I never dreamed that they were going to try to make it appear that instead of inoculating against an epidemic, I had started it. I never dreamed that the Chicago Muslim officials were going to make it appear that I was throwing gasoline on the fire instead of water. In his autobiography, Malcolm also complained that the officials in the Nation of Islam made it appear as though Malcolm had started the problem: I mention this because, as I will address later on, Farrakhan implies that Malcolm was out to destroy the Nation of Islam.
Farrakhan would have good reason to cover up any evidence that he was aware of Elijah Muhammad’s affairs and to make it appear as though he found out from Malcolm because that creates the perception that Malcolm began telling other Muslims about the affairs in an attempt to turn them against Elijah Muhammad. Now, whose version of these events you believe depends on which side you take in Malcolm’s dispute with the Nation of Islam, although it is worth nothing that Farrakhan was the same man who, as noted before, stated that Malcolm deserved to die for criticizing Elijah Muhammad. They had been living with the dilemma themselves.Īccording to Malcolm, Farrakhan knew about Elijah Muhammad’s affairs long before Malcolm himself found out, yet in Farrakhan’s version of the events Farrakhan claims that he was so shocked by the information that Malcolm told him that Farrakhan could not sleep that night. And then I told them why I had told them-that I felt they should not be caught by surprise and shock if it became their job to teach the Muslims in their mosques the "fulfillment of prophecy." I found then that some had already heard it one of them, Minister Louis X of Boston, as much as seven months before. In his autobiography, Malcolm offers a different version of events. Farrakhan explains that Malcolm offered to trick the women into telling Farrakhan that everything that Malcolm told Farrakhan was true and that Malcolm told Farrakhan not to tell anyone. Around 4:40, Farrakhan says that Malcolm first told him about Elijah Muhammad’s personal life over dinner at Malcolm’s house.
Farrakhan’s narrative of the events contradicts Malcolm’s version in certain areas.
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