During President Obama's recent visit to Africa, at US$100 million, described as "the most expensive presidential tour ever!", he visited Goree Island, across the bay from Dakar, the capital city of Senegal. There he was photographed at the slave fort's famous door of no return. Obama was quoted as saying: "this is a testament to when we are not vigilant in defence of human rights, what can happen!" Yet, while drawing attention to the slave trade that was outlawed over 200 years ago, he was silent on the much larger, ongoing, Arab slave trade that still plagues Africa.

1. IGNORING
The ONGOING
SLAVE TRADE
TODAY
By Dr. Peter Hammond

4. IGNORING
The ONGOING
SLAVE TRADE
TODAY
By Dr. Peter Hammond

5. Obama’s Disgraceful Silence
on the Ongoing Slave Trade
During President Obama's recent visit to Africa, at US$100 million,
described as "the most expensive presidential tour ever!",

6. he visited Goree Island, across the bay from Dakar,
the capital city of Senegal.

7. There he was photographed at the slave fort's famous door of no return.
Obama was quoted as saying: "this is a testament to when we are not
vigilant in defence of human rights, what can happen!"

8. Yet, while drawing attention to the slave trade that was
outlawed over 200 years ago,

11. he was silent on the much larger, ongoing,
Arab slave trade that still plagues Africa.

12. Hypocrisy
Anti-slavery Societies
calculate that
over 27 million people
are victims of
slavery today.

13. According to UNICEF, 1.2 million children are trafficked each year.
Most trafficking victims are girls between 5 to 15 years of age.

14. Many of the governments who enjoy Most Favoured Nation status with
the United Sates are involved in this modern slave trade.

15. Slavery in Mauritania
In fact, Mauritania, bordering Senegal, has over half a million slaves
amongst their county's population of just over 3 million.

16. Samuel Cotton, the African American Author of
Silent Terror, A Journey into Contemporary African Slavery, reports that
Mauritanian Arabs and Berbers bring their black slaves with them
to work in Dakar, even within sight of Goree Island!

17. Yet Obama had not one word to say
about this ongoing scandal.

18. Transparent Deception
For foreign consumption, and under external pressure,
Mauritania has made some half-hearted legislative attempts to outlaw
slavery, but these have been described as
"woefully ineffective" and "blatantly insincere."

19. Slavery Tolerated
but Anti-Slavery Activists
Imprisoned
In 2011, four Mauritanian anti-slavery activists were sentenced to six
months in jail for protesting the enslavement of a 10-year-old girl.

20. No
punishment
was ever
handed out to
the
slave owner
and
the slave girl
disappeared.

21. Deafening Silence
President Obama hypocritically stated that his visit to Goree Island,
a World Heritage Site, "gives me even greater motivation in terms of
human rights around the world!"

22. Africans find that statement hard to take seriously,
considering that Obama had not a word to say about
the ongoing 1,400 years Arab slave trade.

23. A Tale of Two Islands
Although Obama made a major point of visiting Goree Island and
condemning the Trans-Atlantic slave trade,
which ended over 2 centuries ago,

24. he showed no interest
in visiting Zanzibar,
the most notorious
slave island in history,
on the East Coast
of Africa.

26. Zero Interest in Zanzibar
Although Obama's second state visit in Africa was Tanzania,
he never ventured near the island of Zanzibar,
through which 20,000 African slaves were processed every year.

27. Cowardice
Perhaps he was concerned not to embarrass his Muslim friends,
who are still involved in the slave trade today.

28. Embarrassing Facts in Stone Town
Also, a visit to Stone Town on Zanzibar would have been
even more embarrassing as the former slaves,
after having been liberated by the British Royal Navy,

29. built a magnificent church over the old slave market, with the pulpit and
altar by where the auction block and whipping post had stood.

30. Christ Church
The Anglican Cathedral, Christ Church, in Mkunazini Road,
in the centre of the old town occupies the area
where the largest slave market of Zanzibar used to be situated.

31. The construction of the Cathedral was intended to celebrate
the end of the Arab slave trade on Zanzibar.

32. The altar and pulpit were
designed to be in
the exact place
where the main whipping post
and slave auction block
had been.

33. Construction on Christ Church began 1873, the year of the death
of Missionary Explorer Dr. David Livingstone.
The Cathedral was completed and consecrated in 1903.

34. Inside the church there is a
cross made from the wood
of the tree
under which Dr. David
Livingstone's heart was buried
in Chitambo,
Northern Zambia.

35. Monumental
Near this church, a striking monument has been constructed above the
15 underground cells, where slaves in transit were incarcerated until
their sale to their Arab masters.

36. The monument in Stone Town consists of 5 stone figures in a pit,
representing the captured slaves
who appear to be rising out of the earth.

37. The shackles around their necks and the chains between them testify to
their plight. They look tired and sad, but strong.

38. Awkward Questions
Africans are asking why Barack Obama, an African American president,
continues to be so supportive of radical Muslim regimes
who are still engaged in slavery today?

39. Why is he so silent about the largest and longest slave trade in history?
One that has not yet come to an end.

40. Contrasts in Captivity
The comparisons and contrasts between Goree Island and Zanzibar
Island are striking: While the European involvement in the Trans Atlantic
slave trade to the Americas, lasted for just over three centuries.

41. The Arab involvement in the slave trade has lasted fourteen centuries,
and in some parts of the Muslim world, is still continuing to this day.

42. While two out of three slaves shipped across the Atlantic were men,
the proportions were reversed in the Islamic slave trade in East Africa,
the Indian Ocean and across the Sahara.
Two women for every man were enslaved by the Muslims.

43. Mortality Rates
While the mortality rate for slaves being transported across the Atlantic
was as high as 10%, the percentage of slaves dying in transit in the
trans-Sahara and East African slave trade, was between 80% and 90%.

44. Exploitation
While almost all the slaves shipped across the Atlantic were for
agriculture work, most of the slaves destined for the Muslim Middle East
were for sexual exploitation as concubines,
in harems and for military service.

45. Descendants
While many children are born to slaves in America and millions of their
descendants are citizens in Brazil, Jamaica, Haiti and the USA to this day,
very few descendants of the slaves that ended up in the Middle East
survived.

46. Slaughtered
While most slaves who went to the Americans could marry and have
families, most of the male slaves destined for the Middle East slave
bazaars were castrated, and most of the children born to the women
were killed at birth.

47. Either by drowning, or by having their throats slit,
to maintain Arab numerical superiority.

48. Trans Atlantic Victims
It is estimated that possibly as many as 11 million Africans were
transported across the Atlantic (95% went to South and Central America,
mainly to Portuguese, Spanish and French possessions.)
Less than 5% of the slaves went to the United States.

49. 140 Million Victims of the
Islamic Slave Trade
However, at least 28 million Africans were enslaved by the Muslims.
As at least 80% of those captured by the Muslim slave traders were
calculated to have died before reaching the slave markets,

50. it is believed that the death toll from the 14 centuries of Muslim slave
raids into Africa could have been well over 112 million.

51. When added to
the number of
those sold in the
slave markets,
the total number
of African victims
of the
Trans-Sahara
and East African
slave trade would
be significantly
higher than
140
million
people.

52. Setting the Captives Free
While Christian Reformers spear-headed
the anti-slavery abolitionists movements

53. with great Britain mobilising a Navy, throughout the 19th century to
intercept slave ships and set the captives free, there was no comparable
opposition to slavery within the Muslim world.

55. While Britain outlawed the slave trade in 1807, and the 8 main powers
of Europe outlawed the slave trade in the Congress of Vienna, 1815,

56. Saudi Arabia and Yemen only outlawed the slave
trade in 1962, and Mauritania in 1980.

57. Slavery in the Muslim World Today
However, Malcolm X, a convert to Islam, noted during his pilgrimage in
1968, that he saw black slaves being sold in Mecca.

58. The ongoing slave trade in Mauritania is well documented.
As is the slave trade in Sudan and other parts of the Muslim world.

59. Turning a Blind Eye
Apparently these inconvenient facts did not merit
US president Barack Obama's attention,

60. and rather than using his visit to Africa as an
opportunity to draw attention to the ongoing slave
trade he was satisfied with sermonising about the
need to be vigilant in defence of human rights,
on what ended over 200 years ago.

61. But he remained shockingly silent on the hideous abuse of human rights
taking place right now with countries with whom America has
Most Favoured Nation Status.

62. Slavery – What You Have
Never Been Told
Those who want to know the rest of the story, which apparently Obama,
and much of the mass media and Hollywood, would prefer to ignore,
Slavery, Terrorism and Islam – The Historical Roots and Contemporary
Threat exposes the shocking facts.

63. Lifting the Veil on Slavery
Slavery, Terrorism and Islam is a fascinating, well-illustrated and
thoroughly documented response to the relentless anti-Christian
propaganda that has been generated by Muslim and Marxist groups and
by Hollywood filmmakers.

64. As Karl Marx declared: "The first battle field is the re-writing of history!"

65. Exposing the
Hidden Story
Slavery, Terrorism and Islam – The Historical Roots and Contemporary
Threat has already gone through three editions and five printings.

66. With 300 pages and over 200 pictures, this edition is now
three times the size of the first edition,
which earned me a death threat Fatwa, from Muslim radicals.

67. Social Media
You can also access Slavery – What You've Never Been Told as a
PowerPoint through Slideshare on www.frontline.org.za. You can also
listen to Slavery - What You've Never Been Told on sermonaudio.com.

70. We have also produced a Muslim Evangelism Workshop MP3
with 20 lectures

71. and helped produce the supplementary Islam Rising DVD series.

72. "Where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is freedom." 2 Corinthians 3:17

73. Privileges for Perverts
Instead of speaking out against the ongoing Islamic slave trade in Africa
today, president Obama seemed to have given the highest priority to
promoting his radical pro-abortion and pro-homosexual agenda.

74. "He talks about gay rights, but gays have
always had the same rights as anyone
else. What Obama has really advanced is:
privileges for perverts!"

75. Bully Tactics
Pro-family advocates complained of the "arrogant and often bullying
manner and insensitivity" of the US State Department
against pro-life and pro-family administrations in Africa.

77. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President
William Ruto slammed Obama's remarks declaring: "This
country, the nation of Kenya, is a God-fearing nation!"
Homosexuality is illegal in Kenya.

78. An Anglican Bishop in Kenya declared:
"People who have ruined their own country should not
presume to come and lecture us on the way to go forward!"

79. Promoting Perversion
In April, the US Agency for International Development (USAID)
embarked on one of the most shocking abuses of US taxpayer Dollars.

80. The US government announced that they would be spending
$11 million to train homosexual activists in other countries.

81. The Washington Blade, D.C.'s gay newspaper, praised the Obama
administration for creating "an army of international lobbyists“
for same sex "marriage", anti-discrimination laws
and homosexual "rights" around the world.

82. According to USAID the first phase of this programme is focused on
developing nations that oppose homosexuality.
54 of the 55 countries in Africa oppose homosexuality.

85. A Bitter Disappointment
Many in Africa have described Obama's presidency as
"a bitter disappointment" and his Noble Peace Prize in 2009,
as "the most cynical Orwellian meaningless gesture."

86. Absolutely Nothing
Steve Friedman, the Director of Rhodes and Johannesburg Universities
declared: "I don’t think that it is unkind to say that he has done
absolutely nothing for this continent.

87. In some respects, George W. Bush did more for Africa than Barack
Obama… I cannot remember a US administration that has shown less
interest in the continent than this one."

88. Killing Babies Through Abortion
One of the first official acts George W. Bush after being elected US
president, was to defund Planned Parenthood's abortions overseas.

89. One of Barack Obama’s first acts as President was to
re-fund Planned Parenthoods abortions in Africa..

90. So, because of Barack Obama's pro-abortion policies,
many hundreds-of-thousands of black babies have been
killed in Africa, through abortion, with US taxpayers money.

91. "Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the
Lord and so bring wrath on yourself from the Lord?"
2 Chronicles 19:2