- [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Joel Fedd was arrested after he moved into a $500k home bought by a family
- Fedd and his nephew posted footage of them walking around the house claiming the owned the land because they were 'Moorish American'
- Fedd said he had a right to the property because he was an indigenous Moor and announced that 'we are taking the land back!'
- He moved into the house during the week, changed the locks on the doors and put signs on the window saying: 'Do not trespass'
- Fedd, 33, was later arrested by police and charged with criminal trespass
WHO ARE 'INDIGENOUS MOORS'?
The Moorish sovereign citizens political movement emerged in the mid-1990s on the East Coast based off the teachings of the Moorish Science Temple, a religious sect dating back to 1913.
MST’s founder Noble Drew Ali taught that black ’Moors’ were America’s original inhabitants and were therefore entitled to self-governing status.
He believed that all African Americans were descendants of the Moabites and are therefore Moorish.
Some Islamic historians believe that the Moors and Moslem groups reached the Americas before Christopher Columbus.
Moorish sovereigns believe this entitles them to claim immunity from federal, state, and local laws and can sometimes cite God’s law or common law over constitutional authority.
They come into conflict with federal and state authorities over their refusal to obey laws and government regulations.
| Wikipedia has a fascinating article about the Moorish Science Temple movement, from which the Indigenous Moors and the Nation of Islam are both heretical spinoffs. |