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        The Journal of the Moorish Paradigm Homepage  Blacked Out by White Wash p. 6

        Moors. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001  Moors and Arabs  Muslim Spain and European Culture

       The Moors  Who were the Moors in Spain:     Moorish Invasion

       Empire of the Moors - African History - Origins of The Nation     Brilliance of the Moors   Moorish History

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     From Revolution to Reconstruction: Essays: Civilizations under ...    African Presence in the Americas 1492 - 1992

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       African Moors and the European Renaissance  www.10-10-50.org/indexhtml

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       The future of africa-The future of africa is a nightmare  Who were the Moors in Spain:    Quotations on Moorish Civilization 

       HISTORY OF LATIN MUSIC    Hispanic Magazine April 2000 Forum Honor Our African Roots 

         History Today: Brazil's African legacy.

Brother Ahmed Deedat talking about the names of God and Zulu http://jamaat.net/name/name2.html

 

THE ZULU CONCEPT

In our own country, South Africa, the Zulus, a very virile and militant people - a nation akin to the Qureish of pre- Islamic Arabia - have given a name to God Almighty - UMVELINQANGI. This word when properly articulated in its own dialect, sounds identical to the Arabic word Walla-hu-gani, meaning - "And Allah is Rich" (Bounteous). It also sounds like "Allegany" of the Red Indians of North America (Remember their ALLEGANY mountain). The origin or real meaning of the word "Allegany," is not commonly known to the American people. But ask any Zulu as to who or what this UMvelinqangi is and he will surely explain to you in Zulu:
HAWU UMNIMZANI! UYENA, UMOYA OINGCWELE. AKAZALI YENA, FUTHI AKAZALWANGA; FUTHI, AKUKHO LUTMO OLU FANA NAYE."
Believe me, this is almost a word for word translation of Sura Ikhlas, Chapter 112 of the Holy Qur'an.

SAY: HE IS ALLAH THE ONE AND ONLY;

ALLAH, THE ETERNAL ABSOLUTE;

HE BEGETTETH NOT, NOR IS HE BEGOTTEN:

AND THERE IS NONE LIKE UNTO HIM.

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Holy Qur'an 112:1-4

ALMOST ISLAMIC

Now, compare the above verses with my free translation of what the Zulu actually said:

"Oh Sir! He is a pure and Holy Spirit, He does not beget and He is not begotten, and further there is nothing like Him."

Every African tribe, South of the Zambesi River, that is, in Southern Africa, have given different names to the Almighty - Tixo, Modimo, UNkulunkulu, etc., and each and every African language group will take pains to explain the same pure and holy concept as the Zulu. It is to the glory of the African nations that though they had no written languages, and hence no written records, therefore not being able to recount the names of their respective prophets, yet not a single one of the tribes ever stooped down to worshipping idols or images of either of men or animals, until the White man first introduced his religion and gave the African his anthropomorphic concept of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost, and brought the African down to bowing before the statues of Jesus, Mary, St. Joseph, St. Christopher and so on.

Out of the dozens of African tribes inhabiting this part of the world, not a single one of them ever made "Umfanegisos" (images) of their God. Yet they were capable of carving out of wood, elephants and lions, and reproducing men and women also, in clay. Besides, the Zulus also had some knowledge of metallurgy. When questioned an old Zulu as to the reason, why the Africans did not make Umfanegisos of their Gods, he replied, "How could we make images of Him (God Almighty) when we know that He is not like a man, He is not like a monkey, or an elephant or a snake: He is not like anything we can think of or imagine. He is a pure and Holy Spirit."

LIKE THE ARABS

This term, UMVELINQANGI, though well known to the Zulus, was not commonly used. Again they were like the pagan Qureish of Pre-Islamic Arabia who knew the name Allah, but passed Him by, because they felt that He was too High, too Pure, too Holy to be approached, so they went for their substitutary and imaginary gods - their Al- Lats, AI-Uzzas and Al-Manats and a hundred besides. The Zulus too would not call upon UMvelinqangi directly, but he was better than the Arab of the Ayyam-ul-jahiliyya (days of ignorance), because he did not go after false gods; he only invoked the spirits of his ancestors to intercede with UMvelinqangi on his behalf, exactly as the Catholics do in invoking the Virgin Mary and the Saints.

The more common term used by the Zulus for their God is UNKULUNKULU which literally means - the Greatest of the Great or the Mightiest of the Mighty (Almighty). More colloquially when taking oath, they would exclaim "INkosi phe-Zulu" meaning - the Lord Above (knows), or the God in Heaven (knows), or Heaven knows, that I am speaking the truth. The word "Zulu" in the language of the Zulu literally means High Heaven, and they consider themselves to be Superior to the numerous other tribes of Southern Africa, being in this respect like the Querish among the dwellers of the desert before Islam.

 

 

       

The Most Mystical Question In America Is…   

Who Is Noble Drew Ali?


Noble Drew Ali

Noble Drew Ali

Noble Drew Ali told the Moorish Americans, “He is an Angel of Allah sent to bring them the everlasting Gospel of Allah.” Indeed, the Angel was born amongst the very nation He was sent to redeem. Noble Drew Ali was full ordained by The Great God to be their Prophet. Some may say, “He doesn’t look like any angel I have seen.” Most western psychics would not know an Angel if they were to kiss them in the mouth. However, if someone make this statement it is probably because they speak more from what they do not know then what they know e.g. all Biblical Angels were Messengers of God, Sun-kissed People in human forms and rich in melanin. They were not little pale skin European infants with wings from a bird on their backs. Truth is, Europe has never produced Prophets or Angels. Drew Ali is an Angel.

The Illustrious Noble Drew Ali, Holding the Flags of Morocco and United States, Registering The Moorish Americans as a New Nation while Attending the 1928 Pan American Conference For Indigenous Nations, Hosted by Havana, Cuba. Bro. Charles Kirkman-Bey, Master Polyglot (speaking 92 languages), was the Chief Interpreter for The Holy Prophet. Also in attendance was several Tribal Chiefs of Continental Nations and the United States were represented by Secretary of State Hughes who was in awe of the well-established Constitution of the Moorish American Delegates. There were Free National Delegates from Central and South Americas and other Islands. During the Conference Noble Drew Ali was given The Mandate for the Land, which the United States was occupying on an expired Mandate. After this Pan American Conference of Human Nations the United States refusal to yield hallowed soil would result in a severe warning by The Holy Prophet: "Until my Moors are free in their own home the worst is yet to come. The United States owe the Moors a great debt, they must pay in compound interest and have one more war to win". The next year Drew Ali left the body saying, "I can better fight the rest of this battle on the soul plane". Within twelve years the Stock Market had Crashed, Illuminati's Federal Reserve Bank had taken over the sovereign powers of the U.S. and an economical drought called "The Great Depression" was felt by every Citizen except the elite few. As if it was not enough to soften her harden heart, the USA would be functioning under perpetual Maritime Law that went into effect in 1933 and has not won another War since World War II. The Prophet showed the Mandate to many Officials of the Adept Chamber of The MST of A that He founded in 1913. Still, by the year 2003, the Moors had not been redeemed from the wrath of feigned Citizenry in the USA's 14th and 15th Amendment. While the United States has never been without her staple of African Slaves, the Manumission of the Moorish is infinitely inevitable; at the end of time and the fulfilling of the prophecies.

The above picture on this web-page was taken during the first National Conference Representation of the Ex-Slaves, by their one free National Name of "Moorish Americans", since the abolishment of U. S. Slavery. This event is a reflection of one of the many miracles illustrated by Prophet Noble Drew Ali during his brief 16-year Ministry. This reflection was taken in Havana Cuba, with the gift of a "Panama" on the head of Drew Ali which was presented to him by the Cuban Government. This great national representation occurred about one year before He left His body. This is how "He began to uplift the Moorish Americans by teaching them to be themselves." This event marked the first and last time the so-called Negro was duly recognized as being a new nation, according to their one true free national name, of Moorish Americans. Noble Drew Ali declared, "This is a new era of time now and all men now must proclaim their free national name to be recognized by the government and the nations of the earth." With this international proclamation of Independence, Drew Ali paved the way which would demonstrate the inevitability of freedom for the Moorish Americans, etc. But they must finish freeing themselves in order to assure the immutableness which rest in true freedom. 

For any man to perform the divine miracle of breaking the Old Masonic Roman Seal, that has declared all Negroes, Colored Folks and Blacks into perpetual mental slavery, now, into one clean and pure nation of people, thus reattaching them to the human family of nations, has proved beyond all reasonable doubts, Ali is a Holy Prophet ordained by the great God. Still, there are those who denounce the Prophethood of Noble Drew Ali. Even though His duties and saving Powers of salvation are clearly in the line genealogy of all Major and Minor Prophets sent before him. Needfultosay, this unholy onslaught is lead by those who call themselves 'Sunni' or 'Shiite' Muslims under the Post-Mohammed Arab-version of Islam. Pleeese. Aren't these the same pagans who's GNP has been The African Slave Trade for centuries before the advent of Prophet Mohammed? Albeit the truth, Allah did raise a Holy Prophet from amongst those infidels of Havilah, but it did little good to deter the Arabian lust for African Slaves (see: Who Are The Siddis Of India?). To this day they will not admit that man’s enslavement of man is merely the will of man and not The Will Of The Great Universal God, Allah! What does anyone really expect a Muslim to say when it comes to the same God, according to His Word, ordaining another Holy Prophet to the Negro heathens they sold to the west? Didn’t the Arabs know the true origin of the West African nationals before they stole and sold them into European slavery? Why ask a Muslim for the worthiness of those they enslaved, "In the name of Allah"? Isn’t that like asking the criminal to describe the crime?


 
Noble Drew Ali

The Biography of Noble Drew Ali by Elihu N. Pleasant-Bey
   

PUBLIC NOTICE:
Hear Now All Peoples, Governments and Nations of The Earth: 

The Seven Seals Publications Has The Distinct Honor Of Being The First Website To Display The Divine And National Flag Of The New Moorish American Nation.  We Welcome Them And The Holy Return Of All Moorish Families, Tribes And Nations Of The Americas and Adjoining Islands.  Join And Support This Magnanimous Acceptance And International Welcome Back Into The Human Family Of Nations.  The Mighty Moorish Are “The Torch Bearers Of Civilization”.


The Moorish Flag

The Flag Of Morocco

The Moorish Flag   

What Your Forefathers Were, You Are Today, Without Doubt Or Contradiction.
There Is No One Who Is Able To Change Man From The Descendant Nature Of His Forefathers;Unless His Power Extends Beyond The Great Universal Creator Allah Himself
.”
Noble Drew Ali

The Paradox Of:
The Flag of Morocco, Africa
and
The Moorish Flag, Americas

(Their Myths, Jurisdictional Distinctions and Acceptances)

The true history of The Moroccan Flag and now its Mother flag, The Moorish Flag, has been covered in mystery and ages of darkness is because their rightful owners, the noble Nationals extracted from North West and South West Africa, have also been denationalized and misnomered.  Today they are largely labeled and accepted as Negroes, Blacks, Colored and African Americans (NBC).  Yet, this fragmented, powerless and Nationless People are the true possessors of a lofty heritage and most glorious prosperity to be revealed unto the Human family.  The problem is their true status and contributions of wisdom, yet to be taught to the world, is considered as “New.”  Still, it is quite normal for a people, freshly freed from slavery, to be apprehensive of ‘new’ possessions.  The Honorable Noble Drew Ali said: “In the promotion of plans for the betterment of mankind, there has ever been some kind of opposition.  And strange as it may seem, such opposition has come from sources where there were no ideas or the lack of courage to force attention to ideas.  Whether in church, state or the social community, any attempt to do anything out of the usual way, seldom fails to receive criticism.  Not because the course cannot be pursued legally or that it is unreasonable, but because it has been considered in terms as ‘NEW’… A beggar people cannot develop the highest in them, nor can they attain to a genuine enjoyment of the spiritualities of life … It is a sad weakness in us as a people that we have withheld the very encouragement, support and patronage that would have made some of our worthy business ventures a grand success.  And worst of all, have joined in the condemnations of them when they failed.” 

To most Moorish Americans the Flag of Morocco is assumed to be over ten thousand years old and The Moorish Flag (or knowledge thereof) is considered as ‘New.’  For those who think this way, their thoughts are wrong.  The Flag of Morocco is not over 10,000 years old and The Moorish Flag is not new.  Through the grace of The Great God, all wrongs can be up righted when thoughts are raised to infinite wisdom.  We ask each Reader to sojourn with Seven Seals Publications into the ordained duty of a Prophet to resolve these myths and mysteries. 

After about four hundred years in slavery there has always been a paradox in the psychic of the freshly freed People.  The ‘free thinking’ of sudden independence can as easily open new doors of fears, doubts and distrust as opportunity, assurances and faith.  The Holy Prophet of Ali described the 150-year lull between the Abolishment of U. S. Slavery and The Moorish Americans “Coming into their own as a nation asMental Slavery is the only slavery you have now.”  There has been a little reluctance, fear and confusion amongst a few Moorish Americans about the re-introduction of “The Moorish Flag”; through The Swift Angel.    Most of this opposition comes from my Brothers and Sisters who have been lying in the fraternal beds with European Freemasonry and eating previously prepared Greek-Roman meals of Sororities.  Know, not withstanding, these are Gods of Europe, prepared by their forefathers for their earthly salvation.  These gods are made of air and clothed in the shadow of a thought.  They possess no ears to hear, no eyes to see, no heart to sympathize and no power to save.  Freemasonry, though not a religion, is guised to the hoi polloi as the Church and Christianity by those that accept their teachings.  Yet, it was never designed with the freedom of Africans in mind.  Evidence of this exists today in the form of sixty million Moorish who still believe they are Negro, Black and African American.  From Prince Hall of the first Negro Masonic Order to the present day Grand Moorish Masonic Temples whom have been claiming to be Free, Ancient and Accepted while remaining Nationless, without autonomy and no power to save.  Truth be told, no one is independent while flying another man’s flag.  When someone tell the NBC they are free, yet leave them as NBC still, has simply lied to them. 

These few Moors, whom I hold dear to my heart, have grossly underestimated the power of old Jubelum’s Setting Maul.  It took more than a ‘Sunday Punch’ to KO an African God and knock him silly into a coma.  It is at the very height of foolish thinking to, swear allegiance to anyone clever enough to give himself your title of “God”, or believe they would teach a slave to be greater than his master.  The foundation of the entire African Slave Trade rests upon European Freemasonry.  Its laws alone, including the fork-tongued 14th and 15th Amendments, have kept us buried as a people after abolishing slavery.  The majority of the Grand Sheik Moorish Leaders, who were also sworn Masons, for the past 75 years, have buried their separate groups deeper into this shallow grave of denationalized nation-less-ness.  This is why the Moorish have not been able to come in unity of their one free national name of Moorish American.    This Author is not making radical speeches or apologies about the World’s largest Secret Society.  Indeed, freemasonry has more than fulfilled its Chartered blessings for the nations of Europe.  What I am bringing to light is the fact all those African descendants who have been and are looking into the orders of Freemasonry for their freedom, maybe, perhaps on the right track … but are surely headed in the wrong direction! 

Damn!!  Wake up!!  Stand up!!  The NBC Masons have been scratching-digging-and-flashing signs for three hundred (300) years and not one of them has a pot of freedom to piss in or own sovereign land to pour it out on!  In fact, they have eaten everything about that Capricorn except its secret (which is the true identity of the so-called NBC) and still can’t tell it is Goat!!!  Anyway.  These Orders have nothing good to offer into a clean and pure nation.  Sadly, history bears witness “due to the fact that we honored not the creed and principles of our forefathers is why the nationality of the Moors was taken away from them in 1774 for straying after the gods of Europe of whom we knew nothing.”  One who sees the paradox of the Moorish would have to ask a basic question: What does one, who is fresh out from slavery, truly know about nationhood?  A Divine Constitution?  A free national name? Or, in this case, what kind of flag is the Moorish? 

Only Noble Drew Ali, nothing, nobody and no one else, brought the Moorish their own game; their game of The Great God where there is no failure for the human soul.  He not only taught us how to play but also gave us Seven Divine Ways to Act as we play “Our Game.”  Meanwhile, the paradox between the Moroccan Flag, the flag of our forefathers and “Our Flag, The Moorish Flag is on time and historically in order.   

Inshallah, this brief excerpt on The Vexillology of The Moorish Flag will lighten their burdens so they can be about the business of being themselves

Noble Drew Ali, made the so-called NBC conscious of the 2/5ths (Nationality and Divine Creed) stolen from their Birthrights by the United States.  Equally as indispensable, He taught them they are a new, clean and pure Nation Drew Ali is the last Prophet in these days and the only Holy Messiah born from amongst the fallen Sons and Daughters of North America.  He taught them how to draw from the inherent powers of their ancient forefathers.  Drew Ali left the Moors with an infinite wealth of wisdom.  

Armistead, Dred Scott Case and Noble Drew Ali all cited the status of NBC deludes to slavery and can not become a true citizen of The United States or any free national government of the earth.  Why have Moorish Leaders been pointing for Moors to seek conformity under the flag of the USA?  And anyone with any international education will surely attest the Flag of Morocco and its Treaty with the USA can not muster enough autonomy to salvage the NBC or Moorish Americans as long as they are under the jurisdiction of the Status Quo.  Where is the constituted government of the Moorish Americans?  Why have we not proclaimed our free national name to be recognized by the (said) in which we (are suppose to be) living in and (recognized before) the nations of the earth?  Noble Drew Ali wrote: being NBC People are sinful ways.  This is why Allah, the Great God of the universe, ordained Our Prophet to redeem his people.  There are some who claim to know Noble Drew Ali, as the Founder of a mostly religious organization, but only a very few that know he is a Holy Prophet.  It is this Holy Prophet, ordained by Allah that has raised millions of Moorish Americans by the sound of his voice to hearing their free national name.  It is they that will recognize Our Flag and its own sovereign land to be planted in.  When?  Now.  Let us begin with the Vexillology of the two flags with the three master questions and answers from the Questionary for Moorish Children as written by Noble Drew Ali:

The Infinite Moorish Flag

#19.  What kind of a flag is the Moorish?

It is a red flag with a five pointed green star in the center.

#20. What do the five the five points represent?

Love, Truth, Peace, Freedom and Justice.

#21.  How old is our flag?

It is over 10,000 years old.

What kind of flag is the Moorish?  Our (Moorish) Flag must be the same ‘Kind of flag’ as the Flag of Morocco.  This word “kind” also gives heritage, roots and nobility to the new nation of Moorish Americans because it links them to all contributions and marks of civilization achieved by our forefathers.  (It should be pointed out the NBC, being a man-made man, has no true history, no accomplishments and no worth in prosperity).  It must also have a kind of five-pointed green star centered in a red banner and the points of the star must represent Love, Truth, Peace, Freedom and Justice.  What kind of flag is the Moorish?  It would have to be a flag free of foreign and alien jurisdiction.  The Moorish Flag is not the kind of flag to be under another country’s Protectorate.  As in the pure nature of its people, it must be perpetually free and infinitely independent of human and ungodly control.  Equally so, The Moorish Flag is also the kind of national flag which represent the freedom of its people to write their own history and be themselves.

Whenever Noble Drew Ali uses the terms, “Our”, “Us”, “You, “Your” or “We”, in his questionnaire, he is referring purely to himself and the Moorish Americans as a nation of People; by rightful possession or responsibility (See: Q-A #1, 13,14,17,21,22,35,40,50,63, etc.).  Here, “Our flagis the flag of the Moorish Americans, as a New Nation of Indigenous People, not the Moroccan flag of Morocco.  The Moorish American Flag is the Circled Scimitar and Star.  It shines forth their five Principles above the Pentagram and below.  The Star also represents the “Head” or “the Power of Authority”.  In this regard, the Moorish Americans are the rejected cornerstone of the human family – returned to their rightful place: the Headlight.  There is so much to be revealed about this Ensign for the Moorish Americans, most of which will unfold as their consciousness unfolds.  However, as all national flags express the spirit of each especial nation, so does the Moorish American National Flag depict the glory of a mighty God-Conscious people.  At a single glimpse its revelation shows the historical “Moorish Torchbearers of Civilization” and the prophesied era to the “Uplifting of Fallen Humanity”.

Although Noble Drew Ali often spoke of ‘The Moorish Flag”, he only wrote directly about “our flag” twice.  Indirectly, The Holy Prophet referred to the flag of His People every time he reminded them they are a nation.  Once in the Moorish Questionnaire (20-21) and, again, in his “Supreme Laws”.  The Supreme Laws are: The Great Quran of Mohammed and the founding, of the Moorish Americans, as a Clean and Pure Nation. The latter is mostly revealed in the course of these opuses for first time to the public (See: MHK 45:1).

The Circled Scimitar and Star was originally centered on a pure white banner; White as driven snow.   White means Purity; Purity means God; and God means the Ruler of the Land (Q# 93).  The quadrants of the circle and the three parts of the Scimitar are polished gold.  The color gold represents Nobility, royalty and wealth.  The polished coat shows the nation grown strong by buffeting and Maafa of every kind (MHK 13:5).  A nation still rich with much wisdom to be learned, in these days for the redemption of the sons of men under Love, Truth, Peace, Freedom and Justice (MHK 48:5).  The Circle, Principles, Scimitar and Star are all laid in a tapestry of emerald evergreen.  The green represents fresh life, life everlasting.  All of this grandness is in the center of a pure white banner.  This is the composition of what Noble Drew Ali calls, “Our Flag”.  The Letters “L.T.P.F.” are the High Principles of Love, Truth, Peace and Freedom with “Justice” secured omnipotently in the Scimitar.  Although the letters of the principles are green, they still burn with the force of “fire”.  “The Fire of the Five” which will burn and destroy Hatred, Falsehood, Wars, Maya and inharmonies in life.  The Moorish Flag is One Flag for One Clean and Pure Nation bearing One free National Name.  This is the true uniting of the Moorish Americans, etc

The Divine Vexillology
Of
THE MOORISH FLAG

A True National Flag Represents The Heritage, Natural Strife, and Principle Staple Of Its Especial Nation

Swift Angel #1

Of all sciences known to man, history has become the least exact.  Nevertheless the divine origin and true history to the Flag of America’s Mystery-People is about to unfold.  This long awaited revealing of THE MOORISH FLAG and its mysteries, into public domain, is another fulfilling to the prophecies of Noble Drew Ali.  The Moorish Flag is the unsung banner of a new, clean and pure Nation, yet it is as old as the fall of man.  The Moorish American Nation was conceived in divinity and legally brought forth on this Continent in 1865 at the Congressional ending of slavery in The United States of America.  As this new nation awaken, from the most devastating blow of Chattelization in human history, a search for its flag would inevitably follow the consciousness of its new name.  A true national flag represents the heritage, natural strife and principle staple of its especial nation.  Therefore, the true flag of this new nation should not contain the same stripes, bars, crosses, predators and closed-stars of their oppressors.  “Our Flag”, as distinguished by The Holy Prophet, is the ancient flag of our Forefathers and well over 10,000 years old.  In fact, The Moorish Flag is as old as the fall of man itself.  from a comprehensive prespective, this was a modest date account by Noble Drew Ali.  Since The Moorish Flag represents the prehistoric plight of the first gods on earth, The Holy Prophet could have placed the date at over 100,000 years old.  But, finite mind can not cromprehend those things infinite. 

The author has taken into account this ancient Kemetian saying “No finite mind can comprehend things infinite”.  The minds and hearts of men have evolved to a higher consciousness and are ripe to receive ‘Peace’ through strife.  The timely release of The Moorish Flag is accordance to the prophetic return of the Rejected Cornerstone of immutable truth and justice.  During an age of information, that which is old appears as new and the new is discovered as old.  Although The Moorish Flag will appear as new as Drew Ali’s New Era of Time, it has been known by the National Vanguards of The Moorish, ‘Our flag’ will bewilder many, peek the curiosity of millions,  raise the doubts of unbelievers and still fulfill the prophecies as its deliverance answers the prayers of untold billions.  Noble Drew Ali said, “For they (true American Citizens) will be happy to see me bring you (The Moorish) out of darkness into the marvelous light.” 

Oppositions, Oppositions, Oppositions

Albeit The Moorish Flag will bring to surface those who have been working like moles, to keep the so-called Negroes, Blacks and Colored (NBC) People permanently detached from all other nationalities.  They will reluctantly come to surface, from the lodges, Churches and Temples of the pretended wise, with the dirt of doubt on their heads.  These lesser Gods will question the origin and authenticity of ‘The Moorish Flag’ mainly for two reasons: (1) they are still caught-up on the ‘Red, Black and Green’ Banner of Marcus Garvey’s Enterprises.  Or, they frivolously hoist the Flag of Morocco, Africa and/or the flag of The United States as their very own.  Sadly, they have no stately command of either aforementioned flags nor are such flags their National Banner.  (2) If this is not The Moorish Flag, as described by Noble Drew Ali in his Questionary for Moorish Children, than where is The Moorish Flag for The Moorish American Nation?  If either of the aforementioned flags were truly their own … what is the name of the people from which to match the land where said flag is to be planted?  What spurious answers will they give to the rise of the inevitable international questions of Independence? Autonomy? Constitution?  Sovereignty?  And Jurisdiction of Government?  These lawful questions should render the historical support needed to hoist the true flag of any recognized nation.  In order to comprehend “What kind of Flag is the Moorish?” it must be researched by its principles, purpose and what it represents. 

Whenever a stronger manifest eats a weaker manifest, under the auspices of “survival of the fittest”, it is a reenactment of the Great Fall.  Subsequently, the primary reason the greatest of flags has not been known is because it has been shrouded in as much mystery and secrecy as the glorious identity of The Moorish People themselves.    When the lion eats the lamb, it shows no gratitude for the grass that gave life to the lamb.  When the conqueror relishes in its victory over the conquered, rarely does it consider the history, contributions and noble strife which has sustained the life of their victim.  For this reason, it is in the nature the current Ruler to distort, cloth, or eradicate the illustrious history of the dominated hoi polloi.  This is because the security which gives history its value has been violated.  Ultimately, this usually leaves the description of a crime to be propagated only by the criminal.  For over 2,000 years, intensified by the later half-millennium, the European nations have been relentless in their efforts to either distort, cover-up, ignore and destroy the true history of the mightiest of all African Nations.

Selfish Members of various Moorish Science Temples Of America, who have built a 75-year wall in the compliant belief of “Noble Drew Ali is mine and mine alone” have forgotten his call exclaimed: “Come all ye Asiatics of America to learn and hear to learn the truth about your nationality and birthrights because you are not Negroes.”  Each one of several hundred said temples claims to be “the only right Organization”.  In truth, each temple is so shrouded in it’s own holy smoke of piety and self-authorization until neither can see; it is they who have caused confusion in the mist of today’s chaos.  It has been said, “You are either part of the problem or part of the solution.”  This places nearly all temples in such heavy violation of Act-5; they fail to see it is they alone who have been overthrowing the laws and constitution of the Moorish American Government.  Although this ‘said Government’ has not publicly proclaimed itself before the nations of the Earth (until now), it will dispel the silly beliefs and carnal superstition of such Organizations, under the color of law, as having the assumable power of changing man into and out of the descendant nature of his Forefathers.  

Brothers and Sisters, who call themselves Sheiks/Sheikesses of the temple but have sworn oaths to a Greek-based secret society, are in fact disguising their religious allegiances to the Church and Christianity.  When a person's eyes are wide open, they should be afraid of blindfolds and hoodwinks.  This ritual has the same effects of a free man submitting him self to the enslavement of his brother.  Whether knowingly or unknowingly, while they serve these gods of Europe, of whom they know nothing, the lamb remain a staple parcel for the lion.  Having sworn their will to these European Masonic Orders, they have no honest will remaining to submit to Allah.  As Drew Ali warned in His Holy Instructions: “If you are honest, oaths are unnecessary.”  These people and those that accept their teachings, place opposition after opposition to the proclamation of the new Moorish Americans as a nation.  One can not serve two masters.  The divide is simple, either one is free to be a God or made a Slave by man for the greedy sake of mankind.  European freemasonry is founded upon a murder under the code name “Hiram Abiff”.  He was and is the African God Man of the Nile, the descendants of the Ancient Moabites whom later inhabited the Northwestern and Southwestern shores of Africa.  Hiram Abiff is buried in the Northwestern graveyard under the RIP epitaph of “Blacks”.  The grand purpose of the world’s largest Secret Society is to “Never allow them, Negro, Blacks and Colored People (NBC) to become a nation”.  Now, compare this grand purpose with those who have sustained the NATIONLESSNESS status of the Moorish Americans since July, 1929. 

The Flag Of The Kingdom Of Morocco (Modern History)

The Flag of The Kingdom Of Morocco is a red flag with a five pointed green star in the center.  Still, the Flag of Morocco is not our 10,000 year old flag which Drew Ali referred to in His Questionary.  Prophet Noble Drew Ali reintroduced this flag to the Asiatics of North America who were under the assumable jurisdiction of the United States Government.  These are those who no longer knew who they were and thought they were ‘Negroes’, ‘blacks’ and ‘Colored People’.  In describing or displaying the Flag of Morocco, Noble Drew Ali never failed to teach His Moors: “This is the flag of your Forefathers.”   Time and time again he said … “His nationality is Moorish American” and “Your nationality is Moorish American”  Drew Ali, a Master Etymologist, never failed to make the definitive description between “Morocco”, “Moroccan”, “Moors” and “Moorish”.  When referring to us, our state, name and status, Drew Ali always use the noun ‘M o o r i s h.  Moorish was always applicable to us, the descendants of the ancient Moabites.  This term has always referred to the comity of kingdoms, Tribes, Countries, Lands and Tongues of the Hametic inhabitants of west Africa.  In His Divine Constitution for an example: “The Moorish Americans are the descendants of the ancient Moabites whom inhabited the North Western and South Western shores of Africa.”  Here, it must be remembered “To save nations from the wrath of the Great God” is the utmost duty of a Prophet

The Flag of Morocco is the present day flag of the forefathers of the Moorish.  Morocco was the capitol of the old Moorish Empire and has been ruled under various influential cultural names as Carthaginian, Ottoman, Phoenician and Arabian.  True Moroccans were the pride of West Africa because of their steadfastness to the Ancient Egyptian Mystery System (Called “Islamism”, “The Old Time Religion” by Noble Drew Ali).  Since the eras of the west African bound Hametic Tribes sojourning and inhabiting of Tunis, Tripoli, Algeria etc.  Morocco, by any name, was well known amongst Africans as being the Egyptian Capitol in the west and Seat of The Moorish Empire (1500 to 1908).  Prior to the Almoravide Dynasty (1062-1125), with the spread of the Arabian version of Islam, an all white silk Banner, with the green Arabic scriptures “There Is No God But Allah And Mohammed Is His Prophet” was used to represent the Moorish.  702 AD marked the first Moorish Banner was seen by the pale skinned People across the Mediterranean Sea as they were introduced to civilization e.g. streetlights, Universities, Sciences, Architectures, Astrology, cooking and baths for the first time.

The Almoravide Moors handed the white flag custom down to succeeding dynasties (the Merinides and the Saadiens) which signified a platoon of about 100 Muftis (Islamic Soldiers-Scholars)  In later years the banner became a symbol of the state until it created confusion in the ranks of the Moors which were divided by the Arab Invasion of Islam.  This invasion, under the Ottoman Turkish Rule, demanded strict ‘Denationalization’ of all national name descent and to assume Arabian Islamic (Nationless) genealogy. This lead to the 1492 bloody Arab-Christian Vice-War (El-Cid) against Moors in Granada Spain.  This brought an end to 800 years of Moorish Civilization to South Central and Western Europe hosted by Spain, France and Italy.  The few hundred surviving Moorish POW’s were used to begin what is now known as the West African Slave Trade; compliments of the military bond between Arab Muslims, king Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. 

The Moorish Empire, especially it’s uppermost northern kingdoms above the Sahara, suffered a magnanimous lost of tribal Beys, Els, Duns, Deys and Ali Caliphs, Sheiks Ambassadors and other officials at the onslaught of the Catholic Crusades.  Morocco’s ruling Sultans, The Alaouites Tribe, added the green Sulayman (Suleiman or Solomon) Star to the White Banner during the reign of “Sulayman The Magnificent” (Sultan the Law Giver) 1494-1566; (see: Divine Origin Of The Star).  The Pentagram was flown in commemoration of the African God-Men of The Nile (Moors) that had sacrificed their lives for the ancient principles of Love, truth, peace, freedom and justice.  The Green has always represented “Life, Fresh Life and Life Everlasting” and was later accepted by Prophet Mohammed as the color of Islam.  Meanwhile, Sulayman, to the dislike of most Arabs, use the star to remember those of his nationals, while in advancing the land of infidels, whose spirits went to Allah, inherent souls to the hereafter and bodies would never indigenously return.  Through the royal line of the Alaouites came the ancestors of His Majesty King Hassan (I) (II) who decreed the banner from “White” to the “Moroccan Red.”  This especial red, made into a dye for clothes, leather and fezzes was later worn by Moroccan Noblemen and Citizens alike.  The new Moroccan Flag was raised every morning at first light and lowered each evening at sundown on the fortress at Rabat and Sale.

The Divine Origin Of The Star

The Moorish was the first Gods on Earth to make a graphic representation of the North Star as an entryway to his Universe.  The Head, R-Arm, L-Arm, R-Leg and L-Leg of the Pentagram are the only star shape oneness that can be drawn unicursally, in the expression of a single line.  When these organs are written in reverse, as English is to Arabic, the letter spell A-L-L-A-H; Allah.  This captures the boundlessness of Immanuel (The Great God In Man).  This is why The Holy Prophet in all his teachings, sermons and laws, always kept the principles of Love, Truth, Peace, freedom and Justice out front.  They are woven in every fiber of the Moorish American being; from their Constitution to their By-Laws, from their Holy Koran to the Proclamations, from the Moorish American Prayer to The Moorish Flag, Moorish Seal and every hall of learning.  Therefore, it is standard to expect the Five Highest Principles ever known to Man to be personified in the hearts and minds of every Moorish American. 

Noble Drew Ali said these Moors “… were driven out of the land of Canaan, by Joshua, and received permission from the Pharaohs of Egypt to settle in that portion of Egypt” (MHK p.3).  When the Ancient Moabites originally inhabited the land called Morocco, they were guided by the brightest morning star called Venus.  Venus rotates from East to West.  Venus is the most brilliant of planets in this Solar System; because it is closer to the Sun yet, nearly the same size as Earth.  Venus is seen in the Eastern skies immediately, before and sometimes during sunrise.  It is not a “Fixed” star due to its orbital rotation around the Sun.  Still, the Moors, traveling from East to West, kept this “Eastern Star” at their backs until they reached the Western extremities.  It was not uncommon for Moors to travel by the stars.  They were the world’s first Astronomers and Navigators, (Moor means “Navigator).  Nevertheless, this is how the symbol of the Pentagram received its beginning by the Ancient Moors.  It was not just a diagram but also indeed, a national tool of science for the “Torchbearers of Civilization”.

Sheik Sharif Abdul Ali (Noble Drew Ali) said of  our flag: "What kind of flag is the Moorish?  It is a red flag with a five-pointed green star in the center”.  When the Ancient Moabites first established their Banner, it was a replica of their journey of peace and plight of civilization with new life.  Therefore, the original flag was as “White as the purity of god” with an open Green Pentagram in the center.  “White” representing God’s Universal Creativity and “Green” meaning the manifest of that Creative Fate in through the God-Man on Earth.           

The Center (Circle) represented man as the most favored of god’s creations.  The All-Seeing Eye of Allah.

The White Circle represented purity; purity means God and God means ruler of the land.  (Q. 93).

The Green of the star represents, “New Life, Life Everlasting”.

The Openness of the Star represents the Spirit of Freedom, infinite powers to create and to govern; El’s and Bey’s.

The Singleness of the Star represents its independence, oneness of humanity, which precludes the idea of One Great God.

The Uprightness of the Star represents its fearless balance and perpendicular stand in deific life (God Man); Man’s receptiveness from force to self-empowerment.

The Points of the star are called Pentagrams.  They always represent Love, Truth, Peace, Freedom and Justice, as long as the Star is in its perfect upright position. 

Pentagrams are the expressions of the Science that breeds from the Higher Self of every Moor’s mind.  These points encompass 72 degrees x 5 of the Highest Principles known to man and this Star describes man’s every phase of life in a single expression.

The singleness of the Star represents its freedom, independence and obedience (harmony) to the Great God.  The North Star, of the Moorish American Flag, is also a sign of their constancy and polarity to the human family; the fixed stability of the Seraphim.  Still, all of these great things of divinity evolve 360 degrees around the executive principle of Love.  Love is always the first point.  Yet, these five Divine Principles are not a new philosophy.  The Ancient Moors practiced them holistically on a daily basis.  Today, the constancy of an ancient holistic life has been replaced with a once-a-week, Friday-go-to-a-meeting and Sunday School ritual. 

During the latter ten thousand years, in olden Kemet (Egypt), the antediluvian Order of “MAAT” was foundated upon the three steps of:

  1. Divine Order
  2. Natural Order
  3. Social Order

The destiny of Man, Spirit Man, was fixed by the Triune Allah of Wisdom, Will and Love in the days of Creation.  The Principles of MAAT were: Harmony, Truth, Balance, Right Order and Justice.

Noble Drew Ali, an Egyptian Adept Master Prophet, returned these ancient Principles to the Moorish and sealed them in the omnipotence of their flag.  Note and Analyze:   

Moorish (Adept) Principles
Love 
Truth  
Peace
Freedom
Justice
  

Egyptian (Maat) Principles
Harmony
Truth
Balance
Right Order
Justice

 

The Five-Pointed Open Star
The Openness of The Five Pointed Upright Star Represents Freedom In A Single Expression.  The Interlocking of The Five Pointed Star Represents The Infinite Perfection of The Circle.


 
The Moorish 5-Pointed Open Star

Historically the European psychic has never been able to understand the infinite and spiritual circles-of-life in Africa.  They could only pillage the nationalized tangibles of Africa, never its truths and spirits.  Subsequently this ignorance is always coated with taboos, paganisms and scholastically refurbished as meaningless versions of cultural cults.  Unfortunately these White man’s words are digested as gospel among the sons and daughters of former slaves.

 Here, are the return of the ancient principles, which were taught to Abraham, Moses, Solomon, Jesus and Mohammed being emblematized in the five points of the Moorish Star, by Sheik Sharif Abdul Ali (Arabic for Noble Drew Ali).  These grand moral guidelines are displayed twice in the Moorish American Flag.  Once above the Star, upward from the Scimitar, and again represented by the five points of the Star (Q# 20).  This is due to the fact these Divine Principles are the original attributes of Allah and they are breath into the soul of every ancient Moor; in essence, As Above, So Below.  This is also the North Star because it is the only light of stability in the Northern hemisphere.  Like so, the Moors are also the only light, transferred from the East and buried in the shallow grave of the Northwest continental Americas.

The Principles above are the Holy Spirit (Truth) found in Sura 2:87 of the Great Quran.  The Moors call this Truth “Allah” or “Holy Breath” (Q#50).  It is the life in Man.  He, himself must be The Truth in order to be himself, Free (John 8:32).

The Sword is also the level, or balance of equality, from which the star is plumbed.  The contact point, centered at the convex of the Scimitar and the Head of the Pentagram, represents the fruition of a Moor’s consciousness.  This is the consciousness of “The Deification of Man” and the wisdom that Allah and Man are one (MHK 7:23).  It means the will of a conscious Moor is to forever be in harmony with the Will of Allah.  This is how man truly receives his divine nectar; from which cometh his strength.  A Moor, no matter the gender, is ever mindful (conscious) that to not be upright and aligned with the Father of the Universe is to beckon the wrath, which men call “Hell”.

The profound Vexillology of the Moroccan Flag is its origin is squarely rooted in The Moorish Flag.  The Flag of the Moorish is the Mother of all Flags.  It is critical for all Moorish Americans to learn this trivia because it was this Flag which represented them as “Torchbearers Of Civilization.”  It personifies and warns all other nations of the purpose of this new, pure and clean nation identified as the Moorish Americans.  When speaking about the true existence and plight of the Moorish American nation, Noble Drew Ali warned: “All nations of the earth in these modern days are seeking peace, but there is but one true and divine way that peace may be obtained in these days and it is through Love, Truth, Peace, Freedom and Justice being taught universally to all nations, in all lands.”  (MHK 46:9;See: APPENDIX).

The true purpose of this new Moorish National is to re-civilize and to free all other nations of the earth with Truth: as they, themselves have become free.  Then men shall see the new Heaven and the new Earth as foretold by the Prophets.  Moors are the Vanguards of Peace on Earth.  Those who display the Scimitar and Star are the people who represent the Higher Self.  It is also the symbol of Angels manifested in human flesh.  Their sole purpose is to restore peace among the nations of the earth (Q#39).  Peace is the true flow of spirit life; it is harmoniously active yet never passive.

Our Flag” is to be flown throughout the Moorish American Government; all of the said government’s Nationalized properties and businesses and with all nations and all lands where the Holy Principles of Love, Truth, Peace, Freedom and Justice are practiced.

Our Flag” is the only National insignia to the freedom of the Moorish Americans, etc.  It clearly sounds the long awaited return of the Moors!!  “The Return Of The Ancient Ones”!!  It further proclaims the end of mental slavery and the light of still much wisdom to be learned.  Indeed, it is impossible to enslave a conscious people.  “Our Flag” also says, We, the Moorish Americans, are the major writers of Moorish history and only the assurors that our contributions to humanity will be written right.  But, in order to understand the divine and worldwide significance of the Moorish American Banner, one must examine each of its symbols with care.

The Scimitar and Star of the Moorish Americans and Ancient Adepts have been grossly misunderstood and often confused with the “Jewel” of the “Shriners”, the elite, Masonic organization established in the U.S.A.  However, the pendant jewel of the Shriners has a lot of other symbols between the Scimitar of The Great God and the Pentagram of man, e.g. Egyptian Sphinx’s head, Fez and the Crescent Moon of Africa’s Islam.  In fact, if one were to remove all the pillaged African symbols from the European Shriners logo, it would completely disappear!!

Only two kinds of men lay claim to the Great Scimitar: those who inherited this Angelic symbol of Universal Justice from The Great God through their ancient forefathers and those who “Borrowed” it.  The latter secretly whispers it’s prescience under the cloak of oaths, while the true owners laid still in a comatose from the assault of three Ruffians.  This criminal attack was so devastating until many semiconscious Moorish Americans today, even after the advent of Their Savior Noble Drew Ali, are still dazed into believing the stolen ‘Jewels’ now belong to the thief! Thoughts of this nature derive from the MAYA of mental slavery, in which the ‘9/10ths possession’ appear as law.  Thus allowing the criminal to describe the crime  Some of these true owners, who have forgotten they are the victims, have gone so far as to identify their Holy Prophet as a member of the same vile seditious band of Jubelo, Jubela and Jubelum, which are the culprits that put their light out!  Their sole assignment being to not just put out the light in Africa but to stand Tyler over the shallow grave where the light is buried (See: Freemasonry).  No conscious and holy man or woman could equate a Moslem, such as Prophet Noble Drew Ali, in the same breath as being a ‘Shriner’.  Therefore, let us forget the falsehood and go with mind of fleshless things to examine the Emblem of the Moorish American Flag because it, indeed, has an ancient history.  We began with the Circle, Scimitar, and then the Star:

The Moors, known as “Imazighen” (Men of Noble Origin), were the true indigenous people of Morocco.  They had no objection to the religion of Islam, as perfected by Prophet Mohammed as a completed favor to his people (Sura 5:3).  After all, they recognized their ownOld Time Religion”, (Q. 16 –17-18), founded by their Ancient Forefathers.  In fact, Moors accepted Islam, (Hotep, Islamism), as early as drinking water (See: Religious Controversy).  The conflict came, not with West Africans submitting to Islam, but in the Arabs demanding Moors to denounce their heritage and Moorish genealogy and profess being “Arabians”.  Under the color of ‘Islam’ these Mohammedans were actually imposing Arabian Nationalism.  Those Moors who complied were made Caliphs, Sheiks and assorted rulers.  Those who bucked were slandered as infidels, heathens and non-believers; considered as outcasts and only worthy of slavery or death.  Especially, the Moors whom had brought culture, sciences, architecture and civilization to Spain, Portugal, Italy and France.  They were called Morocco (lat. Spanish) and Moro (Maurus) in French.

Actually that (683) invasion marked another step down into the Great Maafa, the African Slave trade (See: Freemasonry and Why Are We Moorish Americans?).  Now, the Flag of the Moorish, a Red Flag with the five pointed Star in the center, like the Great Moroccan Kingdom itself, would be destined for shrinking alterations.  These changes of its boundaries, histories and powers would be exchanged from the Arabs to the European new world orders or as the U.S. Marines sing, “From the Halls of Montezuma to the shore of Tripoli” (Africa).  After the Sultan of Morocco financed the 13 Colonies to win their Revolutionary War to become the United States, he signed the first treaty with General/President George Washington.  Although this treaty, (still in effect), was written to protect the Moorish Nationals enslaved here; old “Slave owner, George W.” put the Moorish flag away in a Philadelphia vault.  This Congressional Denationalization of the West African Moors is steeped in symbolism and high levels of judicial etymology.  To this day, the Red and Green flag is noted as: “George Washington chopping down the proverbial Cherry Tree” (brilliantly revealed in the 2004 Movie Production of the United States’ secret burial of the Moorish, entitled: “NATIONAL TREASURE”).  Needfultosay, being Freemason, old George Washington “could not tell a lie”!!  Yeah, right!!

Naturally, the world famous “Forked Tongue” of European Nations deceived the Moorish-Arab Sultan, as they had for a thousand years.  So, after the United States (Jubelum) came to power, it was Portugal and France (Jubela), her “Lodge Brothers”, who would conquer Morocco (See: Freemasonry).  Under this conquest, (which lasted past it’s regained 3-2-56 Independence into the 1990’s control of Morocco’s Western Sahara by the “Polisario front”), the Great Moroccan Empire had lost its Five-Pointed Star from its Red Flag.  The Holy Green Pentagram was not returned to its plain Red Banner until the advent of Noble Drew Ali.

Between the years of 1905, 1911 – 12, the Europeans of Germany, Spain, Portugal and France were in a serious tug-of-war to the Anglo-French entente over Morocco.  This, coupled with Moroccan tribal rivalries, lead to the ouster of Germany and, to Morocco under French (rule) Protectorate. 

Prophet Noble Drew Ali, in August of 1912, with full authority of Sultan Abdul Aziz Ibu Saud of the Holy City of Mecca, Sultan Fuad of Egypt and the Grand Lodge of England-France, told “Our Ruler in Morocco” – Sultan Hassan I (Q# 34), there would be no peace until the “Star is returned”.  Albeit European’s heart was hardened in Morocco.  1914 marked the outbreak of Europe’s First World War, which claimed 10 million lives and over 20 million wounded.  In 1915 AD, the sacred Five Pointed Star was placed back in the center of the Moroccan Red Flag, in Fez, Morocco.  The Prophet had retrieved the original Moorish flag from the congressional vault during the Gubernatorial Campaign for the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson in 1913.  It was a great wonder that Noble Drew Ali actually displayed the Moroccan Flag, here in the United States, two years before it was actually returned to the sovereign soil of Morocco.  He displayed it upside down, beside a backward-turned United States Flag, as a sign they both were in adversity of their principles.  There is a picture of Noble Drew Ali with Secretary Sheikess, Christina Price Bey).

Speaking of the U.S. flag, the term “Old Glory” was first applied to Moorish Flag because of its heavenly brightness by Venus and its ancient history of being the Mother of all flags.  “Old Glory” could never intelligently be applied to a flag that’s only been around for a historical minute; and changed numerous times between 1780 and 1960.

Oh!  How the mice played as the great African lion of Judah slept at mid-day.

The degree (day) of Venus is Friday.  This day is also the Holy Day for Moslems (Monads) all over the world (See: Act-2).  Venus is also symbolic of the Great God’s love in placing Man above the Angels and all other living things in all worlds, seen and unseen.  This is the First Flag and it was called ‘Glory to God’ or ‘God’s Glory’.  To the Ancient Moors, Torch Bearers of Civilization, it symbolized the consciousness of God in Man.  The Flag of the Moorish:

The Divinity Of The Moorish Flag


 
The divinity of the Moorish Flag is the assuredness of man, Spirit Man, will reach deific life; that the sum of his life is spent to build the temple of perfected man.  The Creation, fall and omnipotent exaltation of every man and woman is personified in the world’s oldest flag because….   Spirit Man is an absolute thought and perfect essence of The Father of the universe.  Of the Seven Created Certainties, the essence of Man being made in the image and likeness of The Creator is the most resolved.  The First flag illustrates this universality and boundlessness of The Great God’s Love.

 At the dawning of the First Civilization, when man realized his human state had fallen earthbound, the pattern of the flag was designed from the form of feeding from his native (Spirit) plane.  When the flag was first flown into existence it was the embodiment of man’s circle of life divine and immutability of man himself the truth.   The plane of soul, Earth and flesh are manifest of the sluggish wills.  These wills became lethargic when the plane of thought reached the rate of atmosphere where all living manifests had a dependence upon the breath for existence.  In these slower rhythms the stronger began to consume the weaker manifest and what we now know as survival of the fittest became a fact.  The Moorish were the first Gods to people the Earth and became known as “The Torchbearers Of civilization”.  After the Great Earthquake, when the Earth had to undergo a Second Civilization, their descendants would become the world’s first “Seafarers.”  With The Great Banner flying at high noon the Ancient Ones founded the world’s first Religious Creed for the redemption and salvation of mankind on Earth, to open wide the doors of civilization.  Today their Children, The Moorish Americans, hold the key of civilization which was and is in the hands of the Asiatic nations.  The Moorish, who were the ancient Moabites and Founders of the Holy City of Mecca.  The Moorish developed space travel, air communications, architect, agricultural, governments and all sciences currently used by man since the days of Atlantis, LaMuria and latter day Kemet, the capitol of the dominion of Africa.  The divinity of these wonders and mysteries were all encompassed in insignia of The Moorish Flag, the true ‘Old Glory.’ 

Other Historical Facts About The Star:

In 3500 BC at Ur of the Chaldees, birth place of Abraham, the star was used to represent nobility.  Abraham, through his sons Ishmael and Isaac, became the Great Father of today’s Muslims and Jews.  The Star became a symbol of Truth amongst the Hebrews, and the original Seal of Solomon.  The star did not take a turn for the worst, from divine to naught, from upright to upside down and from positive to negative until its European perception.  It has been in the nature of European hierarchy to destroy, dilute or reverse African contributions to the world.  It almost seem as though they get pissed off, to the lowest level of pisstivity, just to know people of hue was the first to people the Earth.  Anyway, this is when the star went from sugar to shucks.  To them it became known as;

  • Underground womb (Egypt) 
  • Godhead (druids) 
  • Underground Goddess (Celts) 
  • Chi-rho Symbol (Constantine) 
  • Endless knot (medieval) 
  • Goat’s Head, Horned God and Witch’s Foot (Christian Concept) 
  • The Goat ‘Baphomet’ (Eliphas Levi) 
  • Inverted Star (Eastern Stars)      

  The Moors used this banner again after they circumnavigated the continent of Africa, when it included Havilah (Arabia), over ten thousand years ago.  But, with the aforementioned invasions, the whiteness of the original Banner was turned Red in defense of its Principles.  Moorish blood began to pour like rain from the Islamic infiltration of Arab conquest that began in the Seventh Century.

Why Does The Saudi Family Have “Our Flag”?

The Symbol of the Moorish Flag is embedded on the walls of the Royal Palace of The Saudi Family in Saudi Arabia.  So, why do the Saudi family have “Our Flag”.  Answer: the Arabians have been stealing pure Africans since they have claimed to be the seed of Hagar.  Who have been capturing and enslaving Africans longer and with more business like efficiency than Arabians?  From a view point of a professional Slaver, no man enslaves another without knowing his value.  What nation of African People would know the true history of the so-called NBC better than those who have been stealing and selling them for over 3,000 years? 

After Noble Drew Ali proved His Prophethood before Hierophants of Egypt he made his only pilgrimage to Mecca.  While there He met with Sultan Abdul Aziz Ibu Suad, who was the head of the holy city of Mecca and direct descendant of Hagar.  The great Prophet of Ali honored The Sultan as a true descendant of Hagar and chief protector of the Islamic Creed of Mecca, which begin with Mohammed The First, the founder of the uniting of Islam.  Ali proclaimed “The key of civilization was and is in the hands of the Asiatic nations.  The Moorish, who were the ancient Moabites, are the founders of the Holy City Of Mecca.  His forefathers are the true and divine founders of “Islamism”, the first religious creed for the redemption and salvation of mankind on earth.  We, the Moorish Americans are returning to Islam, which was founded by our forefathers for our earthly and divine salvation.”  With this Drew Ali retrieved The Moorish Flag from the Saudi Family and returned it to the Moorish of the Americas.  Ali later honored the Sultan by placing his image in the first edition of the Book Of The Seven Seals, The Holy Koran Of The Moorish Science Temple of America.  Those who have seen the 2004 film “FAHRENHEIT 9/11” by, Michael Moore, also saw two brief scenes of The Moorish National Flag.  These scenes were cast with the first President Bush and the Sultan in council in the grand Palace.  Who can witness these things and not know Noble Drew Ali is Allah’s Prophet?

Drew Ali Returns The Unbroken Circle

The ‘Circle’ is the most perfect of all symbols.  The Circle symbolizes Man’s recognition of the monotheistic universe and his throne upon the order of all living things. The “Truth Circle” began with the illimitable thoughts foundated in all the Great God’s creations.  Noble Drew Ali described the circle as “The Elohim” or “The Seven Eyes of Allah”.  Within this circle, of created fate, are the Seven Days wherein all creation and science are super temporally circumscribed (Appendix: Q: 97-101).

The divine origin of the “Circle” was first used by the god-men of Akubu-Lan (Afrika).  Akubu-Lan’s first true and divine name is “Amexem” (See Appendix; MHK 47:3).  The circle is the first symbol reciprocated by the Afrikan man to denote the perdurable bond deifying Allah and man.  The circle is man’s utmost symbol of perfection.  It represents the conscious completion of each of the great Seven Days of Creation.  The circumference of the circle perpetuates its immutable design and unending thought activity.  It is the totality of alpha and omega in motion.  For this reason, enslaved African Nationals were strictly forbidden to form a circle of two or more.  The European Slavemasters’ greatest fear was a circle of Moors.  This is because whenever African eyes met they would see The God in each other.  Virtually all Slavers feared the infinite abyss housed deep in an African’s eyes; so the “Don’t be eyeballing me boy/gal” became a way of life in Slavesville USA.  The Master made the Slaves believe his personage was too godly to be looked upon.  Needfultosay, here the truth is reversed.  He was more afraid of the ‘God’ his Slaves did not see in him as opposed to the greatness they may have seen in each other.  The potentiality of his subordinate being able to recognize their own omnipresence was too great for Ol’Massa to handle.  This gave strength to today’s “Standing around”, “gatherings” and “loitering” laws.  The unity found in a circle could become a weapon of mass destruction.

The circle’s earliest use was a reminder of the deathless god-state of man and the boundlessness of his Creator.  There is no other symbol that encompasses both the divinity of Love, Truth, Peace, Freedom and Justice with the universal aptitude of man in a single expression.  All worlds, the universe and orbital life forms are foundated in various circles of a single life.  This is why Jesus said, “By the sweet breath of Allah, all life is bound in one” (MHK 10:5).  The circle is the only emblem, which transcends all sciences studied by man, e.g. geometry, astrology, chemistry, psychology, religion, death and governments, etc.  All laws are communicated through the circle – hence, law governs all events.  This power of karmic jurisprudence is often referred to as ‘What goes around comes around’.  The diameter of a circle can also house the sum total of a manifest or any of the man-made things, which he developed from thought.  For example: a corral, circus ring, an encampment, a body of desires or passions, a law or structure (See: Compass).

The great Circle cannot be improved upon.  Although there are some Westerners who will die by their Zodiac Sign.  Most do not know the prefix "Zo", according to Science (Etymology), means 'Animal'.  Hence the word Zodiac means "World (or circle) of The Little Animals".  The Universal Zodiac is a Chart of Twelve Cycle Ages.  The twelve-month calendar year, which draws its powers from the force of the Cycle Ages, is represented by a different animal at the cusp of each month.  Each age is about 2100 years and is represented by one animal per cycle.  Men and women of the human family, who have lost their consciousness of God-in-Man, believe heavily upon their "Zodiac Sign" for guidance.  It is now the job of Master Minds to teach these wayward souls their perfection rests within the circle and there is no failure for the human soul.  The wise know there is no saving power for a God in the world of animals.  Besides, where on earth can an animal lead a God?  Should man strive to be a perfect crab, fish, lion or Great God?  When man leaves the oneness of his circle of universal life, he faces the perpetual realms of "Why?" The Ancient Moorish Civilizers of Atlantis, Mu and Americas diagrammed and used the circle as a universal emblem nearly twenty thousand years before teaching “Fred, Barney and Wilma” how to make a wheel.   Even at that, the rebellious Flintstones later made “the old rugged Cross” in direct defiance of the circle and opposition to God’s creative order.  It must also be remembered, our animated friends recently ‘discovered’ the Earth was a circle in orbit, not flat, in 1492.

The Quadrants Of The Circle

Notice the absence of the cross and Christianity from these ancient Holy Circles (See: Diagram of “ISLAMISM”, The World’s First Religious Creed).  This is because neither The Cross, Doubled Cross, Triple Cross nor Christianity is requisite for the salvation of the Moors.   There are unlimited reasoning to the quadrant circles of Drew Ali.  The circles are broken into quadrants around both the Circle Seven and the Scimitar and Star emblems.  Being an Egyptian Adept Master, The Prophet presented the broken circle to the Moors as four gateways to perfection, to the deific life and to the oneness of God In Man.  This is in accord with the first religious creed, Islamism (Hotep) founded by the Ancient Moorish Fathers.  The Moorish of Ancient Kemet later called this “The Egyptian Mystery System” because it dealt with “… the surety of the omnipotence of Allah and man; the certainty that man will reach deific life” (MHK 7:26).

These gateways of East, West, North and South or Longitude and Latitude, all lead from the center to the outer bounds of life (See: Diagram).  The gateways are also the four elements of Fire, Water, Air and Earth centrifugal from their ethereal planes.  Without the science of these four gateways, the knowledge of manifested Life, as known to Man, would be incomprehensible for lack of thinking and reasoning.  The four quadrants are also present in the square foundation of the ancient Pyramids.  When the pyramid is viewed from the top, its base is perfectly squared and forms the four 90 degree angles.  Within the 90-degree angles, are the same elements.  At its corners are the four directions (N-E-S-W).

The apex or capstone of the pyramid is indicative of the spiritual heart (wisdom) of man.  In fact, it is from this top view when the “Center” (of the circle) is most pronounced.  Men call this, “The All Seeing Eye” because it captures all directions and elements at once.  Yet, no carnal man can see all sides of the pyramid at once; from a finite point of view.  Like so, neither can man understand the unbroken perfection of the circle.  Hence, the science of the quadrants, by Drew Ali.  Since the Khufu Pyramid is perfectly aligned with the Orion’s Belt, it is easy to see how the 90-degree angles of the square are synonymous with the 90-degree quadrants of the circle.  In both the Moorish National Seal (the Circle Seven) and the Moorish American Banner (the Scimitar and Star), the absolute center is found.  This center is the heart.  It is found in the center of the Number Seven and at the “Contact Point” between the convex of the Scimitar and the Head pentagram of the five-pointed Star.

The Scimitar


 
The Moorish Flag Scimitar

(Its Divine Origin and Purpose)

The Illustrious Prophet Sharif Abdul Ali returned the Scimitar to the Moorish Tribes of the Americas.  This great emblem of Justice (‘Justice’ is also the 5th of the five great Principles for the Moorish Americans) is yet another inherent saving power from their ancient forefathers.  The Ancient Moabites were the first to materialize the sword in harmony with universal laws.

Justice is one of the infinite attributes of the Great God, Allah.  A sign always precedes Justice.  The Scimitar is the only member of the sword family with an ancient history.  The symbol of the Scimitar originated in the consciousness of the first physical man; uniting his divinity with manifested matters around himself.  The spiritual purpose of the sword is conquest of Truth over Maya, as it was first used by the Cherubim, the Arch Angel of the stations of the sun (Zodiac), (See: MHK 1 and Gen. 3:24).  The ancient Moors used the Scimitar to subdue the earth, conquering the wild beasts so civilizations could come in.

Scimitars are the only swords recognized by its distinctive convex.  This curved exterior surface represents the perfect circle, omnipotence and the continuous, never ending presence of the Creator.  The curved blade, with the shape edge on the convex side, has it weight balanced from the center to the outer most point above the cutting edge.  This is in alliance with the centrifugal unfoldment of man’s deific life.  Every part of the Scimitar is designed by men of understanding for all men to understand.  The Great Scimitar, as returned by Drew Ali, is in the utmost trinity of sections; the Barrel, the Guard and the Blade. 

The Barrel or handle represents the Great God, Divine Rule and the Government in all creations.  It is omnipotent laws, which govern all events.  The Guard, represents the Angels, e.g. the Cherubim, Seraphim, Death, Michael, Gabriel, ethereal and cosmic planes which defend stations between infinite wisdom and human knowledge.  The Guard delineates the deific will and the course of truth.

The Blade is balance, equality and the level from which the plumb line of man’s consciousness is suspended to the plummet of his actions (See: Tools).  The Ancient Ones knew, Equality can only be found in Justice  The Scimitar is the sign of the spirit of Allah’s jurisprudence.

The Hindu uses the Sanskrit word, “Karma” to describe the fixed course of justice; man reaps what man sows.  Or, what goes around comes around, etc.

The Scimitar also represents Force.  Jesus, whose name means Justice (Q#36), said, Force is the will of Allah and is omnipotent.  Force changes not, but power changes as the ethers change.  Man, and other thinking things, directs the force; when it has done its work the power is no more (MHK 7:14018).  Justice is the principle, used by Force, which keeps the creations of Allah in their designated harmony.  Freemasons, with no eye for divinity, assume the Scimitar to mean power – “the power of the pale skin god” and their ideal of force is their Armies, Navy, Air Force and ‘a few good men’; The Armed Forces?!?!!  O’ look what they have done to our song, Man!???

The Turks and Arabs made the Scimitar renowned to the modern nations of the earth.  Prophet Mohammed used a two-edged Scimitar in his re-civilizing of the world; one convex for Force and the other for power.  In the 4th Century, B.C, old Damocles had a sword, hanging by a hair above his head, during a feast.  It reminded him that the power to a ruler of men is not greater than the force of his Creator.  Today, in the Holy City of Mecca, and other Islamic countries, the Scimitar is used for castrations and decapitations of those convicted of various sins and crimes.  It is used by a Mufti on Friday, immediately after Juma Services.  And, with the chant of “Allah U Ark bar!” he uses the Scimitar to send the body to earth and the soul to its Creator.  These public maiming and murders are performed under the governmental glass of “State Executions.”  State authorized murders, be they crucifixions, hangings, decapitations or lethal injections are all in defiance of life which man did not give.  To carnal man, who have forgotten he is made in the image of The Great God, the threat of death give the illusion of power and fear but cannot command love. 

Contrary to modern belief and usage, the Scimitar is not a weapon.  Weapons are instruments of destruction and murder (See: The Cross).  The Scimitar, in its purest sense is a symbol foundated upon the indestructible soul, consciousness and remembrance of man to be God.  The constant swing of the Scimitar carries the due course of justice and has the force to separate divinity from matter.  Being Human is a built-in consequence for opposing reason. The mighty Scimitar is not controlled by passions, emotions, desires and other weaknesses of carnal man.  Nevertheless, the Islamic and Masonic worlds adopted the Scimitar from the Ancient Moors of Africa.  Its symbolic use in their holistic way of life represented their faith.  They founded the first religious creed, “Hotep, Seauton Gnothi” (Islamism, Man Know thyself) (MHK 48:6-8).  The Adept uses the Scimitar Symbol to the swiftness of infinite thought communicated between the Spirit Father and Spirit Man.

The Scimitar still holds much more wisdom to be learned by the descendants of the ancient Moors, born here in America.  “What your ancient forefathers were, you are today without doubt or contradiction” (MHK 47:10).  The Scimitar is a Moor’s heritage.  No other nation, religious group or secret society can rightfully claim the Scimitar  Noble Drew Ali brought it to light from the Seal of the Moorish American Nation.  Like moles thrive in darkness, the warlike nature of the European is powered nocturnally.  Likeso, the nations of Europe acquired their new world dominance under falsehood, ignorance, fear and death.  But these things would not have been empowered without first placing the light of African civilization under a shroud of darkness.

It is said, “The darkest hour is just before dawn.”  This is true of the latter 300 years, of the Piscean Age (2,000 years).  Never before in the history of man have billions of people been so deceived as to the consciousness that man is truth; that the Great God and man are one  (MHK 7:23).  The Scimitar also has been tarnished to appear as a weapon, an instrument of murder and a symbol of fear.  As the Moorish hordes awaken slowly in the western hemisphere, the symbol of the Scimitar appeared in the hands of their pale skin conquerors (the Shriners of the York and Scottish Rites of the Free Masonic Orders).  And, because this was falsehood, who had dawned the clothing of truth, e.g. names like Medina, Mecca, Arabian and Egyptian; plus attired with symbols and dress of Ancient African Mastery and Islamic conquest… the Moorish were hoodwinked into believing, “Freemasonry” to be their god.  And today, many precious souls are seeking ‘the light’ where truth is not immutable.

The Moorish had no one to tell them, it was indeed their own forefathers who were the founders of the Holy City of Mecca (MHK 45:2); and the founders and true possessors of the present Moroccan Empire (MHK 46:6).  Also, they are the rightful heirs of turbans, Fezzes and the Scimitar.  That was until the advent of Noble Drew Ali  So, for the first time in ages, the Great Sword of Civilization is in the hands of the Moorish Americans (MHK 45:2).

What people are experiencing today is not civilization.  A world where it’s a shame to enter the world and the destructive departure is glorified!  To give, life a man hides his face but if he kills thousands, he’s honored.  But, “…custom cannot alter the nature of truth; neither can the opinion of man destroy justice; the glory and the shame are misplaced” (MHK 44:4-6).  The Scimitar has been ill used and misrepresented since out of the hands of its rightful owners.  The Moorish Americans need not fear the Scimitar because it is their soul’s best friend.  A conscious Man would never look upon the Scimitar as a weapon or anything other than a bearer of life.  The truth is in the origin and purpose, with the wisdom to know the use.  The Scimitar is now in the hands (minds) of the Asiatics of North America.  Only they, through their deific will in tune with the Father’s will, can activate the services of the Great Scimitar.

The Moorish National


 
The Moorish Flag
The National of the Moorish Americans, also returned by Noble Drew Ali, is “The Scimitar And Star”.  Equally important as The Scimitar and Star is “Our Flag”.  The Prophet speaks of “our Flag” in Questions Numbered 19, 20 and 21 in His Moorish Questionary.  This symbol personifies the divine inherent traits of the Moorish Peoples and tribes of all times and climes.  To understand the Great Moorish Flag, it is necessary to identify the components within the Circle.

Our Flag” … (Q. #21)

The Holy Prophet speaks of three distinct Nations and their flags in His Moorish Questionnaire for Moorish Children:

  1.  The Moorish Flag (Q. #19).  Our Flag (Q. #21).
  2. Morocco (Q. #34), Moroccans (Q. #32) 
  3. The American Flag (Act-4, of Additional Laws).

Most Moorish American Scholars assume “Our Flag” is also the Flag of Morocco.  However, Noble Drew Ali taught the Moors time and time again “This (The Moroccan Flag) is the flag of our Forefathers”, meaning the modern day inhabitants of Morocco.  And like Father-Like-Son, “Our Flag” is also ‘A Red Flag with a five-pointed green star in the center’.  It should be understood ‘Our (Moorish American’s) Flag’ couldn’t be the same flag as the Country of Morocco because ‘We’ are descendants of Moroccans and born in America.  Therefore ‘Our Flag’ must be ‘Our Own Flag’; the flag of a new ‘Clean and Pure Nation’.  Our Flag must also be over ten thousand years old and a true banner of our civil achievements of those times and climes.  Further, ‘Our Flag’ must be staffed and hoisted in ‘Our Country’ of Moorish America in observance of our own Divine Constitution and National Movement.  Yes.  The Moorish Americans possess their own Flag.  The incomprehensibility of this fact draws its strength from the assumed ignorance that the Moorish Americans do legally exist as a clean Nation of People.  Still, it is not the Flag of Morocco but of Moorish America!   One thing for certain, if the Moorish do not accept this flag as their own, they will soon find out the worst is yet to come, as they remain subjugated beneath the flags of their oppressors.

Peacefully Submitted by, Swift Angel #1

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IN THE NAME OF AMEN RA

WHO ARE THE UNIVERSAL ZULU KEMETIC MUURS

 

1.We are a group of individuals who love  The Supreme Force, To whom is called by many names, but  do not get caught up on trick knowledgy to kill other Humans Beings, because they call The Supreme Force by other names of Greatness or Divine.

 

2. We are individuals who stand on and strive for Right Knowledge, Right Wisdom, Right Understanding, Right Innerstanding for we can Overstand on Sound Right Reasoning. Factology versus Beliefs.

 

3.We are individuals who check out everything that’s anything and anything that’s everything.Whatever truths that you bring to us as truths, We The Universal Zulu Kemetic Muurs will check what you bring to us is facts, myths, or just straight out lies. We are thinkers, researchers, and doers of the Words. But we can have faults like any other Humans on this planet so called Earth.

 

4. We are into The Kemetic Mystery Schools of Thoughts as well as into whatever knowledge that is Infinite in our Universe and beyond to other Universes.

 

5. We respect all Beings seen or unseen as long as what is seen or unseen do not bring harm to any of our members. If any harm comes our way , we are taught to call on The Supreme Force Almighty Amen Ra (Allah) ect. Then to fight like a Being of Heaven to bring Hell upon whomever comes against Gods and Goddesses.

 

6. We wish Peace, Unity, Love, Truth, Respect, Freedom, Justice, Equality, Work, Fun, and a roof over your head with food to eat for all on Earth and in our Universe (Universes).

 

7. We are of The Great Universe that Almighty Amuun Ra, The Supreme Force Has made for all first. We are of The Great Zulus, The People of The Heavens second.   We are of our Great People who came as the Nubians, Kemites of Kemet, who showed the world a Great civilization called Kemet with roots also in Atlantis and Lemuria. We know our story is bigger than Atlantis, Lemuria (MU), Kemet (Egypt) or any other Place on this planet so called Earth.

 

8. Our wisdom teaches us that wherever our people are at, we are at and know that something went wrong somewhere in time on this planet so called Earth and that many Humans were put under a spell of ignorance (sleep) to be blind, death and dumb to His-story, My-story, Our-story, Misery not knowing who they are or who stole their knowledge and their Souls.

 

9. We The Universal Zulu Kemetic Muurs are in your world so called Earth, but not of your world-that our Mind is Infinite as The Supreme Force Infinite Self. All Praise Due To The Supreme Force, To Whom is call by many names

Atum Amen Ra Ptah Allah.

 

10. We give respect to where respect is due at all times and try not to judge, because we all will be judge by The Supreme Force, when that right time comes.

 

11. We know that all Major Religions on this planet so called Earth all took knowledge from the Great Kemet to create their religions but never give credit due back to The Ancient of Ancients, Kemet their foundation of what they stand on today.

 

12. We recognize all Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Kemet  just as your recognize The 99 Attributes Names of Allah or any of the other names that leads up to the Great Supreme Force of All The Worlds.

 

This is just a touch of who we are of The Universal Zulu Kemetic Muurs

 

All Praise Is Due To Allah (Amun Ra)

The Lord Of All The Worlds

 

Islam Moors (Muurs)

The Fez is worn as a symbol of the womb. The top of it has a nipple like shape that symbolizes the navel. The strands of the tassle are 360, as in 360 degrees of knowledge. The tassle is not pinned down as it is in the secret societies. Properly, one who is born of the womb he/she begins to navigate upon the earth, and is endowed with 360 degrees of knowledge that is not pinned down, or kept secret, however it is sacred.   Even the 4 sets of breathing holes, if you count them equal to the number of wombman, a 9.  One set I believe adds up to 13, the number of times a woman cycles per year. 

Summitted by Sister RV Bey

The following is an explanation, found in "Lesson Book Number1", by Taj Tarik Bey of the Moors Order Of The Roundtable:

 Fez:  The National Headdress of the Asiatic Moorish Nation Of North, South and Central Al Morocs (Americas), including the adjoining Islands.

The Fez is red felt, with an indigo black tassel.  Fez: The Headdress of the Ancient Ones - The Moabite/ Moors - also spelled - Muur.  It is geometrically formed to represent the eternal Zodiac. The BODY at the FEZ symbolizes the WOMB of the COSMOS and the WOMB of WOMAN - MOTHER. The 1 inch FINIAL which extends out of the center of the FEZ is the NUMBER 1 and the 9th letter in the Phonetic Moorish alphabet -- I. This also symbolizes the NAVEL (Eye).

 
The cord extending from the I (Eye) symbolizes the Universal Umbilical Cord
of Universal Umbilical cord of Universal Life and represents the Oneness of all life. It also represents the tie to the source of Humanity - ZUDIACUS - the FIRST WOMAN.

 
The Circular (round) ball of the tassel represents the MUNDANE CIRCLE or EARTH. The cord wrapped about the tassel strands, hold the form of the Circle arid represent the Unity of Life through the Zodiac Constitution of Humanity. It also represents the Cyclical and reciprocal nature of Life.  The STRANDS of the TASSEL represent the 360
DEGREES of the ZODIAC... The highest LAW arid AUTHORITY in CIVILIZATION. The ZODIAC CROWN OF LIGHT the National Headdress of the MOTHERS and FATHERS of the HUMAN FAMILY FOUNDERS of CIVILIZATION, AND MASTERS of the COSMOS SCIENCE. 3RD 33RD AND 360 Degree MASTER MASONS and EASTERN STARS.  This is a part of the hidden truth which has been buried in the dark corner of the NORTH GATE.  The FEZ - symbol of the Eternal Zodiac is also called a tarbush, a Tiara, a Corona Sol and other names, which describe its Royal Status. 

 
BRO. TAJ TARIK BEY,

SON OF A WIDOW,

MOORS ORDER OF THE ROUNDTABLE


 

 

 

 

Peace & Blissings to All
 
A General Report  from the Last Freedom 101 History and Civics Class
 
Books and Sources used for discussion:
 
 
America B.C.by Barry Fell
Saga America by Barry Fell
A Star in the West by Elias Boudinot
Know Your America by the American Legion
National Archives & Records Administration - Government Archives
Reparations=War What Will Free & Unite Black People by Ali
Benjamin Bannak Ka : A True Founding Father by Ali
The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital by David Ovason
The Constitution of the United States of America
Uniform Commerical Code
United States Code
 
Natural Rights vs. Civil Rights
 
Natutal Rights are those inherent rights that cannot be granted or given as privileges from a government, especially one that styles itself in this instance as a Republic [See Article VI, Section 4 Constitution]. A Republic is the most Ancient form of Government and is government where the power of government is derived from the people. Black People taught the white people the Republic System of Government [Order the DVD from Freedom 101:contact this e-mail address
 Benjamin Banna Ka and the Black Rite
Founders of the Ideals of the American Republic
 
Civil Rights are granted rights or privileges granted from a Governmental incorporated body, to a citizenry that is subject to the governmental entity because the people's Status is CREATED by the Governmental incorporated body [Ex post fact Law or Law after the facts: [See 13th, 14th, 15th amendments]
 
The Constitutional Government cannot grant privileges to anyone unless the people accept the granted privileges. The Constitutional Government can only guarantee and secure the natural rights of the people who are the government [Republic].
 
Some of our ancestors were 'Naturalized by Congress' as citizens by way of the 14th amendment [As Foreigners with granted citizenship] and now nearly all citizens by ignorance and deception agree to contracts that put them in a class of receiving grants and privileges as opposed to natural guaranteed and protected rights.
 
***Black People are in fact THE Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples of America defined by blood type, land artifacts, original language scripts, engraved facial depictions, and general culture... So why have we been naturalized as foreigners with granted citizenship... Ignorance of Heritage & History.***
 
The Whys to Our DIVISION: Ignorance of True
Language
History
Geography
Science
 
We talked about Language and 'Phonetic Science', which is apart of the ancient culture of Black People as opposed to 'relative use of words and meanings as given by the Caucasian and we talked about the concept of absolute use of language vs.relative use.
 
Examples: The word natural has many etymological roots in Latin, Old English etc. however the oldest root is Medu Neter also called Hieroglphics or the Demotic/hieretic script of our ancient Black ancestors.
It [natural] is derived from 'NTR'  and 'YL' which both mean an aspect of power and force of the Omniscent God. A Modern concept would be 'angels' or 'angles' of God.
 
NTR or NTCHR is where the word Niger, or NEGRO. In our ancient languages the vowels were not originally written down, so NEGRO would be N-GR- or NATURAL would be NTR-L.
 
We talked about the etym-ology 'etym [atym or 'tm' meaning to create, move or carve as in TiMe, aTuM, aToM. Logy from Logos (Greek) meaning [Mind-wave] or Lagat (Arabic- meaning [Word].
The words:
Moor
African
Black
Indigenous
American
Christian
Muslim
Israel
Khamite
Native
all etymologically explain something about our origin, genetics, and divine lineage, so there is no need for division.
 
The Law
None of Our People should accept grants and privileges, instead we should activate a Free natural status at law which means that our inherent rights are guaranteed and protected.
The benefits of the class discussion for all organizations: BLUEPRINT [DNA] for your entity.
 
1) Avoid being contractually liable for selective service and draft**
2) Do not give Our Children Birth Certificates from a Corporate Fiction. Instead given a Private Record of Birth, witnessed and notarized and authenticated by the County [Contact Freedom 101)
3) Have at least one or more persons in your organization/ institution/national community that can deliver children as opposed to the deathspitals... who issue the contracts that begin the slave status.
4) Avoid vaccinations lawfully and legally protecting the health of our people on the chromosomal level.
5) Do not invest in social Security Trust Fund. Instead reinvest this money into your organizations [Contact Freedom 101 to learn about this process [Form 4029 or Affidavit Declaration -Authenticated]
6) All Ministries, [Islam, Christianity, Israelite, Khemetic, African Spiritualists, Indigenous] that are Tax Exempt Institutions can gain Individual Tax Exemption for all of their Ministers through a variety of methods. Reinvest this money into your organization/ institution/national community/ family.
7) Create a jural society in your institution/ community to deal with protection of the community, to learn PROPER PROGRESSIVE civic and political education.
8) Create educational curriculums in
a) simple herbal identification in your communities, most of our communities are filled with natural herbs that grow right on our blocks. Learn to use these jewels sitting right in our face
b) Dietary guidance
c) Civics and Law
d) Communal Economics- Each Person/ family should have at least three ways to bring in the $,
e) Cultural family paradigms 
 
This was apart of the discussion for last Sunday
Any questions please contact alleyeseeing19@yahoo.com
Peace Ali
 

 

  THE ANCIENT OF THE ANCIENTS KEMET (EGYPT)

(LAND OF THE BLACK PEOPLE)

 

     

OURTORY& KNOWLEDGE LINKS

Dr Edward Scobie: African Presence in Early Britian: Dominica political figure 

CUBAN RELIGIOUS BELIEFS OF AFRICAN ORIGIN    African Americans - Black Indians

Black Thorn Manifesto by Hakim Bey   Moorish Tag Day Update   Our Latino Legacy

 Race Relations and the Denial of African Heritage  Henry the Navigator    www.alternet.org/story/15154/

www.blacksandjews.com/Quotes_and_Facts.html    www.divine-design.net/blackstonian/dreaditorial.html

www.afromerica.com/knowledge/justice/system/sentencehim.php     www.seeingblack.com/

 www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/19/fbi.html    www.angelfire.com/geek/APRACE/glossary.html

 www.angelfire.com/mo2/blackmormon/000H6.html    http://100777.com/    brneurosci.org/smallpox.html

  www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/cointelpro/cointel.htm    www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/lynching/lynching.htm

 www.danielnpaul.com/TheRealThanksgiving.html     www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/smallpox1.html

  www.trinicenter.com/WorldNews/ghandi5.htm     www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/ 

   www.chazznet.net/News/newsview.htm       www.godonthe.net/wasblack.htm

 

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NSM-46: U.S. Public Policy to Destory Black leadership, the Black Community and Africa

Here is National Security Council Memorandum-46, an official policy statement issued in 1978 during the Jimmy Carter administration of U.S. policy on undermining Black leaders, the Black community and Afrika:

The document reprinted below is Exhibit 10 of U.S. Supreme Court Case No.00-9587 Boyd E. Graves v. The President of the United States of America

NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL MEMORANDUM-46
MARCH 17, 1978

Interdepartmental Review Memorandum NSCM-46
TO: The Secretary of State
The Secretary of Defense
The Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Black Africa and the U.S. Black Movement

The President has directed that a comprehensive review be made of current developments in Black Africa from the point of view of their possible impacts on the black movement in the United States. The review should consider:

  1. Long-term tendencies of social and political developments and the degree to which they are consistent with or contradict the U.S. interests.

     

  2. Proposals for durable contacts between radical African leaders and leftist leaders of the U.S. black community.
  3. Appropriate steps to be taken inside and outside the country in order to inhibit any pressure by radical African leaders and organizations on the U.S. black community for the latter to exert influence on the policy of the Administration toward Africa.
The President has directed that the NSC Interdepartmental Group for Africa perform this review. The review should be forwarded to the NSC Political Analysis Committee by April 20.

(signed)
Zbigniew Brezinski
cc: The Secretary of the Treasury
The Secretary of Commerce
The Attorney General
The Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
INTERDEPARTMENTAL GROUP FOR AFRICA
STUDY RESPONSE TO PRESIDENTIAL SECURITY
REVIEW MEMORANDUM 1 NSCM-46
BLACK AFRICA AND THE U.S. BLACK MOVEMENT

I. (most text blacked out) . . .and whose importance for the United States is on the increase.

II. A. U.S. INTERESTS IN BLACK AFRICA A multiplicity of interests influences the U.S. attitude toward black Africa. The most important of these interests can be summarized as follows:

1. POLITICAL If black African states assume attitudes hostile to the U.S. national interest, our policy toward the white regimes; which is a key element in our relations with the black states, may be subjected by the latter to great pressure for fundamental change. Thus the West may face a real danger of being deprived of access to the enormous raw material resources of southern Africa which are vital for our defense needs as well as losing control over the Cape sea routes by which approximately 65% of Middle Eastern oil is supplied to Western Europe. Moreover, such a development may bring about internal political difficulties by intensifying the activity of the black movement in the United States itself. It should also be borne in mind that black Africa is an integral part of a continent here tribal and regional discord, economic backwardness, inadequate infrastructures, drought, and famine, are constant features of the scene. In conjunction with the artificial borders imposed by the former colonial powers, guerilla warfare in Rhodesia and widespread indignation against apartheid in South Africa, the above factors provide the communist states with ample opportunities for furthering their aims. This must necessarily redound to the detriment of U.S. political interests.

2. ECONOMIC Black Africa is increasingly becoming an outlet for U.S. exports and investment. The mineral resources of the area continue to be of great value for the normal functioning of industry in the United States and allied countries. In 1977, U.S. direct investment in black Africa totaled about $1.8 billion and exports $2.2 billion. New prospect of substantial profits would continue to develop in the countries concerned.

IV. BLACK AFRICA AND THE U.S. BLACK MOVEMENT Apart from the above-mentioned factors adverse to U.S. strategic interests, the nationalist liberation movement in black Africa can act as a catalyst with far reaching effects on the American black community by stimulating its organizational consolidation and by inducing radical actions. Such a result would be likely as Zaire went the way of Angola and Mozambique. An occurrence of the events of 1967-68 would do grievous harm to U.S. prestige, especially in view of the concern of the present Administration with human rights issues. Moreover, the Administration would have to take specific steps to stabilize the situation. Such steps might be misunderstood both inside and outside the United States.

In order to prevent such a trend and protect U.S. national security interests, it would appear essential to (text missing) African Nationalist Movement.

In elaborating U.S. policy toward black Africa, due weight must be given to the fact that there are 25 millions American blacks whose roots are African and who consciously or subconsciously sympathies with African nationalism.

The living conditions of the black population should also be taken into account. Immense advances in the field are accompanied by a long-lasting high rate of unemployment, especially among the youth and by poverty and dissatisfaction with government social welfare standards. These factors taken together may provide a basis for joint actions of a concrete nature by the African nationalist movement and the U.S. black community. Basically, actions would take the form of demonstrations and public protests, but the likelihood of violence cannot be excluded.There would also be attempts to coordinate their political activity both locally and in international organizations.

Inside the United States these actions could include protest demonstrations against our policy toward South Africa accompanied by demand for boycotting corporations and banks which maintain links with that country; attempts to establish a permanent black lobby in Congress including activist leftist radical groups and black legislators; the reemergence of Pan-African ideals; resumption of protest marches recalling the days of Martin Luther King;renewal of the extremist idea national idea of establishing an "African Republic" on American soil. Finally, leftist radical elements of the black community could resume extremist actions in the style of the defunct Black Panther Party.

Internationally, damage could be done to the United States by coordinated activity of African states designed to condemn U.S. policy toward South Africa, and initiate discussions on the U.S. racial issue at the United Nations where the African representation constitutes a powerful bloc with about one third of all the votes.

A menace to U.S. economic interests, though not a critical one, could be posed by a boycott by Black African states against American companies which maintain contact with South Africa and Rhodesia. If the idea of economic assistance to black Americans shared by some African regimes could be realized by their placing orders in the United States mainly with companies owned by blacks, they could gain a limited influence on the U.S. black community.

In the above context, we must envisage the possibility, however remote, that black Americans interested in African affairs may refocus their attention on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Taking into account; the African descent of American blacks it is reasonable to anticipate that their sympathies would lie with the Arabs who are closer to them in spirit and in some case related to them by blood. Black involvement in lobbying to support the Arabs may lead to serious dissention between American black and Jews. The likelihood of extremist actions by either side is negligible, but . . . .(Text cut)

3. Political Options In the context of long-term strategy, the United States can not afford a radical change in the fundamentals of its African policy, which is designed for maximum protection of national security. In the present case, emphasis is laid on the importance of Black Africa for U.S. political, economic and military interests.

RECOMMENDATIONS

In weighing the range of U.S. interests in Black Africa, basic recommendations arranged without intent to imply priority are:

  1. Specific steps should be taken with the help of appropriate government agencies to inhibit coordinated activity of the Black Movement in the United States.

     

  2. Special clandestine operations should be launched by the CIA to generate mistrust and hostility in American and world opinion against joint activity of the two forces (insert: blacks and Arabs) , and (foster?) division among Black African radical national groups and their leaders.

     

  3. U.S. embassies to Black African countries specially interested in southern Africa must be highly circumspect in view of the activity of certain political circles and influential individuals opposing the objectives and methods of U.S. policy toward South Africa. It must be kept in mind that the failure of U.S. strategy in South Africa would adversely affect American standing throughout the world. In addition, this would mean a significant diminution of U.S. influence in Africa and the emergence of new difficulties in our internal situation due to worsening economic prospects.

     

  4. The FBI should mount surveillance operations against Black African representatives and collect sensitive information on those, especially at the U.N., who oppose U.S. policy toward South Africa. The information should include facts on their links with the leaders of the Black movement in the United States, thus making possible at least partial neutralization of the adverse effects of their activity.
V. TRENDS IN THE AMERICAN BLACK MOVEMENT

In connection with our African policy, it is highly important to evaluate correctly the present state of the Black movement in the Untied States and basing ourselves on all available information, to try to devise a course for its future development. Such an approach is strongly suggested by our perception of the fact that American Blacks form a single ethnic group potentially capable of causing extreme instability in our strategy toward South Africa. This may lead to critical differences between the United States and Black Africa in particular. It would also encourage the Soviet Union to step up its interference in the region. Finally, it would pose a serious threat to the delicate structure of race relations within the United States. All the above considerations give rise to concern for the future security of the United States.

Since the mid-1960s, when legislation on the human rights was passed and Martin Luther King murdered, federal and local measures to improve black welfare have been taken, as a result of which the U.S. black movement has undergone considerable changes.

The principle changes are as follows:


-Social and economic issues have supplanted political aims as the main preoccupations of the movement. ( ) actions formerly planned on a nationwide scale are now being organized locally.
-Fragmentation and a lack of organizational unity within movement.
-Sharp social stratification of the Black population and lack of policy options which could reunite them.
-Want of a national leader of standing comparable to Martin Luther King.

B. THE RANGE OF POLICY OPTIONS The concern for the future security of the United States makes necessary the range of policy options. Arranged without intent imply priority they are:

(a) to enlarge programs, within the framework of the present budget, for the improvement of the social and economic welfare of American Blacks in order to ensure continuing development of present trends in the Black movement;

(b) to elaborate and bring into effect a special program designed to perpetuate division in the Black movement and neutralize the most active groups of leftist radical organizations representing different social strata of the Black community: to encourage division in Black circles;

(c) to preserve the present climate which inhibits the emergence from within the Black leadership of a person capable of exerting nationwide appeal;

(d) to work out and realize preventive operations in order to impede durable ties between U.S Black organizations and radical groups in African states;

(e) to support actions designed to sharpen social stratification in the Black community which would lead to the widening and perpetuation of the gap between successful educated Blacks and the poor, giving rise to growing antagonism between different Black groups and a weakening of the movement as a whole;

(f) to facilitate the greatest possible expansion of Black business by granting government contracts and loans with favorable terms to Black businessmen;

(g) to take every possible means through the AFL-CIO leaders to counteract the increasing influence of Black labor organizations which function in all major unions and in particular, the National Coalition of Black Trade Union and its leadership including the creation of real preference for adverse and hostile reaction among White trade unionists to demands for improvement of social and economic welfare of the Blacks;

(h) to support the nomination at federal and local levels of loyal Black public figures to elective offices, to government agencies and the Court. This would promote the achievement of a twofold purpose: first, it would be easier to control the activity of loyal black representatives within existing institution; second, the idea of an independent black political party now under dicussion within black leadership circles would soon lose all support

 




GANDHI & RACISM
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Here you will see Gandhi's racist views towards the blacks.


SUMMARY: To understand Gandhi's role towards the blacks, one requires a knowledge of Hinduism. Within the constraints, a few words on Hinduism will suffice: The caste is the bedrock of Hinduism. The Hindu term for caste is varna; which means arranging the society on a four-level hierarchy based on the skin color: The darker-skinned relegated to the lowest level, the lighter-skinned to the top three levels of the apartheid scale called the Caste System. The race factor underlies the intricate workings of Hinduism, not to mention the countless evil practices embedded within. Have no doubt, Gandhi loved the Caste system.

Gandhi lived in South Africa for roughly twenty one years from 1893 to 1914. In 1906, he joined the military with a rank of Sergeant-Major and actively participated in the war against the blacks. Gandhi's racist ideas are also evident in his writings of these periods. One should ask a question : Were our American Black leaders including Dr. King aware of Gandhi's anti-black activities? Painfully, we have researched the literature and the answer is, no. For this lapse, the blame lies on the Afro-American newspapers which portrayed Gandhi in ever glowing terms, setting the stage for African-American leaders Howard Thurman, Sue Baily Thurman, Reverend Edward Carroll, Benjamin E. Mays, Channing H. Tobias, and William Stuart Nelson to visit India at different time periods to meet Gandhi in person. None of these leaders had any deeper understanding of Hinduism, British India, or the complexities of Gandhi's convoluted multi-layered Hindu mind. Frankly speaking, these leaders were !
no match to Gandhi's deceit; Gandhi hoodwinked them all, and that too, with great ease. Understanding of Hindu India with our black leaders never really improved even considering years later in March 1959, much after Gandhi's death, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., his wife, and Professor Lawrence D. Reddick visited India and to our way of analysis, they fared no better than their predecessors. We are certain, had Dr. King known Gandhi's anti-black and other criminal activities, he would have distanced his civil-rights movement away from the name of Gandhi. We recommend the following:

1. Grenier, Richard. The Gandhi Nobody Knows published in Commentary March 1983; pages 59 to 72. This is the best article on Gandhi briefly outlining his war activities against the blacks.

2. Kapur, Sudarshan. Raising up a Prophet: The African-American Encounter with Gandhi; Boston: Beacon Press, 1992 Excellent research book into the perspective of distant American blacks with respect to their new hero, Gandhi. However, this book has one major flaw: The author seems to be unaware of Gandhi's anti-black activities in South Africa.

3. Huq, Fazlul. Gandhi: Saint or Sinner? Bangalore: Dalit Sahitya Akademy, 1992.
Superb book. Really gets into the Gandhi's anti-black ideology with a sense of history setting intact. This book can be purchased from the International Dalit Support Group, P.O Box 842066, Houston, Tx 77284-2066.

This book's second chapteróGandhi's Anti-African Racismóis a superb analysis of Gandhi's anti-black thinking. We bring to you the whole chapter for your review:

Gandhi was not a whit less racist than the white racists of South Africa. When Gandhi formed the Natal Indian Congress on August 22, 1894, the no. 1 objective he declared was: "To promote concord and harmony among the Indians and Europeans in the Colony." [Collected Works (CW)1 pp. 132-33]

He launched his Indian Opinion on June 4 1904: "The object of Indian Opinion was to bring the European and the Indian subjects of the King Edward closer together." (CW. IV P. 320)

What was the harm in making an effort to bring understanding among all people, irrespective of colour, creed or religion? Did not Gandhi know that a huge population of blacks and coloured lived there? Perhaps to Gandhi they were less than human beings.

Addressing a public meeting in Bombay on Sept. 26 1896 (CW II p. 74), Gandhi said:

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

In 1904, he wrote (CW. IV p. 193):

It is one thing to register natives who would not work, and whom it is very difficult to find out if they absent themselves, but it is another thingó-and most insultingó-to expect decent, hard-working, and respectable Indians, whose only fault is that they work too much, to have themselves registered and carry with them registration badges.

In its editorial on the Natal Municipal Corporation Bill, the Indian Opinion of March 18 1905 wrote:

Clause 200 makes provision for registration of persons belonging to uncivilized races (meaning the local Africans), resident and employed within the Borough. One can understand the necessity of registration of Kaffirs who will not work, but why should registration be required for indentured Indians who have become free, and for their descendants about whom the general complaint is that they work too much? (Italic portion is added)

The Indian Opinion published an editorial on September 9 1905 under the heading, "The relative Value of the Natives and the Indians in Natal". In it Gandhi referred to a speech made by Rev. Dube, a most accomplished African, who said that an African had the capacity for improvement, if only the Colonials would look upon him as better than dirt, and give him a chance to develop self-respect. Gandhi suggested that "A little judicious extra taxation would do no harm; in the majority of cases it compels the native to work for at least a few days a year." Then he added:

Now let us turn our attention to another and entirely unrepresented communityó-the Indian. He is in striking contrast with the native. While the native has been of little benefit to the State, it owes its prosperity largely to the Indians. While native loafers abound on every side, that species of humanity is almost unknown among Indians here.

Nothing could be further from the truth, that Gandhi fought against Apartheid, which many propagandists in later years wanted people to believe. He was all in favour of continuation of white domination and oppression of the blacks in South Africa.

In the Government Gazette of Natal for Feb. 28 1905, a Bill was published regulating the use of fire-arms by the natives and Asiatics. Commenting on the Bill, the Indian Opinion of March 25 1905 stated:

In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the natives. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?

Here is the budding Mahatma telling the white racists how they can perpetuate their Nazi domination over the vast majority of Africans.

In the British imperialist scheme, one important strategy was to divide and rule. Gandhi advised Indians not to align with other political groups in either coloured or African communities. In 1906 the coloured people in the colonies of Good Hope, the Transvaal and the Orange River colony, addressed a petition to the King Emperor demanding franchise rights. The petitioners showed clearly that, in one part of South Africa, namely the Cape of Good Hope, they had enjoyed the franchise ever since the introduction of representative institutions.

Commenting on the petition, the Indian Opinion of March 24 1906, declaring that "British Indians have, in order that they may never be misunderstood, made it clear that they do not aspire to any political power," added:

It seems that the petition is being widely circulated, and signatures are being taken of all coloured people in the three colonies named. The petition is non-Indian in character, although British Indians, being coloured people, are very largely affected by it. We consider that it was a wise policy on the part of the British Indians throughout South Africa, to have kept themselves apart and distinct from the other coloured communities in this country.

In a statement made in 1906 to the Constitution Committee, the British Indian Association led by Gandhi (CW. V p.335) said:

The British Indian Association has always admitted the principle of white domination and has, therefore, no desire, on behalf of the community it represents, for any political rights just for the sake of them.

Commenting on a court case, the Indian Opinion of June 2 1906, in its Gujrati section, stated:

You say that the magistrate's decision is unsatisfactory because it would enable a person, however unclean, to travel by a tram, and that even the Kaffirs would be able to do so. But the magistrate's decision is quite different. The Court declared that the Kaffirs have no legal right to travel by tram. And according to tram regulations, those in an unclean dress or in a drunken state are prohibited from boarding a tram. Thanks to the Court's decision, only clean Indians (meaning upper caste Hindu Indians) or coloured people other than Kaffirs, can now travel in the trams. (Italic portion is added)

Apartheid defended: Gandhi accepted racial segregation, not only because it was politically expedient as his Imperial masters had already drawn such a blueprint, it also conformed with his own attitude to the caste system. In his own mind he fitted Apartheid into the caste system: whites in the position of Brahmins, Indian merchants and professionals as Sudras, and all other non-whites as Untouchables.

Though Gandhi was strongly opposed to the comingling of races, the working-class Indians did not share his distaste. There were many areas where Indians, Chinese, Coloured, Africans and poor whites lived together. On February 15 1905, Gandhi wrote to Dr. Porter, the Medical Officer of Health, Johannesburg (CW. IV p.244, and "Indian Opinion" 9 April 1904):

Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my comprehension.

Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen.

Dr. Porter replied that it was the Indians who sub-let to Africans.

Commenting on the White League's agitation, Gandhi wrote in his Indian Opinion of September 24 1903:

We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do, only we believe that they would best serve these interests, which are as dear to us as to them, by advocating the purity of all races, and not one alone. We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.

Again, on December 24 1903, Indian Opinion stated:

The petition dwells upon `the comingling of the coloured and white races'. May we inform the members of the Conference that so far as British Indians are concerned, such a thing is particularly unknown. If there is one thing which the Indian cherishes more than any other, it is the purity of type.

In his farewell speech at a meeting held in the house of Dr. Gool in Capetown, which was reported in the Indian Opinion of July 1 1914, Gandhi said:

The Indians knew perfectly well which was the dominant and governing race. They aspired to no social equality with Europeans. They felt that the path of their development was separate. They did not even aspire to the franchise, or, if the aspiration exists, it was with no idea of its having a present effect.

Gandhi joined in the orgy of Zulu slaughter when the Bambata Rebellion broke out. It is essential to discuss the background of the Bambata Rebellion, to place Gandhi's Nazi war crime in its proper perspective.

The Bambatta Rebellion--Background

The spiritual foundation of Nazism was the superiority of the Aryan race or its modern version, the Anglo-Saxon race. When Disraeli was Prime Minister, Britain enunciated a doctrine, like the Monroe Doctrine, warning other European powers that Africa would be a British preserve, and that from the Cape to the Limpopo, if not to Cairo, only white people would have local political power. Successive British Governments pursued this policy.

In the 1870s, the Zulu Kingdom was by far the most powerful African State of the Limpopo. Cetewayo, who succeeded his father in 1872, was an able and popular ruler. He united the kingdom and built up a most efficient army. He followed a policy of alliance with the British Colony of Natal. The Zulu Kingdom and the Boer Republic of the Transvaal had been feuding for a long time. The Zulus were defeated twice by the Boers, in 1838 and 1840. By 1877 Cetewayo was ready to invade the Transvaal. But the British stepped in and annexed the Transvaal in 1877, only to prevent Cetewayo from doing it first and becoming powerful and a challenge to white supremacy.

Some contemporary reports throw light on the relative strength of the Zulus and their Boer enemies. Colonel A.W. Durnford wrote in a memorandum on July 5 ("The Secret History of South Africa" by Abercrombe. The Central News Agency Ltd., Johannesburg South Africa. 1951 p.6):

About this time (April 10th) Cetewayo had massed his forces in three corps on the borders, and would undoubtedly have swept the Transvaal, at least up to the Vaal River if not to Pretoria itself, had the country not been taken over by the English. In my opinion he would have cleared the country to Pretoria.

Shepstone, the British Administrator, himself wrote concerning the reality of the danger on Dec. 25 1877:

The Boers are still flying, and I think by this time there must be a belt of more than a hundred miles long and thirty broad in which, with three insignificant exceptions, there is nothing but absolute desolation. This will give some idea of the mischief which Cetewayo's conduct has caused.(Ibid p.7).

The above facts explode the myth that the British protected the Zulus from the Boers.

British barbarity on Blacks: After annexing the Transvaal, Shepstone turned his attention to destroying all the independent African states in that region, particularly the Zulu Kingdom. Before annexation of the Transvaal, Shepstone sided with the Zulus in their border disputes with the Transvaal. After annexation he made a volte-face and used those disputes as excuses to invade Zululand. The British public was told that the Zulu War was to liberate the Zulu people from a tyrannical ruler, and South Africa from a menace to "christianity and civilisation".

In 1879, the British invaded the Zulu Kingdom and defeated Cetawayo. Then they started their complete subjugation. First the army was broken, thus destroying their ability to defend themselves. The country was then split into thirteen separate units under the nominal control of the chiefs, salaried by the Government. The white magistrates supplanted the chiefs as the most powerful men in their districts. Most important of all, the land was partitioned. Before the war, Shepstone had expressed the hope that Cetewayo's warriors would be "changed to labourers working for wages". It makes a sad story, how this was accomplished. In 1902-4, the Land Commission delineated a number of locations for the Zulus, and threw open the rest of the country to white settlement. Out of a total acreage of more than 12 million acres, the Africans held some 2 million acres. They numbered, at the lowest reckoning, over three hundred thousand. The Europeans, who were less than 20,000, owned most of !
the best land. A large proportion of the African population was forced to live upon land to which it had no legal claim. Where the Africans lived upon private or crown lands, they lived there entirely upon sufferance and without legal title. By this time, other independent African states in that region were also destroyed by the British army. Wheresoever, they marched, in Basutoland, Zululand or Bechuanaland, the Queen's horses and the Queen's men were like unto a "Salvation Army" ministering to the welfare of the colonists. The sufferers were the Africans.

Gandhi wrote in his Satyagraha in South Africa (p.15):

The Boers are simple, frank and religious. They settle in the midst of extensive farms. We can have no idea of the extent of these farms. A farm with us means generally an acre or two, and sometimes even less. In South Africa, a single farmer has hundreds or thousands of acres of land in his possession. He is not anxious to put all this under cultivation at once, and if any one argues with him he will say, `Let it lie fallow; lands which are now fallow will be cultivated by our children'.

Also in his Indian Opinion (March 15 1913), he wrote:

General Botha has thousands of acres of land ... (there is) a big company in Natal which has hundreds of thousands of acres of land.

Thou shalt not steal but rob.

It did not seem to occur to Gandhi how these people came into possession of thousands of acres of land, whereas Africans were cooped in locations like chicken in pens.

Grabbing the land was not enough: it needed manpower to cultivate that land. The cry of the farmers was for labour. Naturally it found a favourite response from Shepstone, whose dream it was to convert Cetewayo's warriors into labourers for white men. His native policy was to meet the demands of the European farmers. He agreed that Europeans could not expand or grow in wealth unless they could draw more fully upon the reservoirs of labour in the African reserves.

In the process of European colonisation, the swiftly expanding land-hungry Europeans turned the bulk of the African population into a proletariat. Due to the congestion and landlessness in the reserves, created deliberately by the white rulers, their agricultural return was not sufficient for bare existence. Then there were the taxes on huts, cattle and what not. On the other hand, working for white men did not provide them with adequate sustenance. In Natal, the sugar farmers of the coast relied upon the Indian indentured labour, whereas the stock farmers of the interior relied exclusively on Africans, and regarded the failure of Africans to work for them as a criminal offence. In a report to the Chief Commissioner of Police in 1903, the Police Inspector W.F. Fairley wrote: "With regard to crime, the principal complaints made by Dutch farmers to patrols was of the refusal to work on the part of the natives." (Department Reports 1903 p.67 cited "Reluctant Rebellion" by Marks!
p.17. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1970). Complaints about the shortage of African labour were voiced in all parts of the country. The farmers were later joined by the mining industries. The most obvious change was the broadening of the economic base from being entirely agricultural to one in which mining played a more and more important part. Diamond, gold, coal became major industries, and with this development, the deeper involvement of the big finance houses, particularly Rothschilds. So the fate of the Africans as the source of cheap labour, and the fat dividends derived from mining by the British ruling class, became interlinked. This still continues in a modified form. Now it is Anglo-American corporations.

Cheap labour from India: Europeans assumed that Africans lived only to meet their requirements of cheap labour, and as such they had no right to establish themselves as self-sufficient and independent farmers because this conflicted with European interests. Famines in India facilitates the recruitment of indentured Indian labourers for white employers in the Colonies. It was no different in relation to Africans. In a Report of the Native Affairs Commission, (Native Affairs Commission Report 1939-40 cited "Oxford History of South Africa" p.182. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1969) it was admitted that "African reserves were regarded by whites as reservoirs of labour, and congestion, landlessness and crop failure were welcomed as stimulants to the labour supply". Similar situations among whites were viewed as national calamities. The Government lent millions of pounds to white farmers, gave them tax relief in times of famine, paid subsidies, facilitated the export of their produce, !
and wrote off their debts. But what about Africans? Famine would be rampant, crops ruined, food exhausted, thousands of Africans and their cattle would starve to death, but the government would not raise a finger.

The whites not only stole the land from the Africans, and used them as cheap labour, but also looked to them for revenue. They drew a relatively large and growing income from the Africans. "The Native population of Natal", Shepstone admitted ("Imperial Factor" by De Kieweit p.193. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1970), "contribute to the revenue annually a sum equal, at least, to that necessary to maintain the whole fixed establishment of the Colony for the government of the whites as well as themselves." Taxation is a financial measure to gather revenue to meet the expenditure of the state. But in South Africa it was used to reduce Africans to slavery. The sole motive behind the extra taxation imposed on Africans was to force the Africans to work on terms dictated by the whites.

Always there was resentment against any measure which would allow the Africans to settle in locations instead of keeping them as labourers. It was not only the farmers' conferences, the press owned by the mining magnates joined the outcry of the farmers to enact special laws to compel the Africans to come out of their locations and work for the whites. The press was in the forefront to arouse the sentiments that Africans not in European service were necessarily living in idleness. Gandhi's Indian Opinion played second fiddle to the white press in this respect. To Gandhi, the imposition of taxes upon the Africans to compel them to work for the white employers was "gentle persuasion".

By a stroke of the pen, the major part of the available land was taken away from the Zulus and given to Europeans. Some of the dispossessed Zulus were allotted locations and others remained on the land of European landlords on sufferance. Bambata was one of these unfortunate chiefs. He became Chief in 1890 and he and his people were placed in private locations on very high rents. The land was useless for any agricultural purpose. To make things worse, the Boer farmers suspected Bambata of informing the British about their pro-Boer activities, and naturally they tried to victimise him and his people. But after the war, the British rulers leaned backwards and went out of their way to kiss and hug the Boers. So Bambata was caught in a cleft stick. By 1905 the tension between Bambata and his white landlords reached crisis point. The Assistant Magistrate of Greytown, H. Von Gerard, wrote to the Under Secretary of Native Affairs recommending the allocation of a location for his pe!
ople. Gerard described how people were being oppressed and squeezed by the landlords, what useless land it was for agricultural purposes, and how summons after summons was being issued against people who were unable to pay high rents. Finally he remarked ("Reluctant Rebellion" by Marks. P.201):

A most desperate state of affairs, the more so as there seems no remedy for it....My sympathies with Bambata's people...but I see no way out of the difficulty.

The military and civilian leaders of Natal were consciously developing a picture as if an uprising was imminent. Not that they could foresee one, but they wanted to foresee one because that would give them a golden opportunity to inflict severe punishments on Zulus who, according to the colonists, were growing insolent. They drew up a plan to deal with this imaginary uprising swiftly, and all agreed that was the way they could save not only Natal but North Africa from the "barbarities which only the savage mind can conceive." (Ibid p. Xvii)

Zulu Revolt: But outside Natal, people were not so sure. Styne, President of the Orange Free State, called it "hysteria". Smuts, Botha and Merriman expressed concern as to whether the whites of Natal would spur a rebellion. Some churchmen and many radical humanitarians in Natal, as well as England, produced volumes of irrefutable evidence proving that it was a conspiracy to goad the Zulus into rebellion and then massacre them. In this, Hariette Colenso, the famous daughter of a famous father, Bishop Colenso, made the most outstanding contribution. There was a cry of imminent native revolt in the press long before active rebellion broke out.

As far back as 1902, Lieu. G.A. Mills in his report (GH18/02. Cited "Reluctant Rebellion" p.158) to the Chief of Staff, Natal, on July 1 informed him:

Every Boer expresses the most bitter hatred of the Zulus. They all express a wish that the Zulus would rise now while the British troops are in the country so that they may be practically wiped out. The Boers all say that in the event of the rising, every one of them would join the British troops in order to have a chance of paying off old scores against the Zulus. When I first came here, I visited farms and asked the Boers what they thought of the advisability of keeping troops here. They all said it was most necessary, as they were afraid of the Kaffirs and it would not be safe to stay on their farms if the troops withdrew.... Taking everything into consideration, I cannot help being forced to the opinion that many Boers intend to provoke a Zulu rising if they can do so.

It was Colonel Mackenzie, the military supremo before the rebellion, who was prophesying a native uprising and cleaning the barrels of his guns to use the "golden opportunity" to inflict "the most drastic punishment" on leading natives he found guilty of treason, and to "instill a proper respect for the white man". (C.O. 179/233/12460. Dispatch 9.3.06 cited "Reluctant Rebellion" p. 188).

On June 14, Charles Saunders, Chief Magistrate and Civil Commissioner in Zululand (1899-1909) wrote to C.J. Hignet, the magistrate of Nqutu ("Reluctant Rebellion" p.241):

I quite agree with your conclusions as to our men trying to goad the whole population into rebellion, and you have no idea of the difficulties we had in Nkandha in trying to protect people one knew perfectly well were faithful to us.

In his communication of July 10 1906 to the Prime Minister, (PM 61/15/66 Governor to PM 10.7.06) the Governor described the "sweeping actions and the mopping-up operations as continued slaughter. Fred Graham, a permanent civil servant in the Colonial Office, in his Minute of July 10, described it as "massacre".

Nazism & racism: The most revealing was the long letter of July 24 1906 (CO 179/236/24787 minute 10-7-06) sent by the Anglican Archdeacon, Charles Johnson, from St. Augustine's in Nqutu division, to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospels in London. He was a man of the British establishment and not known to have excessive zeal for standing up for the rights of the Africans. He wrote (cited "Reluctant Rebellion" p. 241):

Many thinking people have been asking themselves, what are we going to do with his teeming population? Some strong-handed men have thought the time was ripe for solving the great question. They knew that there was a general widespread spirit of disaffection among the natives of Natal, the Free State and the Transvaal, but specially in Natal, and they commenced the suppression of the rebellion in the fierce hope that the rebellion might so spread throughout the land and engender a war of practical extermination. I fully believe that they were imbued with the conviction that this was the only safe way of dealing with the native question, and they are greatly disappointed that the spirit of rebellion was not strong enough to bring more than a moiety of the native peoples under the influence of the rifle. Over and over again it was said, `They are only sitting on the fence, it shall be our endeavour to bring them over'; and again, speaking of the big chiefs, `We must endeavour t!
o bring them in if possible! Yes, they have been honest and outspoken enoughó-the wish being father to the thoughtó-they prophesied the rebellion would spread throughout South Africa; had they been true prophets, no doubt the necessity of solving the native question would have been solved for this generation at least.

John Merriman was a veteran Cape politician. He was one of those so-called liberals who accepted Nazism as a doctrine, or in other words Anglo-Saxon superiority, but regretted its consequent atrocities and thus fumigated their consciences. He wrote to Goldwin Smith (Merriman papers NHo. 202, 16.9.06 cited "Reluctant Rebellion" p.246) in September 1906:

We have had a horrible business in Natal with the natives. I suppose the whole truth will never be known, but enough comes out to make us see how thin the crust is that keeps our christian civilisation from the old-fashioned savageryómachine-guns and modern rifles against knobsticks and assagais are heavy odds and do not add much to the glory of the superior race.

In the letter of the Archdeacon the expression "practical extermination", and in a letter of Lieutenant Mills "practically wiped out", have been used. This was what the German Nazis wanted to do to the Jews: to exterminate them. Does it make any difference whether the victims of racial slaughter are Jews or blacks?

Conspiracy to massacre Blacks: Gandhi was well aware of the conspiracy to massacre the Africans. When there was war hysteria in the colonial press, this prophet of non-violence did not apply his mind as to how to stop such a conflict. On the contrary, he did not want Indians to be left behind, but wanted them to take a full part in this genocide.

In his editorial in the Indian Opinion of Nov. 18 1905, long before the actual rebellion broke out, Gandhi complained that the Government simply did not wish to give Indians an opportunity of showing that they were as capable as any other community of taking their share in the defence of the colony. He suggested that a volunteer corps should be formed from colonial-born Indians, which would be useful in actual service.

Indentured Indians lived in conditions worse than slavery. Gandhi during his 20 years' stay in South Africa, did not raise a finger to ease their sufferings. But he was quick to suggest using them as cannon fodder for racists against Africans.

In his Indian Opinion in Dec. 2 1905 he referred to Law 25 of 1875 which was specially passed to increase "the maximum strength of the volunteer force in the colony adding thereto a force of Indian immigrant volunteer infantry". To assure the Europeans that such Indians would only kill Africans, he pointed out that "section 83 of the Militia Act states that no ordinary member of the coloured contingent shall be armed with weapons of precision, unless such contingent is called to operate against other than Europeans".

Gandhi defends massacre: Many years later, he wrote (p.233) in his autobiography:

The Boer War had not brought home to me the horrors of war with anything like the vividness that the `rebellion' did. This was no war but a man-hunt, not only in my opinion but also in that of many Englishmen with whom I had occasion to talk. To hear every morning reports of the soldiers' rifles exploding like crackers in innocent hamlets, and to live in the midst of them, was a trial.

Then to justify his participation in this massacre, he went on (Autobiography p. 231):

I bore no grudge against the Zulus, they had harmed no Indian. I had doubts about the `rebellion' itself, but I then believed that the British Empire existed for the welfare of the world. A genuine sense of loyalty prevented me from even wishing ill to the Empire. The righteness or otherwise of the `rebellion' was therefore not likely to affect my decision.

What about the Nazi war criminals? Did they not have a genuine sense of loyalty to Hitler and Nazism?

In Great Britain another storm of protest was raised against the atrocities perpetrated in Natal. The only time Gandhi mentioned the Zulu suppression was on August 4 1906, when he wrote in his Indian Opinion:

A controversy is going on in England about what the Natal Army did during the Kaffir rebellion. The people here believe that the whites of Natal perpetrated great atrocities on the Kaffirs. In reply to such critics, the Star has pointed to the doings of the Imperial Army in Egypt. Those among the Egyptian rebels who had been captured were ordered to be flogged. The flogging was continued to the limits of the victim's endurance; it took place in public and was watched by thousands of people. Those sentenced to death were also hanged at the same time. While those sentenced to death were hanging, the flogging of others was taken up. While the sentences were being executed, the relatives of the victims cried and wept until many of them swooned. If this is true, there is no reason why there should be such an outcry in England against Natal outrages.

One may notice that the article was very cleverly written. First Gandhi stated that people in England believed that the whites of Natal perpetrated great atrocities on Africans, as if he himself did not know what happened, and also gave the impression that it was the local Natal Army and not the Imperial Army which was involved in the atrocities, which is not true. Even at this stage, he was not willing to tell the simple truth, that atrocities were committed. Then he borrowed the description of hanging and flogging in Egypt from the Star as if he did not know about that either. Did or did not Gandhi know that those Egyptians were not common criminals to be flogged and hangedóthat they were the patriots, the flowers of the Egyptian nation?

If Gandhi unequivocally accepted or found out that the Imperial Army committed those atrocities, then he could not claim that he believed the British Empire existed for the welfare of mankind. The last and the vilest of all was the subtle suggestion that if the Imperial Army did what they were accused of doing, then there was no reason why there should be such an outcry in England against the Natal outrage. Why could this Imperialist-manufactured Mahatma not say clearly that both were crimes against humanity?


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The Origins of African Country Names or What They Mean
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Algeria - Named after the capital city Algiers or Al-Jazair ("The Island") in Arabic. A reference to the small islands that once dotted the bay of the city.

Angola - When Portuguese mariner Diego Cao landed at the mouth of the Congo River in 1483, two distinct Kingdoms ruled the region. The Kingdom of the Bakongo reigned in the north. The Quimbundos Kingdom, also known as Ndongo, dominated in the western and central areas. The king of the Quimbundos was called "Ngola". The region, taking its name from the king, became Angola.

Benin - (Formerly Dahomey) named after the ancient Nigerian Kingdom of Benin. The former name Dahomey, pronounced Dan Ho Me ("on the belly of Dan") was an ancient
Kingdom located in the south of what is modern-day Benin Republic.

Botswana - A name used to collectively describe the Tswana, the country's dominant ethnic group. Formerly known as Bechuanaland, Bechauna being an alternative spelling for Botswana.

Burkina Fasso - Mossi for "Land of Incorruptible Men" was changed to this from Upper Volta in 1984. Upper Volta reffered to its geographical location in relation to the Volta river.

Burundi - Derives from Rundi (Kirundi) the language universally spoken throughout Burundi.

Cameroon (also Cameroun in French) - The name is derived from Rio de Camarões (the River of Prawns) the name given to River Wouri by Portuguese Explorers in the 15th century.

Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) - Named after the westernmost point in mainland Africa. The nearest point on the continent to this Island Nation.

Central African Republic - It's in Central Africa! Africa is believed to have originated from either the Latin word aprica ("Sunny") or greek aphrike ("without cold") and originally applied to North Africa. However as Europe discovered the extent of continental Africa, the term came to match its modern day usage.

Chad - The name appears to derive from the Lake which forms it South-Western border with Nigeria.

Comoros - The name "Comoros" is derived from the Arabic kamar or kumr, meaning "moon," although this name was first applied by Arab geographers to Madagascar. It was adopted by French Colonialists to describe the Islands.

Congo - Named after the 15th Kingdom of Kongo which thrived on both banks of the River Congo, extending into Modern day Congo, Congo DR, Angola and Zambia.

Congo DR - As Above. Also formerly known as Zaire a traditional local name for River Congo.

Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) - The Reference by European traders to the availabiilty of Ivory Tusks.

Djibouti - (Fomerly Territory of the Afars and Issas) Named after the Port capital.

Egypt - Direct geographical descendent of Ancient Egypt.

Equatorial Guinea - Guinea derives from the berber word aguinaw, or gnawa ("black man"), which Berbers (Nomadic Saharan Peoples) have used to describe most of West Africa.

Eritrea - The Latin phrase Mare Erythraeum ("Red Sea") was used by Italy to describe its colonies in the horn of Africa. This later became Eritrea and was adopted by the country on independence from Ethiopia.

Ethiopia - Direct geographical descendent of Ancient Ethiopia.

Gabon - Gabon's first European visitors were Portuguese traders who arrived in the 15th century and subsequent Portuguese references refered to it as Gabon after the Portuguese word gabao, a coat with sleeves and hood resembling the shape of the Como River estuary, where they first explored.

Gambia - Named after the River Gambia which flows through the Country.

Ghana - Named after the Ancient West African Kingdom of Ghana. See Ancient Ghana.

Guinea - See Equatorial Guinea.

Guinea-Bissau - See Equatorial Guinea.

Kenya - Named after the mountain of the same name. and this in turn derives it name from The Kikuyu, who refer to the mountain as Kirinyaga, or Kere-Nyaga ("Mountain of Whiteness").

Lesotho - Named after the Sotho People, the dominant Ethnic Group. Formerly known as Basutoland.

Liberia - Derived from the Latin word liber ("Free") - Reference to the return of Freed American Slaves who founded the modern Republic of Liberia.

Libya - In 1934, Italy adopted the name "Libya" (used by the ancient Greeks for all of North Africa, except Egypt) as the official name of their new colony, which consisted of the
Provinces of Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, and Fezzan.

Madagascar - The origin of the Madagascar is uncertain, some people believe the European Traveller Marco Polo (who never visted the island) confused it with Mogadishu in present - day Somalia. Hence Early reference to the Island as Madeigascar or Mogelasio, this eventually became Madagascar about the 16th centruty. Others believe that the Madagascar may be a local reference to the "Country of Malagasy". However, the Kings of Malagasy tended to refer to the whole Island by "Izao will rehetra izao " or " Izao tontolo izao ("this entire country").

Malawi - Derived from Marawi - A confederacy of states that existed in the area of present day Malawi.

Mali - Named after the ancient West African Kingdom of Mali. See Ancient Mali.

Mauritania - The name is derived from Spanish description of the area as the land of the Moors, a term used to describe Arab rulers of Southern Spain. It was also the name of an ancient Berber Kingdom.

Mauritius - The island was named in honor of Prince Maurice of Nassau by Dutch explorers. The French claimed Mauritius in 1715 and renamed it Ile de France. In 1810, Mauritius was captured by the British and renamed back to Mauritius.

Mayotte - Most of the people are Moharais of Malagasy origin. Mayotte(French), Maore or Mahore(Comoran) describes the land of the Moharais.

Morocco - Direct geographical descendent of Ancient Morocco.

Mozambique - Named after Mouzinho de Alburquerque , 19th Century Portuguese colonalist who put down nationalist rebellions in the territory and thus established effective Portuguese control.

Namibia - derived from the Namib, the desert that runs along the namibia coast. Namib in turn means "an area where there is nothing" in the local Nama language.

Niger - Derived from the River Niger, and meaning Black in Latin.

Nigeria - Meaning the Area of the Niger. As Above

I see some of you are interested in the origin of the name 'Nigeria'.

It was defined below in the following:

Nigeria - Meaning the Area of the Niger.

I will add the following:

A river was discovered where it was forming at the foot of the Futa Jalon Mountains in Sierra Leone by the English explorer named Mungo Park. Because of the dark coloration imparted by fallen dead leaves in the young river, Mungo Park named the river 'black' river.
He used the Latin word, niger, for black instead.
Thus, the Niger River was born. And at the time of the almalgation, to Lord Lugard (or Lady Lugard), Nigeria was, simply, the land through which the Niger River flowed. Thus, Nigeria has nothing to do with the word 'nigger', which a derogatory word to decribe negroes.
Negro, itself, is derived from the Portuguese or Spanish word for black, 'negro'.



Reunion - An overseas Department of France, The Islands are named Reunion in 1848 after several name changes and temporary occupation by the British.

Rwanda - Named after the Laguage spoken throught out the country, Ruanda (also called Kinyarwanda).

Sao Tome and Principe - Portuguese names for the Islands. Actual Origin unknown.

Senegal - Derived from the River Senegal.

Seychelles - In 1756, Seychelles became a French colony under the name of Séchelles, named after the Moreau of Séchelles, Minister of Finance under the kingdom of Louis XV. During the 19th Century, under British rule the name was anglicised to Seychelles.

Sierra Leone - Sierra Leone's name dates back to 1462, when a Portuguese explorer, Pedro da Cintra, sailed down the coast of West Africa and saw the long range of mountains of what is now the Freetown Peninsula. As a result of shape and climatic conditions experienced by the explorer, he called the lands 'Sierra Lyoa' meaning 'Lion Mountains'. Sixteenth century English sailors called it 'Sierra Leoa'; by the seventeenth it was 'Sierra Leona', and by 1787, under British Rule it had became Sierra Leone.

Somalia - The Land of the Somali, the dominant Ethnic group in the country.

South Africa - See Central African Republic.

Sudan - Sudan (a name derived from the Arabic phrase - bilad as-sudan, "land of the blacks"). Used by Arabs to describe what is today Sub-Sahran Africa, i.e. Africa excluding Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria and Egypt.

Swaziland - The Land of the Swazi's who form 97% of the population.

Tanzania - A name derived from the union of Mainland Tanganyika and the Islands of Zanzibar which together form the United Republic of Tanzania.

Togo - Named after Togoville in Germany, where Germany declared a "protectorate" over the area that came to be Togo.

Tunisia - Named after Tunis the present-day capital, but in ancient times a powerful city-state and successor to ancient Carthage.

Uganda - Derived from the Buganda, the country's largest Ethnic Group.

Western Sahara (SADR) - Named after is location. Also known as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic after its people, the Sahrawi Arabs.

Zambia - Derived from the Zambezi River which flows along its southern borders.

Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe was named after Great Zimbabwe an ancient trading empire dating back to the Iron Age. Zimbabwe means Stone Houses in the local Shona Language. The word zimbabwe is derived from the Shona language, and means houses of stone.

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THE NEGRO AND THE SARDINE

BY ELIHU N. PLEASANT BEY

THE NEGRO And THE SARDINE (A Moorish Analogy) The political and social metamorphosis of West African Moors made into American Negro, Black, Colored and today’s African American (NBC) Slaves is very analogous to how Sardines are made. There are many species of small fish indigenous to the great Seas of the Earth and The Great God created them all. Yet, there is not one fish in any of the seas named “Sardine”! Like the NBC, these especial fish are not labeled “Sardines” until captured, processed and canned by men. A trivia research shows the brand name “Sardine” derived from Sardinia, an Italian Island in the Mediterranean Sea. The word “Sardine” actually refers to many groups of small fishes. Pilchards, Sprats and Atlantic Herrings, (mostly young herrings), are the primary fishes which make the array of
food fish called “Sardines”. Pending where they are caught the fish are then denationalized, commercialized and advertised as South African Sardine, Pacific Sardine and (of course) European Sardine. Young Herrings, which only grow from 9 to 12 inches, are packed without heads or tails. Naturally, being without head and tail, who can trace the past status or future of the fish? Consequently, without these identifications, “Sardine” is what they are called now! There are a variety of packaging operandi to the finale which people call “Sardines”. They are often smoked, packed in oil, water, mustard or hot sauce, etc. Either way, the result is the true identity of the fish is legally concealed from the public under the marketing label “Sardines”. Speaking about the general public…not many people notice there is Tuna in cans of Tuna, Salmon in cans of Salmon and Mackerel in cans of Mackerel. BUT! What on Earth (that was once in the sea) is in cans of Sardines? So how does the Negro fit into all this? As The Great God did not create ‘Sardines’ nor placed them in the sea, like so, The Creator did not create ‘Negroes’, ‘Indians’, ‘Chicanos’, ‘Blacks’, ‘White Folks’, ‘Latinos’, ‘Colored People’ or ‘African Americans’ nor place them on the Earth. The many Moorish Nationals in today’s Western Hemisphere are a caucus of Nations, Tribes and Countries of the Ancient Moorish Empire of Northwestern and Southwestern shores of Africa; direct Descendants of Old Man Ham. All Members of the Human Family are indigenous to the Earth by divine origin. These West Africans did not become Negro, Blacks and Colored People until the advent of slavery in the Americas and associated “Slave Breaking Islands” in the Atlantic. As a paradigm, ‘Sardines’ and ‘Negroes’ are evil brand names and labels, placed upon deities captured in garbs of flesh, which would otherwise be autonomous in their true state and natural status. Tragically, whereas many seaside countries produce and export Sardines from their nationalized Fishing Industries, the so-called “NBC” People are made only in America. Negroes are never imported. And whether they are exported by way of The United States Military, or her Businesses, for her Schools, Churches, and Sports or spurious pleasures and vacations the Negro, mass produced in America, will go and return still in the same psychological “NBC” cans of slavery from which they departed. The term “Black People” is a misnomer identifying a programmed and processed People. In the computer world a person learns the greatest of programs are limited to the capacity of the computer’s memory. “Mental Slavery” is when the Soul or thinking faculties of Man, that consist of divine gifts of thinking, reasoning, willing, understanding and remembrance has been minimized into an unnatural state to function centripetally against it’s true God Self. Man’s mind is not capable of forgetfulness but his future is limited by his recorded history. It is in the nature of the mind to become what it thinks. And since the State Officials of their birth have certified the African Descendants born in America,, to be either Negro, Black or Colored they remain complacent in a feigned Citizen status to the United States. There is very little distinction between the Negro and the Sardine. This is because unlike countless Sardines, which are decapitated and canned, it is the head (mind) of the Africans that has been bound, processed and canned. Rarely do the NBC look deep enough into his mind to see The Self as the very image of God. As the tail of the Sardine is removed, so is the true history of the West African Nationals. Now neither the fish nor the man can be properly identified without head or tail. This mental canning process takes place in the United States Judicial Industries on a conveyer belt called the Reconstruction Amendments (13th, 14th and 15th). Through the powers of the 14th Amendment the head of the African remains physically attached although his true history and future are severed by the misnomers “NBC” that is hidden in the deceptive words “All Persons Born …”. Hence, they never realize their personage has been certified to be that of a slave since birth.
The canning and misnaming of herrings and the certified misidentification and denationalization of the West African Moors are too similar to ignore. Birth Certifications are authorized by the states wherein all persons (commercial properties) are born or reside”. All one has to do is read the 14th Amendment and their State-issued Certificate of Live Birth. If the latter has Negro, Black or Colored sanctioned by the State’s Seal…chances are, immediately after their divine birth, they had been processed to be a Slave. This is the beginning of the “Canning Operandi” to the finale of today’s so-called “African Americans”. It matters very little whether they were labeled N, B or C, or Afro, or Coon, etc. The one free National Name has been concealed under the grand marketing label of “American Citizen”. Needfultosay, no NBC can ever be a first class citizen to any Nation because NBC were/are names given to U.S. Slaves, in the U.S. and for the U.S. The great Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision sustained this as a perpetual fact of law. This is why the 14th Amendment is an Ex post facto Law, hoax and a sham that pretends to suddenly transform Negro Slaves into U. S. Citizens. Or, is that making Herrings into Sardines? All true and sacred records reveal it is the Great God alone that makes Men and Fishes. But being in a likeness of God, it is in the power of man to make slaves of other men and Sardines of Sprats and Pilchards. The canning of Sardines and the Denationalization Processing of the African descendants, like a bad beat, is still going on! And On! And On! Nevertheless, the carnal customs of Man does not alter the nature of truth. Like the powerful aroma steeped from the deaths of millions of Herrings under the disguise of “Sardines”, anyone can sense there is an ungodly stench cast off from the same people acting as Coloreds in the 40’s, Negroes in the 50’s, Blacks in the 60’s, Afro in the 70’s, Afro-Americans (Nubians, Bilalians) Blacks in the 80’s then African Americans in the 90’s. Do these Man-made Marketing Labels likewise serve the same identifying purposes as the various brand names of sardines? Know, not withstanding, no one has a lasting power to change Man from his descendant nature. Still, it is in the nature of the mind to become what it thinks. And the Man who thinks he is NBC can never attain a free national status because of his mind has been processed to the limitations of property. As the vision of a Goldfish is confined to the jurisdiction of its aquarium, the thought pattern of the Negro cannot think beyond its blackness. Without a doubt, these misnomers are concealing the one and only Free National Name to a Clean and Pure Nation of people. This hallowed Name of the Ex-slaves has been known esoterically for 135 years. It is now the greatest secret kept in America to date. Yet, it cannot be denied in 1865 the U.S. Congressional 13th Amendment brought forth on this Continent the Nationality of a 2nd new Nation. From finite and infinite points of view, the judicial question must again rise from the dust: Without removing its head and tail can a Herring be a Sardine? Without proclaiming his proper status by his and her one free National Name, can a Negro be a Citizen of any Government? Hummm. There is something mighty, mighty fishy going on in The United States. By Elihu N. Pleasant-Bey, Author of The Biography of Noble Drew Ali / The Exhuming Of A Nation www.pleasantbey.net or e-mail: drewali@pleasantbey.net

A BLUEPRINT TO CREATE THE AFRICAN/BLACK WORLD RENAISSANCE

 

African People and Responsibility
 
Another Issue We Must Address In Our
Tentatively Planned Meeting of African People
 
By: Emmanuel Afraka
 
 
In a message dated 6/25/2004 10:23:47 AM Eastern Standard Time, EMANSMYRNA writes:
As the first born of Creation, and the first loved of the Heavenly Father Heru, African people naturally possess the Birthright of the first born.  However, along with that Birthright comes great responsibility.  A part of that responsibility is to empower ourselves to be able to enlighten our younger sibling members of the human race.    For the gifts of God to humanity, both the biological gift of human life, and the spiritual gift of a Heavenly Father (the soul of Heru) entered into the world through African people.  Thus true African spirituality will help us to realize and appreciate the gifts of God to humanity from the soul of Heru to the soul of Jesus, from the prophecies of our Hamitic/Cushite Ethiopian ancestors and the prophecies of the Great Pyramid to the Ethiopian Hebrew prophets.  Once we understand all of that, we should then realize that God has one more gift to give to humanity that must also enter into the world through African for the benefit of all humanity.  That gift is a new educational system called the Morning Star--designed to educate man back toward the God that created him, and toward truly understanding the god that the soul of man truly is as its on deliverer and redeemer--Africa's final and everlasting gift to humanity (Revelation 21:3).

 
 
"In the foregoing chapters we have seen how the awareness of a Messianic World Plan--whether it derives from some ancient folk-memory or actual preconnition--permeates much of the Ancient World's mythology.  I particular we have observed its presence in the Hebrew, Egyptian, and Mayan traditions, and have discovered clear evidence that it lies at the very root of the design of the Great Pyramid.  Indeed, the further back in time we explore, the clearer man's awareness of the Plan appears to have been--for the Pyramid antedates by some millennia the available written records, and yet it is in the Pyramid that the Plan's details are revealed most clearly and explicitly.  This in itself would seem to contribute a measure of confirmatory evidence for the supposition that The Plan Was Once Known In Its Entirety By A Race of Men Who Were Unable or Unwilling To Measure Up To Its Standards In Practice, and whose civilization [which was the Most High order of civilization called Pe and Ethiopia] was subsequently--or perhaps consequently--overwhelmed by some gigantic cataclysm which left few traces, apart from the knowledge enshrined in the Great Pyramid and a number of obscure folk-memories and esoteeric traditions.
 
Page 332, "The Great Pyramid Decoded," Peter Lemesurier
 

 
 
MATTHEW 7:3-5
"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"
"Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?"
"Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye."


How do the three above quotes relate to African people and the things that must shortly be done to restore African divinity, and thereby re-establish the equality of the black race on earth?  Though no entire race has known the Messianic World Plan in it entirety, Heru, the founder of the concept of Ptah as the architect of the Most High order of civilization, and his most immediate descendants did indeed know this Plan in its entirety.  However, maintaining such a High Order of civilization required that its citizens be willing and able to take responsibility for their own fate and destiny by the Grace of God--the Grace of God being the pure and perfect harmony and unity that exist between the spiritual universe and the physical and natural universe, or the pure and perfect harmony and unity that exist between the Pure and Perfect Mind of God, the Maa-Shua, and the soul of man.  As the descendant of Heru propagated the concept of Ptah throughout Africa and Southern Asia, it was discovered that the overwhelming majority of African and Asian people were unwilling and/or unable to live up to such high standards in practice.  Therefore, since the collapse of the Most High order of civilization called Pe and Ethiopia, both African and Asian people began to find it much easier to allow the youngest sibling member of the human family, the Europeans, to take responsibility for the advancement of civilization, and to set the moral and legal standards that humanity should live by.  Thus, in the process of time, African people have become some of the most irresponsible people on earth when it comes to assuming responsibility for their own fate and destiny by the Grace of God. 
 
As African people, we have become a race of people who always seek the easiest way out, a people who always choose the path of least resistance.  Choosing the path of least resistance works very well for electricity, but it does not work very well for producing true manhood and womanhood.  It does not work very well in creating the souls of man and woman in the image of God.  In observing how irresponsible African people have become concerning becoming the masters of their own fate and destiny by the Grace of God, it is little wonder that the works of Jesus, a descendant of Heru who lived up the standards of the concept of Ptah in practice, fell into the hands of the Europeans.  That phenomenon was effectively the same as African people saying to their younger siblings, "Please take this responsibility from us and carry it upon your shoulders."  Thus the phenomenon of us being either unwilling and/or unable to assume responsibility for our own fate and destiny is a boulder in our own eyes more so than in the eyes of the Europeans.  Truly it makes it crystal clear why African religion would teach us to shun the name Jesus and the title Christ, which were only derived by the Greeks from the Hamitic Ethiopian name He-sa or He-sa-u, and the Hamitic Ethiopian title Maa-shua.  Just the thought of having to live up to the standards of the Most High order of civilization called Pe and Ethiopia, and just the thought of having to assume responsibility for their own fate and destiny is a source of torment for the overwhelming majority of African people, which is why Matthew 24:30 is written such as it is.
 
 
MATTHEW 24:30
"And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and Then Shall All TheTribes of The Earth Mourn [which includes tribes of African people], and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory [or when they shall see at least a few African people, under the works of the Son of Man,  living up to the standards of the Most High order of civilization called Pe and Ethiopia]."
 
 
 Therefore, on the other hand, African spirituality would teach us to embrace this name and title, in any given translation, as proof of the power and glory of the Most High order of civilization called Pe and Ethiopia, proof of the concept of Ptah.  Thus this is indeed an issue that we must address in our tentatively planned meeting of African people.  Until we cast this boulder out of our own eyes, we dare not even think of casting any pecks out of the eyes of the Europeans.
 
Furthermore, the education of our children should be our responsibility as parents, and not the responsibility of the European/American State.  However, being as irresponsible as we have become, we find it much easier for the European/American State to assume this responsibility, and just sit back a register complaints when we feel their educational system does not address all our needs and concerns.  That is the easy way out, and it does not required any true manhood or womanhood to accomplish it.  Resisting the temptation of just allowing the younger sibling members of the human family assume responsibility for everything is truly a very hard temptation to resist for a people who wish not to be held responsible for their own fate and destiny.
 
I'm fully aware that, in this age of extremely advanced science and technology, it would be most difficult, if not impossible, for each set of parents to assume such responsibility.  However, as a nation of extended families, or a nonprofit corporation made up of extended families, this can be accomplished.  All is required is the willingness and ability of those extended families to become the masters of their own fate and destiny by the Grace of God.
 
 
HERE IS WISDOM:
 
 
U.S. returns sovereignty to Iraq

Surprise ceremony comes two days early

Monday, June 28, 2004 Posted: 1:42 PM EDT (1742 GMT)
 

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Members of Iraq's interim government took an oath of office Monday just hours after the United States returned the nation's sovereignty, two days ahead of schedule.

Led by Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, each member of the new government placed a hand on the Koran and promised to serve with sincerity and impartiality. Iraqi flags lined the wall behind them.

Allawi called national unity "a sacred duty" and called for the international community, including Arab nations, "to work together to handle problems in the area in a civilized manner."

"We will not forget who stood by and against us," Allawi said at the swearing in ceremony, a clear warning to insurgents trying to topple the government.

But, he said, "the transformation from dictatorship to civil society" is "a major task" likely to take many years.

At a NATO summit in Turkey on Monday, President Bush said it was a day of "great hope for Iraqis."

"After decades of brutal rule by a terror regime, the Iraqi people have their country back," Bush said. The handover "begins a new phase in Iraq's progress toward full democracy."

 
The news article above marks the beginning of the fulfillment of the following prophecy:
 
 
REVELATION 16:12
"And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared."
 
 
As I'm sure you know, both the Islamic world of the white Indo-European Arabs and the Christian world of the white power structure of Europe wish to maintain their control of any and all religious, political, and economic developments in Africa, as well as educational developments.  Thus the ax was laid at the root of the tree of corruption in Babylon, out of which the Islamic world was born, versus the Tree of Life in Africa, out of which the Most High order of civilization was born. 
 
 
MATTHEW 3:10
"And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire."
 
 
Because the ax has been laid at the root of the tree of corruption in Babylon versus the Tree of Life, whose roots are in Africa, the Islamic world must now focus on getting the boulder out of its own eyes concerning how to live among nations as civilized human beings.  Thus the Islamic world will have less time to concern itself with controlling religious, political, economic, and educational developments in Africa.  Because the Islamic world has brought forth no fruit worthy of repentance for committing such evils against the tree of life, the Islamic tree of corruption must be hewed down among those African people with the courage, will, and ability to become the masters of their own fate and destiny by the Grace of God.  Thus it is written in Revelation 16:12 that the waters in the great river Euphrates were dried up--meaning the waters that allowed the Islamic world to claim some Koranic, Biblical, and other rights to control, by force and invasion, religious, political, economic, and educational developments in Africa.  Any and all such claims are now clearly seen as a violation of the human rights of African people to be the masters of their own fate and destiny by the Grace of God.
 
Furthermore, the drying up of the waters in the great river Euphrates also represent clearing up an error found in Genesis 2:14 of the Bible.  This error states that the Euphrates being one of the four rivers that flowed out of the Garden of Eden.  Though it may have seasonally appeared as a garden after its annual flooding, the Garden of Eden was not a garden at all, but rather the harsh land of the Nuer tribe, in the midst of the greatest swamp on earth called the Sudd.  Out of this harsh land flows four rivers, which today are known as Bahr el Jebel, Bahr ez Zarat, Bahr el Ghazal, and the Sabot River.  Therefore, it is geographically impossible for the Euphrates to have been one of the four rivers that flowed from the Garden of Eden.  Thus neither could have Mesopotamia, which developed along the Euphrates have been the cradle of true civilization.  True civilization was born directly out of the Garden of Eden, as the Most High order of civilization called Pe and Ethiopia.
 
Once the Islamic world has transformed Iraq into what the world views as a civilized nation, maybe then the Islamic world will bring forth some fruit worthy of repentance for taking such unfair advantage of this error (or lie).  Maybe then it will develop a much deeper appreciation and respect for the much higher order of civilization called Pe and Ethiopia. 

 

 

POSITIVELY BLACK

By Junious Ricardo Stanton

The Power Behind The Haitian Revolution

"Voodoo was the medium of the conspiracy. In spite of all prohibitions, the slaves travelled miles to sing and dance and practise the rites and talk and now since the revolution, to hear the political news and make their plans. Boukman, a Papaloi or High Priest, a gigantic Negro was the leader. He was the headman of a plantation and followed the political situation both among the whites and the Mulattoes." The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James page 86


As we celebrate Black history Month and mark the two hundredth anniversary of the Haitian revolution let us not merely marvel at the fact courageous, determined strong willed Africans fought for twelve long years against French colonists, a Spanish invasion, a British military force of 60,000 men, another French contingent of over 60,000 men under the leadership of Napoleon Bonaparte's brother in law and contended with the political intrigue and duplicity of the United States of AmeriKKKa to win and maintain their freedom. Let's not just cheer the memory of those brave souls who expelled the barbaric Europeans, or honor those Africans on that island whose bravery and valor sparked hope in the hearts of their brethren scattered throughout the hemisphere. Let us not detach Haiti from ourselves and merely consign what these heroic men and women did to the bowels of dusty history books. Let us also believe in ourselves that we too possess the power to transform our reality. Let's believe we too can achieve liberation in our time. Instead of just cheering the Haitians' accomplishments, let us examine the Haitian freedom struggle to glean how and why they were so immensely successful. Saint Dominique as it was called then was the richest colony in the west Indies single handedly providing France with massive wealth. It was the envy of all the other European imperialist nations. Was the success of the Haitian revolution purely the result of the overwhelming numbers of Africans, despite Europeans having greater numbers of superior weapons? Were the Africans successful because of their leadership, despite the fact they were spread out all over the island? Did the Africans win because they fought a guerilla, hit and run' slash and burn style war? How did the slaves, Maroons and Mulattoes coalesce into a cohesive fighting force despite the divide and conquer MO of the Europeans? Did France lose because it was fighting on too many fronts at one time, in the Caribbean and Europe? (Could AmeriKKKa learn lessons from both France and England in this regard?) Or were there other factors at work? As bold a leader and tactician as Toussaint L'Ouverture was, as strong willed and unmerciful as Jean-Jacques Dessalines was, as determined as Henri Christophe was; is it possible there was another factor, another power that enabled and ennobled those Africans to fight and win against overwhelming odds and materiel. Was it the result of the Europeans being ravaged by the heat, mosquitoes and yellow fever as some suggest? Or did the French just get their behinds kicked royally by determined Africans, Mulattoes and Maroons? We need to look at that revolution with an open mind, search for the common denominator, the factor or factors that enabled the leaders of the Haitian revolution to unify and rally the Africans on Saint Dominique to humiliate, defeat and expel the imperialist powers of Europe so much so they still hate them to this very day.

Could the power of Voodoo and the Papaloi, the High Voodoo Priest, have been the X factor that galvanized the masses and served as the glue that held the early revolution together? By all accounts in the beginning of the revolution it was the Papaloi Boukman who inspired the masses and urged them on by exhorting them to cast off the god of the oppressor and embrace their own African concept of deity, justice and victory. We would do well to study and meditate upon Boukman's words and apply them in our daily lives. 'The god who created the sun which gives us light, who rouses the waves and rules the storm, though hidden in the clouds he watches us. He sees all the white man does. The god of the white man inspires him with crime but our god calls upon us to do good works. Our god who is good to us orders us to revenge our wrongs. He will direct our arms and aid us. Throw away the symbol of the god of the whites who has so often caused us to weep and listen to the voice of liberty, which speaks in the hearts of us all." - The Black Jacobins C.L.R. James page 87. Many of our best thinkers have told us how psychologically debilitating and self-sabotaging it is for us to internalize the images, iconography and conceptualization of an anthropomorphic god that is the spitting image, psychology and behavior of our oppressors. Stop and think about this, their idea of god told Joshua the leader of the Hebrews to slaughter all the men, women, children and livestock of the people who inhabited "the promised land". Here we see the precedent of Eurasians claiming their god commanded them to kill and expropriate other people's lands after having commanded them not to kill, covet and steal among other things. Sounds like their god is a bit schizophrenic to me. Recently George W Bush said his god told him to invade Iraq?!!

By all accounts Toussaint L'Ouverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henri Christophe were capable tacticians and generals but the Maroons fought the French to a standstill before the revolution. There was anger and a fervor for freedom on the part of Africans throughout the hemisphere way before the AmeriKKKan or French Revolutions. Africans in the New World rumbled fiercely against their European captures/oppressors everywhere they were, including North AmeriKKKa; so what was it that prompted the Haitian revolution in 1791? In reviewing the most resilient and successful campaigns against European hegemony by the masses in Haiti, the Maroons in Jamaica, the Palmares and Quilombos in South America and the Black and Native American Seminoles in the Southern portion of the US, one common factor was they all retained some of their African culture and ways. They knew who they were and refused to acquiesce their humanity or their freedom. Looking at our situation today we seem to have capitulated and internalized the Europeans specious ideas about African and Africans. Perhaps it is time we regrouped and took a page from the Haitians, Maroons, Palmares and Seminoles book; if we have to go out, at least go out like authentic African warriors rather than chumps, punks, caricatures or pathetic melanin imitators of our oppressors.

The Real Haiti Dilemma
By Kwaku Person-Lynn, Ph.D.


The significance of the Republic of Haiti goes far beyond anything
currently reported in the news. It is almost an unwritten code by America
and France that Haiti remains destabilized and the poorest country in the
Western Hemisphere. Its anguish began with the first European contact by
Columbus in 1492. Within a 25 year period after his arrival, the
indigenous
Arawak of Haiti virtually disappeared under Spanish genocide. It is no
coincidence that 2004 is the 200 year celebration of Haiti's independence
(1804), and the same year a democratically elected president,
Jean-Bertrand
Aristide, was forcefully removed by American military.

The sequence of events started on France soil. The French Revolution of
1789 involved almost all of Europe, but ironically inspired slave
rebellions
all over the Caribbean. In Haiti, there was an extra incentive created by
a
law passed in the National Assembly of France entitled the "Declaration of
the Rights of Man." This guaranteed citizenship to people of color. Haiti,
then called Saint Dominque, was France's wealthiest producing colony. The
wealth was generated from a plantation system based on the labor of
enslaved
Afrikans. Beneficiaries of the wealth were mainly French planters and gens
de couleur of African and French descent, Creoles. Its main crops were
sugar
cane, cocoa, cotton, and coffee.

When France reneged on its promise, rebellions began. This sparked a
multifaceted thirteen year revolution. The planters wanted independence
from
France, the free Creoles wanted full citizenship, while the enslaved
Afrikans wanted freedom. The dominating equation is that Afrikans
outnumbered all the other groups reaching approximately one half million.

In August 22, 1791, what ultimately became known as the "Haitian
Revolution," was ignited by an enormous slave revolt led by a high priest
named Boukman. General Toussaint L'Ouverture of Haiti, a former slave,
fought with Spain and Britain against the French until they abolished
slavery. He then switched sides and fought with the French believing this
would help bring freedom and independence. Other Haitian Afrikan leaders
figured prominently and maybe more importantly, generals Jacques
Dessalines
and Henri Christophe. Haiti was beginning to function as an independent
state, much to the displeasure of the French elite.

In 1801, Napoleon Bonaparte, self-described Emperor of France, set out to
restore order in his wealthiest colony by dispatching General Leclerc, his
brother-in-law, along with thirty thousand of his best troops to arrest
Toussaint, reinstate slavery, and restore French rule. This turned out to
be
Napoleon's greatest tactical error. His troops were bitterly defeated. As
a
result, on January 1, 1804, Dessalines declared the nation independent,
under its indigenous given name of Haiti ('higher place'), thus, making it
the first black republic in the world and the first independent nation in
Latin America.

This brings us to the central point why western nations of European
descent
withhold loans from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to
Haiti and keep it destabilized through three decades of dictatorship and a
current head of state who as been overthrown two times. The real hidden
issue, the West is never going to forgive this tiny Black nation defeating
a
powerful European nation that dispatched its best troops, and then had the
gall to form their own independent government in the Western Hemisphere.
Haiti represented a potent example of successful Black power. The fallout
of
France's defeat had international implications.

Plantation owners in the United States feared the worst. Afrikans in Haiti
destroyed some 200 sugar plantations, 600 coffee plantations, 220 indigo
and
cotton plantations and killed most of the Europeans (Dr. Edward Scobie).
If
it could happen in Haiti, it could happen on their plantations. President
Thomas Jefferson enacted an economic embargo against Haiti, with America
and
Europe refusing to acknowledge its independence for decades. Tighter codes
were enacted against enslaved Afrikans in America. Stricter security and
harsher punishments were given for the slightest offense. Not having the
resources or the troops to maintain it, France eventually loss the
Louisiana
Territory. In addition, there were over 250 recorded slave revolts in the
United States, not including those that were not reported. In racial
terms,
a small island controlled by Blacks defeated one of Europe's strongest
White
nations. This was totally unacceptable in the Western world. Though this
is
the undercurrent of Haiti's problems, the only seemingly viable solution
is
for Haiti to rely on the land of its ancestors for financial relief, until
it can create an economy allowing it to become self-sufficient once again.
Maybe there are other solutions, but history has not favored any of them
thus far.

Kwaku Person-Lynn is the author of On My Journey Now - The Narrative And
Works Of Dr. John Henrik Clarke, The Knowledge Revolutionary. E-mail
address: DrKwaku@hotmail.com. Website: www.drkwaku.com
 

 

The Modern English Alphabet’s Evolution from Egyptian Hieroglyphs
 


About eight symbols from the modern alphabet can be traced back in an unbroken line to Egyptian hieroglyphs. It is surmised that the other symbols were inspired by Egyptian glyphs or newly invented. Most symbols morphed to a greater or lesser degree as they went from alphabet to alphabet, confounded by writing and letters often having no fixed direction. A number of signs were dropped when the new people didn’t have a certain sound, and new signs were derived, or an old sign was employed to express a new sound.

 

http://www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/chapters/alphabet/



A
, first letter and first vowel of the English alphabet and most alphabets of the Indo-European languages. The A shape apparently originated in an Egyptian hieroglyph of an eagle (ahom) in cursive hieratic writing. The Phoenicians renamed the letter aleph (“ox”), from a fancied resemblance to the head and horns of that animal. In the earliest Greek alphabet, aleph became the letter alpha; in turn, this became the Roman A, the form and general value of which were passed on to the peoples who later adopted the Roman alphabet. At present the sound of the a in “late” (long a) is the name of the letter in English. The English a may indicate many other sounds, as in “bat” (short a), “care,” and “sofa.” Modifications of its sound appear also in other modern languages.

B, second letter and first consonant in the English alphabet; a corresponding symbol has the same place in the Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic alphabets, among others. Today the name of the Greek letter b (beta, like the Phoenician beth) is used in association with alpha, in the word alphabet. The letter was derived by the Phoenicians from the Egyptian hieroglyph for “crane,” but when taken over by them it was called beth, “house.”

C, third letter in the English- and Romance-language alphabets. The symbol is derived from Latin C, a rounding of the Greek G, gamma, which was derived from a Phoenician symbol called gimel or camel, which was in turn developed from an Egyptian symbol.
Latin c had both a g and a k sound. In Anglo-Saxon, c had at first only the k sound, the modern word child having been spelled cild. By the 12th century c had the sound of s in a number of words. From this arose the modern rule that c has the s or sh sound before e, i, y ae, and oe, and the k sound in all other cases.

D, fourth letter in the alphabets derived from Greek and Latin. It originated in an Egyptian hieroglyph that represented a hand. When adopted by the Phoenicians, this sign was called daleth ("door") from its resemblance to the aperture of a tent. The resemblance may be traced in the Greek letter D, the name of which, delta, was derived from daleth. In English, the sound of d is the voiced alveolar stop.

N, 14th letter in the English alphabet, derived from the Latin, which in turn was based on a Greek letter. It was called nu by the Greeks, from its Semitic and Phoenician name, nun, signifying "fish," which was based on an Egyptian hieroglyph representing a waterline.

Q, 17th letter of the English alphabet, derived through Latin and Greek from the Phoenician qoph, which was in turn developed from an Egyptian hieroglyph. In the Semitic languages, qoph represents a plosive sound, very different from the less energetic Greek sound.

In the Romance languages and modern English, q is usually followed by u except in transliterations of the Semitic qoph, as in the word Iraq. In French, qu generally stands for the k sound, as in coquette. In English words derived from French, when the vowel preceding q is short, the original French que is generally replaced by c, ck, or k, as in the words music, barracks, and bank (French musique, baraque, banque).

R, 18th letter of the English alphabet. The capital, or uppercase, R first appeared in its modern form in the Roman alphabet as an adaptation of the Greek letter rho. The Greek character corresponded to the Phoenician resh, which was in turn developed from an Egyptian hieroglyph.

T, 20th letter of the English alphabet. It was derived from the Roman character called te, which was taken from the Greek tau. The Greek character was derived from taw, the last letter of the Phoenician alphabet, representing a cross or mark of ownership. This in turn was derived from an Egyptian hieroglyph.

 

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The ninth letter that can be traced back to it roots in the Egyptian hieroglyphs is the letter H.  However, its trail is a little bit harder to follow due to Babylonian influence on Chaldee Hebrew concerning that letter, which was not present in the Paleo Cushite Hebrew of Nubia (the Land of Cush), which was cultivated by the Pheonicians and became known as Pheonician Hebrew.  After Babel fell because cause of Nimrods efforts to make hi