But, one may interject, isn't all this just a relic of the past? Hasn't Islam, now in modern times, rejected slavery as a barbaric remnant from a more primitive era?

To answer, please read this full caption at Flickr for the photo above:

Many of the rally's participants were amazed to learn that slavery was legal in Saudi Arabia until 1962. Within a decade of America's Civil War, the Ottomans had banned slavery and dhimmitude throughout the Empire. Just as in the U.S. it was the South, i.e. Arabia, which rose up and fought a civil war against Istanbul, in the same way that the American south went to war against Abraham Lincoln's government. Tragically, in the Ottoman civil war, the southern slavers (ARABS) won. The Ottoman Empire dropped its demands for emancipation in Arabia. Yes, the slave masters won the right to hold slaves, and that right was only abolished in Saudi Arabia in 1962. Sudan's Arab colonizers have never given up their right to hold and traffic in slaves.

OK,OK, you say, just one country [70% Sunni] that happens to be run by Muslims is still dabbling in the slave trade, so what, that doesn't prove anything.

It isn't one country, from WIKI [stats in brackets are mine]:

• In Mauritania [100% Muslim] alone it is estimated that up to 600,000 men, women and children, or 20% of the population, are enslaved, many of them used as bonded labour.


• In Niger [80% Muslim], slavery is also a current phenomenon; a Nigerien study has found that more than 800,000 people are still slaves, almost 8% of the population.


• In Chad [53% Muslim], the UN reports children being sold to Arab herdsmen in Chad. As part of a new identity imposed on them the herdsman "...change their name, forbid them to speak in their native dialect, ban them from conversing with people from their own ethnic group and make them adopt Islam as their religion."


• In Nigeria [50% Muslim] , ... children are kidnapped or purchased for $20 - $70 each by slavers in poorer states, such as Benin and Togo, and sold into slavery in sex dens or as unpaid domestic servants for $350.00 each.


• In Mali [90% Muslim], The Malian government denies that slavery exists, however, the slavery in Timbuktu is obvious. Slavery (sometimes called indentured servitude) still continues with some Tuaregs holding Bella people. [for those of you who are not familiar with Tauregs - they take their Islam in the most primitive and brutal version possible]

So go ahead, Muslim teachers and educators, refurbish your past history, remove references to the holocaust and the great contributions of Jews throughout the centuries. Keep dwelling on the glorious past when your sword ruled over most of the world; but don't pretend that Islam is a religion like Christianity or Judaism. We see it for the terror-political system it really is. That is why slavery still exists in Islamic countries: Islam cannot accept change. What is really amusing is that blacks think that there is no racism in Islam.

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The End of Islam

... the claim that "there is no racism in Islam, we are all one…" is a blatant lie. From the very inception of Islam, and for its entire history, Muslims have made up the largest numbers of slave traders and engaged in the greatest slave trading campaigns in history. Even today, slavery continues in many parts of the Muslim world. Just about the only places in the world today where you will still find slavery practised are in the Muslim world.

Islam's present day barbarism is well documented, one merely has to google or look up Islamic Slavery in Amazon.

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