Camel slavery in Muslim countries

[L@mplighterM]

Race to break camel slavery

DAVID ORR IN DELHI
THE louder the child jockeys scream in pain the faster the camels to which they are strapped run. Many of the tiny riders have been left to die from the appalling injuries suffered on the desert race courses; their bodies dumped in unmarked graves.

Kidnapped or bought from their poverty-stricken parents in Pakistan or Bangladesh, children as young as three are being smuggled into the Gulf states to take part in the lucrative sport of camel racing.

"The food they’re given in the camps is dirty and unhygienic, worse than the food given to the racing camels. They have to feed the camels, but are beaten if they try to eat the animals’ food.

"They sleep in hot, crowded huts made from corrugated irons sheets. It’s boiling hot out in the desert yet they have to train twice or three times a day. It’s hard and painful work and, after a while, the boys have permanent damage to their sexual organs from bouncing up and down on the camels.

http://news.scotsman.com/internation...?id=1134012002



Islam sure is a wonderful place three year olds strapped on camels, beaten, starved and sexually abused.

[L@mplighterM]

Snip:

LONG BEACH, California (AP) -- A geologist searching for earthquake faults at a construction site found something even more earth-shattering: the 100,000-year-old fossilized remains of a North American camel.

Thursday's discovery by Robert Lemmer yielded four vertebrae -- the sixth and seventh cervical vertebrae, the thoracic vertebra and a neck vertebra. On Friday, another neck vertebra was discovered in a 12-foot deep trench dug to search for quake faults in the parking lot of a bowling alley.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/West/10/1....ap/index.html

Coincidentally I just came across this article on CNN minutes after posting the above post. It’s somewhat unrelated but I thought I’d pass it along.

[Dantheman]

Originally posted by L@mplighterM
Race to break camel slavery

DAVID ORR IN DELHI
THE louder the child jockeys scream in pain the faster the camels to which they are strapped run. Many of the tiny riders have been left to die from the appalling injuries suffered on the desert race courses; their bodies dumped in unmarked graves.

Kidnapped or bought from their poverty-stricken parents in Pakistan or Bangladesh, children as young as three are being smuggled into the Gulf states to take part in the lucrative sport of camel racing.

"The food they’re given in the camps is dirty and unhygienic, worse than the food given to the racing camels. They have to feed the camels, but are beaten if they try to eat the animals’ food.

"They sleep in hot, crowded huts made from corrugated irons sheets. It’s boiling hot out in the desert yet they have to train twice or three times a day. It’s hard and painful work and, after a while, the boys have permanent damage to their sexual organs from bouncing up and down on the camels.

http://news.scotsman.com/internation...?id=1134012002



Islam sure is a wonderful place three year olds strapped on camels, beaten, starved and sexually abused.

That's beyond disturbing.