Malcolm X (Ethics (Ready Reference series))
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Appalled at the racial discrimination that was widely practiced in predominantly Christian America, Malcolm X chastised Christianity as unethically enslaving African Americans through its teaching that the oppressed should focus on Heaven, where they will reap rewards and their wrongs will be righted, instead of doing something about their deprivation here on Earth. He taught that Islam could bring about true brotherhood because of the “color-blindness” of Muslims. Distancing himself from the “turn-the-other-cheek” philosophy of Christianity, he advocated...
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