How Muhammad Ali won at the Supreme Court because of a technicality

DOES MUHAMMAD ALI SUPPORT ISLAMIC EXTREMISM? As you may know Ali lost his boxing license because of his refusal to serve in the US army (most probably he would have not served as a soldier but as an exhibition boxer for his fellow soldiers, similar to famous boxers like Joe Louis before him).

We want to analyze here the time line of Ali's legal problems and how he won on a technicality ("CLAY, aka ALI v. UNITED STATES, 403 U.S. 698") and what this decision has to do with the Jihad.

Here is the chronology:

  1. Muhammad Ali (who then had still his birth name Cassius Clay) fails the US army qualifying test because of writing and spelling skills. Ali scores IQ 78 on the army's IQ test (borderline retardation, he finishes his high school as the bottom 1% of his class) and the army considers him too unqualified to be recruited.
  2. As the Vietnam war goes on longer than planned the US army lowers the qualification thresholds and Ali receives a call up letter.


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  • Will says:
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    #904 Will (2011-09-08th)

    Didn't Ali fail the test on purpose? Even so, IQ tests were different during the 50s, pertaining moreso to the quality of one's vocabulary than problem solving ability. For a black kid in Ali's time it would have been very different. IQ tests have been refined and made fairer since then.

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