Posted on 08/16/2019 6:21:55 AM PDT by george76
The British Museum tries to counter an ugly truth long captured in Western art.
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Objectively speaking, the “Slave Market” painting in question portrays a reality that has played out countless times over the centuries: African and Middle Eastern Muslims have long targeted European women—so much so as to have enslaved millions of them over the centuries.
The Muslim demand for, in the words of one historian, “white-complexioned blondes, with straight hair and blue eyes,” traces back to the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, who enticed his followers to wage jihad against neighboring Byzantium by citing its blonde (“yellow”) women awaiting them as potential concubines.
For over a millennium afterwards, Islamic caliphates
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Indeed, the insatiable demand for fair women was such that.. impossible to disconnect Islam from the Viking slave-trade... for the prized .. white sex-slaves.
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between 1530 and 1780 [alone] there were .. a million and a quarter white, European Christians enslaved by the Muslims of the Barbary Coast .. North Africa, .. By 1541, “Algiers teemed with Christian captives [from Europe], and it became a common saying that a Christian slave was scarce a fair barter for an onion.”
With countless sexually enslaved European women—some seized from as far as Denmark, Iceland, and even Iceland—selling for the price of vegetables, little wonder that European observers by the late 1700s noted how “the inhabitants of Algiers have a rather white complexion.”
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Eastern Europeans; the slave markets of the Ottoman sultanate were for centuries so inundated with Slavic flesh that children sold for pennies, “a very beautiful slave woman was exchanged for a pair of boots, and four Serbian slaves were traded for a horse.” In Crimea, some three million Slavs were enslaved by the Ottomans’ Muslim allies, the Tatars. “The youngest women are kept for wanton pleasures,”
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
Our term “slave” comes from the ethnic term Slav because so many Slavs were enslaved in the Middle Ages. But today’s Slavic-speakers are descended from those who were not enslaved.
There’s more info at the Armenian Genocide Museum website.
Agree entirely.
Leftists live to infiltrate and subvert, not create.
Academics are overwhelmingly leftist, and they infect all aspects of culture, to twist words to mean only what they want.
I recently learned that an online dictionary/thesaurus website was owned or affiliated with, as I recall, The Daily Beast. All journalism examples cited for word usage were from that one source, and all were anti-conservative.
while the article focuses primarily on women, it is also true that adult male slaves were castrated (same as African slaves) and “pretty” young boys were sexualized as ‘dancing boys’ and forced into homosexual acts. Women, men and children were generally worked to death, being that there was an unending supply to be had cheaply for replacements. (Whereas in the colonies a slave could cost two-years pay or more at the going 1800 rate of $3-5/week for laborers, were not considered expendable, and those showing aptitude were assigned a variety of dignified and skilled occupations from blacksmiths to cowboys to loggers to fishermen to artisans.) The contrast between Western Christianity and Islam is that while Islam looked to and continues to enslave all others as bounty, at any given time in the colonies, where between 20 and 40 percent of blacks were already free men, many slaves were given or were able to buy their freedom with funds earned from side-jobs, our own civil war cementing their freedom and the right to be free of chattel slavery for all men forever.
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