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Susana Barrios
From:Lali Accad-Elisha <shareno33@gmail.com>
Sent:Tuesday, July 16,
To:Ashleigh Aitken; Anthony Luna; Carlos A. Leon; Dixie Samaniego; Magnolia Moreno;
Public Comment
Cc:David_montes@padilla.senate.gov; marvin_figueroa@butler.senate.gov;
rob.bonta@doj.ca.gov; snewsomjennifer@therepresentationproject.org
Subject:\[EXTERNAL\] Resolution to end jihad murder and slavery in Africa
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Honorable Mayor Aitken and Members of the Anaheim City Council,
We have heard that as a local city council, you have been debating about an international resolution
regarding the Gazan war.
It is worrisome when a city council well suited for city leadership is pushed by constituents to delve into
international affairs without proper training and information.
Moreover, the resolution you are currently considering is flawed in both fact and intent, which you have
become aware of through the thousands of comments you have received.
We do not think city councils should be addressing international issues. However, if you insist on doing
this, we ask you to instead adopt a resolution based on indisputable fact and evidence such as the
resolution below. It tells the truth about the horrors of Jihadi terrorism on the African people. This type of
terrorism has also been inflicted against Israelis since Israel’s inception and most horrifically on October
7th. If you insist on being outspoken about an international story, this is the story that must be told.
Please read below.
Thank you,
Dr. Michal Accad-Elisha, MD., MsG.
Resolution for Ending Jihad Murder and Slavery in Africa
WHEREAS, all human life is precious, and all people worldwide are worthy of safety, dignity, and
freedom, the ongoing enslavement of Africans by Muslim jihadists is a violation of international
humanitarian law; and
WHEREAS, the City of Anaheim recognizes that black Africans have been enslaved and murdered by
jihadists for 14 centuries; the fact that this crime against humanity still exists in this century illustrates
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the hypocrisy of the U.N. and Western nations; and
WHEREAS, the City of Anaheim recognizes that the Arab slave trade exported around 25 million slaves
from both coasts of Africa between the seventh and nineteenth centuries;
WHEREAS, the City of Anaheim recognizes that slavery directed against black Africans is an abomination
that still exists today across northern Africa and the Middle East that can no longer be tolerated; and
WHEREAS, according to the Global Slavery Index, 84,000 Africans are held as slaves in Algeria, 47,000 in
Libya, and 149,000 in Mauritania; and, according to Christian Solidarity International, perhaps 35,000
Africans remain enslaved in Sudan nearly two decades after the end of a self-declared jihad which
caused the south to secede and constitute itself, since 2011, as the world’s newest nation – South
Sudan; and
WHEREAS, Arab militias equipped and legitimized by the government of Arab Sudan continue to terrorize
un-Arabized black Muslims in western Sudan, particularly the Darfur province, massacring the men,
carrying off the women as chattel slaves, and resettling Arab Muslim nomads on their ethnically
cleansed ancestral lands, as they have done intermittently since 1995; and
WHEREAS, according to research in 2020 by the office of Tolulope Akande-Sadipe, member of the
Nigerian House of Representatives for Oyo State and Chair of the House Committee on Diaspora Affairs,
perhaps 80,000 women from Nigeria alone have been trafficked as sex slaves across Lebanon, Mali,
Oman, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates; and
WHEREAS, the Islamic terrorist organization Boko Haram along with Fulani Muslim death squads in
northern Nigeria have murdered more than 50,000 Christians since 2009 and have enslaved perhaps
4,000 Christian children and teenagers, particularly young girls, for the purpose of sexual bondage; and
WHEREAS, due to the difficulty in obtaining accurate, in-depth information, as well as the mainstream
media and human rights groups’ typical disinterest in these atrocities, it is highly likely that much of the
jihad massacres and slave-taking exists in other regions beset by jihadists across North Africa;
BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Anaheim stands in solidarity with the victims of jihad slavery and
slaughter including the people of South Sudan, Darfur and Nigeria who have endured murder, oppression
and enslavement by jihadists.
BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Anaheim stands in humanitarian solidarity with all people enslaved and
demands their immediate liberation by all means possible.
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Organizations who sponsor this resolution:
American Anti-Slavery Group
American Veterans of Igbo Descent
Damanga Coalition for Freedom and Democracy (Darfur)
Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel (IBSI)
International Committee on Nigeria (ICON)
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Jewish Leadership Project
LEAH Foundation
Simon Deng, former jihad slave from South Sudan
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