Muhammad Owned Slaves! (note to BLM arsonists)

The Prophet Muhammad owned slaves! In our culturally-sensitive times, shouldn't organizations like BLM be picketing mosques? Shouldn't they demand statues and buildings named for the Prophet Muhammad be removed or renamed?

"The Prophet Muhammad did not try to abolish slavery, and bought, sold, captured, and owned slaves himself. But he insisted that slave owners treat their slaves well and stressed the virtue of freeing slaves."

"writers argue that by regulating slavery the Prophet gave his authority to its continued existence, and that by having slaves himself he showed his approval."

In fact, it was those "white devils" who gradually persuaded the Moslems to stop slave trading:

"The Arab slave trade was most active in West Asia, North Africa, and Southeast Africa. Muslim traders exported as many as 17 million slaves to the coast of the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and North Africa.[12] In the early 20th century (post World War I), slavery was gradually outlawed and suppressed in Muslim lands, largely due to pressure exerted by Western nations such as Britain and France."

So let them explain why they aren't protesting at mosques and Islamic centers and watch their heads explode.

Because there were buyers in North and South America.

There were slave buyers all over the world. England outlawed the slave trade in 1807 in England and throughout the colonies, but slavery wasn't outlawed until 1833. Most European countries outlawed slavery in the early to mid 1800s.

In Africa and some Arab and Muslim countries, the slave trade continues to this day.

Mark

Yup, the USA was later in outlawing slavery than European countries. The reason can be attributed to different political systems. And unlike in Europe, it was far more contentious in the USA, and partly due to slavery, a Civil War was fought, something that did not occur in Eurpoe.

But your statement made it appear (and is apparently being taught in American public schools,) that slavery ONLY existed in the Americas. As with your statement where you ONLY mentioned slavery in the Americas, public schools do the same thing, without any context, such as mentioning that slavery has been going on around the world for nearly all of human history. That omission fosters the assumption that ONLY America participated in slavery, which is something that the “educators” are more than happy to allow.

Mark

America is the only place that I care about. Whether slavery existed in Brazil, or Canada or Saudi Arabia is an interesting fact. We have had no control over Brazil, Canada or Saudi Arabia. We were the masters of our destiny. That destiny included hereditary chattel slavery. We made the choice to permit slavery.
Most people that recite the long list of where slavery was practiced sound as if they are saying, well it was legal there so it was not so bad that it was legal here. Almost like they were trying to find an excuse of slavery.

BLM wont picket them and lots of prisoners are converting to Islam in prison, especially the more violent kind which has an anti-Whitey tone to it.

And they can’t criticise Islam or they will be considered apostates or infedels and be subject to beheading.

Life’s a bitch and then you die.

We have had no control over Brazil, Canada or Saudi Arabia. We were the masters of our destiny. That destiny included hereditary chattel slavery. We made the choice to permit slavery.

Unless you are several hundred years old, YOU had no control over what happened during the 18th century. Nor do any of us. I refuse to subscribe to the concept of inherited guilt. All we can do is work to ensure that the evil does not happen here again.

And I DO care that slavery currently exists in Africa, and I have tried to help end it, in my small ways. Between letters to politicians and donations over the years to groups like CSI, I do what I can. While the UN opposes the practice of purchasing individual human beings out of slavery, I will admit I am a subscriber the the quote, "He who saves one life has saved the world." I have no doubt that what I've done will not end the practice of slavery. The only way that will happen is when the people involved are convinced that it's no longer profitable for them. Or come to realize that they're participating in evil activities.

My point is that American school children are taught that slavery is an American invention (and I used the word "is" purposely,) When this is taught to children, the left is manipulating them with lies to hate America. And this lie is being further perpetuated when a congresscritter from VA, Tim Kaine, actually said on the floor of the House, “The United States didn’t inherit slavery from anybody. We created it,” THAT is why it's important that we make sure that the truth is known.

Mark

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