How the islamic slave trade and arabisation of black lands destroyed Africa by Mukasa Afrika Ma'at

[Raptor]

Arab Slave Trade by Mukasa Afrika Ma'at
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European-Christian slavery is often written about, and often misunderstood. Arab-Islamic slavery is not even misunderstood, it is often simply denied. Arab Muslims have not only been aggressive in war and colonizing Afrikan land, they also have a long history of forcing Afrikans into slavery. The Arab is Afrika’s forgotten enslaver and colonizer. This is a very neglected part of history that must be exposed, if not for any other reason, because this plague still haunts Afrika today.

While there are many who say, “Afrikans enslaved each other,” a line must be drawn between cultural servitude and slavery. Slavery was based on dehumanizing people for capital gain, and was not absent of torture, and many other inhumane crimes. Afrikans did not commit atrocities of that kind against each other until they had contact with foreigners. If one studies the Dark Ages in Europe, that period is filled with inhumane atrocities, one after the other.

Afrikans, however, held other Afrikans in cultural servitude because they were prisoners of war, owed unpaid debts, or committed crimes. These people in servitude had a level of humanity that was not common with the enslaved Afrikan in America. The servants could own land and even marry into the family of their owner. However, the slavery that exists in Afrika today is a result of foreign influence.

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John Blassingame’s The Slave Community is one of the rare books which explores some aspects of Arab-Islamic slavery. Slavery in the Arab-Islamic world has not been very different from slavery in the Americas. Ironically, Blassingame notes, many Muslim captives were Europeans who were thoroughly acculturated into the Islamic worldview (49-50). These white slaves were treated with all the brutality that Afrikans suffered in the New World under slavery.
Muslims enslaved upwards of a million Europeans in North and West Afrika, and many were traded throughout the Arab world. They were tortured, beaten, and starved to the point of fighting dogs and camels for food; eventually, many turned to cannibalism. Men were used for heavy labor and other work, and women were generally concubines.

Blassingame outlines the very significant, but often ignored, history about Islamic slavery (49-65). Blassingame notes that there were battles with Muslims and Christians, after the Moorish occupation of Spain, which resulted in an extensive network of exchange in enslavement and ransoming between the Muslims and Europeans (49-50). This was an early stimulus to what spilled over in the New World as the Transatlantic slave trade. The history of slavery is often corrupted. European slavery is sugarcoated, Arab slavery is denied, and Afrikan servitude (which was not slavery at all) is falsified.

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Interestingly, Ronald Segal, a white Jew, has done significant research in his book Islam’s Black Slaves. He provides an overview of the historical role of the Arab slave trade in Afrikan people. Beginning with the rise of Islam in the seventh century to the present, Arabs and their Black collaborators have been engaged in enslaving Afrikans over a period of 1,400 years. The Arab slave trade has been just as extensive, or more so, when compared to the European slave trade in both numbers and sheer brutality.

From Egypt, the Red Sea, and east Afrika, countless millions were sold and dispersed throughout the Islamic world. Afrikans going faithfully on the pilgrimage to Mecca were sometimes tricked or outright captured and sold into slavery. Arab slavery was both systematic and cruel. Segal explains that Afrikans were used as concubines (sex slaves), eunuchs (castrated guards or soldiers), domestic workers, civil servants, and in other areas of forced labor. The Arab onslaught against Afrika was long and continuous.

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Another eye-opening book on the subject, The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa, is by John Alembillah Azumah, an Afrikan Ghanaian. Azumah, while covering much of the same history that Segal does, focuses his research on Islam in West Afrika, Nigeria in particular. Azumah does a very impressive job at researching the racist and/or culturally bigoted philosophical arguments of Muslims against the humanity of Afrikans. The geographer Ibn Hawqal of the tenth century, Ibn Khaldun the historian of the 14th century, the Iranian philosopher Nasir Tusi of the 13th century, Ahmad Baba the famous Afrikan Muslim scholar of Timbuktu, are some of the Arabs and/or Muslims that Azumah quoted to prove that overtly racist and anti-Afrikan thought was/is common in Islam, contrary to popular belief.

Azumah gives historical background to the jihad movements (or Holy Wars) in West Afrika in the eighteenth and nineteenth century that decimated Afrikan people and cultures. Some of the jihadist who declared wars on Afrikan Spirituality and culture were Imam Nasir al-Din, Uthman Dan Fodio, al-Hajj Umar Tal, and others. Equally, Azumah discusses the devastating results on Afrikans by the Islamic slave trade and the Shari’a which is the law of imposition of Arab and Islamic supremacy over non-Muslims. He does a great job at exposing the history of Islam in relation to Afrika which has been denied for so long by Muslims and Muslim apologists.

I do have one disagreement with Azumah. He is a cultural pluralist and believes that an inter-religious dialogue is key to the future cooperation of people in the various religions of the world, in particular in Afrika. He may not be totally wrong, but I believe that we Afrikan people must propagate and redeem our Spirituality, secure our lands and resources from foreign theft, and unite Afrikan nation with each Afrikan nation before we can engage in true inter-religious dialog with Muslims, Christians, or Jews. In other words, before we can have inter-religious dialogue, Afrikan people must redeem their Spirituality and worldview. Otherwise, Afrikan people will sit at the table of humanity and defend the worldviews of foreigners who invaded Afrika, enslaved the people, and imposed their worldviews.

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John Henrik Clarke explained the following in Critical Lessons in Slavery and the Slave Trade:
The Arab slave trade in North and in East Africa had been a well-established institution long before the Arabs accepted Islam. With the rise of Islam in the seventh century, they used this new religion as further justification for their involvement in the slave trade. Islam, like Christianity, declared war on all forms of African religion and culture and later denied that Africans had anything worthy of being called a religion or a culture (2). In the Arab World by William R. Polk we learn that Sudan was particularly important for the [Arab Muslim] Egyptians as a hunting ground for slaves and, of course, as the conduit or source - no one knew which - of the Nile floods upon which the life of Egypt was wholly dependent (151).

Also, Polk states:
In the early years of the nineteenth century, the Swiss traveler John Lewis Burckhardt estimated that Egypt [Arabs in Egypt] had approximately 40,000 slaves. ‘I have reason to believe, however’, he wrote, ‘ that the number exported from Soudan to Egypt and Arabia, bears only a small proportion of those kept by the Mussalmans of the southern countries themselves, or in other words to the whole number yearly derived by purchase, or by force, from the nations of the interior of Africa… (152)

Mohammed Ali controlled western Arabia and both Mecca and Medina from Egypt. He sent a military expedition on a slave hunt into the Sudan in 1820 to acquire a cheap source of slaves and gold for his empire. Ali was not the first to do so and would not be last. He was continuing an old Arab tradition of banditry, kidnapping, enslavement, and murder.

 

[Raptor]

Sudan
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A country to be discussed is Sudan. It is geographically the largest country in Afrika, nearly, 100,000 square miles, with a sizeable population almost equal to the entire number of Afrikan Americans. The Afrikans such as the Dinka, Nuer, Nuba, and other ethnic groups make up the majority. The country is split in half: the predominantly Arab north, and the free Afrikans in the south. The capital is Khartoum, which is the seat of the Islamic-Arab government, and one of many places of slave trading in the country. The Khartoum government is supported by various Arab governments, among those are Iran, Libya, and Saudi Arabia. In Khartoum, a human being may be sold for a few dollars.

The Islamic government has been very direct in its policy of jihad (or holy war) against non-believers. Still today, the religion has been a justification, a means for the purpose of Arab supremacy and control over the lands of the south and into the rest of Afrika. Sheik Hassan El Turabi, once co-dictator of Sudan, was called “the real power and architect of Islamic Fundamentalism or Revivalism in North Sudan.” Journalist Samuel Cotton quotes him as saying:

Black Africa is Virgin land… fertile, ripe for the Islamic seed. In Africa, Islam’s roots will go deep and become sturdy quickly. There is much to tap and little to compete with. What is there in Africa but tribalism? We want to plant civilization in southern Sudan and beyond. They need one (Daily Challenge, “Blood, Shackles and the Koran,” 1995).

With the Arab conquest of Egypt, the campaign spread into Sudan, the country directly below and bordering Egypt. This began the systematic movement of these people from their homeland. Those not exiled were enslaved, the men were castrated or killed. The women were captured and divided among the Arab men. We must understand the role race plays here. Many of these so-called Arabs are a product of this forced mixed breeding, but they are in denial about their Afrikan ancestry and hostile towards the Afrikan people. Islam, like Christianity and Judaism (in Israel and Palestine), is misused as a tool of war, enslavement, and oppression.

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Samuel Cotton’s book, Silent Terror, is a must read on the subject of Afrikan enslavement in the Arab world. In 1995, the journalist Samuel Cotton wrote a series of articles that ran in the Daily Challenge entitled “Blood, Shackles and the Koran: Slavery in Sudan Today.” A 1995 February issue of The City Sun in New York featured Cotton’s research on the front page with the title “Arab Masters, Black Slaves.” The City Sun ran several articles by Cotton on Afrikan enslavement in Mauritania. Cotton eyewitnessed this slavery in humans in the Sudan and Mauritania. Young girls were taken as sex slaves for “indolent rulers and rich men in North Africa, the Near East and Sudan.” The young boys were prized as castrated slaves (eunuchs) who would protect the houses where the female sex slaves were kept known as harems. Arabs and Europeans had historically enslaved their women. What would they care about Afrikan women?

Cotton describes the Sahara crossing like the Middle Passage. Millions died crossing the sands on the way to be sold as slaves in the Muslim world. It was a long journey of exhaustion, thirst, hunger, beatings, and torture. Due to high mortality rates, castrations, the large number of women enslaved in harems in North Afrika and the Middle East, there are fewer Afrikan descendants than in the western hemisphere where men were mostly enslaved.

“Thus, despite the fact that even more vast millions of slaves were taken from Africa to the Islamic Countries… over the centuries…” says Cotton, “there is no such Black population surviving in these Islamic nations today,” as in the Americas where slave breeding was a systematic program. A grim testament to the Arab slave trade in Afrikans was noted by a 1950s traveler who said if a stranger did not know his route out of the desert, all he had to do was follow the endless stream of the remains of human skeletons of those who died en route to become slaves.

Commenting on the tradition of draining Afrika of people to enslave, Samuel Cotton mentions:
Large harems were maintained at the court in Persia during the reign of the Safavids in the 17th century and Khadjars in the 19th century. Europeans who traveled to Persia in the 17th century noted there were as many as 3,000 eunuchs in the service of the court, an indication of how great were the harems. The Caliph al-Amin …it is said, collected them in large numbers…
An Arabic description of the court of the caliph in Baghdad at the beginning of the 10th century speaks of 7,000 [Afrikan eunuchs]… This required an unending stream of desexed boys who walked or transported by boat or caravan from Africa.

With the increase in the number of harems the need for eunuchs grew. In Egypt, where eunuchs were kept by the ruling family of Mohammed Ali [of whom it is said he had 500 concubines] and rich Turks, they [the eunuchs] brought a great price in slave markets of Cairo and Alexandria. Eunuchs could be sold anywhere from twice to ten times the price of ordinary Black boys. Another reason “an unending stream” of kidnapped and castrated boys were required to feed the demand was because the survival rate after castration was about 10%. This rate does not count suicide, murder, and those who went insane, as many did.

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A point should be made about slavery today in Sudan. As with slavery anywhere, there is strong resistance to it. In particular, the Sudanese People Liberation Movement Army (SPLM/A), mostly of the Dinka people, but also other Afrikans in Sudan have led the resistance. The SPLM/A have fought Sudan’s National Islamic Front (NIF) who gets support from various Arab-Islamic governments. It is the NIF who wages war and makes raids on the lands of the people. The war in Sudan has cost the lives of several million Afrikans in recent decades, and if the SPLM/A was not in existence many more Afrikans of Southern Sudan would likely have been killed off or enslaved.

The war is over resources, power, and religion. The Arab government wants shari’a to be instituted and the thorough Arabization or enslavement of the country, and the exploitation of all valuable resources, primarily oil in Southern Sudan. This is the motive behind the murder of John Garang de Mabior. This is the reason behind the assault on Darfur’s Afrikan population. The Afrikans of Sudan are resilient and steadfast in the fight to protect and preserve what is left of their land and culture. They are among the most courageous people in the world today. Southern Sudan, where they live, is predominately Afrikan Spiritual. There is a small percentage of Christians, but even many of them are dual religious. They are like many Afrikans in Afrika who practice and live Afrikan Spirituality and a blend of another religion. At the core they are Afrikan Spiritual, but such syncretism in Afrika or the Americas threatens the Afrikan worldview. The battle has many fronts.

 

[Raptor]

Islam and Arabization in West Afrika
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Again, I refer the reader to the works of Azumah and Segal. Although Islam appeared in western Afrika very early, it was not until the nineteenth century that the religion experienced a great expansion in the region. It was in this area of Afrika that for a long time the initial Islamic-Arab waves of conquest had only a mild effect. There were many traditional worshipers who incorporated some Islamic-Arab traditions into their cultural ways of life. Islam was spread by traders and was, therefore, originally a type of cultural-economic movement. For centuries the masses were not worshippers of Islam; the rulers of the empires and kingdoms were Muslims, or at least Muslims in name only.

Sunni Ali Ber, the founding emperor of Songhay, is a great example. He had an Islamic name, was superficially a Muslim, and openly ridiculed Islam. Sunni Ali was an Afrikan nationalist and warrior-king who built an empire. He believed in the Afrikan Spirituality of his mother and his ancestors. His death was a lost to Afrikan civilization building.

Islam, in the history of West Afrika, experienced two very important events: the Almoravid movements and the destruction of Songhay. The Arabized Berber ‘Abd Allah b. Yasin, noticed the Afrikan Muslims were not adhering to all the tenets of Islam. That is, they were still basically Afrikan Spiritual with a few Muslim religious traits and not thoroughly Arabized Afrikan Muslims. Also, Yasin noticed a land full of Afrikan Spiritual people, the ancient empire of Ghana. He began the Murabitun, or Almoravid movement, which waged jihad (or holy war) on parts of western Afrika (Azumah, 25). The Muslims, the Almohads following the Almoravids, then took control of the Afrikan gold trade and engaged in the slave trade connected to the Arab world (Segal, 85-86).

Beginning with the Almoravid movement and subsequent wars, Islam would gain a stronghold on West Afrika that peaked in the 19th century. The Islamic slave traders raced to capture more slaves as the European colonizers began to exercise control over the continent. They figured that once the whites were in control of Afrika, the supply of slaves would be cut off. They were not totally correct. The attitude of jihad against Afrikans and the European expansion into Afrika was the perpetual drive behind a renewal of Islamic interest to take land, trade routes, and the enslavement of humans. It was not until the nineteenth century that Islam spread into West Afrika with any significance, and it is absolutely certain that nearly all the Afrikans who were forced on slave ships and taken to the New World were not Muslims as some would wrongfully have us believe. The great majority of Afrikans who came to the New World were traditional worshippers of ancient Afrikan Spirituality.

In 1492, the last of the Afrikan Moors were expelled from Spain. They settled in North and West Afrika, but were a very small fraction of the general population. Askia Mohammed, a devout Muslim and emperor of Songhay, died in 1538, and the empire began to fall apart. The empire of Songhay was so enormous that much of Europe could have fit in it. A Moorish army led by Judar Pasha in 1591 captured two principle cities of Songhay, which were Gao and Timbuktu. This ended the possibility of Afrikan people regaining such broad stability in West Afrika. ‘From that moment on… everything changed. Danger took the place of security; poverty of wealth. Peace gave way to distress, disasters and violence’ (Jackson, 218).

Commenting on the erosion of Afrikan culture by Islam, Chinweizu says:
Arabisation caused the adoption or imposition of Arab dress, of the Arab language, of Arab names, of Arab administrative structures and titles, of Arab social norms, of the Arab religion of Islam. It imposed on princes and prominent families an obligation to construct fake genealogies claiming Arab ancestry for jet-black Africans. This long and slow cultural colonisation was primarily effected by Arabising African merchants, nomads, missionaries, soldiers and kings who saw it all as a purely religious matter of Islamisation (Decolonising The African Mind, 117).

Chinweizu’s words are true of many regions of the continent of Afrika. Arabization and Islam had wrecked Afrika and Afrikan culture, and now European missionaries and colonizers were on their way. Islam was used for cultural conquest in Afrika, like Christianity. In fact, when the Europeans began to colonize Afrika, they had to compete and/or cooperate with the Arab slave trade in many regions. Both religions were used as tools of Afrikan oppression and genocide.

A Broader Understanding of Maafa​

The Swahili word “Maafa,” as it is usually defined by the Afrikan-Centered movement, is the enslavement and destruction of Afrikan people that has occurred during the European slave trade of over 400 years, beginning in 1441 with the Portuguese, and followed by all the other nations of Europe who participated. “Maafa” is preferable to the phrase “Black Holocaust,” taken from the Holocaust experienced by the Jews in Germany where they lost 6 million people. My position is that our concept of the Maafa must include the broader genocide suffered by Afrikans for at least the last 3,500 years. The destruction of Kemet, Carthage, Kush, Black India, and genocide of Afrikans of the Pacific Islands were all part of the Maafa. Also, the Maafa should include the general destruction of Afrikan culture by Arabization and Islam, the victims of which amounts to 100 million over a period of almost 1,400 years. The victims of the Arab slave trade equals the estimated number of victims in the European slave trade.

How can we discuss the Maafa and not consider the brutal oppression and extermination of Afrikans in Australia and Tasmania where whole populations were destroyed. As the world-traveled scholar Runoko Rashidi emphasizes, the one constant that he finds from all the countries he has visited is the need for Afrikan global liberation. Before striving for Afrikan global liberation, we must first have an Afrikan global identity.

The reader should be knowledgeable of the fact that Eurocentric scholars, whites and Blacks, grossly underestimate the number of Afrikans who where victims in the Maafa under the European slave trade. Countless millions died before they even got on the slave ships - which is where the Eurocentric scholars begin counting (mis-counting). Afrikans died inland from widespread wars fueled by European guns and rum, on the long and enduring walks to the coast, and in the dungeons on the coast. Many others, by the millions, would later die on the slave ships and in slavery.

The Maafa must also include the millions who died after slavery. Under colonialism and neo-colonialism millions of Afrikans died. Take for instance the Congo, at the end of the 19th century ten million Afrikans died under colonialism. Under the recent neo-colonial war in the Congo which began in 1998 several million have died. The neo-colonial wars over “blood diamonds,” other resources, and fomented conflict due to lack of Afrikan unity have cost the lives of many millions in very recent years. The resources that many of these wars produce are sold on the European world market. This is part of the Maafa. These neo-colonial wars, which occurred in recent years, were in the Congo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Liberia, Ethiopia, and other countries.

Thousand of Black males (Afrikan males) are warring in the streets of America and dying over guns they do not manufacture. They are also dying over drugs they do not grow and ship into the country. AIDS is no longer a homosexual disease. The majority of people who have the disease in the world are people of Afrikan descent in Afrika, America, and other places. It becomes a challenge to see how AIDS is not a conspiracy of genocide when in many Afrikan countries a horrifying percentage of the people have AIDS.

Few people have heard of the sterilization program in Brazil which has devastated millions and millions of Afrikan women. The Maafa of Afrikan people, which began 3,500 years ago, is still occurring today! It is the greatest genocide in human history, yet we Afrikans are still here. Before we stop the Maafa, Afrikan people must do three things:

1. Identification: We must realize that we are Afrikans. We cannot develop appropriate solutions to any of our problems unless we first know who “we” are.
2. Unification: We must unify and cooperate with each other based on our common global identity. Regardless of our differences, as long as they are not destructive to the cause, we must unify or at least have a woking unity as Afrikans for Afrikan survival.
3. Application: We must develop and apply educational, economic, and political solutions that are appropriate to the needs, culture, and reality of our people. The solutions and theories we develop must be applied through institutions to our existence if change is to occur.

 

[Raptor]

Conclusion
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We are at a critical point in time today with so many Afrikan people in the United States, Afrika, and elsewhere becoming Muslims due to dissatisfaction with Christianity and the European world. It should be understood that the Arab world has been just as oppressive, if not more so, as the European world. The power elite in European Christian nations (in cooperation with the Jews) and the Arab Islamic nations have agendas for world domination which only include Afrikans to advance their cause.

Many Afrikan leaders are open to Islamic support without accepting the fact that Arab leaders, with few or no exceptions, are Arab nationalists who will sacrifice Afrikan unity to benefit the Arab world. No nation has united itself depending on outsiders for direction and support. Afrika will not be united with Arabs in positions of leadership in the Afrikan Union. Neither did this happen with the Organization of Afrikan Unity. If Gadhafi, the President of Libya, or any other Arabs direct the future of Afrika, then Afrika will be under the control of the Arab world at worse or under indirect manipulation at best. Neither is acceptable to a people serious about liberation. Arab loyalty has never been undividedly given to Afrika, but has always been given to the Arab world. European loyalty has never been undividedly given to Afrika, but always to the European world. When liberation is achieved and maintained, the seat of leadership will come from the Afrikan world.

The power elite of various nations are leading the world to the next world war, which seems to have religion and raw control at the core of conflict. All wars of this nature are fought for land, resources, and power. Religions are only the justification for the power elite. Individuals may belong to religions for practical and righteous reasons. However, the economic and political power elite manipulate the masses to propagate their dominance in world structures. This was occurring many hundreds of years ago, and it is the essential reason for conflict with the European Christian and Jewish world against the Arab Muslim world.

In the middle of the conflict is the suffering and dying of millions of innocent people. The role of Afrikan people in this global conflict must be a moral voice. There is no reason for Afrikans to take sides with either worldview since both Christians and Muslims have damaged and attempted to destroy the Afrikan worldview. Afrikan people should take the moral ground and be a moral voice in today’s world conflict. If there is any hope of humanity in the world, it will come from Afrikan people.

 

[Blackking]

This is amazing if you read it.

Lies include that arab slavery isn't talked about or is denied , which it isn't.

This downplays the trans Atlantic slave trade and European colonization as the worst thing to happen to Africa.

It claims that Gaddafi was the bad guy and Christian Europeans and US imperialism was right in that situation.

It even says that western imperialism will empower Africans and is a good thing for them.

And it is acting like other outside forces religions etc hadn't already taken over much of Africa before Islam was created... article makes it seem like islam is what destroyed African culture

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

I won't act like I read the article cuz this topic has been of particular interest to me anyway. I'm Ethiopian so I look at Arabs the way an African of the diaspora would look at a white man. But I'm totally of the belief that the Arab Slave trade and the Arab expansion into Africa was the beginning of the end for the continent. It didn't have the speed and impact that Europeans did, but the Arabs played the most important role in all this.

 

[Abdi]

the phrase 'Islamic slavery' is misleading even though slavery existed in many Muslim cultures you don't hear Atlantic slave trade branded 'christian slave trade'....jut putting that out there.

 

[Chris.B]

Arab slave trade was the worst of all the slave trades.

everyone knows that.

By the way they are still enslaving black people today

 

[humble forever]

the arab-islamic slave trade is the most disastrous because it's practitioners believed and continue to believe in the spread of their ideology. Slowly but surely it is able to strangle other cultures and ways of thought by being more determined and clearly defined than the ideology of the areas its conquers.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

the phrase 'Islamic slavery' is misleading even though slavery existed in many Muslim cultures you don't hear Atlantic slave trade branded 'christian slave trade'....jut putting that out there.

Well it was a brand of slavery that was practiced in the wider Muslim world so actually no I wouldn't say it's misleading at all. The only reason why you hear the Occidental trade referred to as "Atlantic" is because of the common crossing of the ocean that was taken by the slaves whereas the Islamic World at one point stretched from Spain to China hence why there were several forms like the Trans Saharan, the Indian Ocean trade, and through North Africa along the Barbary coast. The only common thread was that this was under the banner of Islam, just as the Atlantic ocean was a common theme for the West African trade in that the slaves all had to cross it.

 

[88m3]

crime against humanity

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Islam permits having slaves TO THIS DAY more than even the bible explicitly does.

 

[Raptor]

I won't act like I read the article cuz this topic has been of particular interest to me anyway. I'm Ethiopian so I look at Arabs the way an African of the diaspora would look at a white man. But I'm totally of the belief that the Arab Slave trade and the Arab expansion into Africa was the beginning of the end for the continent. It didn't have the speed and impact that Europeans did, but the Arabs played the most important role in all this.

Islamic expansion is a major reason why Ethiopia never became a world power today. We had axum, which was considered 1 of the four great civilisations at the time(the others were Persia, Rome, India). We were making money, controlling cac lands(Yemen, Saudi Arabia, parts of lower Egypt) and we controlled the Red Sea and international trade in the arab peninsula. We became rich and our navy was considered one of the best in the ancient world. Axumites were even reading Greek philosophy. When all the arab tribes united under the banner of Islam, they pretty much isolated axum from the international markets and destroyed our Arabian outposts. The people who became the abyssinians would eventually retreat into the ethiopian highlands, severing contact with the western world for hundreds of years. The painful irony is, it was the axumites or proto abyssinians who saved Islam by allowing the prophet to seek refuge in Ethiopian lands(which included southern Arabia at the time).. Who knows what ethiopian could be today if we still had contact with western civilisation and continued our cultural and technological exchange. We could have been a black superpower

 

[theworldismine13]

This is amazing if you read it.

Lies include that arab slavery isn't talked about or is denied , which it isn't.

This downplays the trans Atlantic slave trade and European colonization as the worst thing to happen to Africa.

It claims that Gaddafi was the bad guy and Christian Europeans and US imperialism was right in that situation.

It even says that western imperialism will empower Africans and is a good thing for them.

And it is acting like other outside forces religions etc hadn't already taken over much of Africa before Islam was created... article makes it seem like islam is what destroyed African culture

 

[Blackking]

for who exactly?