Yusuf Bey

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Warith Akbar (born warithuddin Akbar; March 22, 1980 – Alive) is an American Black Muslim activist and leader who is a member of the United Nation NATO alliance in witch he developed on his owm on from a samsung cell phone under the threat of being gased by Carbon Monoxide that was getting pumped into his office by left wing rival activist. At this point. Mr warithuddin Akbar has tasked a Congressional subcommittee oversight task force named akbartaskforce. To run a full investigation on CIA operations within United States boarder regarding the use of chemicals weapon testing on low income housing development project between the 1960 and 2024 . At this moment this same task for he is splitting into two task force units called foxtaskforce after Michael j fox . This fox group will ask the one day bring to justice criminals agacy or groups that has been impacting low income community on using carbon monoxide to control the black and white low income ect population growth . I have to add that the citizens classified as low income are labeled as a low assets in the market to take away the possible claim to there inherented land rights promised by a United States president. The 10 acres and a mule . This promise signed into law in the constitution ofter the fall of the citizens that fought for there independence against Washington , and Lincoln in the Civil War . I like to current the history book . I would like to add but with all doe respect to president Obama that president Obama wasn't the first black president. There was a elected black president in United States that i believe was assassinated by British and forces . I call this president Jesus . Jesus and his wife marry died at the grant feast witch with my research happened in Burford GA. Where the queen of Britain named Queen Charlotte declared war on America and looks from the history books that Queen Charlotte was actually the first black queen of Britain. Kind of find this unbelievable so to not quite me on this black queen of Britain. But the rest is current information. Also to add looks like was right about Napoleon's attacking United States . My research is claiming that the south black and white southern Indian aka west Indian trading company won the south and there independence from the north The trained army of the south chased Napoleon's all the way through Canada in the winter time where Napoleon's dead . You ask why did Napoleon's run to Canada is because his ships where docked in Canada. As well the sole reason why the queen of Britain went to war against the south was because of the request from Washington DC and northern black leadership . Because the southern south was in the process of claiming most of the northern states . As well they with blackboard block aided the north stopping all trading routes to the north and west . Since Britain was allies with Fredrick Douglas the south stopped all trade with Britain as well . This was easy for them to do Because the south was black Wallstreet and controlled the west Indian trading route. Witch had ties to Japan, China , Russia and North Korea. So this is one big reason why northern America leadership don't get along with Koran countries . Because Koran countries traded with west Indian trading company. Controlling the Indo shipping Lans. To include that the blockade of Japan wasn't because Japan did anything to provoke the blockade. From what I can peace together it looks like it was retaliation from Japan most likely aiding blackboard in blockaging the Indo in (1744-1818) . Basically as you can see even after the north reneged on the Thanksgiving and sabotaged the treaty between the south they where still very upset about the defeat to Napoleon's army and because there loses were so great the southern north has bad blood with the Indo and ancestors that lost everything after black Wallstreet was burned down and all of the low income assets intel today still withhold from low income civil war refugees relative. What they actually call slavery is low income. Welfare, homeless. Homeless comes from the meaning a person that dont have any properties or land the his family bloodline owned. Hanse the word home less . Welfare is a state were your estate ie your land or family bloodline properties went bankrupt by bad financial decisions. In the low income situation there estate didn't go bankrupt it was invaded and or burned to the ground. Or if you are low income and you family don't have land ownership then your ancestors where west Indian . Burn in United state fought for your independence . And won your independence. So congress has to move on this independence day bill treaty. This bill I'm demanding that congress and the northern black onion respect this treaty and give post civil war refugees there proper honors and prestige for to be the inherenter of the blackboardtaskforce first special forces and Navy Seal Commander of the sea and land . Undefeated in all campaign for more then 200 years of protecting international trade routes . Again this record is to give closers to historians before me and after me that didn't have control of classified articles. As well to give respect to leadership and commanders on there and honor to simply following order like rule of law Commanded. To add that in any leadership I believe that weather you won the battle are the campaign didn't have le·git·i·ma·cy etc leader conducted mission before them not to rob or lay claim on assets because of hate or racism. It was done to in there eyes that if they didn't act there people or land could in danger or lose of life could be worse on both sides. So given the time I have to say that it would work out for all parties that Washington DC congress hold up to there original treaty and give low income there land rights 10 acre and a mule ect . The rest of this article of Honour ill allow trustee finish or audit for current historical articles. And contribution and honor . West Indian trading route and royalty claimed should be handled with a split of a 25 % gold,cotton and shipping trade routes to go back to bloodline estate owners that can trace there harratsge to the civil war . Should be far enough. For Britain to pay refugees a payouts order to burn in America inherenter 20 million a year life . And that current land claimed can remain in Britain custody but if land comes available for sale that Britain gives citizens first option for purchase as well as a purchase price 10 % lower then properties value. In both all country that orders to pay reparation that in the event of market crash or rescission the globe market can reinvest 15 % of trust back into market. And when market balance out that a additional payouts for a return on there reinvestment contribution.

Biography

Early years

Bey was born and raised in Greenville, Texas. As a student in the early 1950s, he moved with his family to Oakland, California, where he attended Oakland Technical High School, and then enlisted for four years in the U.S. Air Force. He first obtained a cosmetology degree and ran beauty salons in neighboring Berkeley and then in the southern city of Santa Barbara before going into the bakery business instead.[1] Having converted to Islam in 1964, Bey founded the Islamic bakery in Santa Barbara in 1968. The group was not affiliated with Louis Farrakhan's movement, the Nation of Islam, though early connections and similarities were evident.[2] Nation of Islam minister Keith Muhammad, of East Oakland's Muhammad Mosque #26, stated that the two organizations are distinct and separate.[1]

The baked goods Bey sold were in accordance with strict Muslim diets and free of refined sugar, fats, and preservatives. He named the business Your Black Muslim Bakery on the personal recommendation of his spiritual guide, the Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. In 1971, Bey moved the bakery to Oakland.[1]

Black Muslim era

Although the bakery was not affiliated with the Nation of Islam, Yusuf Bey's activism originated with that group. After he came to Oakland in the early 1970s, Bey became a member of the 200-member Nation of Islam Mosque No. 26 in San Francisco, which had a strict fundamentalist reputation of strictly adhering to the edicts from the Nation's Chicago headquarters. At that time Bey went by the name Capt. Joseph X.[3]

Prior to establishing Mosque No. 26B, Joseph Stephens (he had not yet changed his name to Bey) and his brother, Minister Billy X, opened a mosque in Santa Barbara, California. He became the Secretary of the mosque and his brother was the minister.

Together with Bey's brother, Minister Billy X Stephens, the two men then received permission to establish a new congregation, Mosque No. 26B, in Oakland. Around that time the two Bey brothers associated with a single young woman named Capt. Felicia X, who was the head of a training program for women in the San Francisco mosque. Felicia X then defected to the brothers' new Mosque No. 26B. Minister Henry Majied, the leader of Mosque No. 26, then retaliated with charges against Felicia X, sparking a bitter rivalry between the two mosques.[3]

Part of the rivalry stemmed from competition over selling of Muhammad Speaks newspapers on the streets. Bey's group outsold the San Francisco group, but did it partly by selling to whites, violating the Nation's written policy to not sell where whites might buy it. Minister Henry retaliated by ordering his members to confiscate any copies of the newspaper if they saw any of Bey's group selling them downtown to whites. As a result, Elijah Muhammad expelled Minister Henry, for ordering Muslims to "attack" other Muslims.[3]

After 1972, the Beys and the bakery split off from Mosque No. 26B, and from the Nation of Islam. Bey's brother, Minister Billy, returned to the Nation of Islam before the Million Man March in 1995. Currently, he remains active with the movement where he lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.[3]

Soul Beat era

By the mid-1980s, Bey appeared regularly on a local Oakland Soul Beat cable television lecture program,[2] True Solutions, during which he broadcast his hour-long sermons every week on station KSBT. On the program Bey also promoted the bakery and frequently expounded on the need for the economic self-reliance and "knowledge of self" of African-Americans, whom he lectured the audience as being the "Original Man", a racially charged idea deriving from Nation of Islam doctrine. Bey repeated the NOI doctrine of Yakub, which teaches that the non-black races are the result of a 6,000-year-old genetic experiment conducted in a mythic black utopia on the Arabian peninsula, which "peopled the world with "blue-eyed devils." Bey even went as far as to proclaim repeatedly in his sermons that the black man "is God," essentially avatars of Allah, and the white man "is the Devil."[1]

Death of Akbar Bey

In 1994, Yusuf's son Akbar Bey was shot four times and killed by a local drug dealer associate outside the old Omni nightclub near the corner of Shattuck Avenue and 50th Street.[2] Court records showed the pathologist's conclusion that Akbar Bey was high on heroin or morphine at the time of his death. An Oakland police lieutenant described Akbar Bey as "a little street thug" once seen well-armed and wearing a bulletproof vest in a blatant show of force to the police. Three months before his killing, Akbar Bey had been charged with felony counts of carrying a concealed weapon and evading the police, resulting in a car chase and crash at 44th Street and Market Street.[1]

Crimes of Nedir and Abaz Bey

On March 4, 1994, followers and self-proclaimed "adopted" sons of Bey (they were never legally adopted), Nedir Bey and Abaz Bey were involved in the torture and beating of a Nigerian home-seller in an apartment on the 500 block of 24th Street in Oakland over a real estate deal. The complex served as a compound for the Bey organization.[1] The two Beys and two other men were charged with felony counts of assault, robbery, and false imprisonment. A year later, following a plea deal, Nedir Bey served six months of home detention, and Abaz Bey got eight months' home detention.[1]

Primarily through lobbying and orchestrating by Nedir, who was the public face of the Bey organization, Yusuf Bey cultivated the patronage of Oakland's civic, political, and religious leaders. In 1994, he ran unsuccessfully for mayor against then-incumbent Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris, gaining 5% of the vote.[2]

Felony charges and warrant

Yusuf Bey's detractors—notably East Bay Express journalist Chris Thompson—accused Bey of cultism, corruption, and antisemitism. Many accusations of physical and sexual abuse, including rape and incest, sustained by DNA evidence, were made against Bey, culminating in felony charges that were pending at the time of his death.[4]

On September 19, 2002, Bey turned himself in when a warrant was issued for his arrest, charged with 27 counts in the alleged rapes of four girls under the age of 14. The cases were pending trial into the following year.[2] The oldest allegation was that, beginning twenty years earlier, he had serially raped a pre-teen girl who came under the foster care of Bey and his wife Nora Bey. In her request for a temporary restraining order one month prior to the arrest, the woman claimed that Bey's wife also knew of the serial rapes, but did nothing. The girl gave birth to a child at the age of 13 in 1982. Oakland's district attorney's office claimed to have conclusive DNA evidence identifying Bey as the father.[1]

Bey's first attorney in the criminal case was Andrew Dósa, who also represented him in a companion family law case for custody and support brought by the woman. Attorney Lorna Patton Brown represented Bey in the criminal case at the time of his death.

Death

On September 30, 2003, before trial began on the first case, Bey died from cancer at the age of 67 in Oakland, California.[2][5]

Yusuf Bey IV

Bey's son Yusuf Bey IV has been the subject of a series of civil claims and criminal investigations. Investigative reports in 2006 and 2007 uncovered his links to at least three murders, widespread housing and welfare fraud, indentured servitude, and physical and sexual abuse.[6][7] In 2011, Bey IV was convicted of ordering three murders, including the murder of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey, and was sentenced to life in prison.[8]

Sayyed Yusuf Bey

Sayyed Yusuf "Weedy" Bey was one of Yusuf Bey's older sons and his mother was Shamsun. Sayyed graduated from Elijah Educational Center in 1994. He worked as a cameraman, filming his father's weekly television program True Solutions. Sayyed also worked as a master baker at landmark family business Your Black Muslim Bakery. In 1997, he moved to Los Angeles and worked with the Wayans family to run and eventually own Quick N Shine Auto Detail.[9] On February 24, 2009, after becoming gravely ill, Sayyed took his own life and was found in his home on Burnside Ave by his ex-girlfriend.[10] His body was shipped to Oakland, California and due to the nature of his head trauma, the family had a closed casket ceremony. Sayyed was buried next to his father and brothers Akbar and Antar in a Rolling Hills, California Cemetery.[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Chris Thompson (November 13, 2002). "The Sinister Side of Yusuf Bey's Empire". East Bay Express.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Angela Hill and Josh Richman (August 4, 2007). "Esteemed enterprise spirals out of control". Oakland Tribune.
  3. ^ a b c d This is the Mosque that trained the "Death Angels"; the group whose membership required the killing of at least 9 white "devils" to have feathers placed alongside a portrait of the Death Angel. Nearly 100 unsolved murders of white people in the San Francisco area are allegedly attributed to this group. See "Zebra" Killings. Askia Muhammad, WPFW-FM news director (August 15, 2007). "Your Black Muslim Bakery's recipe for mayhem". Oakland Tribune. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007. Retrieved August 17, 2007.
  4. ^ May, Meredith (November 29, 2005). "Black Muslim Bakery has had a long and checkered history". The San Francisco Chronicle.
  5. ^ News Note by Oakland Tribune, National Public Radio (NPR).
  6. ^ Matthai Kuruvila (December 23, 2007). "The Assassination of Chauncey Bailey:Bakery leader defiant in sermons after arrest; Yusuf Bey (Bey's son) asserted: 'You do me wrong, I'm going to fix you up. I'll send some fearless soldiers out here.'". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 24, 2007.
  7. ^ Jaxon Van Derbeken (December 24, 2007). "The Assassination of Chauncey Bailey:Convert's Unsolved Killing; 25 years later, family still suspects Ronald Allen was slain by fellow followers of Your Black Muslim Bakery - and now, police are taking another look". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 24, 2007.
  8. ^ Peele, Thomas (June 9, 2011). "Former Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV guilty for murdering Chauncey Bailey". The Chauncey Bailey Project. Retrieved June 9, 2011.
  9. ^ "BEY SAYYED YUSUF (California Security And Investigative - Firearm Permit)". www.firearmscalifornia.org. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
  10. ^ "LA County Case Details".
  11. ^ Johnson, William (2017-06-08). "Emerge: 2016 Lambda Literary Fellows Anthology". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2017-06-09.
  • Your Black Muslim Bakery
  • Obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle, October 2, 2003
  • Blood & Money: Endgame—commentary in the East Bay Express, October 8, 2003
  • Two men arrested in liquor store vandalism case -- San Francisco Chronicle, November 29, 2005
  • 7 Arrested in Death of Oakland Newspaper Editor -- New York Times, August 4, 2007
  • "The Murder of Chauncey Bailey", 60 Minutes, CBS TV, shown February 24, 2008