Moorish Americans are not exempt from laws that require driver's licenses, license plates, and vehicle registration. Have any historical-sociological studies been conducted that measured the frequency, in proportionate terms of fakes to general population, over many decades? A man who declared himself a "sovereign citizen" as a result of his "Moorish" heritage is in fact not a sovereign citizen who is exempt from taxes, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in a Friday opinion that delved into the history of the Moorish-American movement that has been the source of "difficult litigation." Ironically they should have found back channels to the Trump cabal and learned from them how to tell extreme lies that are still believable. An archived version of the site containing the quoted material from January 11, 2016, is available through the Internet Archive at https://web.archive.org/web/20160111205409/ http://operationproclamation.org/. The men in the Rise of the Moors group arrested in the July 4 weekend standoff on I-95 made several outbursts in court Tuesday, questioning the judge and even disputing their own names. [47] They never found any evidence of any connection or much sympathy of the temple's members for Japan. A Moorish American cannot be convicted on false accusation-frame-up charges.The evidence against a Moorish American must be concrete proof beyond the shadow of doubt. Abu Shouk, Ahmed I. 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. 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 . During the same period, sovereign citizen ideology was introduced into Canada and then gradually into other countries. 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\". 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. During the 1930s and 1940s, continued surveillance by police (and later the FBI) caused the Moors to become more withdrawn and critical of the government.[46]. 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. He declared himself Grand Sheik and took a number of members with him. 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.). Thanks! [18] According to The Chicago Defender, he claimed the power to marry and divorce at will.[19]. 9. Feature Flags: { 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. Ahlstrom (p. 1067), Lippy (p. 214), Miyakawa (p. 12). In September 1953, the Department of Justice determined that prosecution was not warranted for the alleged violations. ', "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. See Azeem Hopkins-Bey, Prophet Noble Drew Ali: Saviour of Humanity (DeWitt: Ali's Men Publishing, 2014). Moorish Republic, United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors (NUNM), MU'UR Republic or other variations. Pax et Amor Consultations with YeSharon Akasha El Rose Bey <>stream "Moorish Science Temple of America", in, This page was last edited on 1 March 2023, at 21:46. 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 North America, with Mexico and Atlantis thrown in for good measure. 19 Arthur Fauset, Black Gods of the Metropolis: Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1944), 4151. Moorish-Americans follow a blend of Islam shaped by the movement's founder Noble Drew Ali. 4 (1983): 7 JOURNAL OF LAW AND RELIGION 71. He insists Are you a driver? 22 Azeem Hopkins-Bey, What is Our Free National Name?, Operation Proclamation, March 11, 2013, http://operationproclamation.org/subject-of-exposition-free-national-name.html. 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). [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. x|{@SG&H^QDT@TAT@EyA| V*7V[mk[_Zauvunvn;s|}~'3s3g9s !D$#Yg4O]^b"{k6hOg[?6{ X8~Qo"2nN?^ $S1|"{vm6k52=B2X,Y=!yHol^X?&_&7zRyW"#d9K?r.n5101Xc1h7fG}gMIk They often append El or Bey to their last names. Merriam Webster Dictionary 1828, moors / muurs the ab original and indigenous natural peoples, and true inheritors of the lands (territories), central america, south america, and the adjoining islands. The Moorish nation of 150,000,000 of the U.S.A., shall not be destroyed for lack of truth and knowledge of the law and constitution of the MOORS. Four people who identified as Moorish American indigenous people filed separate lawsuits the same month against the Providence Police Department, accusing officers of violating their rights by. Mungin Bey takes scriptural texts and offers a glossary, amounting often to a word-by-word gloss (see page 15, on Drew Ali's pamphlet The Great Meeting is On!, where Mungin Bey begins by defining Great and Meeting, then moves on to key words in the text). In early 1929, following a conflict over funds, Claude Green-Bey, the business manager of Chicago Temple No. The termMooris anexonym used by Christian Europeans to designate theMusliminhabitants of theMaghreb, theIberian Peninsula,SicilyandMaltaduring theMiddle Ages. 3 Bl. 5M)Lci,VFbbufjVMb@[Y,-,,,M-OX[Y^lyCgG;?:.^/[;LB?EW[x~:Qk3%7WWoG7omk9xSwQOQ7^^x^,n'''=Nwu+zW.= >oxeqWOQWB/7_9./]uiKil/.E^^"^W.s/hhh~%?W$kzQE~X>OxgNAz/wchyt~_rIYKd7O"jEdy\#f0YO^#c . [50] Scholars are divided over the nature of the relationship, if any, between El Rukn and the Moorish Science Temple of America. F. Abdat, "Before the Fez-Life and Times of Drew Ali". The Moorish Science Temple of America is an American national and religious organization founded by Noble Drew Ali (born as Timothy Drew) in the early twentieth century. Wilson, p. 15; Gomez, p. 203; Paghdiwala; Gale Group. 8 (2014): 23. "A Sudanese Missionary to the United States". 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. US District Court Judge Nathaniel Gorton, though, ruled yesterday he has had enough, ordered Bey's federal case dismissed and sent the whole thing back to Middlesex County court. [65], Some "Moorish" activists have practiced hostile possession of properties, citing "reparations" as a justification for their actions, even though their victims included other Black Americans. The Ammuurian Tribe Judicial Branch of government consists of two (2) courts, the Supreme Court and the Grand Virtual Court. [7] Sources differ as to his background and upbringing: one reports he was the son of two former slaves who was adopted by a tribe of Cherokee;[8] another describes Drew as the son of a Moroccan Muslim father and a Cherokee mother. To Shakespeare \"Moor\" simply meant \"black African.\" It is important to point out that the medieval Moors who conquered Europe should not be confused with the modern Moors Aka \"Moorish Americans\". This is the well-known remedy for deliverance from illegal confinement, called by Sir William Blackstone the most celebrated writ in the English law, and the great and efficacious writ in all manner of illegal confinement. See also, Robert B. Vale, Islam Calls in Lombard St., Philadelphia Sunday News, October 21, 1934, which details how thousands flock to see the Chicago mystic who proclaimed himself as a reincarnation of both Muhammad and Drew Ali. The brave Moorish American Quinn Khabir El on the photo above being UNLAWFULLY Detained. no UNITED STATES CORPORATION COMPANY CITIZEN nor THEIR AGENTS PRINCIPALS HEIRS ASSIGNS nor anye DERIVATIVES THERE OF. 88 Wessinger, How the Millennium Comes Violently, 160. Render date: 2023-03-05T04:31:13.781Z Drew, the Egyptian Adept Student newspaper ad that was the first verified documentation of the man who would become Drew Ali, that he was born Thomas Drew, with a declared birth date of January 8, 1886. . [51] Fort reportedly hoped that an apparent affiliation with a religious organization would discourage law enforcement. [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. 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 investigation failed to find any substantial evidence, and the investigations were dropped. They practice Islam and denounce the sovereign citizens movement and identify as U.S. citizens. sumus de sanktam unum. They were given "nationality cards". Moorish Americans are not sovereign citizens. 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. [sanford, florida territory [32772]] phone number: (912) 509-6046 email address: moorishamericanconsulatese@gmail.com. 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. when the Romans invaded North Africa. All three factions (Kirkman Bey, Mealy El, and Givens El) are active today. They're US citizens whether they want to be or not. The De Jure Moorish American Nationals declare and command all cases for the said Moorish American Nationals are hereby removed from the OCCUPYING EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN UNITED STATES / U.S. 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. 128 in Wakefield after an armed standoff with State Police. 62 Taj Tarik Bey Black and White Is a Legal Status, YouTube video, 10:24, posted by SaneterTV7, March 1, 2014, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du_XmbL662Q. For instance, he explains that They call our children pickaninnies. [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. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013), 197. Nick Named, Moorish Guide, September 28, 1928, Moorish Science Temple Papers, 19261967 (box 1, folder 5), Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York City. [70], In 2016, Washitaw Nation affiliate Gavin Eugene Long ambushed six police officers and killed three of them in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. White supremacist [12], Chapters 20 through 45 are borrowed from the Rosicrucian work, Unto Thee I Grant with minor changes in style and wording. 18 Hopkins-Bey, What Makes One a Moorish American?. [9] In 2014 an article in the online Journal of Race Ethnicity and Religion attempted to link Timothy Drew to one Thomas Drew, born January 8, 1886, using census records, a World War I draft card, and street directory records. Now, the pair, who say they're "aboriginal indigenous Moorish Americans" immune to government authority, are on trial in a Palm Beach federal courtroom accused of tax fraud. sumus de sanktam unum. The certificate was filed by Dr. Clarence Payne-El, who was reportedly at Drew Ali's bedside when he died. Help keep Universal Hub going. He moved to Detroit, where he formed his own group, an organization that would become the Nation of Islam. The founders must have really loved Morocco so much to carve out a very specific exception in a treaty written in 1786 that would tie in a law that didn't exist until 1791. American religion Moorish Science Temple of America. "[33][34], The death of Drew Ali brought out a number of candidates to succeed him. 16 March 2016. No indictment was sworn for Drew Ali at that time. ARTICLE VII The Moorish Americans Freedom and legal rights in the Christian union Court Room Moving to Milwaukee, Fort associated himself with the Moorish Science Temple of America. Moors are not a distinct orself-definedpeople. 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. (p. 335) says that "The Moorish Science Temple of America has always denied such a connection. [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. In religious texts, adherents refer to themselves racially as "Asiatics", as the Middle East is also western Asia. He based it on the premise that African Americans are descendants of the Moabites and thus are "Moorish" (sometimes also spelled "Muurish" by adherents) by nationality, and Islamic by faith. [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. Quoted by Paghdiwala, p. 24. He believed that Chicago would become a second Mecca. Create your eSignature and click Ok. Press Done. Choose My Signature. 4 (1983): 7. [20] He left the city after agitating people with his views on race. Successful frauds are emotionally brilliant. 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. Fellow travelers follow similar tactics, like Randy Stroud of http://sovereigntactics.org/. [35], At the September Unity Conference, Givens again made his claim of reincarnation. They called the inhabitants they met there Maures from the Greek word mauros, meaning dark or black. Many people see the court as conservative more conservative than the American public. 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. I'm a traveler, not a driver, because driver includes the notion of employment in the fourth edition of Black's Law Dictionary. 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. The file that the FBI created on the temple grew to 3,117 pages during its lifetime. Click allow to get notifications on every article we post. I think that these pseudo-Moors are just not smart enough to play the game of fraud. Comm. The rest of the group, identifying themselves as "Moorish American Arms," fled into a wooded area. During the context of theCrusadesand theReconquista, the term Moors included the derogatory suggestion of \"infidels\".. sumus de sanktam unum. It's worth noting that a treaty does exist between the US and Morocco, the MoroccanAmerican Treaty of Friendship, ratified by Congress in 1787, but it definitely does not do what they are claiming such a treaty does. [38] Johnson and two others were later convicted of murder. % The movement expanded rapidly during the late 1920s. In the early 2000s, the temples in Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., had about 200 members each, and many were older people. "African-American and Other Street Gangs: A Quest of Identity (Revisted)". : printed by author, 2009) and Robert Hart, Citizen/Slave: Understanding the American Sovereign Spirit (Pittsburgh: Rose Dog Books, 2005). The Moorish, who were the ancient Moabites, and the founders of the Holy City of Mecca. 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. 36 El Amin, Nationality, 45 (In this and following citations to El Amin, italics are original unless otherwise noted.). for this article. Noble Drew Ali, The Holy Koran of the Moorish Science Temple of America, the Foundations of a Nation (Lexington: Department of Supreme Wisdom, 2011), 12829. They were nicknamed "negroes." You can't try me unless you send me to a national level court.". Then a 'Sovereign Citizen' Changed the Locks", "LA Man Arrested for Allegedly Taking Possession of Woman's Vacant New Jersey Home", "Black nationalists declare 'legal residency' in Newark woman's home, police disagree", "Flecktone, once part of 'Empire Washitaw De Dugdahmoundyah,' guilty of tax fraud - Nashville Post", "Take a tax protester position on your return: are you out of your mind? The word I am tempted to pin to this practice is anarchic; other Moorish thinkers are selective in reading out from word occurrences, like Amen A. El's analysis of idiomatic English. 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. 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. } 1 Bandele El-Amin, Moors, Moabite and Man: Reflection and Redemption (Middletown: Indigenous Peoples, 2011), 72. Police said the group claimed to be traveling from Rhode Island to Maine for "training" on their privately owned land. The first 19 chapters are from The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ, published in 1908 by esoteric Ohio preacher Levi Dowling. Hamm (p. 25) states otherwise: "Fort tried to join the Moorish Science Temple in Milwaukee but Temple elders refused to have him. On September 25, 1929, Kirkman Bey's wife reported to the Chicago police his apparent kidnapping by one Ira Johnson. The term has also been used in Europe in a broader, somewhat derogatory sense to refer to Muslims in general, especially those of Arab or Berber descent, whether living in Spain or North Africa. We also work in relations with the Moorish American Consulate Court. 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. [citation needed], The ushers of the Temple wore black fezzes. Do you drive? In the end, a policeman as well as a member were killed in the gun battle, and a second policeman later died of his wounds. Likewise, the precise date of Drew Ali's move to Chicago is not known, but by 1927 there was already a thriving Moorish Science Temple of America community there. [32] Others thought it was due to pneumonia. Moorish sovereigns tend to be black and younger; many get started on this path in prison. to publish public notices on this page contact vizier for public records tevalle9@gmail.com moroccan empire national flag Pan American Conference Havana Cuba 1928 International Law United States and Maryland Cause C08 In the 1930s membership was estimated at 30,000, with one third in Chicago. During the 1940s, the Moorish Science Temple (specifically the Kirkman Bey faction) came to the attention of the FBI, who investigated claims of members committing subversive activities by adhering to and spreading of Japanese propaganda. Abdat, Fathie Ali, Before the Fez: The Life and Times of Drew Ali, 18861924, Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion 5, no. Also quoted by Nance (2002, p. 659, note 84) with a reference to "Cult Leader Dies; Was in Murder Case". As an exegete focused on the meaning of individual terms, he looks up words he associates with formativescriptural?textssuch as the Declaration of Independence. They seem to claim that some non-existent treaty from 1787 exempts them from US laws. 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. Follow the step-by-step instructions below to eSign your moorish american citizenship application: Select the document you want to sign and click Upload. For example he defines consent as [v]oluntary compliance with government. 128 to move his case to federal court, declaring that his argument that he is a "Moor" not subject to Massachusetts criminal law is bunk, or in legal terms, "frivolous.". Incidents such as the 1996 case of the Montana Freemen, the 2003 Abbeville standoff . [21] Drew Ali and his followers migrated, while planting congregations in Philadelphia; Washington, D.C., and Detroit. [55] The number of Moorish sovereign citizens is uncertain but possibly ranges between 3,000 and 6,000 organized mostly in small groups of several dozen. [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. The whole thing. Imagine going to the UK and violating a county felony and then being like "Sorry, I'm an American. [74], A Rise of the Moors member had earlier been arrested in Danvers, Massachusetts, in 2019 on an outstanding warrant. save, bookmark and check back daily for updates for this public announcement page for moorish nationality, liens, land claims, lawsuits, violent Ablion banishment notices. 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. "Respectability and Representation: The Moorish Science Temple, Morocco and Black Public Culture in 1920s Chicago", Scopino, A. J. Jr. (2001). The word "Moor" has its origin in 46 B.C. Drew Ali taught that the earth's original single continent, called Amexem, was inhabited entirely by Moors. 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. Some new information about the Canaanite Temple is still being uncovered. sumus de sanktam unum. Or are those of us who are ultimately defrauded just now more susceptible to the guiles and brilliance of successful frauds? [45], One-third of the members, or 10,000, lived in Chicago, the center of the movement. The quick expansion of the Moorish Science Temple arose in large part from the search for identity and context among black Americans at the time of the Great Migration to northern and midwestern cities, as they were becoming an urbanized people.[6]. 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." There were major congregations in Philadelphia, Detroit, and Chicago. Notably, the strawman theory was conceived around that time by Roger Elvick. The Moorish American Arms," they were reportedly wearing tactical-style gear and carrying an assortment of pistols and rifles for "training." Jon Rogers 3rd Jul 2021, 23:59. The attack escalated into a shoot-out that spilled into the surrounding neighborhood. 32 Sarif Anael Bey, March 13, 2013 (1:34 p.m.), comment on Azeem Hopkins-Bey, What is Our Free National Name?, Operation Proclamation, March 11, 2013, http://operationproclamation.org/subject-of-exposition-free-national-name.html.