[TheRealThing]

Tim Tebow is a professing Christian, obviously not ashamed of the Gospel.

Mohammed Ali gave up a coveted boxing title, gave up millions in potential earnings, opened himself to derision and threats to his life, was put in jail. Why? Because he conscientiously objected to the Viet Nam War, as a member of the Nation of Islam, and as a black man.

Your comparison of Ali to Tebow is misguided. Period.

None of the above make him a hero any more than enduring the criticism and constant media bashing that Tebow goes through.

When you talk about conscientious objectors the first thing that come to my mind is Sgt. Alvin York....He served his country courageously and became America's most decorated war hero. That is the true definition of a hero. As you mentioned Clay would have been in special services to begin with, so was there to object to?


Ted Williams made the exact same sacrifices that Ali did as far as career and money and actually served as a fighter pilot. And did it in 2 different wars...Countless hundreds of other major league players did the same. For that matter Elvis Presley did too, and he was a far bigger star earning far more money than Cassius Clay.

What does the color of Ali's skin have to do with anything? Your analogy speaks loudly that you don't think that he should have been treated equally with everyone else. Just because he was black and a muslim you are saying that he should have been treated special...Don't give me three or paragraphs of gobbelty goop disputing that fact either. I don't care if Ali was green, purple, or blue, he was still a coward. Name one thing that his refusing to go to the army benefited anyone else in this country? NOT ONE DARN THING. Nothing that he did warranted hero status.


He was a selfish coward.

Muhammad Ali was the protégé of Malcolm X, a Black Muslim. Wiki has a good article on the meaning of the whole deal about being a Black Muslim which is cited below, and embodies much of what was out there on Mr Clay in the media back when the story was pertinent. It was a wrenchingly trying time for all concerned and anything but the hearts and flowers representation of the revisionist view.



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The NOI is an African American political and religious movement, founded in Detroit, Michigan, United States, by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad on July 4, 1930.[2] Its stated goals are to improve the spiritual, mental, social, and economic condition of African Americans in the United States and all of humanity.[3] Critics have described the organization as being black supremacist[4] and antisemitic.[5][6][7] The Southern Poverty Law Center tracks the NOI as a hate group.[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_Islam