Muslim Koran Teachers Still Enslaving Children in Africa

Many people don’t realize that Islam still practices and encourages slavery. In fact, the slaves that were brought to America in the 17th and 18th centuries were captured by Muslim slave traders. The idea that white people threw nets over black people as depicted in Roots is a laughable myth. Today in Africa Muslims are still enslaving black people and force them to beg for money which is then given to their slave masters.

This 19th-century engraving depicts an Arab slave-trading caravan transporting black African slaves across the Sahara. The trans-Saharan slave trade developed in the 7th and 8th centuries as Muslim Arabs conquered most of North Africa. The trade grew significantly from the 10th to the 15th century and peaked in the mid-19th century.

From Reuters here:

Senegalese security forces have arrested seven Koranic teachers for forcing children to panhandle, days after the West African state announced a crack down on public begging.

The predominately Muslim country is under mounting international pressure to end the use of children by Koranic teachers to collect money, rice and sugar after a prominent rights group said the practice was similar to slavery.

Human Rights Watch said in April at least 50,000 children in the country of 12 million were living in conditions “akin to slavery,” facing severe beatings from unscrupulous teachers if they did not collect enough money.

Some of the religious leaders — known as marabouts — make as much as $100,000 per year on the proceeds while cutting back hours in the classroom.

Rounding up a crew of little black children and beating them until they drop their coins? Sounds like a really sick version of Super Mario. But its just another day for Islam