FAQ Page - Information about Ethnic Qarsherskiyans and the Qarsherskiy Tribe.
Are Qarsherskiyans Sunni or Shi’a?
The Qarsherskiyan creole tribe has people of many faiths, but nearly one third of the Qarsherskiyan community consists of various different types of Shia Muslims, mainly, but the general population is diverse and plenty of Qarsherskiyan people are non-Muslims. Quranist, Ibadi, and Sunni Muslims, and other various Islamic sects exist among the Qarsherskiyan community and are respected and there are many Ismaili, Zaydi, Alevi, neo-Kaysanite, Ali-Illahi, and Jafari (Twelver) Shiite Muslims in the Qarsherskiyan tribe.
Why are so many Qarsherskiyan people Muslims?
Half of the population of the Ethnic Qarsherskiyan Tribe are Muslims, mostly belonging to many Sufi movements within different groups within Shia Islam and thought influenced by Zaydi Fiqh and Imamat, Sufi philosophy, mysticism, and Pan-Shiite cultural influences.
The reason why so many Qarsherskiyan people are Muslims is because part of the mixed-race ancestry of the Qarsherskiyan people comes from West African Sufi Muslims and West Africans who syncretized mystical forms of Islam with Hoodoo and Animism. These traditions survived and were secretly passed down in Qarsherskiyan families. In the 20th century, many Qarsherskiyan people began converting to different sects of Islam in a similar manner to how rapidly the Nation of Islam grew in Detroit. The cultural influences were still there and it was an easy transition. Today, around 1/3 of the Qarsherskiyan people are Muslims (29.9%).
Does the Ethnic Qarsherskiyan tribe allow non-Muslims?
Yes! Many tribal members who are non-Muslims live on land where American government oversight is limitted, where Qarsherskiyan people have used different interpretations of faith, and social norms being based off of faith is the norm, yet religious minorities live comfortably and the Jews and Atheists are respected by most Muslims, as the prophet Muhammad SAW taught Muslims to treat them with justice and fairly. They are free to practice their religion and run for political offices and engage in community events like anyone else in USA & Canada. Muslims in the Qarsherskiyan tribe often treat each other worse than they do non-Muslims, often. Sunni and Shi’a who normally get along sometimes break into shouting matches and Qadiani/Ahmadiyya Muslims often are chased away from job opportunities. Ali-Illahi Muslims are often scolded and shunned in broad daylight for the percieved worshipping of Imam Ali (A.S.) which they don't actually do of course.
Photo of a swampy forest on the Virginia Peninsula where the area's local Ethnic Qarsherskiyan people hunt deer and turkey
Are the Ethnic Qarsherskiyan tribe a real people group?
Yes, Ethnic Qarsherskiyan people do exist and are a real community. The confusion some people have comes from the fact that Ethnic Qarsherskiyan people are triracial. Ethnic Qarsherskiyan people are part Native American but are mixed-race/multiracial and consider themselves a tribe not a Native American tribe. The ethnic Qarsherskiyan tribe has never claimed to be a Native American tribe or sought federal recognition or benefits meant for Indigenous people. The Qarsherskiyan tribe is not a federally recognized tribe as Ethnic Qarsherskiyan people from different Qarsherskiyan families descended from numerous tribes and any Qarsherskiyan people not already enrolled in a federally recognized Native American tribe typically don't meet blood quantum requirements to be considered as part of the Native American tribes each individual Qarsherskiyan person can trace their lineage back to, and most Qarsherskiyan people identify as a triracial or Creole community, or mixed, or even as Black. Only some are prefer Native American or Afro-Indigenous, such as the handful of Qarsherskiyan people enrolled in the Nansemond and in the several Virginia Powhatan Tribes. There is only one subgroup that claims to be a Native American tribe and seeks Federal recognition and is entirely comprised of Qarsherskiyan people, the Notoweega, a Qarsherskiyan subgroup comprised of the mixed race descendants of various Native American families from several different Southeastern tribes, remnants of forced relocation who remained in defiance despite orders from the US government to resettle on reservations West of their homeland. Newfoundland Qarsherskiyans are another Qarsherskiyan subgroup and are comprised of the descendants of Black people brought to Newfoundland during colonial times before Canadian independence and the Beothuk Nation's mixed race descendants who (mostly) pass as White today.
A local youth leader for Ethnic Qarsherskiyan Creole Tribe.
Do Ethnic Qarsherskiyan people have many community events?
The Ethnic Qarsherskiyan tribe does sometimes organize small gathering and cultural events. Many Orthodox Christians and Shia Muslims from the tribe also have religious ceremonies too.
