Maybe they should have known that Tabloid America doesn't care about
the likely transformation of Europe into an Islamic continent, let alone
the fate of a French- and Dutch-speaking country of 10 million people.
And while Literary America does write books about the transformation
-- While Europe Slept by Bruce Bawer, The War for
the West by Tony Blankley and America Alone by Mark
Steyn come to mind Political America has yet to acknowledge or even
notice this colossal, epoch-defining shift now taking place.
Why don't our leaders face it? This may be one of those questions our
children will ask some day. But if such natural curiosity isn't expressed
until the next generation, the civilizational struggle for Europe will
certainly have been lost. Better to question our politicians now. Better
to examine the issue today.
Europe, as we may readily observe, is very far along in an accommodation
with its still-increasing Muslim immigrant population that is resulting
not in the Europeanizing of Islam, but rather the Islamizing of Europe.
As Bernard Lewis declared in 2004, Europe will have an Islamic majority
by the end of the 21st century at the latest. As Vlaams Belang's Mr.
Dewinter recently put it, We are becoming foreigners in our own
land. Such tragic pronouncements turn conversation with Vlaams
Belang into a kind of political free verse -- sadly evocative but rooted
in a desperate reality that should shake American complacency. That
is, foreigners in our land is poetry; Mohammed as the most
popular boy's name in Brussels for six years running is implacable fact.
The idea that We are living on a dying continent but we are not
dead yet, as Mr. Dewinter has explained, is metaphorical. His
citation from Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi that Allah is mobilizing
Muslim Turkey to add... 50 m illion more Muslims to the European
Union augurs world-class revolution.
Is such a revolution desirable? After writing nearly incessantly about
Islamization since September 11, I won't surprise anyone by saying no
-- not if freedom of conscience, religious equality or women's rights
are your bag (not to mention the glorious representational artwork Europe's
museums are stuffed with). Besides, the strategic implications for the
United States are, in a word, bleak.
In multiculturally totalitarian Belgium, however, you make such judgments
at your own risk. Vlaams Belang, a conservative, free-market party that
stands for Flemish secession from the French-speaking part of Belgium
and opposes continued immigration, now stands trial in a Belgian court
for a comment -- a comment! -- Mr. Dewinter made in 2005 to a New York
publication, The Jewish Week. When asked why Belgian Jews should vote
for a party that espouses xenophobia, Mr. Dewinter replied:
Xenophobia is not the word I would use. If [it] absolutely must
be a 'phobia,' let it be 'Islamophobia.' Yes, we're afraid of Islam.
The Islamization of Europe is a frightening thing.
If convicted of the crime of Islamophobia (1984,
anyone?), the party would lose its state funding. In a country that
effectively prohibits private political fund-raising, Vlaams Belang
-- the largest party in Belgium -- would ultimately cease to exist.
And so, too, would free speech in the center of Europe.
Before I met Vlaams Belang's Frank Vanhecke and Filip Dewinter in Washington,
I believed Europe's rush to Islamize itself was a stampede, its transformation
all but inevitable. Now, I think these men have at least earned Europe
the benefit of the doubt. Studying their various statements and interviews,
I found no evidence to support the crude slanders to which they are
continually subjected in the media for being a right-wing party opposed
to the massive Islamic immigration now transforming traditional European
culture. Indeed, their statements on Israel are more supportive than
any European party I know of.
As Mr. Vanhecke put it in a recent speech, They call us 'intolerant'
because we oppose intolerance. They call us 'fascists' because we oppose
Islamofascism. They call us 'the children of holocaust perpetrators,'
because we oppose Islamists who are preparing a new holocaust against
the Jews.
America must start paying attention to Europe. And to Vlaams Belang.
4. A EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Whatever the effort of the establishment to stop us, the truth, albeit
slowly, is emerging and our claims on Islam are vindicated again. It
will be a long battle but maybe, we can convince the majority that we
are right.
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27462
After the death last Sunday of Rinie Mulder, a 54-year old indigenous
Dutchman who was shot by a police officer, non-immigrant citizens went
on a rampage in Utrecht. Apparently Mulder intervened when Muslim youths
harassed a pregnant native Dutch woman. Locals claim the police has
failed to protect them for years. They say the authorities are afraid
of the immigrants and tolerate their criminal behavior.
This issue is not just about Utrecht or Holland. Similar resentment
against Muslim immigrants, but at least as much against their own authorities,
is quietly brewing among the natives all over Western Europe.
It is insulting that two thirds of the Dutch, one of the founding members
of the European community, voted against the proposed EU Constitution,
and yet EU leaders will apparently just ignore this and force their
massively undemocratic Constitution down people's throats anyway. The
German Presidency wants EU leaders to agree on a text for a new treaty
by February 2008. The label 'Constitution' is to be dropped, in order
to avoid further referendums.
European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso expressed unease with
the prospect of a second Dutch constitution referendum.
Referendums make the process of approval of European treaties
much more complicated and less predictable, he said If a
referendum had been held on the creation of the European Community or
the introduction of the Euro, do you think these would have passed?
Although the EU warns against Islamophobia, those who live
in the real world know that there has been an explosion of violent infidelophobia
in Western Europe staged by Muslim immigrants. This wave of violence
especially targets Jews, but the attacks against Christians that are
going on in the Middle East are increasingly spreading to Europe as
well. In more and more cities across the continent, non-Muslims are
being harassed, robbed, mugged, raped, stabbed and even killed by Muslims.
Native Europeans are slowly becoming second-rate citizens in their own
countries.
This violence by Muslims is usually labelled simply as crime,
but I believe it should more accurately be called Jihad. Those who know
early Islamic history, as described in books such as The Truth About
Muhammad by Robert Spencer, know that looting and stealing the property
of non-Muslims has been part and parcel of Jihad from the very beginning.
In fact, so much of the behavior of Muhammad himself and the early Muslims
could be deemed criminal that it is difficult to know exactly where
crime ends and Jihad begins. In the city of Oslo, for instance, it is
documented that some of the criminal Muslim gangs also have close ties
to radical religious groups at home and abroad. As Dutch Arabist Hans
Jansen points out, the Koran is seen by some Muslims as a God-given
hunting licence, granting them the right to assault and
even murder non-Muslims. It is hardly accidental that while Muslims
make up about 10% of the population in France, they make up an estimated
70% of French prison inmates.
In the city of Antwerp, Belgium, Marij Uijt den Bogaard from 2003 to
2006 worked as a civil servant in the immigrant borough of Berchem.
She noted how radical Islamist groups began to take over the immigrant
neighbourhoods, but was fired when she warned against this danger in
her reports to the authorities:
Many victims of burglaries in houses and cars, of steaming and
other forms of violence, can testify that aggression by Muslims is not
directed against brothers and sisters, but against whoever is a kafir,
a non-believer. Young Muslims justify their behaviour towards women
who do not wear the headscarf, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, by referring
to the Salafist teaching which says that these women are whores and
should be treated as such. They told me this. I wrote it down in my
reports, but the authorities refuse to hear it.
Filmmaker Pierre Rehov tells how a friend of his is a retired chief
of police who used to be in charge of the security of a major city in
the south of France. According to him, 80% of the rapes in the area
were made by Muslim young men. In most cases, the parents would not
understand why they would be arrested. The only evil those parents would
see, genuinely, was the temptation that the male children had to face
from infidel women.
The wave of robberies the increasingly Muslim-dominated city of Malmö
is witnessing is part of a war against Swedes, this according
to statements from the immigrant youths themselves. When we are
in the city and robbing, we are waging a war, waging a war against the
Swedes. This argument was repeated several times. Power
for me means that Swedes shall look at me, lie down on the ground and
kiss my feet.
Jonathan Friedman, an American living in Sweden, mentions that the so-called
Integration Act of 1997 proclaimed that Sweden is a Multicultural
society. The Act implicitly states that Sweden doesn't have a
history, only the various ethnic groups that live there. Native Swedes
have been reduced to just another ethnic group in Sweden, with no more
claim to the country than the Somalis who arrived there last Thursday.
As Friedman puts it: In Sweden, it's almost as if the state has
sided with the immigrants against the Swedish working class.
Pierre Schori, Minister for immigration, during a parliamentary debate
in 1997 said that: Racism and xenophobia should be banned and
chased [away], and that one should not accept excuses, such
as that there were flaws in the immigration and refugee policies.
In other words: It should be viewed as a crime for the indigenous population
not to assist in wiping themselves out. The state is turned into an
enemy of the very population it is supposed to protect. Swedes pay some
of the highest tax rates in the world, and for this they get runaway
crime rates and a government that is actively hostile to their interests.
Exit the People's Home of Sweden is a book from 2005 about immigration
and the Swedish welfare state model. According to the authors, the Multicultural
elites see themselves first of all as citizens of the world. In order
to emphasize and accentuate diversity, everything that smacks of native
culture is deliberately disparaged. Opposition to this policy
is considered a form of racism:
The dominant ideology in Sweden, which has been made dominant
by powerful methods of silencing and repression, is a totalitarian ideology,
where the elites oppose the national aspect of the nation state.
Researchers Gert Tinggaard Svendsen og Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen have
written the book Social Kapital. When general levels of trust were measured
in 86 countries, the Nordic nations Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland
came out on top. According to the authors, the trust between citizens
and the trust between citizens and the state is very high in these countries,
and this social capital is highly profitable and accounts
for up a to a quarter of these countries' wealth.
However, they also warn that such trust is vulnerable. A society can
lose its social capital and trust rather quickly, but it can take centuries
to rebuild it. This social capital is now being squandered a matter
of official state policy all over Western Europe, accompanied by wild
cheers from the media and the intelligentsia.
Although such high levels of trust are in many ways attractive and desirable,
they also contain some potential pitfalls. People's trusting nature
may make them easy targets for outsiders from more cynical cultures,
who view them as gullible fools. However, it also makes them vulnerable
to threats from within.
In the 1990s, Swedish authorities decided that native Swedes and their
culture had no more claim to the country than Kurds. At the same time,
the country became a member of the EU. Mass immigration to Sweden started
years before EU membership and wasn't caused by this, but the EU certainly
didn't help. Now suddenly, as with other EU members, Swedes have most
of their laws passed by unelected EU bureaucrats rather than their own
elected national representatives.
Swedes were used to that laws were passed with their consent and with
their best interests in mind, because by and large they had been. Within
a few years, all of this has changed. Laws are now passed by EU bureaucrats
who don't give a damn about their interests, and by elites who don't
care about their own people, in fact view them as potential stumbling
blocks for the new Multicultural society. Yet most Europeans still follow
these laws. Why? I can see at least two reasons.
Germany's ex-president Roman Herzog pointed out that between 1999 and
2004, 84 percent of the legal acts in Germany stemmed from Brussels,
and warned that EU policies suffer to an alarming degree from
a lack of democracy and a de facto suspension of the separation of powers.
The question has to be raised of whether Germany can still unreservedly
be called a parliamentary democracy.
Why is this pan-European EU dictatorship still functioning? Because
seeing is believing. Most Europeans still don't know that EU leaders
are using their money without their consent to merge Europe with the
Arab world because their media don't tell them this. Due to the common
Euro currency and the lack of national borders they can move around
most of Europe at ease, which seems convenient. They don't physically
see, however, that the EU has also usurped the power of their national
parliaments. The latter appear to be working just as always, but have
now been reduced to implementing the policies of unelected Eurocrats.
The second reason is because ordinary European citizens are held hostage
by their own law-abiding nature. Abiding by rules and regulations used
to serve them well in the past, but things have changed. Even the laws
that are in their interest are no longer upheld. Their nations have
vacated their national borders and the ensuing uncontrolled mass immigration
is creating rampant urban insecurity.
For Dutchmen, in what once was a peaceful and orderly country, to go
against decades of indoctrination to stage something like the recent
uprisings in Utrecht, they have to feel an extreme amount of repressed
frustration and anger. Perhaps they watched the media reactions to the
Muslim riots in France, which were sympathetic and were followed by
promises from political leaders to listen to the legitimate grievances
of the rioters. Perhaps the native Dutch in Utrecht thought that hey,
we are quiet and peaceful and yet we get only contempt from our so-called
leaders. Muslims burn stuff and get concessions. Perhaps we should start
burning stuff, too. What have we got to lose? We're already losing our
country.
The excellent Chinese blogger Ohmyrus has warned against precisely this:
While it took a long time for Europeans to learn to settle their
differences peacefully through the ballot box, this important lesson
is slowly being unlearned. The lesson learned from the Danish cartoon
affair is that violence pays. Most Western governments caved in by issuing
apologies or condemning the cartoons instead of defending free speech.
Soon groups that oppose immigration will turn to violence too. If European
democracies cannot manage their ethnic tensions, democracy will break
down, ushering in dictatorial rule.
In a British poll from January 2007, a massive 82% disagreed (57% strongly)
as to whether the government was in control of immigration. When asked
if the government was open and honest about the scale of
immigration into Britain, 80% disagreed. Sir Andrew Green, chairman
of Migrationwatch, said: After a decade of efforts to stifle debate,
there is now a fundamental lack of trust between the Government and
the public on this issue. The numbers also reflect a deep
underlying resentment among the public that they have not had any opportunity
to express their views still less to be consulted - on a matter
of major importance to them and to the future of our country.
According to Theodore Dalrymple, For the last 40 years, government
policy in Britain, de facto if not always de jure, has been to render
the British population virtually defenseless against criminals and criminality.
Almost alone of British government policies, this one has been supremely
effective: no Briton nowadays goes many hours without wondering how
to avoid being victimized by a criminal intent on theft, burglary, or
violence.
He fears that the failure of the state to protect the lives and
property of its citizens, and to take seriously its duty in this regard,
creates a politically dangerous situation, for it puts the very legitimacy
of the state itself at risk. The potential consequences are incalculable,
for the failure might bring the rule of law itself into disrepute and
give an opportunity to the brutal and the authoritarian.
In Norway, local politician Bengt Michalsen had a tape from a surveillance
camera clearly identifying two youths as doing damage to a van at a
car park. He delivered the tape to the police, and months later received
a note that the case had been dismissed because the police didn't have
the capacity to prosecute it. According to the local police chief, the
public just had to get used to the fact the police wouldn't
spend time on petty crime. So, that means that Scandinavians will have
to protect our own property, right? Not exactly. The authorities just
want us to take it lying down and do nothing.
In Denmark, at least one of three would-be robbers shot by a watchmaker
plans to file for compensation over wrongful injury, loss of work time
and loss of the ability to work. The three threatened the watchmaker
by putting a fake pistol up to his chin, but he had a real pistol behind
his counter and managed to fire it. He was charged with unlawful possession
of a firearm and taken into police custody. Attorney Svend Raether said
that it is possible for the thief to receive compensation, despite having
been injured while committing a crime.
Citizens in Western European countries pay high taxes to a state that
is totally incapable of protecting our most basic rights, and is frequently
unwilling even to try. With hate speech laws we are deprived of the
right to protest against being swamped by immigration that will eventually
render us minorities in our own countries. The law is used to punish
the law-abiding while the criminals rule the streets.
If the authorities refuse to uphold the laws designed to protect us
and keep passing new laws that threaten the freedom of our children
and the survival of our nations, we will sooner or later have to decide
when civil disobedience becomes not just a right, but a duty. And I
fear what will happen once we reach that point, which may not be too
far off. Judging from the recent uprisings in Utrecht, this process
has already begun.
Vladimir Bukovksy, a former Soviet dissident, fears that the European
Union is on its way to becoming another Soviet Union:
The sooner we finish with the EU the better. The sooner it collapses
the less damage it will have done to us and to other countries. But
we have to be quick because the Eurocrats are moving very fast. It will
be difficult to defeat them. Today it is still simple. If one million
people march on Brussels today these guys will run away to the Bahamas.
If tomorrow half of the British population refuses to pay its taxes,
nothing will happen and no-one will go to jail. Today you can still
do that.
Mr. Bukovsky is right. Europeans should launch tax rebellions and stage
street demonstrations in every major European city until Muslim immigration
is ended. We should stage a Million Man March to Brussels, for instance
on September 11th this year, to demand that the pan-European dictatorship
called the European Union is dismantled. We need to get angry and squeeze
our so-called leaders into doing this, since they obviously understand
nothing else.
Here is what Thomas Jefferson wrote in the American Declaration of Independence
from 1776:
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to
institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and
organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely
to effect their Safety and Happiness. [...] It is their right, it is
their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards
for their future security. Europeans are currently subject to
worse insults from our governments than the Americans were at that time,
being persecuted in our own cities and subject to a government-supported
program of gradual cultural eradication. We need a European Declaration
of Independence, calling for our emancipation from the bureaucratic
feudalism of Brussels and the totalitarian ideology of Multiculturalism.
Allow me to write the first draft:
A European Declaration of Independence
We, the citizens of the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Spain, Italy,
Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, Hungary, (fill in the blanks) demand
that the following steps are taken immediately:
We demand that our national governments should immediately and without
delay pull their countries out of the European Union, which should be
dismantled entirely. European citizens pay up to half of their salaries
in direct or indirect taxes to their nation states. If these nations
do not control their own borders nor their policies, and they don't
as long as the EU exists, those taxes are a scam. National taxes require
national borders. If our national borders are not enforced, we have
no obligation whatsoever to pay national taxes.
We demand that all documents regarding the Euro-Arab Dialogue and the
creation of the Eurabian networks for Euro-Mediterranean cooperation
between European countries and Arab countries since the 1970s, as documented
by Bat Ye'or's work on Eurabia, are published and explained in their
full significance to the general public. Those chiefly responsible for
this - one of the greatest betrayals in the history of Western civilization
- should stand trial, followed by a period of general de-Eurabification
of our laws and regulations.
We demand that all financial support to the Palestinian Authority should
cease immediately. It is proven beyond any doubt that this has in the
past been used to finance campaigns of Jihad terrorism against Jews
in Israel and against Christians in territories under PA control. A
public statement in support of Israel against Muslim aggression should
be issued, and the money that has previously been awarded to Palestinians
should be allocated partly to Israel's defense, partly to establish
a Global Infidel Defense Fund with the stated goal of disseminating
information about Muslim persecution of non-Muslims worldwide.
We demand that the ideology of Multiculturalism should immediately be
removed from all government policies and school curricula, and that
the state should adopt a policy of supporting the continuation of the
cultural heritage and traditions of the indigenous populations. Multiculturalism
has never been about tolerance. It is an anti-Western hate ideology
championed as an instrument for unilaterally dismantling European culture.
As such, it is an evil ideology bent on an entire culture's eradication,
and we, the peoples of Europe, have not just a right, but a duty to
resist it and an obligation to pass on our heritage to future generations.
We demand that all Muslim immigration in whatever form should be immediately
and completely halted, and that our authorities take a long break from
mass immigration in general until such a time when law and order has
been reestablished in our major cities. We will not accept any accusations
of racism. Many European nations have for decades accepted
more immigration into our countries in a shorter period of time than
any other people has done peacefully in human history.
We are sick and tired of feeling like strangers in our own lands, of
being mugged, raped, stabbed, harassed and even killed by violent gangs
of Muslim thugs, yet being accused of racism and xenophobia
by our media and intimidated by our own authorities to accept even more
such immigration.
Europe is being targeted for deliberate colonization by Muslim states,
and with coordinated efforts aimed at our Islamization and the elimination
of our freedoms. We are being subject to a foreign invasion, and aiding
and abetting a foreign invasion in any way constitutes treason. If non-Europeans
have the right to resist colonization and desire self-determination
then Europeans have that right, too. And we intend to exercise it.
If these demands are not fully implemented, if the European Union isn't
dismantled, Multiculturalism isn't rejected and Muslim immigration isn't
stopped, we, the peoples of Europe, are left with no other choice than
to conclude that our authorities have abandoned us, and that the taxes
they collect are therefore unjust and that the laws that are passed
without our consent are illegitimate. We will stop paying taxes and
take the appropriate measures to protect our own security and ensure
our national survival.
5. SLAVERY STILL EXISTS IN MAURITANIA, THANKS
TO ISLAM
The leftwing establishment is busy apologising for slavery and, at the
same time, accusing the BNP of inciting racial hate while defending
the enrichment existing in our multiracial society. For
this reason they never spent a word about slavery that is still in place
and justified by Islamic teaching that allow the enslavement of non-believers.
http://africa.reuters.com/country/MR/news/usnL18334379.html
They do not wear chains, nor are they branded with the mark of their
masters, but slaves still exist in Mauritania. In the Saharan Islamic
state, a centuries-old system of bondage is resisting the rise of democracy
in the largely desert former French colony. Herding camels or goats
out in the sun-blasted dunes of the Sahara, or serving hot mint tea
to guests in the richly carpeted villas of Nouakchott, Mauritanian slaves
serve their masters and are passed on as family chattels from generation
to generation. They may number thousands, anti-slavery activists say.
A shocking anomaly in the 21st century, this is widely accepted in a
racially diverse, hierarchical society dominated by a Moorish elite
and a brand of Islam that preaches submission. It's like having
sheep or goats. If a woman is a slave, her descendants are slaves,
said Boubacar Messaoud, who was born a slave and is now his country's
leading anti-slavery campaigner. He says a 1981 decree outlawing slavery
is a dead letter and slavery is alive in Mauritania, with all its manifestations
of non-paid work, punishment, forced sex and other abuses.
Mauritania's military rulers, who are handing over to civilian rule
in democratic elections, shy away from discussing the issue and prefer
to talk of vestiges of slavery. Some members of the light-skinned
elite which has traditionally ruled the country deny slavery exists
at all. Questions about it can draw anger, mistrust and silence. But
anti-slavery campaigners say the master-slave relationship and its social
repercussions are branded into the minds of all Mauritanians, just as
class-consciousness still haunts social discourse in Britain and other
European states. There is slavery in our country, in all of our
society. You need laws to eliminate it. The fact people try to hide
what exists just complicates things, said Messaoud Ould Boulkheir,
a black Mauritanian and descendant of slaves. It doesn't have
to have chains to be there, added Boulkheir, who ran for the presidency
in an election this month, finishing fourth out of 19 candidates. BORN
A SLAVE In Nouakchott's sprawling, dirt-poor slums, most of whose
inhabitants are black, the testimonies about enduring slavery are repeated,
and heartfelt. Yes, it's true, said Abdarahman Ould Mohamed
Abd, 52, a street vendor sitting outside his ramshackle hut. In
the interior of the country, it's the worst. You see it in the way some
people treat others.
Sometimes, they (the masters) have even killed children, he added.
His own surname means son of Mohamed Slave as Abd
is the Arabic word for slave. It comes from a long way back. But
it should end, he said. Anti-slavery groups, such as SOS-Slaves
run by Messaoud, say the fear and secrecy cloaking the issue make it
difficult to bring cases of slavery to light, let alone to court. But
victims periodically surface, such as Matalla, a black Mauritanian who
two years ago escaped from members of a Berber warrior tribe, the Reguibat.
They were holding him and his family in the isolated deserts of northeast
Mauritania. I was born a slave. All my family, all my ancestors
were slaves of that group. My aunt, my brothers are still slaves with
them, he said with lowered gaze. He told Reuters he herded camels
for his masters, ate only leftovers from their table and suffered occasional
beatings. I have a scar here, he said, pointing to his right
cheekbone, from where they hit me with a stick. Asked how
many slaves his masters had he answered: There are more than can
be counted. Anti-slavery activists say it is impossible to tell
how many people remain enslaved in Mauritania, a mineral-rich country
twice the size of France whose 3 million population mixes white and
black Moors and black Mauritanians of several ethnic groups. Diplomats
in Nouakchott say the outgoing junta declined an offer from the European
Union to fund an investigative study. It's probably fairly widespread.
In the houses of the Moors, you see young black boys serving tea. I
don't know what their work contracts are but I would not like to have
theirs, said one diplomat, who asked not to be named.
POLITICS OF DOMINATION
He said Mauritania's new president, to be elected in a March 25 run-off
between two white Moor frontrunners, would have to tackle slavery and
enduring social and racial inequality: It's at the heart of this
country's imbalances. Historians say slavery developed in Mauritania
from the 7th century, when Arab invaders pushed south into Sub-Saharan
Africa, bringing their Islamic religion which explicitly allowed the
enslavement of non-believers. This blossomed into a Trans-Saharan Slave
Trade that captured black Africans several centuries before the peak
of the European-run Atlantic Slave Trade. Some historians argue the
practice of slavery already existed in black Africa. This religious
sanctioning of slavery -- and the establishment of Arabicised Berber
ruling castes whose wealth was partially based on it -- has marked Mauritanian
society. There is a racial policy here ... It's the politics of
domination, said Boulkheir, adding that Islamic law and succession
rights guaranteed the perpetuation of slavery, passing on ownership
from master to son. He said the 1981 ban doesn't exist in
practice. It gives the right of compensation to the master,
he added. The state has never prosecuted anyone. We need a law
that criminalises slavery, Messaoud said. The activists said they
had asked the outgoing junta head, Col. Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, to include
a prohibition of slavery in the constitution, but he rejected the idea.
Slavery was so engrained in Mauritania's society that it had even crossed
racial and social barriers, they said. There are white slaves.
There are blacks with black slaves. There are even freed slaves who
have slaves, Boulkheir said. He said many Mauritanians remained
slaves in their heads even after freedom. Asked if he forgave
his former masters, Matalla shook his head: No ... they are bad
people. (Additional reporting by Ibrahima Sylla)
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