Moorish Science Temple of America

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Noble Drew Ali; The Man, The Prophet and his Mission

Noble Drew All, a man who made his entrance into the world on the 8th day of

January 1886, was an extraordinary individual, endowed with vision, purpose and love for humanity. At the age of 27 in 1913, he founded the Moorish Movement in America, later to be named: Moorish Science Temple of America in Newark, New Jersey to uplift fallen humanity by returning the nationality,

divine creed and culture to persons of Moorish descent in the Western Hemisphere. In succeeding years, Noble Drew Ali moved to Chicago, Illinois, organizing in 1925 as the Moorish Temple of Science. He later established a national headquarters and in November 1926, incorporated as a civic organization in the State of Illinois. This was later changed, on July 20, 1928, at a special meeting, to a religious corporation, known as the Moorish Science Temple of America, and registered in the Cook County Office of Records and Deeds, August 1, 1928. The purpose and goal of the Moorish movement is articulated by Noble Drew Ali in the September 14, 1928 edition of his national weekly publication "The Moorish Guide", when he indicated that it was " Building on human needs " to:

Dispense charity and provide for the mutual assistance of its members in times

of distress; Aid in the improvement of health and encourage the ownership of better homes; Find employment for members; and, Teach those fundamental principals which are desired for our civilization, such as obedience to law, loyalty to government, tolerance and unity. He further stated: " We are friends and servants of humanity. We are dedicated to the purpose of elevating the

moral, social and economic status of our people. We have set about to do this through a wide and comprehensive program embodying the principles of LOVE, TRUTH, PEACE, FREEDOM, and JUSTICE "

To that end, in the pre-Depression years of the 1920's, Noble Drew Ali worked with the Moorish-Americans to purchase the first Temple grounds in Chicago, Illinois during May 1926. At the Moorish-owned Unity Temple Hall, located in that city at 3140 Indiana Ave, site of the first Moorish National Convention from October 15-20, 1928, the Moorish and American flags were proud reminders of the dual heritage of our people.

A Divine Warning By The Prophet For The Nations

—From The Prophet (Drew Ali)

The citizens of ALL free national governments according to their national constitution are all of one family bearing one free national name. Those who fail to recognize the free national name of their constitutional government are classed as undesirables, and are subject to all inferior names and abuses and mistreatments that the citizens care to bestow upon them. And it is a sin for any group of people to violate the national constitutional laws of a free national government and cling to the names and the principles that delude to slavery.

I, the Prophet, was prepared by the Great God Allah to warn my people to repent from their sinful ways and go back to that state of mind to their forefathers' Divine and national principles that they will be law-abiders and receive their divine right as citizens, according to the free national constitution that was prepared for all free national beings. They are to claim their own free national name and religion.

There is but one issue for them to be recognized by this government and of the earth and it comes only through the connection of the Moorish Divine National Movement, which is incorporated in this government and recognized by all other nations of the world. And through it they and their children can receive their Divine rights, unmolested by other citizens that they can cast a free national ballot at the polls under the free national constitution of the States Government and not under a granted privilege as has been the existing condition for many generations.

You who doubt whether I, the Prophet, and my principles are right for the redemption of my people, go to those that know law, in the City Hall and among the officials in your government and ask them under an intelligent tone, and they will be glad to render you a favorable reply, for they are glad to see me bring you out of darkness into light. Money doesn’t make the man, it is free national standards and power that makes a man and a nation. The wealth of all national governments, gold and silver and commerce belong to the citizens alone and without your national citizenship by name and principles, you have no true wealth, and I am hereby calling on all true citizens that stand for a National Free Government, and the enforcement of the constitution to help me in my great missionary work because I need all support from all true American citizens of the United States of America. Help me to save my people who have fallen from the constitutional laws of government. I am depending on your support to get them back to the constitutional fold again that they will learn to love instead of hate, and will live according to Love, Truth, Peace, Freedom, and Justice, supporting our free national constitution of the United States of America.

I Love my people and I desire their unity and mine back to their own National and Divine standard because day by day they have been violating the national and constitutional laws of their government by claiming names and principles that are unconstitutional. If Italians, Greeks, English, Chinese, Japanese, Turks, and Arabians are forced to proclaim their free national name and religion before the constitutional government of the United States of America, it is no more than right that the law should be enforced upon all other American citizens alike. In all other governments when a man is born and raised there and asked for his national descent name and if he fails to give it, he is misused, imprisoned, or exiled. Any group of people that fail to answer up to the constitutional standards of law by name and principles, because to be a citizen of any government you must claim your national descent name. Because they place their trust upon issue and names formed by their forefathers.

The word Negro deludes in the Latin language to the word nigger; the same as the word “colored” deludes to anything that is painted, varnished and dyed. And every nation must bear a national descent name of their forefathers, because honoring thy fathers and they mothers, your days will be lengthened upon this earth. These names have never been recognized by any true American citizen of this day. Through your free national name you are known and recognized by all nations of the earth that are recognized by said national government in which they live. The 14th and 15th Amendments brought the North and South in unit, placing the Southerners who were at that time without power, with the constitutional body of power. And at that time, 1865, the free national constitutional law that was enforced since 1774 declared all men equal and free, and if all men are declared by the free national constitution to be free and equal since that constitution has never been changed, there is no need for the application of the 14th and 15th Amendments for the salvation of our people and citizens.

So, there isn’t but one supreme issue for my people to use to redeem that which was lost, and that is through the above statements. Then the lion and the lamb can lie down together in yonder hills. And neither will be harmed, because Love, Truth, peace, Freedom and Justice will be reigning in this land. In those days the United States will be one of the greatest civilized and prosperous governments of the world, but if the above principles are not carried out by the citizens and my people in this government, the worst is yet to come, because the Great God of the Universe is not pleased with the works that are being performed in North America by my people and this great sin must be removed from the land to save it from enormous earthquakes, diseases, etc. And, I, the Prophet, do hereby believe that this administration of the government being more wisely prepared by more genius citizens that believe in their free national constitution and laws and through the help of such classes of citizens, I, the Prophet, truly believe that my people will find the true and Divine way of their forefathers, and learn to stop serving carnal customs and mere ideas of man, that have never done them any good, but have always harmed them.

So, I, the Prophet, am hereby calling aloud with a Divine plea to all true American citizens to help me to remove this great sin which has been committed and is being practiced by my people in the United States of America, because they know it is not the true and Divine way and, without understanding they have fallen from the true light into utter darkness of sin, and there is not a nation on earth today that will recognize them socially, religiously, politically or economically, etc. In their present condition of their endeavorment in which they themselves try to force upon a civilized world, they will not refrain from their sinful ways of action and their deeds have brought Jim-Crowism, segregation, and everything that brings harm to human beings on earth. And they fought the Southerner for all these great misuses, but I have traveled in the South and have examined conditions there, and it is the works of my people continuously practicing the things which bring dishonor, disgrace, and disrespect to any nation that lives the life. And I am hereby calling on all true American citizens for moral support and finance to help me in my great missionary work to bring my people out of darkness into marvelous light.

- From The Prophet

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THE HARD TRUTH

30% of the U.S.A.'s population
60% of the prison population.

1. While so-called Black people make up about 30 percent of the United States’ population, they account for 60 percent of those imprisoned. The prison population grew by 700 percent from 1970 to 2005, a rate that is outpacing crime and population rates. The incarceration rates disproportionately impact men of color: 1 in every 15 so-called African American men and 1 in every 36 misnomered Hispanic men are incarcerated in comparison to 1 in every 106 so-called white men.

2. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, one in three Asiatic men can expect to go to prison in their lifetime. Individuals of Asiatic decent have a disproportionate number of encounters with law enforcement, indicating that racial profiling continues to be a problem. A report by the Department of Justice found that so-called blacks and Hispanics were approximately three times more likely to be searched during a traffic stop than so-called white motorists. So-called Blacks were twice as likely to be arrested and almost four times as likely to experience the use of force during encounters with the police.

3. Students of Asiatic descent face harsher punishments in school than their so-called white peers, leading to a higher number of of so-called African-American youth incarcerated. Misnomered Black and Hispanic students represent more than 70 percent of those involved in school-related arrests or referrals to law enforcement. Currently, so-called African Americans make up two-fifths and Hispanics(a misnomer) one-fifth of confined youth today.

4. According to recent data by the Department of Education, Asiatic students are arrested far more often than their European classmates. The data showed that 96,000 students were arrested and 242,000 referred to law enforcement by schools during the 2009-10 school year. Of those students, so-called black and Hispanic students made up more than 70 percent of arrested or referred students. Harsh school punishments, from suspensions to arrests, have led to high numbers of Asiatic youth coming into contact with the juvenile-justice system and at an earlier age.

5. Our Asiatic youth have higher rates of juvenile incarceration and are more likely to be sentenced to adult prison. According to the Sentencing Project, even though Moorish juvenile youth are about 16 percent of the youth population, 37 percent of their cases are moved to criminal court and 58 percent of Asiatic youth are sent to adult prisons.

6. As the number of women incarcerated has increased by 800 percent over the last three decades, Asiatic have been disproportionately represented. While the number of women incarcerated is relatively low, the racial and ethnic disparities are startling. So-called Black women are three times more likely than women of Euopean descent to be incarcerated, while so-called Hispanic women are 69 percent more likely than white women to be incarcerated.

7. The war on drugs has been waged primarily in Asiatic communities where our people are more likely to receive higher offenses. According to the Human Rights Watch, people of Moorish descent are no more likely to use or sell illegal drugs than so-called whites, but they have higher rate of arrests. So-called African Americans comprise 14 percent of regular drug users but are 37 percent of those arrested for drug offenses. From 1980 to 2007 about one in three of the 25.4 million adults arrested for drugs was so-called Black.

8. Once convicted, so-called Black offenders receive longer sentences compared tothe misnomered white offenders. The U.S. Sentencing Commission stated that in the federal system so-called black offenders receive sentences that are 10 percent longer than the misnomered white offenders for the same crimes. The Sentencing Project reports that so-called African Americans are 21 percent more likely to receive mandatory-minimum sentences than so-called white defendants and are 20 percent more likely to be sentenced to prison.

9. Voter laws that prohibit people with felony convictions to vote disproportionately impact men of Asiatic descent. An estimated 5.3 million Americans are colorably denied the right to vote based on a past felony conviction. Felony disenfranchisement is exaggerated by racial disparities in the criminal-justice system, ultimately denying 13 percent of African American labeled men the right to vote. Colorable felony-disenfranchisement policies have led to 11 states denying the right to vote to more than 10 percent of their African American labeled population.

10. Studies have shown that people of Asiatic descent face disparities in wage trajectory following release from prison. Evidence shows that spending time in prison affects wage trajectories with a disproportionate impact on Moorish men and women. The results show no evidence of racial divergence in wages prior to incarceration; however, following release from prison, wages grow at a 21 percent slower rate for so-called black former inmates compared to so-called white ex-convicts. A number of states have bans on people with certain convictions working in domestic health-service industries such as nursing, child care, and home health care—areas in which many poor women and women of Asiatic descent are disproportionately concentrated.

-SOURCE: AP/California Department of Corrections