[SunkenCiv]

• Shipwrecks Reveal Origins of Metal Used to Cast the Benin Bronzes [04/10/2023]
• Photos: Benin's Famed Voodoo Festival Draws back Afro-Descendants [02/03/2023]
• Germany, Nigeria to sign accord on return of Benin Bronzes [07/04/2022]
• Voodoo Worshippers Gather in Benin to Pay Their Respects [01/18/2022]
• The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s. It Just Surfaced [05/11/2018]
• Shipwreck Ruins Found In The Gulf Coast Delta [...] Are Not Those Of The Last Slave Ship Clotilda [03/05/2018]
• 'Forgive us, because we sold them,' says African ambassador on possible slave ship find [02/18/2018]
• Abbas To Sign Accords With Putin in Moscow [04/11/2015]
• The African Union Readies an Army to Fight Boko Haram [01/31/2015]
• West Africa leaders vow to wage 'total war' on Boko Haram [05/17/2014]
• African leaders vow to wage 'total war' on Boko Haram [05/17/2014]
• State Department Begins Work on New $178M Embassy Complex in Benin [08/21/2013]
• Nigeria discovers 'Hezbollah terrorist cell', weapons trove [05/31/2013]
• Hezbollah Raises Latin American Profile [09/18/2012]
• DEA Raids Car Dealership with Alleged Ties to Terrorist Group Hezbollah [12/18/2011]
• US citizen extradited on Hezbollah charges (dual US-Lebanese, Moussa Ali Hamdan) [02/25/2011]
• Africans Want The Gregorian -- Not The Forced Hulahula [12/22/2010]
• Siljander pleads guilty in Islamic American Relief Agency lobbying case [07/09/2010]
• Bitterness, broken dreams for Benin's child slaves [06/24/2005]
• Plame's Input Is Cited on Niger Mission (Joe Wilson lied about EVERYTHING) [07/10/2004]

[algore]

I have a a bunch of metal from Benin

[piasa]

Not sure who put the Koran keyword in there but
in this particular case and any case involving human cargo originating in Benin, the sellers and slaves were not Muslim but practicioners of Benin’s traditional religion, Vodun.

[jacknhoo]

“ Scholars, Western visitors and nearly all Nigerians will find it impossible to view bronzes which the Oba claims he would make accessible in some way: the Nigerian Government officially advises against driving the 197 miles from Lagos to Benin due to the danger of carjacking and murder – people should only fly – and like much of that country, Edo State is enduring an epidemic of kidnapping.”

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Sounds like several Democrat run cities in the USA.

[blam]