[SeekAndFind]

An article that's 10 years old but relevant today as we discuss reparations.

[17th Miss Regt]

So I should be expecting a repations check from the Arabs?

[Telepathic Intruder]

It’s ironic that some blacks in America who resent past slavery convert to Islam when it’s the Muslims who sold blacks into slavery in the first place, and the Christians helped to free them.

[longtermmemmory]

consider the Ottoman empire.

subjects were considered slaves. not allowed to learn to read, or practice their faith.

[mojito]

Mr. Saudi: Where is my check? I am a victim! I am aggrieved!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Google sack of baltimore ireland.

http://www.baltimore.ie/heritage-history/the-sack-of-baltimore-1631.html

[mikrofon]

It appears some Muslim traders were equal-ethnicity enslavers ....

[Little Bill]

I have seen numbers of up 2.4 million.

[Inyo-Mono]

Bookmarked.

[Mr. K]

WHERE’S MY REPARATIONS!!??

[2banana]

Whole towns in IRELAND were taken as slaves by the muslims. That is how bad it was...

[JRandomFreeper]

Slavery continues to this day in Africa and Arab countries.

/johnny

[Lorianne]

And of course Roman society was dependent on slavery (of other Europeans they conquered)

It really irks me that people do not include the historical long view of slavery and assume it was just a N. American invention.

[dadfly]

bookmark

[Vince Ferrer]

The Trinitarians are a Catholic order of monks that was formed to raise money to ransom European slaves. When they ran out of money, they sometimes would switch places with a slave.

[Sherman Logan]

There was also a huge slave trade in eastern Europe, with the Balkans, Ukraine and Russia regularly raided for a thousand years by Norse, Germans, Bulgars, Greeks, Tatars and Turks.

http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2013/09/from-slavs-to-slaves.html

This massive trade resulted in the word variants of the word “Slav” being imported into almost every modern European language to mean a person held in chattel bondage.

One big difference between Muslim and “Christian” slavery is that Muslim slavery was largely conspicuous luxury consumption (especially sex toys and soldiers) rather than used for capitalist production.

[Mr. Jeeves]

“We cannot think of slavery as something that only white people did to black people.”

But we certainly can think of it as something Muslims did to both.

Oh, I'm sorry - did that step on some rose-colored world views? :)

[BuffaloJack]

Do they ever count indentured servants or bond-slaves in the statistics?
It was very frequent in Europe to sentence someone to being a bond-slave as punishment for a crime like stealing a loaf of bread, or not being able to pay a debt.

[MadelineZapeezda]

I’m Slavic… Where do they think that name came from????

[FreeAtlanta]

Just look at what the Germans did in ww2.

Mans inhumanity to man can only be stopped by God.

[BobL]

A little discussed FACT is that the main reason Europe established colonies in North Africa in the first place was to simply control their coastlines, so that they could trade in peace with each other (as in Italy trading with Spain).

The idea that they went there just for kicks is totally discredited.