GUESS WHO OWNS SLAVES

We live in a day when anything associated with the Confederacy is under attack.  I have ancestors who were Union soldiers and were held as prisoners of war.   So, I have little emotional attachment to the Confederacy.  But, the attacks have broadened out to include more than Confederate officers.  People are pointing fingers at George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Christopher Columbus, and Woodrow Wilson.  The thread that binds all these folks together seems to be their involvement with slavery and attitudes toward minorities.

Having studied the debates about slavery held in the 1800’s, I am amazed at some gaping holes in the finger pointing.  For example, the arguments for slavery were repeated in the 1960’s and 70’s by those supporting legalized abortion.  That’s no surprise because the woman, Margaret Sanger, who led the fight was an open eugenicist who had advocated for years for the proliferation of the “superior” races and the extermination of the “inferior” races.  Eugenics is the most radical racism on earth and it was the foundation of legalized abortion.  Civil rights leaders at the time screamed that legalized abortion was genocide.  Yet, I haven’t seen any fingers pointing at statues of Margaret Sanger or at abortion clinics.

Also, nobody has mentioned one of the most famous slave holders of all time…Muhammed.  He traded and owned slaves most of his adult life.  We’re not talking a few slaves, but many slaves and a goodly number of them were black.  The result of his slave dealings has been a marriage between Islam and slavery that has prospered until the present and will never go away.  It can’t.  It’s an intrinsic part of Islam sanctioned by Muhammed.  As Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan, a member of the Senior Council of Clerics, Saudi Arabia’s highest religious body, proclaimed in 2003, “Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long as there is Islam.”

Winston Churchill, who served as a soldier and correspondent in what is now Pakistan and in the Sudan, observed that the extinction of slavery will never occur until Islam has ceased (The River War, vol. 2)

Slavery persists throughout Islamic history as a part of Muhammed’s legacy.  Lovejoy and Hogendorn write in “Slavery Marketing in West Africa”, “Tropical Africa was the principal area for procuring the Caliphates’ slaves.  Muslims dominated that continent’s slave trade, including in West Africa where Muslims sold slaves to Europeans who shipped them to the Americas.”

Black American author, Thomas Sowell reveals in “Conquests and Cultures” that of the millions of slaves shipped across the Atlantic, most were purchased from Arab raiders in West Africa.  He goes on to share, “Although the Islamic countries of the Middle East and North Africa imported more slaves from sub-Saharan Africa than did the European off shoot nations of the West, there are in those Muslim countries today no such large groups of black African descent as the 60 million currently living in the West.”  He explains, “What is known, is that there was an extremely low reproduction rate among the Africans enslaved in Muslim countries.”  Why?  Because hundreds of thousands of African males were castrated in a gruesome procedure that killed 90% of those subjected to it.

The cruel fate of many blacks in the Caliphate was connected to the inveterate racism that has always run deep in Islamic societies.  For example, Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) from Tunis, widely considered the greatest Islamic scholar of all time, wrote that, “the Negro nations are, as a rule, submissive to slavery because they are similar to dumb animals.”

Slavery still persists across the Islamic world, especially in the former French colonies of Islamic West Africa.  Mauritania officially abolished slavery in 1981, but it still exists there. In Chad, children abducted by Islamic raiders are forced to abandon their native language and Christian faith for Arabic and Islam.  In Niger, it is estimated that 8% of the population is in slavery. 

Slavery has always existed in Islamic societies and continues today.  Islam cannot outlaw slavery because the Quran allows the faithful to enslave their enemies. (Quran 33:50) Moreover, the Quran condones sex slavery by granting men sexual access to “what their right hands possess” (female captives) and to “the slave girls who Allah has given you as booty” (Quran 23:5-6, 33:50, 70:29-30).

Islamic apologists will claim that their slaves are treated better than slaves were in the West.  That’s because 2/3 of Islamic slaves were/are females, many of whom are sex slaves who were/are cared for by castrated males (eunuchs).  So, the apologists are correct in you believe rape and castration are more humane than forced labor.  They also claim Allah will reward those who free their slaves. (Quran 2:177, 24:33).  Here is how that works:  When the sex slave is too old to satisfy her owner, she is released to fend for herself in the streets.  So, the owner is twice blessed.  He gets rid of a worn out dependent and gets praise from Allah also.  You can’t beat that deal.

Conclusion:  If BLM and Antifa and their allies are going to attack the Confederacy and fascists for being racists, they need to target abortion clinics and the marriage of Islam and slavery in order to be consistent.