Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Which Lives Matter?

Which Lives Matter?
Excerpt: Arabs, Turks and Africans should beg Europeans to forgive them for their atrocities in the very recent past. In late June, vandals desecrated the monument to Miguel de Cervantes in San Francisco. Thus Cervantes was turned into a “slave owner.” It is well known that this great writer and brave hidalgo was a slave of the Algerian corsairs for 5 years. They seized him on a ship sailing from Naples to Barcelona. Cervantes became the property of the cruel Muslim Albanian Dali-Mami, who went by the nickname Lame. The rowers on his ship were white Christian slaves. Being shackled, they ate, slept, and defecated right where they sat. Many of them were missing ears, noses or eyes – the result of Dali-Mami’s outbursts of anger. Once he ordered that a guilty rower’s hand be cut off, and beat the whole team with this hand. In Algeria, things were not much better. Slave auctions lasted from 8 am to 2 am. Miserable people were forced to run and jump to show their strength and endurance; overlookers cut off their hands for every stolen penny, as prescribed by Muslim laws. Executions, mutilations, torture of slaves were everyday fun for the Algerian Dey. You would see naked people dying in agony under the scorching sun near his house. Wall hooks outside the prison gates were “decorated” with the heads of Christian slaves, being pecked up by kites.

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