HR0689 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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HOUSE RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, The Moorish Americans are the descendants of the ancient Moabites, Hamites, and Canaanites who were permitted by the Old Pharaohs of Kemet to traverse from East Africa and later formed themselves kingdoms extending from the northwestern and southwestern shores of Africa, the Atlantic Islands, and onto the present-day continental Americas; and

WHEREAS, The indigenous Moorish Peoples of the Americas are now united in order to again link themselves with the family of nations; and

WHEREAS, The Moorish Americans, being aboriginal to the territories of the North, Central, and South Americas, have formed a sovereign theocratic government guided by the command principles of love, truth, peace, freedom, and justice through virtue of the universal right to self-determination as well as with the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples guaranteed in the Charter; and

WHEREAS, On January 8, 1886, Noble Drew Ali was born in the State of North Carolina, destined to become the first patriot of his mentally enslaved Moorish American People; in 1912, he was anointed as "El Hajj Sharif Abdul Ali" by the leaders of Egypt and the Holy City of Mecca to return to the United States as the Last Prophet and Founding Father of the newly risen Nation of Moorish Americans; as a result of the 13th Amendment, Moorish people were emancipated from slavery in 1865; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we designate the week of January 8-15, 2012 as Moorish American Week in the State of Illinois.