Muhammed was a slave owner. Just sayin'

Flopping Aces ^ | 08-22-17 | DrJohn

[Starman417]

Ensconced on the wall of the Supreme Court is a freize of the supposed "great lawgivers" of the Middle Ages.

Under the prevailing left wing mores, one of the images simply must be removed- the image of Muhammed.

Muhammed was a slave owner.

The paradox

A poignant paradox of Islamic slavery is that the humanity of the various rules and customs that led to the freeing of slaves created a demand for new slaves that could only be supplied by war, forcing people into slavery or trading slaves.

Muslim slavery continued for centuries

The legality of slavery in Islam, together with the example of the Prophet Muhammad, who himself bought, sold, captured, and owned slaves, may explain why slavery persisted until the 19th century in many places (and later still in some countries). The impetus for the abolition of slavery came largely from colonial powers, although some Muslim thinkers argued strongly for abolition.

Slaves came from many places

Unlike the Atlantic slave traders, Muslims enslaved people from many cultures as well as Africa. Other sources included the Balkans, Central Asia and Mediterranean Europe.

Slaves could be assimilated into Muslim society

Muhammad's teaching that slaves were to be regarded as human beings with dignity and rights and not just as property, and that freeing slaves was a virtuous thing to do, may have helped to create a culture in which slaves became much more assimilated into the community than they were in the West.

Muslim slaves could achieve status

Slaves in the Islamic world were not always at the bottom of the social hierarchy. Slaves in Muslim societies had a greater range of work, and took on a wider range of responsibilities, than those enslaved in the Atlantic trade.

Some slaves earned respectable incomes and achieved considerable power, although even such elite slaves still remained in the power of their owners.

Bernard Lewis:

The Qur'an, like the Old and the New Testaments, assumes the existence of slavery. It regulates the practice of the institution and thus implicitly accepts it. The Prophet Muhammad and those of his Companions who could afford it themselves owned slaves; some of them acquired more by conquest. But Qur'anic legislation, subsequently confirmed and elaborated in the Holy Law, brought two major changes to ancient slavery which were to have far-reaching effects. One of these was the presumption of freedom; the other, the ban on the enslavement of free persons except in strictly defined circumstances .

Muhammed is also said to have owned sex slaves.

[Sergio]

bkmk

[YogicCowboy]

So:

The leftist media defend Mohammedanism categorically.

Mohammed is called the Perfect Man by today’s Muslims.

Sex slavery is going on as I type this under Shariah-compliant regimes, and multiple Islamic scholars are defending sexual enslavement of kuffars.

Jesus Christ, the exemplar of Christianity - which is attacked by that same media as consistently as Mohammedanism is defended - did not wage war, did not rape girls, and did not own slaves.

Satisfied, or do I need to use monosyllabic words?

[YogicCowboy]

Yep. White slaves.

No reparations for them.

[YogicCowboy]

Yes, and they particularly prefer European or British young white females.

[YogicCowboy]

You are pretty sure right.

[metmom]

I doubt many people realize that the first slave owner in the United States and the one who got it legalized in VA to start it all was a black man.

Plus Native Americans owned thousands of black slaves.

Black List
A widely circulated list of historical “facts” about slavery dwells on the participation of non-whites as owners and traders of slaves in America.

http://www.snopes.com/facts-about-slavery/