I have come round to the opinion that a very large percentage of the population is perfectly okay with slavery, just so long as you don't call it slavery and hide the ugly parts of it from them.
This business of taxes, for example. Most Democrats and Most Fed Gov employees (but I repeat myself) believe they are perfectly entitled to take the fruits of labor of another man against his will, and spend it on whatever they think is best, especially when it is themselves.
No, slavery is alive and well, it just goes by a different name, and is kinder and gentler, but the idea of forcing others to work so that you may reap the benefit of their efforts, well, that Idea is very popular in Modern America.
Yes. Taxation is slavery by any other name. And muslims were and still are the primary slavers on Earth.