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Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800..

 Research suggests that white slavery was a more common phenomenon than previously understood, particularly between the 16th and 18th centuries in the Mediterranean and Barbary Coast regions. Studies indicate that over a million European Christians were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa during this period, a number significantly higher than previous estimates. 

Elaboration:

• Barbary Slave Trade:

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  The Barbary corsairs, based in North African coastal cities like Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli, were known for raiding European ships and coastal towns to capture and enslave people. 
• Scope of Enslavement:

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  Professor Robert Davis' research, published in his book "Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters," estimates that between 1530 and 1780, over a million Europeans were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa. Some estimates suggest this number could have reached 1.25 million. 
• Consequences of Slavery:

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  These enslaved Europeans faced harsh conditions, similar to those endured by African slaves in the transatlantic slave trade. They were often forced into labor, including galley rowing, and some were subjected to conversion to Islam. 
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  While the Barbary slave trade is well-documented, it's important to remember that slavery involving Europeans also occurred in other regions, including the Arab slave trade and the Ottoman Empire. 
• Modern Slavery:

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  The term "white slavery" is sometimes used in modern contexts to refer to forms of forced labor, often involving debt bondage, sexual exploitation, and other forms of abuse, according to the Unseen website. 
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 *Everyone's Ancestors on this Earth were Slaves at some point and time. 

 Lets move forward - not backwards.  

DOGE has saved Americans $ 160 Billion so far..

 

As President Donald Trump celebrated his 100th day in office this week, Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said it has cut at least $160 billion in waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government. 

When Trump signed an executive order establishing the agency on his Inauguration Day, DOGE set an ambitious goal of cutting $2 trillion from the federal budget. 

According to the Office of Government Ethics, "special government employees" like Musk can work for the federal government no more than 130 days a year, which in Musk's case will fall on May 30. He has already started paring back his hours leading the controversial agency. 

Funding a former Taliban member

Earlier this year, DOGE discovered the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) had transferred $132,000 to Mohammad Qasem Halimi, a former Taliban member who was Afghanistan's former Chief of Protocol. DOGE announced on March 31 that the contract was canceled. 

Halimi was detained by the U.S. and held at Bagram Air Base for a year beginning Jan. 2, 2002. He held several positions in Afghanistan's government following his release and was appointed as the Minister of Hajj and Religious Affairs in Afghanistan in 2020. 

"A small agency called the United States Institute of Peace is definitely the agency we've had the most fight at. We actually went into the agency and found they had loaded guns inside their headquarters — Institute for Peace," a DOGE staffer told Watters. "So by far, the least peaceful agency that we've worked with, ironically. Additionally, we found that they were spending money on things like private jets, and they even had a $130,000 contract with a former member of the Taliban. This is real. We don't encounter that in most agencies."

 The nation's schools spent $200 billion in COVID-relief funds on expenses "with little oversight or impact on students," such as Las Vegas hotel rooms and buying an ice cream truck, according to DOGE's audits. 

Granite School District in Utah spent their COVID-relief funds on $86,000 in hotel rooms for an educational conference at Caesars Palace, a ritzy Las Vegas casino, while Santa Ana Unified in California spent $393,000 to rent out a Major League Baseball stadium, according to a report by Parents Defending Education and shared by DOGE. Granite School District has since denied "any impropriety for having our educators participate" in the Las Vegas conference.

The cost-cutting department also revealed that schools spent $60,000 of COVID-relief funds on swimming pool passes, while a California district used its funds to purchase an ice cream truck.

"They were basically partying on the taxpayers' dollars."  

 Yet the Democrats cry foul ??!!  Why ....   

Be Happy .. It's later than you think.

 

Latin Proverb .. 

Amen 

  This isn’t Europe. We aren’t England, France, Norway or

any of those countries that have been overrun.

We need to stand up and say No to Islam and Sharia Law in the USA.

  When someone hurts you, does you wrong, if you keep thinking about it, then you’re letting them continue to hurt you. Don’t give them your power. You have to let it go. Give it to God.

 God knows how to make rivers in the desert. He knows how to pay you back for the wrongs. It looks like a setback, but really, it’s a setup for God to show out in your life.