Muhammad was not in the peaceful wing of Islam, he supported the murder of Malcolm X, and he was a black separatist. He once addressed a KKK rally and told them they both believe in the same thing - separation of the races.
Someone who pointedly refused military induction is going to have flags flown at half staff?
Never really had much use for him. His manager would tell the refs before the fight to go ahead and stop it if Ali was getting the best of him and the fighter was not fighting back. Back in the days of Marciano you had to knock someone flat to win the fight. Ali came along and almost every fight ended in a TKO. I also never liked the way he belittled fighters trying to get in their head. This didn’t work against Joe Frazier who whipped his ass in the first fight and put him in a hospital for a month after the third fight. Calling Frazier a gorilla was about as low as black man can go but that’s exactly what Ali called Frazier. He went for years without speaking to him because of the way he was treated. Foreman would have beaten him Africa if he hadn’t over-trained and suffered from heat exhaustion, which sapped his energy before the fight. Then Ali scared to fight during the fight so he layed on the ropes and let Foreman punch himself out. He knew how weak Foreman was for the fight. First time I can ever remember where the champion was not guaranteed a rematch, and he never fought Foreman again. Both Liston fights were rigged by the mob. So as you can see I was never fan of the loudmouth. Also didn’t like that he got by with sticking his middle finger to the draft board and not going in the Army. RIP Cassius. You and Joe can talk about your three fights. And all these American “muslims” from Ali, to Jabbar, not a war has spoken out about radical Islamic terrorists.