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This story makes no mention of Islam, but it is Islam that enables this practice to continue: the Qur’an takes slavery for granted, and there has never been an anti-slavery movement in the Islamic world.
Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database documents the slave trade from Africa to the New World between the 16th and 19th centuries.
This BBC report, not surprisingly, makes no mention of the Islamic sanction for slavery that allows this practice to continue relatively unhindered.
Koran 4:3: “Marry such women as seem good to you, two and three and four; but if you fear that you will not do justice, then only one, or what your right hands possess [captive women taken in war].”
Jihad Watch: Raymond Ibrahim: Are slave-girls in Islam equivalent to animals?
This is an issue I feel I have to address for many reasons. [...] With the issue of Slavery Christians are often put in a corner because they are trying to defend God and at the same time the bible nowhere directly attacks slavery. The bible does not condemn slavery. So Christians try to act like Job’s friends and try to defend God in a rather foolish way by condemning slavery, as if God forgot to do it Himself in the bible. I think this is a very unwise thing for a Christian to do because if slavery was wrong, God would have said so himself. But He doesn’t say its wrong. [...] So many Christians find it hard to deal with this book and they cant understand why Paul never condemns slavery. I understand that there is so much evil in slavery, when masters abuse their slaves. That is wrong. The bible condemns treating others in an evil way. So this is not the issue. But slavery in itself is not wrong. Just as husbands can abuse wives, does it mean marriage is evil? Or parents can abuse their children, does it mean parenting is wrong? Because masters can be evil to their slaves, it doesn’t mean that slavery is wrong. Just as wives are to be submissive to their husbands, likewise slaves are to be submissive to their masters.
[Article continues at link. Jean is, of course, entirely correct. The Bible contains rules for how to treat slaves, and rules for how to act if you are a slave, and a few instances of specific slaves being set free, but nowhere does the Bible condemn slavery. Christianity has never stopped advocating slavery on paper, rather that advocating slavery isn't discussed out loud in polite company these days. But here is one proud Black woman with the courage to speak the truth about her religion. - Trevor Blake]
When the wreck was first discovered in 2004 it was named the Black Rock ship because the researchers were unsure of its identity. They have since become convinced by the timing and design of the vessel that it is the Trouvadore. [LOST]
Witchcraft rituals also fuel baby traffickingv [YAY MAGIQKKK!]
As unimaginable as it seems, slavery and bondage still persist in the early 21st century.
Feast of Our Lady of Ransom celebrates freedom of Christians formerly Muslim slaves. Today, no mention of Islamic slave ownership and Musilms part of feast. It’s all made-up BS with no history, see?
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » The Spaniards and the Moors–Past and Present
This article begins by establishing that Imam Ashafa is an authority on his religion and a recognized representative of his religion…
Mohammad Nureen Ashafa is the Imam of Ashafa Central Mosque, Tudun Wada, Kaduna; Vice President, Ashafa Mosque Foundation, as well as the Co-Executive Director of Interfaith Mediation Centre of Muslim-Christian Dialogue Forum, also in Kaduna. He spoke to some media organisations on the implications of the death sentence [fatwa] passed on octogenarian Islamic preacher, Mohammed Bello Abubakar, by the Jama’tu Nasril Islam [JNI], for marrying 86 wives contrary to Islamic injunctions.
This article includes words about women that will sound pleasing to the Western ear…
Islam took into consideration certain needs, social and emotional, sexual urge, all these are part of the things a woman needs in marriage. It is injustice if you do not provide these adequately for the woman. [...] So, how do you share 86 wives in a year? It means that you cannot meet some of the women more than once in a week. In fact, it may not even be possible because we have 52 weeks in a year. So, if you see one every week, the others have to wait till the next year to take their turns. What is the legitimacy? There is no legitimacy for that in Islam. It is an abuse on the rights and dignity of these women. It is an abuse on the sanctity of woman-hood. It is an abuse to marry 86 wives in the name of Islam. [...] Women have rights, they have dignity and honour. Islam respects the dignity of women. A woman needs emotional satisfaction. That affection is part of the rudiments of marriage. How does the man with 86 wives satisfy the sexual and emotional needs of these women?
… with all that being said a reader might accidentally gloss over the sections where Imam Ashafa condones having women as sexual slaves and stock animals…
There is room for concubine in Islam. And that is why you see some royal fathers have four wives and they have concubines. The history of concubine has to do with slavery, if you had women who are in your possession as slaves. This is because in those days, people bought slaves. It may no longer be fashionable in modern times but the law is still there. If you have women as slaves, they can have children for you but you have to protect them, and give them the same honour you give your wives, though they are not legitimate wives. [...] He can do that in the name of culture because there is no restriction on the number of women a man can marry, in most of the traditions.
… thus one is left to wonder what Imam Ashafa is talking about, what is it that Islam is really saying about women and slavery. Perhaps we should turn to the Holy Quran for answers. Answers like “All married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess” or you don’t have to be modest around your wives or your slave girls “that your right hand possess.” If we go by what the Holy Quran says, if we go by what today’s representatives of Islam say, then using women for sexual slavery and breeding stock is an acceptable practice in the 21st Century just as it was centuries ago. And then there’s the question of putting someone to death because hundreds of years ago a mass murderer and a bandit said that an invisible monster that lives in the sky told us we had to.
What do you say? – Trevor Blake
The truth will be infinitely worse than you can imagine. [This former social worker confirms]
On July 3rd, I joined about 200 others in downtown Philadelphia to honor in particular the 9 slaves transported to Philadelphia by George Washington
Thus Spake Zuska : Celebrating Black Independence Day, Honoring the Divine Nine
Seventeen women have been taken by police from a luxury hotel in Brussels amid allegations that they had been enslaved by an Arab royal family.
Street kids call the magazine sales firm “The Cult”, as in once you start working for the company it’s hard to get out. [This former social worker confirms the existence of this organization. - Trevor]
Teen claims she was held captive by a door-to-door sales company
Most of the boys — 90 percent, the study found — are sent out to beg under the cover of Islam, placing the problem at the complicated intersection of greed and tradition.
AP IMPACT: Islamic schools lure African boys into begging – Yahoo! News
African slavery is so much the outstanding feature of the South, in the unthinking view of it, that people often forget there had been slaves in all the old colonies.
President Abraham Lincoln suggested buying slaves for $400 apiece under a “gradual emancipation” plan that would bring peace at less cost than several months of hostilities.
University shares its Lincoln letters online – Education- msnbc.com
Welcome to The Civil War, the WEB’s most extensive source of original Civil War resources.
The “Qatif girl” won a reprieve last week. On Dec. 17, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah pardoned the young woman, who was sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in prison after she pressed charges against seven men who had raped her and a male acquaintance in 2006. Two weeks earlier, Sudan’s president extended a similar reprieve to Gillian Gibbons, the British teacher convicted of insulting Islam because her 7-year-old students named a teddy bear Muhammad. Gibbons had been sentenced to prison, but government-organized street demonstrators were loudly demanding her execution. [...]
No international furor saved Aqsa Parvez, a Toronto teenager, whose father was charged on Dec. 11 with strangling her to death because she refused to wear a hijab. “She just wanted to look like everyone else,” one of Aqsa’s friends told the National Post, “and I guess her dad had a problem with that.” No reprieve came for Banaz Mahmod, either. She was 20, a Kurdish immigrant to Britain, whose father and uncle had her killed last year after she left an abusive arranged marriage and fell in love with a man not from the family’s village in Kurdistan. Banaz was choked to death with a bootlace, stuffed into a suitcase, and buried in a garden 70 miles away. More than 25 such “honor killings” have been confirmed in Britain’s Muslim community in recent years. Many more are suspected. [...]
By Western standards, the subjugation of women by Muslim fanatics, and the sometimes pathological Islamist obsession with female sexuality, are unthinkable. Time and again they lead to shocking acts of violence and depravity: [...] In San Francisco, a young Muslim woman was shot dead after she uncovered her hair and put on makeup in order to be a maid of honor at a friend’s wedding. [...]
All these are only examples – the tip of a dreadful iceberg that will never be demolished until Muslims by the millions rise up against it. As for the rest of us, we too have an obligation to raise our voices. It took a worldwide outcry to spare “Qatif girl” and Nazanin. But there are countless others like them, and our silence may seal their fate.
[Article continues at link. The West is largely a Christian culture, but a secular Christian culture. Christianity is still tied to the Bible and all its support for slavery, all its oppression of women, all its scientific nonsense. But secular Christianity can simply ignore these cruel and foolish practices, picking out the good stuff from the Bible and getting on with things. The Muslim world has so far rejected the secular and has no intention of getting rid of its support for slavery, all its oppression of women, all its scientific nonsense. I hope the Muslim world can get its act together, keep the good stuff and join the rest of us in the 21st Century (even joining the 19th would be an improvement), but there isn't much the West can peacefully do to make that happen. But we can do something about honor killings in the West. Prosecute the murderers and their murderous support system. Use the same techniques that were successful against the Ku Klux Klan and the Mafia - crushing taxation, relentless arrests and incarceration, and inescapable social opprobrium. No honor for honor killers, not one second of respect for their sacred traditions and ancient culture. - Trevor Blake]
