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The Faith-Based thugs of Oakland's Your Black Muslim Bakery
www.slate.com ^ | 6/8/07 | Christopher Hitchens

Posted on 08/07/2007 10:56:03 AM PDT by GSWarrior

Why did the Oakland police do so little about Your Black Muslim Bakery's thuggery?

Here is the situation regarding the enterprise known as Your Black Muslim Bakery, located on San Pablo Avenue in Oakland, Calif. Its founder, a man named Yusuf Bey, was arrested in 2002 and charged with forcing an underage girl to have sex. Subsequent investigation suggested that he had a long history of rape and abuse of his followers and had by this means fathered numerous children out of wedlock. Bey died in September 2003 before his case could come to trial. His son Yusuf Bey IV has since been arrested twice, first on suspicion of leading a gang that had trashed two Oakland liquor stores and intimidated their owners, and second (and perhaps less Islamically) for running over a San Francisco bouncer with his car. Nedir Bey, one of Yusuf Bey's "spiritually adopted" sons, is also alleged to have beaten a possible business rival with a flashlight, while another member of the gang tortured the victim with a heated knife.

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TOPICS: Current Events; General Discusssion; Islam; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: blackmuslimbakery; blackmuslims; chaunceybailey; hitchens; muslim; oakland; yusufbey

1 posted on 08/07/2007 10:56:05 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: GSWarrior

Is Jerry Brown still the mayor of Oakland?


2 posted on 08/07/2007 11:00:51 AM PDT by johnny7 ("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
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To: GSWarrior

Why did the Oakland police do so little about Your Black Muslim Bakery’s thuggery?

They can ask Ron Dellums, Jerry Brown, Elihu Harris, and the Alameda Co. DAs, for starters.

Thanks for posting this.


3 posted on 08/07/2007 11:02:22 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Welcome to FR. The Virtual Boot Camp for 'infidels' in waiting)
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To: johnny7

No, Ron Dellums is mayor.


4 posted on 08/07/2007 11:04:32 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: GSWarrior

THE Ron Dellums?


5 posted on 08/07/2007 11:07:11 AM PDT by ichabod1 ("Liberals read Karl Marx. Conservatives UNDERSTAND Karl Marx." Ronald Reagan)
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To: GSWarrior
Why did the Oakland police do so little about Your Black Muslim Bakery's thuggery?

Payoffs, political correctness, putrid corruption or pusillanimus cowardism.

Oakland is under the cruel, evil yoke of the democrat party so any or all of the above is operative.

6 posted on 08/07/2007 11:07:17 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims.)
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To: GSWarrior
Why did the Oakland police do so little about Your Black Muslim Bakery's thuggery?

Payoffs, political correctness, putrid corruption or pusillanimus cowardism.

Oakland is under the cruel, evil yoke of the democrat party so any or all of the above is operative.

7 posted on 08/07/2007 11:07:48 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims.)
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To: johnny7

Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown used being mayor of Oakland as a springboard to being California’s Attorney General.


8 posted on 08/07/2007 11:12:41 AM PDT by SmithL (si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: ichabod1
THE Ron Dellums?

Yep,
"Red" Dellums is now Mayor of Oakland. Both he, and his predecessor made a lot of noise about crime without actually doing anything about it. That wouldn't be politically correct.

9 posted on 08/07/2007 11:15:57 AM PDT by SmithL (si vis pacem, para bellum)
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"If I had stood outside that hideous bakery with a sign saying "Black Muslims Are Racists and Fanatics," I think the cops would have turned up in a flat second and taken me into custody. I might well have been charged with a hate crime. As I have written before and am sure I will write again: This has to stop, and it has to stop right now, before sharia baking comes to a place near you."

Sharia baking indeed. More writers need to tell the truth about Islamists.

I've actually been in that bakery, 20 years ago when I lived on the waterfront in Emeryville. A liberal friend and I were out for a walk and he insisted we stop in and buy cookies to support the local businesses. Not a bad atmosphere inside, with the bakery counter tended by softspoken women in white veil thingies. They did take one look at us and start to giggle. I got it that they were giggling because their organization was dedicated to wiping us off the face of the earth, but my liberal friend thought they were just being friendly.

The cookies were horrible, big heavy whole wheat thingies dripping oil. Yuk.

10 posted on 08/07/2007 12:24:36 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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