In  thought and deed this way of thinking is common throughout the Islamic  world.  Abu Ishaq al-Huwanini, an Egyptian Cleric proudly proclaims he  wishes to apply the ancient Shar'i code  of enslaving populations which refuse to pay the jizia (poll tax) or converting  to Islam when defeated at the hands of a Muslim nation.  He states:   "When I want a sex  slave, I go to the market and pick  whichever female I desire and buy her"

Why  such dastardly remarks and proof of such practices are discounted by those so  quick to chastise Israel is perplexing to say the least.  A segment of the  Jewish population, particularly on campuses throughout the world, denounces  Israel as an apartheid state while ignoring the very real practice of Islamic  slavery and the endemic degradation of women which exists to this very day; most  egregiously throughout Africa and the Middle East.

Perhaps,  unfortunate to say, slavery is almost discounted in the Arab Middle East, and  recognition of it in today's politically correct world is muted at best.   But one would think the widespread Muslim enslavement of native black people  throughout Africa would be a cause célèbre amongst the self-proclaimed  intelligentsia.  It simply isn't.

How  many people have heard the story of  Moulkheir Mint Yarba?  Very few if any I assume.  According to a  CNN story written by John D. Sutter, Moulkheir Mint Yarba is a woman born into  slavery in the West African, Islamic nation of Mauritania.  A country in  which modern slavery is more prevalent than anywhere else in the  world.

One  day after returning to her wretched dwelling from tending her master's goats she  was devastated to find her infant daughter left outside in the searing desert heat to  die.  This was done as punishment by her master; a man who had fathered the  infant subsequent to raping this woman.  Why such a despicable act?   He told her she would work  faster without the child on her back.  What recourse did she  have?  The same as the other 10%-20% of slaves that live in Mauritania,  none. 

Just  to the South of Mauritania is another West African nation, Senegal.  Its  population is 9.1 million, 80% of whom are Muslims.  Goree  Island, lies less than 2 miles off the coast of Senegal, and was one of West  Africa's largest slave trading outposts during the Atlantic Slave Trade.   While slaves no longer flow in and out of the slave houses of Gorée Island,  slavery continues to riddle the country.  Senegal is a source, transit, and  destination country for modern slaves, according to the U.N.  Human Rights Council.

Authorities  in Nigeria say as many as 40,000 girls and women have been trafficked to nearby  West African countries to serve as sex workers.  Simon Egede an  investigator from Nigeria's National Agency for Prohibition of Traffic in  Persons found slave  camps full of Nigerian women and girls in Mali, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso,  Niger, Libya, and Morocco.  He estimates that there are between 20,000 and  40,000 victims.  What do all these nations have in common?  Political  correctness aside, the least common denominator denotes an average of better  than 75% of their collective population is Islamic.  These are indisputable  facts which are documented and well known to the U.N., the E.U., and in  governmental agencies throughout the world.  So once again, where is the  outcry on American campuses by professors and students so quick to castigate  Israel?  And what has the world body done so far about  it?

On  November 8, 2012 the U.N. elected genocidal, misogynistic and tyrannical Sudan  to its 54-member Economic and Social Council.  Laughingly, this U.N. body  regulates human rights groups, oversees U.N. committees on women's rights, and  crafts resolutions from Internet freedom to female genital mutilation.  It  gets crazier. 

The  following month, December 12, the U.N.'s top human rights body marked Human  Rights Day by electing Mauritania's Ambassador as one of 4 Vice Presidents  to the Human Rights Council.  At the same time another Vice President  elected was the representative from the Maldives, a predominantly Islamic Island  in the Indian Ocean just off the east coast of Africa. 

In  this wonderful country, non-Muslim foreign workers may only practice their faith  in private.  Speech deemed "contrary to the tenets of Islam" is restricted;  women are flogged for extramarital sex, and homosexual activity is a crime  punishable with banishment and flogging.

Dismissing  or ignoring the crimes and inhumanities committed by the aforementioned nations,  it's become acceptable for leftist groups on and off campus to demonize,  delegitimize, and judge Israel with a double standard, while issuing a free pass  to Islamic deprivations such as honor killings, misogyny, slavery, as well as  other heinous practices.  Quick to drown out and block appearances by  pro-Israeli speakers on campus, their silence is deafening to the crimes  committed in the Muslim world.  We've all heard of the "Apartheid week"  libel spewed against Israel every March.  Has anyone heard of an equivalent  "anti Slavery week?"  I haven't.

It  is biased behavior is par for the course at the U.N. and almost understandable.   It's a lot easier for them and the nations which they're comprised of to  use Israel as a punching bag rather than focus their attention on the many  Muslim nations where barbaric atrocities are continuously committed and are just  a part of daily life. 

What's  not understandable is the apathy and blindness self-righteous academia gives to  these uncivilized practices which should be anathema to the ideals they so  sanctimoniously claim to stand for.