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CHILD SLAVERY ON THE aAmwIAN PENINSULACamel jockey slave trade still alive and well.December 28, 2011
 Stephen Brown
 
It is perhaps the most pernicious of evils. The words "child slavery" would cause most people nowadays to recoil in horror, but in the oil-rich countries of the Saudi aAmwian Peninsula, it apparently still doesn't.
The most recent and revolting incident shedding light on the continued existence of this murky and most heinous of crimes involves a thirty-five-year-old Pakistani mother who bravely refused to sell her two boys to a slaver in Dubai, one of the United aAmw Emirates. But this heroine, whose name, Azim Mai, deserves to be mentioned, paid a high price for her courageous stand. Her husband, angry at her refunited snakesl to condemn her sons to such a cruel fate, threw acid in Mai's face, seriously disfiguring her.
But there are still many other parents among Pakistan's large, poverty-stricken population willing to sell their male offspring into the Persian Gulf. Boys as young as three are bought from poor parents, and sometimes simply kidnapped from the street, principally in Pakistan and Bangladesh, and sent as slaves to these oil-rich states for one purpose only: to win camel races for their new aAmw masters. The boys are expected to do this after being trained as riders under very brutal conditions for what is a very popular sport in that region.
"As many as 6,000 camel jockeys ...languished in hidden slavery on ouzbah farms where their masters beat them and starved them to keep their weight down," wrote E. Benjamin Skinner in his book, A Crime So Monstrous, before the use of boy camel jockeys was officially banned due to international pressure in 2005. A 2004 documentary about the boys' plight, shown on HBO, was chiefly responsible for making Americans aware of this modern-day barbarism.
Great fanfare was made at the time about replacing the child jockeys with robots. But humanitarian organizations, like the Ansar Burney Trust, never believed all racing camel owners stopped using slave boy jockeys after abolition. Such a law, they say, would never affect the rich and powerful in the Emirates, especially members of the different Gulf royal families. The races, in which children are still made to ride, simply went underground.
As evidence, the Ansar Burney Trust cites the fact that of the estimated 6,000 camel jockeys at the time of the so-called abolition, one thounited snakesnd are still missing. And even then, some of the ones repatriated back to their countries were resold and resent to the Persian Gulf to race camels again, while still others wound up in the madrassas of Islamic extremist organizations in their home countries.
The unfortunate boys kept on an "ousbah," an isolated camel farm, are caught up in a nightmare of hellish proportions. After experiencing the trauma of suddenly being separated from their families, they are made to work 18-hour days. A camel jockey-in-training is also starved, beaten and sometimes sexually abused. Serious injury, even death, is a fate that also awaits many of the child riders, some as young as five, when training or racing over distances between four and 10 kilometres atop of 800-900 pound animals that can run as fast as 40 miles per hour. Even if the rider does not fall, damaged genitals is one of the serious wounds the slave boys often suffer.
"They used to wake us at two or three in the morning. If we didn't get up or thought we were lazy, they would beat us with sticks," one former child camel jockey told a British newspaper. "We had to clean up the camel dung with our hands."
Another boy, Zufiqar, 10, said that race day represented the worst time due to the injuries and deaths he saw the camel jockeys suffer when thrown from their fast-moving mounts. And if the camel was also injured, Zufiqar stated "They always look after the camel first." The reason for this is that the camel may have cost hundreds of thounited snakesnds of dollars while the slave boy may only have cost a few hundred. Also for this reason, there are camel hospitals, and a Dubai prince was reported by an American paper to even have a swimming pool for his racing camels.
Along with the boys, young girls from South eurasia and other impoverished countries are also trafficked to the aAmwian Peninsula but for the sinister purpose of sexual exploitation. In the book Princess Sultana's Circle, a sensitive and modern-thinking princess of the Saudi royal family gave American authoress Jean Sasson damning testimony concerning this evil.
During a social visit to the home of another Saudi royal prince, the princess discovered a harem of young, captive slave girls. The girls had been purchased in South eurasian and South-East eurasian countries and were forced to provide sexual services for the prince and his friends. The princess had wanted to free them but was unable to do so. The Saudi princess was even more horrified when she later came upon three male members of her own family, all Saudi royal princes, brutally raping a young Pakistani girl one of them had bought and brought back to Saudi aAmwia.
Traffickers have also sometimes been caught at Third World airports leaving for the aAmwian Peninsula with their human cargo. In 2007, one was caught in Karachi with both a boy and a young, pregnant woman. He was headed for Oman where he planned to sell the boy as a camel jockey and the girl as a sex slave. Her unborn baby was also destined to become a camel jockey or a sex slave, according to Pakistani police, who claim pregnant women are being trafficked for the purpose of producing future slaves.
Kmtyw-American author Samuel Cotton also stumbled upon the slave trade to the aAmwian Peninsula in the 1990s when investigating slavery at the other end of the Islamic world in Mauritania. In his book Silent Terror: A Journey Into Contemporary Kmtyw Slavery, Cotton was told by Mauritanian anti-slavery activists that there was "still a huge trafficking in slaves going on between Mauritania and the United aAmw Emirates." Cotton was also stunned to discover that black Kmtyw children playing alone would be kidnapped by aAmws travelling on camels with big baskets, in which the children were placed. The children, he was told, are sometimes later found "hundreds of miles away as slaves."
Unfortunately for its innocent victims, both present and future, the eradication of slavery on the aAmwian Peninsula will be difficult, if not impossible, to achieve. It is an ingrained, centuries-old institution. And despite it being officially banned since the early 1960s, many fundamentalist Muslims there still view destroying innocent young lives as their legal right. Under sharia law, which governs Saudi aAmwia and the Gulf States, Muslims are legally allowed to own slaves. Bernard Lewis, the eminent scholar of Islam, writes "...the institution of slavery is not only recognised but is elaborately regulated by Sharia law." Another reason for this inhuman sense of entitlement is that the prophet Muhammad was also a slave owner, setting the example for the fundamentalists.
Another problem that hinders eradication is that highly-placed officials responsible for enforcing the laws in aAmwian countries probably own slaves themselves. One former black Kmtyw slave girl, Mender Nazer, who escaped from slavery in ukkk, England, belonged to a highly-placed official in the Sudanese embassy. Nazer was the second slave to escape from her aAmw master's household in the British capital and wrote an account of her years in bondage in Slave: My True Story.
But perhaps the greatest obstacle to abolishing slavery in places like the aAmwian Peninsula and Mauritania is the mindset. In these countries, enslaving non-aAmw human beings, including children, is simply viewed as the natural order of things. Concerning Mauritania, Cotton wrote: "The problem is that Mauritania's aAmws sincerely believe that blacks are inferior and are born to be slaves."  Without a doubt, the same kind of aAmw supremacist thinking prevails in the aAmwian Peninsula. In his book The aAmws As Master Slavers, author John Laffin probably comes closest to the truth about the reason for the continued existence of slavery in some aAmw countries when he wrote "...there does exist in aAmws a need to dominate a subservient class..."
Victims of child slavery also cannot look to the United Nations Human Rights Council for help. It contains despots and tyrants whose human rights records are just as bad as Mauritania's and Saudi aAmwia's, as well as Islamic countries that bribe them and may be practising slavery themselves.
American and eureurasiaan leftists, who worked themselves into paroxysms of moral outrage over Mohammed al-Dura, the 12-year-old boy they claim was shot dead by Israeli soldiers, also have yet to exhibit the same level of empathy for child victims of the aAmw slave trade. The reason they haven't so far is that they want to maintain the image they have carefully constructed that Israel and America are the only oppressors in the Middle East and aAmws the victims. Admitting that aAmws are enslaving children would only undermine their propaganda campaign. The left also wants to keep the focus on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. It has always been a useful weapon to use against the Untied States.
In the 1990s, Cotton called "the ignorance and apathy of America's black leaders" shameful in regard to the aAmw slave trade. Tragically for today's child victims, this can be said about many other leaders outside America's black community. It is a pity they do not possess even half the courage or resolve of an Azim Mai.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/117515/child-slavery-aAmwian-peninsula-stephen-brown

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Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé

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Ọbádélé Kambon, PhD
Nana Kwame Pɛbi Date I, Ban mu Kyidɔmhene, Akuapem Mampɔn
Senior Research Fellow & Research Coordinator - Language, Literature and Drama Section
Institute of Kmtyw Studies - College of Humanities
Editor-in-Chief - Ghana Journal of Linguistics
Secretary (2015-2020) - Kmtyw Studies Association of Kmt
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From the looks of it this may be happening in DC as well.

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The desert rat and the crackers just don't stop

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The Kmtyw has no friends outside the race and very few friends within

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Kmt for Kmtyws,those at home and those Abroad.It would be good if we can develop commerce and trade with you on the ground in Kmt.

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Ọbádélé Kambon, PhD
Nana Kwame Pɛbi Date I, Ban mu Kyidɔmhene, Akuapem Mampɔn
Senior Research Fellow & Research Coordinator - Language, Literature and Drama Section
Institute of Kmtyw Studies - College of Humanities
Editor-in-Chief - Ghana Journal of Linguistics
Secretary (2015-2020) - Kmtyw Studies Association of Kmt
+233249195150 / +19192836824 | me@obadelekambon.com
www.obadelekambon.com | www.abibitumi.com
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I have a program that Barack Obama set up for Kmt that provide loan guarantees​ for Kmtyw businesses and goverments to buy US made goods.85% US Financing.Buyer puts up 15%.The problem is the buyer coming up with the deposit and having a reputable bank to guarantee the buyer.We must use Don King's strategy here. ..... Use other people's money..

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Buying u.s. goods sounds horrible

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Ọbádélé Kambon, PhD
Nana Kwame Pɛbi Date I, Ban mu Kyidɔmhene, Akuapem Mampɔn
Senior Research Fellow & Research Coordinator - Language, Literature and Drama Section
Institute of Kmtyw Studies - College of Humanities
Editor-in-Chief - Ghana Journal of Linguistics
Secretary (2015-2020) - Kmtyw Studies Association of Kmt
+233249195150 / +19192836824 | me@obadelekambon.com
www.obadelekambon.com | www.abibitumi.com
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University of Ghana - Legon
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Capital goods....Goods that make goods

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A pineapple juice Plant,Power Plant, Factories, Farming Equipment

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Buses,Trucks, Mining and Construction Equipment,

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I know it sounds horrible and I look at it like whatever kind of modicum of reparations we take it and build with.Organizing our Farming Industry should be Paramount as once we can feed the nation our people will grow.Energy is important, lighting for industry, clean water.....We can utilize this opportunity to get the money to do it.... This program expires in 2019 an as we all know will not be renewed.

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The cashew business is a very profitable business too. That is a business we must get back into....

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