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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
708:, 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
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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
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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. The two Beys and two other men were charged with felony counts of assault, robbery, and
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Oakland's civic, political, and religious leaders. In 1994, he ran unsuccessfully for mayor against then-incumbent
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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.
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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.
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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.
1108:"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"
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1082:"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.'"
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