“International Criminal Court judges on Wednesday rejected an appeal by an alleged Islamic extremist from Mali who argued that the charges against him were not serious enough to merit standing trial at the global court.”
Not serious enough? In this Muslim Arab’s eyes, no. That’s because he views blacks as inferior, and it was blacks in Timbuktu that he was charged for committing “torture, rape and persecution.”
“The court’s Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told judges Al Hassan was the de facto chief of the Islamic police and ‘played an essential and undeniable role in the system of persecution established by the armed groups throughout the period of occupation of Timbuktu.'”
To this day, black slavery and gross human rights violations against blacks persist among Arab Muslims in Algeria, Mauritania, Libya and Sudan, as well as in Mali, but groups such as Black Lives Matter don’t think the lives of these blacks matter, since the offenders are not white.
Timbuktu has a history of trading black slaves, among other “goods,” including gold and salt.
The Hadith notes that Muhammad traded away two black slaves in exchange for a non-black slave (Sahih Muslim 10, Number 3901), thus signifying the value of blacks that many Arabs continue to apply.
“ICC Judges OK Trial for Alleged Islamic Extremist from Mali”, Associated Press, February 19, 2020:
THE HAGUE – International Criminal Court judges on Wednesday rejected an appeal by an alleged Islamic extremist from Mali who argued that the charges against him were not serious enough to merit standing trial at the global court.
The decision clears the way for the trial of Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud to start later this year for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Timbuktu, including torture, rape and persecution.
Prosecutors allege Al Hassan was responsible for the torture and mistreatment of the people in the ancient Sahara Desert city from April 2012 until January 2013 while it was occupied and ruled by Islamic extremists.
Al Hassan allegedly was a key member of Ansar Dine, an Islamic extremist group with links to al-Qaida that held power in northern Mali at the time. Prosecutors say Ansar Dine imposed a brutal regime on Timbuktu residents including public floggings, amputations and forced marriages.
At a hearing last year, the court’s Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told judges Al Hassan was the de facto chief of the Islamic police and “played an essential and undeniable role in the system of persecution established by the armed groups throughout the period of occupation of Timbuktu.”…