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  • Human trafficking in U.S. poses elusive target [Slavers]

    10/29/2005 6:57:55 AM PDT · by SwinneySwitch · 7 replies · 530+ views
    Corpus Christi Caller-Times/AP ^ | October 28, 2005 | David Crary
    LOS ANGELES- Florencia Molina's personal hellhole was a dressmaking shop on the outskirts of Los Angeles. She worked there up to 17 hours a day, seven days a week, and lived there, too, without the option of showering or washing her clothes. Other victims of American-style human trafficking have had very different venues for ordeals as bad or worse _ brothels and bars in New Jersey, slave-labor farms in Florida, a small-town tree-cutting business owned by a New Hampshire couple. Trafficking is a stubborn problem and a staggering one worldwide, affecting an estimated 600,000 to 800,000 victims a year. Federal...
  • Islam stands for universal peace

    12/04/2004 12:03:31 PM PST · by miltonim · 77 replies · 3,082+ views
    Bangladesh Independent News Source ^ | Dec 3, 2004 | By Abdul Muqit Chowdhury
    Islam stands for universal peace Human dignity has been proclaimed in the Holy Quran : "And surely we have honoured the children of Adam...." (17:70) Fraternity and unity of mankind has also been proclaimed : "Mankind was one single nation....."(2:213) "Verily this brotherhood of yours is a single brotherhood..." (21:92) "Mankind was but one nation, but differed (later)." (10:19) There are other verses in the Quran on unity, integrity and solidarity of humanity. The Holy Quran marks the friends of division and conflict in the human race, which lead to human disaster and destruction : "But people have cut off...