"Respectability and Representation: The Moorish Science Temple, Morocco and Black Public Culture in 1920s Chicago", Scopino, A. J. Jr. (2001). i am an original indigenous sovereign moorish american national and i am exercising all my rights at this time and at all points in time, nunc pro tunc. [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. This Zodiac Constitution was central in the arrest of one hundred New York City employees on tax evasion charges in 1997. HABEAS CORPUS AD SUBJICIENDUM. Finally, Drew Ali settled in Chicago in 1925, saying the Midwest was "closer to Islam". However, the governors of the Moorish Science Temple of America declared Charles Kirkman Bey to be the successor to Drew Ali and named him Grand Advisor.[36]. You know why? 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. On March 15, Green-Bey was stabbed to death at the Unity Hall of the Moorish Science Temple, on Indiana Avenue in Chicago.[28]. 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. 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. 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. See Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy, Anyplace but Here (New York: Hill and Wang, 1966), 206. The Moorish sovereign citizen movement is a collection of independent organizations and lone individuals who emerged in the early 1990s as an offshoot of the antigovernment sovereign citizens movement, adherents of which believe that individual citizens hold sovereignty over, and are independent of, the authority of federal and state governments. "Moorish American Republic 070117-004," it said. ARTICLE VII Complete ruling (477k PDF). In early 1929, following a conflict over funds, Claude Green-Bey, the business manager of Chicago Temple No. Hamm (p. 25) states otherwise: "Fort tried to join the Moorish Science Temple in Milwaukee but Temple elders refused to have him. Police killed Long in the resulting confrontation. [22] The following year he officially registered Temple No. Building Moorish-American businesses was part of their program, and in that was similar to Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League and the later Nation of Islam. The leader of a particular temple was known as a Grand Sheik, or Governor. They are instructions on how to live, and the education and duties of adherents.[13]. Court documents . [47] They never found any evidence of any connection or much sympathy of the temple's members for Japan. The Supreme Court, 1982 Term Foreword: Before the Fez: The Life and Times of Drew Ali, 18861924,, http://www.blogtalkradio.com/themooriam/2010/10/18/what-makes-one-a-moorish-american, http://operationproclamation.org/subject-of-exposition-free-national-name.html, http://moorishamericannews.com/we-are-all-one-family-bearing-one-free-national-name#sthash.Mke8GJHg.dpbs, http://moorishamericannews.com/moors-must-rock-vote#sthash.HyyO5jpg.dpuf, https://web.archive.org/web/20160111205409/, http://moorishdirectory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Zodiac-Constitution-by-CM-Bey.pdf, http://moorishamericangov.org/TheDivineConstitutionExplained.pdf, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du_XmbL662Q, http://moorishamericannationalrepublic.com/news_categories/moor-news/page/9/, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgzLtssgsPM, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rSgANcaess, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNihE3McnRk. 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. [54], During the 1990s, some former followers of the Moorish Science Temple of America and the Washitaw Nation formed an offshoot of the sovereign citizen movement which came to be known as Moorish sovereign citizens. The religious and civil rights organization, which was founded in the early 1900s, says that the defendants are twisting their religious teachings to serve their own interests. affidavit of fact cause of action complaint, affidavit of fact authentication of service, moors / muurs the ab original and indigenous natural peoplesand true inheritors of the lands (territories), north america,central america, south america, and the adjoining islandsal moroc / ameru / americana, south east amexem & uk territories and dominions, moorish national republic federal government, north east amexem territories and dominions, north west amexem territories and dominions. Each court is open to all citizens, nationals, and entities throughout the entire Dominion Empire. 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. Published online by Cambridge University Press: The certificate was filed by Dr. Clarence Payne-El, who was reportedly at Drew Ali's bedside when he died. 4 Cover, Robert, The Supreme Court, 1982 Term Foreword: Nomos and Narrative, Harvard Law Review 97, no. [66] In June 2021, Hubert A. John, a self-identified citizen of the Al Moroccan Empire, was arrested and charged on with counts of criminal mischief, burglary, criminal trespass and terroristic threats after he occupied a house in Newark, New Jersey, claiming that it fell into the jurisdiction of the Al Moroccan Empire. The court entered not guilty pleas on their behalf and some will be back in court on Friday. But Butler says he wasn't breaking and entering. After some difficulties, Ali moved to Chicago, establishing a center there, as well as temples in other major cities. 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." In 1913, Drew Ali formed the Canaanite Temple in Newark, New Jersey. [sanford, florida republic [32772]] phone number: (912) 509-6046 email address: moorishamericanconsulatese@gmail.com [sanford, florida territory [32772]] phone number: (912) 509-6046 email address: moorishamericanconsulatese@gmail.com. American pseudolaw matured around 1999-2000, and, at that point, was hosted by the sovereign citizen movement. Indeed, El-Amin is one of the more prom inent and prolific sovereign Moorish theorists. It is unclear whether he officially joined or was instead rejected by its members. The first 19 chapters are from The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ, published in 1908 by esoteric Ohio preacher Levi Dowling. The brave Moorish American Quinn Khabir El on the photo above being UNLAWFULLY Detained. 72 Black's Law Dictionary 5th Edition, YouTube video, 0:29, posted by Tactikalguy1, November 19, 2011, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgzLtssgsPM. [A]lthough Bey argues that removal [from state to federal court] is proper because he is a Moor-American National, such arguments have been consistently rejected by federal courts, and this Court finds Bey's argument without merit. Demographic and cultural changes have decreased the attraction of young people to the Moorish Science Temple. (715 ILCS 5/) The original Moorish Charter of the HONOBLE Noble Drew Ali And Title to HIS Vast Estate Express Trust: Form 1099 . i am an original indigenous sovereign moorish american national and i am exercising all my rights at this time and at all points in time, nunc pro tunc. Strom Thurmond showed us that open secrets of personal hypocrisy never stopped his supporters from reelecting him. One Moor told The Chicago Defender, "The Prophet was not ill; his work was done and he laid his head upon the lap of one of his followers and passed out. In addition to the Moorish Science Temple doctrine that Black Americans are of Moorish descent, Moorish sovereign citizens claim immunity from U.S. federal, state, and local laws,[58] because of a mistaken belief that the MoroccanAmerican Treaty of Friendship (1786) grants them sovereignty. [30] Although the exact circumstances of his death are unknown, the Certificate of Death stated that Noble Drew Ali died from "tuberculosis broncho-pneumonia". In the early 2000s, the temples in Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., had about 200 members each, and many were older people. In the work of El-Amin and other such contempo . 13 Drew Ali, A Warning from the Prophet in 1928.. [45], One-third of the members, or 10,000, lived in Chicago, the center of the movement. I have, in this article, eschewed peppering citations from such authors with repeated uses of sic.. In a video that the Moorish Americans later posted online, Butler wearing a camouflage uniform, dark headscarf and a pistol on his hip can be seen approaching the deputies on the side of the road. Drew Ali, A Warning from the Prophet in 1928.. They're US citizens whether they want to be or not. Shortly after his release by the police, Drew Ali died at age 43 at his home in Chicago on July 20, 1929. See Edward E. Curtis IV, Debating the Origins of the Moorish Science Temple: Toward a New Cultural History, in The New Black Gods: Arthur Huff Fauset and the Study of African American Religions, ed. sumus de sanktam unum. Moorish Americans are not exempt from laws that require driver's licenses, license plates, and vehicle registration. In court papers, Midfirst Bank said it owns the property and has sued the "Rise of the Moors" in Providence County Superior Court to clear the title on the residence. Contrary to Defendant's assertions, his purported status as a Moorish-American citizen does not enable him to violate state laws without consequence. [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. Manage Settings Our concepts are wrong: we are the druids! Taj Tarik Bey Black and White Is a Legal Status, 21:11. 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 . (1997). The investigation failed to find any substantial evidence, and the investigations were dropped. [56], In July 2021, eleven men identifying themselves as a group called Rise of the Moors were arrested on Interstate 95 in Wakefield, Massachusetts, after a state trooper responding to disabled vehicles allegedly found the group carrying long guns, side-arms and wearing tactical body armor. In one version of Drew Ali's biography, the leader saw him as a reincarnation of the founder. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. 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. 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. MSP Superintendent Col. [] 12 Moreover, slavery is presented as a universal aspect of humannot merely Moorishhistory: through sin and disobedience every nation has suffered slavery, due to the fact that they honored not the creed and principles of their forefathers. Drew Ali, Holy Koran, 131. American religion Moorish Science Temple of America. 66 Taj Tariq Bey on the Battlefield, YouTube video, 5:59, posted by BLACKNEW102, October 9, 2012, https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5yGoE78YB0. [10], Drew Ali reported that during his travels, he met with a high priest of Egyptian magic. Prophet Noble Drew Ali Please CLICK on YeSharon to book a private consultation. Mungin Bey takes scriptural texts and offers a glossary, amounting often to a word-by-word gloss (see page 15, on Drew Ali's pamphlet The Great Meeting is On!, where Mungin Bey begins by defining Great and Meeting, then moves on to key words in the text). It doesn't stand alone. [70], In 2016, Washitaw Nation affiliate Gavin Eugene Long ambushed six police officers and killed three of them in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Timothy Drew, known to its members as Prophet Noble Drew Ali, founded the Moorish Science Temple of America in 1913 in Newark, New Jersey, a booming industrial city. 28 Sharif A. Bey, The Blueprint: Moorish Musings on Noble Drew Ali's Divine Plan of the Age (DeWitt: Ali's Men Publishing, n.d.) (This source is not paginated.). Trump proved that it is not difficult today - at that level of money, power and pulpit - to wrap around himself massive illusion. [citation needed], As Drew Ali began his version of teaching the Moorish-Americans to become better citizens, he made speeches like, "A Divine Warning By the Prophet for the Nations", in which he urged them to reject derogatory labels, such as "Black", "colored", and "Negro". They called the inhabitants they met there Maures from the Greek word mauros, meaning dark or black. As a sovereign, Stroud argues that the United States is a corporation. [17], They added the suffixes Bey or El to their surnames, to signify Moorish heritage as well as their taking on the new life as Moorish Americans. Pax et Amor Consultations with YeSharon Akasha El Rose Bey The individuals are members of Rise of the Moors, a group who identify as Moorish Americans. "African-American and Other Street Gangs: A Quest of Identity (Revisted)". Moorish Americans, also known as Moorish sovereign citizens, believe themselves to be the inheritors of a fictitious empire that they say stretched from the present-day kingdom of Morocco to. The word "Moor" has its origin in 46 B.C. The great writ of liberty, issuing at common law out of courts of Chancery, Kings Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer. 2 0 obj This is the uniting of the Holy Koran of Mecca for teaching and instructing all Moorish Americans, etc. The Rhode Island Rise of the Moors group arose out of clashing legacies, a mashing of ideologies that have roots in the white supremacist and Black separatist movements, nourished by an. 29 Connally-Bey reprints C. M. Bey's Zodiac Constitution. A full text of C. M. Bey's version is available at http://moorishdirectory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Zodiac-Constitution-by-CM-Bey.pdf. While this is often negativeblack, for instance, as a brand, a tool for oppressionwords can also reveal positive glimpses of the glorious Moorish past. 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. 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. Citations use the form indicated by the title page of the work cited. Quoted by Paghdiwala, p. 24. Successful frauds are emotionally brilliant. 5M)Lci,VFbbufjVMb@[Y,-,,,M-OX[Y^lyCgG;?:.^/[;LB?EW[x~:Qk3%7WWoG7omk9xSwQOQ7^^x^,n'''=Nwu+zW.= >oxeqWOQWB/7_9./]uiKil/.E^^"^W.s/hhh~%?W$kzQE~X>OxgNAz/wchyt~_rIYKd7O"jEdy\#f0YO^#c . [39], Kirkman Bey went on to serve as Grand Advisor of one of the most important factions until 1959, when the reins were given to F. Or are those of us who are ultimately defrauded just now more susceptible to the guiles and brilliance of successful frauds? "[27] With the growth in its population and membership, Chicago was established as the center of the movement. So stick them all on a plane to Morocco and let play their BS games over there. Taj Tarik Bey Black and White Is a Legal Status, 8:02. 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. There is widespread irregularity in the practices of spelling and grammar among Moorish writers. We also work in relations with the Moorish American Consulate Court. Consider a contribution. has personam jurisdiction, nor terratorial jurisdiction, nor subject matter jurisdiction over me nor over any moors. 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. "Moorish Science Temple of America", in, This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 21:46. 80 Catherine Wessinger, How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate (New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2000), 160. % [55][59] In reality, the 1786 treaty was primarily a trade agreement. Moorish Americans are not sovereign citizens. The evidence against a Moorish American must be concrete proof beyond the shadow of doubt. The article also quotes an academic who has been advising authorities on how to distinguish registered Temple members from impostors in the sovereign citizen movement. If this is not an insult to the illustrious history of a nation there can never be one given. CORPORATION, styled as, "COUNTY OF" POLK and "STATE OF" FLORIDA CORPORATION's ("unsanctioned corporate pseudo court4") to the Constitutional Article III . when the Romans invaded North Africa. Brann notes that even today the figure is \"employed regularly in academic circles and in popular culture without much question or reflection\" and \"without clarification of who precisely the Moors are\". 10 The vision of vine and fig tree is from Drew Ali's Holy Koran. The Moorish nation of 150,000,000 of the U.S.A., shall not be destroyed for lack of truth and knowledge of the law and constitution of the MOORS. It should be self-evidence that this person could not be travelling on a journey, but is using the road as a place of business. El Amin, Moors, 65; Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia, 8th ed., s.v. [56][62] They often append El or Bey to their last names. ', "Moorish Science Temple of America Represents Morocco at Flag-Raising Ceremony", "The Sovereign Citizen Movement: A Comparative Analysis with Similar Foreign Movements and Takeaways for the United States Judicial System", "A Kind of Magic: The Origins and Culture of 'Pseudolaw', "What to know about Rise of the Moors, an armed group that says it's not subject to U.S. law", "The Washitaw Nation and Moorish Sovereign Citizens: What You Need to Know", "Judge Ignores 'Martian law,' Tosses 'Sovereign Citizen' Into Slammer", "The Sovereign Citizen Movement Common Documentary Identifiers & Examples", "Bogus court filings spotlight little-known sect Moorish Science Temple of America", "She Bought Her Dream Home. More straightforward-seeming analysis of words proceed according to the science of numerology and according to the science of letters: he decodes a word like black via its numerological significance (11) or the meanings of the letters (B or Beth: being life or death) (see page 54). 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. 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. %PDF-1.4 [24] It was reportedly studied and watched by the Chicago police. no UNITED STATES CORPORATION COMPANY CITIZEN nor THEIR AGENTS PRINCIPALS HEIRS ASSIGNS nor anye DERIVATIVES THERE OF has personam jurisdiction, nor terratorial jurisdiction, nor subject matter jurisdiction over me nor over any moors. 3 Bl. Only about 200 members attended a convention in 2007, rather than the thousands of the past. The rest of the group, identifying themselves as "Moorish American Arms," fled into a wooded area. F. Abdat, "Before the Fez-Life and Times of Drew Ali". For instance, he explains that They call our children pickaninnies. Sovereign citizens would accurately be described as the flat earthers of the legal world. [56] Moorish sovereign citizens, who consider that black people constitute an elite class within American society,[56] are in the paradoxical situation of using an ideology which originated in a white supremacist environment.[57]. Moving to Milwaukee, Fort associated himself with the Moorish Science Temple of America. MYTH: Moorish Americans can squat in or take possession of someone else's home or property "useRatesEcommerce": false 203, 207. The ten men and one teenager were charged with various violations of Massachusetts guns laws as they drove from Rhode Island to armed "training" in Maine. Comm. Because that morning, in the Loving case, the Supreme Court ruled the 14th Amendment was a living document and that it meant state laws against mixed-race marriages were unconstitutional. i am the sovereign living justice kenya monique huston el in capitis diminutio nolo, in red ink, in propria persona sui juris, in proprio solo, and in proprio heredes. Accompanied by two Moorish Science members, the police visited the home of Johnson, when they were met by gunfire. THE MOORISH SUPREME COURT, et al., Plaintiffs/Appellants, v. THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, et al., Defendants/Appellees. He urged Americans of all races to reject hate and embrace love. Sovereignty comes with nationality. the treaty of peace and friendship between his imperial majesty the emperor of morocco and the united states of america 1787 and 1836, so stipulates in article 20: if any of the citizens of the untied states, or any persons under their protection, shall have any disputes with each other, the consul shall decide between the parties, and whenever the consul shall require any aid or assistance from our government, to enforce his decisions, it shall be immediately granted to him. They were nicknamed "negroes." These actions are manifesting in front of the daughter and wife of Jamhal Talib Abdullah Bey (photo below). this sovereign justice stands as law. 35 Compare, for instance, similar historical narratives in sovereign texts such as David E. Robinson, Reclaiming Your Sovereignty: Take Back Your Christian Name (n.p.
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