I'm just noting the history of Islam, Nutz. That is why the word Abed is for both slave and black man. No difference in their world back then. In fact, if a Muslim girl dated a black guy or married him - that put her in great danger. It was highly offensive to the parents of Muslim children for their daughter to date a black man. Mohammad used to call black people raisin heads. Did you not know the history of this? It's true.
It was the same with whites and blacks! What is your point...you are trying to say all blacks are wannabe muslims...the hell with you for that nonsense propaganda.
Your knowledge of history is nothing more than a narrative that you have been fed to propagate stereotype and hate.
That is not true. I am not saying that all black people want to be Muslims - only that black people who have converted to Islam obviously do not know the history of how their own people have been treated by Muslims for many centuries. Beginning with Mohammad. I do my own research and can assure you I am neither attempting to propagate stereotypes or hatred. I'm merely stating the facts. If any black Muslim knew the truth of the history of how his or her people had been treated by Islam and its founder they would have absolutely nothing do with it. (If they had any regard for their ancestors and people whatsoever) Slavery continues in the Arab Muslim world today. It is what it is.
Youre totally wrong. Islam didnt enslave Black people. Arabs did. Just like supposed Christians did.
Oh yeah, and none of those Arabs were Muslim, huh. No one is immune from sin. Deal with the problem Instead of deflecting.
All Muslims are not Arabs. I agree no one is immune from sin. I just disagree with the claim that Muslims have treated Blacks any worse than say Christians.
I never said they were. I said the beginning of Islam - started with Mohammad and his Arab family and others converting in Mecca, etc. It began with Arab people. From there people everywhere were converted by the sword. Who told you that the Arab Muslim slavers were not Muslim? Yes, they were. They are still enslaving people to this very day, Asceplias.
Read this, Asceplias. I will post a clip from it here -
TheReligionofPeace - Strange Brew Islam and Black Pride
Slavery.
The awful truth is that Arabs ravaged Africa for almost a thousand years before Europeans ever began to export black slaves. In fact, it was the foundation of slave procurement and trading established by the Muslims (usually through Jihad) that enabled the European practice.
Far more Africans were swallowed up in the fourteen hundred years of Islamic slave trading than in the three centuries of European practice. An estimated 17 to 20 million Africans were exported from their native land to the Muslim world, but this isn't the whole story. With a transport survival rate of less than 1 in 3, Dr. John Alembellah Azumah estimates that perhaps 50 to 80 million more died in route.
Here is a quote from an observer in Zanzibar that sheds light on the harsh conditions of Islamic slavery:
"As they filed past, we noticed many chained together by the neck... The women, who were as numerous as the men, carried babies on their backs in addition to a tusk of ivory or other burden on their heads... It is difficult to adequately describe the filthy state of their bodies; in many instances not only scarred by [the whip], but feet and shoulders were a mass of open sores... half-starved ill-treated creatures who, weary and friendless must have longed for death."
The text (quoted from Dr. Azumah's
The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa) goes on to describe the fate of those who became too ill or too weak to continue the journey - as related by a Muslim "herdsman":
"Spear them at once! For, if we did not, others would pretend they are ill in order to avoid carrying their loads. No! We never leave them alive on the road; they all know this custom."
When asked who carries the ivory when a mother gets too tired to carry both her baby and the ivory, the herdsman replied,
"She does! We cannot leave valuable ivory on the road. We spear the child and make her burden lighter."
After Muhammad's companions overthrew the Christians in Egypt shortly after his death, they began demanding slaves from the Nubians to the south. For over 600 years, the black African kingdom was forced to send a tribute of slaves to Cairo on a regular basis.
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The slavery trade run by the Arabs on the continent of Africa have always been Muslim, Asceplias. I am sorry to break this news to you - but you need to know the truth. I do not want you to believe the lie that the Arabs that enslaved the black men and women of Africa were non - Muslim. They were Muslims and they are still Muslims today over there enslaving black men, women and children. Horrific but true. Another horrific truth. If you count the 300 missing black people due to 600 years of Arab slavers castrating black slaves continually and the 80 million put to death by Islam during early slavery and then factor in the millions who have since been killed - it is quite likely that Islam is responsible for the deaths /murder / and prevention of birth of more than 1/2 billion Black people. How horrific is that? Do you think any black person would remain a Muslim if they knew the true roots of Islam concerning their ancestors? NOT A CHANCE.
