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You Might Be Moorish Orthodox If...

Posted August 13th, 2006 by Hakim Baker
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  1. You know more about the Assassins and Qalandars than about real Muslims.

  2. You’ve declared the End of Law and “pray” in a back room full of smoke and groovy exotic music.

  3. You’re a geeky white guy and you’ve gone dready and/or shaved your head with half-serious personal religious reasons for it that nobody would understand.

  4. Your screen name is a clever esoteric pun and ends with Bey or El.

  5. You’re also a Discordian and a SubGenius, but the pseudo-Islamic esthetic is so cool.

  6. Your Islamic headgear of choice is an old Shriner fez.

  7. When you tell people about your church, the first thing they ask is, “Is that a real church?” (And you wonder how many muslims it took for Islam to be “real”!)

  8. You do Sufism one day, Northern European Paganism the next, and Hot Tub Mysteries the day after that.

  9. You’re criticized by card-carrying members of the Moorish Science Temple for making a mockery of their religion.

  10. You make a Hajj to Mecca, Indiana.

Comments

2. Especially if you ignore

On August 15th, 2006 Mame (not verified) says:

2. Especially if you ignore all the historical data fro more poetic facts.

MOC sounds like a bash. I

On August 15th, 2006 Baraka B says:

MOC sounds like a bash. I never noticed you posted it.


I’ll take provacative and new-thought producing poetic facts anyday over the so-called actual and very disheartening facts of the sdupposed “real world”


Sa – frickin – laams

I love this- it's a cool mix

On August 17th, 2006 Fashion Mujahid says:

I love this- it’s a cool mix between the familiar (got Moors in my family), and the new (Northern European Paganism is one of the few religions no one in my family has tried to date).

Delaware Moors? Or

On August 18th, 2006 Hakim Baker says:

Delaware Moors? Or Moroccans? One of the fun and difficult things about “Moorish” is that in the English language it’s been used for everything from Moroccan to Turkish. And the Moorish Science movement(s) in America only added to the confusion.


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