Officially, slavery has long been abolished in Mauritania, but the law has never been enforced and there are an estimated 600,000 slaves, almost one in five of the country’s 3.2 million people, almost 150 years since the American civil war.
Half a million African slaves are at the heart of Mauritania’s presidential election – Telegraph
Muslim countries in the Middle East and north-central Africa lead the world in human trafficking, according to a new U.S. State Department report. Of the 17 countries that were given the “Tier 3″ listing reserved for the worst offenders, nine were Muslim countries or countries with a large Muslim population from these two regions.
Muslim Countries Lead in Human Trafficking – News Briefs – Israel National News
The reaction of Pakistani law enforcement authorities [has been] ridiculing her and asserting that there is nothing she can do because her daughter is now a Muslim [...] Saroyya later demanded that Masih work his fields for one year to get her daughter back.
Senate Resolution 632 did a lot more than merely threaten to end this country. It stated that under the Constitution, the only crimes the federal government could prosecute were treason, piracy and slavery.
This week the Supreme Court declined to review a Texas murder case in which a juror brought a Bible into the sentencing process – showing that the Book recommends death for anyone who kills another person with an iron rod (Numbers 35:16). [...] Just in case an issue like this should come up in your state, thirty six different offenses in the Bible qualified for capital punishment. Do any of these apply to you?
[Article continues at link. For the especially devout, here's another list of reasons God Almighty commands His faithful to murder in His name. Keeping slaves isn't on the list, but blasphemy is. Fact of the matter is, the Bible supports slavery. Just don't say bad words. Because keeping slaves and not saying bad words is proof that religion is moral and Christianity is the most moral religion of all. - Trevor Blake]
The Horn of Africa nation is widely using military conscription without end, as well as arbitrary detention of its citizens, says HRW.
Justice Minister Muhammad Issa said his ministry wanted to put an end to the “arbitrary” way in which parents and guardians can marry off [sell] underage girls. But he did not suggest the practice would be abolished.
Although the eternal and infallible Holy Quran says that men may keep women as slaves, have sex with them as often as they like, and I mean as often as they like, in any way they like, that has nothing at all to do with Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout. That she is now the pregnant slave of a Muslim man in Somalia is not related at all, at all, at all, at all, at all, to Islam. Just keep telling yourself that, to honor diversity and stuff.
This is a city built from nothing in just a few wild decades on credit and ecocide, suppression and slavery.
The dark side of Dubai – Johann Hari, Commentators – The Independent
Ray Coleman was shocked Monday on learning his stepson’s Black History Month calendar had declared Thursday Cotton Picking Day at Lillie Burney Elementary and invited students to dress as slaves.
Elementary nixes day for slave costumes | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger