Muslim Bakery Raided in Oakland

I guess this is why the press plays softball with jihad issues.

Seven people were arrested on homicide and other charges after police raiding the Your Black Muslim Bakery recovered firearms that they believe were linked to the ambush slaying of the editor of the Oakland Post newspaper Thursday.

"The search warrant yielded several weapons and other evidence of value including evidence linking the murder of Chauncey Bailey to members of the Your Black Muslim Bakery," said Assistant Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan, who according to the Associated Press said the raids were part of a year-long investigation into violent crimes.

The AP reported but it was unclear if any of those charges were tied to Bailey's slaying but that homicide detective Lt. Ersie Joyner said "scientific evidence" had linked the firearms to the daytime killing of Bailey, 57.

Bailey - who was shot dead near the courthouse in downtown Oakland - had been working on a story about the bakery, a controversial chain of businesses that is nearly 40 years old.

The bakery's founder is a real winner, it's no wonder it was under investigation.

The late Black Muslim patriarch Yusuf Bey founded the bakery in 1968, building his organization on ideals of black empowerment, respect and self-reliance. For many years, he was highly regarded among many sectors of the community as a formidable businessman, trying to better the lives of young African-American men. His group grew beyond the bakery, eventually including a security company, dry cleaning stores, a school and a health and beauty store, becoming the most visible Black Muslim organization in the Bay Area.

Then a year before his death from cancer in 2003, the man who had once been seen as an upstanding role model for young black men was charged with 27 counts in the alleged rapes of four girls under the age of 14. He was awaiting trial on one of those charges when he died.

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