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Mauritanian anti-slavery activist: “There is still slavery in Mauritania. More than 20% suffer from slavery.”

Jun 30, 2020 4:00 pm By Robert Spencer

You’ll never hear anything about this from Black Lives Matter, because that organization doesn’t really care about black lives. It is a Marxist organization using real, exaggerated, and imagined racial injustice to try to destroy the United States.

“Mauritanian Anti-Slavery Activist Maryam Bint Al-Sheikh: Slavery Still Exists in Mauritania; Slaves Can Be Bequeathed From Father To Son; I Was Arrested And Tortured Multiple Times,” MEMRI, June 18, 2020:

Mauritanian anti-slavery activist Maryam Bint Al-Sheikh of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA) said in a June 18, 2020 interview on BBC Arabic (U.K.) that there is still slavery in Mauritania, and that ownership of other people can even be passed from generation to generation. She said that 20% of people in Mauritania still suffer from slavery, and she named the Beydanes cast, which she said constitutes 10 percent of the Mauritanian population, as the caste of “masters” that controls Mauritania, its economy, and its people. Explaining that the Beydanes caste arrests and tortures people who speak out against it, Al-Sheikh said that in the past, she herself had been arrested, tortured, and forcibly separated from her child and her family. In addition, Al-Sheikh listed the Haratins, the Fulanis, the Wolofs, and Soninkes, the Bambaras, and Lamalmins, and the Igaouen as the persecuted ethnic groups in Mauritania. Furthermore, she said that the IRA has created awareness surrounding slavery in Mauritania, and that it gives people the courage to protest slavery and racism. She added that slavery and racism can only be abolished through protest. For more about slavery in Mauritania see MEMRITV clip no. 3429.

Host: “Is there still slavery in Mauretania?”

Maryam Bint Al-Sheikh: “Unfortunately, there is still slavery in Mauretania [sic]. More than 20% of people in Mauretania [sic] suffer from slavery – a situation where a person owns another person and does whatever he wants with him at any given moment. This situation exists here in Mauritania, unfortunately.”

Host: “Are you talking about slavery like in ancient times, Maryam? Please excuse me, but I have to use harsh language… Are you talking about people who are being bought and sold like merchandise, or about a new kind of slavery? Some people say…”

Al-Sheikh: “They are also being bequeathed.”

Host: “They are being bequeathed?”

Al-Sheikh: “Yes, they are being bequeathed. Yes, they are being bequeathed from father to son. A person can own a slave and when that person dies, his children inherit the slave, who is later bequeathed to the grandchildren. This thing exists in Mauritania, unfortunately.

[…]

“We study from slavery and racism at the same time. This is our reality. The Beydanes caste, which constitutes no more than 10% of Mauritanians, controls Mauritania, its economy, and its people.

[…]

“Anyone who speaks out is considered a criminal whose natural place in in jail. Until not so long ago, [whoever spoke up] would have been killed.[…]

“I was arrested and tortured multiple times. I was tortured both mentally and physically. The last time I was arrested, I had a 1.5-year-old baby. They separated us by force. And they weaned him. The Mauritanian state weaned my baby – a 1.5-year-old baby. He was weaned. And they prevented me from seeing him, and they wouldn’t let my husband or relatives visit me.

[…]

“The Fulanis in Mauritania – activists and dignitaries – were killed between 1967 and 1991. They were physically killed.”

[…]

“There are several persecuted groups in Mauritania. There is the Haratin ethnic group who are slaved or former slaves. There is also the Fulanis, whose roots are in [sub-Saharan] Africa. There are also Wolof people, Soninke people, Bambara people, there are the Lamalmin [craftsman caste], the Igaouen [artists caste] and there are the Beydanes, who think they are so great. This is the caste that owns Mauritania and all its people. This is how they imagine it. They envy even the oxygen we breathe. They are ‘the masters.'”

Host: “I can’t even imagine how we still use terms like ‘masters’ and ‘slaves,’ but clearly that’s the case… Masters!”

Al-Sheikh: “Unfortunately, that is the case.

[…]

“The protest culture was created by IRA [The Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement]. Before IRA, there were no real protests in Mauritania. The IRA movement created an awareness and instilled courage within people.

[…]

“Protest is the only way to change countries, and to abolish slavery and racism.”

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Comments

  1. Richard Kruse says

    Jun 30, 2020 at 4:16 pm

    Just ask anyone. It’s the fault of all us White colonialists.

    • Wellington says

      Jun 30, 2020 at 5:50 pm

      +1

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 30, 2020 at 8:48 pm

      That’s what Muslim apologists say:

      “Yahoo News: ‘Don’t blame Sharia for Islamic extremism — blame colonialism’”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/06/yahoo-news-dont-blame-sharia-for-islamic-extremism-blame-colonialism

    • Joss says

      Jul 1, 2020 at 7:40 am

      Yes, I hang my head in shame..

  2. mortimer says

    Jun 30, 2020 at 4:17 pm

    he Ongoing Fight To Free Thousands Of African Slaves In Yemen

  3. mortimer says

    Jun 30, 2020 at 4:20 pm

    Arabs’ 1400 year History Of Castrating Black Africans

    • Wellington says

      Jun 30, 2020 at 6:30 pm

      Thanks for that link, mortimer. It will not be viewed enough, though it should be, especially by blacks, but all of this unfortunate and harmful ignorance only redounds to Islam’s benefit—among black Muslims most especially because ignorance of Islam is arguably its greatest “asset.”

      Just think Bush 43 for partial confirmation here. I am virtually certain he still has not realized what Islam intends for us all. As for Obama, I cannot dismiss the possibility that he knows exactly what Islam intends for us all.

      • James Lincoln AB made a nice set – tonight says

        Jun 30, 2020 at 10:19 pm

        Wellington says,

        “…Bush 43… I am virtually certain he still has not realized what Islam intends for us all.”

        He STILL doesn’t get it.

        “As for Obama, I cannot dismiss the possibility that he knows exactly what Islam intends for us all.”

        A muslim or muslim apologist – in either case he knows EXACTLY what islam intends for us all.

        At least that’s my take…

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 30, 2020 at 8:52 pm

      Important links, Mortimer. Thank you.

  4. Wellington says

    Jun 30, 2020 at 6:20 pm

    Proving yet again that while all Muslims are at least confused, black Muslims are so very extra confused.

    There is no defensible reason for anyone to be a Muslim because Islam has error written all over it, by way of the “standard” risible, stupid and decrepit reasons, bountiful which they are, and made all the more execrable by the sundry totalitarian elements existent within Mo’s fallacious creed.

    As an “intellectual exercise,” imagine if Islam controlled all the world, think the world would work better? If you do, you are either a fool or a liar. Islam controlling all the world would sink mankind into the darkest of ages it has ever experienced, perhaps even a non-recoverable dark age which no other dark age has “accomplished.”

    Meanwhile, while every single Muslim, including Muslim children (what child abuse Islam is to the mind in its early stages—pure child abuse most definitely) are confused human beings, so many adult Muslims are beyond confused and are evil human beings—and, I wish to emphasize this, PRECISELY because they are Muslim.

  5. gravenimage says

    Jun 30, 2020 at 8:46 pm

    Mauritanian anti-slavery activist: “There is still slavery in Mauritania. More than 20% suffer from slavery.”
    …………………..

    Kudos to Maryam Bint Al-Sheikh for speaking out! She is a very brave woman.

    A minor point, but “Mauretania” is an accepted variant for “Mauritania”.

  6. OLD GUY says

    Jul 1, 2020 at 10:36 am

    Where are all the BLM and left media in covering this true and current story of Black Slavery. Just because it is MUSLIM is no excuse for not speaking out against it or trying to stop the continued slave.trading of the islamic world. If Islam and sharia become the ruling order in the world, SLAVERY will return on an open market level and at a scale never seen before.

    • Chris Chrisman says

      Jul 1, 2020 at 4:04 pm

      There is a website that lists over 1,000 volunteer organizations addressing various kinds of present-day slavery. (https://www.endslaverynow.org/connect ) Only one organization outside of Mauritania is focused on that country where 20% of the population is enslaved.

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 1, 2020 at 10:30 pm

        Amazing, Chris–since Mauritania is the worst slave state in the world.

        But its being Islamic means that most would rather focus on almost anything else.

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