Slavery Rampant in Africa, Middle East; The West Wrongly Accuses Itself

In this mailing: - Giulio Meotti: Slavery Rampant in Africa, Middle East; The West Wrongly Accuses Itself - Uzay Bulut: Turkey Deporting Protestant Christians - Amir Taheri: For a Politically Corrected Paris [] [Slavery Rampant in Africa, Middle East; The West Wrongly Accuses Itself]( by Giulio Meotti • July 5, 2020 at 5:00 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [WhatsApp]( [Telegram]( [Send]( [Print]( - For the intersectional activists, the US is the world's biggest oppressor -- not China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, or Iran. - "What the media do not tell you is that America is the best place on the planet to be black, female, gay, trans or what have you. We have our problems and we need to address those. But our society and our systems are far from racist". — Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Twitter, June 9, 2020. - "The new anti-racism is racism disguised as humanism (...) It implies that every white person is bad... and that every black person is a victim". — Abnousse Shalmani, born in Tehran, now living in Paris, to Le Figaro, June 12, 2020. - "America looks different if you grew up, as I did, in Africa and the Middle East". — Ayaan Hirsi Ali, The Wall Street Journal, June 26, 2020. - It is high time for the United States to stop funding the United Nations.... The United Nations is now being used to perpetuate injustice, not stop it. - Real slave traders and racists -- those who believe Western societies and values should not exist at all -- most likely look at the current Western self-flagellation and cheer their approval. According to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who fled her homeland of Somalia and now live in the US: "What the media do not tell you is that America is the best place on the planet to be black, female, gay, trans or what have you. We have our problems and we need to address those. But our society and our systems are far from racist". (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) The United States abolished slavery 150 years ago, and has affirmative action for minorities. It is the country that elected a Black president, Barack Obama -- twice! Yet, a new movement is toppling one historic monument after another one, as if the US is still enslaving African-Americans. Activists in Washington DC even targeted an Emancipation Memorial, depicting President Abraham Lincoln, who paid with his life for freeing slaves. Today slavery still exists in many parts of Africa and Middle East, but the self-flagellating Western public is obsessively focused only on the Western past of African slavery rather than on real, ongoing slavery, which is alive and well -- and ignored. For today's slaves, there are no demonstrations in the streets, no international political pressure, and virtually no articles in the media. "We must not forget that Arab-Muslims have been champions in this field," Kamel Bencheikh, a Muslim poet, wrote in Le Matin d'Algerie. [Continue Reading Article]( [] [Turkey Deporting Protestant Christians]( by Uzay Bulut • July 5, 2020 at 4:30 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [WhatsApp]( [Telegram]( [Send]( [Print]( - Dozens of Protestant Christian families, according to the Association of Protestant Churches, have been asked to leave Turkey or have not been allowed to enter the country -- all based on trumped-up charges, such as "being a threat to national security". - "According to the court, Turkey's intelligence agency has a classified file on me that even our lawyer has been unable to review. According to this file, I am considered a threat to public order and security despite the fact that there is no legal complaint or court action against me." — Carlos Madrigal, spiritual leader, the Istanbul Protestant Church Foundation. - "Are Turkish citizens who are Protestant Christians next?" — Association of Protestant Churches. Dozens of Protestant Christian families, according to the Association of Protestant Churches, have been asked to leave Turkey or have not been allowed to enter the country -- all based on trumped-up charges, such as "being a threat to national security". (Image source: iStock) An alarming practice targeting Protestant Christians in Turkey has been brought to the attention of the public by the country's Protestant community and its organizations. "We would like to inform you," said a statement by the Association of Protestant Churches, "of a deportation practice targeting foreign national Protestants in our country especially in recent years, which we do not make much sense of and whose rationale we don't understand." One of the recent victims is an American citizen, Joy Anna Subaşıgüller. She is the wife of Pastor Lütfü Kerem Subaşıgüller, a Turkish citizen in the active service in a Protestant Church in Ankara. [Continue Reading Article]( [] [For a Politically Corrected Paris]( by Amir Taheri • July 5, 2020 at 4:00 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [WhatsApp]( [Telegram]( [Send]( [Print]( - Of the 5,400 streets in greater Paris, 287 are named after persons or events with colonial, imperial, or ideological bearings that clash with political correctness, the fashionable ideology of champagne and caviar leftists. - Paris is dotted with old buildings, museums, offices, barracks, schools and exhibition sites associated with events that would anger the politically correct. - Black Americans are under-represented. Martin Luther King has a park in a down-market neighborhood. But he wasn't BLM enough. He emphasized equal citizenship, not skin color. - Ah! Rewriting history! - Caught in the Davy Jones locker room, a civilization may dream of ... a device to reel back the past like a film and edit it as you please. Paris is dotted with old buildings, museums, offices, barracks, schools and exhibition sites associated with events that would anger the politically correct. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons/Pixabay) With bookshops closed during Covid-19 lockdown I was obliged to re-read books I had read before. Among them was Lamartine's "Graziella", the journal of his six-month stay in Naples. A love story, the novel also talks of the repression of Italian freedom fighters who try to end French occupation under Marechal Murat, one of Napoleon's generals, as their king. A stone's throw from our place is the Boulevard Murat, named after the man who crucified Italian patriots. With media agenda dominated by Black Lives Matter (BLM), I wondered if we could launch an Italian Lives Matter (ILM), seeking a politically corrected version of Paris in which there would be no Boulevard Murat. Then I remembered that 1,800 years before Murat, Roman ancestors of Italians had massacred, raped and pillaged Murat's Gallic ancestors. Thus we would have a draw in a game of historic victimhood. A Gallic Lives Matter (GLM) would not do. [Continue Reading Article]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [RSS]( [Donate]( Copyright © Gatestone Institute, All rights reserved. You are subscribed to this list as {EMAIL} You can change how you receive these emails: [Update your subscription preferences]( or [Unsubscribe from this list]( [Gatestone Institute]( 14 East 60 St., Suite 705, New York, NY 10022