Why there is no Revolution in Mauritania?

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Protest against Genocide in Sudan or an Opera in Israel?
Kislev 10, 5771, 17 November 10 04:53, by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

(Israelnationalnews.com) A Sudanese refugee is walking barefoot in the halls of Congress to drum up support in the fight against genocide in his home country.
The plight of Sudan’s refugees has been largely ignored on the international level, where United Nations Human Rights officials have taken aim at Israel for maintaining a Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria and a maritime blockade on the Hamas terrorist regime in Gaza.

The anti-Israel campaign took on a different note in Tel Aviv Monday night, where human rights campaigners protested outside the Opera House to denounce the Cape Town Opera. The demonstrators claim that its appearance for the premier of the Porgy and Bess opera represented support “of Israeli oppression on Palestinians,” according to the South African Artists against Apartheid.
The South African Star reported that the protesters parodied the songs in the opera, singing “Boycott apartheid, boycott apartheid. It's time to tell Israel, no. Palestine, life there is not easy. Fascism is at the door."
Last month, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said, "Just as we said during apartheid that it was inappropriate for international artists to perform in a society founded on discriminatory laws and racial exclusivity, so it would be wrong for Cape Town Opera to perform in Israel.”

Opera official Michael Williams said it was "reluctant to adopt the essentially political position of disengagement from cultural ties with Israel or with Palestine.”

Tutu has not been in the forefront or even the second front of the campaign to stop the genocide in Sudan. While the protest was being staged in Tel Aviv, Sudanese refugee Simon Deng walked barefoot in the offices of Congress members to bring attention to a vote on mostly Christian South Sudan's independence from the Muslim-dominated north.

 "There is a great danger of another bloodshed in my country. American people and leaders are capable of preventing it and I will do all I can to make sure Sudan is on their agenda," said Deng, Sudan Freedom Walk's Co-Founder and an escaped slave. “I will visit the offices of every Congressman to ask for support of my people at this pivotal time. I want to make sure that if a war breaks out in Sudan, nobody can say he or she did not know.”

Deng visited the offices of Senators John Kerry, Russ Feingold, Harry Reid and others.  He recently marched for 250 miles from New York to Washington to raise awareness about Sudan, conducting the walk barefoot to publicize solidarity with all marginalized Sudanese people.  %ad%
Sudan's indigenous African peoples have been historically oppressed and marginalized by various Arab minority-ruling regimes in Khartoum. This marginalization intensified when the radical Islamist regime of the National Congress Party (formerly National Islamic Front), led by indicted war criminal Omar

The end of the cold war only made matters worse. William Greider explains it well:

One of the striking qualities of the post-cold War globalization is how easily business and government in the capitalist democracies have abandoned the values they putatively espoused for 40 years during the struggle against communism – individual liberties and political legitimacy based on free election. Western Sahara: France Blocks Human Rights

Concern for human rights, including freedom of assembly for workers wishing to speak for themselves, has been pushed aside by commercial opportunity. Multinationals plunge confidently into new markets, from Vietnam to China, where governments routinely control and abuse their own citizens.

Since the Security Council will review a new resolution tomorrow extending the mandate of MINURSO - the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara - Polisario Front strongly denounces the efforts made by France to block proposals to establish a mechanism for monitoring and protecting human rights in Western Sahara.
France has actively worked to protect Morocco from any international scrutiny of their serious and repeated human rights abuses in the occupied territory of Western Sahara. The First Vice President of Spain, Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega, confirmed on Monday at the UN, that Spain supports human rights monitoring as part of the mandate of MINURSO.
France's rejection of human rights in Western Sahara is in direct contradiction to its condition of state, considered one of the founders of the modern movement for human rights. The position of France is also dismissive and contemptuous with a large number of members of the Security Council of the United Nations, who consider that the issues of human rights in Western Sahara needs to be addressed.
The human rights abuses by Morocco have intensified to the point where they have become the main obstacle in negotiations between the two parties, the Frente Polisario and the Kingdom of Morocco. The French actions are a vote against human rights and one vote against the resolution to the conflict that has lasted 35 years on the decolonization of Western Sahara.

MINURSO is the only United Nations Mission currently at present that does not consider human rights monitoring as part of its mandate. In a 2006 report, which is kept secret by France and Morocco, the High Commissioner of United Nations Human Rights recommended the establishment of international monitoring of human rights in Western Sahara.
Ahmed Boukhari, Polisario Front representative to the UN.
english.pravda.ru/hotspots/conflicts/113235-western_sahara-0

Excerpts from:

Disposable People. New Slavery in the Global Economy.
By Kevin Bales, University of California Press. 1999

Mauritania

The White Moors who controlled Mauritania, properly known as Hassaniya Arabs, are organized into large extended families, which are further linked together into several tribes. Virtually all extended families of the dominant Hassaniya castes have owned slaves for generations. Any individual slave is the specific property of a male member of the family; as property the slaves are inherited and, very occasionally. Sold.

When slavery was abolished in 1980 one ulema responded by proclaiming “the lawfulness of slavery in Islam in general”. (p. 85)

Draconian measures of the Sharia

Less well known are the laws that apply specifically to laves. For example, one rule states that there will be severe punishment for any man who does not “restrain his carnal desires,” but it adds, “except with his wives and slave-girls, for these are lawful to him.” The law concerning the freeing of slaves is clear: it is the prerogative of the master alone. And the power that the Sharia gives any Muslim man over his wives and sisters is extended to his slave women and their children. Though the Koran also orders that a man should “show kindness to the slaves you on”, since its institution the Sharia has been used to keep the slaves intimidated and mindful of their place. Ex-slaves have been executed, and one whose hand has been amputated for theft dies as a result. In contrast, Moors found guilty of murdering slaves have not suffered executions.

International news on television and in the press focuses on the Arab world, concerning on the international struggle for greater Islamic purity and never touching on human rights..

To increase Moor control in Mauritania, Arabic was made compulsory language of instruction in schools. When Afro-Mauritanians protesting their rapid exclusion demonstrated in the capital, the army was called out and opposition forcibly suppressed. Merely discussing racial conflicts was banned. To further reduce dissent, the ruling party took control of all trade unions as well. By the early 1970s government repression had turned a sleepy French colony into a single-party police state relying on racial discrimination. The dictatorship of Fould Daddah silenced criticism and forced a program of Arabization of the country. To maintain its export market the French government actively support the Mauritanian regime, calling it the “most democratic country in Northern Africa”

The French praise the government as democratic and fund large development projects, studiously ignoring questions of slavery. The American deflect any suggestion of widespread enslavement in the country. Their 1996 “Human Rights Report for Mauritania” states: “Slavery in the form of officially sanctioned forced or involuntary servitude, is extremely rare, and a system of slavery in which Government and society join to force individuals to serve masters no longer exists.” The report makes horrific practices with bland euphemisms: “There are occasional cases of 'transfers' individuals – often children – from one employer to another, usually of the same family. Reports of sales are rare, cannot be confirmed, and are confined to past years.” (p.117)

From the mosques and from the holy men comes a message of honesty and obedience. Slaves are taught that only if their obey their masters will they go to heaven. For the slave, whose life is so appalling, the promise of paradise in the life to come is important. By moving the children around other households, lending or selling them to friends or relatives, slaveholders tied own slave women, effectively holding their children hostage.

Slaves are taught to speak only Arabic and are only rarely allowed to learn to read. Afro-Mauritanians speak their own language and French, and so are forced to learn Arabic as well if they are to forge any links with the slaves. Meanwhile the government and the White Moors keep up a barrage of anti-African propaganda. Black Mauritanians are referred to as “foreigners”, and the Moors circulate terrible rumors among the slaves about their plans to destroy society and attack Islam.

As in the 19th century American South, in Mauritania race matters intensely. Racism is the motor that drives Mauritanian society. Despite extensive intermarriage, White Moors generally disdain their black slaves and regard them as inferior beings. The world view of the White Moors is hierarchical, casting themselves as superior in all things. That superiority also stirs fear and animosity toward the Afro-Mauritanians who want a fair share in government. It is so strong that no official segregation is needed: the lines of family and tribe are exact and impermeable. The White Moors hold on to what is theirs.

India

Consider the case of devadasi, a young woman who is married to a god, which is not as pleasant as it might sound. Poor families, in an attempt to appease local gods and guarantee a happy future, will sacrifice a daughter by “marrying her to one”. Once married the girl is declared a “saint” and must move into the local temple and care for it. She must not do any other work, cannot leave the village, cannot “divorce” and marry anyone else, and is in the control of the men who run the temple. For centuries these men have turned the girls to prostitution, so that the temple doubles as a brothel. Any female children born to the “saints” are raised to be devadasi as well, and the women live out their lives as enslaved prostitutes, while the men who run the temple pocket profits.

Children also form a large part of the bonded workforce in India. A particularly well-known group are the children that produce fireworks and matches around the city od Sivakasi in the state of Tamil Nadu. Some 45,000 children work in these factories, making this perhaps the largest concentration of child laborers in the world. Between 3 A.M. And 5 A.M. Every morning, buses from the factories visit the villages in the surrounding countryside. Local agents have enlisted the children, whose age range from three and half to fifteen, paying an advance to their parents and creating the debt bond. The agents make sure the children are up and get on the bus for the trip to the factory, where they will work for the next twelve hours. A study by UNICEF, surveying 33 buses, found 150 to 200 children jammed into a single bus each day.. They will not be back in their villages until after 7 PM. In the run up to the big Diwali (festival of lights) holiday, the factories extended their hours and are in production seven days a week.

The children roll and pack the fireworks in dark and dingy sheds. The gunpowder mixture is corrosive, and over time it eats away the skin of child's fingers. When this happens blisters form and the child can't work, as the chemicals burn quickly into the exposed flesh. To wait for the blisters to heal takes fives or six days, but to stay off work for that long would mean being fired. Instead a hot coal or a lit cigarette normally is applied to the blister, bursting it and cauterizing the wound. In time the children's fingertips become a mass of scar tissue. The powdered potassium chlorate, phosporus, and zinc oxides also fill their lungs and led to breathing problems and blood poisoning. (200)

In Allahabad, the Ganges and the Yamuna join the magical, though invisible, “river of enlightenment” - the Saraswasti, which wells up from mystical regions. Their confluence is a holy place, one of the great pilgrimage destinations in India. The religious festival held here is the largest in the world, attracting more than 3 million visitors who set up vast tent cities on the floodplains and riverbanks.

Some plantation owners in the Mississippi Delta drove the freed slaves off their land and replaced them with boatloads of Chinese laborers. The Chinese were in debt bondage for the cost of their transportation to America, and the plantation owners oplaned to keep them that way,. They fully expected these quiet and obedient Chinese to be long-term replacement for their African slaves. It never happened. The first generation of Chinese worked on the farms, taking the place of the slaves, but their experience of directing all of the family's earning power toward a single goal brought most of their children out of debt. The second generation opened shops and cottage industries and never looked back. The Delta Chinese, as they are known today, add a prosperous dimension to the modern Mississippi. The old plantation owners were blindsided by their false sense of superiority and by a group of people who just weren't going to go along with their own enslavement. (224)

In India there are between 65 and 100 million children ages fourteen and younger who work more than eight hours a day. They fill the sweatshops and do many other kinds of work. Worse, about 15 million of those children are not child laborers, but child slaves. And enslaved children are even more hidden, trapped in debt bondage, they tend not to work in sweatshops producing for the large-scale export but in smaller-scale, more isolated businesses. Unlike the owners of factories making soccer balls, their masters have little fear of exposure or public pressure. (237)

In Germany, Kershaw explains “most of the police remained in their posts when the Nazi regime began; but they did not have to carry on as usual – they were now off the leash.” The only orders they had from the central government were to suppress all enemies of the state, especially Jews, and to achieve that suppression anything was allowed. In the case of Nazi Germany, as in Burma today, one mechanism of suppression was lave labor. (244)

It is not easy to crash human mind, but with enough brutality, time, and indifference to suffering it can be done. Around the world it is being done. The slaveholders provide the brutality, the corrupt police and government ensure that slavery is practiced with impunity, and the overarching materialism of our global economy justifies a general indifference. To close the circle and make the link with global economic change we have to remember once again that while violence is the tool by which slavery is achieved, the aim of slavery is profit. Unlike a century ago, no modern slaveholders delude themselves that they re somehow “civilizing” their slaves, or lifting them toward religious salvation. In the lean, mean global economy slavery is stripped of its moral justifications: slaves equal profits. Part of that income pays for the violence needed to ensure that the profits keep coming.

In the struggle to survive not just slavery but liberation, there is one striking parallel between the old slavery of the United States and the new slavery of today: when slavery came to an end in 1865 the slaves were (and are today) just tossed away. If slavery is to end, we must learn how ex-slaves can be best secure their own freedom. (p. 253)

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights,” says the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. “No one shall be held in slavery and servitude.”

The 250 million Untouchable Dalits are in revolt
The 50 million White widows (who are Hindu widows) are incarcerated in Hindu temples and then sold as prostitutes to earn a living. Source: Indian moved Water.

Kancha Ilayah in his article Caste and the U.N. Meet (The Hindu. Online edition of India's National Newspaper. August 21, 2001) wrote: “The oppressive institutions, like the caste system, that came into operation through the process of civil societal structuring need the pressure of outside agencies such as the U.N., because it is more difficult to address the civil societal agencies than the Governmental agencies from within. The U.N. Human Rights charter has been worked out to serve that purpose also. It hence thought of addressing the civil societal oppressions that emanate from race, religion, language, gender and so on. Unfortunately, caste as an institution of social oppression was not included in the charter at the time even though caste discrimination has many traits of racial discrimination and, hence, must become part of the U.N. Human Rights charter. (www.hinduonet.com/2001/08/21/stories/05212523.htm)

“Equality is death, hierarchy is life,” wrote Langbehn

A. Hitler echoes this idea in his Mein Kampf: “If one rejects the aristocratic principle of Nature and replaces the eternal privilege of power and strength by the mass of numbers and their dead weight as a foundation of the universe, this doctrine of egalitarianism would bring about the end of any order intellectually conceivable to man...The result of an application of such social-leveling law could only be chaos, on earth it could only be destruction for the inhabitants of this planet.

In India, under the British Empire, the British rulers also used the idea of a distinct Aryan race in order to ally British power with the Indian caste system. It was widely claimed that the Aryans were white people who had invaded India in ancient times, subordinating the darker skinned native Dravidian peoples, who were pushed to the south (The same thinking was behind the apartheid system in South Africa). Thus the foundation of Hinduism was ascribed to northern invaders who had established themselves as the dominant castes, and who were supposed to have created the sophisticated Vedic texts. All this was happening in an age of rampant European imperialism which was supported by the then modern pseudo-science of RACE and Darwinian-related 'survival of the fittest' Eugenics. When these Imperialistic European esoteric speculators discovered lighter-skinned Arab, Persian and Hindu (caste Brahminist) Aryanist master-racism and casteism in India, and Sinhalese Buddhist Aryanist master-racism in Sri Lanka, the idea of the white Indo-European Aryan Master Race became foundational to the European rationale for world conquest and the subjugation of non-'Aryan' peoples world-wide. (Entry Caste in Wikipedia)
In his book Greater Britain, Dilke had written: ``In America we have seen the struggle of the dear races against the cheap--the endeavors of the English to hold their own against the Irish and Chinese. In New Zealand, we found the stronger and more energetic race pushing from the earth the shrewd and laborious descendants of the Asian Malays; in Australia, the English triumphant, and the cheaper races excluded from the soil not by distance merely, but by arbitrary legislation; in India, we saw the solution of the problem by the officering of the cheaper by the dearer race. Everywhere, we have found that the difficulties which impede the progress to universal dominion of the English people lie in the conflict with the cheaper races. The result of our survey is such as to give us reason for the belief that race distinctions will long continue, that miscegenation will go but a little way towards blending races, that the dearer are on the whole likely to destroy the cheaper peoples and that Saxondom will rise triumphant from the doubtful struggle.'' Darwinism proclaimed the triumph of the favoureud races over the cheaper people.
The East India Company which lasted nearly 260 years opened India and the Far East to English trade and brought India and Hindu religious tradition into the British Empire.

From Durban I to Durban II

“Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold your peace, and do not be still, O God! For behold, Your enemies make a tumult and those who hate you have lifted up their head. They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, and consulted together against Your sheltered ones. They have said, 'Come and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more'” (Psalm 83:1-4). The Bible is right on target in describing conditions besetting our contemporary world

The aforementioned Kancha Ilayah ended his quoted article on a note of hope, “Caste will b e discussed in the inter-Governmental Conference at Durban under paragraph 109 of the agenda which reads: 'to ensure all necessary constitutional, legislative and administrative measures, including appropriate form of affirmative action, are in place to prohibit and address discrimination on the basis of work and descent and such that measures are respected and implemented by all states, authorities at all levels.' The Government and other state bodies such as the National Human Rights Commission must tell the nation that they will abide by the mandate of the U.N. Conference.”

The U.N. Diplomatic mob dashed all hopes of hundreds of millions of all the lowest castes of India. The 2001 Durban declaration says Palestinians are victims of Israeli racism and there are no other state practitioners of racism worth mentioning. They are being handsomely bribed for such declarations.

In the late February Secretary of State C. Rice decided to sit on the fence while UN-based anti-Semites build the next forum for demonizing Israel. Her unscheduled foreign policy vacation is in response to UN planning of “Durban II” - the next installment of the UN “anti-racism” conference that took place in Durban, South Africa, and ended with an ominous demonstration of intolerance three days before 9/11. Preparations for Durban redux, to be held in the first half of 2009, started in earnest this April, when the Pope came for a visit to the United States and addressing the United Nations.

The purpose of Durban II is “to foster the implementation of the Durban declaration.” After that the Pope, sure will canonize all the cows of India.

The latest country to pull out of the conference was Poland. Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski informed the Israeli Embassy in Warsaw of his country's decision. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday defended the disputed conference text as "carefully balanced" and said the conference was necessary to confront simmering racial tensions that could otherwise trigger social unrest and violence