Brian Ross wrote on Feb 22
nd, 2021 at 9:15pm:
issuevoter wrote on Feb 22
nd, 2021 at 4:47pm:
Look Brian, you feign disinterest with your Tisk tisk and yawn, but in fact your agenda is quite clear to your readers; defend Islam at any cost. “Peace loving Muslims? Peaceful, because they remain silent about Islamic atrocities.
I started this thread due to the irony of the American Black Muslim Movement, which is that they do not recognise the huge involvement of Islam in the enslavement of their ancestors. Do I have to state it anymore clearly? Now, if you want to challenge those facts, go right ahead, but stay on topic.
You tried to steer the the conversation around to American slavery and European involvement, as if Islam did not have anything to do with it. In your comments you say nothing of the fact that East African Slavery and castration were carried on untiI 1900 and would have continued if it was not for the intervention by the Europeans of the time, those people you so despise.
I restate my accusation. You were not even aware of the East African Slave Trade until you read the OP. You are apparently also unaware that the capture of slaves in West Africa was predominantly carried out by Arab and black Muslims who worked in the interior and sold them to white slavers on the coast. Which brings me back to my point about irony and the American Black Muslim Movement. Get it?[/size]
Oh, dearie, dearie, me. Full of accusations, aren't you? I was well aware of the East African slave trade.
You are lying again, Bbwian. You are aware of nothing, you are lying about everything.
The African slave trade was started by....er.....Africans.
And flourished for a 1000 years under Islam.
The sale of African slaves can be traced back to antiquity. It became popular in the seventh century when Islam was gaining strength in North Africa. This was seven centuries before Europeans explored the continent and ten centuries before West Africans were sold across the Atlantic to America.
Zanzinbar's former slave holding center
Zanzibar's Prison Island was the place where slaves were kept before being transported to other destinations
Back then, Arab Muslims in North and East Africa sold captured Africans to the Middle East. There, they worked as field workers, teachers or harem guards, which is why the castration of male slaves was common practice. Muslims, on the other hand, including African Muslims, were not allowed to be enslaved, according to Islamic legal views.
"Initially, the Arab Muslims in Eastern and Central Europe took white slaves to sell them to Arabia," Senegalese author Tidiane N'Diaye told DW in an interview. "But the growing military power of Europe put an end to Islamic expansion and now that there was a shortage of slaves, Arab Muslims were looking massively to black Africa."
Roots of slavery in Africa
According to N'Diaye, slavery has existed in practically all civilizations. This was also the case in Africa before settlers came.
In central East Africa, ethnic groups such as the Yao, Makua and Marava were fighting against each other and entire peoples within the continent traded with people they had captured through wars. "Thus Arab Muslims encountered already existing structures, which facilitated the purchase of slaves for their purposes."
https://www.dw.com/en/east-africas-forgotten-slave-trade/a-50126759Where IS Zanzibar, oh-so-aware-yawning-cockwomble? Can you find it on the map?
Hint... its in.... East Africa.
Ignore it, yawn and switch, Bbwian. Oh - and roll those blind eyes. There's a good mad auntie.
How's yor knitting going?
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