Ali rejected sporting glory alone to write his own historic path

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In Clay, the world had its youngest, brashest, and Blackest heavyweight champion, during the thick of the turbulent sixties. But for the boxing savant with the charisma of a prophet, being a sporting champion was not enough. On the day after making sports history, he took on the name of the Prophet and chose to write his own history. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1054