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| 'African boys are brought to Britain to be sacrificed' |
| 2005-06-17 |
| African boys are being smuggled into Britain as intended human sacrifices, a report commissioned by the Metropolitan Police has revealed. The children are brought to London and offered up in blood rituals at the behest of fundamentalist sects to combat evil spirits. Police believe that the boys, considered valuable because they are "unblemished", can be bought for as little as £10 in Africa. The report into so-called "faith crimes" was commissioned after the death of eight-year-old Victoria Climbié, who was starved to death by relatives who thought she was possessed. It was compiled by a social worker and a lawyer with the help of London's African community. The authors reported claims of witchcraft, spells, and of HIV-positive people having sex with children in attempts to be cured. The authors pointed out they could not test the truth of these allegations but voiced concerns that children could be in life-threatening situations. The report also highlighted concerns about church pastors identifying children as witches, who then suffer violence at the hands of their parents. The report says the pastors and their churches have "lucrative business" operations in the UK, Europe and Africa. It said: "A number of pastors maintain that God speaks to them and lets them know when someone is possessed ... After much debate, they acknowledged that children labelled as possessed are in danger of being beaten by their families. However, they would not accept that they played a major role in inciting such violence." The report concluded that police encountered a "wall of silence" in investigating such cases. Last month Scotland Yard disclosed that 300 black boys, aged between four and seven years of age, had vanished from London schools and only two had been traced. Detectives in the capital are investigating about 30 allegations of children being abused in magic rituals. The potential scale of the problem was exposed by the discovery in the Thames in 2001 of the torso of a four-year-old boy, dubbed Adam. Apparently the victim of a ritual killing, he had been made to eat rock, bone and pieces of gold before he died. Earlier this month Sita Kisanga, 35, of Hackney, London, was convicted for torturing an Angolan child whom she accused of being a witch. Kisanga was a member of a west African church that sanctions aggressive forms of exorcism. John Azar, an adviser to the Metropolitan Police, said that known cases could be the "tip of the iceberg". But Dr William Les Henry, a lecturer in sociology at Goldsmith's College, said that there was an element of racism to be seen in the report. He said: "The model that they're based on, they always seem to base their models on the fact that Africans are less civilised, less rational, so their whole systems of rationality are irrational." |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #10 well, we do have to respect their culture right? Oxford should be involved.... /PC |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-06-17 20:08 |
| #9 There was actually an episode of Cold Case Files ( A & E) or Forensic Files that covered the boy's torso they found in the Thames in 2001. There have been other reports but I can't seem to place exactly where. |
| Posted by: Cleretle Shavising4433 2005-06-17 18:56 |
| #8 Something sounds very urban legendish about this report. |
| Posted by: RJSchwarz 2005-06-17 18:52 |
| #7 Obviously, the "Christian Fundamentalist" phrase is out of place. Apparently, the confusion is with the Arch Bishop being the Arch Druid. Druid's were believed to have involvement with human sacrifice. Incidentally, "fundamentalist" comes from a series of materials published in the early 20th century, bound as "The Fundamentals". The books are on line here: http://www.xmission.com/~fidelis/ |
| Posted by: Calchas 2005-06-17 12:21 |
| #6 I reckon that is pretty far off the beam of believable. Show me the physical evidence. |
| Posted by: anon1 2005-06-17 11:40 |
| #5 Sounds like something I saw once on Law&Order:SVU. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2005-06-17 09:19 |
| #4 The report also highlighted concerns about church pastors identifying children as witches, who then suffer violence at the hands of their parents. Any bets on whether these "pastors" are in the CofE or Roman Catholics? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-06-17 07:47 |
| #3 I'm not surprised at all. The tranzis, in the US or Europe, all despise real Christianity, and especially the fundamentalist kind, viewing them as ignorant dolts. So, any other religion/cult that does get the multicultural seal of approval can be compared to the people of JesusLand as ignorant. And I'm also not surprised re: they always seem to base their models on the fact that Africans are less civilised, less rational, so their whole systems of rationality are irrational. Well, yeah, that's the rational thing to do. If all your evidence points a certain way (penis-shrinking polio shots, witchcraft, sex with virgins to cure AIDS, having a culture that brings Charles Taylor, Idi Amin, Robert Mugabe, and on and on into the fore), after a while you treat it as a working hypothesis. There's nothing genetically wrong with Africans, but their culture is hellishly bad, and will sabotage any attempt at making life better. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-06-17 01:50 |
| #2 duh. em royels ben dooin this for yeerz. goddam lizards peples. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2005-06-17 01:15 |
| #1 I'm rather startled at the use of the phrase "fundamentalist sects" to describe these fantastically syncretic religions. They certainly aren't fundamentalist Christian--there's too much animism mixed in, sometimes a little Islam as well, and always a lot of new "prophecy" from the leaders. Not all the syncretic groups go in for witch hunts (luckily), and the HIV sex "cure" notion is found among animists, Christians, and Muslims alike. Dr. Henry missed a good opportunity to shut up. It isn't racist to notice that a large fraction of some group of people have dangerously crazy ideas. |
| Posted by: James 2005-06-17 00:35 |