Israel has as many as 8,500 slaves, according to a new comprehensive study of worldwide slavery. Israel placed 111 out of 162 slave-holding countries in the Global Slavery Index 2013 <http://d3mj66ag90b5fy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/GlobalSlaveryIndex_2013_Download_WEB1.pdf>, recently published by the Australian Walk Free Foundation. Mauritania was found to have the most serious slavery problem.
According to the study, the first-ever country-by-country survey of its kind, Israel has 7,700 to 8,500 slaves. Still, Israel ranked well relative to the lower standards in the Middle East, though Lebanon, Tunisia, and Egypt scored better than the Jewish state. The Palestinian Authority and the Hamas-run Gaza Strip were not covered by the survey. Israel did place well in the study’s examination of the risk of enslavement. The survey measured five factors to determine the policies adopted by the country to combat slavery, human rights, human and economic development, political stability, and women’s rights. Israel was the only Middle Eastern country to enjoy a low risk-of-slavery ranking, but still ranked much lower than European states. The study claimed that “foreign workers make 40-90 percent of the populations of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.” However, in Israel there are 300,000 foreign workers out of a total population of 8 million. The Walk Free Foundation could not be reached for clarification by the time of publication. The trend in Israel is driven by the sex trade and the human trafficking that comes with it. There are 15,000 prostitutes in Israel, Rebecca Hughes from ATZUM’s Task Force on Human Trafficking wrote in The Times of Israel <http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hookers-in-the-holy-land-an-uncomfortable-history-in-israel/>, entering the profession at an average age of 14. “By the 1990’s Israel was established as a destination country for trafficking, and international sex trafficking victims had replaced the local market,” Hughes wrote. “Israel’s flesh trade was booming and making between half a billion to three quarters of a billion dollars a year. It was a particularly desirable market for traffickers because the purchase of sexual services was, and still is, legal in Israel. ” “Throughout the 1990’s traffickers acted with impunity and, according to the Hotline for Migrant Workers, smuggled 3,000 women annually into Israel,” she added. The deteriorating situation led the US State Department to rank Israel as a Tier 3 nation in its Trafficking in Persons report, the lowest ranking. Tier 3 nations faced potential economic sanctions. The report was a wake-up call for Israel’s government, which passed a comprehensive anti-trafficking law, and was upgraded to a Tier 1 state. According to the index, there are nearly 30 million people trapped in slavery around the world. The study defined slavery as “the possession and control of a person in such a way as to significantly deprive that person of his or her individual liberty, with the intent of exploiting that person through their use, management, profit, transfer or disposal. Usually this exercise will be achieved through means such as violence or threats of violence, deception and/or coercion.” It relied on secondary sources for its study, especially reports from media, NGOs, and governments. It also used local surveys and interviews. In absolute numbers, India led the list with up to 14.7 million slaves, followed by China and Pakistan. Mauritania, with 3.8 million inhabitants and over 150,000 slaves, had the highest prevalence of slavery. Ireland, Iceland, and the UK enjoy the lowest prevalence of slavery, the survey said. The Walk Free Foundation is a nonprofit that seeks to end modern slavery, according to its website. The organization was founded in May 2012 by Australian metal magnate Andrew Forrest, who first became aware of the problem when his teen-aged daughter worked alongside slaves at a Nepalese orphanage. Read more: Thousands of slaves in Israel, global study finds | The Times of Israel <http://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-of-slaves-in-israel-global-study-finds/#ixzz3LR2SxE3c> http://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-of-slaves-in-israel-global-study-finds/#ixzz3LR2SxE3c Follow us: @timesofisrael on Twitter <http://ec.tynt.com/b/rw?id=dQLttcC2Wr45Q7acwqm_6r&u=timesofisrael> | timesofisrael on Facebook <http://ec.tynt.com/b/rf?id=dQLttcC2Wr45Q7acwqm_6r&u=timesofisrael> On Tuesday, December 9, 2014 1:57:17 PM UTC-6, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > ISIS Jihadis Get ‘Slavery for Dummies’ > > > http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/08/isis-jihadis-get-slavery-for-dummies.html > > > > > > They’ve enslaved thousands of Yazidi women—and now the militants must > follow ‘rules’ laid out in an awful new list of dos and don’ts, from > treatment of virgins to reasons for beating. > > Whom can you enslave? What can you do with female slaves? Can you beat > them and have sex with them? The militants of the self-styled Islamic > State, never shy to parade their gruesome, atavistic interpretation of the > Quran and its place as they see it in the modern world, have now answered > those questions. > > > > In a long list of the dos and don’ts governing the enslavement and > treatment of women and girls captured by jihadi warriors, ISIS includes > details of “permissible” sexual practices with female slaves. The new rules > follow widespread reports this summer of the jihadis enslaving women from > the Yazidi religious minority seized during the militants’ lightning > offensive in northern Iraq. > > > > Issued Dec. 3 by ISIS’s “Research and Fatwa Department,” the rules are > laid out in question-and-answer format—a kind of “Slavery for Dummies.” It > is permissible to beat slaves, trade them, and offer them as gifts, to take > virgins immediately and to have sex with a pre-pubescent girl, “if she is > fit for intercourse,” whatever that means. > > > > According to Nazand Begikhani, an adviser to the Kurdistan regional > government and researcher at the University of Bristol Gender and Violence > Research Center, ISIS has kidnapped more than 2,500 Yazidi women. Yazidi > activists, meanwhile, say they have compiled a list of at least 4,600 > missing Yazidi women, seized after they were separated from male relatives, > who were shot. > > > > The women were bussed, according to firsthand accounts of women who have > managed to flee, to the ISIS-controlled cities of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa > in Syria, and chosen and traded like cattle. Kurdish authorities in > northern Iraq say they have freed about 100 Yazidi women. In October, ISIS > justified its enslavement of the women—and of any non-believing females > captured in battle—in its English-language digital magazine Dabiq. Islamic > theology, ISIS propagandists argued, gives the jihadis the right, much in > the same way that the Bible’s Ephesians 6:5 tells “Slaves, obey your > earthly masters with fear and trembling.” > > > > The difference, of course, is that there is no rampaging Christian terror > army enslaving women and waving the Bible around now to justify such abuse, > although there have been individual Western cultists widely dismissed as > cranks or madmen who have sought biblical justification for abuse of women. > > > > “If she is not fit for intercourse, then it is enough to enjoy her without > intercourse.” > > In September, 120 senior Muslim scholars, including Sheikh Shawqi Allam, > the grand mufti of Egypt, and Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, the mufti of > Jerusalem and All Palestine, issued a lengthy letter condemning ISIS as > un-Islamic. “It is forbidden in Islam to ignore the reality of contemporary > times when deriving legal rulings,” they argued. And they condemned the > mistreatment of the Yazidi and the denial of women’s rights. > > > > Below—courtesy of the Washington, D.C.-based the Middle East Media > Research Institute, a nonprofit organization that monitors extremism—are > some highlights of the ISIS rules governing the enslavement of women and > how slaves should be treated. > > > > Question 1: What is al-sabi? > > > > Al-Sabi is a woman from among ahl al-harb [the people of war] who has been > captured by Muslims. > > > > Question 3: Can all unbelieving women be taken captive? > > > > There is no dispute among the scholars that it is permissible to capture > unbelieving women [who are characterized by] original unbelief [kufr asli], > such as the kitabiyat [women from among the People of the Book, i.e. Jews > and Christians] and polytheists. However, [the scholars] are disputed over > [the issue of] capturing apostate women. The consensus leans toward > forbidding it, though some people of knowledge think it permissible. We > [ISIS] lean toward accepting the consensus… > > > > > > Question 4: Is it permissible to have intercourse with a female captive? > > > > It is permissible to have sexual intercourse with the female captive. > Allah the almighty said: “[Successful are the believers] who guard their > chastity, except from their wives or (the captives and slaves) that their > right hands possess, for then they are free from blame [Quran 23:5-6]”… > > > > Question 5: Is it permissible to have intercourse with a female captive > immediately after taking possession [of her]? > > > > If she is a virgin, he [her master] can have intercourse with her > immediately after taking possession of her. However, is she isn’t, her > uterus must be purified [first]… > > > > Question 7: Is it permissible to separate a mother from her children > through [the act of] buying and selling? > > > > It is not permissible to separate a mother from her prepubescent children > through buying, selling, or giving away [a captive or slave]. [But] it is > permissible to separate them if the children are grown and mature. > > > > Question 9: If the female captive was impregnated by her owner, can he > then sell her? > > > > He can’t sell her if she becomes the mother of a child… > > > > > > Question 13: Is it permissible to have intercourse with a female slave who > has not reached puberty? > > > > It is permissible to have intercourse with the female slave who hasn’t > reached puberty if she is fit for intercourse; however, if she is not fit > for intercourse, then it is enough to enjoy her without intercourse. > > > > Question 16: Can two sisters be taken together while taking slaves? > > > > It is permissible to have two sisters, a female slave and her aunt [her > father’s sister], or a female slave and her aunt [from her mother’s side]. > But they cannot be together during intercourse, [and] whoever has > intercourse with one of them cannot have intercourse with the other, due to > the general [consensus] over the prohibition of this. > > > > Question 19: Is it permissible to beat a female slave? > > > > It is permissible to beat the female slave as a [form of] darb ta’deeb > [disciplinary beating], [but] it is forbidden to [use] darb al-takseer > [literally, breaking beating], [darb] al-tashaffi [beating for the purpose > of achieving gratification], or [darb] al-ta’dheeb [torture beating]. > Further, it is forbidden to hit the face. > > > > > > > __._,_.___ > ------------------------------ > Posted by: "beowulf" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > ------------------------------ > > > Visit Your Group > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmamdjaXZiBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0MTgxNTE1ODA-> > > > > [image: Yahoo! 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