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Egypt ‘Summer Brides’: Under-age daughters sold
as ‘sex-slaves’ in Egypt, report claims Al Arabiya News, 15 July 2012 english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/07/15/226546.html [accessed 16 July 2012] www.ipsnews.net/2013/08/underage-girls-are-egypts-summer-rentals/ [accessed 2 February 2019] Egypt has laws in
place that aim to combat human trafficking which prevent foreigners from
marrying an Egyptian woman if there is more than ten years age difference,
but marriage brokers have found a way around that by forging birth
certificates to make the girls appear older and the men younger. These contracts also eliminate any
potential problems with hotels and land lords who may demand to see proof of
marriage before allowing a couple to stay in a room together, since
pre-marital sex is prohibited in Islam. In some cases the
men take the Egyptian girls back to their home country to work as maids for
their first wives. But even the girls who stay in Egypt do not fare much
better since they often become ostracized by society and find it difficult to
re-marry in the traditional way, particularly if the “summer marriage” resulted
in a child. Many abandon the
child out of shame, either to orphanages or leaving them to join the hundreds
of thousands of street children that already exist in Egypt. Dr. Hoda Badran, who chairs the NGO Alliance for Arab Women,
explained to the Sunday Independent that poverty is the main factor behind
this phenomenon. Ghana The Tragedy of Female Slavery in Ghana Brian Carnell, EquityFeminism,
February 12, 2001 aconspiracyofhope.blogspot.com/2010_10_01_archive.html [accessed 16 August 2012] According to the
American Anti-Slavery Group, until the 18th century the offering typically
took the form of livestock or other gifts, but that began to change and
priests began demanding, and receiving, virgin girls as atonement for the
sins of their relatives. Girls, often
under the age of 10, are brought to the priest, ritually stripped of all
their possessions, including clothes, and told they have to do anything the
priest tells them. Most girls are raped repeatedly. Sudan From Slavery to Freedom...Please read Ayiti Ap
Bon, 01-22-02 www.haitiwebs.com/showthread.php?t=20504 [accessed 25 December 2010] Bok said he was
captured by the raiders and, along with two little girls, was placed on a
donkey and carted north. "The girls were crying, and when they did not
stop after being told to do so, a soldier pulled out his pistol and shot one
of them," he said. "The other girl kept crying, and then he shot
her." Bok was taken to Kirio, he said, where he was given to an Arab man, who
presented him to the entire household. They all beat him. "They always
called me 'abeed,' which means black slave, and I
had to sleep with the cows," he said, adding that he was always fed
leftovers from the master's table. 880 Sudanese Slaves Liberated - Thousands
Remain Enslaved in Dr. John Eibner, The theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=1462 [accessed 25 December 2010] Most of the
returning slaves documented by CSI reported gross abuse by their Arab Muslim
masters. Among the most widespread forms of abuse are beatings, death
threats, work without pay, forced Islamization and Arabization, and racial
and religious slurs. The majority of women and older girls said they were
raped or gang-raped while in bondage. A minority of the females claim they
were subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) — a ritual that is the
cultural norm for Baggara Arab women. Michael Coren,
Sun Media, 11/25/2003 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 11 September 2011] Women and children
abducted in slave raids are roped by the neck or strapped to animals and then
marched north. Along the way, many women and girls are repeatedly gang-raped.
Children who will not be silent are shot on the spot. In the north, slaves
are either kept by individual militia soldiers or sold in markets. Boys work
as livestock herders, forced to sleep with the animals they care for. "Some who try
to escape have their Achilles tendons cut to hamper their ability to run.
Masters typically use women and girls as domestics and concubines, cleaning
by day and serving the master sexually by night. Survivors report being
called "Abeed" (black slave), enduring
daily beatings, and receiving awful food. Masters also strip slaves of their
religious and cultural identities, giving them Arabic names and forcing them
to pray as Muslims." Saudi sheik: 'Slavery is a part of Islam' WorldNetdaily, November 10, 2003 www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35518 [accessed 21 December 2010] [accessed 22 January 2020] A leading Saudi
government cleric and author of the country's religious curriculum believes
Islam advocates slavery. "Slavery is a part of Islam," says
Sheik Saleh Al-Fawzan, according to the independent
Saudi Information Agency, or SIA. In a lecture recorded on tape by SIA,
the sheik said, "Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long
there is Islam." His religious books are used to teach 5 million
Saudi students, both within the country and abroad, including the Saudi
Arabia President Wahid: Slavery Widespread in Saudi
Arabia Indonesian Observer, www.malaysia.net/lists/sangkancil/2000-03/msg00055.html [accessed 21 December 2010] He expressed
concern that many Saudis may treat their Indonesian servants as slaves and
sexually harass them. Many Indonesian
women who have worked abroad come home with horror stories of being raped and
badly treated by their foreign bosses. But according to
Wahid, the Indonesian media often makes inaccurate reports on what goes on in
Saudi Arabia. "The media’s descriptions
created a public perception that our women workers were raped. The situation
is not like that. The Saudi people still believe in the old Islamic teaching,
which is belief in slavery. So a woman who works for them is considered a
slave," he said. For some men in
Saudi Arabia, sexual relations with a housemaid are not considered as rape,
because they believe that such a practice is permitted by their beliefs, he
added. Zambia An African cleansing rite that now can kill [Category – Religion & Slavery] Sharon LaFraniere,
The New York Times, Mchinji, Malawi, May 12, 2005 www.nytimes.com/2005/05/11/health/11iht-malawi.html?pagewanted=all [accessed 23 April 2012] www.vivamalta.net/VMforum/index.php?topic=995.0 [accessed 19 February 2018] In Malawi and in a
number of nearby nations including Zambia and Kenya, a husband's funeral has
long concluded with a final ritual: sex between the widow and one of her
husband's relatives, to break the bond with his spirit and, it is said, save
her and the rest of the village from insanity or disease. Widows have long
tolerated it, and traditional leaders have endorsed it, as an unchallenged
tradition of rural African life. All material used herein
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