Moorish America

Hal-le-lu-yah! Wonderful to see you today as it always is. Pour some aromatic Arabica into your mug and hoist a virtual doughnut onto your plate while you're at it. Y'know, one of the things I like to do here at CWB blog headquarters is to bring you info you may not have heard on the 6 o'clock news. Well today is no different. Sometimes I get off on multiple dimensions and a lot of people poo-pooh the idea but here's a case where one dimension exists within another one. Impossible you say? Read on and then think about it...

Sheriffs and government deed-recorders in several states have reported annoying attempts recently by "Moorish American nationals" to confiscate temporarily vacant houses (often mansions), moving in without inhibition, changing the locks, and partying joyously -- based on made-up documents full of gobbledygook and stilted legalese granting them sovereignty beyond the reach of law-enforcement. 

There is a venerable Moorish Temple Science of America, but these trespassers in Florida, Maryland, Tennessee, and other states are from fanciful offshoots that demand reparations (usually in gold) for Christopher- Columbus-era Europeans having stolen "their" land. 

A North Carolina police investigator told the Washington Post in March that "every state" is experiencing the "Moorish American" invasion. [Washington Post, 3-18-2013] [South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 1-28-2013]

The Moorish Science Temple of America, one of many Moorish-American presences is an American religious organization founded in the early 20th century by Timothy Drew. Although presented as a sect of Islam, the Moorish Science Temple also draws inspiration from Buddhism, Christianity, Freemasonry, Gnosticism and Taoism to present a message of self-determination, personal transformation, indigenous identity in the Western Hemisphere, indigenous pride, uplift, civic involvement, and self-sufficiency. One primary tenet is the belief that African-Americans are of Moorish ancestry, specifically from Morocco and, in their religious texts, adherents refer to themselves as "Asiatics".

Want more information about the movement? Well, if you change your mind, go to the official Moorish American Government website: http://moorishamericangov.org/Home.html  or the Moorish American National Republic: http://moorishamericannationalrepublic.com/  

Makes you wonder, eh? Scroll down on the 'republic' site and you can even apply for citizenship!


And thus endeth this lesson... 

See ya, eh!

Bob