[2banana]

Alot of American blacks think that islam is their lost “mother” religion when, in fact, arabs have made more slaves out of black than the west ever did through out history AND this slavery still goes on to this DAY (where the west pretty much banned it by 1865)...

[Calpernia]

ping

[Biggirl]

Yet the Arabs for some reason have no problem accepting a certain Sen. Barak Obama during his recent tour of the ME and Europe.

[Jeff Chandler]

"negritude"

Is that anything like "caucatude"?

[denydenydeny]

Bookmarked.

[forkinsocket]

Middle Easterners have no sense of political correctness. If someone thinks that dark skin is unattractive or if someone dislikes blacks, they have no problem expressing themselves. That said, it’s not hard to see Saudi, Yemeni, Omani, & Gulf Arabs who clearly have black African blood from some ancestor. The least black Arabs are from Sham.

In Arabia, there are two channels devoted to marriage advertisements 24/7. One of the most common criteria that men wanted in a wife was light skin (most common criteria was to be tribal). For women looking for a husband, it was money.

[browardchad]

An excellent video on this subject:

The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade

[slowhandluke]

Historically, the lack of a modern institutionalised slavery system in the Arab world ...

I would think that a 'slave market' would meet the definition of an 'institution', and they were around in modern times.

Somehow, the fact that Arabs weren't picky about who they enslaved doesn't make it better in my eyes. Especially since they didn't stop, just stopped talking about it.

[CHEE]

word ‘abd - Arabic for “slave”
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I was introduced to this while in Saudi Arabia in the early 80’s, I lived in Iran in the mid 70’s and did not notice any major racial problems. Religion and big noses (from an area near the Caspian sea) were problems. I admit that I obtained near zero proficiency in Arabic or Farsi (check out what the farsi word "kos" means.

[Cacique]

btt

[Sister_T]

Interesting.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I was wondering how for example we would see a busload of women all bagged up and could tell how they were slaves like the Saudis could. Could have been a school trip or the girls from a large family. Finding the difference was simple after a Saudi explained it to me. The slave girls all weren't wearing shoes. If you're ever in the Middle East and see a group of women being moved somewhere look for that. Most of the slaves are from Sudan. The Saudis sure don't advertise it.

Never thought I would see an article on this, something I've known for years. I can confirm firsthand the treatment of Arabs with African features. No matter how rich, smart, or devout Muslim they are, the darker their skin the more they're treated like second class citizens by lighter skinned Arabs.