Daily Archives: May 1, 2012

What burns in #Mauritania? A partial list

26 Apr 2012: Biram Ould Abeid, president of the IRA anti-slavery organisation, set fire to several Islamic textbooks in a protest against their references to slavery. Below is the video of Aziz’ scripted little self-beatification and Biram’s book burning. If you look closely you can almost pin-point the moment when Biram commits political suicide. But how […]

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