120 of the 270 million victims cited are Africans sent to America in the slave trade!
How many Mohammedians were slave owners in Old America, I wonder?
So, Western Christianity is an accomplice in almost half the crimes of the Jihadists following the article’s logic.
A warning to be careful about padding stats (cough: Dan Marino).
Leaving the ‘slave owners’ aside for the moment... the main traders that have rooted them out from their land in Africa were A R A B S!
That does not follow: the article points out that Islam ran the wholesale slave trade in Africa, and that 14 million Africans were enslaved by the Muslims themselves, while 11 million were sent to the New World. If one apportions blame for the deaths to the customers in proportion, the Western Christians of the New World would be complicit to whatever degree one deems appropriate for customers of an immoral trade in about 53 million of those deaths.
While there is some moral argument for holding that buyers are to some degree morally implicated in the actions of their suppliers, it is a somewhat thin argument: neither the law nor fathers confessor expect punishment or penance for murder to be given to the customer for buying products from a sweatshop where the conditions have killed workers (thought the latter might impose a penance if the customer knew and didn’t care).
Don’t forget that many of the African slaves went to Arabia — you still have African slaves there. The Arabs, however, castrated their slaves, so no descendents....