Islamic slave traders in Pakistan

**econ21** · 05-23-2006, 14:51

I tend to think I can no longer be appalled by the depths of depravity to which some people will sink. And then some sick so-and-so goes and does something so despicable, it proves me wrong yet again.

Here's the latest example - it angered me so much I had to post it:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...189789,00.html

An excerpt showing the treatment of the boys kidnapped to sold as slaves:

Originally Posted by Sunday Times

“I drank from a glass of water and one of the kidnappers pushed me so hard I fell on the glass and it broke in my hands,” he said. His slender fingers still bear the scars. No more glass for him, he was told: he was fit to drink only from a tin cup.

The boys were ordered not to talk, pray or play. Five of them were playing a Pakistani equivalent of scissors, paper, stone one day when the guards burst in and beat them savagely on their backs and heads.

What makes this report of barbarism so disturbing is that it is not the work of some lone mentally deficient sicko. It's done by organised, well-resourced men who - besides their venal greed and cruelty - have some pretensions at political and religious beliefs. And it goes on the in Wild West of the Pakistan/Afghanistan border areas, where decent government does not seem to reach.

I have no "solutions", but just want to vent a powerless howl of rage and disbelief.

**Fragony** · 05-23-2006, 15:23

What are these boys used for? Are they sold to do work or, well, something else? These people are animals, killing them a little bit every day is what they deserve. Not a great place to be a christian it seems.

**Lemur** · 05-23-2006, 15:25

FTA:

Gul Khan planned to sell his young captives to the highest bidder, whether into domestic servitude or the sex trade. The boys knew only that they were for sale.

**edyzmedieval** · 05-23-2006, 15:27

Horrible. HORRIBLE.

They should be sentenced to torture(the slave traders), not instant death.

**econ21** · 05-23-2006, 15:27

Originally Posted by Fragony

What are these boys used for? Are they sold to do work or, well, something else?

These particular ones were rescued, thank goodness, so we don't know.

The sickest thing was one of the slave traders making a threat about how much the boys were worth for organs. Whether he was just mouthing off or not, it's enough to make me want to impose my own version of Sharia law on the freak.

**Lemur** · 05-23-2006, 15:31

What's super-bonus fracked up is that the police know all about it, but won't do anything. Again, FTA:

Why should it be so difficult to prosecute slave traders who cloak themselves in the garb of pious Muslims? For one thing, the JUD offers free medical care and education and won hearts and minds by providing blankets, tents and food after last year’s Kashmir earthquake. Few Pakistanis care to know how closely it is associated with Lashkar-i-Toiba, a group proscribed by Pakistan and Britain as a terrorist organisation that participated in an Al-Qaeda attempt to assassinate Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani president, in 2003.

There can be no denying Khan’s connections with the JUD. After he collected his $28,500, he was seen driving directly into its headquarters.

**yesdachi** · 05-23-2006, 15:34

They claim western “depravity” then plan to sell children as sex slaves. The hypocrisy is disgusting. Is it any wonder that half of the depraved westerners would like to turn the entire area into glass.

**Lemur** · 05-23-2006, 15:39

It just goes to show that our founding fathers were absolutely right -- individual liberties must be preserved at all costs, and nobody should be allowed to exercise unchecked power. God bless those enlightenment dudes.