Dwight York

:This article is about Dwight York. For the similarly named football (soccer) player Dwight Yorke, see Dwight Yorke.

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.

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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.

Related Topics:
1945 - Massachusetts - New Jersey - New York - Omdurman - Sudan

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: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.

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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.http://www.unitednuwaubiannation.com/legal/issue1whoisdwight.htm David and Mary York have four other children: David, Dale, Debra and Dennis.

Related Topics:
Isa - Mahdi - Boston

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David Piper York is said to be a descendent of Ben York of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. 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.

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: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.http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dwight_York&action=edit§ion=2

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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.)?http://www.unitednuwaubiannation.com/legal/tribalnews.htm Idriys was the ?daughter of Sharufa Salim Idriys, of the Idrisid Dynasty.?

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: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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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Early life and ministry

York says:

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: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?http://www.factology.com/doc/written4.htm

Related Topics:
Massachusetts - Aswan - Nubia - Al Islaam - Imaam - Ansaars - Sudan - 1959 AD - United States - Mosque - 1957 AD - Teaneck - New Jersey

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According to the Washington Times:

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: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?http://web.archive.org/web/20020806194210/http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020602-78205684.htm

Related Topics:
1964 - 1965 - 1967 - Black Panthers

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In the late 1960s York, calling himself ?Amunnubi Rooakhptah,? invented a quasi-muslim black nationalist movement based on the ?Science of Nuwaubu.?

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Muslim - Black nationalist

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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.

Related Topics:
Brooklyn - 1967 - 1969

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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.?).

Related Topics:
Egypt - 1970 - 1993 - FBI

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One observer wrote:

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: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.http://www.inetmgrs.com/onepeoples/Ansaar.htm

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Another source says:

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: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.http://www.nypress.com/print.cfm?content_id=3036

Related Topics:
Coney Island - Bushwick - New York - Five Percent Nation - Nation of Islam - Liberty - Catskills - Georgia

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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).

Related Topics:
Olmecs - Egypt - Land bridge

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In 1988 York was convicted for obtaining a passport with a false birth certificate.

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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.?

Related Topics:
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - The Delfonics - The O?Jays

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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.?http://www.factology.com/doc/written6.htm

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