“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 Muslim that I’m sorry for now. I was a zombie then — like all 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.”
-Malcolm X.
I was under the impression that Malcolm X left the Black Muslims in favor of becoming a Sunni Moslem at the end of his lfe. But that does not change the fact that Moslems were not factors in the Civil Rights movement of the early ‘60s.