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2014-05-09 Africa Subsaharan

World Powers Join Search for Abducted Nigerian Schoolgirls

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-05-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
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#1 Any outcry from muslim countries?

Posted by Slinelet Pelosi7787 2014-05-09 06:07|| 2014-05-09 06:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Everybody - well, nearly everybody, Slinelet Pelosi7787, want to feel like they're doing something to resolve this horrible 'crisis'.

Posted by Bobby 2014-05-09 07:25|| 2014-05-09 07:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Note the near total absence of the term human SLAVERY? Yes, it is reserved for the exclusive domain of the American historical experience.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-09 07:49|| 2014-05-09 07:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Given that such Islamic slaving expeditions were used by the Euros as a rationale to establish their colonial presence in Africa in the 19th Century, the usual Marxist propagandists and acolytes don't want to be reminded about their anti-colonialist campaigns in the 20th Century which portrayed these populations as downtrodden and oppressed rather than rescued from the nastiest vestiges of barbarianism.

Posted by P2kontheroad 2014-05-09 08:43|| 2014-05-09 08:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Ahh, you're just saying that because virtually the entire coastal population from Lisbon to Venice was raided in the 16th-17th century.

For example, ancient navy. Back then, the Christians had slaves but were always lacking manpower for the oars. It was somewhere in enjoyment between Ben Hur and the rpe scene in Pulp Fiction so slaves filled the manpower problem. The mohammadans, why they had so many slaves they had at least three major navies and a market overstock so great it was oftentimes better to let potential slaves drown and get the foodstuffs captured.

Start with Barbarossa, who had a quite successful career enslaving Europeans.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-05-09 09:35|| 2014-05-09 09:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Slave as from slav, the Byzantines had such a enormous source of the commodity, that the name became synonymous with the practice. BTW, one of the very first acts to end slavery in the world was in the newly minted United States with the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 banning the practice in the territories. Not that anyone will credit that fact in the great guilt trip game.

Posted by P2kontheroad 2014-05-09 09:54|| 2014-05-09 09:54|| Front Page Top

May 4th was the 36th anniversary of the Cassinga Raid, which may have been one of the most successful vertical envelopments in modern military history. Since it appears we're going there anyway, perhaps it's time to dust off the OPLAN.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-09 10:02|| 2014-05-09 10:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Also important to mention is that one of the first things our poor nation did with its very expensive, very small navy was the Africa Slave Trade Patrol.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-05-09 20:21|| 2014-05-09 20:21|| Front Page Top

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