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To: Arcy
Incredible!

Muslims were among the first slave traders, walking Africans East to the Muslim countries. The American schools insinuate that the Unitted States was responsible for the sale and transportation of African slaves. The United States and the Colonies had virtually nothing to do with the actual slave trade.

Cynthia and the rest of the Blacks had better wake up to the Muslim influence.

24 posted on 08/08/2006 6:37:22 AM PDT by BIGZ
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To: BIGZ
You are right.

The Bible acknowledged that slavery existed, but Islam went beyond that, by legitimizing slavery.

The Role of Islam in African Slavery

Black Africans were transported to the Islamic empire across the Sahara to Morocco and Tunisia from West Africa, from Chad to Libya, along the Nile from East Africa, and up the coast of East Africa to the Persian Gulf. This trade had been well entrenched for over 600 years before Europeans arrived, and had driven the rapid expansion of Islam across North Africa.
By the way, Lebanon still has slaves Here's an article from 1998.
The Beirut slave trade
Virtual imprisonment and abuse, the hallmarks of slavery in an earlier time, are now the daily experience of thousands of Sri Lankan women (and others from Africa), employed as servants in today’s Beirut. The authorities are turning a blind eye and the public at large is oblivious to this trade in human labour, which goes on behind the closed doors of the employment agencies and the employer families....
Widespread tacit acceptance of a form of slavery in all but name is evident from the resounding silence which greets anyone who takes the risk of denouncing it. Many people prefer to close their eyes and think of Lebanon in terms of its past sufferings and its present efforts at reconstruction. But what will the country become if it is built on an exploitation of human beings so generalised that it becomes not the exception, but the rule?

54 posted on 08/08/2006 9:04:11 AM PDT by syriacus (It's a small world after all. I'd rather have Israelis as neighbors than have Hizb'allah as neigbors)
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