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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 ...
Advocacy group: Pan-Africanists [97] Black Radical Congress, Moorish sovereign citizens, Nuwaubian Nation, Huey P. Newton Gun Club, Black Lives Matter (Factions) Political parties: New Black Panther Party , African People's Socialist Party , Not Fucking Around Coalition , Black Hammer Party , Revolutionary Black Panther Party , Black Riders ...
Jun. 14—Police stopped to help stranded motorists and came face-to-face with a family of Moorish Sovereign Citizens, some of whom fought with officers, according to a probable cause affidavit.
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...