Posted on 06/05/2016 5:31:00 AM PDT by gaggs
Muhammad Ali preached a bold truth that is not at all like that of the Radicalized Islam that we see in the world today. In this interview from 1977, Muhammad Ali was visiting Newcastle, England and it was a typical question and answer type of forum where his British fans could ask him questions. During the interview Ali goes onto ask how many people in the audience believe in God -
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All works based.
No mention of Jesus or grace.
Ali is with Mohammad now.. I just think he will be surprised where Mohammad is.
Not the Gospel.
But this is where Ali misses it. I’ve seen in an interview where he said that he converted to Islam because of how blacks were treated while he was growing up. He didn’t convert because of truth.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me
Best thing that happened for his legacy was that his racist brain stopped working and his racist mouth stopped talking.
Joe Bruno on Boxing – Muhammad Ali is Not a Hero.
| June 4, 2016 | Joe Bruno
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Never had any use for the draft dodging coward who would not suit up while his contemporaries did have to.
Sorry, but I’ve have no use for anyone who joins up with a savage, godless, brutal religion that sold many of Cassius Clay’s ancestors off to slavery.
No tears shed.
Wasn’t he nominated the best loved athlete by the America hating media?
Pray America wakes
When I go to a link and the first thing I have to do is get rid of an add in the middle of a screen I leave.
Followers of Mo owned black slaves.
I don't mourn muslims.
I don't lionize them, no matter what they accomplished or are said to have accomplished.
Muslims delight in killing people for the simple reason that the person killed is not a muslim.
Ali supported the crap, Ali has blood on his hands and not from boxing.
To hell with Ali...which is where I suspect he has gone.
Thank you for this post. It’s funny, isn’t it, that sports figures are asked to speak about profound matters.
Ali presented a child-like explanation of heaven and hell. Scholars of Islam and Judaism, as well as Christianity, know that we are saved only by grace. That our good works are utterly useless. In a joint statement on the 500th anniversary of Luther’s tacking his thesis on the doors of a cathedral in Germany, the Catholics and Lutherans said they were agreed that we are saved by grace and our good works are merely manifestations of our salvation. We, as Christians, can share the Good News of the assurance of salvation through the atoning sacrifice made by Jesus and of his resurrection in glory. But, even without knowing Jesus, it is possible for a reasonable man to figure out that our very existence is proof that there is a God, and more so a proof that there is a just and merciful God. But, I would not ever criticize a person of child-like faith. Jesus said suffer the children not to come on to me.
“Ali refused to be inducted into the armed forces, stating that he had “no quarrel with them Vietcong”. “My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America. And shoot them for what? They never called me nigger, they never lynched me, they didn’t put no dogs on me, they didn’t rob me of my nationality, rape or kill my mother and father.... How can I shoot them poor people? Just take me to jail.”
Aligning himself with the Nation of Islam, its leader Elijah Muhammad, and a narrative that labeled the white race as the perpetrator of genocide against African Americans made Ali a target of public condemnation. The NOI was widely viewed by whites and even some African Americans as a black separatist “hate religion” with a propensity toward violence; Ali had few qualms about using his influential voice to speak NOI doctrine. In a press conference articulating his opposition to the Vietnam War, Ali stated, “my enemy is the white people, not the Vietcong”.
In relation to integration, he said: “We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don’t want to be forced to integrate. Integration is wrong. We don’t want to live with the white man; that’s all.” And in relation to inter-racial marriage: “No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.” Indeed, Ali’s religious beliefs at the time included the notion that the white man was “the devil” and that white people were not “righteous”.
Ali registered for the draft on his eighteenth birthday and was listed as 1-A in 1962. In 1964, he was reclassified as 1-Y (fit for service only in times of national emergency) after two mental tests found his IQ was 78 (16th percentile), well below the armed force’s 30th-percentile threshold. (He was quoted as saying, “I said I was the greatest, not the smartest!” By early 1966, the army lowered its standards to permit soldiers above the 15th percentile and Ali was again classified as 1-A. This classification meant he was now eligible for the draft and induction into the United States Army during a time when the U.S. was involved in the Vietnam War.
When notified of this status, Ali declared that he would refuse to serve in the Army and publicly considered himself a conscientious objector. Ali stated: “War is against the teachings of the Holy Qur’an. I’m not trying to dodge the draft. We are not supposed to take part in no wars unless declared by Allah or The Messenger. We don’t take part in Christian wars or wars of any unbelievers.
On June 28, 1971, the Supreme Court in Clay v. United States overturned Ali’s conviction by a unanimous 8–0 decision (Justice Thurgood Marshall did not participate). The decision was not based on, nor did it address, the merits of Ali’s claims per se; rather, the Court held that since the Appeal Board gave no reason for the denial of a conscientious objector exemption to Ali, and that it was therefore impossible to determine which of the three basic tests for conscientious objector status offered in the Justice Department’s brief that the Appeals Board relied on, Ali’s conviction must be reversed.
Infantile ignorance of christian faith mixed with arrogance. It was all about what he could do to get into Heaven!?
Christian FAIL.
Muslem FAIL.
Clay experienced no racism growing up. He grew up living around whites and had many white friends. The man that got him in boxing was white, the men who bankrolled his start were white businessmen. Clay only “experienced” racism when his handlers in the Nation of Islam told him he did. He was their tool and nothing else.
So, was Arizona a halfway point so he could get used to the heat? OR will Hell be so cold compared to Arizona, that will he return for his blankets.
Remember, this is a guy who repeatedly flunked the Army’s intelligence testing, though they thought he was faking.
“War is against the teachings of the Holy Qur’an.” Ali obviously never read the book.
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