@Billy Costigan (i just started reading this thread (currently on page 1))
he was killed because
at first he only catered to the black folk (his NOI era)
while Hoover was shadowing him, he was not THAT dangerous because hey.. black talk the talk but dont walk the walk.
Then he got expelled went on his Hajj and experienced
"tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blondes to black-skinned Africans. But we were all participating in the same ritual, displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood that my experiences in America had led me to believe never could exist between the white and non-white."
now he became a threat. while he was
still for the upliftment of his people, he also made good contacts with mostly african political leaders.
and no longer considered the white man as the devil
"I am not a racist... In the past I permitted myself to be used... to make sweeping indictments of all white people, the entire white race, and these generalizations have caused injuries to some whites who perhaps did not deserve to be hurt."
The U.S. Government also feared Malcolm X’s growing international stature and the political connections he was making in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Malcolm X met with Che Guevara and the Cuban delegation to the United Nations in New York, in December of 1964. He was invited by Ahmed Ben Bella, the leader of the Algerian revolution, to participate along with Che and other independence movement leaders at a conference in Bandung beginning March 3, 1965.
edit: He had also arranged for the issue of human rights violations against Afro-Americans to be considered on March 12, 1965, by the International Court of Justice at the Hague. His assassination put an end to all of this. Ben Bella was assasinated 4 months later.
thats why they killed him.