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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.
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 supremacist groups. [58] The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies Moorish sovereign citizens as an extremist anti-government group.
Example illustration of a sovereign citizen homemade license plate. The sovereign citizen movement (also SovCit movement or SovCits) [1] is a loose group of anti-government activists, vexatious litigants, tax protesters, financial scammers, and conspiracy theorists found mainly in English-speaking common law countries—the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
"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 ...
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 ...
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 sovereign state of Native Americans within the boundaries of the United States of America.
The 24-year-old from Millcreek Township represented himself at trial after he declared himself a "sovereign citizen" whose real name is Mileage Galor Bey. He proclaimed that he is a Moor outside ...
According to The Washington Post, the group is part of the Moorish sovereign-citizen movement, who claim immunity from local, state and federal laws. [13] Similarly, the Southern Poverty Law Center classifies the Rise of the Moors as an "anti-government group" [ 10 ] and identifies the Moorish sovereign-citizen movement with the broader ...