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21 Aug 2016, 6:00 am
" At the trial court level, defendant attempted to raise a religious free exercise defense, arguing that use of the suffix "El" was an exercise of his religious beliefs as a Moorish-American national. [read post]
19 Mar 2013, 4:00 am
The Washington Post yesterday reported on an "odd and perplexing phenomenon popping up in cities across the country" in which individuals, claiming to be Moorish American Nationals take over foreclosed or unoccupied homes-- often very expensive ones-- distorting tenets of the Moorish Science Temple of America to support their actions. [read post]
27 Sep 2009, 1:15 am
LEXIS 87793 (SDNY, Sept. 9, 2009), is a lawsuit brought by a group of former New York City correction officers who were members of the Moorish American faith which teaches that Moors are exempt from taxation. [read post]
5 Nov 2015, 4:00 am
Instead of curing pleading problems that led to her original complaint being dismissed (see prior related posting), plaintiff again argued that her status as "Moorish American national" exempts her from the Tampa's permit requirements. [read post]
4 Jul 2021, 5:07 am
"'... and often as well the belief that African Americans were also a people indigenous to the Americas.' On its website, the group says that 'sovereignty and nationality can be considered synonymous,' and that it considers Moorish Americans to be the 'aboriginal people of the land.' In a video Saturday morning, an unidentified member of the group disputed the sovereign-citizen moniker, saying, 'We are not anti-government. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 2:23 pm
The Moorish Defense got its name from the religious group the Moorish American Science Temple. [read post]
25 Apr 2019, 4:00 am
However it denied his request to change his race from "Black/African American" to "Moor/Aboriginal American national. [read post]
16 Dec 2020, 5:22 am
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, Michigan chapter (CAIR-MI) filed a lawsuit Monday against the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) for making Muslim and Moorish Science women remove their hijabs for mugshots. [read post]
29 Dec 2022, 4:00 am
As a result of this reduction in worship time, Dykes-Bey, a Moorish American Moslem, was unable to read the proclamation or conduct the closing prayer at four weekly meetings of the Moorish Science Temple of America....Finding no 1st Amendment violation, the court said in part: Dykes-Bey sufficiently alleged a sincerely held religious belief or practice—reading the proclamation and conducting the closing prayer at meetings of the Moorish Science Temple… [read post]
6 Sep 2008, 1:51 pm
By: Zac Papantoniou - Weird Legal News Satyriconista Apparently, The Moorish American Science Temple (MAST), is pretty pissed off at… well, pretty much everyone in Illinois, but especially at Washington Mutual Bank, the Cook County Sherriff's Office and the Chicago Police Dept., because the Temple's Fiduciary Board Members filed suit against those three (3) parties yesterday, [...] [read post]
13 May 2018, 8:24 am
The story details the difficult decisions involved where parents, who are Moorish-Americans, want, consistent with their religious beliefs, to use herbal treatment instead of chemotherapy on the inoperable tumor. [read post]
11 Aug 2008, 7:20 am
LEXIS 58304 (ED PA, July 31, 2008), a Pennsylvania federal district court denied defendants' motion to dismiss a claim by a prisoner who was a member of the Moorish American Moslem faith. [read post]
26 Jun 2017, 10:13 am
It resurfaced in the French and American colonies in the New World in the 1600s. [read post]
11 Jul 2017, 10:51 am
It resurfaced in the French and American colonies in the New World in the 1600s. [read post]
26 Jun 2017, 10:13 am
It resurfaced in the French and American colonies in the New World in the 1600s. [read post]
11 Jul 2017, 10:51 am
It resurfaced in the French and American colonies in the New World in the 1600s. [read post]
21 Apr 2020, 9:30 pm
A description from the Press:“Citizenship is salvation,” preached Noble Drew Ali, leader of the Moorish Science Temple of America in the early twentieth century. [read post]
25 Nov 2018, 1:22 pm
LEXIS 196327 (D CT, Nov. 19, 2018), a Connecticut federal district court allowed a Moorish-American inmate to move ahead with claims that he was not permitted to purchase a fez or receive a book, "Nationality, Birthrights and Jurisprudence. [read post]
21 Jan 2010, 4:20 am
Tanya Bennett-Bey alleged that she had sovereign immunity from federal taxes because she is a beneficiary of the Great Moorish Estate Express Trust, which makes her "a Moorish American Citizen. [read post]
31 Aug 2012, 10:56 am
The challenge to jurisdiction of American courts over members of the "Moorish American Nation" has been tried in both federal and state courts, always to no avail. [read post]
