Reports in recent years claim that Ali refused to serve in the military not out of religious conviction, but because of the ...

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This left the Nation in need of a new leader ... Elijah Muhammad officially enrolled him into the Nation of Islam and re-named him Muhammad Ali at the Nation of Islam's annual convention to ...