Johannes Morken: I FOKUS, Stopp slaveriet i Kina, 12 august 2020, avisen Dagen:
”Diktaturet Kina er ansvarleg for dei mest systematiske og grufulle overgrepa mot etniske og religiøse minoritetar sidan Den andre verdskrigen. Ofra er … hovudsakleg muslimske etniske minoritetar i den store Xinjiang-provinsen. Innpå 1,8 millionar er sperra inn.
Kommentar: Dette er dramatisk. Situasjonsbeskrivelsen kan minne om forholdne i nazi-tyskland. Jødene ble utsatt for utryddelse. Nå er det muslimenes tur i Kina.
Intens overvaking, brutal oppsplitting av familiar, tortur og tvangssterilisering av kvinner er utbreidd. Slavearbeid er viktig i det brutale kinesiske forsøket på å skaffa seg full kontroll på minoritetsfolka.
Kommentar: Inntrykket av «nazisme» forsterker seg. Har Morken studert slavearbeid i mange muslimske land? (se under).
… Det kjem sterke vitnesbyrd … Klesfabrikken i Kina skilte seg ikkje frå det grufulle livet i konsentrasjonsleiren. Det var politi og overvakingskamera over alt.
… Stefanusalliansen har skrive under ein internasjonal appell til desse om å kutta ut Xinjiang på grunn av grove overgrep mot menneskerettane. 72 uigur-organisasjonar og over 100 organisasjonar frå sivilsamfunn og fagrørsler frå heile verda har gitt merkevaregigantane 12 månader på seg til å kutta alle band til det kinesisk styrte slaveriet i Xinjiang.
Kommentar: Her viser Morken at han er på den internasjonale arenaen, på den riktige siden. I en tidligere postering kommenterte vi «Morken i Libanon», og hvor Morken nok en gang vil gå foran, nærmeste ved å vise verdenssamfunnet den ene rette veien mot målet: Støtt Stefanusstiftelsen/alliansen. Libanon treng oss no meir enn nokon gong før (sitert etter hukommelsen ... )
Morken er i godt internasjonalt selskap, men han og organisasjonen hans nevnes ikke sammen med andre internasjonale giganter:
- The Lebanese Red Cross is the main provider of ambulance services in Lebanon, and said it would dispatch every ambulance from North Lebanon, Bekaa and South Lebanon to Beirut to treat the wounded and help in search-and-rescue operations. You can make a one-time contribution here. The British Red Cross has also set up an emergency fund.
- The United Nations’ World Food Program provides food to people displaced or made homeless after the blast. Lebanon imports nearly 85 percent of its food, and the port of Beirut, the epicenter of the explosion, played a central role in that supply chain. With the port now severely damaged, food prices are likely to be beyond the reach of many. You can donate here.
- The nongovernmental organization Humanity and Inclusion has 100 workers in Lebanon, including physical therapists, psychologists and social workers. They are focusing on post-surgical therapy in Beirut following the explosion. You can make a single or monthly contribution here.
- International Medical Corps is deploying medical units and will provide mental health care to those affected in Lebanon. The humanitarian aid organization also provides health services to Syrian refugees in Lebanon, and vulnerable Lebanese. You can donate here.
- Islamic Relief, which specializes in food aid and emergency response, is helping to put a supply chain in place for emergency aid in Beirut. You can donate here.
- In a study released in late July, Save the Children warned that over 900,000 people, including more than 550,000 children, did not have enough money to buy basic goods like food. With the situation likely to worsen after the explosion, they have launched a Lebanon’s children relief fund, to which you can donate here.
- UNICEF, the United Nations agency specializing in aid to children, is providing medical and vaccine supplies in Beirut, and supplying drinking water to rescue workers at the Beirut port. Its on-the-ground team is also counseling children traumatized by the blast. You can donate here.
- Impact Lebanon, a nonprofit organization, has set up a crowdfunding campaign to help organizations on the ground, and is helping to share information about people still missing after the explosion. The group had raised over $3 million as of Wednesday and donated the first $100,000 to the Lebanese Red Cross.
- The health care organization Project HOPE is bringing medical supplies and protective gear to Beirut and assisting the authorities on the ground. A donation page is available here.
- Over 300,000 people in Beirut were displaced from their homes by the explosion. Baytna Baytak, a charity that provided free housing to health care workers during the coronavirus pandemic, is now raising funds with Impact Lebanon to shelter those who have been displaced.
- For those in Beirut, here is a list of urgent blood needs. Several social media accounts have also been set up to help locate victims.
Så vidt jeg husker, ba myndighetene i Libanon om at hjelp måtte mottas kun av disse større organisasjonene. Man advarte – hvir man regelrett ikke forbød – å ta imot hjelp fra mindre organisasjon, (som antakelig ville bidra til å vanskeliggjøre hjelpearbeidet. Men dette er selvsagt ikke Morkens anliggende).
Morken fortsetter med å bidra:
… den internasjonale kritikken blitt skjerpa. Men jakta på profitt har ikkje stogga. ,,, bumullsplagg vert laga med tvangsarbeid. …
Kommentar: Profittmotivet skal her forklare verdens elendighet. Dette «smacker» av «god gammel Marx». Marx har kanskje fortalt morken at «religion er opium for folket»? Hvis kristendom er opium, bør Morken gi slipp på sin martyr Stefanus? Og heller støtte verdenssamfunnet fri fra all profitt og all opium? Stalin er kanskje bedre enn Hitler?
Morken kommer nå til høydaren:
Det er tid for handling, … USA har varsla sanksjonar mot eit kinesisk selskap. Merkevaregigantar har forsikra at dei ikkje tolererer tvangsarbeid. Men dei har ikkje forklart korleis dei kan møta dei etiske krava og samstundes driva forretning i ein region der systemet er bygt på tvangsarbeid.
Det er tid for at profitt må vika for menneskerettar.
Sluttkommentar: Jeg ønsker nå inderlig at Morken og Stefanus nå – i det som ennå måtte finnes av måtehold og ydmykhet overfor utfordringene, begynner å orientere seg mot den muslimske verden, der de kan finne plenty om slaveri og barnerbeid, og masse, masse, om overgrep mot barn og menneskeretter og menneskerettigheter. Vi legger ved en liste over noen tilfeller og tilnærminger, basert på internasjonale fakta:
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Children across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are frequently deprived of the basic rights afforded to them in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and international law.This is particularly alarming and reprehensible for children within the juvenile justice system, regardless of whether they are in conflict with the law.Across the region, laws relating to children are outdated, and enforcement of children’s rights is too often weak or nonexistent. Many countries lack a comprehensive juvenile justice system that can appropriately respect and handle children’s rights. Shockingly, governments in some countries are simply unable or unwilling to adequately protect children.Across the MENA region, human rights organizations are campaigning for change as they provide and strengthen key services. However, these organizations face their own difficulties, handicapped by restrictions on freedom of expression, and physical attacks on activists.DCI-Palestine’s MENA project, launched in 2011, is improving the situation for children across the region by supporting organizations that work for children’s rights. By working closely with the League of Arab States and creating a strong regional network, we promote basic protections for children, and we seek to develop child-friendly justice systems based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and international law
https://defenceforchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ChildrightsinArabcountries_EN_Report.pdf
Saudi sheik: 'Slavery is a part of Islam', WorldNetdaily, November 10, 2003,
www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35518, [accessed 21 December 2010], www.wnd.com/2003/11/21700/
A leading Saudi government cleric and author of the country's religious curriculum believes Islam advocates slavery. "Slavery is a part of Islam," says Sheik Saleh Al-Fawzan, according to the independent Saudi Information Agency, or SIA. In a lecture recorded on tape by SIA, the sheik said, "Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam." His religious books are used to teach 5 million Saudi students, both within the country and abroad, including the United States.
http://gvnet.com/humantrafficking/SaudiArabia.htm
BBC enthuses about how Islam “moderated” slavery and “treated slaves as human beings”
Jul 11, 2020 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer 30 Comments
Slavery is a constant throughout 1,400 years of Islamic history. Everywhere Islam went up to modern times, there were Muslim believers who believed themselves entitled to enslave non-Muslims, and did so, as is shown in detail in The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS.
But for the BBC, the highest priority is to make sure that no one thinks ill of Islam in any way. What is behind this agenda that the BBC and other establishment media outlets pursue so indefatigably? What are they softening us up for?
“‘How Islam moderated slavery’: BBC blasted for piece explaining the ‘nice’ way to treat humans as property,” RT, July 10, 2020:
In the current climate of heightened racial tensions, marked by worldwide protests and the tearing down of colonial-era statues, it has emerged that not all slavery was created equal – at least, according to the BBC.
As celebrities, politicians, and the public at large parse their social-media histories for any evidence of untoward or potentially racially offensive comments, jokes, memes or otherwise, it appears the BBC is the latest institution to have views expressed in the past come back to haunt it.
In an archived article from 2009 discussing slavery and Islam, critics highlight how the BBC included such grim subheadings and points as “How Islam moderated slavery,” including “Islam treated slaves as human beings as well as property” and how, mercifully, “Islam barred Muslims from enslaving other Muslims.”
Though the BBC writer does acknowledge that Islam“made freeing slaves a virtuous act,” and makes several other concessions in the piece, it still apparently strayed too close to apologetics for slavery, in the eyes of many irate tweeters, becoming an exercise in whataboutery and deflecting blame on to Christians and white people.
Many were particularly irked, given the plight the Yazidi suffered at the hands of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) jihadists in the so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria….
In Fort-de-France, Martinique, activists pulled down a road sign with the name of Victor Hugo before burning it. "If Victor Hugo is unworthy, no one is worthy," said the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism.
The statue of Josephine, wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, was also beheaded and demolished in Fort-de-France.
Same fate for the monument of Victor Schoelcher, the French legislator who abolished slavery.
The decolonization of memory is advancing not only in former colonies, but also in Paris, where the first to suffer the blows of cancel culture was Voltaire, whose statue was vandalized in that city. Then that of Hubert Lyautey, Minister of War during the First World War. Then Jean-Baptiste Colbert, author of the document that established the conditions of slavery. On its pedestal the inscription “state negrophobia”.
Now comes an appeal from French intellectuals: "Hands off my story." Signed by the philosopher Alain Finkielkraut, by the essayist and writer Pascal Bruckner, by the scholar Bérénice Levet, by the former premier Manuel Valls, the appeal declares that "this import of the American politically correct is absolutely disastrous” and that “we risk undertaking a process that will have no end, which cannot have an end. Today it's Colbert, tomorrow it's Jules Ferry, because he spoke of the duty to 'civilize the inferiors'. We need to reread history in its context and not project our current obsessions into the past.”
French
historian Pétré-Grenouilleau, got into trouble with the book "La Traite
des Noirs" in which he explains: "The number of Christian slaves
pillaged by Muslims exceeds that of Africans deported to the Americas."
Accusing the past of racism, stating that all cultures are equal, “would
prevent us from strongly condemning - and everywhere - excision, polygamy or
forced marriages. We will be guided by transforming the story into a trial with
an endless list of defendants.”
History is knowledge, they continue. “We have to talk about slavery, but we have to talk about it in all its dimensions. Of course, the slave trade is a crime against humanity. But slavery existed in Africa, Africans participated in the tracts. While there were eleven million deportees under the European treaties, there were seventeen million under the Eastern slave trade, slaves of the Muslim world.”
While all cultures are tainted with crime, they write,"only Western culture knows the pain of guilt". In addition, France was the first country in the world to abolish slavery in 1794, it is the country of the declaration of the rights of man and citizen, the first to emancipate the Jews (how ironic - today Jews in France must flee antisemitism).
The French historian Sylvain Gouguenheim, a medievalist at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon, in the book "Aristotle at Mont-Saint-Michel" wrote that the Greek heritage in the Middle Ages was transmitted to Western Europe from Constantinople, not from the Islamic world. "Greek culture did not return to the West only thanks to Islam: to save the ancient philosophers from oblivion would have been above all the work of Eastern Christians, who fell under Muslim domination, and therefore Arabized." It was in the scriptorium of the ancient abbey that gives the book its title, in the twelfth century, that Aristotle's works were translated directly from Greek by the copyist monks.
Serial petitions against Gouguenheim followed.
Meanwhile, another French historian, Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau, got into trouble with the book "La Traite des Noirs", in which he explains: "The number of Christian slaves pillaged by Muslims exceeds that of Africans deported to the Americas."
There is no more fruitful time to erect historical taboos than during the war on history. A new order is arising from disorder. The New York Times just asked: "Should we cancel Aristotle?"
Giulio Meotti, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book "A New Shoah", that researched the personal stories of Israel's terror victims, published by Encounter and of "J'Accuse: the Vatican Against Israel" published by Mantua Books in addition to books in Italian.. His writing has appeared in publications such as the Gateston Institute, Wall Street Journal, Frontpage and Commentary.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/285070
In the early 20th century (post-World War I), slavery was gradually outlawed and suppressed in Muslim lands, largely due to pressure exerted by Western nations such as Britain and France.[17] Slavery in the Ottoman Empire was abolished in 1924 when the new Turkish Constitution disbanded the Imperial Harem and made the last concubines and eunuchs free citizens of the newly proclaimed republic.[18] Slavery in Iran was abolished in 1929. Among the last states to abolish slavery were Saudi Arabia and Yemen, which abolished slavery in 1962 under pressure from Britain; Oman in 1970; and Mauritania in 1905, 1981, and again in August 2007.[19] However, slavery claiming the sanction of Islam is documented at present in the predominantly Islamic countries of the Sahel,[20][21] and is also practiced in territories controlled by Islamist rebel groups. It is also practiced in countries like in Libya and Mauritania despite being outlawed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_the_Muslim_world
20th-century suppression and prohibition
See also: Abolitionism § National abolition dates
A photograph of a slave boy in the Sultanate of Zanzibar. 'An Arab master's punishment for a slight offence.' c. 1890. From at least the 1860s onwards, photography was a powerful weapon in the abolitionist arsenal.
At Istanbul, the sale of black and Circassian women was conducted openly until the granting of the Constitution in 1908.[89]
Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, slavery gradually became outlawed and suppressed in Muslim lands, due to a combination of pressure exerted by Western nations such as Britain and France, internal pressure from Islamic abolitionist movements, and economic pressures.[17]
By the Treaty of Jeddah, May 1927 (art.7), concluded between the British Government and Ibn Sa'ud (King of Nejd and the Hijaz) it was agreed to suppress the slave trade in Saudi Arabia. Then by a decree issued in 1936, the importation of slaves into Saudi Arabia was prohibited unless it could be proved that they were slaves at that date.[90]
In 1953, sheikhs from Qatar attending the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom included slaves in their retinues, and they did so again on another visit five years later.[91]
In 1962, that all slavery practices or trafficking in Saudi Arabia was prohibited.
By 1969, it could be observed that most Muslim states had abolished slavery although it existed in the deserts of Iraq bordering Arabia and it still flourished in Saudi Arabia, the Yemen and Oman.[92] Slavery was not formally abolished in Yemen and Oman until the following year.[93] The last nation to formally enact the abolition of slavery practice and slave trafficking was the Islamic Republic of Mauritania in 1981.[94]
Slavery in the late 20th and 21st-century Muslim world
Further information: Slavery in modern Africa and Slavery in Mauritania
The issue of slavery in the Islamic world in modern times is controversial. Critics argue there is hard evidence of its existence and destructive effects. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Islam, slavery in central Islamic lands has been "virtually extinct" since the mid-20th century, though there are reports indicating that it is still practiced in some areas of Sudan and Somalia as a result of warfare.[95]
Islamist opinions
Earlier in the 20th century, prior to the "reopening" of slavery by Salafi scholars like Shaykh al-Fawzan, Islamist authors declared slavery outdated without actually clearly supporting its abolition. This has caused at least one scholar (William Clarence-Smith[96]) to bemoan the "dogged refusal of Mawlana Mawdudi to give up on slavery"[97] and the notable "evasions and silences of Muhammad Qutb".[98][99]
Muhammad Qutb, brother and promoter of the famous Sayyid Qutb, vigorously defended Islamic slavery from Western criticism, telling his audience that "Islam gave spiritual enfranchisement to slaves" and "in the early period of Islam the slave was exalted to such a noble state of humanity as was never before witnessed in any other part of the world."[100] He contrasted the adultery, prostitution,[101] and (what he called) "that most odious form of animalism" casual sex, found in Europe,[102] with (what he called) "that clean and spiritual bond that ties a maid [i.e. slave girl] to her master in Islam."[101]
Salafi support for slavery
In recent years, according to some scholars,[103] there has been a "reopening"[104] of the issue of slavery by some conservative Salafi Islamic scholars after its "closing" earlier in the 20th century when Muslim countries banned slavery.
In 2003, Shaykh Saleh Al-Fawzan, a member of Saudi Arabia's highest religious body, the Senior Council of Clerics, issued a fatwa claiming "Slavery is a part of Islam. Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam."[105] Muslim scholars who said otherwise were "infidels". In 2016, Shaykh al-Fawzan responded to a question about taking Yazidi women as sex slaves by reiterating that "Enslaving women in war is not prohibited in Islam", he added that those who forbid enslavement are either "ignorant or infidel".[106]
While Saleh Al-Fawzan's fatwa does not repeal Saudi laws against slavery,[citation needed] the fatwa carries weight among many Salafi Muslims. According to reformist jurist and author Khaled Abou El Fadl, it "is particularly disturbing and dangerous because it effectively legitimates the trafficking in and sexual exploitation of so-called domestic workers in the Gulf region and especially Saudi Arabia."[107] Organized criminal gangs smuggle children into Saudi Arabia where they are enslaved, sometimes mutilated, and forced to work as beggars. When caught, the children are deported as illegal aliens.[108]
Mauritania and Sudan
In Mauritania slavery was abolished in the country's first constitution of 1961 after independence, and abolished yet again, by presidential decree, in July 1980. The "catch" of these abolitions was that slave ownership was not abolished. The edict "recognized the rights of owners by stipulating that they should be compensated for their loss of property". No financial payment was provided by the state, so that the abolition amounted to "little more than propaganda for foreign consumption". Religious authorities within Mauritania assailed abolition. One leader, El Hassan Ould Benyamine, imam of a mosque in Tayarat attacked it as
"not only illegal because it is contrary to the teachings of the fundamental text of Islamic law, the Koran. The abolition also amounts to the expropriation from Muslims of their goods, goods that were acquired legally. The state, if it is Islamic, does not have the right to seize my house, my wife or my slave.`[20][109]
In 1994–95, a Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights documented the physical and emotional abuse of captives by the Sudanese Army and allied militia and army. The captives were "sold as slaves or forced to work under conditions amounting to slavery". The Sudanese government responded with "fury", accusing the author, Gaspar Biro of "harboring anti-Islam and Anti-Arab sentiments". In 1999, the UN Commission sent another Special Rapporteur who "also produced a detailed examination of the question of slavery incriminating the government of Sudan."[110] At least in the 1980s, slavery in Sudan was developed enough for slaves to have a market price – the price of a slave boy fluctuating between $90 and $10 in 1987 and 1988.[111]
Saudi Arabia
In 1962,[112] Saudi Arabia abolished slavery officially; however, unofficial slavery is rumored to exist.[113][114][115]
According to the U.S. State Department as of 2005:
Saudi Arabia is a destination for men and women from South and East Asia and East Africa trafficked for the purpose of labor exploitation, and for children from Yemen, Afghanistan, and Africa trafficking for forced begging. Hundreds of thousands of low-skilled workers from India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Kenya migrate voluntarily to Saudi Arabia; some fall into conditions of involuntary servitude, suffering from physical and sexual abuse, non-payment or delayed payment of wages, the withholding of travel documents, restrictions on their freedom of movement and non-consensual contract alterations. The Government of Saudi Arabia does not comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so.[116]
Libya and Algeria
Libya is a major exit point for African migrants heading to Europe. International Organization for Migration (IOM) published a report in April 2017 showing that many of the migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa heading to Europe are sold as slaves after being detained by people smugglers or militia groups. African countries south of Libya were targeted for slave trading and transferred to Libyan slave markets instead. According to the victims, the price is higher for migrants with skills like painting and tiling.[117][118] Slaves are often ransomed to their families and in the meantime until ransom can be paid tortured, forced to work, sometimes to death and eventually executed or left to starve if they can't pay for too long. Women are often raped and used as sex slaves and sold to brothels and private Libyan clients.[117][118][119][120] Many child migrants also suffer from abuse and child rape in Libya.[121][122]
In November 2017, hundreds of African migrants were being forced into slavery by human smugglers who were themselves facilitating their arrival in the country. Most of the migrants are from Nigeria, Senegal and Gambia. They however end up in cramped warehouses due to the crackdown by the Libyan Coast Guard, where they are held until they are ransomed or are sold for labor.[123] Libyan authorities of the Government of National Accord announced that they had opened up an investigation into the auctions.[124] A human trafficker told Al-Jazeera that hundreds of the migrants are bought and sold across the country every week.[125] Dozens of African migrants headed for a new life in Europe in 2018 said they were sold for labor and trapped in slavery in Algeria.[126]
Jihadists
Main article: Slavery in 21st-century Islamism
In 2014, Islamic terrorist groups in the Middle East (ISIS also known as Islamic State) and Northern Nigeria (Boko Haram) have not only justified the taking of slaves in war but actually enslaved women and girls. Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Nigerian extremist group Boko Haram said in an interview, "I shall capture people and make them slaves".[127] In the digital magazine Dabiq, ISIS claimed religious justification for enslaving Yazidi women whom they consider to be from a heretical sect. ISIS claimed that the Yazidi are idol worshipers and their enslavement part of the old shariah practice of spoils of war.[128][129][130][131][132] The Economist reports that ISIS has taken "as many as 2,000 women and children" captive, selling and distributing them as sexual slaves.[133] ISIS appealed to apocalyptic beliefs and "claimed justification by a Hadith that they interpret as portraying the revival of slavery as a precursor to the end of the world."[134]
In response to Boko Haram's Quranic justification for kidnapping and enslaving people and ISIS's religious justification for enslaving Yazidi women, 126 Islamic scholars from around the Muslim world signed an open letter in late September 2014 to the Islamic State's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, rejecting his group's interpretations of the Qur'an and hadith to justify its actions.[135][136] The letter accuses the group of instigating fitna – sedition – by instituting slavery under its rule in contravention of the anti-slavery consensus of the Islamic scholarly community.[137]
Prevalence of child labour
Sub-Saharan Africa has the largest proportion of child labourers (29 per cent of children aged 5 to 17 years). This is in stark comparison to the Middle East and North Africa, where 5 per cent of children in this age group are performing potentially harmful work.
https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-protection/child-labour/
All children — girls and boys, in all situations, always and everywhere — have the right to live and thrive, to reach their full potential. This key principle as described in sharia, the canonical law of Islam, guides the implementation of provisions for children that have been established by Islam, including provisions for the family environment, health, education, leisure and cultural activities, special protection, civil rights and freedoms.It is therefore not surprising that the Convention on the Rights of the Child has been embraced by all Muslim countries.1 Ratifi cation of this landmark human rights instru-ment commits countries to a code of obligations for children. It puts the rights of children at the forefront of the global struggle for human rights, to be ensured by adult society as a matter of legal obligation, moral imperative and development priority. As does the Convention, Islam establishes the best interests of the child as a primary consideration in actions and decisions concerning children; and the principles of sharia place corresponding obligations on the family, on society and on the state. These stan-dards are used to guide laws, practices, budgets and policies. Governments, in par-ticular, are encouraged to create an environment and provide the resources that ensure children receive the full benefi ts of their rights.Members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference have affi rmed their commitment to children by adopting the Millennium Declaration, the Millennium Development Goals and the goals of ‘A World Fit for Children’, the outcome document of the United Nations General Assembly’s Special Session on Children in 2002. A resolution on Child Care and Protection in the Islamic World was issued by the Cultural Affairs Committee of the Organization of the Islamic Conference and adopted by member states at the Islamic Summit Conference in Malaysia, October 2003.
The situation of children in the Islamic worldOIC member states have committed to achiev-ing the Millennium Development and ‘World Fit for Children’ goals, and by ratifying the Convention on the Rights of the Child they have affi rmed the principles of children’s rights. Much progress has been made in these areas, but much remains to be done. In OIC countries, about 4.3 million children under fi ve die each year from preventable dis-eases and malnutrition — over 60 per cent of them before reaching their fi rst birthday.4 About 6 million children under fi ve suffer from malnutri-tion in the form of stunting, with low height for their age. About 23 per cent of the total popula-tion have no access to safe drinking water, and 45 per cent lack adequate sanitation. Children in sub-Saharan Africa, in particular, are facing a life-threatening crisis as a consequence of armed confl ict, HIV/AIDS and poverty. Globalization, poverty and inequity have aggra-
Islamic solidarity“... through a joint initiative of His Royal Highness Prince Abdullah Ibn Abdul Aziz and His Excellency the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mr. Abdullah Badawi, the General Secretariat was entrusted with the central role in a major humanitarian project to sponsor the children victims of the tsunami in Southeast Asia. This project is the fi rst major joint humanitarian experience under the umbrella of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. The project involves the creation of what is known as the ‘OIC Alliance to sponsor Children Victims of the Tsunami’ who are estimated to num-ber about 35,000. The estimated cost of this project, which is USD150 million, will be distributed over 15 years and fi nanced by Member States and their peoples, as well as by some philanthro-pists and charitable institutions and civil society organizations in the Muslim world.”— Speech of H.E. Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, at preparatory meetings for the 32nd session of the Islamic conf
https://www.unicef.org/publications/files/Investing_Children_Islamic_World_full_E.pdf
2018 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor:
English Moderate Advancement
In 2018, Pakistan made a moderate advancement in efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. All four provincial governments started conducting child labor surveys, which will constitute the first nationwide child labor survey since 1996. The federal government also passed the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons Act and convicted its first child pornography case. In addition, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, and Sindh provinces each adopted new policies that will address child labor. However, children in Pakistan engage in the worst forms of child labor, including in forced domestic work and in bonded labor in brick kilns and agriculture. Although the federal and provincial governments made meaningful efforts in all relevant areas during the reporting period, the federal government and Balochistan Province have not established a minimum age for work or hazardous work in compliance with international standards. In addition, provincial governments do not have the resources necessary to adequately enforce laws prohibiting child labor.
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/resources/reports/child-labor/pakistan
In 2018, Afghanistan is receiving an assessment of no advancement. Although Afghanistan made some efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor, government officials are complicit in the use of forced commercial sexual exploitation of boys through the practice of bacha bazi. The government opened a juvenile rehabilitation center for children previously engaged in armed conflict and provided services to 34 children. It also opened child protection units in 27 provinces, which helped prevent the recruitment of 364 children into the Afghan National Police. The Child Protection Action Network provided educational and social services to at-risk internally displaced families and removed 50 children from mines where they engaged in child labor and enrolled them in schools. However, despite new initiatives to address child labor, the government was also complicit in the use of forced child labor. Afghanistan is receiving an assessment of no advancement because government officials, particularly officers of the Afghan Local Police and Afghan National Army, are complicit in the practice of bacha bazi and, unlike in previous years, did not make meaningful efforts to address this crime during the reporting period. Afghan Local Police officers and members of the military continued to recruit children for the purpose of bacha bazi and, in at least one case, police sexually assaulted a boy who sought police assistance to report his exploitation in bacha bazi. The government lacked the political will to enforce laws prohibiting bacha bazi and, despite receiving more than 63 cases of bacha bazi among Afghan military and police, did not initiate any prosecutions or achieve any convictions for bacha bazi. Children in Afghanistan also engage in other worst forms of child labor, including in armed conflict and forced labor in the production of bricks and carpets. Afghanistan's Labor Inspectorate is not authorized to impose penalties for child labor violations, and the government lacks sufficient programs to eliminate the worst forms of child labor.
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/resources/reports/child-labor/afghanistan
Muhammad said: "Every one of you is a protector and guardian and responsible for your wards and things under your care and a man is a guardian of his family members, and is accountable for those placed under his charge." (Bukhari and Muslim)
Marrying children when they are old enough to get married
One of the rights that children have over their parents is to be provided with marriage when they are old enough, without delaying it. Both the Quran and Muhammed orders[citation needed] that young people and orphans be married when they are old enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_children
Somalia: With over two decades of civil war and endemic poverty, many Somali children are part of the country’s informal workforce. All too often, that work is soldiering. According to Human Rights Watch, the use of child soldiers hasn’t been limited to one side of the conflict. Both al-Shabab, the Islamist militant group, and the Transitional Federal Government, the Western-backed government in Mogadishu, have continued to commit serious abuses against children, including recruiting children into their forces, according to testimony given at the U.N. To its credit, Somalia’s TFG signed a plan of action against child recruitment in July 2012, but little progress has been made.
"You basically have a complete breakdown of governance and no rule of law in Somalia," says Gresens. "Even with political will, the resources are not present to stop the worst practices of child labor."
Afghanistan:
Despite nearly 13 years of American military occupation and untold billions in development assistance, child labor remains endemic in Afghanistan. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, children as young as six can be found working in brick-making, carpet-weaving, mining, and construction. As in the factories of the Industrial Revolution, children are often used for the most dangerous tasks and are at high risk of being killed or maimed in mines or construction sites, according to the same report.
The exact number of child laborers in Afghanistan is not known, but children often find themselves working in Afghanistan’s booming underground economy. Children have been found working as drug mules, soldiers, and in commercial sexual exploitation. Girls, often forced to marry young and denied access to education, have been found in domestic servitude or forced into prostitution by their husbands, according to Human Rights Watch.
Afghanistan does have laws that prohibit children 14 and younger from working full-time, but they are vaguely written and sparsely enforced. Moreover, the combination of insecurity, poverty, and the country’s large informal workforce, such as those paid under the table, mean that children in Afghanistan will take whatever work they can — no matter how dangerous.
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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/285070
Asking the police not to give the name of killers is an attempt to hide the truth and prevent the public from knowing exactly who in France is committing these acts. Hiding the name shows a desire to appease the killers: when a killer has a Christian name, it is immediately printed on the front page.
"We only love what hates us, anything that destroys us is seen as great. There is a desire to destroy truth, history... We no longer teach the history of France and we no longer say what our civilization has accomplished. We only talk about our civilization to disparage it." — Michel Onfray, Le Salon Beige, July 30, 2020 and YouTube, July 17, 2020.
"France is undergoing reverse colonization. Populations coming mainly from countries formerly colonized by France have settled in France without any intention of integrating. Most of them live in neighborhoods where the laws of Islam now reign and where imams spread hatred of France.... And in a gesture of submission, the French authorities say that hatred does not emanate from those who kill, but from those who want to react and say that we must put an end to assaults and murders. It is a suicidal attitude." — Éric Zemmour, YouTube, November 22, 2016.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16327/france-colonization
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