No,the prospect of him being drafted and sent to SE Asia as an 11 Bravo is what caused him to turn moslem.
If Ali would have agreed and stepped up instead of taking jail, he would never have been sent into real combat situations but rather as somebody akin to the Joe Louis of WWII. Who or what was it that moved Ali to do what he did? It wasn’t all about his having nothing against the Vietnamese or Viet Cong...he was anti-American but he sure made a whole lot of money and still lives comfortably in Berrien Springs, MI...Sorry, hero of mine but you ain’t no Al Kaline!