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Op-Ed: Arabs Have Black Slaves - Today
inn ^ | 3/29/13 | editor

Posted on 03/29/2013 10:06:37 AM PDT by Nachum

Tthere is no Arab Apartheid Week on American campuses, but there should be. Slavery, in its most barbaric form, still exists in the Arab world and there is no Exodus in sight either. A shocking article for Passover.

Israel Apartheid Week has come and gone this year on many American campuses. It was, of course, a hoax: However much one says that Arabs in Israel suffer, and whoever is to blame for that alleged suffering, there is no apartheid in Israel.

Meanwhile, however, in Sudan and Mauritania, racist Arab societies enslave blacks. Today. Most of the slaves are African Muslims. Yet there is no Arab Apartheid Week on American campuses. Why not?

One might think American student activists would be upset about Mauritania, the West African country with the largest population of black slaves in the world – estimates range from 100,000 to more than a half-million. In Mauritania, slaves are used for labor, sex and breeding. The wholly owned property of their masters, they are passed down through generations, given as wedding gifts or exchanged for camels, trucks, guns or money.

Surely, life is not so good in a Palestinian Arab refugee camp– no matter who is to blame, but it’s undeniably a whole lot worse for Mauritanian slaves. According to a Human Rights Watch/Africa report, routine punishments for slaves in Mauritania – for the slightest fault – include beatings, denial of food and prolonged exposure to the sun, with hands and feet tied together. More serious infringement of the master’s rule (in American slave-owning parlance, “getting uppity”) can lead to prolonged tortures known as “the camel treatment,” in which the slave’s body is slowly torn apart; the“insect treatment,” in which tiny desert insects are inserted and sealed into the ear canal until the slave is driven mad; and“burning

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1 posted on 03/29/2013 10:06:37 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

So do white liberals....but I digress


2 posted on 03/29/2013 10:10:54 AM PDT by llevrok (Keep your arms out. It makes it harder for them to throw a net over you.)
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To: llevrok

So do republicans. They’ve kept us conservatives on their RINO plantation all these years with “Who else ya gonna vote for?”


3 posted on 03/29/2013 10:13:16 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Nachum

Chirp. Chirp. Chirp.

Move along please.


4 posted on 03/29/2013 11:01:35 AM PDT by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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To: Nachum

Alleged


5 posted on 03/29/2013 2:37:44 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Vaduz

Not alleged. Very real.

Slave: My True Story

http://www.amazon.com/Slave-True-Story-Mende-Nazer/dp/1586483188


6 posted on 03/29/2013 2:41:09 PM PDT by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Not so sure


7 posted on 03/29/2013 2:49:39 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Nachum.


8 posted on 03/29/2013 5:16:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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