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Author of Saudi Curriculums Advocates Slavery ("Slavery is a part of Islam," prominent scholar says)
Saudi Information Agency ^
| Nov. 7, 2003
| Ali Al-Ahmed
Posted on 11/09/2003 10:36:09 AM PST by Alouette
(Washington)
November 7, 2003
The main author of the Saudi religious curriculum expressed his unequivocal support for the legalization of slavery in one of his lectures recorded on a cassette and obtained exclusively by SIA news.
Leading government cleric Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan is the author of the religious books currently used to teach 5 million Saudi students, both within the and in Saudi schools aboard including those in the Washington, D.C. metro area.
Slavery is a part of Islam, he says in the tape, adding: Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam.
Government spokesman Adel Al-Jubeir and other officials have repeatedly claimed religious curriculums are being reformed, but Al-Fawzans books continued to be used according to the minister of educations statements published by Al-Watan daily September 14th, 2003.
Al-Fawzan is member of the Senior Council of Clerics, Saudi Arabias highest religious body, a member of the Council of Religious Edicts and Research, the Imam of Prince Mitaeb Mosque in Riyadh, and a professor at Imam Mohamed Bin Saud Islamic University, the main Wahhabi center of learning in the country.
Al-Fawzan refuted the mainstream Muslim interpretation that Islam worked to abolish slavery by introducing equality between the races.
They are ignorant, not scholars, he said of people who express such opinions. They are merely writers. Whoever says such things is an infidel.
Al-Fawzans most famous book, Al-Tawheed Monotheism, is taught to Saudi high school students. In it, he says that most Muslims are polytheists, and their blood and money are therefore free for the taking by true Muslims.
Among Al-Fawzans other controversial beliefs is the right to ban the marriage of Arab women to non- Arab Muslims, according to his book Al-Mulkhas Al-Fiqhee (Digest of Law). He has also issued a fatwa forbidden the watching of TV.
Al-Fwazan is also is a leading opponent of those who seek to introduce change to the Saudi school curriculum. He also claimed that elections and demonstrations are western imitations.
According to Saudi liberal writer and scholar Sheikh Hassan Al-Maliki, Al-Fawzan threatened him with beheading if he continued in his criticism of the extremist Wahhabi interpretation of Islam. Al-Maliki, who worked for the ministry of education, was fired after he wrote a 50- page paper criticizing Al-Fawzans book Al-Tawheed.
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You can't make this stuff up, people.
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posted on
11/09/2003 10:36:09 AM PST
by
Alouette
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posted on
11/09/2003 10:37:06 AM PST
by
Alouette
(I have 9 kids)
To: Alouette
Another blackmark...
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posted on
11/09/2003 10:40:51 AM PST
by
Dallas59
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posted on
11/09/2003 10:42:59 AM PST
by
mhking
To: mhking
Black conservative ping You should also call you Just Damn list.
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posted on
11/09/2003 10:45:10 AM PST
by
Alouette
(I have 9 kids)
To: Alouette
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posted on
11/09/2003 10:47:17 AM PST
by
Prime Choice
(The judiciary is supposed to be 1/3rd of the checks and balances; not a special interest trump card.)
To: Dallas59
In Bernard Lewis' book "What went wrong," he catalouges this very issue. Since slavery is mentioned Koran with Muhammed's approval up till recently the thought of outlawing slavery was akin to sacrilige. It took the might of WESTERN British Empire to cut that nonsense off.
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posted on
11/09/2003 10:47:51 AM PST
by
KantianBurke
(Don't Tread on Me)
To: Alouette
The rock has been turned over. Fortunately this slime can't stand exopsure to sunlight.
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posted on
11/09/2003 10:49:52 AM PST
by
js1138
To: Alouette
Slavery is a part of Islam, he says in the tape, adding: Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam. I'm sure that they must have skipped this part when trying to convert black convicts in prison ..... something tells me that they may have a problem with this.
Never met a black man that was ever comfortable with the idea of slavery in any form.
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posted on
11/09/2003 10:50:49 AM PST
by
Centurion2000
(Resolve to perform what you ought, perform without fail what you resolve.)
To: Alouette
Wonder what Farrakhan thinks about this.
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posted on
11/09/2003 10:52:16 AM PST
by
Centurion2000
(Resolve to perform what you ought, perform without fail what you resolve.)
To: Alouette
Al-Fawzan refuted the mainstream Muslim interpretation that Islam worked to abolish
slavery by introducing equality between the races.
IIRC, the prohibition on slavery wasn't enacted in Saudi Arabia until...
1962.
I still think it horrid that American Southerners who went to church each Sunday
had to be convinced by war to give up the practice of slavery...
but many Muslims are still enamored of the concept at this late date.
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posted on
11/09/2003 10:52:33 AM PST
by
VOA
To: KantianBurke
Slavery in Saudi was only abolished in 1968
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posted on
11/09/2003 10:52:54 AM PST
by
Centurion2000
(Resolve to perform what you ought, perform without fail what you resolve.)
To: Centurion2000
Black muslims have been able to ignore the fact that slave traders were muslims so far. No doubt convinced themselves that is a white lie or, er, should I say, a lie perpetrated by whites.
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posted on
11/09/2003 10:53:31 AM PST
by
Let's Roll
(And those that cried Appease! Appease! are hanged by those they tried to please!")
To: Alouette
Calling Rev. AL, calling Rev. Je$$e...please report to the nearest airport for departure to muslim mid-east. You are needed to reeducate the peaceful relgion. Reparations should be pursued if possible. That is all.
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posted on
11/09/2003 10:55:33 AM PST
by
AD from SpringBay
(We have the government we allow and deserve.)
To: Centurion2000
let me rephrase then - the Brits forced most of the Middle East to cease slave trading and owning from Africa, Europe and Christians of the Middle East. Slave owning of those from the east was winked at.
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posted on
11/09/2003 10:57:31 AM PST
by
KantianBurke
(Don't Tread on Me)
To: Centurion2000
Never met a black man that was ever comfortable with the idea of slavery in any form. Do you mean a black Americans or do you include Africans, not that I would have expected you to meet meny of them?
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posted on
11/09/2003 10:58:41 AM PST
by
nosofar
To: KantianBurke
no correction needed ... I was just stating the fact to let you know about it ...
islam is starting to show itself as the dirtiest religion invented .... let's hope the mask slips further off.
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posted on
11/09/2003 10:59:59 AM PST
by
Centurion2000
(Resolve to perform what you ought, perform without fail what you resolve.)
To: VOA
had to be convinced by war to give up the practice of slavery... They didn't. Abolitionist movements led by Christians in the North and South would have had slavery eradicated in the United States within another 20-30 years. The Civil War was about states rights, not slavery.
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posted on
11/09/2003 11:00:03 AM PST
by
xrp
To: Alouette
"Slavery is a part of Islam," he says in the tape, adding: "Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam." Hmmmm. Seems like a "whereas" clause in our revised Foreign Policy Mission Statement.
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posted on
11/09/2003 11:02:34 AM PST
by
Hank Rearden
(Dick Gephardt. Before he dicks you.)
To: Alouette
Is Lew Rockwell in Saudi speak = to Ali Al-Ahmed?
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posted on
11/09/2003 11:06:26 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
("If you can read this, thank a teacher!....Since it is in English, thank a Veteran!")
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