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The Qarsherskiyans: Zambo, Mestee, and Creole people of Northern Appalachia and the Tidewater Coast
The Catskill Mountains, nestled in the heart of upstate New York, are home to a unique and vibrant community known as the Ethnic Qarsherskiyan Tribe. This triracial community, comprised of individuals with Black, White, and Native American ancestry, has woven a rich cultural tapestry that reflects the diverse heritage of its members.
By Stardust Lake News6 months ago in Earth
The Ethnic Qarsherskiyan Tribe resists neo-Nazism and the hidden connections between other Sweetgum Kriyul groups
In October 2005, Lee Anne Whitelow-Abdol Ali, also known as "Misty", the leader of a small Qarsherskiyan Preppers Group and foraging club, was with her group in Newport News, Virginia, USA when she received word that a potentially armed group of neo-nazis were nearby. Only a few months before, White supremacists from the National Socialist Party had held a protest against immigrants, at the old Yorktown battlefield location and memorials. Called a "hate rally" by the liberal members of the Ethnic Qarsherskiyan Tribe, some of the White supremacist protesters harassed and assaulted Qarsherskiyan women after the protest. Later in October, as Misty and her prepper group received the warning, they became wrought with intense paranoia of the possibility of a racist mob bent of removing Qarsherskiyan people from the Virginia Coast, headed something like the National Socialist Party. Fear mongering gossipers were said to have been capitalizing on recent events at the time.
By Stardust Lake News7 months ago in Families
The mysterious origins of Aliyite Islam: A Syncretic Islamic Macumbe Faith passed down orally
Uthman dan Fodio, a prominent Fulani Islamic scholar and reformer, was born in 1754 in what is now northern Nigeria. Emerging from a scholarly family and receiving extensive religious education which laid the groundwork for his later influence, Usman dan Fodio was bound for a destiny to be a ruler. In the late 1700s, Uthman traveled across Hausaland in West Africa, preaching against a syncretic tradtion of Islam and ancient West African traditional beliefs and animism that would come to be known as Aliyite Islam, and calling for a return to Islamic purity. His teachings attracted a vast amount of followers, leading to the establishment of a large and powerful religiopolitical movement known as Jama'a, which sought to rectify social and political injustices. Facing opposition from local rulers and the early Aliyite Muslims, Uthman declared an official struggle, a jihad, in 1804, resulting in the establishment of the Sokoto Caliphate by 1809, a significant Islamic state that spanned a vast region encompassing modern of modern day Nigeria and Cameroon and lands beyond. Uthman dan Fodio's efforts not only transformed the religious and political landscape of West Africa but also inspired subsequent Islamic movements across the region and beyond. Aliyite Islam was nearly crushed and the Qadriyya Sunni Sufi Tariqa was almost entirely replacing the Aliyite polity, but little did Usman dan Fodio know that many of the enslaved peoples his Sokoto Caliphate, his Fulani Empire, would create, ended up being enslaved by White Europeans who would export them, and effectively Aliyite Islam, to another continent, North America. After retiring, Usman dan Fodio continued to influence the caliphate until his death in 1817. His legacy persists in the form of ongoing recognition of his descendants and the enduring impact of his teachings on contemporary Muslim communities in Nigeria and beyond.
By Stardust Lake News7 months ago in History
