The arrest of alleged terrorists in Florida is pointing a bit of a spotlight on an obscure and fascinating sect. It turn out the seven may not be Muslim, or at least not traditional Muslims. Reports indicate some kind of connection, though perhaps a very informal one, with a group called the Moorish Science Temple, founded by one Timothy Drew:

Timothy Drew was born in 1886 in North Carolina. The accounts of Timothy Drew's childhood are varied, from him being the son of two former slaves who was adopted by a tribe of Cherokee Indians, to him being the son of a Moroccan Muslim father and a Cherokee mother. He is recorded, perhaps apocryphally, as saying, “When I was born, it turned black dark in the daytime. The people put their hoes down and came out of the fields.” Allegedly, at the age of 16, he joined a circus and became a stage magician, befriending a band of Roma, whom he traveled the world with. Supposedly during these travels, he met the high priest of an Egyptian cult of magic. In one version of Drew's biography, the cult leader saw him as a reincarnation of the founder of the cult, while in others he considered him a reincarnation of Jesus Christ.

That's from Wikipedia. I highly recommend you read the rest. America does spawn some weird and wonderful things.

Update: This from alt.muslim is worth a read. It contains a link to this page about Muslim engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan, who was the engineer behind the Sears Tower, supposedly the target of this alleged plot. News stories appear to be becoming more circumspect about labelling this group as Muslims, using terminology such as "religious sect" instead.