I've wondered about that also.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/special_packages/fbiprobe/7899958.htm
Ali, 64, is the spiritual one. He is slender and soft-spoken.
Both have made much of themselves from tough beginnings. White grew up in the Richard Allen Homes projects, fatherless, but went on to earn a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Ali, born Clarence Fowler, spent five years in prison in the 1970s on a murder conviction before the courts overturned the case. He is now one of the city's leading Muslim clerics.