"If "we" refers to Americans, (and I can't read the original post, so I'm just assuming the obvious) then the poster is right. It's pretty common knowledge that a significant number of people stolen from West Africa were Muslims.
There were no Americans in the 16th and 17th centuries. The African slave traders were mostly Muslims. What you consider to be "pretty common knowledge" must be PC public school indoctrination, because it certainly isn't history. Jumping in to the debate without reading the "original post" is not helpful."
1) Don't blame me for not reading post #3. I didn't report it.
2) Whether or not there were "Americans" in the 16th and 17th centuries depends in part on your degree of loyalty to the British crown at the time, so I'll give you that. However, the importation of slaves from Africa continued through the 18th century and was in the US until 1808 and continued illegally after that (the Amistad case was 1839, if I remember correctly).
3) Many African slave traders were Muslims. Many were not. The question is not the religion of the slavers, but the religion of the slaves, and yes, it is common knowledge that many of them professed the Muslim faith and continued to practice it after being dragged across the Atlantic.
4) "What you consider to be "pretty common knowledge" must be PC public school indoctrination, because it certainly isn't history."
Prove me wrong.
4) Jumping into the debate without reading the original post isn't helpful, but you jumping into the debate and dismissing obvious facts is insulting to this forum.
Your credibility is not enhanced by admitting you commented on something you didn't read.
2) Whether or not there were "Americans" in the 16th and 17th centuries depends in part on your degree of loyalty to the British crown at the time, so I'll give you that.
There were no Americans then, only Indians. Loyalty to the Crown had nothing to do with citizenship. It is not possible to be a citizen of a country that doesn't exist. To insist that Americans were involved in the slave trade 200 years before America existed is to admit that personal agenda is more important than the truth.
Many African slave traders were Muslims. Many were not. The question is not the religion of the slavers, but the religion of the slaves, and yes, it is common knowledge that many of them professed the Muslim faith and continued to practice it after being dragged across the Atlantic.
And your documented source for this is? Where are the descendants of these muslim slaves? Where are the mosques they built? I smell a Dan Rather here.
Prove me wrong.
The burden of proof is on the new fairy tale. You made the incredible assertions, back them up. In order to earn the right to be believed, one first has to earn the right to be heard. Are you Louis Farrakhan?