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The Moorish sovereign movement, sometimes called the indigenous sovereign movement or the Rise of the Moors, is a small sub-group of sovereign that mainly holds to the teachings of the Moorish Science Temple of America, in that African Americans are descendants of the Moabites and thus are "Moorish" by nationality, and Islamic by faith.
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. [57] Moorish sovereign citizens believe black people constitute an elite class within American society, [57] despite the fact that much of their underlying ideology originated among white ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 May 2024. Group associated with the Moorish Science Temple of America Washitaw Nation at the Mardi Gras Indians Super Sunday, New Orleans, 2014 The Washitaw Nation (Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah) is an African-American group associated with the Moorish Science Temple of America who claim to be a ...
"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 ...
Investigators have learned the suspect was a Moorish sovereign citizen, a movement that maintains “individual citizens hold sovereignty over, and are independent of, the authority of federal and ...
The Southern Poverty Law Center says the Moorish sovereign citizen movement is a collection of independent organizations and individuals that emerged in the 1990s as an offshoot of the ...
The sovereign citizen movement has no single universally accepted symbol or emblem, but sovereign citizen documents and signs often have distinctive identifying marks. Some of the most common ones are postage stamps and thumbprints on documents, and the addition of punctuation ( dashes , hyphens , colons or commas ) to one's name, which ...
The Moorish Sovereign Citizens has been identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an extremist group, stating that members “believe their status as members of a sovereign nation imparts ...