sister, where he became involved in criminal activities and became known in his teenage years as "Detroit Red" and evolved into Malcolm's street crook, drug dealer and leader of a gang of thieves in New York.

He was arrested again and sentenced to 10 years in prison after being convicted of theft and remained in prison from 1946 to 1952, when his sentence was reduced.

Malcolm entered the old Charlestown prison and was held in solitary confinement more than once. He learned from solitary confinement to be determined, strong-willed and how to abandon many of his habits.

Profound Transformations

The last prison stage represented a turning point in Malcolm's life after he moved in 1948 to Concord Prison, where his brother Philibert wrote to him that he had converted to Islam and that it was the natural religion of the black man. He also converted into Islam.

Malcolm's brothers played a major role in his conversion to Islam by sending letters to him inside prison urging him to learn about the Islamic religion. In one of the letters, his brothers wrote to him that “in Islam, a white man cannot enslave black people, all of them are created equal.”

Malcolm then moved to the prison, which is located in the countryside, where some university professors from Harvard and Boston lecture and has a huge library containing more than 10,000 old and rare volumes.

He spent the rest of his time inside the prison between in-depth reading in various fields, so that he used to read about 15 hours a day, and when the prison lights went out at ten in the evening, he would read by the light of the lamp in the corridor until the morning.

Malcolm was influenced in Norfolk by a prisoner named Bempy who had always talked about Islam and justice. He tells the prisoners: "Those who are outside the prison are not better than you, and the difference between you and them is that they have not yet fallen into the hands of justice."

He memorized the lexicon and his knowledge and intellect improved, Malcolm learned the Latin language after Bempy advised him to learn, so that he began to emulate his educated friend, and the prison seemed to him as a stage of scientific journey.

In prison, he gained a deep experience in public speaking thanks to the debates he had often held. His ability to argue and convince improved, and he began to invite other black prisoners to the Nation of Islam movement.

He was finally able to attract many to join this movement inside prison, so a pardon was issued against him after he spent 7 years in prison, and he was released 3 years before the expiry of his sentence.

Embracing Islam

While in prison, inspired by the ideas of the "Nation of Islam", Malcolm converted to Islam and kept in constant contact through correspondence with the movement's leader Elijah Muhammad until he was released from prison in 1952.

What Malcolm embraced was only scattered parts of the Islamic religion, and the ideas of the movement were based on clear deviations, anomalies and racism. A God for blacks only.

Despite this, the adherents of this movement had the morals and values ​​of Islam, and they were taking from the religion its appearance and leaving its essence, and despite these deviations far from the Islamic religion, Malcolm considered that this call came to save the blacks. The messages of Islam seemed appealing to him, specially because he suffered from losing his father, his four uncles and lost his brothers and many members of his race due to racism.

The "Nation of Islam" movement appeared in the early twentieth century among blacks in the United States by a mysterious black man named "Wallace Fard" who suddenly appeared in the state of Detroit calling for his doctrine among the blacks and disappeared four years later suddenly in a mysterious way as well. Following his footsteps Elijah Muhammad later became the head of the movement.

The belief of Elijah Muhammad was invalid. He claimed to be a prophet and a messenger from God, and that God is not something unseen, but must be embodied in a person, and this person is “Fard” and he is worthy of supplication and worship. Therefore, the prayer for them was reciting Al-Fatihah with an aphoristic supplication, heading towards Mecca and evoking the image of “Fard.” “In mind.

Elijah Muhammad believed only in what can be sensed and touched and did not believe in angels nor the unseen. He believed that the resurrection is for American blacks only, and fasting is for them in the month of December every year.

Islamic Preacher 

Malcolm was released from prison in 1952 and then began to write to his friends who were with him in prison and invited them to Islam. Malcolm then went to his brother in Detroit and worked with him in a furniture store. After several months, he attended one of the activities of the Nation of Islam movement and then officially joined the movement .

As all the mouvement members carry out, Malcolm changed his original name from Malcolm Little to Malcolm X. The X here symbolizes the last name that was stolen from them as a result of their enslavement by whites after they were brought from their countries of origin. Malcolm said about his new name: "The X symbolizes what I was and what I have become, as it means - in mathematics - the unknown and unknown origin."

Malcolm did not merely attend prayer in the mosque, but he went out inviting young black men everywhere to convert into Islam. He went to the bars, and many were affected by his uttered speech. He quickly became famous, and in a short period he became an imam in the Detroit State Mosque after he was an assistant to the imam, and he devoted his entire time to it.

Malcolm's Murder

The new Islamic speech presented by Malcolm was a source of inconvenience to the head of the racist "Nation of Islam" movement. Consequently, he launched a fierce media campaign against him in an attempt to deter people from Malcolm, but this campaign increased his insistence on continuing his call. Thus, Elijah returned to threaten him and ordered his death and set fire to his house on February 14 February 1965 but he and his family survived.

One week later, on the 21st of the same month, Malcolm went up to give a lecture calling for Islam in a conference room in New York City, and at that time a number of people created a quarrel to distract Malcolm's bodyguards. Then, a person came towards the platform and shot him in the chest, two other men came to the stage and sprayed him with bullets, hitting him with 16 bullets, killing him instantly.

The killers, who turned out to be members of “Nation of Islam” mouvement, were arrested but denied that they had received orders from Elijah Muhammad to kill Malcolm X, and affirmed that the murder decision and plan was theirs.

 

Re-Investigations

In February 2020, Netflix displayed a 6-part documentary entitled "Who Killed Malcolm X?" The film assumed that two of the convicts of his murder were not in the hall where he was giving the speech before his murder. Worth mentioning that the Hall was later called by his last name "Malik Shabazz Hall." The film presented a number of new evidence, despite the passage of nearly 55 years since his assassination.

After his presentation, commentators put forward a number of theories about his murder, including the possibility that the FBI was involved in the assassination of the controversial Islamic preacher and political activist, or that white racist organizations plotted to bring him down, or that the operation was actually carried out by his former comrades in the "Nation of Islam" movement.

The Office of the Attorney General in Manhattan, New York, said that it would review the case after new information emerged, and was working with the "Innocence" project, a non-profit organization working to restore respect to the wrongly convicted.