Full Text of HR0689 97th General Assembly
HR0689 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The Moorish Americans are the descendants of the | 3 | | ancient Moabites, Hamites, and Canaanites who were permitted by | 4 | | the Old Pharaohs of Kemet to traverse from East Africa and | 5 | | later formed themselves kingdoms extending from the | 6 | | northwestern and southwestern shores of Africa, the Atlantic | 7 | | Islands, and onto the present-day continental Americas; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, The indigenous Moorish Peoples of the Americas are | 9 | | now united in order to again link themselves with the family of | 10 | | nations; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, The Moorish Americans, being aboriginal to the | 12 | | territories of the North, Central, and South Americas, have | 13 | | formed a sovereign theocratic government guided by the command | 14 | | principles of love, truth, peace, freedom, and justice through | 15 | | virtue of the universal right to self-determination as well as | 16 | | with the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples | 17 | | guaranteed in the Charter; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, On January 8, 1886, Noble Drew Ali was born in the | 19 | | State of North Carolina, destined to become the first patriot | 20 | | of his mentally enslaved Moorish American People; in 1912, he | 21 | | was anointed as "El Hajj Sharif Abdul Ali" by the leaders of | 22 | | Egypt and the Holy City of Mecca to return to the United States |
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| 1 | | as the Last Prophet and Founding Father of the newly risen | 2 | | Nation of Moorish Americans; as a result of the 13th Amendment, | 3 | | Moorish people were emancipated from slavery in 1865; | 4 | | therefore, be it
| 5 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 6 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 7 | | we designate the week of January 8-15, 2012 as Moorish American | 8 | | Week in the State of Illinois.
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