Slavery Alive And Well In Muslim Africa
So Allah will disown you and you will be forever doomed if you are a slave that does not completely submit to your Muslim human master…
“Slaves are told that under Islam, their paradise is bound to their master, so if they do what the master tells them, they will go to heaven…If, however, they disobey or run away, slaves are told they will be forsaken by God…and their outlook is fatalistic, with many living in the belief that it is Allah’s wish for them to be slaves.”
Unbelieveable that we can hit an object the size of a bus in space that is travelling at 17,000 mph from a ship in the ocean, but these freaks still dwell in the 7th Century.
From an article in CNSNews:
Four months after taking office, the newly elected Mauritanian government criminalized slavery in August 2007. Human rights advocates, however, are concerned at the lack of progress on prosecution.
Slavery has been illegal in Mauritania since 1981, but the law has not been enforced. The military dictatorship that ruled the country for more than 20 years denied that slavery existed in Mauritania. The country is listed on the Tier Two Watch List for the U.S. State Department for its inaction in eradicating slavery.
In August, the democratically elected President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdellahi introduced legislation that required mandatory time in prison for slavery.
According to Romana Cacchioli, Africa program officer at Anti-Slavery International, “Slavery is deeply embedded in Mauritanian society and exists across the country, both in rural and urban areas.” She noted that about 40 percent of the country’s population is slaves.
“Virtually all cases of slavery documented in Mauritania concern individuals whose ancestors were enslaved many generations ago,” she said during a briefing sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and George Soros’ Open Society Institute, in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
“Under Mauritania’s caste-based society, slaves are at the bottom rung of the social hierarchy,” said Cacchioli. “Slaves have no rights and no choices in life.”
Boubacar Messaoud, president of SOS Slaves, Mauritania’s primary anti-slavery organization, called it an “inherited state.”
“Slaves are subjugated. They are dominated by their masters. They know nothing else but their masters. In fact, they know nothing but this system,” he said.
Ibrahima Dia, Mauritanian ambassador to the United States, however, said: “A large number of slaves in Mauritania are free. They are free, but they still enjoy their status of being slaves, especially in the urban areas.”
Messaoud countered, “They are free to move about, but they are intrinsically linked to the master’s family.”
“Slaves are told that under Islam, their paradise is bound to their master, so if they do what the master tells them, they will go to heaven,” explained Cacchioli.
“If, however, they disobey or run away, slaves are told they will be forsaken by God and live outside of Islam. In an Islamic country, this is a powerful means of control. The slaves are victims of obscurantism, and their outlook is fatalistic, with many living in the belief that it is Allah’s wish for them to be slaves,” she added.
“In reality, however, Islam dictates that a Muslim cannot enslave a fellow Muslim,” she said.
Messaoud said this has led to a violation of civil, political, economic, and labor rights, as well as high illiteracy due to limited access to education and training and high infant mortality.
He added that they are marginalized and discriminated against even if they are free, and the slave owner can appropriate their belongings at any time.
Dia said many former slaves have become influential in politics, in the military, and in business. But he acknowledged that “there is the persistence of slavery in Mauritania.”
“It’s like Western countries still working to get rid of racial discrimination,” he said.
“This is a deeply embedded practice in Mauritania, and it will take time to eradicate it,” said Messaoud. But he said he was concerned about the pace of progress. “There have not been any cases in court, but there should have been.”
He noted that the judiciary and police forces are complicit in the practice.
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March 6th, 2008 at 10:22 amIt’s a sick reality that slavery still exists in many parts of the world. What’s more sick is that these people are being enslaved by members of their own race or religious group.
March 6th, 2008 at 10:25 amthis might be weird… but there’s an add in the bottom right corner of this website for “www.singlemuslim.com” right below the rangerup add.
seems a bit scary, you can marry and subsequently transport your chosen muslim terrori- i mean “spouse” from a plethora of enemy- i mean, ARAB countries….
is that random, or are they really sponsoring this site?
March 6th, 2008 at 10:43 amCaligula, it’s Google generated. They, when they appear can be banned by the site owner, but he has to go through some kind of procedure. It was brought up at Debbie Schlussel’s blog recently and that’s what she said.
March 6th, 2008 at 11:18 amit’s not only in Mauritania, I am afraid ; from time to time we get a scandal here, that some diplomatic VIP come over with young girls as slaves. They get protection when they can escape, but it’s rather difficult for them though
March 6th, 2008 at 11:34 amSlavery in Africa? How is that possible? I thought that slavery was what white people did to non-white people.
I have been paying attention to this for several years, and hopefully Mauritania will finally sort itself out. I for one am not going to hold my breath on this.
The article does beg the question though; where are Jesse and Al? Here is a real situation involving the rights of indentured individuals, and not some ginned up “race” issue. I’m not going to hold my breath for their response either.
March 6th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Caligula..
March 6th, 2008 at 12:40 pmYes it is a Google generated Blogad which places ads on a web page based on the subject matter…laughable that they can’t seem to distinguish hostile or friendly…
“It’s like Western countries still working to get rid of racial discrimination,” he said.
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Give me a damn break!
Some people really do have to stretch to the point of splitting open and spilling their innards all over the damn place in order to reach asinine levels of moral equivalence …
Is this guy writing speeches for Mrs. B-HO these days?
March 6th, 2008 at 1:03 pmKind of like “black-on-black” crime here in the States, eh?
I mean, NOBODY seriously recognizes or addresses it … at least NOT without making lame excuses or accommodations for (underlying “negative white influence”) while dismissing personal responsibility in the community directly effecting/(infecting)/effected/(infected).
In one of my “nutshells”, it’s hard to vocalize and address the real basis of a problem if [one] is too PC to face the fact openly that both the victim(s) and aggressor(s) are “of the same cloth” …
March 6th, 2008 at 1:28 pmWe all know it’s George Bush’s fault, anyway.
[SARCASM ALERT]
March 6th, 2008 at 6:56 pmit happens in niger and sudan as well. But muslims like to point to slavery in america as a way of putting us down.
March 6th, 2008 at 8:54 pm