She Bought Her Dream Home. Then a ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Changed the Locks

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27 points·fortran77··6 comments

> Like many Moorish followers, Mr. John adopted an Arabic-influenced name, Jaleel Hu-El.

Why he would do that is beyond me, as the Arab world was no ally to Blacks. It imported, via the trans-Saharan slave trade, more Black slaves than were taken to North and South America combined [1]. And treated them in such a way that no significant Black minority descended from them remains.

Adding to the absurdity, it was Europe that pressured for the end of slavery in the area:

After the establishment of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1839 to fight slave trading in the Mediterranean, Ahmad I ibn Mustafa, Bey of Tunis, agreed to outlaw exporting, importing, and selling slaves in 1842, and he made slavery illegal in 1846. In 1848, France outlawed slavery in Algeria. Slavery was not abolished in Mauritania until 1981. [2]

[1] https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-tcc-worldciv2/chapter/...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Saharan_slave_trade (an article far smaller than the one on the trans-Atlantic slave trade, despite dealing with comparable numbers of slaves)

It's not absurd at all. Many sub Saharan African countries are Muslim majority.

"People who claim to be Moorish sovereign citizens believe they are bound mainly by maritime law, not the law of the places where they live ..."

In that case, wouldn't this be an act of piracy?