Informative and well worth the read.
The Other Inconvenient Truth: The Arab Slave Trade
By Victor Sharpe
... Traveling back in time, we must acknowledge the abiding horror of the slavery practiced by Muslims upon hapless black Africans – a searing crime which existed from Islam’s founding in the 7th century.
While the anti-slavery abolitionist movements in Europe and North America began their epic movement to end slavery during the 19th century, there was barely any opposition to slavery as practiced within Islam. While abolitionist movements in Europe and North America were gaining steam, slavery continued throughout the Muslim world.
.... It must be remembered that during the cataclysmic American Civil War, some 330,000 white American soldiers alone gave their lives to end the enslavement of black Americans.
... In tragic contrast, the Islamic societies—rooted in concepts of supremacy, submission, and sacrificing one’s life and the lives of others to the glory of the jihad struggle—had barely any opposition to slavery, which continued apace throughout the world of Islam.
... It is particularly sad that so many African Americans routinely espouse Islam and take Arab names while ignoring or being utterly ignorant of the Muslim Arab slave trade; even though it led to the deaths and slavery of untold millions of Africans.
Even after Britain outlawed the slave trade in 1807 and Europe abolished the slave trade in 1815, Muslim slavers continued their ghastly trade and enslaved millions of Africans. Throughout African villages the ever -present threat of approaching Arab slave traders sent terror into the hearts of men, women and children.
Possibly as many as eleven million Africans were transported across the Atlantic. Some 95% went to South and Central America, mainly to Portuguese, Spanish, and French possessions, and 5% of the slaves went to the United States.
IN AMERICA THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF POLITICAL ‘THINKERS’ DO NOT EVEN RECOGNIZE ISLAM AS A POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL FORCE AND TOO MANY FELLOW AMERICANS THUS SLIDE INTO DANGEROUS IGNORANCE AND APATHY, WHILE ISLAMIC SHARIA LAW INCREASINGLY INFILTRATES OUR REPUBLIC AND SUBVERTS THE CONSTITUTION.
https://realityanddenial.wordpress.com/2020/01/04/1427/#more-1427
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UnSpun 179 – Dr. Bill Warner: “Political Islam”
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Islam's Hidden Role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
As John Alembillah Azumah, an African academic and author of The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa, said in an
interview:
Slavery was a very important part of Islamic expansion in West Africa, and in fact in the Sudan, and from the very earliest period of Islamic penetration of Africa. ... Slavery was a very endemic part of Islamic interaction with Africa. And in West Africa, the jihad's period of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries involved massive slave raiding and slave trading; and many of the slaves that were captured and sold and sent to the transatlantic slave trade [were captured by Muslims]; most of those who were doing the slaving at the time were Muslim communities.
