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The United Nation of Islam (UNOI) is a small but unusual group based in Kansas City. It was founded in 1993 as a breakaway group from Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam.

UNOI was founded by Royall Elliot Jenkins, who goes by the title Royall Allah in person. He was born in 1942 in South Carolina and grew up on Maryland's Eastern shore. At the age of 16, he married Juanitta Gates, who was then 13 years old. He later moved to New York and became a long-distance truck driver for the Nation of Islam.

Royall teaches a system of thinking called Mathematical Thinking that, according to UNOI, is the gathering of facts to come to absolute answers without putting a person to it. Royall teaches that Mathematical Thinking eliminates the need for followers or leaders, since math does not have the respect of people. Members of the UNOI operate as volunteers in various activities that operate as classrooms to practice Mathematical Thinking. UNOI-owned businesses include a full-service gas station, several restaurants and bakeries, a sewing factory, a university, a construction company, alternative-energy programs, and a wide range of other endeavors. All full-time volunteers' food, clothing, shelter, heath care, transportation, and all other needs are provided by the very activity in which they participate, freeing them to focus on the idea that they are participating without any distractions or limitations on what they can produce.

UNOI hosts several call-in TV and radio programs across the United States. Royall appears regularly on these programs. In addition to Royalll tours various cities to speak and to answer questions. The UNOI also has frequent Mathematical Thinking Classes set up in numerous cities across the nation. These programs provide those that have the will to do so the opportunity to ask questions of, about, or to the representatives of the UNOI.

Critics of the UNOI allege that, inter alia, followers work as Royall's slaves in UNOI businesses, and receive no income—yet apply for and receive welfare from the government. It is also alleged that Royall has taken several wives from among his followers. Furthermore, critics point out that Royall—who claims to be God in the manner that Wallace Fard Muhammad and Clarence 13X had done before—is in no way educated, intelligent, or able to actually do math, speak foreign languages, or anything else that God should be able to do. Virtually everyone that is not a member of UNOI sees Royall as a scam artist who uses his followers for free labor, sex, and power.

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