This is the uniting of the Holy Koran of Mecca for teaching and instructing all Moorish Americans, etc. 61 And following, as well, Drew Ali's famous statement in his Holy Koran that one popular term for Moorish-Americans, black, according to science means death.. Their beliefs are usually based on convoluted readings of commercial law and the 14 th Amendment, conspiracy theories involving the U.S. Treasury, some wishful thinking, and misinformation from other defendants who promise them that "it really works." 73 Taj Tariq Bey on the Battlefield, 11:26 and 13:47. The city mistakenly invited members of the local Moorish Science temple to the ceremony, believing them to be of actual Moroccan descent. 1 split from the Moorish Science Temple of America. A monster cannot inherit land, In reality none of us can inherit any land because [m]ost people pay property taxes, which means most people are inadvertently subject to being a monster. Randy Stroud, Blacks Law: Lesson 1, YouTube video, 0:383:45, 7:089:00, posted by General Zero, July 27, 2013, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rSgANcaess. [4] Adherents of this movement are known as "Moorish-American Moslems" and are called "Moorish Scientists" in some circles. Fakers and frauds are always plentiful. 23 Moorish America, We Are All One Family Bearing One Free National Name, Moorish American News, December 24, 2013, http://moorishamericannews.com/we-are-all-one-family-bearing-one-free-national-name#sthash.Mke8GJHg.dpbs. [23] In the late 1920s, journalists estimated the Moorish Science Temple had 35,000 members in 17 temples in cities across the Midwest and upper South. ", "Photos, video: the Interstate 95 standoff", "Massachusetts armed group arrested after stand-off with police", "Rise of the Moors member sued Danvers police, then sought to pay filing fees with a silver coin", Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Before the Fez- Life and Times of Drew Ali 1886-1924", Terrorist Recruitment in American Correctional Institutions: An Exploratory Study of Non-Traditional Faith Groups Final Report, Five Percenter Rap: God Hop's Music, Message, and Black Muslim Mission, FBI on the Moorish Science Temple of America, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moorish_Science_Temple_of_America&oldid=1142341456. Two Moorish Americans who claim to be sovereign citizens of a fictitious North African empire were scheduled to make their first appearance in front of Judge Monise Brown for several. But Butler says he wasn't breaking and entering. "A Sudanese Missionary to the United States". all rise and stand and remain standing so you can hear and obey the commands from the living sovereign justices of the moorish american consulate of the moorish national republic federal government, as this is the sovereign living article iii moorish american (al moroccan) consular court action. Merriam Webster Dictionary 1828, moors / muurs the ab original and indigenous natural peoples, and true inheritors of the lands (territories), central america, south america, and the adjoining islands. 14 Azeem Hopkins-Bey, What Makes One a Moorish American? Know Thyself Radio, podcast audio, October 18, 2010, http://www.blogtalkradio.com/themooriam/2010/10/18/what-makes-one-a-moorish-american. His approach appealed to thousands of African Americans who had left severely oppressive conditions in the South through the Great Migration and faced struggles in new urban environments. Strom Thurmond showed us that open secrets of personal hypocrisy never stopped his supporters from reelecting him. Timothy Drew was believed to have been born on January 8, 1886, in North Carolina, United States. That's a pretty common theme in their legal rantings - like the supposed Congressional repeal of the 14th amendment on a specific day (which was, in fact, just one good ol' boy from Louisiana whining about Loving v. Virginia in a speech preserved by the Congressional Record). He urged Americans of all races to reject hate and embrace love. ARTICLE VII The Moorish Americans Freedom and legal rights in the Christian union Court Room [74], A Rise of the Moors member had earlier been arrested in Danvers, Massachusetts, in 2019 on an outstanding warrant. In the 1930s membership was estimated at 30,000, with one third in Chicago. Tariff Sharif Bey, a Detroit, MI man formerly known as Aaron Lamont Johnson, remains locked up at an Essex County jail in Middleton in lieu of $100,000 bail following his arrest along Rte. In 2017, a federal judge sentenced the "Grand Sheik" of a Moorish Temple in Chicago to 68 months in prison for scheming to defraud the Internal Revenue Service out of $3.2 million. Drew Ali was out of town at the time, as he was dealing with former Supreme Grand Governor Lomax Bey (professor Ezaldine Muhammad), who had supported Green-Bey's attempted coup. An article syndicated by the Associated Press states that the Temple has disavowed any affiliation with those responsible, calling them "radical and subversive fringe groups" and also states that "Moorish leaders are looking into legal remedies." [18] According to The Chicago Defender, he claimed the power to marry and divorce at will.[19]. They were nicknamed negroes. If you look in some dictionaries you will see that the word negro means a sly person; a coon. Ahlstrom (p. 1067), Abu Shouk (p. 147), Hamm (p. 14), and Lippy (p. 214) all state that Fard claimed to be, or was considered by many Moors to be, the reincarnation of Drew Ali. These actions are manifesting in front of the daughter and wife of Jamhal Talib Abdullah Bey (photo below). 3 Michael Barkun, one of the few scholars to address the sovereign citizen phenomenon, writes of the common ideology that unites sovereigns into a movement: even though there is no organizational framework linking sovereign citizens, there is sufficient commonality in their beliefs so that they form a distinctive population. Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America, 2nd ed. Police said the group claimed to be traveling from Rhode Island to Maine for "training" on their privately owned land. [10], Drew Ali reported that during his travels, he met with a high priest of Egyptian magic. A concentrated vote is ultimate power politically, and OPERATION PROCLAMATION is the movement to duplicate Noble Drew Ali's civic agenda for the first time in 84 years. Operation Proclamation, http://operationproclamation.org/ (site discontinued). 58 Drew Ali, So This Is Chicago, Moorish Guide, October 26, 1928, Moorish Science Temple Papers, 19261967 (box 1, folder 5), Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York City. There are three variants; a typed, drawn or uploaded signature. The 1911Encyclopdia Britannicaobserved that \"The term 'Moors' has no real ethnological value.\" Europeans of theMiddle Agesand theearly modern periodvariously applied the name to Arabs, North African Berbers, as well as Muslim Europeans. According to the Moorish Science Temple of America's website, the temple is a "divine and national movement" that teaches about Moorish identity, which under their definition, means Black Americans. Lamont Maurice El, who is part of the "Moorish Americans," however, had "some experience with the Maryland court system." In 2013, he was convicted of multiple counts related to his attempt to illegally occupy a 12-bedroom mansion in the city of Bethesda. The word "Moor" has its origin in 46 B.C. when the Romans invaded North Africa. I have, in this article, eschewed peppering citations from such authors with repeated uses of sic.. African Americans who hold sovereign citizen-type beliefs sometimes refer to themselves as moors or muurs.. Based on idiosyncratic readings of the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights . [42] When his leadership was rejected, Ford El broke away from the Moorish Science Temple. Most of them are African Americans who belong to the Moorish Science Temple of America (MSTA) and claim to be descendants of the Moors of northern Africa, though they are not; Moors are of mixed Berber and Arab descent rather than being African American in the usual sense of being descended from black Africans. Only about 200 members attended a convention in 2007, rather than the thousands of the past. I've gone down that rabbit hole a couple of times in researching Moorish claims and it's just amazing how they keep pointing to things like some modern day Vizzini. The whole thing. The file that the FBI created on the temple grew to 3,117 pages during its lifetime. It would seem likely that at some point in the near future the conservative US Supreme court knocks down all or most state laws regulating gun ownership. [32] Others thought it was due to pneumonia. For instance, he explains that They call our children pickaninnies. Not all Moors will agree about being druids or about the particular reading of pickaninny, or the meaning of the presence of the Moor's head on the pope's coat of arms, but all Moors, I submit, will agree that our concepts are wrong, as a whole, that the confusion of the present ageto which the prophet Noble Drew Ali came with the mission of correcting, of uplifting a nation by teaching them how to thinkis rooted largely in the terms used and misused, applied and misapplied to themselves, others, and the wider society. The consent submitted will only be used for data processing originating from this website. [67][68], In 2005, musician Roy "Future Man" Wooten pleaded guilty to income tax evasion, after having been indicted on charges in 2001 that he had not filed or paid taxes between 1995 and 1998. Render date: 2023-03-05T04:31:13.781Z The founding of the Nation of Islam by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930 also created competition for members. Sovereign citizens would accurately be described as the flat earthers of the legal world. MSP Superintendent Col. [] Each court is open to all citizens, nationals, and entities throughout the entire Dominion Empire. Accompanied by two Moorish Science members, the police visited the home of Johnson, when they were met by gunfire. 7 Noble Drew Ali, A Warning from the Prophet in 1928 (Chicago: Young Men Moorish National Business League, 1928). An organization with headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland, claiming to be "the ONLY Moorish Science Temple teaching the full National side of the Moorish Movement",[1] is the Moorish Science Temple, with registered business names of the Divine and National Movement of North America, Inc., and Moorish American National Republic. Such sovereign Moors, whose actions range from declaration of secession to rejection of drivers or marriage licenses, advance legal discourse rooted in historical narratives, tailor their legal thinking toward practical instruction and efficacious results, and appeal to etymology to further authorize their claims. The investigation failed to find any substantial evidence, and the investigations were dropped. 92 Queen Valahra Renita El Harre-Bey: MOORISH LAW (Full Lessons), YouTube video, 0:41, posted by Keishon T. Kessee l-Bey, June 6, 2013, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNihE3McnRk. hasContentIssue true, Copyright Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2016. Relatione, _____ Page 1 of 6 Drew Ali attended the January 1929 inauguration of Louis L. Emmerson, as 27th Governor of Illinois in the state capital of Springfield. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Hostname: page-component-7fc98996b9-g9qcd Such sovereign Moorish legal discourse is best understood, following Catherine Wessinger's work on the Montana Freemen, as magical, and understanding the magical role played by legal texts and discourse within these communities can help scholars and legal professionals in their approach to and interactions with sovereign Moors. [47] They never found any evidence of any connection or much sympathy of the temple's members for Japan. Moor is a term applied from the outside, by Europeans, yet \"unlike relatively stable terms of Roman provenance inherited by Christians such as Arab, Ishmaelite and Saracen,\" the significance of the term varies in particular historical moments and shifts over time. Supporters of the men involved in the standoff this weekend in Wakefield, Massachusetts, said outside of court Tuesday that the . He alleged his arrest was unlawful and filed a federal lawsuit against the police, which was dismissed after he tried to pay the court fees with a silver coin, saying U.S. currency was unconstitutional because it was "not backed by anything of value".[75]. Drew Ali taught that the earth's original single continent, called Amexem, was inhabited entirely by Moors. These suffixes were a sign to others that while one's African tribal name may never be known to them, European names given by their enslavers were not theirs, either. "[27] With the growth in its population and membership, Chicago was established as the center of the movement. "Respectability and Representation: The Moorish Science Temple, Morocco and Black Public Culture in 1920s Chicago", Scopino, A. J. Jr. (2001). this sovereign justice stands as law. That's the crux of all of this, a piece of paper that has never existed says it's all good. Among the many individuals and groups espousing affiliation with the Moorish Science Temple of America movement, some continue founding prophet Noble Drew Ali's emphasis on engaging in American citizenship as a religious duty, while others interpret the prophet's scriptures to lend authority to claims of being outside the jurisdiction of American legal authority. More mystically, he sees occult meaning in the antiquated prophecy of the book of Revelation, referencing as it does the leaves of a curious unnamed tree [through which] the health of a nation might experience restoration. He writes, Etymological research has revealed that words like leaf, tree, branch, root, folio, liber and other such appelatives from the rich vernacular of Botany, has, since remotest antiquity, been employed by diverse cultures when referencing the varied instruments and technical formats of graphic communication or language, a scientific claim that allows him, via some more comparative readings of texts, to reveal the secret of the Trees of Paradise, of Knowledge, and of Life (11). Trump proved that it is not difficult today - at that level of money, power and pulpit - to wrap around himself massive illusion. [11], This text came to be known as the Holy Koran of the Moorish Science Temple of America. 3 Bl. For example he defines consent as [v]oluntary compliance with government. The attack escalated into a shoot-out that spilled into the surrounding neighborhood. save, bookmark and check back daily for updates for this public announcement page for moorish nationality, liens, land claims, lawsuits, violent Ablion banishment notices. Wilson, p. 15; Gomez, p. 203; Paghdiwala; Gale Group. There were congregations in numerous other cities where African Americans had migrated in the early 20th century. <>stream He suggested that all Asiatics should be allied. 16 March 2016. [40], The community was further split when Wallace Fard Muhammad, known within the temple as David Ford-el,[41] also claimed (or was taken by some) to be the reincarnation of Drew Ali. sumus de sanktam unum. all rise and stand and remain standing so you can hear and obey the commands from the living sovereign justices of the moorish american consulate of the moorish national republic federal government, as this is the sovereign living article iii moorish american (al moroccan) consular court action. (1997). The evidence against a Moorish American must be concrete proof beyond the shadow of doubt. The first 19 chapters are from The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ, published in 1908 by esoteric Ohio preacher Levi Dowling. Ahlstrom (p. 1067), Lippy (p. 214), Miyakawa (p. 12). A writ for inquiring into the lawfulness of the restraint of a person who is imprisoned or detained in anothers custody. . : printed by author, 2009) and Robert Hart, Citizen/Slave: Understanding the American Sovereign Spirit (Pittsburgh: Rose Dog Books, 2005). [20] He left the city after agitating people with his views on race. Wessinger argues that sovereign groups like the Montana Freemen should be examined via the category of nativist movements. Nativist movements are characterized by responding to a situation of perceived (or real) oppression with the desire to gain and utilize the invisible power that the dominating group appears to possess to acquire that power in order to defeat the controlling government and to establish the native's idealized past golden age. Ibid. This Zodiac Constitution was central in the arrest of one hundred New York City employees on tax evasion charges in 1997. The house with 12 bedrooms and 6 kitchens was up for sale. Complete ruling (477k PDF). Citations use the form indicated by the title page of the work cited. Any studied Moor, or individual that understands the principles of nationality should equally understand the principles of sovereignty for they are one in the same. % American pseudolaw matured around 1999-2000, and, at that point, was hosted by the sovereign citizen movement. THE MOORISH SUPREME COURT, et al., Plaintiffs/Appellants, v. THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, et al., Defendants/Appellees. Do you drive? Decide on what kind of eSignature to create. moorish american consular court mailing location: care of 401 east 1st street #158 near. During the group's apparent three years of. [70], In 2016, Washitaw Nation affiliate Gavin Eugene Long ambushed six police officers and killed three of them in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Just as they have saddled on the Moorish Americans the name negro they have also given him a religion that was made to enslave him and stop his progress. The court entered not guilty pleas on their behalf and some will be back in court on Friday. [64] [43] The Nation of Islam denied any historical connection with the Moorish Science Temple until February 26, 2014, when Louis Farrakhan acknowledged the contribution(s) of Noble Drew Ali to the Nation of Islam and their founding principles. Tarik Bey has his own notions of conspiracy and hegemony: Masonry is Islam, the science, he says, and it is through the science of Islam that Europeans (so-called whites) rule the world, but what he shares with the majority of contemporary Moorish Science thinkers is this emphasis on etymology as revealing the forgotten or concealed truth of words. 15 Drew Ali, Political Slavery, Moorish Guide, February 15, 1929, Moorish Science Temple Papers, 19261967 (box 1, folder 5), Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York City. The woman said she discovered the movement while doing research for a college class on the U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision, the 1857 . We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. The Moorish Defense got its name from the religious group the Moorish American Science Temple. Some followers also claim to have roots in America that predate the United States, and argue that a 1787 treaty with Morocco exempts them from American laws. ARTICLE VII 25 Consider this retelling of history: NOBLE DREW ALI ORGANIZED 100,000 PEOPLE IN 15 STATES, AND HAD 10,000 IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO ALONE. x|{@SG&H^QDT@TAT@EyA| V*7V[mk[_Zauvunvn;s|}~'3s3g9s !D$#Yg4O]^b"{k6hOg[?6{ X8~Qo"2nN?^ $S1|"{vm6k52=B2X,Y=!yHol^X?&_&7zRyW"#d9K?r.n5101Xc1h7fG}gMIk Friendship before an Article III Court of competent jurisdiction, and enforce the Constitution For the united States of America as to the restoration of proper and lawful 'due process' under the organic American Republic Constitution Law principles and operations; the Moorish American: _____ex. The word \"Moor\" has its origin in 46 B.C. On June 17, 2021, near the foreign corporate LA PLATA, Maryland republic, our Moorish American national Jafar Abdul Adl El was released from the custody of Sheriff Troy D. Berry and the foreign CHARLES COUNTY DETENTION CENTER (Inc.) under the consular jurisdiction exercised by the officers of the Morocco Consular Court at the Maryland state republic via the Writ of Habeas Corpus Ad . 17 Drew Ali, All Registering, Moorish Guide, October 26, 1928, Moorish Science Temple Papers, 19261967 (box 1, folder 5), Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York City. Blakemore, Jerome; Yolanda Mayo; Glenda Blakemore (2006). They called the inhabitants they met there Maures from the Greek word mauros,. There is widespread irregularity in the practices of spelling and grammar among Moorish writers. Few gun laws have been upheld as of late. The founder of the Moorish Science Temple argued that African Americans should be considered "Moors of America"; 4 unfortunately, this idea has been merged by African-American sovereign citizens with the 1786 treaty between Morocco and the United States, to draw the conclusion that Moors have a separate citizenship status in the United .
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