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vopraees eg of their leaders in refusing to register, because they claim to be registered in the book of Allah in the Holy City of Mecca and cannot serve two masters. In 1942, three leaders of the MCI, including Elijah Mohammed, and seventy members of the Chicago Temple were arrested - by Agents of the Bureau. The charges leveled against the leaders included failure to register for selective service, gedition,and counseling their followers “that members of the Temple of Islam should not go into the Army and should ignore any cards or letters from the local draft board." The indictments returned for sedition and conspiracy to commit sedition were dismissed in May 1943; however, the three leaders served prison terms for selective service violations. Of the seventy members arrested,approximately forty served prison terms for violation of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. During the course of the Second World War and the war in Korea,such incidents were repeated throughout the country, and a number of convictions were secured -39-