Editing Nuwaubian Nation (section)

===Morality and gender roles===

York emphasised that his Nuwaubians should not follow the moral conventions of mainstream American society on issues such as sexuality, stating: "we are Africans. We have our own laws, morality, customs, rules, regulations."{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=37}} In York's publication, ''Sex Life of a Muslim'', he recommended the practice of [[Oral sex|oral]] and [[anal sex]], and the drinking of [[semen]], advice contravening that of mainstream Islam.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=37}} In the lecture "Does God Exist According To Our Time" he also defended [[incest]] given its practice among the royal families of ancient Egypt.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=37}} There is also one letter in which York noted that in many African societies women marry and have children at a young age, a statement which U.S. criminal prosecutors subsequently highlighted as evidence that York endorsed sex between teenagers and adults.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=37}}

York maintained that a woman's appropriate social role was as a wife and mother.{{sfn|Gabriel|2003|p=152}} In his publication ''Hadrat Fatima Part 2'', York claimed that ideally a man should have four wives: a domestic wife, a companion wife, an educated wife, and a cultured wife.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=53}} While the AAC advocated [[polygamy]], in practice only the movement's senior leaders had multiple wives.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|pp=xx, 52}} York himself, one of his wives reported, had at least 50 wives.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=53}} Generally, marriages within the movement were informal, with no wedding ceremony.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=54}} York would sometimes choose marriage partners for his followers, with some accounts maintaining that in some instances he deliberately picked incompatible personalities for his own amusement.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=54}} Birth control and abortion were condemned as tools of a white conspiracy to reduce the black birthrate.{{sfn|O'Connor|2000|p=127}}

During the AAC period, most women lived separately from their male partners, in distinct women's quarters.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=xx}} If a man proved successful in fundraising for the group, he was rewarded with a sexual assignation with his female partner, inside the "Green Room" decorated with images of the [[Garden of Eden]].{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=xx}} York used his followers' wives as concubines, something designed to test their loyalty to him.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=36}} With these various women, York had around 100 children.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=xxvii}}
Children in the Ansaaru Allah Community were not taught English, but instead Hebrew, Arabic, and Nubic, the language that York invented.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=xx}} Interracial marriage is condemned as treachery to one's race.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=16}}