280 caged children freed: Police arrest captors at Zambian Islamic 'school'

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Friday, July 4, 2003

[JohnHuang2]

Police in Zambia have arrested two foreigners for unlawful confinement and abuse of 280 boys being kept in cages at an Islamic "school" where they were taught Arabic and military tactics.

A team of police and Government officials, acting on a tip from some residents, rushed to the Faiz-E-Abrar Islamic Trust school in Lusaka's Chaisa township and found the children, all males aged between four and 10, kept in cells.

The two arrested men are Boyd Kanyanta, a Congolese who is the vice-chairman at the school, and Iqbal Patel of Asian origin who is the chairman and director of the institution.

The children, clad in robes and Islamic caps told Youth, Sports and Child Development Minister Gladys Nyirongo, one of those who rushed to the school, that they wanted to leave the center where they were sometimes fed rotten food kept in a sewer. Nyirongo wondered why only Zambian children were found at the school where Islam was compulsory when every child had a right to choose a religion of one's choice.

''We don't want to have another al-Qaida network in Zambia. This appears to be a very serious arrangement,'' Rev Nyirongo told the Zambia Times.

The children also said they were not allowed to speak any local language while in school. They complained they were subjected to Islamic teachings, caged in small rooms and made to eat food kept in a man-hole once they strayed from the Islamic teachings.

Four inmates were made to sleep on one single mattress in a crammed room of 12.

Police said the two school directors were charged with failing to provide necessities to children and child abuse.

Nyirongo said the children were fed expired foods while a lot of money was received from foreign donors for the operations of the institution. She said most of the children were malnourished.

''Some people are using these children to satisfy their own interest in or outside this country against the law of the country,'' Nyirongo said.

A school aide, Mussa Muzombora, said he was sent to get young boys from Northern, Eastern and Luapula provinces so that they could be enrolled at the school.

Muzombora said the project was started in 2000 but he could not reveal the activities to the outsiders as he was scared of his superiors.

[JohnHuang2]

Friday, July 4, 2003

Quote of the Day by Cicero

[Travis McGee]

Spreading the good word of the prophet of peace.

[Humidston]

Sounds to me like a hatchery for tomorrow's suicide killers.

I wonder how many more of these places are dotted across Islamic countries.

[MEG33]

Nightmare religion.

[dc-zoo]

You forgot the "religeon of peace" alert.

[dennisw]

ping back and a happy 4th to you!

[knighthawk]

an Islamic "school" where they were taught Arabic and military tactics

Teaching advanced islam I see, from the Medina period when the prophet was not so peaceful.

[niteowl77]

"Allah loves the little children, all the little children of the world. Be they yellow black or white, they are precious in his sight..."

[Bluntpoint]

When reached for comment, Nancy Pelosi stated:

"We now have 280 children free who will not benefit from Bush's tax cut."

[Bluntpoint]

When reached for comment, Tom Daschle stated:

"The horror found in the Zambian School is no different than what goes on in homes of our murderous "Home Schoolers'" torture chambers.

"NEA commandos need to be activated to close down these horrible "non-public" education factories. It has come to our attention that many white home schoolers have no minorities on their faculties nor any diversity in their student populations."

[Siamese Princess]

Sounds to me like a hatchery for tomorrow's suicide killers.

I wonder how many more of these places are dotted across Islamic countries

Zamia is an officially Christian country, I believe.

[Bluntpoint]

Zamia is an officially Christian country, I believe.

The letterhead of all their official papers reads:

Jesus Christ, There Sure Seems To Be A Lot Of Flies Here!

[TLBSHOW]

But Islam is Peace so what do people expect?

[nuconvert]

That's right. Every Muslim walking down the street treats their children like this.
And every Christian beats their kids with sticks.
Could it be this made the news beacuse it's an anomaly?
Just like the so-called "Christian" compounds or "schools" where children are found abused?

[skinkinthegrass]

When reached for comment, Tom Daschle stated: "The horror found in the Zambian School is no different than what goes on in homes of our murderous "Home Schoolers'" torture chambers..."NEA commandos need to be activated to close down these horrible "non-public" education factories. It has come to our attention that many white home schoolers have no minorities on their faculties nor any diversity in their student populations."

...and no SEX ed. or Queens, either...the shame...the shame.

[MEG33]

The religion taught in that school is a nightmare.There are evil people who call themselves Christian,Hindu,etc.In today's Islamic schools these conditions are not the usual,true..The message of hatred against the Jews and the infidels is pretty much standard.If a Christian converts to Islam, there is no death sentence.If a Muslim converts to another faith there is.

[Gritty]

the children were fed expired foods while a lot of money was received from foreign donors

Who are the "foreign donors"?

I suppose it's too much to also ask just where the parents of these children, aged 4-10, stand in all this and why they sent them to this torture center indoctination center in the first place?

[nuconvert]

I believe it's a religion in need of modernization. That's being recognized. Here's a quote from another post by JohnJuang2 today, "Petition to Muslims":
"In recent years, Barnabas said, moderate Muslim organizations such as Malaysia's Sisters in Islam and the Islamic Research Academy of Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the most important institution in the Sunni stream of Islam, increasingly have called for a reinterpretation of Islamic teaching on apostasy to make it more just and humane."
Change takes time. It would be nice if it could be done over night. I don't know if you've been following the student demonstrations in Iran stories, but one fear the mullahs and ayatollahs there apparently have, is that the younger generation is turning away from Islam. There is an increased interest in pre-islamic religions. (Christianity among them). Everyone isn't a brutal zealot. And there are positive breezes in the wind.

[dighton]

Zamia is an officially Christian country, I believe.

That is correct.

Constitution of Zambia - Preamble

"... DECLARE the Republic a Christian nation while upholding the right of every person to enjoy that person's freedom of conscience or religion ..."

[joesnuffy]

CAIR and its madison ave spinners will of course conclude the story is racist....
an outright lie...written by islamo phobes, jews, or evangelicals
Then with properly greased (with Saudi Wahabbi oil money) its spokesman & or it's washington embedded -willing dupes will declare national islam day or week or month
The TV network A&E is already featuring a new special on the effects of Hollywood on Islam
Let the propaganda begin.........