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African migrants report slavery, torture in 99% Muslim Algeria

Jun 1, 2018 10:42 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Muslim Arabs holding black slaves continues to this day in countries such as Mauritania and Sudan.

Now:

Dozens of Africans say they were sold for labour and trapped in slavery in Algeria in what aid agencies fear may be a widening trend of abusing migrants headed for a new life in Europe.

Algeria is 99% Muslim.

Just as we do not hear gay activists loudly opposing Islamic hate and intolerance against them, nor do we  hear feminist outrage over the deplorable treatment of women in Islam. We also do not hear an outcry from black activists about black slavery in Islam. And if they did speak out, the mainstream media would absurdly label them “racist” and “intolerant.”

“African migrants report torture, slavery in Algeria,” by Nellie Peyton, Reuters, May 30, 2018:

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Dozens of Africans say they were sold for labour and trapped in slavery in Algeria in what aid agencies fear may be a widening trend of abusing migrants headed for a new life in Europe.

Algerian authorities could not be reached for comment and several experts cast doubt on claims that such abuses are widespread in the north African country.

The tightly governed state has become a popular gateway to the Mediterranean since it became tougher to pass through Libya, where slavery, rape and torture are rife.

Amid a surge in anti-migrant sentiment, Algeria since late last year has sent thousands of migrants back over its southern border into Niger, according to the United Nations Migration Agency (IOM), where many tell stories of exploitation.

The scale of abuse is not known, but an IOM survey of thousands of migrants suggested it could rival Libya.

The Thomson Reuters Foundation heard detailed accounts of forced labour and slavery from an international charity and a local association in Agadez, Niger’s main migrant transit hub, and interviewed two of the victims by telephone.

“The first time they sold me for 100,000 CFA francs ($170),” said Ousmane Bah, a 21-year-old from Guinea who said he was sold twice in Algeria by unknown captors and worked in construction….

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  1. elee says

    Jun 1, 2018 at 11:02 am

    Well you published it, and it certainly wasn’t the first time this information has been published. Given the historic facts that Muslims invented the African slave trade, and white men ended it……..I’m still amazed that people of colour consider Islam an expression of their distaste for white folks. Did they forget who got their heads broke in Freedom Summer? Apparently I am far too easily amazed.

  2. 762x51FMJ says

    Jun 1, 2018 at 1:00 pm

    Islam spreads by Swords
    Of enslavement and Death
    Christianity by Words
    Of freespoken Breath

    To be a Martyr under Islam you simply die to kill someone whereas under Christianity you simply live to save them.

    • Tricia Stuercke says

      Jun 1, 2018 at 6:03 pm

      Thanks so dearly for your post!
      That’s BEAUTIFUL! THANK GOD ALMIGHTY FOR HIS SON & HIS TRUTH!

  3. andra says

    Jun 1, 2018 at 1:11 pm

    I am sorry but I can hardly feel pity. These people head for my homelands to take over and submit me and my people. If they fall into slavery on their way of conquership it is bad luck. Nobody forced them to head for Europe.

    • Ray Jarman says

      Jun 1, 2018 at 1:46 pm

      Andra,

      You certainly echo my sentiments exactly. Knowing that chances of being picked up and used as slaves by their fellow muslims, in places like Algeria and Libya, that they would choose to stay home and help fix their own countries. I have zero pity for any of them, especially, when I read stories about the animals from Somali and sub-Saharan African s***hole states like Senegal and Sierra Leon reaping havoc upon the streets of European cities that were once so safe that a lady could walk down the streets even after mid-night in complete safety. Holocaust victims like the elderly Jewish woman slaughtered and thrown out of her apartment window would be alive had that thug been enslaved and put to work in Algeria. I am so tired of the leftist FAKENEWS organizations making these low life thugs into victims.

      The Bare Naked Islam website describes the new scum stealing into Europe as, “African male economic migrant wannabes (with virtually no women or children) have begun arriving en masse into Italy once again…” This is the last thing that Italy and the rest of once great Europa needs or wants.

    • Carolyne says

      Jun 2, 2018 at 4:36 pm

      Agreed. Andra.

  4. Rarely says

    Jun 1, 2018 at 1:21 pm

    Is anyone surprised?

    • Eur says

      Jun 1, 2018 at 3:52 pm

      In Europe there are many Senegalese, Nigerians, Malians … who traveled from their countries crossing the Maghreb and then paid the mafias to cross the Mediterranean. If you talk to them you can check how badly they have been treated by the Magrebies, who feel superior over the blacks. Many Senegalese are Muslims (Sufis) but the Magrebies, having an ethnic Arab component, treat the Senegalese as inferior beings. It has always been like this. Does this clasismi, racism, slavery have something to do with Islam? Of course. In other parts of the world slavery has been practiced and Islam has had nothing to do … but nowadays those who follow in that line are the Islamic cultures … and it is because the Quran and the life of the Prophet they endorse that supremacist behavior.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 1, 2018 at 2:15 pm

    As for those brutal, cruel and vile kidnapping girls and women and using them as sex slaves. This actually started with the founder and prophet of Islam, Muhammad . Who all Muslims look to as an example of how to behave. It’s revealed in the book JESUS AND THE JIHADIS by the Christian authors Graig A. Evans and Jeremiah J. Johnson For on page 124 it informs the reader about Muhammad that that he “Mohammad endorsed enslavement of all types: he personally owned two ”Black slaves… ” he endorsed sex-slavery as a gift from Allah, and enjoyed offering sex-slaves as gifts…” Further on the very next page it also exposes that “Islam has enslaved more people than any other culture.”

  6. Lebel says

    Jun 1, 2018 at 5:56 pm

    This has nothing to do with Islam or jihad, there are tens of thousands of people in modern slavery in places like the UK today. The UK is not a Muslim country.

    https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/slavery-uk/

    This is a case of jihadwatch selective reporting. Pick a phenomenon and only report on cases involving Muslims.

    • Marco says

      Jun 1, 2018 at 6:33 pm

      Anyone enslaved in the U.K. are enslaved by Muslims. Muslims in the US have been busted several times for enslaving servants.

      • Lebel says

        Jun 2, 2018 at 7:02 am

        It is normal that you, as a jihadwatcher, would think like that. You are unable to see the world outside the jihadwatch lenses where Muslims are responsible for everything. You do not seek any information outside jihadwatch, particularly information which would contradict this pre-established world-view.

        Here’s some contradictory information: “13 Poles arrested in UK over suspected ‘modern slavery’
        ”

        http://www.thenews.pl/1/10/Artykul/346102,13-Poles-arrested-in-UK-over-suspected-modern-slavery

        I know how your brains work now. The next step is a conspiracy as in “the media is hiding the truth!” or just dumb statement like “these are Muslim Poles!” – then what usually comes is anger because you cannot suffer contradictions.

        • Marco says

          Jun 2, 2018 at 9:03 pm

          You are talking to yourself. The fact remains several Saudis have been arrested here for enslaving their setvants.

    • Far Eastern Magi says

      Jun 1, 2018 at 6:39 pm

      An apologist for mega evil… Trafficking that Stupidly formed word that means next to nothing like the various evils it gathers together to group into one. Traffic would mean something like shifting from place to place in a sane non Orwellian world.

      Prostitution, Forced marriage, all the factors described and most of the examples are nothing like the open and fully legitimate hell that is going on in Muslim nations sanctioned by Islam.

      Moreover…your pathetic shoot down an naysaying of this article….relies on activity that in the west is often the work of Muslims also.

      What English folk are doing forced marriage?

      What a Ridiculous shoot down….

      Shooting down greater Evil excused by lesser evil is the Greatest Evil and the basis of Evil Escalating.

      You are exactly what is wrong with the world RIGHT NOW!!!

      Your Response is the Very Foundation of Evil increasing.unopposed at it’s worst expression…. from which it will flow on and spill around freely.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 1, 2018 at 7:21 pm

      I see that Lebel is now demanding that we ignore the history of Islamic slavery in Africa.

      No–there are *not* open slave markets in the UK, as in parts of the Islamic Mahgreb today:

      “Libya: Muslims selling black migrant slaves for as little as $400”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/11/libya-muslims-selling-black-migrant-slaves-for-as-little-as-400

      As for modern day slavery in the West, this is *illegal* and is prosecuted. It is also often practiced by Muslims, as of course Lebel well knows.

      That a creed that sacralizes slavery and whose founder was a slaver who traded slaves and enslaved his victims practices slavery should not surprise.

      The West abolished slavery. Of course, Lebel hopes we have somehow failed to notice that.

      • Lebel says

        Jun 2, 2018 at 6:56 am

        Modern slavery is not limited to slave markets, you don’t even take the time to do the research beyond a jihadwatch article.

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 2, 2018 at 9:37 pm

          What *absolute claptrap*. I have, in fact, been quite heavily involved in efforts to end human trafficking.

          This is a real problem–and it is not just Muslims who engage in modern slavery, although they are very much a part of this, and often when you hear of stories of people keeping people as domestic slaves, this is Islam.

          But slavery is *illegal* in the West, and is prosecuted accordingly.

          Whereas, slavery is a key part of Islam, and is still praciticed in much of the Muslim world–of course, Lebel will not acknowledge this.

          Not clear wh ,though–he has not actually said anything critical of slavery here at all. No surprise there.

    • andra says

      Jun 2, 2018 at 2:10 am

      UK is an islamic country. Just look at the Sharia treatment for gang rape victims or the treatment of Tommy Robinson and others who critizise Islam.

    • Joe says

      Jun 2, 2018 at 6:19 am

      Yeah right, try to find an open slave market in England. They are easy to find in various countries in North Africa. You need to get out more often.

      • Lebel says

        Jun 2, 2018 at 6:55 am

        Modern slavery is not limited to “open slave markets” – modern slavery is compelled labor, sex trafficking or domestic servitude. It exists all over the world. Jihadwatch only reports on Muslim countries because it knows its readers will not be bothered to do their homework.

        For example, China: “In China, the legacy of the former one-child policy has led to a shortage of women of marriageable age.[21] To meet this demand, some Cambodian,[22] Vietnamese[23] and North Korean[24] women and girls are trafficked to China to be sold as brides.”
        Source: https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/region/asia-pacific/

        Is china 99% Muslim? are you able to take 5 minutes to do some research without being spoon fed bullshit from this site?

        South-east Asia: “The abuse of workers on Thai fishing vessels operating in South East Asian waters has become increasingly well documented.[15] Researchers and investigative journalists have documented the abuse of migrant workers on fishing vessels, often young men and boys, who have endured brutal treatment including physical abuse, excessive and inhumane working hours, sleep and food deprivation, and forced use of methamphetamines.[16] Some longhaul trawlers and their fishermen remained at sea for years at a time. Between April and September 2015, more than 2,000 men were rescued from Thai fishing vessels, many of which were operating in Indonesian waters.[17] Ongoing reports of worker exploitation in seafood pre-processing facilities were also evident, with workers from Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos working excessive hours in oppressive and abusive conditions.[18] Much of the seafood processed was distributed to the global market.”

        This is modern slavery, it is not limited to slave markets in Libya.

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 2, 2018 at 9:43 pm

          As I have already noted, human trafficking is not limited to Muslims. But there is a whole tradition of Islamic slavery–especially in Africa, as Lebel knows. Still waiting for him to say anything critical of Muslims enslaving Africans. But then, why would he?

  7. gravenimage says

    Jun 1, 2018 at 6:37 pm

    African migrants report slavery, torture in 99% Muslim Algeria
    ……………………..

    Horrifying–but not surprising.

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