Word: muslimism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gonna give him a humiliation. I'll keep hittin' him, and I'll keep talkin'." So said Cassius Clay before meeting Ernie Terrell for the heavyweight championship. Why so angry? Well, Cassius calls himself Muhammad Ali these days because he's a Black Muslim, and Terrell did not appreciate the significance of that fact since he kept calling Cassius, Clay...
Actually, argued Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay, 25, fighting isn't very timeconsuming. It takes up only 10% of his waking hours, leaving the other 90% free for his "ministering" as a Black Muslim parson. Trouble is, he can't seem to convert his Louisville draft board to the view that his religious vocation entitles him to an exemption. Nor should his claims to being a conscientious objector keep him from serving, the board ruled. Now training in Houston for his Feb. 6 bout with Ernie Terrell, the Greatest conscientiously objected, bawling: "We're gonna take this...
With that, Clay flung off his jacket and threw a left, which Terrell, luckily perhaps, deflected with an arm. Then Cassius angrily stalked away, accompanied by three Black Muslim bodyguards...
...Prisoner Howard, who has still six months to serve on a ten-year sentence for armed robbery, he has withdrawn from the Black Muslim movement, and has been separated for four years from his unnamed fellow prisoners. Whether those prisoners were Muslims as he contends, or a group of his followers as the state now contends, Howard, at week's end, was still confined in the maximum-security ward...
...Eton-educated sheik whose gap-toothed grin would probably pass a camel. T-T has a number of soppingly silly old-boy lines to deliver, but the silliest is allotted to Villain Lorn. "I'm having a party tomorrow night," tie remarks amiably to a wealthy Muslim. "Do come. And bring your wives...