The event took place at the Café Pan Africa. Panelists from left to right are: Fatima Doubakil, Committee for Human Rights for Muslims; Samson Thomas, Eritrean Student Association; Östling, Communist League; and moderator Kitimbwa Sabuni, Café Pan Africa.

Thomas stressed Malcolm’s personal development from misery and prison. “He went from being a ‘victim of Americanism’ to become an articulate, knowledgeable man with a strategy against those who have power. He’s an example for Africans today of what you can become.” Doubakil said Muslims in Europe can learn a lot from Malcolm and should not “turn the other cheek” in response to government anti-immigrant campaigns against Muslims after Sept. 11, 2001.

The panel was preceded by showing Malcolm in a TV debate as well as giving a speech. At the end of the program, Sabuni opened the microphone to the 30 plus participants in the audience. One pointed out that Malcolm’s description of the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States as a wolf and a fox was applicable to the coming elections in Sweden this fall.

—CATHARINA TIRSÉN