Malindi Cult's Historical Links to Terrorism

Last week, Kenyan President William Ruto declared William Branham's "Message" cult of personality to be terrorism[1] after Message cult leader Paul Mackenzie manipulated the minds of his Malindi cult into mass suicide through starvation. As the investigation into the Shakhola Massacre continues the body count has reached 110.[2]

The sect led by Mackenzie belongs to the "Branhamist" current of Pentecostal Christianity. This current owes its name to William M. Branham (1909-1965), a US preacher who came from unitary Pentecostalism (which identifies Jesus with the Father and the Holy Spirit, denying the Trinity ) . Branham's doctrines and practices, which emphasized everything related to the second coming of Christ and healings and miracles, were rejected by the Christian denominations, and his movement was considered a cult from very early on, but he quickly spread throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia. And precisely on the African continent, many groups remain that are the direct heirs of it. In fact, the South African government even banned his proselytizing campaigns.[3]
- A hundred corpses of a sect in Kenya: these are the keys

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While suicide through starvation is a relatively unusual thing in the Branhamite sect of Pentecostalism, the links to terrorism are not, and suicide — even mass suicide — are not. The key to understanding the origin of these links to terrorism is found in Mackenzie's 2017 arrest for radicalization against the education system.[4] This is a very common theme in Branhamite sects, with a very clear historical origin. Even in the United States, many children in William Branham's cult of personality are forbidden to have proper education. Some people within our support network admit that the "Message" church they escaped did not permit parents to send their children to public schools. Some claim that they were forbidden education past grade school, and some are fully uneducated. Most cult members in the sect, however, do not realize the history of domestic terrorism behind William Branham's doctrine against education.

William Branham's church in Jeffersonville, Indiana, was planted by Rev. Roy E. Davis, a leader of multiple domestic terrorist organizations. Davis was the second-in-command of the 1915 Ku Klux Klan under Colonel William Joseph Simmons,[5] The Klan was a domestic terrorist organization that persecuted African Americans and Jews, and was nearly disbanded in the early 1920s for controlling local and state governments in the United States. Georgia Congressman William D. Upshaw, a strong promoter of William Branham's "Message" sect,[6] defended the terrorist organization in Washington D.C. During the Congressional Hearings, it was learned that Upshaw was a member of the Klan.[7]

After ordaining Branham as a member of his Pentecostal Baptist Church of God denomination of Pentecostalism,[8] Davis started rising through the ranks of other white supremacy groups as supremacy in the United States was forced to go underground in hiding. When it re-emerged as the third wave of the Ku Klux Klan, Davis emerged as the Imperial Wizard — the highest-ranking leader of the Klan. In 1961, when Davis proudly displayed his Klan robes to reporters in Shreveport, Louisiana, he claimed that he was "the only Klansman who can boast of having all the degrees of the Klan conferred on him. He said that he helped write the constitution, by-laws and ritual of the original Klan when it was revived in 1915."[9]

By 1963, Davis had become a leading, militant force against the American education system. As the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacy groups such as the National States Rights Party (organized in Branham's hometown of Jeffersonville Indiana[10]) battled to fight racial integration of the public school system, Branham's sermons transitioned to include key elements of the white supremacist propaganda. When speaking to audiences who approved of the white supremacy agenda, Branham declared himself to be a segregationalist instead of an integrationist; Branham took sides with the white supremacists who opposed racial integration.[11] Branham was very outspoken against Civil Rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr.[12] He sided with the Klan against television programs such as "I Love Lucy" that promoted interracial marriage.[13] Branham's sermons were filled with racial slurs, racial profiling, and various forms of discrimination. These sermons are published as tracts by Spoken Word Publications and distributed by Voice of God Recordings of Jeffersonville, Indiana. Many of these tracts contain hate speech against Civil Rights leaders of the 50s and 60s, from protestors in the news to President John F. Kennedy. Several of these tracts were found by investigators on the scene at the Shakahola Massacre.

We want to get her in Bible school somewhere and away from the public school.[14]

We give them integration. Now it's worse than it ever was.[15]

One of the greatest mistakes this nation made, it made it on November the 11th, this year. That was its great, fatal mistake. One of the greatest mistakes that the colored race ever made, was down in Louisiana and over in there, when they voted for Kennedy,[16]

Oh, you see, it's this intellectual day that we're living in. Education, civilization, and the modern trend of the day, is all of the devil. "Civilization of the devil?" Yes, sir! The Bible said it is.[17]

References

[1] Santamaría, Luis. A hundred corpses of a sect in Kenya: these are the keys. 2023, Apr, 27. A hundred corpses of a sect in Kenya: these are the keys. Accessed 2023, Apr, 30 from https://es.aleteia.org/2023/04/27/un-centenar-de-cadaveres-de-una-secta-en-kenia-estas-son-las-claves. "2023/27/04 A hundred corpses of a sect in Kenya: these are the keys Luis Santamaría is a type of terrorism." Groups like Mackenzie's 'should be closed. We do not tolerate people who preach misleading sermons that cause deaths,"

[2] Khaemba, Amos. Malindi Cult: Number of Missing People Rises to 360 As Shakahola Death Toll Hits 110. 2023, Apr, 28. Malindi Cult: Number of Missing People Rises to 360 As Shakahola Death Toll Hits 110. "2023/28/04 Malindi Cult: Number of Missing People Rises to 360 As Shakahola Death Toll Hits 110 Malindi Cult: Number of Missing People Rises to 360 As Shakahola Death Toll Hits 110. Accessed 2023, Apr 28 from Malindi Cult: Number of Missing People Rises to 360 As Shakahola Death Toll Hits 110. https://www.tuko.co.ke/kenya/503877-malindi-cult-number-missing-people-rises-360-shakahola-death-toll-hits-109/ Amos Khaemba Malindi Cult: Number of Missing People Rises to 360 As Shakahola Death Toll Hits 110. Accessed 2023, Apr 28 from Malindi Cult: Number of Missing People Rises to 360 As Shakahola Death Toll Hits 110. https://www.tuko.co.ke/kenya/503877-malindi-cult-number-missing-people-rises-360-shakahola-death-toll-hits-109/."

[3] Santamaría, Luis. A hundred corpses of a sect in Kenya: these are the keys. 2023, Apr, 27. A hundred corpses of a sect in Kenya: these are the keys. Accessed 2023, Apr, 30 from https://es.aleteia.org/2023/04/27/un-centenar-de-cadaveres-de-una-secta-en-kenia-estas-son-las-claves. "2023/27/04 A hundred corpses of a sect in Kenya: these are the keys A hundred corpses of a sect in Kenya: these are the keys. Accessed 2023, Apr 30 from https://es.aleteia.org/2023/04/27/un-centenar-de-cadaveres-de-una-secta-en-kenia-estas-son-las-claves Luis Santamaría A hundred corpses of a sect in Kenya: these are the keys. Accessed 2023, Apr 30 from https://es.aleteia.org/2023/04/27/un-centenar-de-cadaveres-de-una-secta-en-kenia-estas-son-las-claves."

[4] Orinde, Hillary. 2023, Apr 27. Accessed 2023, Apr 30 from https://www.barrons.com/news/another-kenyan-pastor-accused-of-mass-killing-of-his-followers-c5d54ef4. Another Kenyan Pastor Accused In Mass Deaths Of Followers. He was arrested in 2017 on charges of "radicalisation" after urging families not to send their children to school, saying education was not recognised by the Bible. "Orinde, Hillary. 2023, Apr 27. Accessed 2023, Apr 30 from https://www.barrons.com/news/another-kenyan-pastor-accused-of-mass-killing-of-his-followers-c5d54ef4. Another Kenyan Pastor Accused In Mass Deaths Of Followers. He was arrested in 2017 on charges of "radicalisation" after urging families not to send their children to school, saying education was not recognised by the Bible."

[5] Knights Flaming Sword Asked to Lay Down Arms. 1925, Jan, 19. Chattanooga Daily Times. "1925/19/01 Knights Flaming Sword Asked to Lay Down Arms Chattanooga Daily Times. . After the banishment papers had been made out against Col. Simmons by the imperial kloncilium and signed by Dr. H. W. Evans, imperial wizard of the Klan, Col. Simmons continuing to confer the second degree of the Klan. Believing I was entitled to the honor of the second degree I went to the colonel's home and while visiting with him was raised to the second degree and that day made his personal representative Chattanooga Daily Times. . After the banishment papers had been made out against Col. Simmons by the imperial kloncilium and signed by Dr. H. W. Evans, imperial wizard of the Klan, Col. Simmons continuing to confer the second degree of the Klan. Believing I was entitled to the honor of the second degree I went to the colonel's home and while visiting with him was raised to the second degree and that day made his personal representative."

[6] Pastor, No Longer Using Crutches, Still A Militant Dry at Nearly 85. 1951, Sep, 23. The Courier-Journal. "1951/23/09 Pastor, No Longer Using Crutches, Still A Militant Dry at Nearly 85 Mr. Upshaw will speak today at 2:30 p.m. at the Jeffersonville High School gymnasium. Mr. Branham has arranged the meeting Mr. Upshaw will speak today at 2:30 p.m. at the Jeffersonville High School gymnasium. Mr. Branham has arranged the meeting."

[7] Norfolk Chief of Police Said to Be Member Ku Klux: Statement Made Before Committee That He Had Promised 260 Rifles: UPSHAW A MEMBER. 1921, Oct, 12. Durham Morning Herald. "1921/12/10 Norfolk Chief of Police Said to Be Member Ku Klux: Statement Made Before Committee That He Had Promised 260 Rifles: UPSHAW A MEMBER Durham Morning Herald Durham Morning Herald."

[8] Branham, William. Has The Lord Spoken Only To Moses. 1953, Nov, 30. Has The Lord Spoken Only To Moses? (53-1130). "1953/30/11 Has The Lord Spoken Only To Moses William Branham And he said, 'Well, that's just exactly what happened.' He said, 'I'm William Upshaw.' And he was a State Senator of Georgia and was a congressman seventeen years, and retired from the congressman of the United States. Been a total invalid for sixty-six years, an invalid in a wheelchair and crutches and bed and so forth. 'And he said, 'I was a president (I believe it was) of the Southern Baptist Convention.' Said, 'Dr. Roy E. Davis that ordained you in the Baptist church said to me,' said, 'I have been prayed for hundreds of times, but he was the one that advised me to come over here to have you to intercede to God for me.'"

[9] Ku Klux Klan Active In Shreveport, Area. Ku Klux Klan Active In Shreveport, Area. 1961, Feb, 10. The Times Shreveport. "1961/10/02 Ku Klux Klan Active In Shreveport, Area Area Ku Klux Klan Active In Shreveport The Times Shreveport"

[10] 90th Congress, 2nd Session, 1968. Present Day Ku Klux Klan Movement. "Originally headquartered in Jeffersonville, Ind., the organization moved its national office to Birmingham, Ala., in 1960.". "90th Congress, 2nd Session, 1968. Present Day Ku Klux Klan Movement. "Originally headquartered in Jeffersonville, Ind., the organization moved its national office to Birmingham, Ala., in 1960."

[11] God is a segregationalist. I am too. Any Christian's a segregation. God segregates His people from all the rest of them. They're... They've always been a segregation. He chose a nation. He chooses a people. He is a segregationalist. He made all nations. But still, a real genuine Christian has to be a segregationalist. Separating himself from the things of the world and everything, and come into one purpose, Jesus Christ. But they holler that. I've tried to tell them, "That's not the thing that's going to save our nation. That's only a political scheme. It's a--it's a thing of communistic background." I think Martin Luther King's going to lead his people to a biggest slaughter, and massacre, that they've ever been into. And they... You see, that ain't going to pull the world together. That ain't going to save us. We give them integration. Now it's worse than it ever was. See, that isn't the... that isn't the question. There's only one thing that can: that is God. And they certainly don't want It.Branham, William. 1964, Dec, 27. Who Do You Say This Is. "1964/27/12 God is a segregationalist. I am too. Any Christian's a segregation. God segregates His people from all the rest of them. They're... They've always been a segregation. He chose a nation. He chooses a people. He is a segregationalist. He made all nations. But still, a real genuine Christian has to be a segregationalist. Separating himself from the things of the world and everything, and come into one purpose, Jesus Christ. But they holler that. I've tried to tell them, "That's not the thing that's going to save our nation. That's only a political scheme. It's a--it's a thing of communistic background." I think Martin Luther King's going to lead his people to a biggest slaughter, and massacre, that they've ever been into. And they... You see, that ain't going to pull the world together. That ain't going to save us. We give them integration. Now it's worse than it ever was. See, that isn't the... that isn't the question. There's only one thing that can: that is God. And they certainly don't want It.Branham, William That's not the thing that's going to save our nation. That's only a political scheme. It's a--it's a thing of communistic background That's not the thing that's going to save our nation. That's only a political scheme. It's a--it's a thing of communistic background."

[12] Branham, William. A Paradox. 1964, Apr, 18. A Paradox (64-0418B). "1964/18/04 A Paradox Like I said, this Martin Luther King is leading his people to a crucifixion. It's communistic. Sure, it is. If them people were slaves, then I'd be down here fighting for them. Right. But they're not slaves. It's an argument, where they go to school or not. Won't go to talking about that. I just thought I'd express it. See? All right. Notice. It's just the devil. Certainly William Branham Like I said, this Martin Luther King is leading his people to a crucifixion. It's communistic. Sure, it is. If them people were slaves, then I'd be down here fighting for them. Right. But they're not slaves. It's an argument, where they go to school or not. Won't go to talking about that. I just thought I'd express it. See? All right. Notice. It's just the devil. Certainly."

[13] Branham, William. The Seal Of The Antichrist. 1955, Mar, 11. The Seal Of The Antichrist (55-0311). "1955/11/03 The Seal Of The Antichrist Brother, by their fruits, you'll know them. Who—what was that? Lucy, something about Lucy, or something like 'I Love Lucy.' Some of them programs like that. I don't watch her nonsense William Branham Brother, by their fruits, you'll know them. Who—what was that? Lucy, something about Lucy, or something like 'I Love Lucy.' Some of them programs like that. I don't watch her nonsense."

[14] Branham, William. Believest Thou This. 1960, Apr, 2. Believest Thou This? (60-0402). "1960/02/04 Believest Thou This Believest Thou This? (60-0402) William Branham Believest Thou This? (60-0402)."

[15] Branham, William. Who Do You Say This Is. 1964, Dec, 27. Who Do You Say This Is? (64-1227). "1964/27/12 Who Do You Say This Is Who Do You Say This Is? (64-1227) William Branham Who Do You Say This Is? (64-1227)."

[16] Branham, William. Condemnation By Representation. 1960, Nov, 13. Condemnation By Representation (60-1113). "1960/13/11 Condemnation By Representation Condemnation By Representation (60-1113) William Branham Condemnation By Representation (60-1113)."

[17] Branham, William. Leadership. 1965, Dec, 7. Leadership (65-1207). "1965/07/12 Leadership Leadership (65-1207) William Branham Leadership (65-1207)."