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ween a BA - 25-18253 . REFERENCE advised that he - ; of the Moorish Science Terple of WHoce Te Smiquarters are in Chicago, — Tilinois. Bo het tha.men ate oe » elsieb wr ganization are _ LG REO swe = 4s ‘ = a AJ he Baly IMore, | x ——— wens a eae continued by saying that the dominant pose oO S organization was to teach members of the colored race who joined the Temple thet their true national- ity was Moorish-Anerican, their true race, the Asiatic race and their type religion, as set forth in the Holy Koran. He explained this further by saying that there are only two true races, the European race which is light skinned and the Asiatic race which is dark skinned. The dark skinned people who were brought over to the North American continent as slaves in the 18th Century were actually Moors from Morocco, Africa and were drawn from two tribes, the EL tribe and the Bey tribe, After being sold into captivity, the Moors were separated, the family groups broken up, their tribal names taken away and their captor'ts names forced upon them. The Moors also lost their religion and had the Christian religion forced upon them. When a man joins the Moorish Science Temple, the Divine Minister determines whether he came from the EL tribe or the Bey ribe oo nolly and ¢ s true name, thus becomes EL since his an- f the EL tr : réligion which is drawn fromthe Holy Koran, is likewise restored to him, % said that in registering for the draft and in serving, witn the Armed Forces, some members of the Moorish Science Temple had been "classified" as negroes, This was not only incorrect since the men so described were actually Moorish-Americans but also wrong morally since the word “Negro means slave and does not describe a man's nationality -2- oO nape,