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That's certainly not the impression I got from my school textbooks.
Same here.
That's certainly not the impression I got from my school textbooks.
Well, start your own thread where you tell people about what "probably" happened. That should be riveting.
Same here.
Why is it not taught that Muslim aggression against Europeans and Christians has been occurring for several hundred years?
From the 16th to 19th century, Muslim pirates in North Africa captured an estimated 800,000 to 1.25 million people as slaves. Most of these slaves were kidnapped Christian Europeans.
BBC - History - British History in depth: British Slaves on the Barbary Coast
Uh.....it was probably more then a million, but yeah, they did.
And yeah, they did target Muslim shipping.
Did the governments of European nations legalize seizing ships based on religion, and enslave a million North Africans?
Y'know, I don't think I've seen a more inappropriate pseudonym in all my days online.
You have seen the facts on the slave trade. You know that is not true. Europeans purchased their slaves from Muslims, not all, but the vast majority.
The Europeans had more then a few Muslim slaves.
Hell, lots of African slaves were Muslims.
Y'know, I don't think I've seen a more inappropriate pseudonym in all my days online.
You could prove that, right?
Yeah, I could.
Of course he did. Because "we're doing this for Allah" plays better then "we're doing this because all those Europeans are rich and defenseless and robbing them makes us very wealthy"
"Later, slave trafficking was expressly forbidden by utilizing clever technical loopholes in the application of sharia, or Islamic law, although sharia permitted slavery. For example, by the terms of the new application of sharia, those taken as slaves could not be kept a slave if they had been Muslim prior to their capture.
They actually used sharia to change their practices into only enslaving non-muslims.
Sexual slavery was rampant on the Barbary coast as well, with white skinned women being the highest prize and fetching the highest monetary amount. Nothing's changed!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Ottoman_Empire#Sexual_slavery
"Later, slave trafficking was expressly forbidden by utilizing clever technical loopholes in the application of sharia, or Islamic law, although sharia permitted slavery. For example, by the terms of the new application of sharia, those taken as slaves could not be kept a slave if they had been Muslim prior to their capture.
They actually used sharia to change their practices into only enslaving non-muslims.
Sexual slavery was rampant on the Barbary coast as well, with white skinned women being the highest prize and fetching the highest monetary amount. Nothing's changed!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Ottoman_Empire#Sexual_slavery
Well one of the principles of Islam is dedicating yourself to the freeing of other Muslims in bondage. That differs from Christianity where you could enslave anyone you want.
You could prove that, right?
In Christianity, I don't believe the New Testament ever condones slavery. The Old Testament certainly seems to, but Christians are Christians by virtue of the New Testament. So slavery never was a Christian practice.
The Koran however, has passages condoning slavery.
Well Islam in sub-Saharan Africa predates the Atlantic slave trade so logically at least some of the slaves taken from Africa were Muslim, especially those from the Guinea coast. There is also some entries on Wikipedia that I found rather easily.
Yep, the entire Atlantic slave trade was never a thing. /s
Arab Muslims held black African slaves before Europeans did. These black African slaves were probably forced to convert to Islam by Arabic slaveholders.
It was a thing, but trying to say that Christianity encourages slavery is false. The namesake of Christianity, Jesus Christ never encouraged slavery. So anyone practicing slavery in Christ's name was false.
Just like George Bush bringing up his faith in relation to the wars he created. It's nonsense and anyone who's read the Christian Bible knows its nonsense.
That from 28. RELIGION OF THE SLAVESAgain, the small number of African Muslims that came to Guyana
In addition to a wide variety of polytheistic religions, a significant portion of the continent had for centuries fallen under Islamic influence. Despite this diversity, there were some common threads across cultural groups. For instance, West African societies, the largest source for American slaves, shared a belief in a Supreme Creator, a chief deity among lesser gods, to whom they prayed and made sacrifices.
The caliphate brought decades of economic growth throughout the region. An estimated one to 2.5 million non-Muslim slaves were captured during jihad.
- See more at: Ashanti Empire/ Asante Kingdom (18th to late 19th century) | The Black Past: Remembered and ReclaimedIf the early Ashanti Empire economy depended on the gold trade in the 1700s, by the early 1800s it had become a major exporter of enslaved people. The slave trade was originally focused north with captives going to Mande and Hausa traders who exchanged them for goods from North Africa and indirectly from Europe. By 1800, the trade had shifted to the south as the Ashanti sought to meet the growing demand of the British, Dutch, and French for captives. In exchange, the Ashanti received luxury items and some manufactured goods including most importantly firearms.