For Europe, Arab Lives Matter More Than Africans

[mimblexwimble]

BRUSSELS - The summer dying season is underway. It began in earnest late last month when, under a bright Mediterranean sun that cast the sea a sparkling blue, a fishing trawler teetered on its side before giving in to the panicked bodies on board, tipping them into the swell. The Italian Coast Guard caught the moment on camera. On the shore of

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[cassiopeiaah]

I'm confused, 80 percent of Nigerian girls are trafficked or 80 percent of Nigerian refugees are human trafficking victims? Cause the former makes mo sense

[mimblexwimble]

I believe she means that 80 percent of the Nigerian women and girls who are trafficking victims are trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation.

[tabaqui]

It's so incredibly revolting that we are so terrified of 'others' that we allow people to die on our 'doorstep', so to speak. It's ugly and horrible and it's the entire world over, it seems.

[calinewarkwc69]

Thank you for this post OP! 100% truth

[makemegood]

Black people get it the worst no matter where they go, or who they're with.

Black people have the lowest status among the refugees for more reasons than what Europe is doing. It appears that anti-Black racism and Arab supremacy are inherent parts of Islam, because Muhammed was an Arab man with Black slaves. The word used for Black people in Arabic translates to slave. There is still real, sadistic slavery of Black people in the Islamic world, and that doesn't seem to come up ever when talking about slavery in modern times.

An American Muslim group had a stop the "a-word" campaign a couple years ago.

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/02/26/whats-the-a-word-group-works-to-stop-arabic-slurs-against-black-people/

[natyanayaki]

It's not really discussed much in the West at least in online circles because we have to do a lot of like defensive propaganda because of the rampant and disgusting Islamophobia and anti-Muslim bigotry (especially since 9/11 but of course the history is much, much longer) but when Mohammad outlawed slavery in Islam he only outlawed the enslavement of Muslims and it's likely that that helped feed the slave trade in that in Muslim areas in Africa Muslim rulers would sell non-Muslim black Africans to the European (well, Portuguese mainly I guess) slave traders.

[makemegood]

The slave traders and owners wouldn't teach their slaves Islam, so they could justify their slavery.

There was also a trans-Sahara slave trade, which is estimated to have sent 20 million Black Africans to the Islamic world, with an estimated 80 million Black people dying on the way.

http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/06/02/10-facts-about-the-arab-enslavement-of-black-people-not-taught-in-schools/

[natyanayaki]

This doesn't surprise me at all.

In the US (I'm USian so my perspective is always skewed to the US) we have this perspective that Western European countries are so much more forward than we are, but to a large degree that only applies to white European -- or more specifically to Western White Europeans (Polish, Romanians, and Bulgarians are often treated like shit in Western European countries too). We (USians and Europeans alike) also forget/ignore that American racism is a product and outgrowth of European racism. Europeans (particularly Western Europeans) treat anyone who isn't considered "white enough" like shit including Eastern Europeans (with the possible exception of Greeks), Jewish people, Romani, and of course dark skinned "Black" Africans would be considered the "least white" so...yuck. I wish this surprised me, but it doesn't...it thoroughly disgusts me though. The way people treat each other is such a shame.