Poor STUPID CLIFFY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was DICTATOR Napoleon in about 1804 that invaded Egypt- and it was a British fleet that chased the French back out again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At the time Egypt was nominally a province of the Ottoman Empire- but the Khedive- the Egyptian king- was basically IGNORING orders from Istanbul!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Khedive started doing deals with Britain that would enhance his power and extend Egyptian sovereignty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the British pressured the Khedive to end slavery in Egypt- with fair success!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To the south of Egypt is the Sudan- which WAS then an Egyptian province- but the Sudanese leaders were basically IGNORING orders from Cairo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Ottoman Empire was rotting from within thanks to the corruption of its leaders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In the 1870`s The Mahdi- The Expected One appeared and led a jihad against the hated Egyptian TAX COLLECTORS and against the British anti slavery movement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Slavery was NEVER FULLY ERASED in Sudan because the local people refused to forego the pleasure of owning slaves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And of course once Sudan was freed of British and Egyptian occupation- they went right back to establishing slave markets that STILL EXIST TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes- have you not heard that in BOTH SUDAN and LIBYA- SLAVES ARE STILL OFFERED FOR SALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But there is a NEW TWIST to the old business!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Slaves are no longer bought merely for their labour- now they can be bought AS ORGAN DONERS by wealthy Muslims!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Any detailed examination of life in Sudan indicates that it is the PEST HOLE OF THE UNIVERSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALLAH help any woman who has the misfortune to be born there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
During the time of The Mahdi- when Islam was supposed to be enjoying a Renaissance - Sharia Law was routinely distorted and ignored!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Prophet Muhammed tells us a Muslim may have as many as FOUR WIVES and NO MORE THAN THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yet in the 1880`s a good Muslim might have as many as 40 wives - by just collecting them in groups of FOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Getting tired of a wife was NO PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just say 3 times the magic words "I divorce you" and she is no longer your responsibility!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course if she has pleased you well in the past or retains the good looks that attracted you to her- then she has VALUE and may be passed on as a gift to some other man to be "married" for a time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With the woman WELL ADVISED to accept her status as sexual gift to another man since the alternatives were NASTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A demure willingness to serve men in ANY WAY was the road to slightly better treatment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or if she had become old or ill humoured then she could be SOLD TO A BROTHEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or -if she had really offended her hubby then she could be beaten and turned out on the street alone to sell herself and survive as best she could!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Quran tells us that Allah favours the compassionate and the merciful !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But apparently Muslims DO NOT BELIEVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Because it is western "imperialists" who worked hardest and longest to establish HONEST COURTS and un-bribable judges in third world pest holes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And it is the WEST that has done most to end slavery and extend civil rights across the planet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
