Dwight York also known as Malachi Z. York, Issa Al Haadi Al Mahdi, et alii, is an American

United States

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 black supremacist and leader of the Georgia

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-based "Nuwaubian" movement, currently imprisoned on a 135 year sentence for child molestation.

York's "ministry" began in the late 1960s, from 1967 preaching to the "Nubians" (viz. African Americans) in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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, and he founded numerous esoteric or quasi-religious fraternal orders under various names during the 1970s and 1980s, at first centered around pseudo-Islam

Islam

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ic themes, later moving to a loose "Ancient Egypt" theme, eclectically mixing ideas taken from black nationalism

Black nationalism

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, cryptozoological

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 and UFO religions and popular conspiracy theory

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