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But Muslims have been all about slavery for centuries, its a way of life and religion to them.

Speaking of which, I know a Muslim landlord and his wife in Chicago who asked an African widow four months after she signed a lease to move out so they could dig up the floor in her basement apartment. They said it would take 2 days or 2 weeks, depending on what they found. They said that since they weren't sure whether they'd rehab the apartment for rent or just keep it for storage, they wanted her to move out as soon as possible so they could use the Mexican workers they had renovating apartments on the second and third floor to do the basement. The wife kept calling and calling, asking when the mom was going to move out and saying that it had to be soon. During this time there were two occasions when the gas furnace went out. The first time it took about 3 weeks before someone finally came in to get it started. The second time no one ever did come in, so the mom was using electric space heaters. When the family first moved in, we saw rats and notified the landlord who sent someone over to patch up a few holes in the baseboards but did nothing more. Sometime later in the middle of the night a rat bit the one-year-old's hand, necessitating a visit to the emergency room. After months of looking for another apartment she could afford, the mom finally found one. When she was moving the stuff out, the wife of the landlord came over and asked her, "Oh, are you moving out?" and then told her that she would have to come back over and check for damages that the mom would have to pay for. The ridiculous thing is that the place was in very bad repair before they ever moved in, unoccupied for 8 months, and was, essentially, whitewashed for them just before they moved in. Loyola University students apparently had been the tenants before. Bathroom cabinetry was already rotting out but just painted over. If they rehab the place like they did for the other apartments (for which they're charging $1400/month rent), they'll tear out all the very same crap they're trying to charge the mother for (I know because I saw it in the trash as it was pulled out). Bottom line: the landlord wanted to break the lease early for his own benefit and wants to make her pay for it.