The Black Guard: Ismail's Notorious Slave Army

Moulay Ismail ibn Sharif was a 17th-century sultan of Morocco and the leader of the famous army called the Black Guard.
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Born to a prince and a black slave, together with his brother, Moulay Ismail founded the Alaouite dynasty, which is still the ruling family of Morocco.
Known as the Warrior King in the Moroccan history, sultan Moulay managed to unite the land under his rule. At the time, various disloyal tribes split up Morocco and they were hard to control. However, with the Black Guard, an army of black slaves that numbered up to 150,000 men, Ismail easily seized power.
The personality of the Sultan was very intriguing in itself. He claimed to be a descendant of Muhammad, the founder of Islam. He was also a very strict leader - any kind of perceived disobedience would be punished by death.
Ismail is perhaps most famous for siring hundreds of children. His name is written in The Guinness Book of World Records for having made most children - 1171 of them. His royal palace was filled with his wives and 500 concubines.
Any man, woman or animal that annoyed Ismail would be dealt with swiftly. The Sultan ordered more than 30,000 killings unrelated to wartimes. He also had a huge prison for Christians, which counted up to 60,000 inmates.
When he died, the Black Guard failed to keep discipline. They fell apart soon after Moulay Ismail left them behind.
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[@flawlessbinary7449]

Why are those people wearing modern Saudi clothes.

[@kike6milandup]

why not?most of the video is unaccurate anyway

[@shalaby8968]

That is not the saudi dress it is more kwiati or emarati dress.

[@alivingalbumcover9724]

Time travel

[@Suite_annamite]

Because *North Africans > Khalijis*

[@sasisybor633]

wtf !!

[@aleksandarvil5718]

*The Black Guard* = *Morrocan version of Ottoman Janissaries*

[@marcuslance5883]

Well true but the difference is the ottoman janissaries were politically involved while the Black guard were very loyal to their Monarch.

[@hamzaelyousfi5842]

@idontlikejuice the black guard was first founded in 1088 by Yusuf ibn tachfine of the Almoravids, the following dynasties kept it with their little tweaking as an elite unit. Moulay ismaïl of the Alaouite dynasty boosted up the numbers and turned it into a standing professional army but it was never dissolved as it still serves as of today

[@SuperWinDude]

@Jonathan Williams It was actually a far more complicated system.

[@sasisybor633]

wtfff!!!

[@ProtomanButCallMeBlues]

@Jonathan Williams It seemed to have varied. In some places they just came and snatched kids, in other's it was recruiters who scouted for prospects. In other's the kid's parent's chose it and sent the kid away. All sorts of confusing shit.

[@lhsensamir3803]

First of all , his name moulay ismael not ismael moulay. Moroccans don’t dress like u showed in ur video . Those customs belong the Arabs in Middle East .

[@aminayoung55]

actually dude , they do ! everything is accurate

[@ultrainstinctgoku6412]

@@aminayoung55 hell to the no

[@lhsensamir3803]

I am moroccan .u wanna show me my culture

[@aymanerazani9832]

@@aminayoung55 wtf r u sure ?

[@aminayoung55]

​@@aymanerazani9832 absolutely take mi word for it they dressed like that. thou it ain't the purpose of the video i guess and y'all shouldn't be focused on what they dressed like if the facts are accurate.

[@unitedhistory7795]

To be fair calling an army "The Black Guards" sounds very intimidating and awesome

[@abdurrahmanqureshi3030]

Stop pandering

[@user-ep7fu1rv7r]

@@abdurrahmanqureshi3030 Stop being salty lmaooo

[@BlueHero112]

You see those warriors from Morocco? They've got curved swords. CURVED. SWORDS. and guns too

[@immuslimisupportqatar7591]

nice ref

[@mouadelbaz3777]

First of all, Moulay ismail had more than one brother. Secondly the Alaouite dynasty started way before moulay Rachid, they were ruling a kingdom inside morocco. Under the reign of moulay Rachid who eventually united the rest of the kingdom. Besides the dark image given in this video about King ismail, he was a great builder and he left many monuments for morocco. And he was very protective over the christian and jewish citizens, those "christian jails" were for war jails. Maybe he was brutal with the rebelling tribes in his country, but they were threatening the unity of the moroccan territory which would've made Morocco an easy prey for the ottoman empire who was their neighboor that time. And finally moroccan people do not wear these saudi dresses.

[@simobouchfar]

how about the Sex slaves , are you gonna disagree as well lol , thats how Muslims ruled

[@mouadelbaz3777]

@@simobouchfar I m not gonna deny it, but this happened in a context where European monarchs used to blame their wives for treason and behead them to get a new wife and form a new alliance, because you know divorce wasn't allowed by the Vatican ;)

[@VinceFromCollateral]

Where can I read more about this time period (in English)?

[@fahadsacrifice]

They’re wearing arab clothes because they’re arab

[@jayslungsbloodclot2733]

​@@fahadsacrificelmao we have our own clothes

[@pedrosampaio7349]

This made me think of another Black Guard that beat people up in the name of a monarch... After slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1882 by the Princess and at the time regent Isabel, many freed slaves turned to loving, and at times revering, the imperial family. This love eventually turned into hate towards those who protested for a republic in Brazil, creating the 'Guarde negra' or black guard; a group of fighting ex-slaves, many of them practitioners of capoeira, that hunted any all things republican.

[@BountyFlamor]

@Ambrose Burnside Pretty sure they preferred their guns to fight.

[@Lua_anti_ByeBraylon]

@Jonathan Williams it was 1888, 1882 is wrong

[@wildfire9280]

@@BountyFlamor lmao what did he say they used to fight?

[@thirdeffect]

Ase. So I grew up practicing Capoiera since a young age. I've met those who came from Brazil to teach because of political prosecution. No jobs were really being provided due to discrimination in the 80s and 90s, so it was used to the advantage of corrupt political parties; the people were providing for their families. 💚💚💚😌✌🏽

[@bennyboyeee9930]

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[@TookyHistory]

Thanks, Benny!

[@othellom6493]

Ismail lost trust in “white Moroccans” after an assassination attempt. He said he could only trust blacks. His decree was strongly opposed by most Moroccan scholars because he wanted free black Muslims enslaved which they felt was illegal. So no not all blacks in Morocco at that time were slaves. It’s also argued that many blacks were willing to serve because of Ismail’s black mother. The black guard were the slave drivers of the numerous white slaves in Morocco at that time. It also should be noted that Ismail’s favourite wife was a black lady called Zidana. She was the power behind the throne.

[@othellom6493]

best amv No after Europeans brought and end to the slavery of white Christians in North Africa in the 1830s, the slavery of blacks continued up until the 20th century. However this was domestic slavery. Slavery of Europeans was most Chattel slavery with hard labor or on the Galleys.

[@samuelademeso9041]

Um Moroccan weren't actually white, they more like brown or olive skin like tye arabs or Mediterraneans

[@othellom6493]

@@samuelademeso9041 Yes you are right. Thats why it’s in inverted comas lol.

[@irifyan4643]

@@samuelademeso9041 All depend the region... in the south they are brown/olive, in the center and north it's more clear, i live in morocco

[@othellom6493]

@@abdurrahmanqureshi3030 yes he broke Islamic law but do you know why he did it? He wrote a letter to the scholars of Cairo asking for permission after the Scholars of Morocco rejected the idea of enslaving fellow Muslims.

[@nicekamel8109]

This is just the Eurocentric view of Moulay Ismail, I just had a research in world history about Moulay Ismail many of the things cited are inaccurate

[@williamcooke21]

This is to be expected my brother. Any melanated personage of renown's character will be besmerched one way or another. This is the price of greatness.

[@YA-kr4fr]

@@williamcooke21 he is Moroccan first

[@cynthiacook1646]

And just what were the inaccuracies?

[@cynthiacook1646]

@@williamcooke21 And just what does a persons skin color have to do with facts. Just because you don't like them does not mean there is any racism or bigotry. Bad things have been said about white rulers also.

[@williamcooke21]

@@cynthiacook1646 First of all, thank you for being on time for "your" appointment...sort of kinda'. It has been a year. Secondly I have no conception of what YOU are talking about. Whatever the convo was about it must have been a doozy to get you all warm and up in a bunch after a year...whew! But, just to let you feel safe and secure I want to let YOU know I have not and DO NOT make important "life decisions" based on color crayons that aren't even accurate in what they are supposed to be portraying. Well...I must run along now, I was doing some research on the history of the Byzantine and Vatican Catholic sects and the history of Amexum (America). Whatever you were allergic to I hope the "Good Doctor" found the cure for you. Peace be upon you.😌

[@Jadido7]

He also liberated most of moroccan ports from iberian occupation, like asilah, tangier and larache. And made a 33 years siege to recapture Ceuta,which is the longuest siege ever made in history anywhere

[@cynthiacook1646]

After the Spaniards kicked the Muslim's out of the Iberian Peninsula.

[@Jadido7]

@@cynthiacook1646 because before that, the muslim came, conquered and stayed for centuries in Iberia ... that's history, ups and downs

[@lovsislove1871]

@@cynthiacook1646 technically Spaniards kicked Muslim Spaniards :) and

[@jayslungsbloodclot2733]

​@@lovsislove1871nope, spaniard has up to 25% north african dna🇲🇦🦁

[@lobosolo]

In 1699, Ismail gave orders to enslave all black Africans in Morocco, even those who were born free or who were Muslim, and, consequently, he violated two of the central tenants of Islamic law concerning slavery and generated a potent new form of racist discourse in the region that associated black Africans with slavery.Moroccan registers show that Ismail enslaved over 221,000 black Moroccans between 1699-1705.

[@admirekashiri9879]

Just goes to show how Muslims approach black people even amongst their religion.

[@hyamick7584]

Based

[@HhqnPfmsn-vc8zu]

It’s not a Muslim thing because in Islam , no human is superior over another because of their ethnicity. Also it wasn’t all black Moroccans that were enslaved otherwise how come there is many black Moroccans. The “black guard” had most, if not all of its soldiers die. There were more than 150,000 blacks in Morocco at the time.

[@HhqnPfmsn-vc8zu]

He did not enslave all black Moroccans in the country at the time.

[@Rebelconformist82]

​@admirekashiri9879 he was half black himself

[@axelmarin1041]

tbh i cant remember a more underrated channel than this one, been here since 11k and still 34k seems so little, smokin a joint in honor to the growth of this shit 😎

[@ayoub6274]

We re not Arab we re north African Berbers

[@MatchAccepted]

he means that you are more Arab than you are African. Looking at you it is common sense

[@nord4296]

Speak for yourself .. we are not berbers

[@ayoub6274]

@@nord4296 u re just arabised but not Ur DNA lol

[@thehospital4040]

love ur vids man

[@jasenkobrakic7419]

Great job,just keep up the good work.👊👊👊

[@abdelhafidbeqqali3277]

Hahahah 1:18 we dont have arabs wearing like that its not even in our culture

[@haitamc5611]

Lol not even gulf people dressed like that.

[@EViLER-zd8id]

This is a great video man i like learning about this dude and his army it was made nicely and the animation is good 2

[@boxylemons7961]

Just sounds like a typical CK2 Muslim Playthrough lol

[@aksmex2576]

U killed me

[@historycenter4011]

Man, never knew about this. Super nice!

[@dantheman4543]

finally a vid

[@RedTsarOldChannel-INACTIVE]

Yes! You're alive! Do something about Brazil,like the history of Getúlio Vargas?

[@medici5409]

Are you brazilian? Ive heard Getulio was very "bad" person

[@RedTsarOldChannel-INACTIVE]

@@medici5409 Yep, I'm Brazilian. No,Vargas was not bad at all,and various of worker's rights that still exists this days was created by Getúlio. He was a dictator,but a very popular and loved dictator.

[@medici5409]

@@RedTsarOldChannel-INACTIVE Good to know, thanks :)

[@RedTsarOldChannel-INACTIVE]

@@medici5409 No problem.

[@algeriaisrael4598]

I'm from morocco 🇲🇦 but I love it morocco lion and amazigh ♓

[@TeekoNST]

Not all Morocco is amazigh

[@mazighislam992]

@@TeekoNST all of of morocco is in one way or another Amazigh.

[@shockhouser3171]

Can i be part of the black guard

[@moroccomapping8549]

@@TeekoNST I agree

[@ismo9529]

@@mazighislam992 all of Morocco is in one way or another Moroccan. With all its history, Arabs are part of it, so are the amazigh. Stop claiming it could only be one out of the 2. Amazigh have a long and deep history within Morocco, but they ve reached international heights because of Arabs and especially Islam. Tariq ibn ziyad wouldn't have conquered Spain if he wasn't Muslim, a religion brought to the amazigh by Arabs. When we start seeing each other as brothers that's the only way we could achieve what we want from our country Morocco.

[@anonymousontheinternet4486]

It's like this dedicated slave body guard thing was a favorite of ancient elites. Mansa Suleyman of Mali had some Mamluk slave bodyguards as well.

[@yourfriendlyneighborhoodpl9761]

Wasn't aware of that. did he buy them when he was passing through Egypt?

[@Buurba_Jolof]

@@yourfriendlyneighborhoodpl9761 Yeah

[@Tarik360]

Mamlukes, jannissaries and the black guard. What is it with sultans and getting soldiers who trained since childhood.

[@prestonjones1653]

Well, the Mamluks overthrew their sultan so maybe they shouldn't count.

[@Tarik360]

@@prestonjones1653 tru

[@gilgameschvonuruk4982]

Muslim rulers were afraid, that their own nobility would overthrow them, so they wanted to have fighters with no bounds to the local nobility

[@klake5375]

@@prestonjones1653 The Janissaries also overthrew their Sultan (sometime in the 19TH century becasue he tried to reform the country)

[@rsync9490]

You think this is merely a sultan thing?

[@a-roh942]

great Job distorting history ... from the clothes to the name of your character ,,,etc.

[@mohamedmohamed6620]

مالك على حالتك

[@AncientAccounts]

everytime you say ismail it sounds like its smile :)

[@iliasaboutaj5437]

awesome , which also i've noticed a lot of mistakes as fasion we used wear is jelaba and saleham/brince kafetan jabadour , things originly moroccan because genetically and culturely and language are so different on eastern where the arabs :) , thank u for the video , hope u made more search if u are historically and archaeologically interested and start from kingdom of mauretania till the berber emirates :) by the way we ride berber horses not camels 😂

[@Ongabonga94]

Well, what a very accurate description of history, that is not based, in any part of the video, on prejudice , objectification, or even unjustified hatred of the sort. oh man I like your content very much you should be the number one youtuber because your funny and you know alot of history on parts of the world that are not talked about that much. Cheers @Tooky History .

[@abdssamadkarimi4524]

OMG. I from Morocco and this video totally falls pls correct the video you INFORMATION

[@ra_alf9467]

@Adrian Bradey their clothes

[@jeffthedeaf9159]

@Adrian Bradey the clothes,sex everyday,and that he killed anyone

[@Roman-jc6dk]

Can you make some more videos about diffirent armies and guards? Thank you!

[@aleksandarvil5718]

You should do a video on Majapahit Empire in Indonesia.

[@vlad-ns6yt]

He only talks about specific people.

[@interestingcommentbut....7378]

Extra credit History did a whole series on that and it’s great, check it out!

[@TookyHistory]

Thanks for watching, hope you enjoy it! :)

[@Sarahmint]

Tooky History somehow I am more offended by torturing a cat then the horrid abuse of fellow human beings, including his own son

[@miloskocic1759]

Even black people have more attention than us serbs

[@zulumike7534]

Hello

[@keltar2007]

Tooky History Tooky, you should do a video on Bokassa of Chad republic...He was worse than Hunyadi-Crazy.

[@keltar2007]

milos kocic Even?

[@AllinOne-wv1mp]

I'm from Morocco, and THAT'S SICK, MAN..

[@mahdigouraizim8446]

Moroccans doesn't wear like that, they are not arabs, Moroccans are Amazighs/North Africans! Anyway thanks for the video

[@moroccomapping8549]

We do wear like this

[@360xdnox5]

@@moroccomapping8549 no we don't go live in saudi arabia and never touch Morocco again , i'm sick of this type of comments

[@cartooningfanart]

Can you do the life of; Edgar Rice Burroughs ? I would love that.

[@oskarbjerborn4357]

Your back!!!!

[@klake5375]

wat

[@algeriaisrael4598]

What 😐❓

[@algeriaisrael4598]

@@klake5375 that was I'm say 😂

[@oskarbjerborn4357]

I meen that i havent gotten notis in a while and im happy he s back

[@wafalme851]

Do Mansa Musa

[@Hussar-bt8sv]

He was a True Kang

[@lolo-om9rs]

@@Hussar-bt8sv He wuz he wuz

[@shockhouser3171]

Bigots

[@tyronechillifoot5573]

@@Hussar-bt8sv yes he was

[@wildfire9280]

@@Hussar-bt8sv You really think he wasn't or is it just that upsetting to be confronted with factual history?

[@immuslimisupportqatar7591]

fun fact the slave army in game of trones was inspired by the black army and a lots of scene of game of trones was filmed in morocco

[@Ethan-mp7wr]

Hey, Tooky, I have a question. I still don’t know what your accent is even after a year. So... what accent is it? It’s kinda currently driving me insane.

[@Ethan-mp7wr]

@Bryan Ouellet thx

[@elijahking728]

im not letting this dude babysit my cat anytime soon.

[@imanimation4666]

i like this story i'm from morocco chokane

[@Somali-Puntite]

Can you do one on King Perahu and queen Ati of Punt ?

[@hriscubogdan2292]

Try making a video about Stephen the Great of Moldova You'll have plenty of material, i assure you.I mean yeah, if you don't have an idea for your video:))

[@vlad-ns6yt]

Hi Romanian friend! Tooky a făcut deja un videoclip despre Vlad Ţepeş, şi cred că ar fi mai bine dacă ar avea spaţiu între videoclipurile despre oameni din aceleaşi ţări.

[@hriscubogdan2292]

Crack Tax Știu, l-am văzut. Ce e drept, la Ștefan ar avea mult mai mult de zis:)) Sau Mihai Viteazul, și el a avut o domnie interesantă.

[@ukaszkot6929]

Can you make next episode to be about Julius Caesar ? Or someone from the first triumvirate (Crassus Pompey) ?

[@bobted6266]

This man is legendary

[@yamibakura8597]

This is just another example of my personal theory, that the only people who will change history are the absurdly competent, lucky, or insane. I'll leave you to guess which one Ismail was.

[@klake5375]

Well, he was insane and competent. He did make a great army. But he was batshit crazy

[@artoruvidal2793]

He's all of them

[@zdhim2714]

Yami Bakura Competent, the author of the video, although making a good job, brushed a very dark portrait of the sultan, since his accession to power he was surrounded by ennemies, Clercs that wanted their rights back, tribes that refused to give allegeance and later, sons and grand-sons that grew tired of this never-dying monarchs, he had to be very strict and cruel sometimes to be respected and to keep the country stable, his sole mitake was his stuborness to let his heirs do a survival of the fittest thing, if you want to see an example of what gould have happened to morocco had he not been that strict, I recommend the life of Shah Rukh Khan and the last decades of Timurid empire.

[@napydog]

thats what exactly machiavelly said in his book the prince

[@zdhim2714]

pepo bimbo I know

[@littlegrayjacket5873]

While on the topic of black Moroccans, could you do a video on Abu Bakr ibn Umar, General Bassa, Mulay Rashid, or even the Rif Pirates?

[@k.2382]

None of them were black (and if they were they were not Moroccans) but okay, keep trying blackie 🙊. General Bassa was a BLACK SLAVE from subsaharan ancestors who was freed. Mulay Rashid was not black, and The riff pirates… 😂😂😂😂 that’s the most ridiculous part. Come to the riff and you will see how “black” they are, they look more European than most Mediterranean people. They are white or olive skinned and they used to enslave Europeans and black people. Stop stealing our legacy and changing the narrative. Try harder next time.

[@AM-yt3yj]

1:18 we don’t wear this clothes in Morocco, this is clothes from Arab golf countries

[@aymanouadi8071]

We are not even arabs

[@moroccomapping8549]

@@aymanouadi8071 We are

[@aymanouadi8071]

@@moroccomapping8549 lmaoo keep dreaming bud. If ur from an arab tribe in morocco okay then you are otherwise ur just an arabized berber lol arabs are the minority here

[@moroccomapping8549]

@@aymanouadi8071 Arabs are a majority, over 75% are Arab. You just want to separate yourself from the other Arabs because of their conflicts in the Middle East.

[@aymanouadi8071]

@@moroccomapping8549 hell nah. Just look the genetics up bruh. Literally 97% has majority berber blood, then west african blood, iberian blood and after that a little bit arab blood. Literally everyone is berber here. If u wanna be arab badly go to the middle east. We’re africans/berbers here. Arabs tried to destroy and wipe out north african culture a few times but never succeeded we still eat berber food like couscous and tajine and marmita and we still listen to berber music like regadda lol. Everything we do culturally is berber. We don’t even wear the same clothes as arabs. We have nothing arabic here except religion and language. Although amazigh is an official language too

[@jim-pauladams9194]

This is the first time I ever heard of this character

[@yuseffromthehood656]

Morocco was never an Arab country, why would you draw us like arabs.

[@Suite_annamite]

North African and Saharan clothes are harder to draw on crude animation apps : LOL I'm typing this while wearing Moroccan slippers (les babouches)!

[@mhbplayzz6159]

Do one about Saladin

[@aleksandarvil5718]

Do a video on Boris Yeltsin

[@morningmidnight9398]

Oh so this is how to not make a history clip and spread misinformation while at it

[@Moroccan_history863]

Moulay Ismail is the best king of Morocco 🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦

[@soukainalaoui]

Ben Tachfin and Al Mansour

[@TheTariqibnziyad]

0:54 cmon man thats gotta be a joke, his name is Ismail Al Aalaoui; not Ismail Moulay lol; Moulay means "my lord" in arabic

[@_K3PLR]

Yes epic

[@aymanerazani9832]

his name is "smail ibn sherif not "Ismail Moulay" , moulay is not even a name in arabic

[@aymanerazani9832]

@ⵜⴰⵏⵉⵔⵉ Taniri yes I know that moulay is a title not a name

[@user-js9my7px1v]

اقوى سلطان مولاي إسماعيل العلوي 🇲🇦⚔️

[@drinks1019]

HOLY SHIT 1024 CHILDREN??? JEEZ AND I THOUGHT I HAD A PROBLEM!!!

[@antoniomurphymusic]

so i never knew of the black guard before this particular acid trip... i once had acid and had a vision of one of these guys looking at me. he wore the white guard and red cap but he looked at me with big black eyes. he kinda looked like et... what does this mean? idk... care to speculate?

[@0ld_Scratch]

how about Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts?

[@papajinkins6433]

Your thinking of the black pirate Roberts he's bin mostly dead all day

[@sasisybor633]

The best Sultan of Morocco is Yusuf ibn Tashfin and Ahmad al-Mansur

[@zdhim2714]

Moroccan Mapper Although Yussef Ibn Tachfine is my personnal favourite, I think that Abd-Al Mumin, Yussef the Almohad and his son Ya'qub Al Mansûr are better suited for the second position.

[@yusufibntachfin7978]

5 Abu Ya'qub Yusuf (1) 4 Mulay Ismail 3 Ahmad al Mansur 2 Abu Yusuf Ya'coub al Mansur 1 ☆Yusuf Ibn Tachfin☆ Thats my list of top 5 moroccan rulers.

[@TeekoNST]

R u Moroccan and why u have isreal flag with the arabic hat

[@hassanbassim4007]

Ahmed Al Mansur was the best so far , greetings from Iraq .

[@omarsnhaji1235]

I'm kinda flattered since I'm a Yusuf Ibn Tashfin's descendant. I even look like him in physical appearance according to description. Yet I'm also depressed to see his main achievements and souvenirs were destroyed by his own people. First, he was the founder of the first Muslim-Amazigh EMPIRE in North Africa (there were some emirates but not empires or kingdoms). Second, he was the first to make Arabic the official language even though he himself was Amazigh... Now, since you are moroccan, look at what some of our fellow Amazigh people claim (FYI, Before Almorabids there were two caliphates and a kingdom that were purely Arabs and none of them imposed Arabic, just saying!). Third, he made the Maliki doctrine the official in the area, now look at what people do including our Senhaji brethren (the same tribe Yusuf belongs to) when the sacrifice animals and do a bunch of strange rituals in cemetries and such like pagans and polytheists. Fourth, he founded the major flouriching city of Marrakesh with a serious-strategic military theme to connect the areas and help moving the armies flexibly... Now again, look at what has become of Marrakesh where europpean and gulf arabian pedophilian and gay old cuckold couples please their desires with the flesh of our children. I think my ancestor, just like most moroccan ancestors who were noble muslims, would be truly disappointed if they could see us (their hopes and concerns) live this humiliation. I myself, decided to move to Istanbul, where there's a glimpse of hope to raise my offspring with the values of our ancestors... Maybe one day they would do great to fix things. We, the Senhaji people, are nomads after all... In fact, our ancestors (before Islam) came all the way from Sabaa (Yemen) and we shall continue to move across the world and be on the side of the serious and the just people. PS: There's still hope in morocco too by the way, but it has a long way... I mean just look at the people, unlike Turkey, we are still mugging each other on the streets and we are still worshipping the descendants of this very Moulay Ismail like if they were true half-gods! And, worst of all, we talk more than we work... which unfotunately shows that we are not ready nor serious to fix anything yet.

[@Lkadi]

Why does it look like these events took place somewhere in an Arabian desert? This is Morocco you're talking about. Not even your music is somewhat representative...

[@matthewmann8969]

Most Moors were Berbers with some Arabs, Bantus, And Iberians in there ranks

[@admirekashiri9879]

No Bantu was ever involved with the Moors my friend.

[@aymanouadi8071]

@Elhouss Amine moors were berbers. Most of the berbers at that time were black.

[@k.2382]

@Elhouss Amine i know by a fact that you are not Moroccan if you say that moors are black. You are just another African American trying to black wash our legacy. Your presence in the moors society was being slaves, concubines and domestic workers so stop spreading false information. Come to Morocco or Spain and say that the moors were black, they’ll laugh at your face 😂😂😂😂😂

[@k.2382]

@@aymanouadi8071 no. You were never considered moors, your role in our society was to be slaves, concubines and domestic workers. Even nowadays in all North African you are seen as slaves because of that past, stop trying to change the narrative we are Moroccans never black subsaharan people. Deal with it 🙊

[@aymanouadi8071]

@@k.2382 im amazigh im not saying everyone was black no but a lot of imazighen have darker skin definitely in morocco. My granddad was darkskinned he was chelhi and my dna is 88% North African

[@dataexpunged2779]

Its not suprising that his dynasty still rules morocco, he had 1171 offsprings, half of the nation is probably from his dynasty

[@portsouth]

You should do Baldwin

[@fadhlanarmon3670]

he did

[@portsouth]

...

[@mohamedbouaboue2584]

I still didnt see any berbers as the majority of tribes and population at the time were berber, the saudi clothing you used in the animation has nothing to do with north africa, and tangiers was taken from the british by the riffian berber armies of the north, the black guard could never even after moulay ismael win over the riffian armies in the north and these stayed autonomous for the longest time in history.

[@426mak]

Coincidentally there was a famous 'Black Guard' group in China at the same time. They were freed slaves of the pirate/admiral Nicholas Iquan.

[@pothetellitubie6560]

The guy in the blue shirt looks like Arthur Morgan from Rdr2

[@gameslayer404]

I want to be just like him when I grow up!

[@zegerheyvaert1045]

Finaly

[@valerianococco7562]

Your videos are memes a bit...... Good

[@amirapex20]

This video is offensive. How to report in yt?

[@maudrashadtv]

Never heard of this it's different

[@gibraltar4079]

Morocco amazigh

[@moroccomapping8549]

No

[@soukainalaoui]

😂😂😂

[@elluvitesmith9137]

Your maps are wrong

[@zakariaadlanerapreaction5300]

Moroccans dont dress like that where that came from 🙄

[@letitbelight1877]

He made sure to let everyone know the guard was black.

[@physetermacrocephalus2209]

Wait he executed his cats? I thought Muslims were solidly on #TeamCats because they consider doggo's haram?

[@juxnius5670]

Dogs are just forbidden in the house and they have to be useful so you can have one, but they aren't Haram. And this sultan was a moron.

[@tarikbosnian9955]

This sultan is going to hell for sure even killing animals and torturing them for no reason guarantees you entrance in to hellfire. Prophet described one women who entered hell because she tied a cat not feeding it and thus it died. Another woman was thirsty but she had to go down a well to drink it. On her way up she saw a dog whimpering licking the ground obviously thirsty. So she went down filled up her shoe with water and gave the dog water and she entered heaven.

[@thepeacock7498]

Its haram to hurt innocents m8 let alone animals

[@RIFLQ]

@@tarikbosnian9955 isn't that Hadith about the women and the dog is not a strong Hadith?

[@tarikbosnian9955]

@@RIFLQ Sahih muslim is next strong hadith to bukhari. And the one with the cat is bukhari.

[@shockhouser3171]

Actually it wasnt slavery it was indentured servants

[@adromeda246]

more like slavery with extra steps

[@shockhouser3171]

@@adromeda246 say what u want they got corters and wifes and paid

[@haitamc5611]

@@shockhouser3171 cuz you could say they got paid and laid

[@wildfire9280]

@@adromeda246 well yes, but actually no

[@i_go_by_t_now]

@@haitamc5611 😂

[@Norachantir]

bro why tf are moroccans dressed like they are in the middle east💀

[@gabrielcarvalhosaraiva4138]

0:33 general Ismail, you are a bold one. 🗡️🗡️💀🗡️🗡️

[@riyadkadari9139]

Very Very very Very Very approximative video ...........i won't click DISLIKE just for the effort .........but for godsake , just don't stop at WIKIPEDIA

[@ismailabi226]

So proud. My father named me after him. cuz he is from meknes witch was the capital back then when sultan ismail was ruling morocco

[@simobouchfar]

lmao you really proud of that haha

[@Armorius2199]

I think Genghis Khan had possibly 2,000 children.

[@johnmccrossan9376]

"he fathered 1171 kids which is a world record by far" Genghis khan "hold my fermented yaks milk"

[@mauratlantean3002]

Genghis has had like 5 or 6 sons, He is knows for the huge amount of Descendants but not direct sons*

[@abdurrahmanqureshi3030]

@@mauratlantean3002 Those are only the legitimate ones

[@mauratlantean3002]

@@abdurrahmanqureshi3030 My point still stands tho, Moulay Ismail is the one person with most sons and daughters in history

[@talismann44]

*INFO SOURCE PLEASE*

[@woodonfire7406]

Hey hey hey! Tooks! Where did the Stalin video go?

[@jaheem8599]

he united morocco with fire and blood

[@bigboaharthurmorgan2109]

Father finally fed us! Yay!

[@bahjaa347]

Far away from the reality ...misleading I don’t know where you get your info from ..

[@Maluhia808]

Curved Swords

[@iliasbahri4299]

hi i'm from morocco and i don't know moulay ismail ben sherif was a dictator ,and i hope will you make more videos about history of morocco and arab spring

[@janewright315]

Animal torture crosses the line. Anyone who harms animals should be eradicated.

[@yasbush7242]

But who harms humans shouldn't? Weird way of thinking you got there...

[@firohot5476]

So basically a mixed race Ramsey Bolton leading unsalids army Intact one

[@habibt1457]

actually, "Moulay" means "My Lord"

[@Sami-ep2jg]

This guy is high

[@AbdouSefiani]

I get that this video is meant to be sarcastic, but I'm extremely triggered by the level of inaccuracies and misrepresentations in this video 😤

[@benifrani9647]

That is totally unfair to him. You failed to mention Holy Roman Empire alaways attacking Morocco. Failed to mention that Black soldier were treated exceptionally a high standard with free wives free homes and yes they were tough toward the enemy of the Sultan. Summarise his reign in such a silly video is not fair man