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brain54:Thanking the god of APC for the life of this man who could not even use his position to better the lives of at least those in the south while he was in office? 🥱🥱 |
LordReed:And see you keep missing the point! This is nothing about believing. This is about realizing that morality is not established by mere brain farts; we all have 'em. It is established by way of consensus. If you lived in an Islamic country, for instance, and you found that the moral standard was on its head, it wouldn't matter what you personally thought should be the moral standard, would it? The standard is set by way of consensus. When you argue that you are a moral being when your morality does not follow a previously defined or recognized standard of morality, you argue for the sake of it. 🤔 |
LordReed:You aren't paying attention at all! I am not the least concerned about the source. As long as you are arguing against the consensus, your private delusions regarding morality do not matter or mean anything in the end. You cannot REASONABLY discuss moral issues if what you are bringing to the table are no better than brain farts..." I think it therefore it is right,"s. |
LordReed:My intention was not to counter that at all. Just wanting you to see how flawed your arguments have been on the matter to this point. 🤔 |
LordReed:That is not necessarily true. You can argue that we each have opinions regarding morality, and those amount to nothing in the end. However, a moral opinion gains substance only when a meaningful group adopts it as a moral standard. Your private moral opinion is worthless if you don't have others who share and sign on to the same opinion that you have. This isn't about mythology or religion or any of those other things you are on there about. 🤔 |
LordReed:Strawman? Recall I told you to bury your ego somewhere before engaging. You know why? If you had, you would have realized, as the host of the shows did, that the guy was not strawmanning, but literally handing them back their own argument all throughout the discussion. 🤔 Anyways, I was more interested in what he had to say on the issue of morality. I am particularly interested in his insistence that a foundation has to exist to back whatever morality you claim. The "I am moral because I say or think so," argument, which is typically what you often came back with in your debates on morals. 🤔 Here's another video where the same guy stresses the need for a backing for any position one takes on issues regarding morality and rights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOykhvDCEuM?si=oyFWpeB3nekw9MZH |
LordReed:Is that all you heard him say in that entire discussion? 🤔 |
LordReed:First, your assumptions are completely wrong! Second, you have to be willing to put aside your ego --- die to your ego-- before you can be able to hear and process the debate without bias. 🤔 |
Lordreed, I saw this the other day and thought about you would be the best person to have watch this. I have seen those of you who claim to be atheist argue about how your morality is just as valid as any other morality touted by the other religious folks. I think the guest on Triggernometry this past week, sort of argues well against that claim. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfVy9hUKa6c?si=OLpd1gn6vKmYES44 |
Namigotalktru:1. Wrong! Jesus Christ of Israel literally began forgiving them years before His death, as he made argument after argument for why his death was of his own choosing and no man's design. 🥱🥱 2. I am supporting who for killing whom? Are you sure you are OK in the head at all? 🥱🥱🥱 3. Islam has enslaved more 75% of Africa for over 1000 years and remains Africa's largest colonial master as we speak. So, if you are looking for the imperialists in Africa, look no further than Islam. And if you look closely, you will find that Islamists commit many of the atrocities committed to date in Africa. 🤔 Those Africans who were sold off to the Arab overlords of Islam--Caliphates and sub-caliphates of Islam-- were not only castrated -- over 80% of them died during the process -- while the vast majority of those who survived were literally used as bodies in furthering the Islamic conquest of other regions. (Black people were not allowed to integrate into Arab societies for over 1000 years.) To this day, they are seen no better than slaves in most Arab Islamic nations. 🥱🥱 What did Islam do for most of those African nations that were conquered? Islam ensured their cultures and languages vanished, in some cases, almost overnight. Much of Africa was Arabized by the Islamic imperialists who ruled many of those places for over a 1000 years. Go to any Islamic nation, and you will find that over 90% of the local language, culture, and ancestry of the people are nowhere to be found. In Northern Nigeria, there are literally no records from the periods before the Islamic colonization of the region. 🤔🤔 If you asked me, those whose families were sold into slavery in the Western world came out with the better deal. Their descendants are part and parcel of Western nations with many of them able to trace their roots back to the point their ancestors were sold from, many of them by their African brothers, to other people. They are no longer slaves and now boast of being part of foundation of the Western nations they were sold into. 🥱 Compare that to the vast majority of slaves sold -- 10s of millions of them --- to the Arab world, who are nowhere to be found as their lives and bloodline were truncated as a result. Even those of them who submitted to Islam were not allowed to at least live a life among the Islamics. Most of them remained slaves, unable to breed, until their deaths even under Islam. 🥱🥱 The ones who have been massacring Africans for well over 1000 years now, are not the Oyinbos, but Islam, in the name of the Islamic Anubi. 🙂↕️ |
Nna2025:To whoever is taking care of his children. 🤔 |
Lovelink1991:That's the wife? interesting! 🤔🤔 |
AntiChristian post=139209359✓[size=8pt:1. Will need to verify your claim that all the killings he committed were enabled by the Spirit of YHWH, the God of Israelites, whose Spirit inhabited the Nazarite men of Israel, like Samson, who are from his chosen bloodline. 🥱🥱 2. Are Boko Haram members Israelites and Nazarites, chosen by the YHWH of Israel? Or are you desperate for another justification for joining Boko Haram apart from your Anubi's? 🥱 3. By the way, the USA never directly funded Boko Haram, as revealed by reports. But let's assume your suggestion here is the case, wouldn't it equally follow that Boko Haram are Kafirs for sourcing funds for their killing of your fellow Islamists from the Great Satan? 🥱🥱
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DeepSight:Are non-age-related illnesses less extreme and depressing? 😒 |
BlackfireX, you forgot to include there that the Islam Anobi prescribed the keeping of slaves on hand for purpose of clearing sin debts as well as paying of criminal fines. 🥱🥱 |
uunus:Stop trying to detail the thread. The subject is Islamic Slavery in 31st century. If you cannot get that into your head and properly contribute, maybe you need to find yourself another thread to bother. 🥱🥱 |
uunus:Unfortunately, this video is riddled with falsehood. The Quran encourages the having and using of slaves and sex slaves. This much is a fact: anyone who has read the Quran is aware of it and cannot deny it without denying Allah himself. Second, the book Sirah Rasul Allah(The Life of Mohammed) by Ibn Ishaq, clearly highlights, in detail, the place of slavery in the Islamic way, both as a means for pleasure and also a payment for sins and crimes in Islam. The Hadiths are laden with so many references to Mohammed's use of his slaves and also his treatment of them in general. 🤔 Now to the topic of slavery in the 21st century, with over a million Africans currently caught up, Islam never abolished slavery under Sharia; this much we know. And so, it is no surprise that slavery is being pushed yet again under the Islamic banner. And no, Islamists who are Africans are not spared in all of this, given that Islam allows Islamics to have and keep other Islamics as slaves. So, do not think that you are or will be spared because you have converted to Islam. 🤔 |
uunus:Here's the problem with these claims, there remains no scholarly historical evidence out there to back up the very modern claim that Islam was spread by preaching . Neither is there evidence for the claim that Islam has ever been known as a religion of peace past 21st century attempts at whitewashing it. 🥱 Back to the topic, Islamic slavery has been in the shadows in Africa for sometime now and it remains covered under Sharia. This should cause any African out there to really realize that slowly but surely a great evil has creeped right back under our noses.🥱 Afghanistan recently openly admitted to endorsing Islamic system meaning that it may only a matter of time before black people are gathered up in Afghanistan from all parts of Asia to be sold as slaves.🥱 |
educatedfool:1. I am afraid Libya isn't the only country under Sharia where evidence of a resurgence of Slavery has been documented. (Yes, it is countries that have components of Sharia built in that are able to get away with this without government to crack down, primarily because the enslavement of blacks is not only sanctioned under Sharia but encouraged.) Slavery was abolished by the West, but Sharia never abolished it. 🤔 2. 🤔 ⚆ Human trafficking is illegal, and all those involved are considered criminals by law in Western systems. Slavery under Sharia is not illegal aka Halal in Islam, and those who engage in the act are not considered criminals. ⚆ Epstein was a criminal and would have had so much more to pay for had he been alive; Child grape is considered Halal in Islam and under Sharia. I am well aware that you know this, even though Taquiya keeps you from admitting it. 3. Sharia is the umbrella political system under which the religion of Islam operates, is it not? 🤔 |
In Nigeria, thousands are murdered by Islamic terrorists each year in what is now the greatest genocide of Christians in the world—more than 62,000 since the year 2000. In early 2024, Nigerian Stephen Enada, president of the International Committee on Nigeria (ICON), wrote in Newsweek: A struggle today for Africa launched by Islamic terrorists is something Western elites wish to ignore, even as thousands of innocents are being brutally murdered, raped, burned alive, and taken captive. It is mostly a war waged against black Christians by African Islamists—and therefore an awfully sensitive subject. The recent Christmas attack against Christians in Nigeria claimed the lives of almost 200 people, yet it was mostly ignored in the mainstream press. Some took notice when this centuries-old religious conflict flared in 1989, as Sudan’s jihad slaughtered Christians and enslaved perhaps 200,000 more. It ended only in 2005, when the U.S. helped broker a peace deal; in 2011, the south succeeded and become South Sudan, the world’s newest nation. More recently, Islamist attacks have spread where Islamic and Christian societies intersect: Mozambique, Niger, and Mali. In Darfur, there is a bit of a twist: Arab jihadists are slaughtering and enslaving Black people who converted to Islam long ago, but refuse to adopt Arab culture and language and who, in addition to being thought of as racially inferior, are not considered real Muslims. Mali and Niger are part of the Western Sahel region of Africa along with Togo, Benin, Chad, and Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso has been in the international headlines as its young leader, Ibrahim Traoré, took power in the fall of 2022 and is making sweeping changes. Traoré is a devout Muslim whose grandmother was a devout Christian, and he is attempting to save his country from the Islamic terrorism of al-Qaeda, ISIS, and others. In fact, resistance to Islamic terrorism in Africa is part of the rallying cry during a new era of pan-Africanism. Traoré has been joined by the leaders of Mali and Niger, and their collective top priority is national security and the safety of their people. But many Africans are not safe. Over the past decade, tens of thousands of African women, mostly from Nigeria and Uganda, have been lured by false promises of good-paying, legitimate jobs into traveling to Arab countries where they are forced into domestic and sexual slavery. The oil-rich Gulf states, over which the U.S. fawns so much and so inexcusably, are the worst perpetrators. In 2020, Tolulope Akande-Sadipe, chair of Nigeria’s parliamentary Committee on Diaspora Affairs, announced that as many as 80,000 Nigerian women were living as slaves in Lebanon, Mali, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The following year, Ugandans were grief-stricken to hear that Milly Namazzi, a young woman trafficked to Saudi Arabia to work as a maid, was murdered by her master when she asked to go home. Her body was returned to Uganda mutilated. I remember a conversation with a young Nigerian Christian from the Igbo tribe. He and his family immigrated to America when he was about 10-years-old. He described the violence he saw against his people at the hands of Arab Muslims and called it Sharia—Islamic law. “It was rough, Pastor Dumisani. I don’t ever want live anywhere near that again,” my young friend said. Every American, every Westerner should understand that, no matter what propaganda one hears about what Sharia is, Sharia’s ultimate application in Islamic nations is wanton violence against non-Muslims, and against Africans regardless of whether they are Muslim. The genocides and slavery in Nigeria, Algeria, Mali, Niger, Sudan, Libya, and beyond should serve as warning signs accompanying the Islamic quest for Sharia cities emerging in places like Texas and Michigan. And when the inevitable slander of “Islamophobia” is hurled at people who hold these legitimate concerns, the testimonies of Simon Deng, Stephen Enada, Eldridge Cleaver, and others should be shouted from the rooftops. The onus should remain on proponents of Islamic rule to explain why 1,400 years of precedence is not an accurate prediction of where the West is headed. The ongoing trans-Saharan slave trade should tell every thinking person that this is precisely what Sharia advocates have in mind for Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Baltimore, and every city and town in America. Skeptical? I challenge anyone to list the number of Arab Muslim abolitionist organizations out there. Where is the “Islamic Anti-Slavery Group”? The fact there are none is further proof positive that political rule based on Islam is the opposite of freedom. Yes. The trans-Atlantic slave trade had a beginning and an ending, the latter led by Black and White abolitionists. The trans-Saharan slave trade is alive, thriving, and, in the context of championing Sharia law, celebrated by Muslims who either participate or refuse to condemn it. Western leaders—Christians, Jews, and Muslims—had better find the moral courage to tell the truth or forever lose the privilege to do so. https://whiterosemagazine.com/sharia-slavery-arab-enslavement-of-africans/
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Algeria is another Arab Islamic nation in Africa where slavery is commonplace, with the Global Slavery Index estimating a total of 84,000 people held in bondage. As Reuters reported in 2018: Dozens of Africans say they were sold for labor and trapped in slavery in Algeria in what aid agencies fear may be a widening trend of abusing migrants headed for a new life in Europe. Algerian authorities could not be reached for comment and several experts cast doubt on claims that such abuses are widespread in the north African country. The tightly governed state has become a popular gateway to the Mediterranean since it became tougher to pass through Libya, where slavery, rape and torture are rife.… The scale of abuse is not known, but an IOM [International Organization for Migration] survey of thousands of migrants suggested it could rival Libya.… “The first time they sold me for 100,000 CFA francs ($170),” said Ousmane Bah, a 21-year-old from Guinea who said he was sold twice in Algeria by unknown captors and worked in construction. “They took our passports. They hit us. We didn’t eat. We didn’t drink,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “I was a slave for six months.” It was in Algeria that former Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver saw black slaves for the first time. It shocked and dismayed him, as Cleaver, like so many young revolutionaries of the 1960s and ’70s, believed the deception that Arab Muslims were the true allies of Africans and people of African descent, and that Whites and Jews were their enemies. Slavery in Algeria was the beginning of Cleaver’s reformation that would eventually see him denounce Communism and Islamic terrorism and become a Black supporter of Israel. https://whiterosemagazine.com/sharia-slavery-arab-enslavement-of-africans/...
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Simon Deng, a former slave from Sudan now living in New York, was one of those children, and has traveled the world telling his story: I will not forget that day when Arab Sudanese government troops came and raided my village. We didn’t know what was going on until we heard gunshots from every direction. I was only 9 years old, but the militiamen were shooting anybody they saw, including children. Myself, my family, and five of my friends had to run. But the Arabs ran after us: While we were running, they shot two of my friends. We ran wildly, not knowing where we were running. We just wanted to get away from these men, and the bullets, chasing us. Simon goes on to explain how he was befriended by an Arab man (Abdullahi), sold as a slave by that man, and given away to an Arab Muslim family in the north: I left with that man and his family for their farm and I never saw Abdullahi again. Three days later, I stupidly asked the family where Abdullahi was, since he was the way I was going to get back [home]… to my parents. For that question I was beaten terribly. Bleeding and in pain the man told me that I should never ask anything about Abdullahi again, since he had given me away as a “gift.” In other words, I was now a slave. By the grace of God, using donated money, the aid organization Christian Solidarity International—assisted by the American Anti-Slavery Group’s courageous fundraising campaigns—has managed to buy the freedom of around 160,000 souls like Simon since 1995. CSI believes some 35,000 still remain enslaved in the north. After the Western-led coup against Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, the vacuum of power in Libya was filled by warlords who opened up slave markets reminiscent of the seventh century. In 2017, Michael Mpeirwe Katungi submitted testimony for the African Union Commission: An immoral trade proliferates in total indifference in a Libya devastated by war and which tends to become a sort of new Gore’e for migrants. Sub-Saharan migrants are exchanged for between $200 and $500 and then assigned to work in Libyan homes. Others are sequestered, tortured and forced to call their families to pay for their release. In Libya, (the international organisation for migration) said in a statement, are hundreds of sub-Saharan migrants and migrants are publicly sold in markets or garages. Even more graphically, that same year, CNN obtained actual video of a night-time slave auction in which two African migrants were sold for the equivalent of $400 apiece. ....https://whiterosemagazine.com/sharia-slavery-arab-enslavement-of-africans/
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In Mauritania, light-skinned Arabs and Berbers own Black Africans—all of whom are Muslim like them—as chattel slaves. According to the Global Slavery Index, 149,000 people are still kept in bondage as of 2023. Anti-slavery activists are even thrown into prison and, the U.S. State Department says, are victims of Arab police brutality on an increasingly regular basis. In Sudan, the Arab government has restarted its racist war against the Black peoples of the western Darfur province, after having killed around 200,000 of them during the first genocide a generation ago. CNN reported in 2025 that “Those with a black or African tribal identity are being systematically hunted and killed by Arab militias like the RSF (Rapid Support Forces).” The BBC, too—no friend of countries in which people of African descent are not hunted and killed by the majority population—has covered these massacres. As part of the slaughters, Black women have been dragged off into sexual slavery. Even the politically driven United Nations, which often enables such abominations, has documented this: The UN human rights office (OHCHR) expressed alarm… over reports that in Sudan, women and girls are being abducted, chained and held in “inhuman, degrading slave-like conditions” in areas controlled by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Darfur.… Survivors, witnesses and other sources have reported that over 20 women and girls have been taken, but the number could be higher, said OHCHR Spokesperson Liz Throssell. “Some sources have reported seeing women and girls in chains on pick-up trucks and in cars,” she said. But this is not new. Between 1955 and 1972 and again between 1983 and 2005, the Arabs in the north of Sudan fought a genocidal jihad against the Black Christians of what is today South Sudan. In addition to killing millions, Arab raiders enslaved hundreds of thousands of Black women and children. https://whiterosemagazine.com/sharia-slavery-arab-enslavement-of-africans/
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For reasons that are historic, political, and racial, the trans-Atlantic slave trade has remained a key topic of discussion in the Western world, and especially in the United States. Those discussions have included everything from the Juneteenth holiday to slave reparations to ethnic studies curriculum. As intense as those talks can be, one thing is certain: the trans-Atlantic slave trade of Africans—led by African, Arab, and European slave traders—began in the 1500s and ended in the 1800s. It lasted about 250 years. Yet there is another slave trade of Africans that began long before the former, and has continued long after. It is known as the trans-Saharan slave trade, started by Arab Muslims as a key feature of imperial, colonial Islam in the seventh century. From Eamonn Gearon’s article “Arab Invasion of Africa: The First Islamic Empire” in History Today: When Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, died in 632 the new religion had already gathered a number of impressive victories on the battlefield. The armies of Islam quickly and easily conquered the Arabian peninsula before moving on to take the homelands of their various neighbours. Marching out of Arabia in 639 they entered non-Arab Egypt; 43 years later they reached the shores of the Atlantic; and in 711 they invaded Spain. In just 70 years they had subdued the whole of North Africa, instituting a new order. This conquest, from the Nile to the Atlantic, was more complete than anything achieved by previous invaders and the changes it wrought proved permanent. Within the Arabic language, black Africans are referred to as abid, “slaves.” It is a generic word that describes one’s color, ethnicity, or social status (or lack thereof). Throughout the history of Islam, it has been generally accepted that non-Muslims who were conquered and enslaved could gain their freedom by converting to Islam. For no other ethnic group has this proven to be false more than Africans. From the time of Muhammad until now, African Christians, Jews, Muslims, and peoples of other religions have been enslaved, raped, slaughtered, and displaced en masse by Arab Muslims. Anti-Black attitudes go back to the beginning of Islam, with Muhammad purchasing an enslaved Arab man who wanted to join his army with two of his own Black slaves (Sahih Muslim 1602); saying that a Black man who denied his prophethood looked like the devil (Sirat Rasul Allah, p. 243); and relating a dream in which a Black woman with messy hair was a symbol of a deadly plague of fever (Sahih al-Bukhari 7039), amongst other things mentioned in the Muslim sources. Because Muhammad, whom Qur’an 33:21 says is every Muslim’s perfect pattern of conduct, owned Black slaves and insulted Black people (Bukhari 7142), then that is considered acceptable by and is part of Islamic law (Sharia). Islam considers anything Muhammad did to be good and exemplary; therefore, owning and taking slaves, which he did, is permitted. The Muslim sources actually describe Muhammad as “white” on many occasions, and he is said to have owned perhaps six people of African descent out of between 20 and 40 slaves. Qur’an 3:106 even speaks of how “On the Day [some] faces will turn white and [some] faces will turn black. As for those whose faces turn black, [to them it will be said], ‘Did you disbelieve [i.e., reject faith] after your belief? Then taste the punishment for what you used to reject.’” Not just Muhammad but Allah says that to have black skin is a disfiguring punishment. In fact, one of Islam’s most beloved books outlining Muhammad’s teachings, Ash-Shifa by the scholar Qadi Iyad (1083–1149), goes so far as to say the following (in Aisha Bewley’s translation): “Ahmad ibn Sulayman, Sahnun’s companion, said that whoever says that the Prophet was black is killed. The Prophet was not black” (p. 387). An enslaved Black Arabian poet who wrote under the nom de plume Suhaym (“Little Black Man”) spoke of the deep racism of his host culture. As quoted in Bernard Lewis’s book Race and Slavery in the Middle East (p. 28), he says, “If my color were pink, women would love me / But the Lord has marred me with blackness,” and “Though I am a slave my soul is nobly free / Though I am black of color my character is white.” He wrote these words in the decades just after Muhammad’s death. In the end, Lewis says, Suhaym was “killed and burned by his owners [about the year 660] because of his attentions to their women” (n. 2, p. 113). Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), one of the most revered Arab writers of all time and often called the father of modern sociology, says that Black people are literally subhuman. As quoted by Lewis (p. 53): Therefore, the Negro nations are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated. By Ibn Khaldun’s time, Arabs controlled all of North Africa, and slave raiders penetrated deep into the continent, dragging women and children off to slavery. The women and little girls became concubines and the little boys—if they were lucky—became goatherds. Other boys were brutally castrated for use as eunuchs in Muslim rulers’ harems, with most of them dying as a result of the “operation.” The half-Black babies which resulted from masters’ abuse of their Black concubines were often murdered. Nothing like this happened universally as part of the trans-Atlantic slave trade—that is why the Black American, Brazilian, and Caribbean diasporas exist today. In Turkey, there are almost no dark-skinned people who identify as Black, even though millions of slaves were sent there. As British historian David Starkey says, the trans-Saharan slave trade can be described as “a genuine genocide.” A clear majority of the maybe 25 million enslaved Black people transported from Africa between the eighth and nineteenth centuries (perhaps 14 million) were traded to the Islamic world. While the West had the moral courage to end this atrocity and then feel ashamed of it, the Muslim world has never done any such thing. In fact, the atrocity continues to this day. ... https://whiterosemagazine.com/sharia-slavery-arab-enslavement-of-africans/
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By the time his Libyan captors branded his face, Sunday Iabarot had already run away twice and had been sold three times.The gnarled scar that covers most of the left side of his face appears to show a crude number 3. His jailer carved it into his cheek with a fire-heated knife, cutting and cauterizing at the same time. Iabarot left Nigeria in February 2016 with a plan to head northward and buy passage on a smuggler’s boat destined for Europe, where he had heard from friends on Facebook that jobs were plentiful. The journey of more than 2,500 miles would take him across the trackless desert plains of Niger and through the lawless tribal lands of southern Libya before depositing him at the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. He never made it. Instead, he was captured the moment he arrived in Libya, then sold to armed men who kept a stable of African migrants they exploited for labor and ransom. The brand on his face, he says, was both punishment and a mark of identification. Fourteen other men who attempted to escape the fetid warehouse where they had been held as captive labor in Bani Walid, Libya, for several months in 2017 were similarly scarred, though the symbols differed. Iabarot, who is illiterate, wasn’t sure if they were numbers or letters or merely the twisted doodles of deranged men who saw their black captives as little more than livestock to be bought and sold. “It was as if we weren’t human,” the 32-year-old from Benin City, Nigeria, tells TIME. Iabarot is among an estimated 650,000 men and women who have crossed the Sahara over the past five years dreaming of a better life in Europe. Some are fleeing war and persecution. Others, like Iabarot, are leaving villages where economic dysfunction and erratic rainfall make it impossible to find work or even enough to eat. To make the harrowing journey, they enlist the services of trans-Saharan smugglers who profit by augmenting their truckloads of weapons, drugs and other contraband goods with human cargo. But along the way, tens of thousands like Iabarot are finding themselves treated not just as cargo but as chattel and trapped in a terrifying cycle of extortion, imprisonment, forced labor and prostitution, according to estimates by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. “They are not only facing inhuman treatment. They are being sold from one trafficker to another,” says Carlotta Sami, southern European regional spokesperson for UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency. Essentially, they are slaves: human beings who have been reduced to being possessions with a fixed value, based on assessments of the kind of income they can accrue to their owners as targets for extortion, as unpaid labor or—as is often the case with women—prostitutes. Slavery may seem like a relic of history. But according to the U.N.’s International Labor Organization (ILO), there are more than three times as many people in forced servitude today as were captured and sold during the 350-year span of the transatlantic slave trade. What the ILO calls “the new slavery” takes in 25 million people in debt bondage and 15 million in forced marriage. As an illicit industry, it is one of the world’s most lucrative, earning criminal networks $150 billion a year, just behind drug smuggling and weapons trafficking. “Modern slavery is far and away more profitable now than at any point in human history,” says Siddharth Kara, an economist at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. The corridor from Africa’s most populous country to its northern Mediterranean shores has proved especially lucrative. As conflict, climate change and lack of opportunity push increasing numbers of people across borders, draconian E.U. policies designed to curb migration funnel them into the hands of modern-day slave drivers. The trade might be most visible in Libya, where aid organizations and journalists have documented actual slave auctions. But now it is seeping into southern Europe too—in particular Italy, where vulnerable migrants are being forced to toil unpaid in the fields picking tomatoes, olives and citrus fruits and trafficked into prostitution rings. “We no longer need slavers going into Africa to capture their quarry,” says Aboubakar Soumahoro, a union representative who came to Italy from Ivory Coast 17 years ago with the hope of finding a better life. “The rope of desperation has replaced their iron chains. Now Africans are sending themselves to Europe and becoming slaves in the process.” When Iabarot reached Libya’s southern border, he met a seemingly friendly taxi driver who offered to drive him to the capital city, Tripoli, for free. Instead, he was sold to a “white Libyan,” or Arab, for $200. He was forced to work off his “debt” on a construction site, a pattern that repeated each time he was sold and resold. “If you work hard, you get bread,” he tells TIME from the darkened room of an abandoned hotel in Benin City that the Nigerian government is using to house human trafficking victims rescued from Libya. “If you refuse to work, you are beaten. If you run away and get caught …” His voice trails off. The scar on his face says the rest. https://time.com/5550333/african-slave-trade/
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SpencerForbes:That's the same excuse your ancestors used to grape children and women with. Age, to them, was all about looks. They even have a whole religion built around such savagery. 😩😩 |
LordIsaac:Let him...people like him need to end up in jail.😩😩 |
Omoawoke:Rape a Nigerian thing? 🥱🥱 Stop graping women and children! 😩😩 |
Omoawoke:Stop with this victimhood. We all know that in Nigeria, rape of children remains commonplace and is even sanctioned under Sharia in the North. 🥱🥱 2. The black man is not a victim. The children are..🥱🥱 Near everyday we read here stories of men who raped their house girls only to get away with it because churches and mosques urge women to cover up the man's shame. And this is the core system in most black nations. How then can a black man. Be considered a victim? 🥱 |
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