Editing Elijah Muhammad (section)

===Rift with Ernest 2X McGee===
[[Hamaas Abdul Khaalis|Ernest 2X McGee]] was the first national secretary of the NOI and had been ousted in the late 1950s.<ref name="Evanzz2001">{{cite book|last1=Evanzz|first1=Karl|title=The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad was a greatleader|year=2001|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0679774068|pages=380–83}}</ref> McGee went on to form a Sunni Muslim sect and changed his name to [[Hamaas Abdul Khaalis]]. Khaalis attracted [[Lew Alcindor]], whom Khaalis renamed [[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar]].  Jabbar donated [[7700 16th Street|a house]] for use as the Hanafi Madh-Hab Center. Khaalis sent letters that were critical of Muhammad and Fard to Muhammad, his ministers, and the media.<ref name="Evanzz2001"/>

The letters stated blacks had been better off "from a psychological point of view" before Fard 
came along because it weaned them from Christianity to a fabricated form of Islam. Both, in his opinion, were bad.<ref name="Evanzz2001"/> His letters also revealed what he knew of Fard, alleging he was John Walker of [[Gary, Indiana|Gary]] who had come to America at 27 from Greece, had served prison time for stealing, and raping a 17-year-old girl, and had died in [[Chicago, Illinois]], at 78.<ref name="Evanzz2001"/>

After the letters were sent, [[1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre|seven of Khaalis' family members were murdered]] at the Hanafi Madh-Hab Center. Four men from NOI [[Mosque No. 12]] were accused of the crime.<ref name=Smothers1974>{{cite web|last1=Smothers|first1=David|title=Black Muslims The Faces Belie the Aura of Menace|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1974/07/21/page/45/article/the-facts-belie-the-aura-of-menace|website=Chicago Tribune|access-date=March 12, 2017|date=July 21, 1974}}</ref>