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From Reuters via CNN with thanks to Two Stellas.
WASHINGTON -- The United States criticized four Gulf Arab allies as some of the world's worst offenders in permitting human trafficking Friday in a rebuke Washington hopes will promote improved human rights in the Middle East.The State Department downgraded Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to the lowest level of compliance in the report, which evaluates countries' efforts in fighting the trafficking of thousands of people forced into servitude or the sex trade every year.
Victims in the region were mainly domestic servants and laborers but also included boy camel jockeys, according to the report.
It cited the case of a 17-year-old orphan, Lusa, kidnapped from Uzbekistan and was sold into a slavery ring in UAE. She was eventually "no longer usable" as a prostitute and the emirates' immigration service said she should serve a two-year prison sentence for entering the country illegally.
Officials from the Gulf countries were not immediately available to comment on the one-step downgrade, which ranks them with such countries as Burma, North Korea and Sudan.
"This report shows that in this administration we will not pull our punches even with our friends. We appreciate their cooperation in other areas but they just don't have a good track record fighting this," a State Department official said on condition of anonymity...
Posted by Rebecca at June 4, 2005 9:01 AM
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Why did he say this on condition of anoymity?
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at June 4, 2005 9:27 AM
So muslims enslave a young girl, rape her until she is a used up husk then other muslims blame the victim for their fellow muslims crimes...hmmm..where could these muslims have possibly have got such ideas from? Maybe they read about how this sort of thing is acceptable in a book somewhere...hmmmmm.
Posted by: obl r us at June 4, 2005 9:50 AM
"where could these muslims have possibly have got such ideas from?"
King states: Maybe they are merely criminals? Ever think of it that way?
Posted by: KingTolerance at June 4, 2005 10:06 AM
Yes. I think they are criminals. The aspects of the UAE culture that does this to children are indeed criminal.
Posted by: obl r us at June 4, 2005 10:16 AM
Maybe they are merely criminals.
And where had they got ideas about slavery from? I mean, it IS an unusual crime, really.
Ahh - islam.
Geoff
Posted by: Geoff at June 4, 2005 10:46 AM
Geoff-
Infidels are not worthy of any real rights under Sharia Law, except to punish them for offending their Islamic masters.
And a woman, even a Muslim one, is only worth half of a man in this creed.
Plus the 'perfect man' Mohammad had slaves, so it must be right.
Let's ask the mullah.
King Tut Tut-
Does the Koran, and thus Islam, allow slavery?
Today? Now?
And are women considered only worth half of a man in the Koran, and thus in Islam? Here? Now?
Aren't both ideas contemptible?
How do you write that in Arabic?
at June 4, 2005 11:47 AM
Remember that under Sharia, almost everything a non-believer does is a crime. And women, for their nature as women, tempters of men, are criminals of the worst sort. The natural progression is criminal to slave...
Posted by: epg at June 4, 2005 12:21 PM
"where could these muslims have possibly have got such ideas from?"
King states: Maybe they are merely criminals? Ever think of it that way?
Yes. Criminals: the judiciary, the government, the society.
Criminal in doctrine, words, and deeds.
Islamic society is criminal in nature.
at June 4, 2005 12:22 PM
"The report shows that in this administration we will not pull our punches even with our friends".How about having the U.S. government criticize the muslim countries for their treatment of non-muslims.
Posted by: RED at June 4, 2005 2:51 PM
"It cited the case of a 17-year-old orphan, Lusa, kidnapped from Uzbekistan and was sold into a slavery ring in UAE. She was eventually "no longer usable" as a prostitute..."
No longer usable.
What misery lies behind that phrase? Knowing that many of the ladies of negotiable affection who work the saunas of English towns do so well into their 50s/60s (eg Mature lady offers personal service for discerning gentlemen, and no, before you ask, I do not have her phone number) you have to wonder just what they did to this child, over and above the usual abuse. Pregnancy, VD or AIDS, mental illness, attempted suicide. Then what will happen to her in prison?
Mackie did a great post on next thread about the work of the Sally Ann in East London and onwards from 1865. I was actually born in one of the hospitals they founded there. Why is there no latter day William Booth for these girls? We know the answer. If Islam were truly a religion of peace there would be.
Posted by: Granny Weatherwax at June 4, 2005 5:04 PM
"KT" stands for 'kitman & takkiyya' in case you haven't noticed.
KT In classic double speak:
' Maybe they are merely criminals? Ever think of it that way?'
The sex-slaves are 'criminals', got it?
Posted by: Terminator at June 4, 2005 9:11 PM
"four Gulf Arab allies"
-- from the article above
In what way, exactly, are Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar the "allies" of the United States? They are not our allies, they have never been our allies. We have from time to time rescued them. Saudi Arabia has been the most malevolent and powerful promoter of the Jihad. It has never shared a single one of the political and social understandings that are central to American life. Saudi Arabia did not become our enemy. It was our enemy even when ibn Saud was meeting with Franklin Roosevelt on that aircraft carrier. For more on this, simply read J. B. Kelly, "Of Valuable Oil and Worthless Policies" (Encounter 1979), or Kelly's "Arabia, the Gulf, and the West." Kuwait, like Saudi Arabia, is also our enemy, despite a few enlightened souls (there are always one or two), who show some degree of Western comprehension. But even a Behbehani or two (friends, of course, of the unremarkably-silent-about-Islam Fouad Ajami) does not make up for Kuwait's willingness to be rescued, but essential hostility to the Infidel West, and of its current paladin, the United States. Qatar, of course, has the ruling Al-Thani family trying to win American support, especially when both Iran and Saudi Arabia threaten it. But a member of the Al-Thani ru8ling family tipped off an Al Qaeda member about to be seized, and Qatar hosts that Der-Stuermer-cum-Tass organization, Al Jazeera, responsible for the deaths of many American soldiers. The U.A.E. has come along way since Abu Dhabi town boasted one miserable hotel in 1970 -- a long way economically. Morally it has probably gone backwards from the days of Zayed.
No, not one of these countries is now, or ever has been, or ever will be an "ally" of the United States. One more bit of dreamy misinformation from the American press -- even if the rest of the story, which shows a willingness, at long last, to tell some of the truth about the horrors inflicted on the wretches who come to work, or in the case of the little cildren kidnapped to serve as prostitutes or camel jockeys, seized to be put to work, all over these morally and intellectually primitive places, with their populations entirley held in permanent mental thrall to Islam.
Posted by: Hugh at June 4, 2005 11:29 PM
A reader with the bombastic, megalomanic nick KINGTOLERANCE states:
"Maybe they are merely criminals? Ever think of it that way?"
Did you ever think about the masses of criminals in Western jails and new Muslim converts in jails, eh? About the rapists, murderers of female familiy members, about the Muslim looters,cutthroats,drugdealers, pimps, hangdogs, and crooks that overpopulate our jails?
at June 6, 2005 10:59 AM
Sorry, forgot an important attribute: The masses of MUSLIM criminals in Western jails..
Posted by: nippon at June 6, 2005 11:02 AM
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