The Way of Universal Brotherhood
We are witnesses to far gorier atrocities than this.
On the day he decided to run away, 9-year-old Coli awoke on a filthy mat. Like a pup, he lay curled against the cold, pressed between dozens of other children sleeping head-to-toe on the concrete floor. His T-shirt was damp with the dew that seeped through the thin walls. The older boys had yanked away the square of cloth… here are 1.2 million Colis in the world today, children trafficked to work for the benefit of others. Those who lure them into servitude make $15 billion annually, according to the International Labour Organization….For among the most cruel facts of Coli’s life is that he was not stolen from his family. He was brought to Dakar with their blessing to learn Islam’s holy book. In the name of religion, Coli spent two hours a day memorizing verses from the Koran and over nine hours begging to pad the pockets of the man he called his teacher.
This atrocity is attention-worthy because it is done in the name of a religion that trumpets universal brotherhood as one of its selling points. But the trumpeteers (Coli’s teacher in this case, and several Mullahs in other cases) are themselves the worst abusers of this selling point. More directly, Islam gives these worthies incredible power over the lives of entire populations.
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You know what? I’m actually surprised that the site had the balls to publish the story, that too with that kind of a caption…