Bill Text: IL HR0689 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Designates the week of January 8-15, 2012 as Moorish American Week in the State of Illinois.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HR0689 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-HR0689-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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