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A modern-day abolitionist Empty A modern-day abolitionist

Post by Rishi Mon Dec 30, 2013 10:17 pm



Biram Dah Abeid: The legal framework in Mauritania is very fluid. This fluidity contributes to the maintaining of slavery. There are two types of laws in Mauritania. You have the "slave code," which legitimizes and codifies slavery, and which gives the law a sacred aspect. These are books that were written in the Muslim Middle Ages in the Maghreb area between the ninth and 16th century. These laws authorize the owning of black people. They decree that the black race is inferior. They allow for the selling of black people, the castration of black people, the rape of black women. These codes also state that women are legal minors for their whole lives and are not equal to men.

These books are currently being used to train the imams, the police forces, and the judges. These books are recognized by the Mauritanian Constitution as the only correct interpretation of the Quran. In the Constitution of Mauritania, they are the primary source of law. But it completely contradicts the letter and the spirit of the actual Quran, which is in its nature egalitarian.

Whoever is accused of touching these books is an apostate. If you refuse the books, you are an apostate as well. And he who is an apostate should be punished with the death penalty. The only person that dared touch these books was me, on April 27, 2012. When I touched them, my whole neighborhood was surrounded by police cars. My house was bombarded. My whole neighborhood was bombarded. I was violently arrested. The government started an international diplomatic and media campaign against me, saying that I am an enemy of Islam and that I have to die.


http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2013/12/18/biram_dah_abeid_an_interview_with_a_modern_day_abolitionist.html

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