Slavery's last stronghold: Mauritania

[kambuli]

Slavery is a grave crime and people need to be educated about it, there are classic slavery where people are told they are free but still enslaved economically..Look at all those people working underwage and the so called Employees are getting richer and richer..

But I am always suspicious about those targeting only Islamic nations

[SahanGalbeed]

Do you know how the whole slavery of black people started with ?
The moors , yacni the berber with a white skin were captured by the christian forces on their way out of al andalus . They were made slaves by a portuguese contingent . The moors then "negotiated" with the portuguese and exchanged a superior number of blacks for their own moors .
That's how the portuguese , the first to have black slaves outside Africa found out about it .
We all know the rest of the story , unfortunately .
In defense of Mauritanya , most of them are ashamed of it as soon as it is mentioned .

[ZubeirAwal]

I don't get it, Bantus are slaving somalis?, the people of mauritania are dark arabs they look like somalis so how can they slave somalis?

[Meyle]

I don't get it, Bantus are slaving somalis?, the people of mauritania are dark arabs they look like somalis so how can they slave somalis?

Somali people have never been enslaved..

[ZubeirAwal]

I don't get it, Bantus are slaving somalis?, the people of mauritania are dark arabs they look like somalis so how can they slave somalis?

Somali people have never been enslaved..

I know that, what the world regard as slavery may be what somalis still do today, you go to hargeisa, get a house and you can get yourself a servent/maid, who'll cook and clean, i don't see that as haram , its probably practiced before Islam anyway.

[SahanGalbeed]

In all fairness , those who benefited the most from the trans atlantic slavery are other blacks like the Kingdom of Dahomey and others in nowadays Angola.
You don't have to take my word for it , prof Gates of Harvard has done his research on it

[Meyle]

I don't get it, Bantus are slaving somalis?, the people of mauritania are dark arabs they look like somalis so how can they slave somalis?

Somali people have never been enslaved..

I know that, what the world regard as slavery may be what somalis still do today, you go to hargeisa, get a house and you can get yourself a servent/maid, who'll cook and clean, i don't see that as haram , its probably practiced before Islam anyway.

Thats not slavery.. the women get paid but I still view it as unjust because they work hard for nothing but they can leave at any moment unlike slaves but most of the time they stay because what other jobs are available, if you're uneducated and a woman? Two factors that make the situation in our homeland unbearable for our sisters, yet they manage to cope with it.

[ina aadan]

Maxaa dhiboy leeday hadii adoonta la adoonsado. Aniguba waan adonsan lahaa walee.

[SahanGalbeed]

wager ! raggan khiyaaligoodu marna ba kaa ma tago

[ina aadan]

Afrikanka qaarba istaahila in la adoonsado ayna dantuba ugu jirtaa.

[bareento]

How come there is no islamic school of thought to condemn slavery
Most will call u kaafir...on the ground that u want to make haram wat god made halal

B.

[DayaxJeclee]

I enjoy couple weeks Nouakchott, lovely people. A bit like xamarweyne. Mauritanian women are fat/obese.

[SahanGalbeed]

They get fat on purpose , it is a sign of beauty there , wallahi

[DayaxJeclee]

A sign of beauty? They can't walk and most of them are SOB.

[X.Playa]

I wonder how many somalis have vanished in this country!

Her baby girl, barely old enough to crawl, had been left outdoors to die.

The usually stoic mother — whose jet-black eyes and cardboard hands carry decades of sadness — wept when she saw her child’s lifeless face, eyes open and covered in ants, resting in the orange sands of the Mauritanian desert. The master who raped Moulkheir to produce the child wanted to punish his slave. He told her she would work faster without the child on her back.

MAURITANIA BY THE NUMBERS
SLAVERY
Population: 3.4 million
Percentage living in slavery: 10% to 20%
Enslaved population: 340,000 to 680,000
Year slavery was abolished: 1981
Year slavery became a crime: 2007
Convictions against slave owners: One

very disturbing:
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/03/ ... pt=hp_rr_7

what does this has to do with somalis??? there is slavery in India too do we have something with that too?? yaab iyo amakaag , why do we have to inject the name somali into every god damn misery on earth