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Pd ey TOO 15035209 1. | CONFISZNTIAL NATION OF ISLAM In January, 1957, @ source advised that ELIJAH MUHAMMAD has described his organization on a netionwide basis as the "Nation of Islam’ and "Muhammad's Temples of Islam." . On April 29, 1966, a second source advised that, ELIJAH “MUHAMMAD 4s the national leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI); Muhammad's Temple of Islam No. 2, 5335 ~ South Greenwood fvenue, Chicago, Illinois, is the ; national headquarters of the NOI; and in mid-1960, “UHAMMAD and other NOI officials, when referring to MUHAMMAD's orpanization cn a nationwide basis, commenced using either “fosque' or “Temple when mentioning, one of ~“uhammad's Temples of Islam." . ‘The NOI 4s an all-Nepro organization which was originally orrmanized in 1930 in Detroit, Michiran. MUHAMMAD claims to have been selected by ALLAH, the Supreme Leinzg, to lead the so-called Nerro race out of Slavery in the wilderness of North America by establishing an independent black nation in the United States. ‘embers following MUHAMMAD's teachinrs and his interpretation of the ‘Koran’ believe there is no such thing as a Negro; that the so-called iwerroes are slaves of the white race, referred to as ‘white devils, in the United States; and that the white race, because of its exploitation of the so-called Negroes, must and will be destroyed in the approaching ‘War of Armageddon." In the past, officials and members of the OI, . includinre “MUHAMMAD, have refused to .rerister under the pro- visions of the Selective Service Acts and have declared that wembers owe no allegiance to the United States. On May 5, 1958, the first source advised that MUHAMMAD had, upon advice of leral counsel, temnered his personal statements arid instructions to his ministers con- cerning the princinles of his orranization in order to avoid possible prosecution by the United States Government: