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Islamic Republic of Mauritania: Anti-slavery activist arrested

Aug 19, 2018 11:49 am By Robert Spencer

Why does Mauritania continually drag its feet about eradicating slavery, and persecute anti-slavery activists? Because slavery is sanctioned in Islam.

The Qur’an has Allah telling Muhammad that he has given him girls as sex slaves: “Prophet, We have made lawful to you the wives to whom you have granted dowries and the slave girls whom God has given you as booty.” (Qur’an 33:50)

Muhammad bought slaves: “Jabir (Allah be pleased with him) reported: There came a slave and pledged allegiance to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) on migration; he (the Holy Prophet) did not know that he was a slave. Then there came his master and demanded him back, whereupon Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: Sell him to me. And he bought him for two black slaves, and he did not afterwards take allegiance from anyone until he had asked him whether he was a slave (or a free man).” (Muslim 3901)

Muhammad took female Infidel captives as slaves: “Narrated Anas: The Prophet offered the Fajr Prayer near Khaibar when it was still dark and then said, ‘Allahu-Akbar! Khaibar is destroyed, for whenever we approach a (hostile) nation (to fight), then evil will be the morning for those who have been warned.’ Then the inhabitants of Khaibar came out running on the roads. The Prophet had their warriors killed, their offspring and woman taken as captives. Safiya was amongst the captives. She first came in the share of Dahya Alkali but later on she belonged to the Prophet. The Prophet made her manumission as her ‘Mahr.’” (Bukhari 5.59.512) Mahr is bride price: Muhammad freed her and married her. But he didn’t do this to all his slaves:

Muhammad owned slaves: “Narrated Anas bin Malik: Allah’s Apostle was on a journey and he had a black slave called Anjasha, and he was driving the camels (very fast, and there were women riding on those camels). Allah’s Apostle said, ‘Waihaka (May Allah be merciful to you), O Anjasha! Drive slowly (the camels) with the glass vessels (women)!’” (Bukhari 8.73.182) There is no mention of Muhammad’s freeing Anjasha.

Muhammad is the “excellent example” (Qur’an 33:21) for Muslims. That’s why there has never been an Islamic abolitionist movement.

“Breaking News: Mauritanian Anti-Slavery Activist Arrested,” Freedom United, August 7, 2018:

Anti-slavery activist Biram Dah Abeid, a candidate in the upcoming Mauritanian elections, was arrested early Tuesday morning at his home in Nouakchott. Freedom United supporters will recognize Biram from taking action on our campaign, which garnered 370,891 signatures asking the Mauritanian government to free him after he was imprisoned for speaking out against modern slavery.

The timing of the arrest is significant, coming on the last day to submit candidates for the upcoming parliamentary elections. Biram is the head of Mauritania’s Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement.

According to the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), Biram has yet to be charged with any crime….

Karine Penrose-Theis, the Africa program manager at Anti-Slavery International, urged the government to stop its crackdown on activists.

“The Mauritanian government has a long track record of cracking down on anti-slavery activists and, given that he was due to stand in the parliamentary election in the autumn, one can’t help but worry,” she said.

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  1. Peter Buckley says

    Aug 19, 2018 at 11:52 am

    Received from Gatestone this morning. Please follow the links to get the whole story:

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12879/mauritania-slavery

  2. Renate says

    Aug 19, 2018 at 11:56 am

    Justin Trudeau said that Canada would always stand up for human rights. Well, Justin, we’re waiting to hear what you have to say about this, too.

    • mortimer says

      Aug 19, 2018 at 11:24 pm

      Jihadi Justin sez: “IT ISN’T SLAVERY WHEN MUSLIMS DO IT”.

  3. Pemba says

    Aug 19, 2018 at 12:31 pm

    In Muslim/Islamic Quran which Prophet Mumammed wrote in 1400 years ago, there is clause in RED ink that Slavery is “”Halal”
    Since than all Muslims trade in slaves, In Africa and Middle East Muslims will never give-up slaves.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Aug 19, 2018 at 3:56 pm

      “Slavery is a part of Islam. Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam.”
      Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan,
      professor, imam and eminent Saudi scholar.
      https://libertygb.org.uk/news/slavery-part-islam-–-muslims-speak

      An interesting challenge is to ask any muslim:
      Can you name the two most famous muslim abolitionists?

  4. Crusades Were Right says

    Aug 19, 2018 at 12:57 pm

    Western “anti-slavery” campaigners are too busy attacking Donald Trump and Tommy Robinson.

    Besides, as every consumer of Hollywood propaganda knows, REAL slavery only exists when non-white people are captured by white men in tricorn hats.

    ; ¬)

    • Indiana Tom says

      Aug 19, 2018 at 5:07 pm

      Well we all know its was those Confederate soldiers fault. Quick blame everything on Robert E. Lee! It was all his fault! Tear down those statues now!

      • mortimer says

        Aug 19, 2018 at 11:25 pm

        The Democrats were so mad when the Republicans got elected by promising to take away their slaves that the Dems started the Civil War.

  5. Mac-101 says

    Aug 19, 2018 at 1:36 pm

    Can we send the Kneelers in the NFL and NBA over to straighten this misunderstandin out?

  6. ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Aug 19, 2018 at 1:43 pm

    Again, Mr spencer spencer is descending too low deliberately twisting Quranic verses like sura33:50 which reads “Au ma malakat aimanihim (or what their right hand possess “,where Muslim jurists inferred that it is permissible for Muslims tò have sex with female slaves as spoils of valid jihad fighting . The verse never stated that Allah has given Prophet Muhammad sex slave girls. where has Mr spencer got that information? As i said in one my earlier comments Quran never prescribed for Muslims tò own slaves, whether males or female,it rather encourages muslims to free their slaves. Prophet Muhammad fred the only one male slave he inherited converted his female slaves to wives after freeing them. The slavery being practiced now,mostly in Africa ,are not valid slaves because they have been captured from tribal wars or abductions and kidnapping, not acceptable to sharia.

    • James Lincoln says

      Aug 19, 2018 at 1:53 pm

      Ibrahim,

      Report to the nearest ER and get some help. Perhaps a shot of Haldol 50mg IM to start.

    • Westman says

      Aug 19, 2018 at 4:37 pm

      So Ibrahim, you say “valid jihad” permits the raping of women captives just not enslaving them. I am so relieved – that is soooo much better… How often do you beat your wife?

    • Indiana Tom says

      Aug 19, 2018 at 5:12 pm

      Yeah, that is why the Muslims had slave caravans taking sex slaves to market.
      An article I once read compared slaves for Muslims versus slaves for Americans. The slaves for Muslims were mostly female and died in much greater numbers than the agricultural slaves bound for America.

      • Mac-101 says

        Aug 19, 2018 at 7:14 pm

        So what happened to the Black Slave women’s babies fathered by Arabs? Shouldn’t Arabs be black by now? No LOL!
        .
        Seriously, what is the status of children born of slaves fathered by the Master? Are they Slave or free?

  7. Notmoron says

    Aug 19, 2018 at 1:55 pm

    The same thing happens in Darfur, the native blacks in Darfur are been killed and pushed away from their properties.

    The sad thing is that these blacks from Darfur and Mauritania Worship arab cult (EVIL islam)

    • ibrahim itace muhammed says

      Aug 19, 2018 at 5:07 pm

      Notmoron, Blacks in Darfur resist Arab racism under Islamic framework if you care to know because the holy Prophet Muhammad explicitly stated in his farewell sermon that Arabs are not superior to non-Arabs or whites superior to blacks, all came from the same origin (Adam and Eve). But your mithraist Bible on the story of cursed son of Noah is the basis of racism like apartheid system in South Africa and now in the evil United States as you know

      • Indiana Tom says

        Aug 19, 2018 at 5:15 pm

        Yeah right! Giggle.

      • James Lincoln says

        Aug 19, 2018 at 5:28 pm

        Ibrahim,

        You are like a broken record, “evil United States, etc.”

        Please get some non-Muslim psychiatric help. Perhaps he/she will recommend some long-term SSRIs for depression, benzodiazepines for anxiety, and possibly lithium carbonate to better control your mania.

        As you improve, the medications can be titrated downward.

        And totally ditch Islam and get lots of counseling. The comfort that you claim you get from it is not evident in your postings. Every single one is an angry rant.

        Do yourself a favor and join the land of the living.

      • FYI says

        Aug 20, 2018 at 6:11 am

        Sorry,the “mithraist Bible”???

        You mean the one “allah” claimed he gave the Jews in his “perfect” koran?

        “And verily WE gave unto Moses the scripture”
        koran 2 :87

        “The scripture” or as you call it the “mithraist Bible”.
        Apparently allah claims to be the source.

        Any time you mention the “mithraist” Bible you are denying your own allah,your own koran.In fact all this time you have been attacking your own god allah!Isn’t that nuts?

        Why is the islamic brain so tiny??How can you not have a frontal lobe?

        As for slavery:sahih muslim..isn’t it a fact that muhmmed the “prophet” would need TWO of you to be sold in exchange for another..what does that tell you about perfect mo the “prophet”?

        You actually couldn’t be any dumber:because according to your own unholy koran,it is allah who claimed to have given “the scripture”

        “And verily WE sent Moses with our revelations and a clear warrant”
        koran 11:96

        Can your tiny islamic brain not see that the “mithraist” Bible you keep attacking.. is claimed by the god you claim to follow?

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 19, 2018 at 2:40 pm

    He was arrested because slavery is a heinous part of Islam is a topic that the apologists for that religion don’t like have people bring up .Nevertheless one writer revealed that “The senior clerics of Saudi Arabia’s highest body declared “Slavery is part of Islam and whoever wants it abolished is an infidel.” [1] Likewise, a former Muslim had exposed in his book that “Slavery is recognized as an institution and slave is considered both a thing as a person.” [2] In addition, two Christian writers in their book had also informs their readers that “Islam has enslaved more people than any other culture.” [3] Therefore Islam regardless of what the apologist for this religion do claim has not regard for human rights

    [1] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel page 187
    [2] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 85
    [3] Jesus and the Jihadis, by Craig A Evens and Jeremiah J Johnston page 125.

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