Migrants trying to reach Europe via North Africa are being sold at modern-day slave auctions by smugglers in Libya for as little as $400, a new investigation has revealed…..cell phone footage showed African men being sold
In the West, the repeated outcry about racism is completely one-sided. These migrants at Libyan slave auctions are black, and slavery is not exclusive to Libya. In Sudan, blacks are also enslaved by “racist Arabs,” and by the hundreds of thousands in Mauritania.
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.
The silence about such appalling human rights abuses against blacks is deafening. One also wonders particularly about the silence of the Nation of Islam and Black Lives Matter.
An example of astonishing racism in the Hadiths:
Shem, the son of Noah was the father of the Arabs, the Persians, and the Greeks; Ham was the father of the Black Africans; and Japheth was the father of the Turks and of Gog and Magog who were cousins of the Turks. Noah prayed that the prophets and apostles would be descended from Shem and kings would be from Japheth. He prayed that the African’s color would change so that their descendants would be slaves to the Arabs and Turks.
Al-Tabari, Vol. 2, p. 11, p. 11Ham [Africans] begat all those who are black and curly-haired, while Japheth [Turks] begat all those who are full-faced with small eyes, and Shem [Arabs] begat everyone who is handsome of face with beautiful hair. Noah prayed that the hair of Ham’s descendants would not grow beyond their ears, and that whenever his descendants met Shem’s, the latter would enslave them.
Al-Tabari, Vol. 2, p. 21, p. 21v
“At Slave Auctions, Libya Smugglers Are Selling Off Migrants For As Little As $400,” by Jack Moore, Newsweek, November 14, 2017:
Migrants trying to reach Europe via North Africa are being sold at modern-day slave auctions by smugglers in Libya for as little as $400, a new investigation has revealed.
Along the Libyan coast, smugglers have racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars putting migrants on the perilous journey to Europe on rickety boats across the Mediterranean Sea. Now they are being sold off to buyers for manual labor, according to CNN.
Desperate migrants make their way through sub-Saharan Africa—either west or east—to Libya, a near-failed state wracked by years of civil war and lawlessness, to pay substantial sums to traffickers in hope of a new life on European shores.
According to the investigation, cell phone footage showed African men being sold, offered as one of the “big, strong boys for farm work.”
In the Libyan capital of Tripoli, an auction was witnessed for a man whose price rose from 500 dollars to $650. Some were sold for just $400, less than half the median weekly earnings of an American worker.
“Does anybody need a digger? This is a digger, a big, strong man, he’ll dig,” an auctioneer said. “What am I bid, what am I bid?”
This situation has arisen because of the European and Libyan crackdown on smuggler vessels—meaning that those who arrive in Libya have no boats on which to leave, and the smugglers have nowhere to send the migrants.
Instead, the traffickers are attempting make money from migrants’ desperation.
Libyan authorities in the city say they have knowledge of the smuggling operations in the country, but not slave auctions. “They fill a boat with 100 people, those people may or may not make it,” First Lieutenant Naser Hazam of the Libyan government’s Anti-Illegal Immigration Agency told CNN.
“[The smuggler] does not care as long as he gets the money, and the migrant may get to Europe or die at sea.”
Previous investigations by Newsweek have shown that smugglers, particularly in the coastal town of Zuwara, drew in hundreds of migrants from across Africa, from Egypt, Sudan, and Niger, using social media.
In 2015, the smugglers brazenly used Facebook accounts and charts of the range of prices for their services……
Eur says
Nothing to do with Islam….they will say, of course. Puajjjj I hate Islam.
Matamoros says
I would love to hear what Linda “if i want to be Black im Black, at the end of the Day i decide” Sarsour has to say on this one.
And also the so called Black Muslims of America.
Yeah right bro, our Muslim Brothas from da Middle East. We are in this together huh?!?!
jayell says
Too right, they’re in the slave trade together, but not in quite the way one lot of them would like. Can’t blame old ‘whitey’ this time, can they? Otherwise they’d have been using Ebay – which would have been a surefire way of getting them into Europe. But that would have been the same general sort of setup as two centuries ago, with our ‘Friends of the Prophet’ getting hold of the goods and selling them on. Strange that that inconvenient fact tends to get conveniently ignored along with the facts that ‘old whitey’ from the UK and elsewhere stopped this business where they could long ago, and that ‘old whitey’ also found himself on sale in North Africa, care of the Missionaries of The Religion of Peace.
Rae says
Who is buying?
gravenimage says
Muslims.
Gary says
“For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.”
Knowing this was written prior to the Koran, I’d say Muhammed isn’t trustworthy, (Stating the OBVIOUS),and his followers are mistreating their fellow man.
Islam: Questionable at best.
762x51FMJ says
Democracy and Islam could never exist
without the Republic of which free men stand.
Bsrat says
Surely Arab countries that are enslaving black ppl must be getting inspiration from somewhere!!!
Camilla says
Where do you think they got their inspiration from???
They have been doing for centuries, inspiration, blame someone else. The fact is it is happening and should be exposed or stopped simple. This modern need to appease people with “well they must have been told to do it by someone else”, or “it not their fault” doesn’t wash. In the middle east, white women, black women, Asian women are bought by slave traders so this isn’t a surprise. It is shameful and an international crime.
Richard says
Three times as many white Europeans were captured and sold into slavery in Africa as black Africans were sold into slavery in Europe and the Americas. At least three different Catholic religious orders were formed to liberate these slaves. If they did not have the money, many members of those religious orders offered themselves as slaves to replace those they liberated. Worse, Of those black slaves sold in the Americas, ten percent did not survive the voyage across the Atlantic. Of those blacks captured by Muslims and sold into slavery in nearby Muslim nations, 80-90% died en route. It should also be added that “the Shores of Tripoli” in the Marine Hymn refers to the marines invading Libya to stop Libyan Muslims enslaving American citizens on captured American ships.
gravenimage says
Good post, Richard.
Dave says
Powerful photo; it should be on the front page of every newspaper and the top page of every new site (hello Drudge). Can we get Obama and Hillary to comment on their Libyan policies, again? Trump for all the correct reasons , if not political, should make this an issue at the UN. Force the UN to face its hypocrisy.
clap says
The UN’s solution would be to let in more “refugees”. Fly them in first class at the expense of the West.
MFritz says
Show this to BLM and ask them if islam really is their friend!
Naildriver says
Astonishing that this is non-news to any other sources I have seen; and that blacks and the industry of black self-pity are not up in arms over this public humiliation and major ‘dis’ to their race.
BUT, only astonishing if one doesn’t factor in stupidity; and the fact the black ‘community’ has long ago brought in Islam, even if most blacks don’t convert to it, as its cudgel against white society– ‘recall the Million Man March where Farrakhan(Muslim) far out did Jesse Jackson(Christian) in rousing the crown in frothy frenzy? — and, a convenient justification for any racist motivated black to commit felonies, justified by their ‘righteous indignation’, as rather a jihad against whitey.
It is Islam though that inspires this kind of opportunism in the farming and work force of Libya that would do Simon Magree proud– Slavery, where these blacks are treated little better than farm animals; in some cases certainly less.
Peter says
Nothing new here:
Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), ostensibly the second greatest Muslim after the “prophet,” wrote that “the Negro nations are, as a rule, submissive to slavery because they have attributes that are quite similar to dumb animals.”
The slaves sold in Mecca’s slave markets (which existed from Muhammad’s time until Ottoman reforms in the late 19th century) were largely from (East) Africa. Ibn Saud, who met President Roosevelt on the U.S.S. Quincy in 1945, had black slaves in his entourage. Saudi Arabia, a fundamentalist Islamic state, only banned slavery in the early 1960s.
Thing slavery has nothing to do with Islam? If you think ISIS engaged in slavery because it misinterpreted Islam’s core tenets, think again (if you can think, that is).
Michael Copeland says
Saudi Arabia’s “ban” on slavery is for international PR.
A slave, thoughtfully castrated, was advertised on facebook in Saudi Arabia.
A ban would be contrary to Sharia.
vyx says
Muslims are the Preferred, Protected Victim Group in the west, and have replaced blacks in that designation.
Consequently, if blacks in general complain about slavery by arabs, they are “islamophobic.”
Conversely, my guess is that if a black muslim calls out an arab muslim for slavery, the black muslim would be called an apostate, or something of that sort.
Januk36 says
“Muslims selling black migrant slaves”
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Race baiting. It’s “Muslims selling christian migrant slaves”.
Jack Holan says
Remember Robert the Head of the Brits Counter-Terrorism told the Media to go quiet. PM May fights Islamaphobia not Antisemitism, Anti-Israeli or AntiChristianity. Prince Charles the product of too much in-breeding feels he’s One with the Arabs & Muslims. These simpletons are the cream that rose to the top in England not to mention Galloway and Corbyn. Would MI5/6 take orders from dreck like them? Time to put the house in order Brits. You know what to do
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Christine Dougl-Williams, you lied. It is your mithraist Bible that contains such racist story that Noah cursed his son Ham the father of blacks that his descendants the blacks will be slaves to his brother sam’s descendants the Jews. There is nothing closer to that in the Hadith you said is contained in Tabri volume 2,page 11.Idiot!!
Sarah says
After reading an article regarding how there are HUMAN BEINGS being SOLD into SLAVERY in today’s world – AND that those who still practice the trafficking and enslavement of real HUMAN BEINGS are, of course, MUSLIMS – the best you can come away with, is to whinge about scripture?
You’re unbelievable. Not a single word criticizing the fact that your fellow worshipers are buying, selling and trading HUMAN BEINGS and that the reason why they are doing so is because your filthy cesspit of a religion says ‘Hey guys! This is A-OK! Knock your socks off!’. Instead you froth at the mouth and complain about what you think is incorrect theology. And not even incorrect theology in the context of whether slavery is considered OK in Islam – oh no, because you don’t care, do you?
You don’t care that innocent people are being bought, traded and sold like cattle by your own people. Hell, if you had the money and could get away with it, you’d probably do it it too right? I mean, your beloved Prophet has said that its fine to do this, that he did it himself – and he’s the perfect man to be emulated in all ways, right?
You make me sick.
gravenimage says
The appalling Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Christine Dougl-Williams, you lied. It is your mithraist Bible that contains such racist story that Noah cursed his son Ham the father of blacks that his descendants the blacks will be slaves to his brother sam’s descendants the Jews. There is nothing closer to that in the Hadith you said is contained in Tabri volume 2,page 11.Idiot!!
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Is Ibrahim itace muhammed now claiming that Al-Tabari is Christian? What rot.
Note that this Mohammedan does not actually say anything critical about his vicious coreligionists enslaving and selling these poor people. And how could he?
He himself has affirmed that Muslims have the right to enslave Infidels.
gravenimage says
Another salient point–Ibrahim itace muhammed is here implying that enslaving Black Africans is inspired by the Bible, not the texts of Islam, yet he does not explain why the Christian West was the impetus to *abolish* slavery.
While some in the West did indeed attempt to use the Bible as justification for slavery, many Abolitionists were inspired by the Bible to declare slavery immoral and end slavery. Most of the most fervent Abolitionists were devout Christians.
Slavery has been abolished long since in the West–but even with pressure from the West, it has *never* ended in the Muslim world. Saudi Arabia still had open slave markets in Riyadh when I was a toddler.
Countless Christians and animists have been enslaved in Sudan, and the estimated population of slaves in Mauritania is a full *17%*.
And Muslims are enthusiastically reestablishing slavery in many parts of the world, including the Islamic State and here in Libya.
Will Ibrahim itace muhammed address any of this? I very much doubt it…
Jack Holan says
Cut the crap because the bottom line is the Slave Trade never stopped in the Muslim World I am a Jew just what do you know of the 5 Books of Moses ten Tanachvas it is interpretated by the Talmud? Nothing or half a page. Do you know Aramaic? No
Pablo says
The truth continues to make a fool out of you. Christine Douglass-Williams is right.
mummymovie says
I suspect we won’t be seeing any of this on CNN or NBC, will we?
gravenimage says
This story was covered by Newsweek, which is the MSM.
But I take your point–there will probably not be much coverage.
Jack Holan says
Don’t need to worry about that nor the BBC, PM May and Jet Setter Trudeau will all deny or go silent
gravenimage says
Libya: Muslims selling black migrant slaves for as little as $400
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This is horrifying, but should not surprise–Muslims enslaving black Africans is rife in places like Mauritania and Sudan
More:
This situation has arisen because of the European and Libyan crackdown on smuggler vessels—meaning that those who arrive in Libya have no boats on which to leave, and the smugglers have nowhere to send the migrants.
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What utter rot. This might indeed cause a crisis, but the idea that this would lead inevitably to these migrants *being enslaved* is absurd. This is happening only because slavery is a key part of Islam, and because the “perfect man” Muhammed himself enslaved his victims and owned slaves.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Holy Spirit(satan)worshiper,Grave image,i said Christine Williams lied in her reference to a Hadith in Tabri, which never exists. There is no Hadith or Quranic Verse which prescribes slavery. In fact there are numerous Quranic verses which discourage slavery .Prophet Muhammad Fred the only slave he inherited called zaid bn Thabit and he treated him just like his son. Sharia laid down stringent rules on treatment of slaves that forced many to free their slaves. Those blacks being bought or sold from human traffickers in Libya are illegal according to Sharia, because they are not valid war captives, they were kidnapped.
WorkingClassPost says
Which is it?
“There is no Hadith or Quranic Verse which prescribes slavery. In fact there are numerous Quranic verses which discourage slavery “
or
“Those blacks being bought or sold from human traffickers in Libya are illegal according to Sharia, because they are not valid war captives, they were kidnapped.”
It can’t be both.
gravenimage says
Spot on, WorkingClassPost. This vicious Mohammedan regularly confirms that we can all be used as slaves and sex slaves.
WorkingClassPost says
Maybe this is another of those mysteries in the koran…
The distinction between capturing and kidnapping.
Very mysterious indeed, I hope you were on hand to explain it to that poor soul in the slave market.
gravenimage says
+1
CM says
Actually, here is a link that provides answers between whether the Koran promotes slavery or not:
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/slavery.aspx
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Holy Spirit(satan)worshiper,Grave (sic) image,i (sic) said Christine Williams lied in her reference to a Hadith in Tabri, (sic) which never exists (sic).
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There is no “Tabri”. Christine Douglass-Wlliams cited *Al-Tabari*.
Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī did indeed exist–he was an influential and seminal Muslim scholar.
More:
There is no Hadith or Quranic Verse which prescribes slavery. In fact there are numerous Quranic verses which discourage slavery .
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This is, of course, quit false. The Qur’an is full of references to Muslims being allowed to take slaves, including this appalling Sura:
Qur’an 33:50: “O Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those slaves whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee”
Note that this line claims that *Allah himself* has enslaved these victims and given them to Muslims to rape.
More:
Prophet Muhammad Fred the only slave he inherited called zaid bn Thabit and he treated him just like his son.
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What tosh. The “Prophet” not only had many slaves, he also enslaved his victims.
Here is reference to his keeping household slaves:
Sahih Bukhari, Volume 7, Book 72, Number 734:
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:
“…At the door of the room there was a slave to whom I went and said, “Ask the permission for me to enter.” He admitted me and I entered to see the Prophet lying on a mat..”
He was given a sex slave–Mary the Copt–whom he regularly raped and whom he impregnated.
Here he is, selling a slave:
Sahih Bukhari, Volume 3, Book 34, Number 351:
Narrated Jabir bin Abdullah:
A man decided that a slave of his would be manumitted after his death and later on he was in need of money, so the Prophet took the slave and said, “Who will buy this slave from me?” Nu’aim bin ‘Abdullah bought him for such and such price and the Prophet gave him the slave.
In Sahih Muslim 3901 he trades two black slaves for a Muslim slave.
In fact, he criticized a Muslim who freed a slave:
Sahih Bukhari, Volume 3, Book 47, Number 765:
Narrated Kurib:
the freed slave of Ibn ‘Abbas, that Maimuna bint Al-Harith told him that she manumitted a slave-girl without taking the permission of the Prophet. On the day when it was her turn to be with the Prophet, she said, “Do you know, O Allah’s Apostle, that I have manumitted my slave-girl?” He said, “Have you really?” She replied in the affirmative. He said, “You would have got more reward if you had given her (i.e. the slave-girl) to one of your maternal uncles.”
More:
Abu Dawud 38:4458: Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib: “A slave-girl belonging to the house of the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) committed fornication. He (the Prophet) said: Rush up, Ali, and inflict the prescribed punishment on her. I then hurried up, and saw that blood was flowing from her, and did not stop. So I came to him and he said: Have you finished inflicting (punishment on her)? I said: I went to her while her blood was flowing. He said: Leave her alone till her bleeding stops; then inflict the prescribed punishment on her. And inflict the prescribed punishment on those whom your right hands possess (i.e. slaves)”. A slave girl is ordered by Muhammad to be beaten until she bleeds, and then beaten again after the bleeding stops. He indicates that this is prescribed treatment for slaves (“those whom your right hand possesses”).
So here he not only owns this slave girl, he has her flogged until she bleeds, and then demands she be beaten further.
He also enslaved all of the women and children of the Jewish Banu Qurayza tribe, after beheading all of the men. He traded some of these slaves for horses and weapons–so he was a slave trader as well as enslaving his victims.
Sahih Bukhari 47:743 shows that Muhammad’s own pulpit–from which he preached Islam–was built with slave labor on his command.
More:
Sharia laid down stringent rules on treatment of slaves that forced many to free their slaves.
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And yet, slavery is not just rife in the Muslim world, it is *expanding*. Muslims can take slaves from any Infidel population.
Of the five references to freeing a slave in the Qur’an, three are prescribed as punitive measures against the slaveholder for unrelated sin. They limit the emancipation to just a single slave. Another Sura–Qur’an 24:33–appears to allow a slave to buy their own freedom. This is in keeping with the traditional Islamic practice of wealth-building through taking and ransoming hostages, which began under Muhammad.
You also regularly hear that Muslims are not allowed to beat their slaves, but the “Prophet” himself condoned it, and on at least one occasion found it amusing:
Ibn Ishaq 734: A slave girl is given a “violent beating” by Ali in the presence of Muhammad, who does nothing about it.
Abu Dawud 1814: …[Abu Bakr] He then began to beat [his slave] him while the Apostle of Allah (pbuh) was smiling and saying: Look at this man who is in the sacred state (putting on ihram), what is he doing?” [The future first caliph of Islam is beating his slave for losing a camel while Muhammad looks on in apparent amusement–GI]
More:
Those blacks being bought or sold from human traffickers in Libya are illegal according to Sharia, because they are not valid war captives, they were kidnapped.
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Note what the appalling Ibrahim itace muhammed is saying here–that Islamic slavery is fine, so long as the victims were attempting to resist.
Well, it is likely that they *did* resist, at least so far was to dislike the idea of being enslaved.
In fact, Ibrahim itace muhammed has confirmed many times that Muslims may enslave Infidels, and use them as slaves and sex slaves. *Ugh*.
Karina says
And yet liberals and center-left people believe that slavery is a thing of the past and only white people were perpetrators…which is not true at all.
mortimer says
Little known in the West, but WELL KNOWN to Muslims in Africa and the East is the fact that Arabs are racial supremacists … and guess who is the MASTER RACE? You guessed it: the Arabs. At least according to Islam.
Bukhari 20:4473 – The Messenger of Allah said: People are to be subservient to the Quraish {the tribe to which Muhammad belonged}: the Muslims among them being subservient to the Muslims among them, and the disbelievers among the people being subservient to the disbelievers among them.
Al-Tabari–Arabs are the most noble people in lineage, the most prominent, and the best in deeds. We were the first to respond to the call of the Prophet. We are Allah’s helpers and the viziers of His Messenger. We fight people until they believe in Allah. He who believes in Allah and His Messenger has protected his life and possessions from us. As for one who disbelieves, we will fight him forever in Allah’s Cause. Killing him is a small matter to us.
Ibn Timiyya–If the child is not of the race of Arabs, then he is definitely an owned slave according to the scholars, but the scholars disputed (his status) among themselves if he was from the Arabs – whether he must be enslaved or not because when A’isha (Muhammad’s wife) had a maid-slave who was an Arab, Muhammad said to A’isha, `Set this maid free because she is from the children of Ishmael.'”
Ibn Sa’d–Verily the Prophet said: God divided the earth in two halves and placed (me) in the better of the two, then He divided the half in three parts, and I was in the best of them, then He chose the Arabs from among the people, then He chose the Quraysh from among the Arabs, then He chose the children of ‘Abd al-Muttalib from among the Banu Hashim, then he chose me from among the children of ‘Abd al-Muttalib, and from them he chose me.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Satan has Holy Spirit) worshiper Gravenimage, remember churchmen owned slaves where they castrated male ones and have forceful sex with females by crucifying their hands and legs before penetrating,all according to evi Bible
gravenimage says
Well, this is just bizarre. I would ask Ibrahim itace muhammed to cite the Bible verses that call for Christian clerics to crucify and rape women.
I would also ask him, barring this, if he can point to any cases of Christian clerics crucifying and raping women.
I imagine it will be a very long wait…
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Mortimer, you just cite Islamic sources without knowing their context. those hadiths never suggest that Arabs or Quresh are superior to other races. Prophet Muhammad explicitly stated in his farewell sermon that Arabs are not superior to other races and whites are not superior to blacks. pls, learn before commenting
gravenimage says
The “Prophet” regularly enslaved black Africans, and this is just what Ibrahim itace muhammed’s devout coreligionists are doing here.
Twerzig says
So there are five great genomic families in Africa and one genomic family everywhere else not including Neanderthals. So why does the Black man or Black woman venerate the white mans gods. Do they not have their own.
Janice Disher says
I pointed this out to a friend of 42 years who has all of a sudden become a muslim apologist because her New friend is a french canadian and she simply smirked and smiled. How can we get the real news out to people??
gravenimage says
Depressing that she would not even look at the story.
Does she believe that Newsweek is “Islamophobic”?
Chris Malan says
You cannot get the real news out to those who don’t like it. People prefer a lie they like to truth they don’t like. It’s always been like that.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Stanford students sure won’t want to read or hear about this!
Chris Malan says
As long as they are not being denied the vote, who cares? The liberals lost interest in Africans when apartheid ended. Being killed, dying of starvation or being sold as a slave is not as bad as being denied the vote.
Dum Spiro says
Even CNN and the Huffington Post acknowledge this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S2qtGisT34
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/video-slave-auction-migrants-libya_us_5a161d56e4b064948072e9f3?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067
That should help convince doubters…
— Spero