Behold the future under Shar’ia Law, Dhimmies.
Members of the immigrant community? Please.
The end of empires.
Hmmm — no mention at all of those who were holding him in slavery. I wonder why that might be. (I have a guess but saying so would be profiling and we all know that’s a bad thing to do.)
The Quran accepts the distinction between slave and free as part of the natural order and uses this distinction as an example of God's grace, regarding this discrimination between human beings as in accordance with the divinely-established order of things. "The Qur'an, however, does not consider slaves to be mere chattel; their humanity is directly addressed in references to their beliefs, their desire for manumission and their feelings about being forced into prostitution. In one case, the Qur'an refers to master and slave with the same word, rajul. Later interpreters presume slaves to be spiritual equals of free Muslims. For example, urges believers to marry 'believing maids that your right hands own' and then states: "The one of you is as the other," which the Jalaalayn interpret as "You and they are equal in faith, so do not refrain from marrying them." The human aspect of slaves is further reinforced by reference to them as members of the private household, sometimes along with wives or children. Pious exhortations from jurists to free men to address their slaves by such euphemistic terms as "my boy" and "my girl" stemmed from the belief that God, not their masters, was responsible for the slave's status.
I’ve read several articles on how Chinese slaves shipped on freighters are either worked in Britain or layed over there on there way to other countries. The writer of this article must have just come out of a coma.
BTT
If I recall correctly, Yakuza gangs were forcing Chinese who were duped into believing they were on their way to good jobs (to relieve astronomical debts forced on their relatives by the Yakuza) to go to England in squalid conditions. Somehow bypassing all official filters these pitiful folks were ordered to collect mussels from beaches known to have treacherous tidal actions, for the benefit of Chinese restaurants owned by the Yakuza under paid-off or intimidated local fronts. When many of these slaves died from the tides someone somehow got the story to the papers.
You see the result from the article above: “Immigrants trying to provide for their families”, etc., lie, embellishment. Some folks just don’t like the idea of having a knuckle cut off no matter how many people end up drowning.
FMCDH(BITS)