The Muslim equivalent of the Biblical defense used by the white and black slaveowner assholes arguing for slavery before the Civil War.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!
THERE IT IS FOLKS !!!
There it is indeed. I gave him a "Winner".
And here it is in slightly more detail:
>> The Bible identifies different categories of slaves including female Hebrew slaves, male Hebrew slaves, non-Hebrew and hereditary slaves. These were subject to different regulations.
Female Hebrews could be sold by their fathers and enslaved for life (Exodus 21:7-11), but there were some limits to this.
Male Hebrews could sell themselves into slavery for a six year period to eliminate their debts, after this period they might go free. However, if the male slave had been given a wife and had children with her, they would remain his master's property. They could only stay with their family by becoming permanent slaves (Exodus 21:2-5). Evangelical Christians, especially those who subscribe to
Biblical inerrancy, will commonly emphasize this
debt bondage and try to minimize the other forms of race-based chattel slavery when attempting to excuse the Bible for endorsing slavery.[
citation needed]
Non-Hebrews, on the other hand, could (according to Leviticus 25:44) be subjected to slavery in exactly the way that it is usually understood. The slaves could be bought, sold and inherited when their owner died. This, by any standard, is race- or ethnicity-based, and Leviticus 25:44-46 explicitly allows slaves to be bought from foreign nations or foreigners living in Israel. It does say that simply kidnapping Hebrews to enslave them is a crime punishable by death (Deuteronomy 24:7), but no such prohibition exists regarding foreigners. War captives could be made slaves, assuming they had refused to make peace (this applied to women and children-men were simply killed), along with the seizure of all their property (Deuteronomy 20:10-15).
Hereditary slaves were born into slavery and there is no apparent way by which they could obtain their freedom.
So the Bible endorses various types of slavery, see below - though Biblical literalists only want to talk about one version and claim that it wasn't really so bad. <<
These are explored in still more detail at the link:
Rational Wiki
The moral: if you're gonna hang your hat on religion as a basis for behaviour, then be consistent with it.
Also known as "you can't have it both ways".
The fact is that we can easily find Asians, Europeans, Americans, and others who have been accused of similar charges in America. If you are willing as you and the rest of the other far right reactionary fascist filthy **** ups to keep talking about the KKK from the 1860s, we can easily go with slave owners in America citing the Bible for justification of the evil doctrine and practice of it.
