Quote:So they can't be verified. That poses a problem, because any idiot can make up a story & say "it really happened, but the names have been changed to protect the people involved." That's how urban legends and those fucking idiotic glurge chain letters spread. Without some sort of method for verification...
Those sources or news letters are circulated off line and without names to protect the missionaries who live under constant threat of discovery that can be followed by torture and death.
Quote:Well, there's your blood libel:
The slavery mentioned above is by more moderate Muslems and the terror groups are anything, but moderate so I don't see a blood libel.
"The MUSLIMS are ENSLAVING CHRISTIAN BOYS & GIRLS and GIVING the MONEY to TERRORISTS!"
That right there is trying to tar a large number of people - the vast, vast majority of which don't have a thing to do with the slave trade (many of whom, in fact, being on the wrong end of the whip there). You may not have intended that, and you may not believe it, but that's the echo.
Now, is there a slave trade in Africa? Yes, there is. Are "moderate" Muslims are selling people and giving the profits to their local al-Quaeda franchise? Well... doesn't seem like that to me. The subject of the Times Online article is a known millitant with connections to various & sundry other millitants, and I'm apparently missing the moderate connection.---
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