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ead E palre [ TRS oe € 1. APPENDIX MUSLIM MOSQUE, INCORPORATED CU! ar Tne March 12, 1964, edition of “The New YUL SE; | lA Times," a daily newspaper published in New York, New York, contained an article on page 20 which indicated that MALCOLM X (LITTLE), former national official of the Nation of Islam (NOI) and Minister of NOI Mosque #7, New York, who broke with the NOI on March 8, 1964, publicly announced in New York City on March 12, 1964, that he had formed the Muslim Mosque, Incorporated (MMI). The MMI, according to the article, would be a broadly based politically oriented black nationalist movement for Negroes only, financed by voluntary contrtbutions. In this public statement MALCOLM X urged Negroes to abandon the doctrine of ncen-violence when it is necessary to defend themselves in the civil rights struggle, and he also susgested that Negroes form rifle clubs to protect treir lives and property in times of emergencies in areas wrere the government 18 unable or unwilling to protect them. ~ . -Incorporatien papers of the MMI filed on March 16, 1964, with the Business Section, Clerk of Ccurts, New York County, New York, New York, reflect that the MII was incorporated uncer the Religious Corporation Law of the State of New York to work for the imparting of the Islamic Faith and Islamic Religion in accordance with "accepted Islamic principals." ‘the princ’pal place of worship to be located in the Borough of Manhattan, New York, New York. During an appearance over KYW - Television, Cleveland, Ohio, on April 7, 1964, MALCOLM X stated that the MMI does not stand for integration, but for complete freedom, justice, and equality for Negroes. He stated that Isiam was the religious philicsophy cf the MMI, while the political, economic and sociai phiiosophy was black nationalism, On May 15, 1964, a confidential source advised that. the headquarters of the MMI are located in Suite 128, Hotel Theresa, 20990 Seventh Avenue, New York City, where they were established on March 16, 1964,