Sharia's Culture of Enslavement

"Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): 'I am with you: give firmness to the Believers: I will instill terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them.' This is because they contended against Allah and His Messenger: If any contend against Allah and His Messenger, Allah is strict in punishment. This (will it be said): 'Taste he then of the (punishment): for those who resist Allah, is the penalty of the Fire'. O ye who believe! when ye meet the Unbelievers in hostile array, never turn your backs to them. If any do turn his back to them on such a day -- unless it be in a stratagem of war, or to retreat to a troop (of his own) -- he draws on himself the wrath of Allah, and his abode is Hell, an evil refuge (indeed)!"
(Sura 8:12-16)

"If the infidels live among the Muslims, in accordance with the conditions set out by the Prophet -- there is nothing wrong with it provided they pay Jizya to the Islamic treasury. Other conditions are ... that they do not renovate a church or a monastery, do not rebuild ones that were destroyed, that they feed for three days any Muslim who passes by their homes ... that they rise when a Muslim wishes to sit, that they do not imitate Muslims in dress and speech, nor ride horses, nor own swords, nor arm themselves with any kind of weapon; that they do not sell wine, do not show the cross, do not ring church bells, do not raise their voices during prayer, that they shave their hair in front so as to make them easily identifiable, do not incite anyone against the Muslims, and do not strike a Muslim ... If they violate these conditions, they have no protection."
Sharia injunction on dhimmitude

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The Islamic conquest of Egypt and the land of Israel in the 7th Century AD, which reached its height during the 19th Century was accompanied by a robust slave trade. Sudanese and Egyptian Muslim slave-traders plied their trade, aided and abetted by Bedouin tribes still living along the borders of Ethiopia to the Mediterranean. The ideal slaves were Christian and Pagan Ethiopians, and they were taken from their traditional homes in Ethiopia and Eritrea.

The original Red Sea slave trade was known for its extreme cruelty and deprivation meted out to the helpless taken from their homeland and treated as expendable cattle. Their treatment included castration, rape, torture, murder and the weak among them abandoned to the wilderness. About ten thousand to twelve thousand slaves were traded annually up the Nile and Res Sea coast through the Sudan and into Egypt.

The Muslim regime in Khartoum waged and continues to wage a bloody jihad against Sudanese Christians living in the southern part of the country to the present time, although Darfurians, black Muslim Sudanese were certainly not exempt from mass rape, slaughter, forced migration and the continued assaults by horsed Arab Sudanese Muslims (Janjaweed) against the Darfurians supposedly protected in refugee camps.

When the British colonized Egypt and Sudan they outlawed slavery, but after the turn of the 20th Century, Sudanese religious and political leaders petitioned to allow the keeping of slaves to be reinstituted; as a valuable part of the social culture. A new slave trade has emerged with the same persecutors and their victims. "Sinai trafficking" describes a revived Red Sea slave trade where between 2009 and 2013 an estimated 25,000 to 30,000 people were victims of the slave trade.

Islam is proud of its no-interest banking system, considering it immoral to charge interest for money lending. But when it comes to revenge for an assault against a tribe's or a family's 'honour', when someone has been killed, for example, it is strictly an eye for an eye; someone in the other family must be killed to restore honour in atonement for the crime. Unless, that is, the family whose members targeted can come up with enough blood money to satisfy the demands of the other clan as defined by Sharia law.

And since Sharia law insists that non-Muslims be treated differently than Muslims; subjugated, humiliated, paying for the privilege of living among Muslims albeit as inferiors, great sums of money is realized along the same lines of entitlement by the human traffickers in ransoms by families trying to buy back their family members from slavery. And it is not only slavery, but torture, where Sinai Bedouin captors torture their captives, beating them, often breaking limbs.

People are hung upside down for days, electrocuted and burnt, held in chains, and repeatedly sexually assaulted. Children raped before their parents, and women in front of their husbands, and so too are young men raped. The victims are given little food or water. When captives are on the phone with overseas relatives pleading for rescue through ransom, they are tortured then, so their screams act as motivation for the relatives to send money for their rescue through international wire transfers.

The Sinai has provided haven to tribal al-Qaeda operatives, Bedouin Salafist smugglers and extortionists with a free hand in the revived slave trade. An estimated 50 tribally based trafficking gangs are working in the Sinai. Captives who survive their ordeals through ransom are left off in Cairo where Egyptian authorities arrest them and arrange for their deportation. Once, a group of Eritrean captives escaped their captors by overpowering them, and reported them to Egyptian police.

The result was the escapees' imprisonment, and the torturers set free to resume their horrific but very remunerative occupation. An Egyptian journalist who reported from the Sinai was arrested and placed in solitary confinement for his writing about the slave trade. "There is much to be afraid of given our skin colour and religion ... over 400 Eritreans are here, the women held in a separate location. The Muslims of other countries are taken care of, but we Eritreans do not get such an option", said one survivor.