Moorish Science Temple Cult and the Florida Cell

The terriost wannabe's in Florida belong to a black religious cult called the Moorish Science Temple of America.

This religion is hard to define because it inculcates Jewish,Christian and Islamic belief's.

The religion is very popular in black urban area's,
where they hold dinners, discuss doctrine
and elect leadership.

I have copied this information from Wikipedia on the cult group.

The mainstream media is afraid to cover the cultish, hate America doctrines of this group.


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Moorish Science Temple of America is a religion founded in the early 20th century claiming to be a sect of Islam, but having equal influences in Buddhism, Christianity, Freemasonry, Gnosticism and Taoism. Its main tenet was that African Americans were descended from the Moors and thus were originally Islamic. Its founder was Noble Drew Ali, the Prophet né Timothy Drew (1886-1929), whose disciples included Wallace Fard Muhammad, founder of the Nation of Islam, and Elijah Muhammad, who was Fard's successor and who later employed Malcolm X as the mouthpiece of the Nation.

The church's teachings

The Koran is held to be a collection of knowledge kept secret by the peoples of the East, now brought back to light by the Prophet.

As such, Noble Drew Ali did not claim to be the author of the work, per se, although the final section of the Koran, Chapters 45-48, are in his proverbial hand. The Koran is in three major sections.

Chapters 2-19 contain the lost history of Jesus as a child and young man, His travels and teachings in Palestine, Egypt, Europe, and India. The ministry of John the Baptist also figures heavily in this section. The most probable source for this material is the Aquarian Gospel of Jesus Christ, although the man credited with this work, Levi H. Dowling, as in the case of Noble Drew Ali, did not claim authorship, but rather suggests that it is a revealed, pre-existing text.

The second major section of the Koran, Chapters 20-44, seems to be derived from the Rosicrucian text Unto Thee I Grant, and consists largely of discussions of various aspects of the human condition. The third and final section, apparently penned by Noble Drew Ali, himself, contains a collection of non-traditional histories of Asiatic peoples and the founding of Christianity, as well as an overview of the mission and intent of the Science Temple.

In addition to these three sections, Chapter 1 serves as a sort of Creation story, a discussion of the fundamental nature of humans, how we came into being, and what our relationship to God is. This chapter is a slightly revised section from the introduction to Levi H. Dowling's text rather than from the "Aquarian Gospel." There is also a quick epilogue between Chapters 19 and 20, summing up the events portrayed in the first section as the story of the lives of Jesus and John the Baptist.

A major theme of the Moorish Science Temple is teaching or returning nationality to members of the Asiatic Nation of North America. The Science Temple was an early proponent of the Black Power movement in America, although Marcus Garvey is celebrated by the Science Temple as the Forerunner of the Prophet. The temple's doctrine was that of racial tolerance and equality, and the structure of the religion theoretically embraced all races. Drew taught that Moors were "Asiatic", that there are only two races on the planet, Europeans and Asiatics.

The peoples of Asia, Africa, and the Pacific, as well as Latin Americans, and indigenous peoples of the Americas are all considered Asiatic in Science Temple teachings. Drew taught that Europeans represent the "Lower Self" (Satan), and were driven out of Mecca by the Asiatic Moslems.

Drew said that the empowerment of the Moorish people could only be found through an acceptance of Islam, although the Moorish Science Temple's definition of Islam was very different from the conventional one, and was more of a theosophistic combination of many religions, including Buddhism and indigenous religions. The theology of the church was lenient and inconsistent, if not non-existent, although there were consistent themes of universal love and pride.

Doctrine of the temple was unconventional, including stories about Christ and Apollo battling, and the Greek Gods watching over his tomb before his resurrection, as well as teachings such as that Morocco was in fact the promised land of the Bible and Koran and that descendents of Sub-Saharan Africans should be referred to as "Moors" or "Moorish Americans" instead of Negroes, Blacks, or today, African-Americans.


The church's practices

The Moorish Science temple was founded on a teaching of the Moors as a blueprint of Freemasonry, and included a modified version of the Masonic lodge charter. The church's standards of behaviour was loosely derived from those of Islam, although not rigorously, and critics of the church accused it of antinomianism.

Members of the Temple wore fezes, (including Drew, who wore a Cherokee feather in his) and often added the suffixes "-Bey" or "-El" to their names to signify their Moorish heritage, and could earn initiate titles such as Deacon, Exilarch, and Papessa. The ushers of the Temple wore black fezzes and were known as "Muftis", and the leader of a particular temple was known as a "Sheik", "Sheikess", or "Governor". Followers of the temple refused to fight in World War I and due to pressure from the inhabitants of New Jersey they moved to Chicago, where Drew began to make more impassioned speeches, urging Moors to reject the European labels such as "black" and "colored" and for Americans of all races to reject hate and embrace love. He believed that Chicago would become a second Mecca, and the temple began selling folk remedies (such as Moorish Tea) and issuing members of the church membership cards authorizing them as "Moslems" and declaring that they are citizens of the United States.


The Science Temple after the death of Noble Drew Ali

The church suffered scrutiny and possibly harassment by Chicago police. A member of the Temple, Claude Green El, splintered off, declaring himself Grand Sheik, taking a number of members of the original temple, but was later stabbed by unknown parties. Drew was arrested and beaten by police, and released on bond pending an indictment. He died shortly afterward in 1929, apparently due to injuries received at the hands of the police, although the exact circumstances of his death are unknown. He was never brought up on charges for any involvement in the stabbing of Claude Green El.

The Moorish Science Temple lived on after Drew Ali’s death, but splits among the Temple adherents widened.

Three factions eventually formed, all led by close associates of the Prophet. Bro C. Kirkman-Bey, the Prophet’s translator and confidant, became the head of what would eventually be the largest group, and which currently has legal claim to the name “Moorish Science Temple of Americn

” Another faction developed into the so-called Reincarnated Temples, led by the Prophet’s former chauffeur Bro. J. Givens El, who thereafter called himself “Noble Drew Ali, Reincarnated.” Givens El, and the brothers Richardson Dingle El and Timothy Dingle El who succeeded him, taught that the Prophethood of Noble Drew Ali remained intact and passed on to them at the death of each before them, similar to the succession of authority from father to son or grandson in Shia Isma’ili Islam.

From the work of the Dingle El brothers came the Noble Order of Moorish Sufis in Baltimore. Founded by the former Grand Mufti Rafi Sharif Bey on July 7, 1957, this group later lead to the founding of the Moorish Orthodox Church and the Moorish League. A third faction was begun by Bro. E. Mealy El and is still in existence, but with probably the fewest adherents out of the three.

During World War II, the Science Temple (specifically the Kirkman-Bey faction) got the attention of the FBI, who falsely suspected the Moors of collaborating with the Japanese. No doubt doctrines and prophecies that the world order would one day invert and put the Asiatics of the world back in charge, as was, the Temple taught, the original order of things, sounded woefully suspicious to the anti-Japanese mindset of the times. The FBI created a file on the organization which grew to 3,117 pages, but produced no evidence of any connection or even much sympathy between the Empire of Japan and the Temple.

Although it continues to this day, the MST is overshadowed historically by The Nation of Islam, begun by W.D. Fard, as mentioned above. Over time some Science Temple members have converted to either traditional Islam or the Nation of Islam. These MST to NOI converts include one Dr. Rashid, who eventually gained infamy by his links to Al-Qaeda. The number of people who consider themselves to be members of the Science Temple or other, later Moorish groups, has apparently remained steady, if somewhat small, over the decades since the inevitable decline in membership after the death of the Prophet.

As with the Nation of Islam, a major source of converts to the Science Temple has been the often disgruntled and uneducated African American populations incarcerated in federal and state penitentiaries. The so-called Kirkman-Bey body of the MST, currently administered by Bro. R. Jones-Bey, Grand Sheik and Moderator, and Sister S. Dunbar-Bey, Assistant Grand Sheikess, has been particularly successful in the prisons.

Moorish Science has had a heavy influence upon spiritualist anarchism via Hakim Bey, as well as through various subsequent religious movements, such as the Nation of Gods and Earths, Dwight York's Nuwaubian movement, and the Moorish Orthodox Church.

Hakim Bey and the "Moorish Orthodox Church" has done much to introduce the history of the Temple to the general public. Some Moors have claimed that their writings have done some irreversible damage to scholarship. This has yet to be proven using the original writings of Prophet Noble Drew Ali.

External links

The only true continuation of the original grand body of the Moorish Science Temple of 1928

The Moorish Orthodox Church Diocese of New Jersey

Rotten Library entry on the Moorish Temple

FBI Surveillance Documents of the Moorish Science Temple

the Circle Seven Koran

The Moorish Science Reading Room run by members of the Moorish Orthodox Church

Supreme Wisdom - Circle 7

Nourished by the Waters of Indigenous Islam Article By Muslim WakeUp!

[1] website by the National Secretary of the Noble Order of Moorish Sufis which was designed on July 7, 1957 by Shiek Timothy Dingle El and Shiek Rafi Sharif Ali Shah Bey of Baltimore.
Synthesis of Four Movements: Origins of the Nation of Islam(NOI)


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