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This article is about Dwight York, the Nuwaubian leader. For the football (soccer) player, see Dwight Yorke. For the Wisconsin politician, see Dwight A. York. Dwight York (born June 26, 1935, also reported as 1945[1]), also known as Malachi Z. York, Issa Al Haadi Al Mahdi, Dr. York, et alii, is an American musician, writer, and leader of the Georgia-based "Nuwaubian" movement,[2] currently imprisoned on a 135-year sentence on child molestation charges and violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. York's ministry began in the late 1960s, from 1967 preaching to the "Ansaaru Allah" (viz.African Americans) in Brooklyn, and he founded numerous esoteric or quasi-religious fraternal orders under various names during the 1970s and 1980s, at first centered on pseudo-Islamic themes, Judaism (Nubian Islamic Hebrews), and later moving to a loose "Ancient Egypt" theme, eclectically mixing ideas taken from black nationalism,cryptozoological and UFO religions and popular conspiracy theory. It is now called "Nuwabians". York and the Nuwaubians came under increased government scrutiny in the early 1990s after they built Tama-Re, an Egyptian-themed "city" featuring pyramids, temples, and living quarters for about a hundred of his followers, in Putnam County, Georgia. York was arrested in May 2002, and in 2004 convicted for transporting minors across state lines for the purposes of sexual molestation, racketeering, and financial reporting charges. York's case was reported as the largest prosecution for child molestation ever directed at a single person in the history of the United States, both in terms of number of victims and number of incidents.
Contents [hide] 1 Biography o o o 1.1 Early life 1.2 Ansaaru Allah Community (1970) 1.3 Brooklyn (19801993) o o o 1.3.1 Musical productions 1.3.2 Ministry and fraternal orders
1.4 Move to Georgia and Tama-Re (19932002) 1.5 Arrest and conviction of child molestation 1.6 Imprisonment and claims of diplomatic immunity
2 Teachings 3 Descent 4 Aliases 5 Notes 6 See also 7 External links 8 Further reading
Biography[edit]
Early life[edit]
York incorporates a "" suffix into his signature on a Liberian Consulate document
According to a birth certificate issued in the United States, York was born in Boston, Massachusetts[3]but other accounts give his birth place as New Jersey,[4] New York,[1] Baltimore,[5] or Takoradi,Ghana.[6] York says that he was raised in Massachusettsand at the age of seven went to Aswan, Egypt to learn about Islam. "My grandfather, As Sayyid Abdur Rahman Al Mahdi, the Imaam of the Ansaars in the Sudan until 1959, upon looking into my eyes foretold that I was the one who would possess the light."[7] He says he returned to the United States in 1957 at age 12 and continued to study Islam, and moved to Teaneck, New Jersey as an adolescent. In the late 1960s York, calling himself "Imaam Isa", combined elements of the Moorish Science Temple of America, the Nation of Islam, the Nation of Gods and Earths andFreemasonry, and invented a quasi-Muslim black nationalist movement, which he called "Ansaar Pure Sufi" whose attire was black and green dashikis.[1] He later changed his name to "Imaam Isa Abdullah" and changed his "Ansaar Pure Sufi" ministry to the "Nubians" in Brooklyn in 1967.[1] The group later became part of the Black Hebrews phenomenon, under the name "Nubian Islaamic Hebrews"[8] and "Nubian Hebrew Mission"[9] in 1969.
Brooklyn (19801993)[edit]
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 inBrooklyn, on Bushwick Ave. Yorks students are best remembered by New Yorkers as practitioners of orthodox Islam members of certain New YorkFive 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, near theCatskills, around 1991, then to Georgia in 1993.[13]
Musical productions[edit] In early 1980s, York performed as vocalist with his own groups Jackie and the Starlights, the Students, and Passion. He launched his own record label, also named Passion Productions, recording himself as the solo artist Dr. York. His debut release was the single "Only a Dream" (later included in the album New York Hot Melt Records UK, 1985). Dr. York and Passion Productions were profiled in an advertisement the 4 May 1985 issue of the Billboard magazine (p. 41) The artistic contributions on the album included background vocals from Ted Mills of the group Blue Magic. He also teamed up with Sarah Dash for the duet "Its Too Late" and recorded with T.C. Curtis on the Hot Melt label in the UK. His debut album, New, was released by Hot Melt in December 1985.[14] York also wrote and produced "What Is He to You (To You)?" for his daughter, Kenn. It did not reach the mainstream charts, but it had something of a presence in Black urban video shows such as Video Music Box and NY Hot Tracks.[citation needed] York said he performed popular music in order to "reach a mass majority of my people through my music."[15] He later also claimed grander musical contributions, stating at one point, "You were listening to my hits back in the 60s and did not know it, nor did you know that songs that were considered message music in the 70s were written by me."[16] York claimed[citation needed] to have recorded as a singer with such acts as Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, The Delfonics, McFadden & Whitehead, and Evelyn Champagne King. Ministry and fraternal orders[edit] Yorks groups later took on a new array of names and functions religious, fraternal, and tribal including the "The Holy Tabernacle Ministries", "The Egiptian Church Of Karast", "the Holy Seed Baptist Synagogue", "the Ancient Mystic Order of Melchizedek", "the Ancient Egiptian Order", "All Eyez on Egypt", "The United Nuwaubian Nation Of Moors", "Yamassee Native American Tribe", "the Washitaw Tribe", Lodge 19 of the Ancient and Mystic Order of Malachizodok.[17] Even though he changed his group's name and doctrine several times, he always claimed that AlIslam was the true way of life and would merely change the title of his doctrine while keeping the pseudo-Islamic themes.[citation needed] Dwight York himself had his name legally changed to Issa al Haadi al Mahdi in 1990,[18]and then again to Malachi York in 1993,[3] but also adopted a number of titles and pseudonyms, including The Supreme Grand Master Dr. Malachi Z. York, Nayya Malachizodoq-El, and Chief Black Eagle (York claimed that the Nuwaubian Moors are descendants of the Olmecs via Egypt over an ancient land bridge to Georgia.)[citation needed] By 1985 York had added miracle-performance to his repertoire. He would materializesacred, healing ash in front of his followers, much in the fashion of Sathya Sai Baba.[19] In 1988 York was convicted of obtaining a passport with a false birth certificate.[20]
Government officials acquired the property of Tama-Re through asset forfeiture in 2005 and then sold it. The buildings and monuments have since been demolished.
and Liberian Senator Francis Y.S. Garlawolu have been among those working on a variety of avenues of appeal, and the Southern Regional Director of the Rainbow/PUSHCoalition also pledged his support.[31] Yorks 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 D. York who is listed in court documents as the defendant (one of Yorks sons is named Dwight, and sometimes the claim is made that it is Yorks son and not York himself who is or should be the real defendant),[32][33] or that York was set up by his son Jacob in coordination with al Qaeda-linked American mosques jealous of Yorks influence among black Muslims.[citation needed] In October 2004 York 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 dont 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.[34] York believes that his betrayal, arrest, trial and imprisonment (and eventual release) were foretold in chapter 10 of Zecharia Sitchins The Wars of the Gods and the Men, with York being represented by Mar-duq in that story.[35]
Teachings[edit]
Main article: Nuwaubianism It has been suggested that Nuwaubianism be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since September 2011. York has taught an ever-changing and multifaceted doctrine over the years, with influences and borrowings from many sources, that includes a baroque cosmology, unconventional theories about race and human origins, cryptozoological andextraterrestrial speculations, black nationalism, conspiracy theory, and religious practices invented or borrowed from many existing religions.
Descent[edit]
York claims to have been born in Omdurman, Sudan.[32] His mother is Mary C. York neWilliams, now also known as Faatimah Maryam, who at the time was married to David Piper York. York claims that his biological father was Al Haadi Abdur Rahman Al Mahdi, whom Williams is said to have met while she was a student in the Sudan.[citation needed] 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.[32] David and Mary York have four other children: David, Dale, Debra and Dennis.[39] David Piper York is said to be a descendant of "Ben" York of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.[39] In one telling, Ben York is the son of Old York, also known as Yusuf Ben Ali, and these Yorks were named after Black-A-Moors from the English House of York.[40] In another telling, Ben Yorks mother is said to have been Warda Saliym "Rose" Idriys, "a YamasseeNative American Moor," whose father is Old York/Yusuf Ben Ali, which would make Ben York the grandson of Old York.[41] Idriys was also the "daughter of Sharufa Salim Idriys, of the Idrisid Dynasty"[40] A grandfather on Yorks fathers side (Al Haadi Abdur Rahman Al Mahdis) was As Sayyid Abdur Rahman Al Mahdi. This would make York also a descendant of Muhammad Ahmad.[42] On his mothers side, Clarence Daniel "Bobby" Williams, Mary C. Yorks 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"[40] but another genealogical tree shows Bobby Williamss father as unknown and his mother as "Madam Decontee" of theBassa tribe of Liberia.[39] York variously claimed to be simultaneously a Yamassee Native American chief, a CelticMoor from the house of York, a Nubian Egyptian, a Liberian yet with royal Sudanese blood and so forth.[citation needed]
Aliases[edit]
York has been known by a multitude of aliases over the years, many of which he used simultaneously,[43] including the following:
Dr. York Malakai Z. York Dr. Malachi Z. York-El H.E. Dr. Malachi Kobina Yorke H.E. Dr. Malachi Kobina Ocran Imperial Grand Potentate Noble: Rev. Dr. Malachi Z. York 33/720
Abba Essa Abba Issa Isa Abdullah Akhtah Isa Abdullah Isa Al-Masih Imaam Isa Imam Isa Abu-Bakr Al Hajj Al Imaam Isa Al Hajj Al Imaam Isa AbdAllah Muhammad Al Mahdi
Rabboni Yshua Bar El Haady Amar Utu Sabathil Maku Baa Baa Baba Bassa Afrika The Master Teacher Master Teacher H.E. Sunu: Bawaba Bassa Afriqa
Consul General: Dr. Malachi Z. York Grand Al Mufti "Divan" Noble Rev. Dr. Malichi Z. York-El
Neter: Aaferti Atum-Re Nezder: Aaferti Atum Re Paa Nadir-Amunnub-ReAkh Ptah-HanutDjedi-Atum Re (Amun Re)
Malachi Zodok Melki Sedec Nayya Malachizodoq-El Malachi Zodoq Melchi Zedek
Isa Alibad Mahdi The Angel Michael Michael the Great En. Marduq. Gal En-Mar. Duq
Amunnubi Rooakhptah Amunubi Rah Ka Ptah Amun Nubi Raakh Ptah Amun-Nubi Re Ankh Ptah Amunnebu Reakh Tah Amun Nebu Re As Sayyid Al Imaam Issa Al Haadi Al Mahdi
Murdoq Al Qubt El Qubt Copt Al Khidr The Green One The One Yanuwn Yaanuwn Rabboni D.D.
Paa Munzul Nazdur Amun Nub Reakh Ptah Shil Paa Hanutu
Paa Munzul Nazdur Amun Nub Reakh Ptah Shil Hanutu Djedi
The Grand Hierophant:Tuhuti Chief Black Thunderbird Eagle The Reformer et alii
Asayeed El Imaam Issa El Haaiy El Mahdi Isa AbdAllah Ibn Abu Bakr Muhammad Isa al Haadi al-Mahdi Isa Muhammad
Notes[edit]
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America Tawheed Publications 1988, p. 1 . Philips shows that in 1975 Yorks publications changed his declared birth year from 1935 to 1945, to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the birth of The Mahdi, who is popularly believed to have been born in 1845. See also York's birth certificate as shown on then uwaubian-hotep.net website. 2. Jump up^ Moser, Bob "Savior in a Strange Land: A black supremacist cult leader meets his match in rural Georgia"Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Report 107 (Fall, 2002) [1] 3. ^ Jump up to:
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Al Mahdi for leave to change his name to Malachi York 15 January 1993 [2]
4. Jump up^ Osinski, Bill "Cult leader ignored his own rules" Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionJuly 7, 2002 [3] 5. Jump up^ Lewis, James (ed.) Odd Gods: New Religions and the Cult ControversyPrometheus Books 2001 6. Jump up^ York, Mary C. Affidavit of confirmation of true birth records of Malachi Kobina York/Yorke by myself his biological mother 19 April 2001
7. Jump up^ York, Malachi Z. The Ansaar Cult, Rebuttal to the Slanderers p. 57 8. Jump up^ Philips, Abu Ameenah Bilal The Ansar Cult in America Tawheed Publications 1988, p. 3 9. Jump up^ McKee, Susan "A Provisional History of Muslims in the United States" (glossary from work-in-progress)[4] 10. ^ Jump up to: Ourstory!" 11. Jump up^ Arson was nothing unusual in New York City in the 1970s, however; seehttp://www.demographia.com/db-sbrx-txt.htm 12. ^ Jump up to:
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Cults and Religions, Watchman Fellowship ministry 13. Jump up^ Heimlich, Adam "Black Egypt: A Visit to TamaRe" New York Press 8 November 2000 [5] see also: Hevesi, Dennis "Muslims Leave Bushwick: The Neighbors Ask Why" New York Times 24 April 1994 14. Jump up^ "Record News", Sounds, 14 December 1985, p. 6 15. Jump up^ York, Malachi Z. "Els Quraan 18:6082, What It Means Today" The Truth (Bulletin), The 7 Heads and the 10 Horns(1993) p. 12 16. Jump up^ York, Malachi Z. The Ansaar Cult, Rebuttal to the Slanderers 17. Jump up^ http://www.masonicinfo.com/york.htm 18. Jump up^ In the matter of the Application of Dwight York a/k/a/ Isa Muhammad, leave to change his name to Issa al Haadi al Mahdi N.Y. Supreme Court, Brooklyn, Kings County, 27 November 1989 19. Jump up^ Philips, Abu Ameenah Bilal The Ansar Cult 1988, p. 36 (referencing Yorks 1985 books The Man of Miracles in This Day and Time and You Are Adams Descendants) 20. Jump up^ Testimony of Jalaine Ward, quoted in Peecher, Rob "FBI: York molested dozens; grand jury indicts Nuwaubian leader on 116 state counts" The Macon Telegraph 14 May 2002 [6] 21. Jump up^ Joe Kovac Jr., New Book Asks Provocative Questions About Dwight York, The Macon Telegraph/May 20, 2007 [7]
22. Jump up^ Gabriel, Theodore "Dwight York a religious and cultural bricoleur" in Partridge, C. UFO Religions Routledge 2003, p. 152 23. Jump up^ York, M.Z. "Does God Exist According To Our Time" (lecture transcript), see also a more recent letter from York to "Najwa and Davina, Kirsten" in which he wrote: "Negroids living under the laws of Caucasoids have learned their ways, follow their laws, love their women, and her image and skills. If you travel outside of European lands you find in Africa women marry and have children very young. They live in incest. We are Africans. We have our own laws, morality, customs, rules, regulations. No not set up by me, but set up for both you and me." 24. Jump up^ Osinski, Bill Ungodly: Fact Sheet 25. Jump up^ Robinson, Matt: Attachments filed with the 2241 Habeas Corpus motion, 27 April 2006 26. Jump up^ U.S. v. York (Case 02-CR-27-1) 30 June 2003 transcripts see also: Peecher, Rob "York claims immunity as Indian: Defense raises new issues as about 200 show support" Macon Telegraph 1 July 2003 27. Jump up^ "Maku is a Secured Party" We the People (Yamassee Native American Moors of the Creek Nation)[8] see also: Peecher, Rob "Lawyer withdraws guilty plea for York: Nuwaubian leader likely to face new charges, including racketeering" Macon Telegraph 25 October 2003 28. Jump up^ U.S. v. Dwight D. York, a.k.a. Malakai Z. York, etc. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, D.C. Docket No. 02-00027-CRCAR-5-1, 27 October 2005 [9] 29. Jump up^ Dwight D. York, Petitioner v. United States Docket for 05-1503 30. Jump up^ email from M. Shabazz to various Nuwaubians, 13 December 2006 31. Jump up^ All Eyes Do Behold Nuwaubian Administration of International Affairs, 2005 [10] 32. ^ Jump up to:
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33. Jump up^ "360 Reasons to Free Malachai York Reason No. 3: No Such Person As: Dwight D. York" A Public Outcry / Nuwaubian Administration of International Affairs [12] 34. Jump up^ York, Malachi Z. "Pops Letter To Diane Stevens" NuWorldOrder Forums17 October 2004 [13]
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35. Jump up^ York, Malachi Z. Compilation of Powerful Letters 27 June 2005 36. Jump up^ Federal Bureau of Prisons 37. Jump up^ "Liberian Repatriation Efforts" Nuwaubian Administration of International Affairs [14]
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also Johnson, Joe Notaries play role in fake document ploy: York's sect at it again Athens Banner-Herald 20 December 2009 38. Jump up^ York, Malachi Z. handwritten note 39. ^ Jump up to:
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York and his African-Native Moorish American-Aboriginal and Indigenous Peoples of the Land Heritage" Nuwaubian Administration of International Affairs [16]
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"Ben York
was the son of Old York, Yusef Ben Ali. Ben Yorks parents were named after the Yorks from Yorkshire, Northern England. The ancestors of these Yorks in England were Negroid, Black-AMoors, which is the Yorkshire Coats of Arms. The name York is a British name [from] Yorkshire, northern England. York was the ruling house of England (14611485), which includedEdward 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 RiverEast 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." "The Idrisid Dynasty were the firstArab rulers of the whole of Morocco. They were the descendants of Bilaal son of Rabah and Hamama, [an] EthiopianMoor born 551-641 A.D. This Bilaal was of the Hebrew Essenic Branc[h] ofShriners who was responsible to pass the scepter of rulership from Israel toIshmael giving Muhammad his link to the Ancient
Shriner Brotherhood of Sayyidscalled Shariyfs Nobles. The Idrisid held power in Morocco from 789-926 A.D." 41. Jump up^ "Important Bulletin!!!!!!" Yamassee Native Americans Tribal News (c. 2004) [17]
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42. Jump up^ Philips, Abu Ameenah Bilal The Ansar Cult in America Tawheed Publications 1988, p. 12 43. Jump up^ e.g. York, M.Z. The Black Book part two, chapter 1, scroll 10: "I the great Neter: Amun Nubi Raakh Ptah, who did not rule on earth but rule amongst the stars, am also known as Amunnubi Rooakhptah or Amunubi Rah Ka Ptah, the sun raising out of the East unto the west, who throughout time on earth, was known as the great Tehuti, from Septet (Sirius) even called Djehuti, Zehuti, Djhowtey, or in Greek they called me Thoth, Toth, Thought, Thout, and Hermes Trismegistus. Also called by the Arabs of Islam Al Khidr, Al Masih, and by the Hebrew Rabboni, Ha Mashiakh, also called, Issa Al Haadi Al Mahdi, the grand Mufti of the western world al Mukhlas, the purifier Al Mujaddid, the reformer Al Qubt, the axis Al Imaam, the leader Melchizedek, angel of justice, Miykael, angelic being, Yaanuwn, the 19th elder Murduk, the Anunnaqi Malachi, the messenger of fulfillment and Atum-re, the great deity of the Sun, Re ra, roi raised to the heights 720 degrees, 360 degrees of physical (understanding) and 360 degrees of spiritual (overstanding), the Supreme Grand Hierophant of the Ancient Egiptian Order."
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
Facts About Dr. York Legal Case And His Innocence A Public Outcry site concentrating on Yorks legal defense Bureau of Prisons inmate registry: Dwight York A Visit to Tama-Re New York Press by Adam Heimlich 8 November 2000
U.S. v. York 04-12354 (11th Cir. Oct. 27, 2005) Sect chiefs influence felt at Clarke jail: Deputys letter to convicted child molester sparks probe by chief jailer whos fired OnlineAthens.com 18 June 2006
Further reading[edit]
Kossy, Donna. "Ansaaru Allah Community" in Kooks: A Guide to the Outer Limits of Human Belief, 1994 (ISBN 0-922915-19-9)
Palmer, Susan J. "The Ansaaru Allah Community: United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors" in The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects and New Religions, ed. by Lewis, James R., 2001
Osinksi, Bill. Ungodly: A True Story of Unprecedented Evil, 2007 (ISBN 1934144134)
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