Speaking as a former Muslim, I consider the late Muhammad Ali to be a colossal fool for initially converting to Islam and an eternal fool for remaining in it and promoting it until the time of his death.
Muhammad Ali was certainly a highly-skilled tough guy in the boxing ring, but he failed colossally in the more important game of life. Sadly, many folks consider Ali to be a hero – when in actuality he was an exceptionally irresponsible fool of a man for devoting himself to and being a salesman for the virulent cult of Mohammedanism.
I myself foolishly converted to Islam and stayed in the religion for approximately 4 years. Upon discovering the extent of how immoral and false Islam is, I safely walked away from it. As an ex-Muslim, I acknowledge the fact that Islamic theology is filled with inhumane teachings and dictates as they relate to the killing of apostates (here), the rape of infidel women (here), wife-beating (here), child adoption (here) and homosexuality (here).
In my view, it is the duty of Muslim celebrities such as the late Muhammad Ali to become aware of the gruesome facts of Islamic theology noted above and reject them. The foundation of Islam is based entirely upon the word of one man – Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. The Quran and hadith repeatedly proclaim that Muhammad is the final prophet of God (Quran 33:40) who is to be unwaveringly obeyed (3:138, 6:114, 16:89).
The prophet of Islam quite possibly never even existed. And if he did it only makes matters worse – as Muhammad was primarily a dictatorial warlord who commonly raped infidel women, traded slaves, and plundered infidel caravans. This creates an awful conundrum when one considers the fact that the supposedly perfect Quran (5:3) proclaims that Muhammad has set and excellent example for Muslim believers to follow (Q 33:21).
The prophet of Islam owned and traded slaves as if they were bubble gum and referred to black Africans as being “raisin heads” who should submit to and obey their Islamic rulers. The hadiths below are considered by the majority of Muslims to be the authentic and authoritative Islamic texts giving context to the Quran and adding further explanatory detail.
Sahih Bukhari, Vol 9, Book 89, No. 286:
Narrated by Anas bin Malik: Allah’s Apostle said, “You should listen to and obey, your ruler even if he was an Ethiopian (black) slave whose head looks like a raisin.”
Sahih Bukhari, Vol.4 Book 52, No. 196:
Narrated Abu Huraira: “ Allah’s Apostle said, “I have been ordered to fight with the people till they say, ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah,’ and whoever says, ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah,’ his life and property will be be saved by me except for Islamic law, and his account will be with Allah, (either to punish him or to forgive him)”
As an African American, boxer Muhammad Ali should have despised and opposed the religion of Islam based on rationality and an in-depth study of Islam’s core texts (which include the permissibility of slavery) and Islamic history. Ali made a simple mistake – as I did – and embraced an awful religion. But he lacked the personal integrity and courage to reject and oppose it. Shame on him.
Here is a funny and insightful *video (link 6)* about Muhammad Ali being deceived by Islam posted by the great and hilarious Islam critic and religious scholar, Mr.David Wood.
Soren Kuula says
It’s official that he was a colossal fool. He scored 78 in the army enlisting IQ test.
jayell says
I’m told they either wouldn’t have him in the army or if they did, they wouldn’t risk letting him near a gun because they didn’t know what he’d do with it. But the strangest thing I’ve heard came from someone this side of the pond who was discussing his intellectual (poetic?) achievements and concluded that he was ‘a great philospher’ – that’s a serious quote. So what’s the evidence for that? Someone please enlighten us all!
Antares says
As a philosopher, he was a very good fighter. He mouthed clichés with the best of them. The Nation of Islam has about as much to do with Islam as the IRA has to do with the Catholic Church. It was an extortion racket that had more in common with common gangsters than it did with religion. They feared being exposed by Malcolm X, so they killed him.
Ali was their crown jewel. He was popular, commanded a huge audience, and displayed a certain charisma from time to time that lent the NOI some credibility. Ali’s grasp of theology or of philosophy was about as profound as that that could be found in a fortune cookie.
Johnny Cuyana says
SK., Mohammed Ali, maybe had his IQ tested more than anyone in history. {Actually, this is an exaggeration, but not much of one.]
[1] in his running battle against the USA Army draft board, he did have his IQ tested MULTIPLE times because some refused to believe it measured as low as it did. He was even “lie detector” tested, multiple times, regarding the contention of some that Ali was “sandbagging” the tests. Yes, his IQ is believed widely to have been between 75-80; which is actually “functionally illiterate” and maybe he was even “clinical moronic” [although many of our “enlightened educational elites” would prefer not to use that proper “clinical” term].
[2] IMO, the Army was WRONG to go after Ali — based on his IQ, which defined him clearly as untrainable, where it was their long-held policy to not draft people of such low IQ, he could not be trained to do anything “military” that would have been useful — there is NO WAY he should have been drafted; where, as such, there is no justifiable reason for which they hounded him — in one fashion or another — for almost a decade … by which they “took away” much of his boxing prime. [Of course, I have no way of proving otherwise, but, many people believe, as do I, that it was something racist in the Army’s motivations.]
[3] providing additional evidence supporting his low IQ scoring, it was no secret at all that Ali was ALWAYS a very poor student — he regularly “flunked” grade school levels … but he was “passed on” up the line — where such was attributed often to his “difficult and abusive” father but such failing performance was just as likely, many have written, to his low intellect.
[4] Note: a flamboyant self-promoting style — and, if anything, that was Ali — is often associated with those of low IQ; where such types have a minimal sense of social proportions and are almost without an ability for introspection; where they often believe — actually, they literally fool themselves — that they are able to “fool you and everyone else”.
Ali was a phenomenal liar. See one instance where he brought — flew and traveled with him — his teenage mistress on to his “Thrilla in Manila”, in the Philippines, where she remained at his side throughout the entire tour, but, Ali INSISTED to all the reporters, who KNEW his wife, that this mistress WAS indeed his wife. [Howard Cossell made sure she was not interviewed, at least, by him … because it was so obvious.] There are too many other similar publicly reported instances of his “exaggerations”, but, the retelling of same is for a different chapter.
[5] IOW, physically, he was good at what he did — yes, he was GREAT at what he did; perhaps the Greatest of all time — but, beyond the ring and all of its associated showmanship and blusterings, he was challenged deeply by his mental limitations;
[6] Further, Nation of Islam, with only small effort, convinced him — more likely, scared the krap out of him — to change his original name … from that of one of the greatest Abolitionists of the antebellum period to one of the greatest all-time enslavers of Africans. [You can’t make this stuff up: NO ONE would believe it if nit supported by actual facts.]
[7] Often, for the sake of NOI, he did more than several ridiculous things like this — it has been reported and written in biographies — because, after the murder of Malcolm X, Ali was TERRIFIED of these monsters; that they would do the same to him and his children. [In confidence — again, often reported — this Ali mentioned in more than several instances.]
Yes, it is justifiable to believe — at a minimum, believed by many — as the author writes that “I consider the late Muhammad Ali to be a colossal fool for initially converting to Islam and an eternal fool for remaining in it and promoting it until the time of his death.”
Ali, as great as he was physically, was not of the mental caliber necessary to fend off those who “meant business” … where they, in all ways, wanted, on the world stage, to use [abuse] him to their advantage.
Is it any surprise that these abusers were mostly — certainly, I’m not giving the military a pass — death cult mohammedans who believed, and, continue to believe, that all is fair — particularly deception — in their totalitarian war against the kaffur.
Antares says
>>Yes, his IQ is believed widely to have been between 75-80; <<
The test may have shown those numbers, but there is no way his IQ was that low. If anyone has ever been around people with that IQ, they'd know instantly that Ali was much brighter than that. Faking those tests is difficult, but not with the right training.
He was no intellectual, but he wasn't that stupid either.
carl fruechte says
awesome take on ali! about time some one said it thank you! Carl
Angemon says
It never ceases to amaze me that there are Africans who *know* this and yet, chose to remain muslims.
Just a Concerned Citizen says
Indeed.
A convert to Islam is a fool, but a black convert to Islam is twice the fool.
Salome says
Bernard Lewis relates a story. He was with another historian, who was asking a black man why it was that so many black children in America were being given Islamic names. The response was, ‘We no longer want to bear the names of those who bought us.’ The historian retorted, ‘But you prefer to bear the names of those who sold you?’
Raja says
Salome,
Is it economics at work? They are grateful to the ones who sold them and ungrateful to those who bought them. Islam must get precedence over everything else otherwise the thug-god would be furious…
gravenimage says
Good post, Salome.
Old Fat Bald Socially Inept Ron says
My black friend of 35 years who had asked me to be his best man in his upcoming wedding, no longer will speak to me, and won’t even respond to my emails or text messages. Why?…three months ago I shared two of David Wood’s videos about Muhammad Ali with him.
My estranged black buddy absolutely worships the late great Mr Ali, Malcolm X, and President Obama.
I also invited my black friend to watch YouTube videos of Mr Ali being interviewed and Imagine any white celebrity speaking the exact same words and expressing identical sentiments regarding issues of race.
Mr Ali was without any doubt the world’s most recognizable, and beloved RACIST.
What I have learned is;
“Racism is only considered racism when white folks express it.”
Raja says
Ron,
Islam is at least as racist as communists. They enjoy hating all things white and the communists cannot stand the black color.
By Islam’s criteria I am white; that must be the most grotesque thing on earth!!!
gravenimage says
Sorry to hear that, Ron.
FYI says
The worst insult that could possibly be directed at muhammed according to islamic teaching?
“Ahmad ibn Sulayaman,Sahnun’s companion,
said that whoever says the prophet was black is KILLED.
The prophet was not black”
Ash Shifa
SAHIH MUSLIM 3901 muhammed the slave seller{TWO black people in exchange for one..}
Michael Copeland says
“The foundation of Islam is based entirely upon the word of one man – Muhammad…”
This was the same man who said it was all right to lie in the cause of Islam.
So how can he be believed?
Remember the very high profile international banker accused of rape in New York?
His accuser was found to have lied about some detail: she admitted it. The case collapsed.
Someone who admits to having lied fails to make a convincing or even usable witness.
What about someone who recommended lying?
FYI says
Interesting fact about Mr Ali..David Wood might like to know this…
you see…
muhammed ali’s great grandfather,Abe Grady was…IRISH…..WHITE..
“Abe Grady emigrated to the US in the 1860s to Kentucky and married a black woman who had been freed from slavery.Their daughter,Odessa Lee,married Cassius Clay Senior and on Jan 17,1942 Cassius clay junior was born.Mr Ali visited Ennis in County Clare,Ireland, in acknowledgment of that revelation,in his later years in 2009 in which a plaque was unveiled outside his great grandfather’s house,before becoming the first freeman of the town in its 150,000 years existence”
muhammed ali…cassius clay…with his WHITE IRISH great grandfather…
top of the mornin to ya!
Wellington says
He will always be Cassius Clay to me—and someone who did much harm to America and freedom. Won’t be missed by me, that’s for sure. Ever.
gerald zavage says
Kareem Abul-Jabar of seems to be pretty much of the same misinformed thinking on the matter of Islam.
gravenimage says
Ex-Muslim: Boxer Muhammad Ali Was a Colossal Fool for Remaining in Islam (Part 1)
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Yes, he was a fool. And his having converted to Islam is still causing harm.
Kepha says
Muhammad Ali’s grandfather Cassius Clay was named after a Kentucky abolitionist who freed his slaves and worked for the end of slavery in the USA. Hence, Muhammad Ali dropped the name not only of a man who repented of enslaving others and worked to end that peculiar institution, but also adopted a name associated with a religion that never developed its own abolitionist movement until forced to do so at the point of colonialists’ maxim guns. Further, none of the African-American Muslim community so much as utters a peep against the enslavement of Africans in place like LIbya and Mauretania; or the running sore that was Sudan’s revived slave trade.
Further, as an American and a history teacher, I mourn that the ghosted _Autobiography of Malcolm X_ has become a classic for American middle and high school students of all “races”. More than any other work, it has fostered the foolish mean that Islam lends “pride and dignity” to anyone. Only the colossal failure of American schools to seriously teach history of any country other than their own (and that not very well) or international issues allows such atrocious folly to continue. This is one reason why I believe that I am unhappily involved in a colossal swindle of the young.
gravenimage says
Fine post, Kepha.
hiramo says
This a little silly. Many otherwise fine intellects are seduced by ideology. I met and conversed with Ali on two occasions and he certainly was no dope. The “functionally illiterate” can’t write in rhyme and meter. His many public interviews reveal a man of wit and humanity. Nearing the end of his career he used his brain to outwit opponents who otherwise would have won.
Intelligence and foolishness are often found in the same body. Mistaken? sometimes. Delusional? about some things. But he wasn’t stupid.
infidel says
Ali was a great boxer NO DOUBT… but he was also a typical MOTORMOUTH fool and after becoming a Muslim, he became more and more outrageous in his behavior. Had not Parkinson’s put a spanner in his works, he would have embarrassed himself even more …
infidel says
Ali should be celebrated for his boxing but NEVER for his conversion to Islam and his stance against the American flag !!! The more U celebrate people like Ali, the more oxygen U give to these mad islamists and their enablers today. Ali dehumanized many of his opponents mercilessly like Foreman and Frazier… They never forgave him and that is why Ali got his karma in the form of Parkinsons… where he was reduced to a pathetic has been by the time he died. Karma has strange ways of getting back when U least expect it, we Hindus believe this.
SamB says
The moniker “Muhammad Ali” does not have nice ring like Cassius Clay. That said, Cassius Clay sent out confusing messages was he a Muslim or Christian? His funeral was largely a Christian affair…perhaps in Islam there is no pomp-and -ceremony hence the reason the Church sufficed. I saw a coffin at his funeral so presumably he was buried facing the sky awaiting the return of Jesus and not facing Mecca…?Thus, it is debatable if in essence he was Muslim or whether his public posturing was merely reserved for protestation? More confusing is that Laila cooked pork on TV! Thus, we may ask a pertinent question, if your household cannot emulate your public posturing who else will? But, let it be said many minds are impressionable they did take notice of his “conversion.” There is one called Keith Ellison also a diluted Muslim. Methinks it is all for the money. In reality no sane (Karrimm al Jabbar?) American can fully embrace Islam they are to limiting and extreme. Moreover, cognitively Islam’s’ intellectual and spiritual efficacy is suffocating
AntiIslamicman says
Black men and Islam, I just don’t get it
Old Fat Bald Socially Inept Ron says
For a more complete list of COLOSSAL BLACK FOOLS click the link below.
http://www.hyperactivz.com/35-celebs-converted-islam/
I credit Malcom X and Muhammad Ali’s notoriety for most of the black conversions since.
I would invite these “Street Cred” seeking black celebrities to watch David Wood’s YouTube videos about boxer Muhammad Ali. They’ll likely be so offended they will never speak to me ever again….sorry Shaq.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxOM4GrqElw&feature=share
Rezali Mehil says
Salaam all,
I advise you folks to be careful of the foolish rhetoric from “Saleem” Smith. Pertinent points to note are that:
1) “Saleem” himself was muslim for 4 years …why take that long to leave?… when not leave the next day … this is fishy… “he” is an agent provocateur ..deliberately causing disintegration of the muslims within society.
2) Who is funding him to write this filth?
3) The reason why blacks like Islam to that the colonianal whites have treated them is that they have been treated as slaves for 100s of years … being worked to the ground on your cotton picking farms, being raped, having a limb cut if they tried to escape … need I go on?
4) M Ali could not allow whites to profit from his skills, so he turned to somewhere he could not be fooled. …He turned to Islam … and found enormous strength to live life HIS way … NOT YOURS.
5) Despite the crap from Saleem …MA was found to be sportsman of the centaury … thank Allah SWT that there are decent people left on the planet.
Need I carry on?????
More Later …
Rezali
gravenimage says
I see that Rezali Mehil is back. She wrote:
Salaam all,
I advise you folks to be careful of the foolish rhetoric from “Saleem” Smith. Pertinent points to note are that:
1) “Saleem” himself was muslim for 4 years …why take that long to leave?… when not leave the next day … this is fishy… “he” is an agent provocateur ..deliberately causing disintegration of the muslims within society.
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Note what Rezali Mehil has considered proper behavior for Muslims in the past, including marrying off little children to old men, raping Infidels (she has lauded her own Muslim uncle for having kidnapped and raped her Hindu aunt), and mass murdering Infidels. She doesn’t think any of *these* horrors prevent integration of Muslims into society.
By this, of course, she means not civilized Infidel society, but the horrors of Shari’ah.
More:
2) Who is funding him to write this filth?
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Note that she regards any criticism of Islam as “filth”–she has, in fact, emphasized that when Muslims take over that will be the end of freedom of speech.
Note, also, that she does not believe that anyone could possibly have an issue with the horrors of Islam, and hence must be ‘paid’ to be critical of it.
More:
3) The reason why blacks like Islam to that the colonianal (sic) whites have treated them is that they have been treated as slaves for 100s of years … being worked to the ground on your cotton picking farms, being raped, having a limb cut if they tried to escape … need I go on?
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It was the West that *abolished* slavery. Meanwhile, slavery has *never* been abolished in the Muslim world. Moreover, the biggest victims of the Muslim slave trade have always been black Africans. It was, in fact, Muslims who captured the slaves of the Atlantic slave trade. It continues to this day. And why not? The “Prophet” Muhammed himself enslaved victims, kept slave, traded slaves, and raped his slaves.
As a poster above noted, Cassius Clay was named for an American abolitionist.
There are none such in the Muslim world. Rezali Mehil has affirmed that Muslims have the right to enslave Infidels.
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4) M Ali could not allow whites to profit from his skills, so he turned to somewhere he could not be fooled. …He turned to Islam … and found enormous strength to live life HIS way … NOT YOURS.
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Well, this is a bizarre claim. Rezali Mehil appears to believe that the entire boxing establishment in the United States was Muslim. This is, of course, absurd.
More:
5) Despite the crap from Saleem …MA was found to be sportsman of the centaury (sic) … thank Allah SWT that there are decent people left on the planet.
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Decent in what way?
More:
Need I carry on?????
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Rezali Mehil can stop her nonsense any time.
unbeliever1 says
His lovely daughter Laila never become a Muslim. She had better sense. As a matter of fact, I don’t think any of his kids or widow Lonnie are Muslim.
That David Wood video is a must see.
gravenimage says
You are right. Laila Ali has said that she does not follow the Islamic faith. Smart girl.
Brian hoff says
I see all the racist kkk member are out in force today. He refuse to fight in than war against than asian people who never harm him in way as the white in america did j .
Jacqueline Robnett says
I think MA embraced Islam mainly as a slap in the face to racist whites in the U.S. I don’t think he really studied the religion or the Koran. I always considered his bombastic comments as showmanship based on the premise “I don’t care what you say about me just spell my name correctly in the newspaper.” He used his physical prowess to the best of his ability – just as basketball and football players in the same situation. I think he did the best he could under the circumstances given the political times. It’s easy to criticize him now (and profit from it). Hindsight is better than foresight by a darnsight.. Those hanging on to him for huge collateral profits didn’t care what he said or did. They just dumped him when the punishing blows he endured finally took their toll.
Kepha says
While I’m sure that Muhammad Ali’s conversion to Islam (along with that of Malcolm X, who mentored him) was motivated by a protest against the white racism in American society, there’s a big irony at work here. Cassius Clay was originally named by his grandfather (who may have been born into slavery) after a Kentucky slaveholder who became a strong abolitionist. Muhammad Ali took a Muslim name after a red-haired, freckled Shqiptar soldier-of-fortune who made himself Khedive of Egypt and hoped to control the lucrative trade in slaves from the southern Sudan.