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Subject: It takes a Mullocracy - to sell their Women and Girls for Sex
swhitebull    1/27/2004 3:44:23 AM
Seems like those good ole lets-force-our-women-to-wear-the-veil-and-stone-them-if-they-dont mullahs have a little side business going on: Sex Slave Jihad By Donna M. Hughes FrontPageMagazine.com | January 27, 2004 A measure of Islamic fundamentalists’ success in controlling society is the depth and totality with which they suppress the freedom and rights of women. In Iran for 25 years, the ruling mullahs have enforced humiliating and sadistic rules and punishments on women and girls, enslaving them in a gender apartheid system of segregation, forced veiling, second-class status, lashing, and stoning to death. Joining a global trend, the fundamentalists have added another way to dehumanize women and girls: buying and selling them for prostitution. Exact numbers of victims are impossible to obtain, but according to an official source in Tehran, there has been a 635 percent increase in the number of teenage girls in prostitution. The magnitude of this statistic conveys how rapidly this form of abuse has grown. In Tehran, there are an estimated 84,000 women and girls in prostitution, many of them are on the streets, others are in the 250 brothels that reportedly operate in the city. The trade is also international: thousands of Iranian women and girls have been sold into sexual slavery abroad. The head of Iran’s Interpol bureau believes that the sex slave trade is one of the most profitable activities in Iran today. This criminal trade is not conducted outside the knowledge and participation of the ruling fundamentalists. Government officials themselves are involved in buying, selling, and sexually abusing women and girls. Many of the girls come from impoverished rural areas. Drug addiction is epidemic throughout Iran, and some addicted parents sell their children to support their habits. High unemployment 28 percent for youth 15-29 years of age and 43 percent for women 15-20 years of age is a serious factor in driving restless youth to accept risky offers for work. Slave traders take advantage of any opportunity in which women and children are vulnerable. For example, following the recent earthquake in Bam, orphaned girls have been kidnapped and taken to a known slave market in Tehran where Iranian and foreign traders meet. Popular destinations for victims of the slave trade are the Arab countries in the Persian Gulf. According to the head of the Tehran province judiciary, traffickers target girls between 13 and 17, although there are reports of some girls as young as 8 and 10, to send to Arab countries. One ring was discovered after an 18 year-old girl escaped from a basement where a group of girls were held before being sent to Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. The number of Iranian women and girls who are deported from Persian Gulf countries indicates the magnitude of the trade. Upon their return to Iran, the Islamic fundamentalists blame the victims, and often physically punish and imprison them. The women are examined to determine if they have engaged in “immoral activity.” Based on the findings, officials can ban them from leaving the country again. Police have uncovered a number of prostitution and slavery rings operating from Tehran that have sold girls to France, Britain, Turkey as well. One network based in Turkey bought smuggled Iranian women and girls, gave them fake passports, and transported them to European and Persian Gulf countries. In one case, a 16-year-old girl was smuggled to Turkey, and then sold to a 58-year-old European national for $20,000. In the northeastern Iranian province of Khorasan, local police report that girls are being sold to Pakistani men as sex-slaves. The Pakistani men marry the girls, ranging in age from 12 to 20, and then sell them to brothels called “Kharabat” in Pakistan. One network was caught contacting poor families around Mashad and offering to marry girls. The girls were then taken through Afghanistan to Pakistan where they were sold to brothels. In the southeastern border province of Sistan Baluchestan, thousands of Iranian girls reportedly have been sold to Afghani men. Their final destinations are unknown. One factor contributing to the increase in prostitution and the sex slave trade is the number of teen girls who are running away from home. The girls are rebelling against fundamentalist imposed restrictions on their freedom, domestic abuse, and parental drug addictions. Unfortunately, in their flight to freedom, the girls find more abuse and exploitation. Ninety percent of girls who run away from home will end up in prostitution. As a result of runaways, in Tehran alone there are an estimated 25,000 street children, most of them girls. Pimps prey upon street children, runaways, and vulnerable high school girls in city parks. In one case, a woman was discovered selling Iranian girls to men in Persian Gulf countries; for four years, she had hunted down runaway girls and sold them. She even sold her own daughter
 
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Sikman    RE:It takes a Mullocracy - to sell their Women and Girls for Sex   2/12/2004 10:04:45 PM
Do they sell any of them in North America?
 
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sikhwarrior    RE:It takes a Mullocracy - to sell their Women and Girls for Sex   2/18/2004 11:27:04 AM
I just don't understand how you can hate women. How can someone do these acts, I thought Islam supported equality for everyone including women, I guess I was WRONG.
 
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DragonReborn    RE:It takes a Mullocracy - to sell their Women and Girls for Sex   5/3/2004 8:06:28 PM
Don’t believe everything you read, we are quick to pick holes in the anti American propaganda that is put out by the Arab media etc, it would be prudent to do the same with anti Arab stories such as this. Although there maybe some truth in this story it appears to be wholly unsubstantiated and carries a clear bias. Can anyone provide some serious facts to back up this story
 
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swhitebull    RE:It takes a Mullocracy - to sell their Women and Girls for Sex   5/3/2004 9:44:25 PM
Just a few for starters: My original article for one; http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/prostitution_holy_men http://www.jca.apc.org/fem/news/women2000/479.html (this is a groundwork article) - IN a country so tightly controlled by the Mullahs and the religious police, is it unreasonable to associate the mullahs with trafficking in women and prostitutes as well? The BIG Reference Page: http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/refs_iran And others : http://www.iran-bulletin.org/political_commentary/drug_smuggling.html http://www.iranreporter.com/story.asp?id=306 Drugs and prostitution are highly correlated. swhitebull
 
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teneighty    RE:It takes a Mullocracy - to sell their Women and Girls for Sex   5/7/2004 8:10:17 AM
to DragonReborn: Iran is NOT an Arab country and Iranians are NOT Arabs!!
 
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Khamenei    RE:It takes a Mullocracy - to sell their Women and Girls for Sex   9/28/2005 6:17:12 PM
Man cant you shut up? Find yourself a life, some friends or maybe a job instead of sitting on your fat a-s and write this bs?
 
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swhitebull    RE:It takes a Mullocracy - to sell their Women and Girls for Sex   9/28/2005 9:37:45 PM
...Man cant you shut up? Find yourself a life, some friends or maybe a job instead of sitting on your fat a-s and write this bs?.... Hey NEWBIE - Whats the matter, someone try to cop a feel under your burqha? I can see you offer no evidence to the contrary to refute what Ive written - all you can do is run like a mullah's dog with a bad case of the trots. It takes more than just YOUR say so - from someone whose been on these boards less than a day - to get some credibility. We suggest you study up some more and get an education before you confirm that you are a fool, rather than just let people think so. By the way - when was the last time YOU were able to freely offer YOUR opinion in your enlightened thugocracy without fear of getting thrown in a mullah's prison to be some boytoy to the guards? OR, have you beaten any Canadian female journalists to death lately? If your eyes are offended by what you read, pluck them out. Anything unclear about this? Have a nice day swhitebull
 
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trustedsourceofinfo    RE:It takes a Mullocracy - to sell their Women and Girls for Sex   10/28/2005 4:43:00 PM
""..Man cant you shut up? Find yourself a life, some friends or maybe a job instead of sitting on your fat a-s and write this bs?...."" ---->Typical..So darn freaking typical... Yeah yeah-Iranians are Persians but under that Burkha you're all still Muslims..Never will you'll ever refute what is presented with facts before you-you'll simply play ignorant and label it as BS or crap and vanish from the forum... Really,isnt there any Muslim on this forum who can effectively debate ever... Somebody please prove me wrong!
 
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