It is a story the left hates to see and loves to ignore. While leftists and other “humanitarians” in the United States and Europe are in a perpetual state of moral outrage concerning Israel’s alleged mistreatment of Palestinians, the savagery of modern-day Arab enslavement of black Africans elicits almost no reaction.
The most recent case highlighting this leftist hypocrisy concerns four anti-slavery activists in Mauritania, who were sentenced last week to six months in jail for protesting the enslavement of a ten-year-old girl earlier in August in Nouakchott, the country’s capital. According to a report by Amnesty International, the convicted men belong to the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement in Mauritania (IRA), an anti-slavery NGO. Others who took part in the protest said they were beaten by police and imprisoned but let go after a few days.
“The draconian response to the work of these activists suggests that the Mauritanian authorities are still trying to cover up the fact that slavery takes place in the country,” said an Amnesty International official.
According to the Amnesty International account, the IRA discovered the child slave in Nouakchott, and reported the matter to police. Owning a slave was made a crime in Mauritania in 2007. It calls for a penalty of up to ten years in prison and fines ranging from US $2,000 to $4,000. A prison term of up to two years is also mandated for anyone who “facilitates” slavery.
“But the law does not allow representatives of civil society groups to attend the trial,” stated the United Nations (UN) news agency, IRIN.
In Mauritania, the anti-slavery group SOS Esclaves estimates there are about 500,000 black African slaves among the country’s population of 3.1 million. Their masters are Arab and Berber Mauritanians, who share only the same Islamic religion with their chattel. Unlike in Sudan, where the Arabs get their African slaves from old-fashioned, brutal slave raids, the Mauritanian slaves are the product of a system that has kept them in a state of bondage for generations, going back, in some cases, several hundred years.
Before the 2007 law criminalizing slave ownership, slavery had been banned several times in Mauritania. The first decree occurred under the French colonial government in 1901. In the third decree, issued in 1961, it was stated in the Mauritanian constitution, drawn up after the country’s independence from France in 1960, that everyone was equal “without distinction of race, religion or social condition.”
“Of course such an article was ridiculous to the Beydenes [Arab-Berbers],” wrote African-American writer Samuel Cotton in his book Silent Terror: A Journey Into Contemporary African Slavery, the result of his trip to Mauritania in the1990s to investigate reports of slavery there. “It was subsequently never enforced, and slavery continued to exist.”
These “woefully ineffective mandates,” as Cotton called the slavery bans, changed very little, if anything. The abolition decrees, observers say, were simply made for foreign consumption, while everything stayed the same inside the country. Therefore, it is no surprise that there have been no convictions in Mauritania under the 2007 law, although the practice of slavery is so widespread it encompasses several hundred thousand black Africans.
A good example is the ten-year-old slave girl’s mistress. She was arrested and charged but only has to report to the police once a week. The child, for whom the demonstrators braved the government’s “draconian response,” is reported as still missing. A problem in abolishing slavery in Mauritania, says one former slave, now an anti-slavery activist with SOS Esclaves, is that “the authorities themselves keep slaves.”
A larger problem is that the abomination of slavery in Mauritania and other Arab countries will be difficult to eradicate. Slavery is an ingrained, centuries-old institution in Islamic countries. It is also legal under Sharia law and, according to historian Bernard Lewis, “elaborately regulated.” As a part of “God’s law,” it will be difficult to abolish, as one Egyptian Islamic theologian, Dr. Abu Zayd, discovered. When Zayd contended that “keeping slave girls and taxing non-Muslims” was contrary to Islam, he was declared an apostate, and an Egyptian court forcibly divorced him from his wife, since a Muslim woman cannot be married to a non-Muslim.
And my bet will be: absolute no responce from the left on this site for this particular incident. the silence will be deafening watch and see.
Where is the secretary for state? is her silence due to the fact it involves islam and thus she does not want to appear islamaphobic? or is it simply blacks don't matter if they don't vote democrat?
It is probably both and she has no real concern for the welfare of anyone
outside of what she can directly control and use for her self glorification.
William
Same thing is true for religion and God in particular. There are many passages in the Bible of God punishing nonbelievers and Israelites who have complained or insulted Him.
I haven't seen this article from the right side either. You all condemn the left side when the right hasn't done anything to help either. This article is just an excuse to attack the left.
The left loves to point the finger endlessly at the right accusing us of wanting to reduce blacks to slavery and Jim Crow and of moving to oppress blacks at every turn, and yet, when they are confronted with real slavery and black oppression in the world, they are silent.
That would be the point, but that point seems to have escaped you.
Where has the left done this except in the distant past?
My point was that this article hasn't been seen in the media. That point seems to have escaped you, or maybe you chose to ignore it because you are already set in your beliefs.
This site is a refuge for those on the right who want to attack the left without fear of refutation, making you all feel safe.
You will hear no comments, no outrage from the left, from African nations, and from so-called Black leaders here in the US. The sound is deafening.
They know there is no $ in it.
What has the right done to help?
We can count on Farrakhan to speak up can't we?!? LOL
Can you imagine the American Black Muslims finding this stuff out? What a quandary! Which way do they go? It really is like watching a snake eat it's own tail.
In the mean time we should publicly put this Administration on the spot; Hillary, Obama, all of them.
Where is William Tecumseh Sherman when we need him?
Sherman led persecutions against Native Americans in the United States. What do you expect him to do for the slaves in Mauritania?
A while back a group of black journalists went to an African nation and bought a black slave. It was dismissed by the left as a hoax. There is an old saying, “If you so noybacknowledge a problem then it does not exist.”. I suspect that these slaves do not officially exist and are basically stateless. If they are killed then they are not missed.
Where is the evidence? You cannot claim something and expect logical people to believe it without proof.
American black muslims have no problem with 'accepting' all females as slaves in Islam, so I don't think they will pay attention to this tragedy.
That is, until Islam demands the castration of ALL black males. It is then they will see how the betrayer is betrayed.
The left would probably just dismiss Arab enslavement of women and children as acceptable multiculturalism. No surprise that that the left's outrage is missing. Sad but true.
I'm surprised the article doesn't point out that the arabic word for "slave" and "negro" is the same: "abd", as in abdullah — "slave of allah". Since it's that deeply engrained in their language, it will be difficult to eradicate. There is a good book on this topic by a black African scholar named John Alembillah Azumah; the title is "The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa".
The article said the slaves and the masters in Mauritania are BOTH MUSLIM.If you read the Koran,there are passages that say a Muslim can have a MUSLIM slave.Read the passages here and why the argument "You are taking it out of context!" is false.
Also the Koran in says a slave can be freed…but with the Master's Approval
It is important to know these Koranic passages to show non-Muslims that Islam approves of slavery/
http://www.antisharia.com/2011/09/01/a-muslim-sla…
FORGET ALL THIS TRIVIA… ISLAM IS COMING . AND YOU ARE GOING GOING GONE…. FLOG THE WOODEN CROSS AND DIE BY THE GREEN CRECENT. THE GREEN CRECENT IS THE SERPENT.
THIS IS THE GOLDEN AGE OF LITERACY….SAY BYE TO IT … ISLAM IS COMING AND SO IS YOUR BLOODLINE'S END. GET READY.
If there is anything capable of destroying Islam, it's the Internet. It's getting much harder for leaders to keep their people stupid. Knowledge is a cult's worst enemy.
A non-muslim is dangerous when he does NOT follow his faith.
A Muslim is dangerous when he DOES.
Dante placed Muhammad in hell as a false prophet.
"Arab Winter"
Blue beard was a Muslim. His story is told in the tales of Arabian Nights. Enough said.
To Muslims, all relationships are of dominance/submission.
If they can't be dominant, they sulk, whine and claim victim status to sympathetic bleeding-heart liberals, while secretly nursing their pent-up fury and humiliation.
Once they think they might get the upper hand, the sulking immediately flips into murderous hostility.
Evil Mohammedan pirate chiefs and wannabe jihad gang bosses dreaming of turning the entire world into a sharia hellhole – slaves! booty! little girls and boys to rape! churches and temples and synagogues to burn! all those books and paintings to burn! all those musical instruments and statues to smash with vicious vandalistic pleasure! all those pet dogs to kill! …with what slavering pleasure does he lie awake o'nights dreaming of annihilating just about everything good, precious and lovely that humanity has ever managed to create? – has NO idea of the firepower of the Infidels if once they wake up.
So, kuffars, beware the coming Islamageddon. Once Muslims can take on the West there'll be an orgy of rape, murder, torture and mutilation that will make the two previous world wars seem like a family squabble…
Islam is the only 'Mythological tale at moon light' that it is a crime to laugh during or after the tale.
The MUSLIM is not encouraged to read THE Quran and come to HIS OR HER own conclusion…This is brain washing, pure and simple.
Christians are not encouraged to read the Bible and come to his/her own conclusion. If they were then there would be a lot less Christians. Most people would find the actions of God and the Israelites disgusting. If they could reach their own conclusion.
Why is the Left constantly organizing an Israel divestment boycott against Israel when the non-Muslim Jewish unbelievers in Israel are the innocent victims of a permanent and perpetual jihad of conquest no different than the permanent and perpetual jihads of conquest also being waged against the non-Muslim Hindu unbelievers in Kashmir, Jammu, and India, the non-Muslim Buddhist unbelievers in Thailand, the non-Muslim Christian unbelievers in the Philippines, the non-Muslim atheist and Orthodox Christian unbelievers in Chechnya and Russia, the non-Muslim animist and Christian unbelievers in Sudan, Cote D'Ivoire, Nigeria, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda, and the non-Muslim Orthodox Christian unbelievers in Bosnia and Kosovo? Shouldn't the Left be organizing a divestment boycott against Mauritania, Sudan, Somalia, and other Islamic countries that refuse to stop slavery and that also wage jihad against non-Muslim unbelievers instead?
ObamaYoMoma,
When a group (lefties) decide that oppression works wonders to promote their agenda, why would they speak out against those who oppress? It's like getting free labour to spread your cause.
However, when Islam turns it's oppression on the enablers, then they will howl, long and loud.
But don't worry over much. Islam has made the very great error of attributing their evil to the High and Holy One. He does not lose and never will. They might have been better off telling the truth about their god being a pagan.
Imagine the suffering in these godless nations of Islam, moon god for lunatics.
The Peace of the World will never be brought about by the works of todays
population………………………………………………………….William
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Where is William Tecumseh Sherman when we need him?
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