The uncomfortable truth about racism and slavery in the world today
It is time for the United States to stop funding the United Nations, and stop sending million, if not billions, in foreign aid to nations that continue to sanction slavery
Some of the nearly 250 Nigerian Christian women and girls Boko Haram captured in 2018, who were finally rescued by the Nigerian military last last year. (Photo: Roger Whitehead/AFP)——————————————————————————————————————————————
The United States abolished slavery almost 156 years ago with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in December 1865. The U.S. has had affirmative action laws — some of which have represented legislative overreach — since the 1970s.
We are the people who elected a Black president, Barack Obama — twice!
Yet, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and Antifa have toppled one historic monument after another over the last year and a half as if the U.S. is still enslaving African-Americans. Activists in Washington DC even targeted the nation’s official Emancipation Memorial, depicting President Abraham Lincoln, who paid with his life for freeing slaves!
Engaging in a disgusting display of self-flagellation, Leftists in both the U.S. and Europe are obsessively focused only on the Western past of African slavery rather than on real, ongoing slavery, which is alive and well — and ignored.
Today slavery still exists in many parts of Africa and Middle East. 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.
"Emirs and sultans bought entire convoys of young black ephebes to make into eunuchs to guard their harems. And this continued with Ottoman emperors ...” he wrote. “Even today, Mauritania and Saudi Arabia are still housing their own Ku Klux Klan. Slavery is still the order of the day in Nouakchott [Mauritania]. As for Riad, all you have to do is find out about young Asian girls that the potentates hire as maidservants."
An investigation by BBC Arabic found that domestic workers in Saudi Arabia are even being sold online in a slave market that is booming.
According to Bencheikh, George Floyd's death was an opportunity for many in Europe to turn a respectable fight into an unimaginable depravity.
Bencheikh called out last winter’s demonstrators in Paris’ Place de la République, calling them “thugs filled with hatred. Although the demonstrations began in November over wage issues, the Fascist element soon took over, using the European incarnations of Antifa and BLM to make the previously peaceful wage demonstrations violent and shifting the focus to race.
"[They are] taking advantage of the allotments that these two countries offer them, and attacking the past of those who enabled them to free themselves from their dictatorships ... “ Bencheikh said in the article. “In France and Belgium, we do not execute apostates, crucify heterodox people, throw stones at unfaithful women, spit at heretics. The slaveholders and their sympathizer in Africa and the Mideast do.
"... this anti-racism is biting its tail to turn into racism. You only have to see the angry crowd, the drool on their lips, to realize that we are dealing with people who have come to insult the white man guilty of having had, more than a hundred years ago, inappropriate gestures or shameful thoughts, and to insist, like the wolf in La Fontaine who said to the lamb: 'If not you, then your brother' ... Totalitarianism is among us again."
Indeed, it is a rebirth of a sad mixture of Fascism and Stalinism in Europe. It makes itself “an indigenous victimization, Bencheikh wrote. People who fled from Bouteflika and Gaddafi, the oppressors and tyrants of Kinshasa and Niamey, "come and spit incomprehensible hatred in Paris or Brussels."
Bencheikh's article shows just one brave group of dissidents in the Islamic world who are defending the U.S. and Europe better than we are doing so for ourselves. Like Bencheikh, many are poets, authors, some are journalists, all are freedom-lovers who have a taste of what the West was as recently as three years ago.
These dissidents love freedom of expression and conscience. They know the difference between democracy and dictatorship. They enjoy religious tolerance, pluralism in the public sphere, and they outspokenly criticize the practice of Islam from which they fled.
By their account, reawakening the historic racist resentment of the 60s in the U.S. is a dangerous game. For the IslamoFascists, a new breed of Muslim that the U.S. must take responsibility for creating, these dissidents’ voices are revealing and devastating. For Western multiculturalism, they are "heretical" and annoying. Le Figaro pointed to this paradox: "Seen by their communities as 'traitors', they are accused by the elites in the West of 'stigmatizing'."
In The Spectator, Nick Cohen, explained:
"In the liberal orientalist world view the only 'authentic' Muslim is a barbarian. A battery of insults fires on any Muslim who says otherwise. They are 'neo-conservatives,' 'native informants,' and 'Zionists': they are as extreme as jihadists they oppose, or, let's face it, worse ..."
Like Bencheikh, Algerian author Mohammed Sifaoui remind all of us "Mauritania, in North Africa, is the most slavery-supporting country in the world today. Qatar in the Middle East is as well, just as much, [as is] Saudi Arabia, under the banner of the Guardians of the Holy Places of Islam."
The author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who fled her homeland of Somalia and now lives in the US, writes on Twitter:

Black, female and gay, the apex of "intersectionality."
Intersectionality is the latest academic craze sweeping the American academy. It is painfully obvious to most people with some knowledge of world history over the last 75 years that is nothing more complex than the rebirth of Hitlerian Fascism that argues that social oppression does not simply apply to single categories of identity — such as race, gender, sexual orientation, class, etc. — but to all of them in an interlocking system of hierarchy and power.
Fascism must have an enemy to fight, and that enemy in this case is the false premise that the U.S. ― in fact all Western governments and culture ― are essentially racist by nature and must be destroyed.
For the intersectional Fascists, the U.S. is the world's biggest oppressor. Most of Europe is a close second. Not Saudi Arabia or Iran. Hirsi Ali, who fled Somalia and experienced female genital mutilation, knows about oppression better than anti-statues activists.
"When I hear it said that the U.S. is defined above all by racism,” Hirsi Ali said in a Wall Street Journal op/ed piece, “when I see books such as Robin DiAngelo's 'White Fragility' top the bestseller list, when I read of educators and journalists being fired for daring to question the orthodoxies of Black Lives Matter — then I feel obliged to speak up.”
America looks different if you grew up ― as most of these poets, authors and journalists did ― in Africa and the Middle East. In fact, there is what I would call “an instinct for death” in the air of the total revolutionaries populating Antifa and BLM, both in the U.S and in Europe.
According to most of our homegrown Fascist insurrectionists, the West is guilty by definition, we find ourselves not in a demand for change but, little by little, in a demand for destruction, anarchy and a restoration of a barbarity of revenge.
It is a modern-day version of Hitler’s extermination of the Jews, only our Fascists want to burn down the whole system and have no idea with what to replace it.
It is forbidden to say that the West is also the place to which freedom-lovers worldwide would flee when they want to escape the injustice of their countries of origin, dictatorship, war, hunger, or simply boredom. It is fashionable to say that the West is guilty of everything.
Algerian writer Kamel Daoud stands accused, in a complaint about one of his article in the French magazine Le Point, of "orientalist clichés" and "colonialist paternalism." There is only one purpose for such an appeal: To shame, mark and disqualify a politician or an intellectual who comments with too much frankness on the damage of multiculturalism.
And what did Daoud write that was offensive? In his article, he states that "with the great announcement of antiracism, The Inquisition returns."
Another freedom-loving Muslim, Zineb el Rhazoui, a Moroccan-born anti-Islamist French journalist, is facing death threats due to one of his recent articles.
"The only racism I suffer from comes from North Africans,” he wrote. “For the Algerians, I am a Moroccan whore. For Moroccans, I am an Algerian whore. For both, a 'whore of the Jews'."
Arabs threaten other Arabs for speaking the truth about real racism and IslamoFascism. They are the invisible victims of racism in France. Rhazoui claimed that "France is one of the most tolerant and least racist country in the world" and that real threat is not racism, but communitarism [importance placed on groups rather than individuals], denounced as well by French President Emmanuel Macron.”
The Iranian writer Abnousse Shalmani, born in Tehran but now living in Paris, said to Le Figaro:
"The new anti-racism is racism disguised as humanism ... What resonates in this discourse is the prison of victimization ... It implies that every white person is bad — as witnessed by the recent debunking of the statues of Victor Schoelcher, father of the abolition of slavery, in Martinique — and that every black person is a victim."
Meanwhile, French economist Thomas Piketty, in Le Monde, invited the West to make amends for its colonial past. The very concept is absurd.
African and Mideastern Leftists have long made an issue of “colonization,” claiming it has destroyed cultures and societies while attempting to remake those tribes, people and nations in the image of the West. However, it is only an emergency for those who do not yet know that they are free. The freedom-lovers we’ve highlighted here obviously do not consider themselves colonized. The catchphrase on colonization and slavery has become a business.
Groups such as the Anti-Imperialist Front in Europe reflect the same lies told by Antifa and BLM in the U.S., changing the theme of “racism” to that of “colonialism,” another false rhetoric that labels Western white men the oppressors and all peoples of color around the world their victims. (Photo: Dietrich Mannheim/Die Welt)——————————————————————————————————————————————
The neo-Fascist "ideology" is simple: Colonialism is supposedly still at work, people from formerly colonized countries continue to be oppressed, in particular Muslims who are said to be targets of a "racist" and "Islamophobic" hate. In this view, "White Western males" are always the oppressors, and the minorities are always victims.
A prominent anti-racism campaigner, Rokhaya Diallo, has said that France is racist, in an opposition between "the dominator" and "the dominated." It is a view that sees racism everywhere, especially where it does not exist.
It has also produced many of the disasters of multiculturalism throughout Europe by making it impossible to criticize the consequences of mass immigration and Islamist separatism. The French author Pascal Bruckner has called this stance "imaginary racism." It is a penitential creation that leads the public in the West ― even though presumably no one in the West either was a slave or had a slave — to believe that anti-Western self-hatred is deserved.
The border between this Fascist view, in which someone always has to be a victim, has become porous with IslamoFascism. In the movement named after Adama Traoré, the "French George Floyd", you will find an alliance of organizations such as SOS Racisme and Muslim Salafists. Human rights organizations also rally with the "Union of Islamic Organization of France," considered Islamic fundamentalist ― which is to say, 14th Century barbarism fueled by the false prophet Mohammed’s work.
Manu el Valls, the former French prime minister, is an interview with Valuers Actuelles magazine, said, “Human rights associations have been lost and have opened the doors to Tariq Ramadan.” This is dangerous rhetoric that takes the argument against IslamoFascism much too far, ignoring as it does the many great current Muslim reformers.
Westerners in the U.S. and Europe would do well to remember, even though IslamoFascism is dangerous and rapidly spreading, it still represents less than 10 percent — perhaps as little as three percent — of the Muslim world. These brave freedom-lovers are making their best efforts to rally the other 90-97 percent of Islamic believers to rise up and take back their faith.
Reformers such as Asra Nomani, Irshad Manji, Tawfiq Hamid, Maajid Nawaz, Zuhdi Jasser, Saleem Ahmed, Yunis Qandil, Seyran Ates, Bassam Tibi and Abd al-Hamid al-Ansari must be supported and protected by the West. These men and women should be as well known in the West as Solzhenitsyn, Sakharov and Havel were generations earlier.
Their names should be held more prominently in U.S. and European media than the names of the terrorists we’ve come to know and fear. Instead, so-called human rights associations, politicians and the media have chosen to back political IslamoFascism.
These anti-Islamist Muslim intellectuals were not born free. They fled dictatorships for democracies, where they still suffer death threats and abuses, but where they are far freer and prouder of the West than those Westerners who know only freedom but now practice a dreadful feeing of guilt — mostly for things they did not do.
It is not just the U.S. and Europe that turn their backs on the new slave markets. The UN Human Rights Council actually seats as members such states as Sudan, where tens of thousands of women and children from mostly Christian villages were enslaved during Jihadi raids this year.
Kenya and Nigeria are also HRC members. Police last fall rescued hundreds of men and boys chained in an Islamic school run by Boko Haram. Another member of the Council is Pakistan, where Christians are condemned to servitude. Then there is Mauritania, where two in every 100 people are still held as slaves.
This is the same UN Human Rights Council that now, thanks to pressure by African countries, wants to investigate "systemic racism in the US." As Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo noted:
"If the Council were honest, it would recognize the strengths of American democracy and urge authoritarian regimes around the world to model American democracy and to hold their nations to the same high standards of accountability and transparency that we Americans apply to ourselves".
It is high time for the United States to stop funding the United Nations, and stop sending million, if not billions, in foreign aid to nations that continue to sanction slavery. The United Nations is being used to perpetuate injustice in those nations, 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.
Mike Nichols is a conservative, a patriot, U.S. Army veteran, a licensed professional counselor, political enthusiast, sports fan and writer living with his beautiful wife Liz in the Heartland. He is a regular contributor at has a regular blog at the GenZConservative news website and a Facebook presence at Americas Conservative Voice-Facebook.