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CG 100-35635 LINCOLN: KUP: LINCOLN; any to have been at a pinnacle. I have never offered this number as a hard and fast number for the membership. Would you make a guess about its membership today? This was the number at which I arrived at through my, through my own calculations, my visits to many, many temples, to questionnaires that I sent out, to talking with other people and so on. And this also was not limited to what you might call card-carrying Muslims. One thing about the Muslim movement is that there are many people who apparently follow the teachings of ELIJAH MUHAMMAD who are not formally assoc- diated with the movement. Now whether the membership of the movement is down to 7,000 now as Mr. BARNETTE claims, or whether it is up to 200, 000 now as Mr. MUHAMMAD claims, I frankly don't know. Well, I'd like to make one point. Mr. MUHAMMAD is not claiming any membership of any figure. I mean, well, first of all you must under- stand the nature of Mr. MUHAMMAD's mission. I mean, his job is delivery of a message to the so-called American Negro and the principle of Islam is based on principtes of practice or beliefs, five principles. One is belief -~ 29 = —