Bedouin successes fighting people traffickers
by Frederik Pleitgen and Mohammed Fadel Fahmy, CNN
The area of Al Mehdia near Egypt's border with Israel is a lawless place even by Northern Sinai's standards.
There is no police force and a military offensive launched recently after a deadly string of militant attacks on Egyptian border guards, has not stopped the illicit trade that flourishes in this area.
Tankers full of fuel still make their way to smuggling tunnels leading to Gaza in broad daylight and marijuana fields are cultivated with elaborate irrigation systems in the middle of the desert.
Last year CNN visited the region as part of the Freedom Project spotlighting the depths that the traffickers have sunk. Now we revisit the remote region to see Bedouins tackling the trafficking on their doorstep.
Al Mehdia is an area that thrives on smuggling, including a human cargo of African refugees who are trying to make it to Israel in the hope of finding a better life there.
They are the poorest of the poor. Coming mostly from Sudan and Eritrea, many fall into the clutches of brutal human traffickers who hold them captive and demand huge ransoms.
They endure torture and rape, and if they cannot find someone to pay the ransom they are often killed.
Al Mehdia is dotted with torture camps run by Bedouin gangs. The trade is lucrative. The traffickers demand between $35,000 and $60,000 for the release of a captive.
In the past, some of those who could not pay have had vital organs removed, which the Bedouin gangs then sold to corrupt doctors.
But now, a band of Bedouin tribal chiefs have started to fight back against the people smugglers.
Sheikh Mohammed Abu Billal, a powerful chief from the Sawarka tribe, is leading the charge.
Mohammed is a Salafist - a radical form of Islam - but he is also deeply humanitarian in his beliefs. "What the traffickers are doing is against the will of God," Mohammed told me when I recently visited him in Al Mehdia.
Mohammed has set up a safe house where African refugees who escape the torture camps are brought and given protection from the human traffickers.
"I have about 200 supporters in this region," Mohammed said. "People now stand up to them there. In the past, if an African escaped the camp, the criminals were able to catch them again, but now the traffickers don't dare enter the people's lands. We bring the refugees here and provide them with food, water and clothing, and get them doctors."
Sheikh Mohammed took me to the safe house. Fourteen Eritreans were staying there, all of whom had escaped the compound of a torture camp only a week earlier.
The men and women all bore clear scars from the torture they endured and many of them had horrific stories to tell.
"You are lucky if you can rest for one hour. Every hour, or every 20 minutes they would come and hit us. They used a big stick. After a while you do not feel your body anymore," one refugee, who did not want to be identified, told me.
Others described how the people traffickers would melt plastic on their backs and they showed me their scars, many of which were still fresh and some infected.
Another man from Eritrea also described his ordeal: "They chained our hands and legs together and hung us upside down and started hitting the bottom of our feet. They melted plastic on our skin and just kept constantly hitting us. And they told me, 'if you do not pay ($33,000), no one will come out of this alive.'"
It might seem inconceivable that people smugglers would demand tens of thousands of dollars from refugees who have little more than the shirts on their backs.
But they have a ruthless system that works. While they are being tortured, the refugees are forced to phone relatives abroad and beg for money.
There are even accounts of them having to call home while they were being raped to beg for cash to pay the massive ransoms.
"There are usually signs of torture and rape. They arrive here in very bad condition, dressed in rags and often starved," Sheikh Mohammed told me.
He said some women had become pregnant from rape while in custody and had still been subjected to beatings.
Sister gives hope to trafficked migrants
Both the traffickers and those now combating them are Bedouins. In some cases they are from the same or affiliated tribes.
In an illustration of how close-knit and closed off this community is, Sheikh Mohammed pointed out the human trafficker's compound to me from where the refugees he was now harboring had escaped. It was barely 500 yards away from Mohammed's own house.
He also warned us not to go there or risk being shot by the ruthless traffickers.
Despite the traffickers' compound being so close to the safe house it is impossible for Mohammed to simply go there and shut the operation down by force. That, Mohammed says, would violate inter-tribal norms and could lead to tribal warfare in this close knit community.
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But Sheikh Mohammed has powerful allies. One of them is Sheikh Ibrahim al Munai, a proud smuggler who owns several tunnels where goods are transferred from Egypt to Gaza.
Sheikh Ibrahim says he loathes the people smugglers and has vowed to stop their brutal business once and for all. He says: "This trade is not part of Bedouin culture."
Sheikh Ibrahim says the alliance to combat people smuggling in Sinai has already had great success, bringing down the number of kingpin traffickers from 120 to about 22, he says.
Ibrahim says in this tribal culture the action against the traffickers begins by speaking out in the community and organizing demonstrations, but that sometimes violence can be an option.
"We have to use our minds to keep force as the last resort," Sheikh Ibrahim told me as we were having tea in his compound.
"We pressure them. Stores are not allowed to sell bread, sugar, or tea to those traffickers. We have provided vendors with a list of their names and stopped them from selling to the traffickers. There is a serious boycott and some families refuse to let them marry their daughters as well."
Sheikh Ibrahim and Sheikh Mohammed say they have saved hundreds of African refugees from the people smuggling compounds. But they also concede there still is a long way to go as this illicit and brutal trade remains highly lucrative for those who are involved.
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We must not violate inter-tribal norms, that would be wrong. Does anyone here besides me see the Answer?
What a horrible tragedy! Where are the governments and God of the poor? Why are these terrible acts of violence overlooked when the defenseless face them?
In case you haven't been paying attention, Egypt has been otherwise occupied. The military has withdrawn from much of the Sinai to deal with issues in the capital.
Until we can convince the world that genocide has a purpose, these people will never see help.
sounds alot like mexico.
I agree 100%, its funny, I always see all my friends who are driving their brandnew cars and living in nice houses...they always pray and think that there is a god watching over us....if there were a god, he left this place a long time ago. I was deployed to the horn of africa and other places in and around that region..its truly sad and really hurt my heart to see what is actually going on there. God? Nope, not on this planet.
After the fall of Rome, there was human trafficking and lawlessness. If the problem is ignored by a central authority, it could get worse. Or, those who stopped the problem right now could use their credibility for other purposes, trading abuse for religious radicalism.
Unfortunately... No Oil... So No Help.
I am Mohammed, I order all Muslims to stop killing each other and stop killing regular people who pay their bills. Thanks, yours truly Mohammed.
The tribal laws are the only laws these people have. Just because a nation draws its borders around you doesn't necessarily mean its laws ever trickle down to you and your people. Why do you think countries like Somalia, Pakistan, Yemen and the Congo have the problems they do? In many places (probably most in the Third World), national law is poorly understood and largely unenforced at best, completely corrupt or meaningless at worst. People follow tribal laws because tribal laws are the only laws they know, their nation's government doesn't care enough to improve things or is too corrupt and incompetent to, and the other option is utter anarchy. Besides national laws are basically a larger, formalised version of 'tribal norms'. These people are trying to protect the innocent and the defenceless to the best of their ability; they should be applauded.
Well stated.
Colonial powers in Europe drew up all those crazy country boundaries on purpose back in the 1950's and 1960's so that no tribe in the Middle East or in Africa would be able to gain control. They thought it was a good idea at the time. Oops...
Couldn't agree more, Zanio.
Thank you! This was the only post that made any sense and understood what the article showed clearly. Well spoken. It is a shame that some of these posters here continue the anti-Islamic BS, "Islam is evil"?? READ THE ARTICLE, the Sheiks that are helping these people are Islamic too ! Islam has nothing to do with slavery or the horrible treatment, recall that our Founding Fathers came over originally as indentured slaves to England and were to settle the New World, then when we good people gained our freedom we saw fit to take the Freedom of millions of Africans, West Indians, etc. Hated, abuse and evil have no home, they belong to all of us equally, it is our job as humans to combat and defeat it where it arises!
Agreed.
it is the same story (Roots), where America Built on the blood of free Black Africans forced and brought to be slaves.
No, it is not the same. The big difference is American slavery was two hundred years ago while Islamic slavery is still going strong today.
Another big difference being that wealthy Africans sold poor Africans to Americans at the coast. Wealthy Africans collected and brought them to the shores to be sold. This is still Africans, but instead of being sold they are just trying to escape. My question is will Africa ever get better? Where is the government?
Mohamed...why didn't you read this article? Not that America History is not washed in shame for sins it has committed
against the Native population and Africans sold by Africans brought to a foreign land only to be resold, but this article clearly states that these travelrs are kidnapped, torture, murder, and held for ransom. There is no interest in building
anything. These people are merely passing thru and risking they lives for it. Really!
Mohamed Ramadan you are wicked, stupid and a bigot you are a shame on your tribe, please look around you and move into civilazation
Sadly, historically and present day, it's always mooslem who propagate such business.
Sadly, one of the main differences is that it used to be LEGAL in the United States. Frightening, I know. I do see a similarity in Sheikh Mohammed's actions to those of the Underground Railroad...people who risked their own freedom and safety to help slaves find theirs. They could not end slavery outright, but they did what they could to ease the suffering of as many as possible.
America wasn't built on slaves. sure there were some slaves and they did build some things but by no means the coubtry was just built on that. in fact muslims strated slavery and in in Africa the country of Mauritania just outlawed slavery in 2008 and still many prctice it there.
CNN deleted the posts about african selling africans. I'm not sure why it would do that as it is an opinion, but here is my response.
Certain Afrcan chiefs (and not Africans generally) captured Africans, a process more like a progressive version of indentured servitude (captured slaves could become members of families – even kings. e.g. Jaja of Opobo); nonetheless, as a Nigerian, Africa can take the rap for its involvement in the process.
What Africans did not do is torture humans with branding fire like cattle, or line them in disease infested cargo holds. What Africans did not do is liken a fellow human (in serious scholarship) to simian. What Africans did not do is call another human three-fifths of a human boy. No African called no other man n***r or c***k or s***k or k***e. No African little boy looked up at a human elder and spit in his face. No African lynched another man, nor deprived him of life or liberty. No African raped women and little girls indiscriminately and then subjected his own child to slavery. No African perpetuated a legacy of Jim Crow, syphillis treatment on kids. No, white americans did all of this. This is not to say White people are bad, its simply to state the facts as they are.
And no, the above story is far different. This is not government consented and sponsored trafficking. These are rogues, who are hiding and committing atrocious evils. The near entirety of White Americans, government, all establishments including the founding fathers (all bible-toting) mocked, whipped and spit on black people. Beat them down when they protested and justified in courts and science journals. This is the history for better or worse
Islam started slavery and still exists today. Stop pointign the finger at the west whcih was th eonly one to atually abolish slavery and considered it wrong. Dont try reverse psychology on us because you will be burned.
Really it's The same Story .
But Mo, America conquered slavery! What is the future of those in the Sinai?
The same is the case in every country, That the rich and powerful will exploit the less fortunate, and this has happened and is happening rather then pointing fingers to black or white the human angle is what matters. Male and female were made for each other , In this context what is important is what we can do to help ? The blame game of who is at fault or who is responsible or who should act is just waste of time CNN should be supported for exposing these kind of events . Bravo
Muslims will be Muslims. It's their culture.
In countries where most people are poor or starving, they will do what it takes to survive. They have no education and the powers that be would like to keep it that way....keep em dependent on you and you've got the power and control. An education is a ticket to freedom and the ability to care for and support yourself. It has behooved mankind since time began to have those at the lowest end of the social scale to do the "dirty work". In good conscious, we must abolish this notion and do all we can to lift our brother up....for no other reason than it's the right and moral thing to do.
The answer? How about the mozambique drill?
Only happens in Muslims countries,they don't have any respect for human lives,just because they don't serve and know who the Real God is..we all see the killings in all these Muslims countries..They don't have that real Love in there hearts,only HATRED...that is why they do this...because they've been taught to do this...,yes..the son of the rebelious,ISMAIL..
Don't you know that there is no god? Why is there so much suffereing on our planet, if there was?
Be careful where you throw those ignorant accusations. There are over a billion Muslims in the world and they are not killing each other or anyone else. All cultures and people are capable of hate and unspeakable crimes. The Nazi's were Protestant Christians. Those Mexican drug lords are Catholics. Does that mean that Western society is evil? Think before you speak.
@fatherland.....if is called free will....the greatest gift God gave all of us. The chance to choose our own destiny. It is those that sway from the true meaning are the ones creating all the suffering on this planet.
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If you are incapable of feed and raising children, why have them? Why make children who have no hope of surviving in their own home countries and abroad and then bank their hopes on emigration? Africans are using uncontrolled childbirth and lack of family planning to destroy abuse themselves and the peace and stability of other regions.
Is not question of incapablity of raising children but immaginalization of Africa or the third world by you people .Is right time you people live us alone to manege what God had gving us then you people will have peace and stays alone.
That has been done many times, the example of Liberia must stand out at least. But recently, the takeover of Zimbabwe and SA shows the usual direction of things when Africans are given a free hand. And as I recall, no foreigners have been involved in all those genecidal massacres of the past several decades. It seems to always happen when foreigners vacate and leave you to your own devices. But I agree, I am against spending one more dollar on Africa. It is time you people learn to manage yourselves or FAIL at last and diminish as Darwinian law would have it.
Jim who are you to determine how many children one should have? Isn't it your kind that plundered and raped africa and african resources to date? You now come to a forum like to express your ignorance and utter myopic vision.
Use some sense- if you're desperately poor you probably can't afford contraception in the first place. Marginalised people have large families because of lots of reasons: high infant mortality, cultural norms that encourage large families, lack of access to contraception and education, young age at marriage etc. Add to this the fact that plenty of children are born to mothers who are victims of rape, and didn't get any say at all. I don't think anyone (in Africa or elsewhere) has children to deliberately impoverish themselves or worsen conditions in their own or other countries.
That's pretty much the way animals live. They supposedly have brains so aside from those that are raped, they should have enough sense to not have any more children that will simply suffer. Otherwise they are no further up the food chain than an animal and in fact further down.
Shell, I'd seriously like to put you in a refugee camp for a few weeks. You need your eyes opened with vaulting poles. Be thankful that your sheltered little life has never exposed you to the kinds of things the people you are so disdainful of have to endure.
When Bush came to power in 2000 he shut off all bith control funding for African nations. He did a good job. One of the few successes for him.
Bush actually did a lot of great work in Africa even though the media in this country chose to not report on it.
He is very well liked in many African countries.
Jim, women and girls in these areas have little or no say about what happens to their bodies and no access to birth control methods. And the US isn't much help because well-meaning but misguided religious conservatives don't want their tax money spent on any aid for contraception. I wish the problem were as easy to solve as you think, but it isn't. What seems to really work is the combination of women's rights, easy access to birth control, and a third-grade education.
Amen, Nancy.
Truth.
Jim – It isn't that easy telling them to "stop having children". Most of these people have no access to medical care whatsoever. Most of these people live in "tribes" or "cultures" where women are the property of their husbands. Younger girls in some African areas are subjected to having their genitals mutilated to "prevent" men from having relations with men until they are married. Most of the time, they have no say in the matter. Telling them "stop having relations" does not work. Education is the key and offering preventive services to these people including adequate access to birthcontrol is the answer. Will that happen though? Doubt it! So much civil unrest, tribal warfares and corrupt governments in the African nations cause these people to suffer!
Maybe the men need to be told to "stop having relations" instead of the women, since most of Africa is a patriarchal culture.
Actually in many African countries there is no such thing as spousal rape and a wife does not have the option of refusing her husband. As others have pointed out, some people are in such poverty that women cannot afford birth control and cannot force their husbands to use it either.
Slave owners did not beat and torture their slaves, they made them work in fields and fed them well. There is a big difference though still morally wrong.
you are kidding right?
Really... Thats a good one.
In which state did you learn US history?
Have you ever opened a history book? American slave owners DID beat and torture and even -yes its true- RAPE their slaves. Even in to the 1900's there are cases where black slaves were treated severely wrong. and not just a few! Go wiki Emmett Till.
What farm animal gave birth to you? How did you get out of the barn and off the farm? Really, really need to do more research. It does take some time to dig deeply into are past.
muslims fleeing from muslim countries to live in israel ? WTTTFFFFF ?
God bless Israel.
eritreans are mostly christian
Christians do not outnumber Muslims by much in Eritrea.
Where are all the Islam and Arab haters? Normally there'd be hundrends of comments by now saying Islam is inherently evil. Right, you close your eyes and ears to evidence that Islam is against violence and inhumanity but act like a maniac waving your arms and pointing at examples of violence and hate that are committed by a small percentage of Muslims. Muslims are human beings. There are people that are spread out on the entire spectrum of morals just like people in other countries. The religion itself cannot be blamed for the actions of some people who are as misguided and ignorant about it as you are.
here's one for you moron, they do not do anything to stop the violence or radicalism......humans are judged by their actions and the Muslims bad actions for outnumner the good ones as the world sees it........wake up idiot
I don't agree that it is a small percentage. Muslims danced in the streets everywhere on 9/11, including the U.S. But ALL religions, particularly Christianity and Islam are inherently intolerant of others, and even themselves as the interfaith warring through the centuries proves. The violence that comes with these religions is caused by a basic fear that they are wrong in their claims and anyone appearing comfortable without their particular set of beliefs scares them.
So tjp44, by whose count? Yours? A good unbiased source such as yourself knows that there are 1.5 Billion Muslims in the world and we only hear about the actions of a few. Even if there were a million bad actors, that would be 0.067% of the muslim population. That is enough for you to condemn them all? Sad...
This isn't about Islam or Arabs or even Bedouins - it's about opportunists making troubled people's plight far worse.
You are so correct! slavery hhas nothing to do with Islam.
Actually the article refers to African – not specifically Muslim – people. FYI, there are many Christian and also some Jewish Africans, especially in countries like Ethiopia and Eritrea, and they are trying to get to Israel to work just as Turkish and Polish people try to get to Germany to work for better wages.
Actually the article refers to Bedouin – no African – people. Bedouins are an Arab people and the article specifically says the Bedouins protecting the Africans are Salafis, a sect of Islam.
Interesting that they are fleeing to Israel for a better life, just like the Arabs from Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon did in the early part of the 20th century – seeking jobs that were created by those "evil" zionists building up a barren land before 1948. Wonder if the UN will create a special category for these people also and take care of them and their descendents in perpetuity.
Can't the authorities, law enforcement agencies do something about this? This is inhumane.
Jo, that's the point – there are no law enforcement agencies operating in these areas, as the article states. There is no functioning government to fix this. And this problem is not unique to the Sinai – in much of Africa and some parts of Asia as well, there is simply no government control of the outlying regions, and tribal law is the rule of the land. I hope you have the chance to read further about this topic, or even better, to travel outside the US, to see for yourself the immense challenges these countries face, and why it truly is up to the citizens themselves to stop tolerating abuses like this.
They are not refugies at ail .To reach Israel from Africa you need a lot of money they dont go by foot and they get help from thier families in order to work in Israel and send back some money
Michael Michael you are so naive about what is happening outside your little world. Maybe its time you put your iPhone or iPad or got off the computer long enough to read something other your game scores. They are refugees. Africa and some parts of the US (actually) are suffering from a drought. The financial crisis hit the poor more than it did the rich and the people are suffering – take a look outside once and while Michael and you'll see what is going on in the world. Read man!! This is not propaganda, but the truth. People are dying by the hundreds everyday. The people are running away from a war against them because they aren't this particular sect. Wake up and smell the coffee Michael. Use your brain and learn to spell.
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You are a brain-washed fool.
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Where are all the Islam and Arab haters? Normally there'd be hundrends of comments by now saying Islam is inherently evil. Right, you close your eyes and ears to evidence that Islam is against violence and inhumanity but act like a maniac waving your arms and pointing at examples of violence and hate that are committed by a small percentage of Muslims. Muslims are human beings. There are people that are spread out on the entire spectrum of morals just like people in other countries. The religion itself cannot be blamed for the actions of some people who are as misguided and ignorant about it as you are.
Hey Glaceau, your argument is simply not correct, The traffickers are muslims and those fighting them are also muslims. So you cannot praise the muslims fighting the trafickers and close your eyes to the muslim traffickers.
I don't think those fighting the traffickers are doing it because of Islam. I think they are doing it because they are good people and its a sensible thing to do religion or no religion. And those trafficking are purely bad, simple. LETS LEAVE ISLAM out of it.
Hey fellow Jones!
I hate to disagree, and you ARE right that one cannot praise the good and ignore the bad here, however I would also say that Islamic faith is a definite factor here. To quote the sheik leading this movement: "What the traffickers are doing is against the will of God."
Sounds to me like faith is a major factor in his decision to stand up to these guys, especially given that he is a Salafist. Salafists are extreme orthodox literalists; they are to Islam what Fundamentalists are to Christianity
Aiding the Africans captured by the human slave traders is a religious decision and act on the part of the Sheiks. They are following the "traditional" Muslim responsibility to protect strangers in their land.
So your message is that we shouldn't judge all Muslims based on the actions of a few? Any chance you could get that same message to the Muslim world about the film they all seem to be upset about?
Note the clear cut difference: africans doing all they can to reach Israel in hope of better life – everybody knows what kind of life Israel can offer. On the other side of the border – hell incarnated. And even this hell doesn't make people hope less to get into Israel.
Whats the difference between smuggling humans, pigs, chickens, etc? After all a animal is a animal?
Chris – the big difference is that no chicken smuggler would load up the birds go half way to his destination and then stop & torture the chickens. Human smugglers on the other hand...
Bedouins are Muslim.
it is the same story (Roots), where America Built on the blood of free Black Africans forced and brought to be slaves
Ever hear of the war between the states, fought one hundred fifty years ago. It was fought to end slavery, the issue that was tearing at this country since its foundation. People were shedding their blood so another, another they never saw or knew, might be free.
Actually the civil war fought because the southern banks were gaining too much power and the nothern bankers didn't like this. Lincoln even had slaves. Guess you went to public schools and believe everything you were taught.
I salute the efforts of Sheikh Mohammed Abu Billal.
t takes real courage to stand up against these sorts of traffickers.
It should be noted that the Bedouins sided with the Israeli's in their war of independence, and have become an integral part of the modern State of Israel.
Once again we see the real deal. Islamic monsters. Horrible . .
Mohammed is a Salafist – a radical form of Islam – , did you miss this part of the story? or are you just been ignorant . been a bad person has nothing to do with Islam. it's is who you are .
I think Muslims are the modern-day Neanderthal.
I think Arabs are the modern day Neanderthals. There are Muslims in many parts of the world that get along just fine.
Why is Israel hiring these immigrants in the first place? I don't know enough to know if Israel did anything wrong, but if the good paying jobs weren't the bait, nobody would be trying to go there.
People get hurt pursuing opportunities and you blame the people providing the opportunities?
They don't get particularly good jobs – they're illegals. Still, the not to good jobs in Israel are apparently better than whatever they can get in their home countries. Same as a lot of Mexicans in the US.
maybe 1 in 10 will get a job as a street sweeper at best, the rest are sleeping in the streets or wlaking aimlessly trying to collect a few bottles or cans from garbage bins,,, its quite sad.
we are all humans...one God one family...we should get rid of immorality...
do not do unto others, what you do not want done unto you...
the international community should act on this...
give Africans good education and jobs...the basic necessities...then no need to go to other countries...
Disgusting form of reporting! CNN SHAME ON YOU!
Typical of the Americans, with the fingerprints of US establishment.
Every time a Muslim state goes out against the will and directions of Americans, media like CNN, NBC, ABC, WASHINGTONPOST, NYTIMES ETC... they start publishing and reporting negatively. This pattern has been followed and used by Americans for the last good 40 years.
Now It's Egypts turn after Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan .... The history is full of it.
Such stories never actually Pop up when Americans had their puppet sitting by the name of Hosni Mubarak.
Why doesn't the American mind their own business. The carrier of the Liberty and freedom are not but worst enemy for humankind.
Rizwan i know how you feel because the truth really hurts dosent it?. Human slave trafficing is the worst form of humanity, we quit 200years ago, Your Muslim brothers still practice it and it hurts your feelings to have it exposed. I guess thats our fault huh. We dont treat our wives and daughters like cattle and we dont send our brothers to prison for practicing different religions. Look in the mirror bro.
Hey buck gumbo,
I think my comments pinched u really bad that you came up with such emotional and personal comments. :).
By the way u guys need to put your house in order.
You may not do a lot of thing that people in east part of the world do. But let's see what have to say about what goes on in US?
Let me refresh you on that. Highest rates of teenage pregnancy and abortion in the world. You guys are also leaders in putting largest portion young minority African Americans behind bars.
Worst record in the world of kids killing spree in grade and high schools.
I guess what u do is better than us still?.......
Think about it bro .... Nobody is perfect. But everyone should live their lives and mind their own lives. That's the message.
I guess you missed the point of the article, which is that there are Bedouin, the majority of which are Muslim, who are fighting this inhumanity. Happy to ignore the positive Muslim examples presented here if you get a chance to rip the US media, eh?
When you point the finger at Western countries instead of solving your own problems and the extremism that has overtaken many Arab countries, you gain nothing. Arabian women are still property...female genital mutilation across the Arabian peninsula? Just grow up and take responsibility. If a cartoon or a movie is enough to get you guys to kill people...I really hope your God comes through for you guys.
Rizwan, not everything is a conspiracy, or American driven. Lets clean up our own back yard. By the way, Al jazeera shows lots of negative stories of the States.
Don't you just love the Middle East? Bunch of Neanderthals.
Sorry for trying to be the police for the world...we are officially pulling out of everywhere. Sorry for the trouble.
I like that
This is a terrible story. I am living in Israel, and I have to admit that Im not really sure what we should do when this people are reaching into our border. We understand how much they have suffered, but on the other hand we are a small country, we already have over 60K Africans which are almost 1% of the population, arriving in the past 5 years. If we let more in, they will keep coming... usually I don't agree with the policies of the Israeli government, but in this case, it feels like its a lose lose situation.
The crimes against the people of Africa or horrid. There is so little help for them.
What rtigh do these pieces of shiite believe they have to enter Israel? Gun them down where they stand.
I don't understand. They know who all these Traffickers are? Why don't they just kill them all? I think that would send the message they're looking for. What's the issue here? This could all be over in a week or two.
And there you have it, folks. "Despite the traffickers' compound being so close to the safe house it is impossible for Mohammed to simply go there and shut the operation down by force....that would violate inter-tribal norms and could lead to tribal warfare ...."
Follow that scenario throughout any Islamic country and you can see why there will never be peace within them. They are throwbacks to the fourth century with a tribal mentality.
They cannot even come together to end something as horrendous as this human trafficking because it may upset the next tribe. Unbelievable.
What's the going rate or these slaves? I'll pay $100 per head. I've got cotton that needs picking.
Anyone else find it a little ironic that we are lauding these two individuals who are attempting to stop the trafficking of humans, even though at the very least one of them is an active smuggler, who smuggles goods into Gaza, the implications of which are that he is smuggling goods to terrorist organizations, who kill innocent people. I mean, bravo for attempting to end human trafficking which is deplorable, especially in this day and age, but let's not call these guys heros quite yet.
Smuggling food? Smuggling basic supplies? Smuggling weapons? It makes a big difference. We don't know enough to pass judgement here.
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Salafist is NOT "radical" form of Islam. Please get your facts straight before defining terms you obviously don't know the meaning of. A Salafist someone who simply follows the Quran and Sunnah. Furthermore, being a humanitarian does not contradict the Quran and Sunnah as you alluded to.
Bedouin? What is this Star Wars!??!
We now need to focus on India. The American invasion of Afghanistan brought to the forefront the irrelevance of India as a nation. With a population of over 1.2 billion people there was no value that this nation could bring to the table. Their soldiers (ragtag) 1.2 million continue hiding in the trenches scared from Talibans. A few teenage Talibans invaded the country and held it hostage for days on end showing how useless India is. It was embarrasing for the world to observe this humiliation of a nation that was being touted as a regional power.
I continue to read with interest the thesis presented on CNN that "less is more" in a political context as applied to India. Although Mies Van Der Rohe adopted this in an architectural context, its economic and political connotations are indeed powerful. Empowering subjugated minorities in India by splitting it into smaller states would trigger uber economic demand for western nations who have given so much financial and technology aid to India with no return to show for the investment. I concur with this approach and with an economic background find the premise to be on solid footing. Central Asian States (CAS) are a case in point on this successful approach. We need to understand that India has an unmanageable large population mired in poverty and we are spinning our wheels trying to feed it. It is also too big of a geographical unit to govern. Again, we saw how a few teenage talibans were able to invade it with a few BB guns. And that says a lot... in a negative way not only for a large unmanageable country like India but also for USA which is trying to prop it up against China. Besides, Americans cannot afford to look like losers in the midst of a terror war which has lasted for over ten years now.
Arab trading in Africans (slavery) was 700 years before the transatlantlic enslaved trade and it still goes on today as well as in Christian parts of Africa. Amazingly most Muslims and Pan Africanist are mum about this Arab enslaved trade. Many rail against the European enslaved trade but say nothing about this horrific nightmare for Africans. Unfortunately mankind is only technologically advanced from the stone age not spiritually (and don't even start talking about religious values). If there is a heaven or wherever Muslims go, we/they are all going to hell for their treatment of their "brothers".
I wish a special forces IODA could be sent here to deal with these monsters.
if u listen to the story of islam it was spread buy the sword. their prophet gathered armys and spread his teaching that way. so its no wonder when u look at western countrys who are mostly christian they are for the most part free from the awful things that we see happening in muslim countrys. at least when the western countrys go to war they dont just kill women and children and blow up civilians. they are always protesting somthing or angry about another thing. if they could stop fighting with each other maby they might stop the western countrys from doing whatever they want to them. and another thing, none of those countrys in the mid east are ready for democracy. they show it over and over again buy conflict with each other. they need dictators to keep them in line. like in egypt and syria.
Really ? How did christianity spread ? You never heard of the crusades have you ? May I suggest you go buy a history book.
As for muslim countries fighting each other, you make me laugh. What war are you talking about ? There's no war between muslim countries anywhere in the middle east. It's revolutions happening, for non-religious reasons but purely economic and political reasons.
Go read history books, you seriously need them.
@ Steven; You need to read & comprehend a reputable history book. Then, take a course in comparative religion.
Unlike Islam, Christianity was not instructed to be spread through violence, nor to return violence even in the face of extreme persecution like crucifixion. Christians are instructed to enter a house with blessings upon it & depart peacefully if their words are not well received. The worst Christians are supposed to do, is shake the dust from their feet & leave the inhabitants who would not listen alone.
Christians had been making peaceful religious pilgrimages to the Holy Land for centuries before being attacked & enslaved by(surprise!) Muslims. The Crusades began when the knights hired to protect the pilgrims were being continually attacked. This lack of access to the Holy sites lead nations to get involved.
This began happening as Islam conquered the Jerusalem area by the sword & laid it's empiric claims to it. Islam has made a habit of permanently occupying or destroying other religion's holy sites. For example; taking over the church of Hagia Sophia & turning it into a mosque, or the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan.
Islam has been mainly spread by armed conquest. These conflicts began under their prophet Muhammad. There are accounts of his actions in the Koran, as well as in the contemporary history texts. The accounts of what tortures to inflict upon "infidels" who are not Islamic are quite barbaric for any person with any claims of holiness for being "merciful".
As I said before; you really need to read a genuine history book. There have been many wars between Muslim nations due to schisms in Islam. Iran & Iraq had a war from 1980 to 1988. It killed over a half million Muslims on both sides.
This is an example of a good fight, take notes!
Bedouins do care, apparently.
Its funny how a government can intervene when small human rights are violated, but when humans are violated to this extent the whole world is silent, but then again this doesnt really surprise me when you think of Rwanda Genocide and other horrific human violation in Africa no one speaks up till after the fact 1000s are slaughtered. Where is the Pope when you need him, where is the humanitarian effort of the west who claim to get rid of the evils like the Taliban, Al Queda, Ghaddafi, and Saadam.
"Not part of Bedouin culture"??? It's actually a part of Bedouin culture that far predates Islam and was never discouraged by Islam. If I remember correctly, Saudi Arabia was the last country to abolish slavery and they didn't do that until the 1930s.
In islam, to free a slave is like seeking forgiveness it is a way of salvation...wat do u know abt islam Jerry...and when u dont know anything abt islam from it original sources.. who are u to judge it...u are free to hate whom u want to....read some authentic unbiased jerry
The mercy in Islam is only tendered to other Muslims, Apar. This allows the slavers to treat other people like animals & still feel justified as good Muslims. When that same mercy is offered to all without the bigotry Islam offers to "infidels" then it might change.
In this story it's difficult to make Israel the bad guys, or point to the international Jewish conspiracy, but I have faith that some of you will try.
Apparently in the Islamic World, you get crazily offended when a cartoon is drawn or a 2 minute movie is made but the wholesale Rape of Africans and the brutal murder of Men, Women and Children is simply a tribal issue that can't be pursued. These nuts are straight out of the 6th Century – I hate them all.
Shaqil get in touch with reality... or are u rettttraddd!!!! May be blind ed by the propaganda against islam!!!!
If I were Moslem I would be looking for new religion to join. How does the Koran allow this? Did you know that the crazy yell that Suicide Bombers Scream before they massacre everyone means "Allah is Great!" I swear this is true. The crazy yell is "Allah Akbar" which simply means "Allah is Great." I'm sorry but this is disgusting, what an awful religion.
Proud convert muslim..!! Islam is a beautifull religion BEN U SHOULD READ THE QURAN INSTEAD OF WATCHING AND READING THE NEWS WHICH IS BIASED..!!
You actually converted to a religion that says you are worth only half of a person? A religion that says without 4 witnesses you can be killed if a man loses control & rapes you? I pity you.
In grade school, we were taught that Africa was the `dark continent', probably because so little was known about it. Today, for obvious but different reasons, Africa is still the dark continent and will remain so until religious conflict ends. Wake up Afrikaans! No foreign investment and jobs until you do!
Finally I see a Salafist good for something else than killing non Muslims or moderate Muslim
And notice where these poor African people want to go -> to Israel! The place the leftists and antisemites want to boycott, divest from and sanction. Israel, like America, a beacon of freedom and opportunity – if only they could get past the violent and inhuman Arab predators that hunt them down and sadisticly torture them. This is the clash of civilizations, the West vs the rest.
" It's a new year at school?*!# I used to basybit for a family with 5 boys constantly to save money to buy my own clothes somewhere else. But what I did really love is that I learned to sew and one year I made the coolest batik bell bottoms with my Mom in one of her neighborhood art classes!! I actually batiked the fabric I used for these pants in my favorite colors, blue turquoise and purple. My mom is an artist and I will forever be grateful for all the things art related she taught to us.
I just want to say Islam did NOT start slavery. Slavery has been around since man invented the spear and the wheel.
LONG before Islam or Christianity for that matter.
Learn a little history or u are doomed to repeat it.
Then when will Islam learn, & stop their people from repeating it?
Music video made for the cause against modern-day slavery featuring actress/dancer Kathryn McCormick (SYTYCD, Step Up 4)
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These Bedouins are taking action, where the world fails to act, my heart and hand offers these Brave Men praise....cause God knows they deserve it!!
we know that the bedouins are moslim and moslim ppl want to kill eveybody who is not moslim, the most slaves r eritrean and the eritrean goverment dont care about what happend in this place, that is why the moslim kill and ask money only from eritrean ppl,
semhar, the bedoiuns are muslim, yes! and so are many eritreans muslim too. i agree that the bedoiuns seem only to target eritreans; they form the largest number of asylum seekers, but, maybe other groups are targeted too.
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