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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The Moorish Americans are the descendants of the
3ancient Moabites, Hamites, and Canaanites who were permitted by
4the Old Pharaohs of Kemet to traverse from East Africa and
5later formed themselves kingdoms extending from the
6northwestern and southwestern shores of Africa, the Atlantic
7Islands, and onto the present-day continental Americas; and
 
8    WHEREAS, The indigenous Moorish Peoples of the Americas are
9now united in order to again link themselves with the family of
10nations; and
 
11    WHEREAS, The Moorish Americans, being aboriginal to the
12territories of the North, Central, and South Americas, have
13formed a sovereign theocratic government guided by the command
14principles of love, truth, peace, freedom, and justice through
15virtue of the universal right to self-determination as well as
16with the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
17guaranteed in the Charter; and
 
18    WHEREAS, On January 8, 1886, Noble Drew Ali was born in the
19State of North Carolina, destined to become the first patriot
20of his mentally enslaved Moorish American People; in 1912, he
21was anointed as "El Hajj Sharif Abdul Ali" by the leaders of
22Egypt and the Holy City of Mecca to return to the United States

 

 

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1as the Last Prophet and Founding Father of the newly risen
2Nation of Moorish Americans; as a result of the 13th Amendment,
3Moorish people were emancipated from slavery in 1865;
4therefore, be it
 
5    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
6NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
7we designate the week of January 8-15, 2012 as Moorish American
8Week in the State of Illinois.