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The Dark World of the Arab Child Slave Trade‎ (AINA)
The Dark World of the Arab Child Slave Trade‎
AINA (press release) – Stephen Brown – Jun 11, 2011
While tens of thousands of adults are also victims of Arab slavers, many people only first took notice of the Arab slave trade in children when reports of enslaved child camel jockeys emerged from Persian Gulf countries. A 2004 HBO documentary on the subject was especially responsible for making Americans aware of this modern-day barbarism. These boys, who were sold by poor parents hoping their offspring would some day experience a better life, were primarily from South Asia. But instead of a life of dignity and meaningful work, they wound up in the Middle East where they were made to race camels for their Arab masters. Beaten and often sexually abused, they were all kept undernourished, so that the camels would have less weight to carry.
"As many as 6,000 child camel jockeys…languished in hidden slavery on ozbah farms, where their masters beat them and starved them to keep their weight down," wrote E. Benjamin Skinner in his book, A Crime So Monstrous.
When investigating in the 1990s the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of black Africans in Mauritania by Arab-Berber masters, African-American author Samuel Cotton was stunned to discover that African children were still being kidnapped by Arabs traveling with camels carrying big baskets. The child, usually playing alone, would suddenly be snatched from its play and placed in one such basket, after which its new owners hurried away. The children, he was told, are sometimes found later "hundreds of miles away as slaves."
Also during his investigation, which was summarized in his highly informative book Silent Terror: A Journey Into Contemporary African Slavery, Cotton was told there was "still a huge trafficking in slaves going on between Mauritania and the United Arab Emirates."
Black African children are also not always stolen so surreptitiously. Until recently in the southern Sudan, the old-fashioned slave raid witnessed villages being burned down, the men killed and the women and children captured. This was the Arab slavers' main harvesting tool of humans. Thousands of children were captured by this murderous method and forcibly taken as agricultural, domestic and sex slaves to Arab northern Sudan — where many still languish today. Darfur has also seen many children disappear from both refugee camps and towns subjected to central government attack. They are suspected victims of Arab slave hunters.
But it is not only non-Arab children who are Arab child slave trade victims. An Egyptian newspaper, referring to a 2008 UNICEF report, stated Egyptian children are being bought and sold for about $3,000 for "domestic work and farming, among other things." This trade in children is so extensive in Egypt, organizations are "employing brokers, and even operating their own web sites.
"Many are also sent to the Gulf States, with orphanages being a major supplier," the story further reports….
http://www.aina.org/news/20110611201620.htm
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Louis Farrakhan / Nation of Islam: Hatred, racism – Fascism – Pro-slavery – Advocating genocide
Louis Farrakhan / Nation of Islam:
Hatred, racism
Pro-slavery
Advocating genocide
NATION OF ISLAM'S LOUIS FARRAKHAN = ANTI-WHITE ANTI-JEWISH ANTI-CATHOLIC RACIST, BIGOT
New York Magazine – Oct 7, 1985 – Page 16
Vol. 18, No. 39 – 152 pages – Magazine – Full view
Rather than follow the son, Farrakhan took up the elder Muhammad's call — that blacks originally ruled the world and would soon regain control from the white " devils."
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZckBAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA16
Demagogues: Brothers in Bigotry – TIME Oct 14, 1985 … After Farrakhan laced a + speech in Los Angeles last month with racist remarks, Mayor Tom Bradley condemned the Black Muslim's "dangerous" …
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,960084,00.html
Hate, prejudice, and racism – Page 227 Milton Kleg – SUNY Press, 1993 – 317 pages
After Warith Deen's faction eventually dissolved, Farrakhan became the undisputed leader of the Nation of Islam. To the anti- white racism of his predecessor, Farrakhan added a heaping dose of anti-Semitism, blaming Jews for..
http://books.google.com/books?id=yKrrSa7WqNwC&pg=PA227
To Our Readers: Feb. 28, 1994 – TIME Feb 28, 1994…
The decision to pursue an in-depth investigation of this subject was prompted by the anti-Semitic and otherwise racist speech that Farrakhan's aide, Khallid Muhammad, gave at Kean College in New Jersey. The story was newsworthy in large part because it came just as some mainstream black groups were attempting to form a constructive alliance with Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. News of the speech loosed a flash flood of reportage and commentary on the subject, and at that time we began the kind of weeks-long investigation a cover story like this one requires. At the same time, we published an article on one telling aspect of the larger story: the fact that some black leaders were offended when whites called on them to denounce racism in other black leaders…
Amazon.com: TIMEN FEBRUARY 28, 1994: MINISTRY OF RAGE, LOUIS FARRAKHAN SPEWS RACIST VENOM AT JEWS AND ALL OF WHITE AMERICA AND VARIOUS ARTICLES
http://www.amazon.com/TIMEN-FEBRUARY-28-1994-FARRAKHAN/dp/B004N4AE50
Louis Farrakhan: Pride and Prejudice – TIME
Feb 28, 1994 … To get closer to them, Farrakhan must abandon his racist doctrine. But can he? Apart from his historical beliefs about Jews and business …
Farrakhan Causes National Controversy
Farrakhan's call for separatism and his assertion of black racial supremacy have caused many problems for the multicultural America. …
http://www.iearn.org/hgp/aeti/1994-farrakhan.html
Online NewsHour: Million Man March – October 13, 1995
… Louis Farrakhan is the apostle of black racism and anti-semitism. He represents a philosophy of a black nation within a nation.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/race_relations/race_relations_10-13b.html
CNN – Controversy picks up pace – Oct. 16, 1995
Oct 16, 1995 … They had some support from others: "I agree Louis Farrakhan is a racist. He says white people are children of the devil. …
http://www-cgi.cnn.com/US/9510/megamarch/10-15/pm/index.html
CNN – Reaction to Clinton's speech varies – Oct. 17, 1995
Oct 17, 1995 … "Farrakhan is a racist and anti-Semite, unhinged by hate. He has no place in American public life, and all who would lead must say so." …
http://www-cgi.cnn.com/US/9510/megamarch/10-16/clinton/update/index.html
CNN – Million Man March – Oct. 17, 1995
… Farrakhan has been branded a racist, separatist, sexist and anti-Semite. Farrakhan's rhetoric has not been tempered by the popularity of the …
http://www.cnn.com/US/9510/megamarch/10-17/notebook/index.html
THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON: THE REACTION;With Farrakhan Speaking, a …Oct 17, 1995 … Farrakhan is a racist. He is unhinged by hate. He has no place in American public life and all who lead must say so." …
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/17/us/march-washington-reaction-with-farrakhan-speaking-chorus-gop-critics-joins.html
THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON: THE GENERAL;Powell Praises Marchers, But Denounces Farrakhan
…Oct 17, 1995 … General Colin L. Powell said today that he deplored Louis Farrakhan's "racist and anti-Semitic expressions," but he praised the Million Man …
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00E0D91039F934A25753C1A963958260
Nation's Campuses Confront An Expanding Racial Divide – NYTimes.com Oct 25, 1995
… In interviews, blacks generally said that the outrage of whites over the Simpson verdict and their tendency to view the Million Man March simply in terms of Louis Farrakhan's involvement was evidence of how ingrained white racism is.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02E2D91E39F936A15753C1A963958260&pagewanted=all
frontline: the two nations of black america: interview with eldridge cleaver [1997]… GATES: We were talking about black leadership. What's your take on the Million Man March and Minister Farrakhan?
CLEAVER: I think the Million Man March will go down in history as the defining episode for a generation of people and I know Minister Farrakhan personally and have known him for years. And my overall decision on Farrakhan is that the Afro-American people are not going to follow him anywhere and as General Colin Powell said in his famous commencement address at Howard University, he said that after what we've been through and after coming this far we cannot afford to take a detour through the swamps of hatred and that is the Achilles heel of Farrakhan is that the doctrine of the Nation of Islam is a racist doctrine and the Afro-American people are not racist people. We are anti-racist people.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/interviews/ecleaver2.html
Editorials on file: Volume 27
Facts on File, Inc – 1996 – Snippet view – Page 304
Farrakhan, once regarded as a leading advocate of black separatism, had been accused by critics of being anti-Semitic and racist. Farrakhan' s trip was criticized by some US black leaders, including Randall Robinson,.. group TransAfrica, who had said Farrakhan had given comfort to oppressive governments in Nigeria and Sudan, it was reported Feb. 25
http://books.google.com/books?&id=mM5AAQAAIAAJ&dq=robinson
The Catholic world report: Volume 6
(Ignatius Press,) 1996 – Snippet view (Page 55)
You participated in the Million Man March on Washington last October, led by Black Muslim leader Louis Farra- khan. Why? Isn't Farrakhan a racist and anti- Catholic?
http://books.google.com/books?&id=zN0tAAAAYAAJ&dq=farra
The One-Man March
Feb 8, 1998 … Among his favored targets are Malcolm X, Spike Lee, Louis Farrakhan — "our most highly respected racist and all-purpose lunatic" — and …
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/02/08/reviews/980208.08goodmat.html
The Farrakhan phenomenon: race, reaction, and the paranoid style in American politics
– Page 313
Robert Singh – [Georgetown University Press,] 1997 – 340 pages – Preview
Preaching racial reconciliation, Farrakhan practices a politics of polarization and division; proselytizing for racial comity, he advances mutual racial animus; proclaiming his boundless humanitarian love, he readily capitalizes upon
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZUrdJhtBbAMC&pg=PA313
Books: Indignant Sanity – TIME
Nov 22, 1999 … They have, he says, left the articulation of the African-American case to black racists and demagogues (Louis Farrakhan, for example) and to …
BBC News | UK | Opponents attack Farrakhan ruling
Jul 31, 2001 … The government and anti-racist groups have condemned a High Court decision to allow controversial US black political leader Louis Farrakhan …
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1466232.stm
Nation of Islam | Southern Poverty Law CenterFarrakhan's racist venom continued, to the point that he was banned in 1986 from entering the United Kingdom, where officials cited concerns for racial …
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/nation-of-islam
War and slavery in Sudan – Page 161 Jok Madut Jok – University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001 – 211 pages
it is common knowledge that the Nation of Islam receives considerable financial assistance from Sudan and Libya…
http://books.google.com/books?id=SAs9Ch9iyRQC&pg=PA161
UK moves to bar U.S. activist – CNN
Mar 12, 2002 … Farrakhan, a father of nine, has been dubbed a "black racist" after using inflammatory language in speeches.
He has described whites as "devils" and Judaism as a "gutter religion" with Jews being called "bloodsuckers" who got rich by oppressing blacks.
In a statement issued after the High Court decision, Blunkett said: "As Home Secretary it is my responsibility to ensure that people who are likely to be a threat to public order in this country are excluded.
"I continue to think that Mr Farrakhan, were he to come here, would be a threat to public order."
http://articles.cnn.com/2002-03-12/world/uk.farrakhan_1_louis-farrakhan-high-court-britain?_s=PM:WORLD
Conspiracy theories in American history: an encyclopedia: Volume 1 – Page 248
Peter Knight – [ABC-CLIO,] 2003 – 925 pages
He has also been accused of more general racism toward white people for his adherence to many of the teachings of … A firm proponent of race separatism, Farrakhan has preached the evils of blacks marrying nonblacks (and whites in particular). Farrakhan also invokes well-worn images of conspiracy in his rhetoric, including references to Masonic orders
http://books.google.com/books?id=qMIDrggs8TsC&pg=PA248
American voices: an encyclopedia of contemporary orators – Page 158
Bernard K. Duffy, Richard W. Leeman – 2005 – 486 pages – Google eBook – Preview
Implicit in this explicit acknowledgment of past wrongs is the rhetorical shift which Farrakhan uses to reconstitute his white audience: a repudiation of the Nation of Islam's depiction of whites as "devils" and inherently evil,
http://books.google.com/books?id=dqEOLyqYz2EC&pg=PA158
BBC NEWS | Americas | Louis Farrakhan reveals illness
Sep 23, 2006 … Louis Farrakhan is one of America's most famous black men … Even the overtly racist Gadaffi is shamelessly lionized. This is just another …
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5372918.stm
My religion is a distraction, says Muslim poised to enter Congress …Sep 24, 2006… with the Nation of Islam, the radical group that promotes black rights and whose leader, Louis Farrakhan, has made racist statements. …
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1529700/My-religion-is-a-distraction-says-Muslim-poised-to-enter-Congress.html
Christopher Hitchens – An Atheist Responds – washingtonpost.com
Jul 14, 2007 … Isn't it true that Louis Farrakhan's crackpot racist group gets young people off drugs? Doesn't Hamas claim to provide social services to the downtrodden? If you credit any one religion with motivating good deeds, how (without declaring yourself to be sectarian) can you avoid crediting them all? And is not endless warfare between the faiths to be added to the list of horrors I just mentioned? Just look at how the "faith-based" are behaving in today's Iraq…
Richard Cohen – Obama's Farrakhan Test – washingtonpost.com
Jan 15, 2008 … Maybe for Wright and some others, Farrakhan "epitomized greatness." For most Americans, though, Farrakhan epitomizes racism, particularly in the form of anti-Semitism. Over the years, he has compiled an awesome record of offensive statements, even denigrating the Holocaust by falsely attributing it to Jewish cooperation with Hitler — "They helped him get the Third Reich on the road." His history is a rancid stew of lies.
The Farrakhan factor – Washington Times
Mar 4, 2008 … Q: Do you accept the support of Louis Farrakhan? (The question arose because the longtime racist and anti-Semitic leader of the racist and …
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/mar/4/the-farrakhan-factor/
44 – Obama Decries Farrakhan Statements
Jan 15, 2008 … "I decry racism and anti-Semitism in every form and strongly condemn the anti- Semitic statements made by Minister Farrakhan," Obama said in the statement….
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/01/obama-decries-farrakhan-statem-1.html
BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Dutch MP refused entry to Britain
Feb 12, 2009 … Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan barred on the grounds that his allegedly racist and anti-Semitic views could threaten public order …
Encyclopedia of American religious history: Volume 1 – Page 400
Edward L. Queen, Stephen R. Prothero, Gardiner H. Shattuck – 2009 – 1200 pages – Preview
When Malcolm broke with the NOI, Farrakhan replaced him as national representative and also led the attack upon Malcolm within the … His references to "white devils" and his avowed racial separatism also brought him much attention.
http://books.google.com/books?id=u-_6P2rMy2wC&pg=PA400
Look who's talking – Washington Times
Jul 20, 2010 … What I have seen are some other more obvious representations of racism: Louis Farrakhan's assertions that whites are "devils" and that Jews are "hook-nosed liars, murderers and thieves," while calling for their extermination; Malik Shabbaz's and New Black Panther Party's intimidation of white poll watchers and voters; NBPP instructions to "kill some crackers [and] white babies"(I think that is illegal); The NAACP lobby for legislation that benefits only black people, at the expense of other ethnicities; Obama's assumption that a white cop assaulted Professor Gates due to skin color, his reference to "typical white people" or considering minorities incapable of succeeding, without ethnically discriminatory government benefits.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2010/jul/20/look-whos-talking/
Is NAACP blind to Farrakhan & Co.? The Nation of Islam is built on racism and lies. Stanley Crouch. Monday, July 19th 2010, 4:00 AM …
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/07/19/2010-07-19_is_naacp_blind_to_farrakhan__co.html
'A Decade of Activism'‎
The Link – Christina Bell – Feb 15, 2011
Farrakhan has been accused of making racist statements against Jews and whites several times. King took pains to distance himself from Farrakhan and to downplay Farrakhan's current role in civil rights activism.
http://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/1034
Louis Farrakhan Continues Anti-Semitic Campaign At Annual Saviours' Day Conference
New York, NY, March 1, 2011 …
Anti-Defamation League (press release)
Farrakhan, who has a long history of anti-Semitic and racist statements, addressed the Nation of Islam's 2011 Saviours' Day convention at the Allstate Arena …
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/NatIsl_81/5987_81.htm
FARRAKHAN = SUPPORTING RACIST SLAVERY BY ARAB-MUSLIMS
Farrakhan and the Sudan slave trade
NY Spartacist Workers Vanguard, 2 February 1996
…Farrakhan's support to the Sudanese slave masters is yet another example of his utterly reactionary program and purpose…
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/33/170.html
Slavery Is an Issue Again – New York Times… of Sudan in a black slave trade — and about the support that Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, has voiced for the Sudanese Government.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9c07e5d91439f937a15750c0a960958260
Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam on Slavery in the Sudan
Slavery in the Sudan has come to increasing public attention during the country's 16 year war waged by the Muslim north against the black Christian south
Despite mounting evidence pointing to the disturbing reality of Black enslavement in the Sudan, Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam maintain ties with Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and leader of Sudan's ruling party, Hassan al-Turabi. Under this leadership, the country has become a base for Islamic extremist terrorism, and Muslim enslavement of Sudanese Blacks has persisted.
The Minister refuses to condemn the current regime regarding this atrocity occurring in Africa to his fellow Blacks.
http://www.adl.org/issue_nation_of_islam/farrakhan_and_slavery_in_sudan.asp
Facts on File, Inc – 1996 – Snippet view (Page 310)
But of special concern to them should be Mr. Farrakhan's relationship with the Sudanese government, not just because Sudan is engaged in the export of terrorism, but also because the inhuman practice of chattel slavery is a thriving …
http://books.google.com/books?&id=mM5AAQAAIAAJ&dq=chattel
Slavery in Sudan Proof for Farrakhan: World action needed to end …Jun 18, 1996 … "WHERE IS THE PROOF?" asked Minister Louis Farrakhan of the …… Slavery in Sudan Proof for Farrakhan: World action needed to end trade … they could raid Dinka villages and remove support for the rebels. ..
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1996-06-18/news/1996170065_1_slavery-in-sudan-sudanese-government-southern-sudan
The modern African state: quest for transformation – Page 159
Godfrey Mwakikagile – 2001 – 251 pages – Preview
of the London-based opposition newspaper, Sudan Democratic Gazette. He was holding the latter position when he … As he told his listeners: "I would have expected Farrakhan to keep quiet about the issue of slavery, not to deny it…
http://books.google.com/books?id=zw6PgwJVaMwC&pg=PA159
FASCIST LOUIS FARRAKHAN, NATION OF ISLAM
Black leadership – Page 176
Manning Marable – 1998 – 238 pages – Google eBook – Preview
Farrakhan's racial fundamentalism has unmistakable parallels with fascist and white racist ideologies and organizations.
http://books.google.com/books?id=cxLIXDaKMmYC&pg=PA176
Race in the global era: African Americans at the millennium – Page 203
Clarence Lusane – 1997 – 255 pages – Preview
Like Marcus Garvey, Farrakhan has wed an anti-democratic, conformist and morally repressive program to a superficial race militancy that gives it the feel of populist radicalism. This is the kernel of fascism, and Farrak- han's view of the world is truly fascist. His vision for organization of black American life is racist, authoritarian, sexist, homophobic, and theocratic." Reed's critique is harsh, but not inaccurate.
http://books.google.com/books?id=C8_4qrrD3l0C&pg=PA203
What About the Nation of Islam's Historical Ties to Fascism?
It was widely reported when Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, suspended Khalid Abdul Muhammad, who told an audience at Kean College of New Jersey that Jews are bloodsuckers, gays are sissies, and the Pope is a cracker.
Mr. Farrakhan rebuked the manner in which Mr. Muhammad delivered his message, but Mr. Farrakhan reaffirmed the "truths" of that message! Reporters speculate if this is a repudiation of bigotry or not. But they are silent about the history of the Nation of Islam on these subjects.
In the early 1960's, at a large gathering of the Nation of Islam, the featured speaker was Elijah Muhammad, its leader. But the speaker just before him, addressing Elijah Muhammad's followers, was George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party.
In the early 1960's Malcolm X, as a Nation of Islam spokesman, mocked the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement. At the height of civil rights protest Malcolm traveled to the South, not to partake in civil rights protest, but to negotiate with leaders of the Ku Klux Klan on how to thwart the struggle for civil rights. This scene is omitted from Spike Lee's film and from the recent PBS documentary on Malcolm X.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/23/opinion/l-what-about-the-nation-of-islam-s-historical-ties-to-fascism-275972.html
Rev. Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam – PublicEye.org – The …Many of the key elements of a fascist political movement are present in the NOI, including theories of racial nationalism, racial superiority, organic leadership, and the appropriateness of authoritarian measures in support of public safety and security. The Fruit of Islam who surround Farrakhan as bodyguards reflect an attachment to military trappings, and help build a cult of personality around Minister Farrakhan himself. The demagoguery of Farrakhan and some of his key lieutenants periodically strays into scapegoating of Jews as evil conspirators. And if congruence with key elements of fascism is not alone persuasive, consider that members of the Nation of Islam have at times cooperated with white U.S. fascists around a shared interest in racial separatism and racial nationalism… dangerous… are the themes of authoritarianism and racial nationalism which underlie racial organicism. Reed warns that "because of his organization and ideology, however, Farrakhan more than his predecessors throws into relief the dangerous, fascistic presumptions inscribed at the foundation of that model."
http://www.publiceye.org/rightwoo/rwooz9-36.html
Khalid Abdul Muhammad
In recent years, the words and deeds of Khalid Abdul Muhammad have been the focus of increasing public attention. A former national spokesman for the Nation of Islam (NOI), Muhammad's outspoken rhetoric is exceedingly confrontational. His supporters seem to view his hateful diatribes as expressions of rage that traditional Black leaders are unable or unwilling to deliver; however, his numerous appearances at universities and rallies have proven to be little more than a platform for his virulent anti-Semitism and racism.
By 1985, Muhammad had become one of Minister Louis Farrakhan's most trusted advisors in the Nation of Islam. He accompanied Farrakhan on fund-raising trips to Libya, where he became well acquainted with Muammar el-Qaddafi. Muhammad's dedication to Farrakhan and to the racist message of the NOI eventually secured him the title of national spokesman.
The start of Muhammad's notoriety was marked by a speech at New Jersey's Kean College in November 1993. He referred to Jews as "bloodsuckers," called for the genocide of white people, and demeaned both Pope John Paul II and homosexuals.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Khalid.html
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