“Now, they are using the same tactics that’s used by the Ku Klux Klan,” Malcolm declared. “When the Klan bombs your church, they say you did it. When they bomb the synagogue, they say the Jews bombed their own synagogue.” The reference to the white knights, so much the terror still of blacks in the South, was a calculated tactic employed to expose the broader, secret relationship that Elijah Muhammad had established over the years with the Klan.