[VOA]

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.

[xrp]

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.

[org.whodat]

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..

Are you working for Dean. For one to tar every southern person with this statement is outrageous.

[Guillermo]

Whether the Saudi's "officially" banned slavery means noting, as slavery is rampant in the country today.

[Guillermo]

Also, the vast majority of Southerners were not slave owners.