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For "Koranic schools," will law enforcement look the other way, in spite of their being fronts for racketeering?
From CNN:
DAKAR, Senegal (Reuters) -- In a dirty white T-shirt hanging down to his knees, 4-year-old Harouna Balde begs for coins in bare feet among the traffic on the polluted streets of Dakar.
Holding a rusty begging tin that is the trademark of the "talibes" -- students at Senegal's Koranic schools -- Balde says he must take back money or face a beating from his religious teacher, or marabout.
"I must bring back 500 francs ($0.90) every day to my master or face punishment," says the tiny boy. He travels from his squalid daara, or religious school, in the distant suburb of Thiaroye to beg all day in the city center.
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Balde is one of an estimated 100,000 children begging on the streets of Senegal, according to U.N. officials -- most of them sent out by their religious teachers.
100,000 children, if they're all compelled to bring in money like young Balde's 90 cents a day, are making someone an impressive amount of money, even by Western standards. One has to wonder what it's being spent on.
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Now, the booming industry has become so successful that children are smuggled from neighboring Mali, Gambia or Mauritania to beg in Dakar, U.N. child agency UNICEF said. Balde was separated from his parents in Guinea Bissau.
"The problem is mushrooming," said Jean-Claude Legrand, West and Central Africa child protection officer with UNICEF, in an interview ahead of Friday's Day of the African Child.
"The issue of begging children in Senegal is becoming a sub-regional child trafficking problem."
Every year thousands of children are smuggled across West Africa, UNICEF says. Many end up as victims of forced labor, sexual abuse and prostitution.
Posted by Marisol at June 16, 2006 6:49 PM
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Rewrite Dickens. Set Oliver Twist in Senegal and switch Fagin from a Jew to a Muslim imam.
At least Fagin didn't bugger his boys.
chsw
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at June 16, 2006 6:53 PM
Damn ... that's some serious chump change.
100,000 x .90=90,000 x 365= 32,850,000/year
And that's minimum to not get an ass whiping by your slave owner.
Posted by: Jack at June 16, 2006 7:12 PM
Dont they teach peace at a koranic school?Somebody needs to tell em that the MSM tells us islam is a religion of peace,and story's like these makes it hard to B.S us.
Posted by: Patriot5 at June 16, 2006 7:13 PM
Seize the money. Close the slave schools -- slave schools in all possible senses.
Posted by: Hugh at June 16, 2006 9:08 PM
This is an heart breaking story. Poor little child! So, what are the chances that, at the next international Islamic pow-wow, the growing issue of the evil, greedy Muslim school masters and their little victims will be brought to the floor for discussion and condemnation? How about the members of a local mosque in Dakar who see children like this on the streets everyday? Will they take the initiative to help this little boy and children like him? Probably not...the only children, for purely political reasons, that Muslims scream about and pound their chests about are Palestinian children and that's only when the cameras are on them. The rest of the children in the Islamic world who are sexually abused, used in slave labor and suffer the routine physical abuse by older males in millions of Muslim families just don't count. Maybe someday little Harouna will finally understand how lucky he really is; he belongs to the religion of peace.
Posted by: maryrose at June 16, 2006 10:02 PM
This abuse of children is nothing new. See this from 2004:
http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=17466
Posted by: Silvester at June 16, 2006 10:41 PM
When one sees the hardened hunted eyes of those small boys in rows, rocking and reciting the execrable Koran -- one doesn't need much imagination to think of the inhuman barbarity going on. The Madrassas, I suspect, are just one of Islam's dirty crawly secrets. The sadists who run them are largely unaccountable, from my reading. They are clerical figures, and may be the top religious figures in a given region. As such, they also may be the Judge, Jury, and Executioners for Allah's will on Earth.
These are small tyrants, tormenting and terrorizing the next generation of dead souls for Islam. Does anyone doubt that UNSPEAKABLE things are happening in these "schools"? Does anyone doubt that the Muslims watch, and don't do anything about it?
Never before has such barbarity been ignored and excused. Every time I think I'm beginning to understand the dark depths of this cancer, a new story emerges and I realize I had no idea before.
This must be thought of in terms of eradication of an ideology. The peddlers of the false "kinder peaceful Islam" are criminally negligent. Surely they must know this kind of thing is going on within their heinous "religion"? Yet they continue to talk to us about "religion of Peace" while this kind of filth is going on.
Posted by: jsla at June 16, 2006 10:53 PM
Also, rest assured we'll be told by Muslims that this kind of thing has nothing to do with Islam. Nevermind that it's always the clerics who teach and know about Islam, who formulate it and promulgate it and enforce it who are always at the epicenter of every crime against humanity. Never mind that they are the enforcers of Sharia, that they are the vessel which decants the poison of Islam, and the beneficiaries of all the loot and power and control.
Since when are the high priests, the teachers, the keepers of the faith not responsible for the content of that faith. Why do Muslims lie and deny any connection between Islam and Islam's crimes whenever they are uncovered? Since when is it acceptable to describe the best authorities within a "religion" and the highest practitioners of that religion the worst misunderstanders of that religion when their crimes are discovered? It's too clever by half.
Posted by: jsla at June 16, 2006 11:02 PM
jsla-
If it looks bad to the outside world, Muslims excuse it as "cultural, not Islamic".
In essence, there is nothing in Islam but whatever will allow the infidels to doze through the conquest of their sleepwalking world.
Posted by: profitsbeard at June 17, 2006 12:46 AM
This is what you would call illegal immigration. They take the children from neighboring lands, they may not be muslims at the time of their kidnapping. They are taught the vast wonders of the Koran everyday, memorizing the verses, then let loose on an un-islamic society to beg. Then it's back to the madrassa where we read more of.... the Koran. When they reach their teens they know only 2 things 1) the Koran, 2) where to go to beg/steal money. When they don't get their way as a beggar they become "disaffected" youth and violent become Allah has said that the plunder from infidels is theirs for the taking.
When are all the news stories of the great philanthropic escapades of muslim nations going to be brought forth. I'm tired of seeing the same mostly-Christian nations good deeds.
Here's a thought, instead of food drops, how about Bible drops? Imagine a C-5 Galaxy full of those little 2"x3" Bibles dropped over Riyadh or better yet Mecca during the Hajj.
Posted by: RollingThunder at June 17, 2006 1:12 AM
Bono and his rhetoric aside, Africa has enough problems to deal with besides the existence of Islam on that continent.
Posted by: abad at June 17, 2006 3:08 AM
Stigmatize Islam's laws and their direct connections with such ignoble traffics. Show that these laws are the most solid and trusted effort of interpretation of Islamic sacred texts ever. Recall that the European Court of Human Rights declared quite clearly, after deep study and extensive deliberations, over years, that Sharia is not compatible with human rights:
And ban Islam. Do it. That's public service. Public duty.
at June 17, 2006 4:44 AM
Perhaps this unicef report will spur those defenders of children, brangelina (with brave little shiloh), into action? Perhaps not?
Posted by: del at June 17, 2006 7:06 AM
Madrassas probably are active in human trafficking (in one form or another) everywhere they exist. The fact that these "schools" in Senegal were caught in the act of doing this (abominable aftivity)by no means the practice is limited to Senegal.
Just watch. There are going to be articles in the future coming out revealing madrassas all over the planet trafficking in humans.
The challenge will be stopping this, since the Muslim counries are not likely to co-operate with the western democracies in this.
If it's evil, Islam is part of it. GUARANTEED.
Posted by: pythagoras at June 17, 2006 1:58 PM
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