Tea at Trianon: Modern Slavery

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Friday, September 12, 2014

Modern Slavery

From Aleteia:

One enduring evil, present at all times and in every form of human civilization, is slavery. In May of 2014, the world was awakened to the reality of modern slavery when Boko Haram, a Nigerian Islamist terror group allied with al-Qaida, kidnapped over 200 schoolgirls (mostly Christian) in Chibok, Nigeria. According to Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, the girls were to be sold into sexual slavery.

“Slavery is allowed in my religion,” claimed Shekau, “and I shall capture people and make them slaves.”

As of this writing, the fate of the Chibok schoolgirls is unknown, and every day that passes makes it less likely that they will ever be restored to their families.

Many Muslim leaders reject Shekau’s claim about the permissibility of slavery under Islam, but Boko Haram isn’t the only Islamist organization engaging in such practices. Reports have recently surfaced that the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) group has been abducting and selling Christian and Yazidi women into slavery. According to the Tunisia Daily, ISIS recently sold 700 Yazidi women at a public auction in Mosul. (Read more.)

A young Yazidi girl tells of the hell of being a slave. Not for the fainthearted. May God deliver them.

Another girl's story HERE. She was able to escape. Share

1 comment:

julygirl said...: I think it is interesting how some religious extremists claim such and such is allowed in their religion, especially when used to explain away some evil act.; September 12, 2014 at 10:12:00 AM EDT