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- While still retaining most “traditional” sovereign citizen pseudo-historical and pseudo-legal theories, Moorish sovereigns added new ideas, including the notion that African-Americans had special rights because of a 1780s treaty with Morocco, as well as the belief that African-Americans were descended from African “Moors”—and often as well the belief that African-Americans were also a people indigenous to the Americas.
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Jul 7, 2021 · The SPLC website says Moorish sovereigns believe African Americans, specifically, have “sovereign immunity” that excuses them from following state and federal law.
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Moorish sovereigns espouse an interpretation of sovereign doctrine that African Americans constitute an elite class within American society with special rights and privileges that convey on them a sovereign immunity placing them beyond federal and state authority.
There are also African-American sovereign citizens who do not adopt specifically Moorish sovereign beliefs but only “traditional” sovereign citizen notions. Many Moorish sovereign citizens also promote various Afrocentric “New Age” beliefs and concepts.
Among the new ideas spread by Moorish sovereigns are the notions that African Americans have special rights because of a 1780s treaty with Morocco, that African Americans are descended from African "Moors," and that African Americans are also a people indigenous to the Americas. Groups / Movements. Anti-government.
Aug 10, 2023 · While most sovereigns in the US are White, there exists a subset within the movement known as ‘ Moorish’ sovereigns: Black adherents who hold pseudo-historical beliefs specific to African-American heritage.
Jul 4, 2021 · In 2016, Mark Pitcavage of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism wrote that Moorish sovereign groups adhere to “the notion that African Americans had special rights because of a 1780s...
Aug 8, 2017 · Moorish sovereigns believe African Americans are endowed with special rights and privileges due to their Moorish heritage, placing them beyond all federal and state law. Examples of Moorish sovereign groups include the Free Moorish Nation, the United Mawshakh Nation of Nuurs, the Nuwabian Nation of Moors, Washitaw Nation and the Al Moroccan Empire.
