While in prison, Malcolm X had become a member of the Nation of Islam and had taken up a far more radical attitude. ... Only after a pilgrimage to Mecca, where he had prayed with Muslims from all over the world, he adapted a more tolerant and integrative mindset (cf. ... Malcolm X had quite successfully appropriated the religious discourse of Islam and instrumentalized it to political ends. ... Also, one could detect a multitude of positive side effects of this islamization, as the Afro-American community had a lot of trouble with so-called vices of the white man as drugs, alcohol, prostitutio...

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