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April 29, 2006

US: Black Muslim Leader On Attempted Murder Charge

We have detailed the complicated story of Yusuf Bey IV, the heir to the Black Muslim empire in Oakland, California. Now, with a hat-tip to Little Green Footballs, Yusuf Bey IV appears to have now gone one step too far in his blatant contempt for law and order. According to the San Francisco Chronicle and the Oroville Mercury Register, Bey has now been charged with attempted murder.

On Thursday night, he was thrown out of a strip club in downtown San Francisco, the New Century Theater on Larkin Street. He had arrived with four other men, and according to a police source: "They basically were being entertained by the women and they sort of become a little rambunctious and the management tells them to tone it down."

The club has upstairs private rooms, and Bey and his buddies were in one of these when another dispute arose. Bey's troupe asked for their money back for the private room admission fee, and returned downstairs, when one of Bey's associates tried to grope one of the female entertainers.

Lieutenant Leroy Lindo, the police source, said: "That's when the management said, 'It's time for you to go'. As they are leaving, one of the people in the group hauls off and hits a bouncer."

This erupted into a fight, which continued onto the street outside. Bey is said to have got into his car, a BMW with the registration plate "DR BEY", and then drove into one bouncer, narrowly missing another bouncer. His car was discovered in a nearby alley, shortly afterwards, and Bey was arrested.

A jail official said yesterday that Yusuf Bey IV is currently being held at the San Francisco County Jail for attempted murder.

Although he is now only 20 years old, Yusuf Bey IV was already on his way to becoming a hardened criminal. He is currently awaiting trial on a number of charges. These, and his attending strip clubs, give to the lie to his self-proclaimed Muslim "piety", and his condemning of the Yemeni Muslim store-owners for their hypocrisy for selling alcohol. He recently said of these: "In their home countries they'd be killed for selling alcohol."

Last year, in Solano County, he tried to get credit finance for purchase of a vehicle, using someone else's identification. He is awaiting a trial for charges of grand theft of a vehicle, obtaining property under false pretenses, and "other counts".

He is awaiting trial in connection with incidents which happened on the evening of Wednesday, November 23, when a group of a dozen or so well-dressed black men entered stores selling liquor in Oakland, and began to smash up the property within. The black men told the owners of the San Pablo Liquor stare and the New York Market not to sell alcohol to black men as they rampaged.

In the early hours of Monday 27 November, another shop, owned by a Yemeni Muslim, was set alight. Later that day, the store clerk was found locked in the trunk of a car in the parking lot of a branch of Safeway in El Cerrito.

Bey was identified with five other men from CCTV footage of the liquor-store vandalism and an arrest warrant was issued. On Thursday January 12, Yusuf Bey IV and others from the Black Muslims peaded not guilty on charges of vandalism, false imprisonment and hate crimes.

Last June, police were called when Yusuf Bey IV was arguing with a movie theater manager, where he was seen waving a toothpick in the man's face. Bey tried to leave without giving his name, and when he refused to cooperate with a female officer because of her gender, he was arrested. He was scheduled to appear at the Superior Court in Freemont on March 30, charged with resisting arrest. He had failed to turn up for this and previous court hearings , and a $5,000 warrant was issued for his arrest.

On April 6 he was arrested while driving his BMW near Your Black Muslim Bakery, one of the establishments formerly owned by his father, Yusuf Bey, founder of the Black Muslims. Yusuf Bey IV had his car towed away, but it seems he had got it back by Thursday evening, when he appears to have tried to use it as a murder weapon.

When the head of the Black Muslim Empire died in 2003 of stomach cancer, Yusuf Bey senior was himself awaiting charges of sexual assault of a minor. We gave a brief history of Yusuf Bey's empire and questionable tactics in November last year.

Born Joseph H. Stevens in Greeneville, Texas in 1935, Yusuf Bey senior moved with his parents to Oakland at the age of 5. He joined the US Air Force at age 17, and after four years he was honourably discharged. He became involved with the Nation of Islam in 1964, and became a devotee of Elijah Mohammed. He set up the Your Black Muslim Bakery in 1968 in Santa Barbara, before transferring its operations to East Bay in 1971.

As well as the lucrative bakery franchise, Bey owned laundries, housing, a school, a security firm, and retail businesses. He also bred several potential heirs. He had a weekly cable show running until shortly before his death called True Solutions, in which he espoused his doctrine of anti-white and anti-semitic Islam. At one stage, he even ran for the mayorship of Oakland.

Following Yusuf Bey's death, a turf war broke out between members of his family, with 51 year-old Waajid Aljawaad Bey, CEO of Your Black Muslim Bakery being murdered in 2004. His rotting corpse was recovered from a shallow grave in the Oakland Hills. In June last year, Yusuf senior's adopted son John Bey survived a gun ambush near his home, though he was wounded in the attack. On October 26, 24 year old Antar Bey, Yusuf Bey senior's son was shot dead at a gas station in Oakland.

After the violence which ensued from this turf war, late last year the then 19-year old Yusuf Bey IV assumed control of Your Black Muslim Bakery.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at April 29, 2006 3:39 PM

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