I have NEVER said we are against slaves!, and l wish society would permit it, in an ethical way i.e. as a byproduct of war, not as a commercial venture unto itself.
However, the portrayal of Muslims by Islamophobic writers is that we made slave raids for ooooh l dunno, 1,300 years as you stated. That’s simply not true. It is baseless. I’m aware there are more authors saying this, and parroting other authors that have said it, more authors that l could shake a stick at.
However, l see no evidence of Muslims making slave raids i.e. a venture where slavery is its own end, and end unto itself. Show me this please?
CLEAR OBSERVATION: Also: if it were so, then why aren’t there slave communities as you see in the civilisations that DID have slavery as a commercial venture, which is to say: slavery on a MAAAASSSIVE SCALE? e.g. all the countries of Western Europen, the USA, and South America. In all these places, you actually see massive communities of slave descendants. That simply does NOT exist in the Islamic world my friend.
CLEAR OBSERVATION: Also, as l pointed out: The slaves that were taken to Brazil would have been taken within living memory of the time the Arabs enslaved them and forced them to convert to Islam. So, why is it then, that in Brazil, they made one final effort at freedom via an ISLAMIC slave revolt in 1835 in Brazil? Stockholm syndrome is it?
I’m sorrry but it is simply a fact that some people freely chose Islam, they converted to Islam because they liked it.
Also, when Arabs were in Africa, they traded fair and square. They didn’t exploit.
CLEAR OBSERVATION: Also, “Arab” is a linquisitic definition in Islam, the Prophet told us that from now on, ANYBODY that speaks Arabic is an Arab and thus local communities of new Muslims in Africa began calling themselves Arabs. The revisionist provocateurs that came later, made up tales that these Arab / Swahili speakers were in fact the result of rape of black women by Muslim men etc. and that all Muslims are exploiting them. No irony that the same revisionists had been enslaving Africa just decades prior.
CLEAR OBSERVATION: Also don’t forget: the Qur’an and Hadith prophecies clearly condemn the taking of slaves as an end unto itself, and the European pirates (?) that did that, e.g. those who carried whips like the tail of an Ox, which is the Cat O’ Nine Tails, which did NOT exist at the time, as is evident from the hadith. It only came about over 1,000 years later in association with the British navy and propably other European naval forces. The bearers of these cruel whips were said to be Cursef by Allah. How can you associate that scale of slavery and that type of slavery - as an economic venture by itself - with Islam?
CONCLUSION:
The authors you cite, and all who are contingent upstream and downstream of them, are lying to smear Islam and the lies began curiously just as the Zionist movement was starting up in the late 1800s.
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