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Muslims operating slave markets on Instagram, Google Play, Apple apps

Nov 2, 2019 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Slavery is acceptable 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.

But what are Intagram, Google Play and Apple doing getting mixed up in this? Too busy clamping down on foes of jihad terror to notice this?

“Slave markets found on Instagram and other apps,” by Owen Pinnell and Jess Kelly, BBC News Arabic, October 31, 2019:

Drive around the streets of Kuwait and you won’t see these women. They are behind closed doors, deprived of their basic rights, unable to leave and at risk of being sold to the highest bidder.

But pick up a smartphone and you can scroll through thousands of their pictures, categorised by race, and available to buy for a few thousand dollars.

An undercover investigation by BBC News Arabic has found that domestic workers are being illegally bought and sold online in a booming black market.

Some of the trade has been carried out on Facebook-owned Instagram, where posts have been promoted via algorithm-boosted hashtags, and sales negotiated via private messages.

Other listings have been promoted in apps approved and provided by Google Play and Apple’s App Store, as well as the e-commerce platforms’ own websites.

“What they are doing is promoting an online slave market,” said Urmila Bhoola, the UN special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery.

“If Google, Apple, Facebook or any other companies are hosting apps like these, they have to be held accountable.”

After being alerted to the issue, Facebook said it had banned one of the hashtags involved.

Google and Apple said they were working with app developers to prevent illegal activity.

The illegal sales are a clear breach of the US tech firms’ rules for app developers and users.

However, the BBC has found there are many related listings still active on Instagram, and other apps available via Apple and Google….

Posing as a couple newly arrived in Kuwait, the BBC Arabic undercover team spoke to 57 app users and visited more than a dozen people who were trying to sell them their domestic worker via a popular commodity app called 4Sale.

The sellers almost all advocated confiscating the women’s passports, confining them to the house, denying them any time off and giving them little or no access to a phone.

The 4Sale app allowed you to filter by race, with different price brackets clearly on offer, according to category.

“African worker, clean and smiley,” said one listing. Another: “Nepalese who dares to ask for a day off.”

When speaking to the sellers, the undercover team frequently heard racist language. “Indians are the dirtiest,” said one, describing a woman being advertised.
Human rights violated

The team were urged by app users, who acted as if they were the “owners” of these women, to deny them other basic human rights, such as giving them a “day or a minute or a second” off.

One man, a policeman, looking to offload his worker said: “Trust me she’s very nice, she laughs and has a smiley face. Even if you keep her up till 5am she won’t complain.”

He told the BBC team how domestic workers were used as a commodity.

“You will find someone buying a maid for 600 KD ($2,000), and selling her on for 1,000 KD ($3,300),” he said.

He suggested how the BBC team should treat her: “The passport, don’t give it to her. You’re her sponsor. Why would you give her her passport?”…

Google said it was “deeply troubled by the allegations”.

“We have asked BBC to share additional details so we can conduct a more in-depth investigation,” it added. “We are working to ensure that the app developers put in place the necessary safeguards to prevent individuals from conducting this activity on their online marketplaces.”

Apple said it “strictly prohibited” the promotion of human trafficking and child exploitation in apps made available on its marketplace….

Yeah, sure you do. The only thing Google and Apple “strictly prohibit” is opposition to jihad terror and Sharia oppression, and to the Left’s agenda.

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  1. Carl says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 2:11 pm

    Our government has the carrot it needs to take down big internet companies now, like Google etc. They must act NOW, before MSM gets working on the people.

  2. somehistory says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 2:24 pm

    This is in direct violation of RICO. Are the FEDS watching or listening or reading such reports as these guys have written and as is posted on this site?

    • Lion Heart says

      Nov 2, 2019 at 3:10 pm

      I am a Canadian Christian guy originally from Iraq and I wanna say that Kuwait although a very tiny country but it’s an Islamic filthy state and it’s an ISIS- like state and Saddam the evil was right though in crushing the skulls of Kuwaitis when he invaded it in 1991 ,and not to forget that it was a kuwaiti-American Muslim SCUM soldier who killed a group of US soldiers with a grenade in 2003 in Kuwait when USA was preparing to attack Saddam’s bloody regime .

  3. Lion Heart says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 3:11 pm

    I am a Canadian Christian guy originally from Iraq and I wanna say that Kuwait although a very tiny country but it’s an Islamic filthy state and it’s an ISIS- like state and Saddam the evil was right though in crushing the skulls of Kuwaitis when he invaded it in 1991 ,and not to forget that it was a kuwaiti-American Muslim SCUM soldier who killed a group of US soldiers with a grenade in 2003 in Kuwait when USA was preparing to attack Saddam’s bloody regime .

    • Infidel says

      Nov 2, 2019 at 7:46 pm

      Also, it was a Kuwaiti guy who was involved in the Chattanooga barracks shooting in 2015.

      Actually, looking back, I happen to think that the US made a mistake in liberating Kuwait or getting involved at all. Had Saddam even conquered Saudi Arabia, all that would have meant would have been the end of the Sauds, and maybe, there may not even have been a 9/11.

  4. Aussie Infidel says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 3:26 pm

    The acceptance of slavery in Islam is just another reason why the Muslim states never signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), but drafted their own iniquitous Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam (CDHRI). The CDHRI is compliant with the Sharia and hence diametrically opposed to the UDHR. Will there be condemnations from groups like Amnesty International, Avaaz, IHEU and other human rights groups?

    Islam has no place in any civilized society!

    • mortimer says

      Nov 2, 2019 at 8:59 pm

      A huge part of Sharia law deals with slavery, because it is so to every Muslim society. The life of Muslim women is likely much worse since Western countries forced Muslim countries to discontinue their slave trades.

      Islam is constructed on the foundation of slavery. Muslims today are the great-grandchildren of slaves.

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 8, 2019 at 9:35 pm

        In many Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia, they just have Infidel or low level Musim workers whom they treat like slaves.

  5. Michael Copeland says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 4:03 pm

    “When I want a sex slave”, says Egyptian Salafi sheikh Huwayni, “I go to the market and choose the woman I like and purchase her.”
    https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/04/islams-sex-slaves-in-britain/

    Bronze Age meets 21st century. No need to go the market now: the merchandise is on the kaffir-made mobile. Order from home.

  6. Michaewl Copeland says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 4:08 pm

    “Slavery is a part of Islam. Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam.”

    Saleh Al-Fawzan

  7. Dan says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 4:13 pm

    Maybe five years ago, person involved in stopping child pornography said the police have an “algorithm” that can tell the difference between “normal” (If you can call it that.) pornography, and child pornography.

    So, Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and everybody else, there isn’t a snowball’s chance in H you can’t tell me you can’t have an “algorithm” that can pick up Muslim sex slave auctions.

    You’re all lying through your immoral teeth.

  8. Michael Copeland says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 4:16 pm

    “Slavery is a part of Islam. Slavery is part of jihad,
    and jihad will remain as long there is Islam.”
    Sheik Saleh Al-Fawzan

    http://www.crethiplethi.com/slavery-is-a-part-of-islam/global-islam/2010/

  9. lisa says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 4:42 pm

    Absolutely shocking. The federal govt needs to get involved and go after these tech company that promote slavery.

  10. DHazard says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 5:02 pm

    “The sellers almost all advocated confiscating the women’s passports, confining them to the house, denying them any time off and giving them little or no access to a phone.”

    It’s hard to get my head around the idea that this is going on, but more importantly that people, think and act as if they really believe they are entitled to own, abuse and murder another human being. If this dangerously arrogant lifestyle predated Islam then Muhammad made slave owning a Muslim’s birthright. By declaring the practice halal any remaining sense of basic human decency was rendered irrelevant and is therefore disregarded by many Muslims.

  11. gravenimage says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 5:24 pm

    Muslims operating slave markets on Instagram, Google Play, Apple apps
    ………………..

    This is horrifying, but at this point does not surprise.

    Muslims are using our inventions to perpetuate their vicious diktats to enslave and murder Infidels.

    • Infidel says

      Nov 2, 2019 at 7:51 pm

      The thing that always puzzles me is – WHY, just WHY, do non-Muslims go to those Mohammedan 💩holes in the first place at all? Yeah, I know what poverty levels are like in Nepal, Sri Lanka and so on, but this is still not worth it.

      Whenever I travel abroad, I make it a point not to use any airline from any Muslim country – no Qatar Air, no itsjihad Ijtehad, no Emirates, no Saudia, none of those. I either use an US or European airline, or I travel trans Pacific. Only thing close to a Muslim place I’ve been at is Singapore, where in the Changi airport lounge, they have on your bedside table an arrow pointing to the Qibla in Mecca, just in case one is Muslim. Which was enough to bum me out!

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 2, 2019 at 9:47 pm

        Places like Nepal, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines should be warning their people about the danger of going to Muslim countries, Instead, they just seem to like the remittances of those who are not enslaved (or not immediately enslaved). They do nothing for those of their citizens enslaved or falsely accused of “crimes” like “witchcraft”.

    • peter says

      Nov 3, 2019 at 7:52 am

      Hitler once said in order the people believe in your lies ,the lies should be very big and should be repeated again and again .That is what the left wing media like ,CNN ,NBC ,MSNBC ,CBS and ABC ,Google to name a few,have become masters of!

  12. gravenimage says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 5:30 pm

    Here is another terrible story about Muslims using our social media to wage Jihad:

    “Hizballah using social media to recruit Muslims to murder Israeli civilians”

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/11/hizballah-using-social-media-to-recruit-muslims-to-murder-israeli-civilians

    • Jap says

      Nov 2, 2019 at 5:55 pm

      None of this should really surprise anyone.
      Humans have a tendency to stick their collective heads in the sand until it’s too late. Only got to look at pre ww2 Germany and Japan.
      Lets just hope that the blinkers come off soon.

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 2, 2019 at 9:49 pm

        Grimly true, Jap. But it takes a *lot* of willful ignorance to have remained in denial after 9/11.

        • Jap says

          Nov 3, 2019 at 4:45 pm

          Agreed!

  13. Angemon says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 6:44 pm

    Google said it was “deeply troubled by the allegations”.

    “We have asked BBC to share additional details so we can conduct a more in-depth investigation,” it added. “We are working to ensure that the app developers put in place the necessary safeguards to prevent individuals from conducting this activity on their online marketplaces.”

    Good luck with that…

    • Westman says

      Nov 3, 2019 at 9:13 am

      “We are working to ensure…that (someone else) put in place safeguards…”

      When a business resorts to political rhetoric that passes responsibility to others, you know it won’t make any real change. Notice that Google doesn’t list even one single policy change or any inspection of apps. The message is clearly, “We’ll get back to you…never.”

  14. Battle says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 8:44 pm

    “Confiscate their (the slave women’s) passports”

    So Islamists instruct steal their passports. Thieves.

    Escapees should sue Islamist slaveowners in International Court.

    Where is the class action?

  15. Battle says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 8:49 pm

    “Confiscate their [the women’s] passports.”

    Islamists instruct to steal. Thieves.

    Escapees should sue in International Court.

    Where is the class action?

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 2, 2019 at 9:52 pm

      Where would you take this case? The UN is dominated by just these Muslim thugs.

  16. Relic says

    Nov 2, 2019 at 11:37 pm

    indians are the dirtiest
    in my neighbourhood you better bring a bigger phone

  17. Heidi says

    Nov 3, 2019 at 3:08 am

    Google and Apple said they were instructing their app developers to put the necessary safeguards in place, Facebook eliminated ONE of these hashtags. Have we ever stopped and thought about how many Muslim app developers work for hese companies? So why would they have an interest in eliminating these apps? It would call for problems with their “brothers” if the would have the audacity to do so. Since the interest of those companies is placed in making money why would they enforce such a step and lose a large amount of their clientele?

  18. No Muzzies Here says

    Nov 3, 2019 at 7:14 am

    Slavery is acceptable in Islam, so Islamic slavery is acceptable on the social media. What’s not acceptable, is when a non-Muslim writes about it. Then the social media suppress the truth, and demonetize the poster.

  19. David Ashton says

    Nov 3, 2019 at 8:13 am

    Pressure is building in Britain for a Slavery Museum and Education Center to parallel the proposed new Holocaust Center. The idea is to incriminate the white English especially in the slave trade and its alleged current benefits. Nothing about Islamic slavery past and present, etc. Sadly the Board of Deputies of British Jews has endorsed this black-immigrant scam.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 3, 2019 at 4:19 pm

      The British abolished slavery early on. Islam has *never* abolished slavery completely, and it continues to this day. Moreover, one of the first things the Islamic State did was to take slaves and sex slaves.

  20. Gene Easley says

    Nov 3, 2019 at 8:55 am

    Have you noticed it’s like Islam/ Muslims are the worst people/ideology on the Earth it’s like they’re saying ” Hey we don’t know how to get along with anybody we don’t even know how to get along with ourselves, oh and by the way we enjoy stealing, killing and raping.”

    • OLD GUY says

      Nov 3, 2019 at 4:04 pm

      Dead on.

  21. toomanyhobbies says

    Nov 3, 2019 at 4:45 pm

    I have to ask but why is it so many people of color join in a CULT the openly endorses slavery, and think of blacks as beneath them???

  22. rooare says

    Nov 15, 2019 at 11:54 am

    Google, Apple, et al. don’t want illegal activity conducted on their sites, well slavery in Islamic nations is legal so nothing will be done to curb selling people on their sites in Muslim nations.

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