Muhammad Ali's Politics of Faith
Edge of Sports
Dave Zirin / The Nation
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2016
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:56.1 | Welcome back to the Edge of Sports podcast. Today we continue our special week of coverage about the life and legacy of the champ, the king of the world, Muhammad Ali. |
| 1:06.6 | Music We're going to look at the issue of faith |
| 1:18.6 | and Muhammad Ali's Islamic religion and politics. |
| 1:22.6 | So I choose to follow the Islamic path because I've never saw so much love. I never saw so many people hugging each other, kissed each other, praying five times a day. |
| 1:33.3 | The women in the long garments, the way they would eat. |
| 1:36.3 | You can go to any country, al-a-a-a-a-a-a-salaam. |
| 1:39.3 | You got a home, you got a brother. |
| 1:41.3 | I chose the Islamic path because they connect me. As a Christian in America, I couldn't go to the white churches. |
| 1:48.0 | As a Christian, that was for those people. |
| 1:51.0 | It did them good. |
| 1:52.0 | It didn't do me good. |
| 1:54.0 | But for me, been a world figure, |
| 1:56.0 | taking the name Muhammad Ali, which is the name of my people for the Brother America, |
| 2:04.3 | accepting the Islamic religion, it was better for me. |
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