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 half of the Qarsherskiyan community consists of Aliyite Muslims, mainly, but the general population is diverse and even has non-Muslims. Sunni Muslims and other sects exist among the Qarsherskiyan community and are respected and there are many Ismaili and Jafari Shiite politicians in the Qarsherskiyan tribe, despite it having a Aliyite-majority population.
Why are so many Qarsherskiyan people Muslims?
Half of the population of the Ethnic Qarsherskiyan Tribe are Muslims, mostly belonging to a Sufi movement within Zaydi Shia Islam known as Aliyite Islam, which syncretizes Zaydi Fiqh and Imamat with Sufi philosophy and 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 Islam. The cultural influences were still there and it was an easy transition. Today, a little over half of the Qarsherskiyan people are Muslims.
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 Aliyite interpretations of faith are the norm, religious minorities live comfortably and the Jews and Christians are respected as the prophet Muhammad SAW taught Muslims to treat them. They are free to practice their religion and run for political offices and engage in community events like anyone else. 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. Aliyite 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 are not a federally recognized tribe as Ethnic Qarsherskiyan people from different Qarsherskiyan families descended from numerous tribes and any Qarsherskiyan people not already federally enrolled in a 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.
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 Aliyite Muslims from the tribe also have religious ceremonies too.
