Dwight York (Redirected from Y'shua Bar El Haady)
- This article is about Dwight York. For the similarly named football (soccer) player Dwight Yorke, see Dwight Yorke.
Some of the faces of Dwight York, from the cover of one of his many books Dwight D. York (born June 26, 1945 or 1935[1] (http://www.allaahuakbar.net/ansaruallah/)) is an author and musician and the founder of various religious and black nationalist groups collectively referred to as Nuwaubianism. York’s organizations came under increased government scrutiny in the early-1990s after building Tama-Re, an ancient Egyptian-themed compound featuring pyramids, temples, and living quarters for hundreds of his followers, in Putnam County, Georgia near Eatonton, Georgia. He was arrested in May of 2002, charged with over 100 counts of child molestation, and was convicted in 2004 and sentenced to 135 years in prison.
York has been known by several aliases over the years, including the following:
- Amunnubi Rooakhptah, Rabboni D.D., Amun Nubi Raakh Ptah, Neter: A’aferti Atum-Re, Imaam Isa, Dr. Malachi Z. York-El, Nayya Malachizodoq-El, Chief Black Thunderbird Eagle, Amunnebu Reakh Tah, Isa Muhammad, As Sayyid Al Imaam Issa Al Haadi Al Mahdi, Isa al Haadi al-Mahdi, Abba Essa, Isa Abd’Allah Ibn Abu Bakr Muhammad, Imperial Grand Potentate Noble: Rev. Dr. Malachi Z. York 33°/720°, Isa Abdullah, Amun Nebu Re, Akhtah Isa Abdullah, Imam Isa Abu-Bakr, Rabboni Y’shua Bar El Haady, Al Hajj Al Imaam Isa, Yaanuwn, Murdoq, Al Qubt, Al Khidr, Sabathil, Amar Utu, Al Hajj Al Imaam Isa Abd’Allah Muhammad Al Mahdi, Maku, Consul General: Dr. Malachi Z. York ©™, Abba Issa, Baba, Malakai Z. York, Isa Alibad Mahdi, The Grand Hierophant:Tuhuti, Michael the Great, En.Marduq.Gal, En-Mar.Duq, et alii
York incorporates his new ©™ name suffix into his signature on a Liberian Consulate document Background
Origins and genealogy
York’s biography can be difficult to determine, as much of what he and his followers have revealed is mythical rather than historical. York has gone to great lengths to establish genealogical toeholds in various important lines of descent.
York was born on June 26th, 1945 – in Massachusetts or New Jersey or New York according to some accounts, or in Omdurman, Sudan by others. His mother is Mary C. York nee Williams, a.k.a. Faatimah Maryam, who had been married to David Piper York, though York claims that his biological father was Al Haadi Abdur Rahman Al Mahdi, whom Williams met while she was a student in the Sudan.
- Certain members of the Mahdi family did not accept Mary C. York. They felt that she was not of the noble family therefore they could not and woulld not accept the child. Meanwhile the Mahdi family was being harrassed and some even killed by wicked forces in the Sudan. So Abdur Rahman Al Haadi Al Mahdi, May Allah be pleased with him, sent Mary C. York and the infant named Isa (Saviour) back to her native american home land and on July 3, 1945 AD.
York claims that the name he was given at birth was “Isa Al Haadi Al Mahdi” and that he only acquired the name “York” (without a first name) a month later when the family returned to Boston.[2] (http://www.unitednuwaubiannation.com/legal/issue1whoisdwight.htm) David and Mary York have four other children: David, Dale, Debra and Dennis.
David Piper York is said to be a descendent of (Ben) York of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, whom scholars refer to as York (though he is sometimes called Ben York in works of historical fiction). In order to preserve Dwight York’s claim to be in Ben York’s bloodline, while also claiming that his real father was Al Haadi Abdur Rahman Al Mahdi, an additional claim has been made — that Mary Williams and David York are second cousins: Mary Williams’s mother, Leila Williams nee Miller (a Washita Native American) was Ben York’s granddaughter on her father’s side.
- Ben York was the son of Old York, “Yusef Ben Ali”. Ben York’s parents were named after one of the Great British Families, The Yorks from “Yorkshire, Northern England”. The ancestors of these Yorks in England were Negroid, Black-A-Moors, which is the Yorkshire Coats of Arms. The name York is a British name fro Yorkshire, northern England. York was the ruling house of England (1461-1485), which included Edward IV, Edward V, and Richard III. During The War of the Roses its symbol was a white rose. York was a borough of Northern England on the Ouse River East – Northeast of Leeds. Originally it was a Celtic settlement, meaning it was occupied by Moors, that is Dark Skinned Woolly Haired Moors, not to be mistaken with modern day Moroccans, who are Spaniards and Francs.[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dwight_York&action=edit§ion=2)
Ben York’s mother is said to have been one Warda Saliym ‘Rose’ Idriys, “a Yamassee Native American Moor, whose father is Old York a.k.a. Yusuf Ben Ali (1756-1861 A.D.)”[4] (http://www.unitednuwaubiannation.com/legal/tribalnews.htm) Idriys was the “daughter of Sharufa Salim Idriys, of the Idrisid Dynasty.”
- The Idrisid Dynasty were the first Arab rulers of the whole of Morocco. They were the descendants of Bilaal son of Rabah and Hamama, and Ethiopian Moor born 551-641 A.D. This Bilaal was of the Hebrew Essenic Branc of Shriners who was responsible to pass the scepter of rulership from Israel to Ishmael giving Muhammad his link to the Ancient Shriner Brotherhood of Sayyids called Shariyfs “Nobles”. The Idrisid held power in Morocco from 789-926 A.D.
A grandfather on his father’s (Al Haadi Abdur Rahman Al Mahdi’s) side was As Sayyid Abdur Rahman Al Mahdi. This makes York also a descendent of Muhammad Ahmad.
On his mother’s side, Clarence Daniel “Bobby” Williams, Mary C. York’s father, is described as “an Egyptian Moor named Salah Hailak Al Ghala, a merchant seaman from a little village called Beluwla, in Nubia of Ancient Egypt” but one geneaological tree shows Bobby Williams’s father as unknown and his mother as “Madam Decontee” of the Bassa tribe of Liberia. Clarence is credited with having named York “Isa” at birth.
These various, convoluted, and probably invented lines of descent are important to York’s various claims to be simultaneously a Yamassee Native American chief, a Celtic Moor from the house of York, a Nubian Egyptian, a Liberian yet with royal Sudanese blood, and so forth (and those are just a few of the lines of descent he claims on this planet).
Early life and ministry
York says:
- I was raised in Massachusetts until the age of 7. At the age of 7 Shaikh Hasuwn escorted me to Aswan, Nubia.… My father had appointed Shaikh Hasuwn to be my guardian. His job was to protect and properly raise me in Al Islaam.… My grandfather, As Sayyid Abdur Rahman Al Mahdi, the Imaam of the Ansaars in the Sudan until 1959 AD, upon looking into my eyes foretold that I was the one who would possess “the light.” It was here where I was raised by Shaikh Hasuwn and my uncle on my mother’s side, Abdullah. I returned to the United States, State Street (Mosque) to be exact at the age of 12 in the year 1957 AD. I spent my adolescent years in Teaneck, New Jersey…[5] (http://www.factology.com/doc/written4.htm)
According to the Washington Times:
- Mr. York was sentenced to probation in early 1964, after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of raping a 13-year-old girl. But he was arrested again in October 1964, and his conviction in January 1965 for assault and other charges earned Mr. York a three-year sentence in state prison. Paroled in October 1967, Mr. York joined the Black Panthers…[6] (http://web.archive.org/web/20020806194210/http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020602-78205684.htm)
In the late 1960s York, calling himself “Amunnubi Rooakhptah,” invented a quasi-muslim black nationalist movement based on the “Science of Nuwaubu.”
He changed his name to “Imaam Isa” and started his “Ansaar Pure Sufi” ministry to the “Nubians” in Brooklyn in 1967. The group became the “Nubian Islaamic Hebrews” in 1969.
After York returned from a pilgrimage to Egypt, the group became “Jazzir Abba,” and then the “Ansaaru Allah Community” in 1970 (which a 1993 FBI report accused of being a “front for a wide range of criminal activity, including arson, welfare fraud and extortion.”).
One observer wrote:
- The women of the Ansaaru Allah Community focus on memorizing history as their Imam sees it, learning Arabic (many of them are quite fluent), incorporating Sudanese etiquette into their mannerisms and memorizing the Quran. They participate in the compilation of the various texts produced by the community and also work in the recording studio owned by the community. Other than this work, the women’s main source of income comes from US government public assistance and monies earned by the men in various enterprises such as food shops, jewelry and merchandise stories, and street vending.[7] (http://www.inetmgrs.com/onepeoples/Ansaar.htm)
Another source says:
- He was based in Coney Island for a time, and operated a bookstore and a printing press on Flatbush Ave. in the 70s. In the 80s he was based in Bushwick, on Bushwick Ave. York’s students are best remembered by New Yorkers as practitioners of orthodox Islam – members of certain New York Five Percent Nation, Nation of Islam and Arab Islamic mosques still regard the Nuwaubians as a rival faction – but at different times they followed the paths of Christianity and Judaism. Operations relocated to Liberty, NY, near the Catskills, around 1991, then to Georgia in ’93.[8] (http://www.nypress.com/print.cfm?content_id=3036)
York’s groups later took on a new array of names and functions — religious, fraternal, and tribal – including the “Yamassee Native American Tribe,” the “Washitaw Tribe,” “The International Egyptian Church,” “The Holy Tabernacle Ministries,” “The United Nuwaubian Nation Of Moors,” the “Holy Seed Baptist Synagogue” and “the Ancient Mystic Order of Melchizedek,” and York himself tried on a myriad of titles and pseudonyms, including The Supreme Grand Master Dr. Malachi Z. York, Nayya Malachizodoq-El, and Chief Black Eagle (the Nuwaubian Moors are said to be descendants of the Olmecs via Egypt over an ancient land bridge to Georgia).
In 1988 York was convicted for obtaining a passport with a false birth certificate.
The group Passion (York is in the center) A musical career
York claims to have worked as a studio musician with groups like Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, The Delfonics and Evelyn “Champagne King,” and to have ghostwritten songs such as “Love Train” by The O’Jays. Then, as “Dr. York,” he sang vocals on a solo project and for a group called “Passion,” hoping to “reach a mass majority of my people through my music.”
He later exaggerated his musical contributions, and stated at one point that “you were listening to my hits back in the 60’s and did not know it, nor did you know that songs which were considered ‘message music’ in the 70’s were written by me.”[9] (http://www.factology.com/doc/written6.htm)
Religious & philosophical doctrine & practice
See: Nuwaubianism
The "Tama-Re" compound
See: Tama-Re
Convicted of child molestation
York, dressed here as Chief Black Thunderbird Eagle, a Moorish Cherokee of the Yamassee tribe, addresses the child sexual abuse charge on a spoken-word CD In 2002, York was arrested and charged with over a hundred counts of sexually molesting dozens of children, some as young as four years old. He pled guilty in 2003 in a plea bargain that was later dismissed by the judge, and then was convicted on 23 January 2004 – the judge having rejected his desire to be returned for trial to his own tribe: “All I am asking is that the court recognize that I am an indigenous person. I am a Moorish Cherokee, and I cannot get a fair trial if I am being tried by settlers or Confederates.”[10] (http://www.rickross.com/reference/nuwaubians/nuwaubians68.html)
He asserted to the court that he was a “secured party,” and answered questions in court with the response: “I accept that for value.” This may have been a heterodox legal strategy based on patriot mythology.[11] (http://www.unitednuwaubiannation.com/legal/makusecuredparty.htm)[12] (http://www.rickross.com/reference/nuwaubians/nuwaubians88.html)
He was convicted of multiple RICO, child molestation, and financial reporting charges and sentenced to 135 years in prison. His case was appealed to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, but that court upheld the convictions on 27 October 2005.[13] (http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/ops/200412354.pdf)
Malik Zulu Shabazz of the New Black Panther Party and Liberian Senator Francis Y.S. Garlawolu were among those working on a variety of avenues of appeal, and the Southern Regional Director of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition also pledged his support.
York’s followers assert a number of defenses, including that their leader Malachi Z. York who was charged and convicted is not the same person as the Dwight York who is listed in court documents as the criminal (one of York’s sons is named Dwight, and sometimes the claim is made that it is York’s son and not York himself who is or should be the real defendant)[14] (http://www.unitednuwaubiannation.com/legal/issue1whoisdwight.htm)[15] (http://officialnaia.org/Reason%20No%203.pdf), or that York was set up by his son Jacob York in coordination with al Qaeda-linked American mosques jealous of York’s influence among black muslims.
In October 2004, he wrote a letter from prison to his followers that read, in part:
- On August 12, 2004, just days before court, 3 visitors came to me, Crlll, Alomar, and Saad, they healed me. They came from Zeta Reticuli. I had not seen them since I was a child in Teaneck, New Jersey. They don’t age at all. Anyway, they told me the game is almost over. Those that truly love you are coming together for you. They are passing the Great Test. I asked them why I could not just walk out? They said, “Because there is an order to the Kosmos that must never be altered” … Many inmates have seen me float. That is why they keep moving me away. It is because people Canaanites as well are converting inside.[16] (http://nuworldorder.com/community/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=285)
York believes that his betrayal, arrest, trial and imprisonment (and eventual release) were foretold in chapter 10 of Zecharia Sitchin’s The Wars of the Gods and the Men, with York being represented by Mar-duq in that story.[17] (http://apublicoutcry.com/Letters%20From%20Reverend%20York/CompilationOfPowerfulLetters.pdf)
Liberian Senator Francis Garlawolu and Dwight York’s daughter Richelle D. York in front of the Liberian Embassy York as a Liberian Diplomat
His followers now have dropped the claim that York should be considered immune from prosecution due to his status as a sovereign aboriginal Native American Moor, but now claim that since 1999 York has been a Consul General of Monrovia, Liberia under appointment from then-President Charles Taylor and should therefore be given diplomatic immunity from prosecution and extradited as a persona non grata to Liberia. (In June 2005 a new web site: http://www.officialnaia.org/ – the Nuwaubian Administration of International Affairs – was inaugurated to better represent this new incarnation of York.)
York explains his shift from defending himself as a sovereign “indigerness” Yamassee Native American to defending himself as a Liberian diplomat in this way:
- Fact is we called ourselves Native American Moors and tell them of Mali which is Africa and the Bassa Tribe are from Mali as well as Sudan. So when I stood up in court and stated I was indigerness, that did not in any way state I’m not African and the fact that I wore a fez in court not a Indian head dress shows I favor Africa to America. Plus, I got my diplomatic status and citizenship in 1999 before the arresst. And we have two eye and ear witness to the fact and yes they did legal affidavitts to this fact. that on May 8th 2002 at the arrest the saw and heard me inform the arresting officer that I am a consul general and a Liberian citizen.[18] (http://apublicoutcry.com/Letters%20From%20Reverend%20York/Abba%20Said%20Tell%20Them%20Of%20Sudan.pdf)
Quotes
“White people are the devil. They say the Nuwaubians are not racist – bullcrap! I am. He might not be; that’s his prerogative. I am. White people are devils — always was, always will be.” — Dwight York, from the Egipt and the Mask of God lecture
"When I breathe out I forget, when I breathe in I remember"
"It is not the pen that writes it is the soul"
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