Sunday, January 30, 2011

Muslim Countries Are The Leading Destination For Human Trafficking

From The Patriot Word:

5:16 PM (2 hours ago)Muslim Countries are the leading destination for Human Trafficking... You can help stop this.from The Patriot Word by Walter L. Brown Jr.Every year, as many as 300,000 U.S. children are forced into sexual slavery. The Attorney General of Texas expects 10,000 cases of human trafficking in the DFW area during Superbowl Week.






Keep a close eye on your kids, and be alert when you are travelling. Muslim Countries in Mideast, Africa Lead World in Human Trafficking.











Your concern may be the only thing that stands between life and death for an innocent young girl. Airline Ambassadors has taken a proactive role to educate airlines and flight crews about this growing phenomenon.





The following guide was developed for airline flight crews, please take a moment to read it. Then look at the young women and children you see while travelling. If you're wrong you'll be embarrassed, if you're right you'll save a young girl from a brutal abusive life and early death...



Common Traits of Victims




• Scripted/inconsistent stories

• Branding or tattoo with “Daddy,”a man’s name, or money symbols

• Wounds, whip marks, and bruises at various stages of healing

• Frightened, ashamed, or nervous

• Malnourished and/or eats as if ravenously hungry

• No eye contact or watchful to the extent of paranoia

• None or few personal items

• Accompanied by someone far better dressed

• Dressed inappropriately: immodestly or not right for weather

• Unsure of destination or if traveling alone, who will meet them

• Afraid of uniformed security

• Under the control of those they are with: not allowed to speak for themselves, not in posession of own

passport, money, or papers, and not free to walk alone, even to stroll through plane or use restroom



Action Steps

• If a young woman is traveling alone, ask the reason for her trip. If she has been promised a job, ask the nature of the job and if she knows the person who will be meeting her. False employment promises and

modeling jobs are common lures.

• If a child is traveling with someone who does not appear to be his/her parent, ask if you may take the child on a tour of the plane. If the adult refuses to allow it, be suspiscious.



Muslim Countries in Mideast, Africa Lead World in Human Traffic - Defense/Middle East - Israel News - Israel National News



Muslim countries in the Middle East and north-central Africa lead the world in human trafficking, according to a new U.S. State Department report. Of the 17 countries that were given the "Tier 3" listing reserved for the worst offenders, nine were Muslim countries or countries with a large Muslim population from these two regions. Tier 3 countries are defined as those “whose governments do not fully comply with the minimum standards" of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 and "are not making significant efforts to do so.” That's a nice way of saying the governments either openly or tacitly support human trafficking...



The Middle Eastern countries with Tier 3 status are Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Syria. The north-central African countries are Mauritania, Chad, Sudan, Niger and Eritrea, all of which have very large Muslim populations. Tier 3 countries are shaded maroon, in the maps below.



Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE and Lebanon are on the Tier 2 Watchlist – one step above Tier 3.








The data in the US State Department Report on Human Trafficking indicates that Muslim countries in the Middle East and Africa are continuing their centuries-old practice of human trafficking. Historians estimate that between 9 and 14 million black Africans were brought to the Americas in the Atlantic slave trade and between 11 and 18 million black African slaves crossed the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Sahara Desert between the Muslim conquests in the 7th century and 1900.






Iran: The report says that “Iran is a source, transit, and destination for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation and involuntary servitude. Iranian women are trafficked internally for the purpose of forced prostitution and forced marriage. Iranian and Afghan children living in Iran are trafficked internally for the purpose of forced marriage, commercial sexual exploitation, and involuntary servitude as beggars or laborers to pay debts, provide income, or support drug addiction of their families. Iranian women and girls are also trafficked to Pakistan, Turkey, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom for commercial sexual exploitation.”




The State Department report noted that “the Government of Iran does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking, and is not making significant efforts to do so. Lack of access to Iran by U.S. Government officials impedes the collection of information on the country’s human trafficking problem and the government’s efforts to curb it.”



North Africa and Middle East: Tier 3 countries are shaded maroon. (Traffic in Persons Report 2009).



Saudi Arabia, the report says, “is a destination country for men and women trafficked for the purposes of involuntary servitude and, to a lesser extent, commercial sexual exploitation. Men and women from Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Sudan, Ethiopia, and many other countries voluntarily travel to Saudi Arabia as domestic servants or other low-skilled laborers, but some subsequently face conditions indicative of involuntary servitude, including restrictions on movement, withholding of passports, threats, physical or sexual abuse, and non-payment of wages.



“Some Saudi men have also used legally contracted ‘temporary marriages’ in countries such as Mauritania, Yemen, and Indonesia as a means by which to sexually exploit migrant workers. Females as young as seven years old are led to believe they are being wed in earnest, but upon arrival in Saudi Arabia subsequently become their husbands’ sexual slaves, are forced into domestic labor and, in some cases, prostitution. The Government of Saudi Arabia does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making discernible efforts to do so.”



Syria is “principally a destination country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of domestic servitude and commercial sexual exploitation. Women from Iraq, Eastern Europe, former Soviet states, Somalia, and Morocco are recruited as cabaret dancers and subsequently forced into prostitution after their employers confiscate their passports and confine them to their work premises. A significant number of women and children in the large Iraqi refugee community in Syria are forced into sexual exploitation by criminal gangs or, in some cases, their families. Some desperate Iraqi families reportedly abandon their girls at the border with the expectation that traffickers on the Syrian side would arrange forged documents for the children and ‘work’ in a nightclub or brothel. Iraqi families arrange for young girls to work in clubs and to be “married,” often multiple times, to men for the sole purpose of prostitution.”






Africa: Tier 3 countries are shaded maroon. (Traffic in Persons Report 2009).



In Kuwait, the majority of trafficking victims are from among the over 500,000 foreign women recruited for domestic service work. “Men and women migrate from Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh in search of work in the domestic and sanitation industries. Although they migrate willingly to Kuwait, upon arrival some are subjected to conditions of forced labor from their ‘sponsors’ and labor agents, such as withholding of passports, confinement, physical sexual abuse and threats of such abuse or other serious harm, and non-payment of wages with the intent of compelling their continued service.”



“Adult female migrant workers are particularly vulnerable, and consequently are often victims of sexual exploitation and forced prostitution. There have been instances of domestic workers who have fled from their employers, lured by the promise of well-paying service industry jobs, and being coerced into prostitution. In other cases, the terms of employment in Kuwait are wholly different from those agreed to in their home countries. The Government of Kuwait does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making sufficient efforts to do so.”



What Obama did not mention



The report has four tiers altogether: Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 2 Watchlist and Tier 3. Israel is in Tier 2, the second-best listing. It should be noted, however, that statistics regarding trafficking in Israel are largely provided by powerful organizations inside Israel which have been accused of exaggerating the severity of the situation there for political reasons.



U.S. President Barack Obama, himself a descendant of black Africans, did not mention the subject of Muslim human trafficking in his recent speech to the Arab world in Cairo. He did mention, however, that “for centuries, black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation,” but did so in the context of talking about Palestinian suffering.






(IsraelNationalNews.com)

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