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| The Greatest is gone at 74 |
| 2016-06-04 |
| Muhammad Ali, the silver-tongued boxer and civil rights champion who famously proclaimed himself "The Greatest" and then spent a lifetime living up to the billing, is dead. Ali died Friday at a Phoenix-area hospital, where he had spent the past few days being treated for respiratory complications, a family spokesman confirmed to NBC News. He was 74. "After a 32-year battle with Parkinson's disease, Muhammad Ali has passed away at the age of 74. The three-time World Heavyweight Champion boxer died this evening," Bob Gunnell, a family spokesman, told NBC News. Ali had suffered for three decades from Parkinson's Disease, a progressive neurological condition that slowly robbed him of both his legendary verbal grace and his physical dexterity. A funeral service is planned in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. Even as his health declined, Ali did not shy from politics or controversy, releasing a statement in December criticizing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States. "We as Muslims have to stand up to those who use Islam to advance their own personal agenda," he said. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #7 Here is Ali’s full statement from last December: "I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people in Paris, San Bernardino, or anywhere else in the world. True Muslims know that the ruthless violence of so called Islamic Jihadists goes against the very tenets of our religion. “We as Muslims have to stand up to those who use Islam to advance their own personal agenda. They have alienated many from learning about Islam. True Muslims know or should know that it goes against our religion to try and force Islam on anybody. “Speaking as someone who has never been accused of political correctness, I believe that our political leaders should use their position to bring understanding about the religion of Islam and clarify that these misguided murderers have perverted people's views on what Islam really is." |
| Posted by: JHH 2016-06-04 20:34 |
| #6 Recently criticising Trump for calling for a reduction in immigration of Islamists indicates American bashing Mohammed did not change at all. |
| Posted by: Unelet Protector of the Sith2424 2016-06-04 17:53 |
| #5 Ali was the Lowest. etc. "A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life, " said he. He changed and grew with age. |
| Posted by: JHH 2016-06-04 17:16 |
| #4 Ali was the Lowest. Draft dodger, claiming he would not go to war against non-whites in Nam while his promoters charged a fortune so others could watch him pound black fighters in the tarp. A white, christian cop introduced him to boxing after his bike was stolen at the age of 12 but he refused to fight communism that sent 50,000 Muslims on the run. He worshipped himself and labeled himself the greatest and lived in a temporary generational paradise of freedom paid for by the blood of Patriots of his generation. You want to change your name to Yesterday you entered the real hell of the real Mohammed you hypocrit. |
| Posted by: Unelet Protector of the Sith2424 2016-06-04 16:19 |
| #3 Both definitely work, Zenobia F, though the second's repeated f mirroring the clever repeated sounds in the previous lines in addition to the usual rhyme scheme is nonetheless a little harder to say aloud. It is at this point, when going back and forth between two possiblities as the polishing progresses that I declare a thing done. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-06-04 12:37 |
| #2 Er, make that, "fascist false faith was a waste of his fame." |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2016-06-04 10:21 |
| #1 And we as non-muslims have to stand up to those who use their personal charisma to advance islam. The greatest. And yet, it's a shame Clay claimed that detestable name. To battle -- the brashest! -- As slave to a fascist "Religion?" A waste of his fame. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2016-06-04 10:14 |