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2004-02-19

Mauritania Man Appeals for Enslaved Family

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Posted by Super Hose 2004-02-19 11:34:31 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Cybil et al and NMM there's something for you to rant against. Better yet, lead a march against this inhumane practice.

Posted by GK 2004-2-19 12:11:53 PM|| 2004-2-19 12:11:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 The silence from the Randall Robinson crowd is deafening.

Posted by Raj 2004-2-19 12:12:15 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-2-19 12:12:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Slavery in the Third World?

There's nothing there for the leftist to feel special about. Who cares if it's a tragedy, who cares what misery it causes -- since EVERYONE in the West agrees slavery is evil, opposing it has no emotional payoff for the leftist.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-2-19 4:10:23 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-2-19 4:10:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 The reason the left doesnt care about this is because the slave owners are MUSLIMS(and also not white)...and God forbid any bad thing about Islam ever be said in liberal circles.
Not to mention it might make African-American org's start focusing on modern day slavery, instead of blaming white people today for slavery in the past. They cant have that now can they?
I guarantee you if it was white people in Africa owning slaves, and doing slave raids such as are carried out in Sudan, liberals would be all over it!!!
How about the fact that alot of these slaves are sex slaves...if there were white people with black sex slaves..OH MY GOD, it would be the number one cause of liberals.
Damn hyprocrites!
But since its Muslims w/o a fair complexion doing the enslaving they just let it slide.
Disgusting!
The biggest groups trying to stop this slavery are Christian groups...and while the left find it easy to have solidarity with Muslims, they surely will never let theirselves find any solidarity with Christians...not even to end modern day chattel slavery!
Its so wretched of the left, it makes me wanna puke.

Posted by TS 2004-2-19 6:29:48 PM|| 2004-2-19 6:29:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 the United Nations, U.S. State Department and human rights groups have said it persists in the continentâs north and west.

These kind of statements drive me nuts. Slavery does not result result from geographic factors. Therefore to say it occurs in certain geographic locations without saying why amounts to dis-information.

A truthful version of this sentence would read - 'the United Nations, U.S. State Department and human rights groups have said it persists in muslim dominated areas in the continentâs north and west.

Otherwise to TS - My sentiments exactly!

Posted by phil_b 2004-2-19 7:21:58 PM|| 2004-2-19 7:21:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#6
a ruling from a local Sharia court, enforcing Islamic law, in June. The alleged ruling said the family should be together under Ould Beililâs direction. It said nothing about slavery.

When Allah created the universe, a couple of his main ideas were 1) that African Negros should be slaves of Arabs, but 2) that slave families should stay together under the husbands' direction.

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-2-19 7:32:15 PM|| 2004-2-19 7:32:15 PM|| Front Page Top

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