Might the eagerness of people from Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar to engage in this kind of activity be related to the Qur'anic allowance for slavery, and failure of reformers to address this head-on and reject slavery on principle? From Reuters, with thanks to Davida:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States accused its Arab allies Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar on Tuesday of being among the world's worst offenders in permitting the sale of people into the sex trade and indentured servitude....The others in this category were Algeria, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Malaysia, Myanmar, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Uzbekistan and Venezuela....
"Trafficking in persons is a modern-day form of slavery," U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an introduction to the report....
hhhmmm, communists and muslims still have the slave trade going. Has anyone told the Democrats that their biggest sponsers - the communists, and their biggest fan base and also donars to the DNC - the muslims, are slave traders?
The rich Arab states -- and why is Mr. Big, Saudi Arabia, left out of the American indictment of first-tier offenders -- of course are the consumers, the ones who take advantage of the sex-slaves, and other kinds of slaves, who are all over the Arab world. Think of what goes on, of the tales we hear, when a Filipino or Indonesian or other maid manages to escape, in London or New York, or from a Saudi "princess" in Miami, and tells the tale of her being beaten, and being abused in every way, and the story is a small, brief item, and the lawyers for the Saudis quickly hush everything up (money will do a lot), and we all go on to the next item, about Paris Hilton or a remake of "Batman."
The "slaves" include, incidentally, poor girls from Iran, and that should be noted, again and again, by the Farsi-language broadcasts beamed from the West into Iran. It is the Islamic Republic of Iran, in its mismangagement of everything, that has created widespread poverty in Iran. And it is those Iranian girls, sold into slavery to those fiendship, desert Arabs, the descendants of those Arabs who long ago brought "Islam" as a poisoned chalice to the more advanced and superior civilization of Sassanian Persia, now having their cruel way with those Iranian girls.
It's true. But it needs to be talked up. It needs to be impressed on the Persian imagination. Anything that helps to distance Iranians from those who "brought them Islam," anything that helps to call into question, by indirection, Islam itself, identified so closely with the Arabs, is a useful thing, in the war -- the propaganda war -- which must be waged to reduce the menace of Islam to manageable proportions by presenting it as what it is, and always was: a vehicle for Arab supremacism.
""Trafficking in persons is a modern-day form of slavery," U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an introduction to the report...."
...someone should tell Condi that by allowing large number of Muslims in to vote in elections where they control the vote is the first step in allowing modern day slavery to creep in...
Gotta have those sex slaves for those horny muslim men.
Hugh's comment,
" . . . anything that helps to call into question, by indirection, Islam itself, identified so closely with the Arabs, is a useful thing, in the war -- the propaganda war -- which must be waged to reduce the menace of Islam to manageable proportions by presenting it as what it is, and always was: a vehicle for Arab supremacism."
Berbers and Arabs:
http://islamic-danger.blogspot.com/2007/06/la-revendication-identitaire-et.html
[This is in French so that the Moroccan non-Arabs can understand]
More to come in this same vein re. the Berber (Amazigh)resistance to Arabization.
http://islamic-danger.blogspot.com/
Let's see: Sharia law separates the universe into two parts: Muslims and unbelievers. Muslims have rights (not as many as they do under that "decadent" Western legal system), and "infidels" do not. Then Sharia divides Muslims into Muslim males and Muslim females. Guess who has more rights (err - priviledges)?
Sharia law is nothing more than a codefication of an Islamic boys club (No girls allowed!). It is the wet dream of a group of sociopaths.