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Hugh Fitzgerald: The Highest and Best Use of Keith Ellison

Feb 28, 2017 3:23 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald

Now that Keith Ellison, our first Muslim Congressman, has lost out to Thomas Perez for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee – though being given the specially-created sop of “Deputy Chair” – he may wish to strike out on his own, for clearly he has a lot of energy, and ambition, and Wants To Make A Difference.

It would be a pity if Ellison’s gifts as a publicist, agitator, and Washington operator were not to be used for the greater good. For Keith Ellison is uniquely qualified to fill one particular role: that is, to help black Africans obtain some modicum of economic justice from Muslim Arabs, given the havoc wreaked by the Arab slavers in black Africa over thirteen centuries. He needs to convince the deep-pocketed Arabs of the Gulf that they have more to lose by refusing to offer reparations for that “other slave trade,” while Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Qatar will hardly miss a few tens of billions of dollars of the hundreds of billions they take in year after year.

That we all need to be reminded of that Arab slave trade in Africa was brought home to me by Henry Louis Gates, who has been on NPR discussing his new documentary series on black Africa. It’s not what he said, but what he didn’t say, that was so telling. He several times mentioned the Atlantic Slave Trade, but he said nothing about the Muslim Arab slavers in Africa. Not even Henry Louis Gates, it seems, is fully cognizant of how widespread and damaging that Arab slave trade was to black Africa. The world needs to be told more about that trade, so much more extensive, in time and space and number of victims, than the Transatlantic Slave Trade that receives almost all of the world’s attention. Keith Ellison, an Afro-American and a Muslim, is ideally situated to remind us of this trade, and to demand justice for black Africans.

Over 28 Million Africans have been enslaved in the Muslim world during the past 14 centuries. While much has been written concerning the Transatlantic slave trade, surprisingly little attention has been given to the Islamic slave trade across the Sahara, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.

That Arab slave trade in East and Central Africa began in the late 7th century. We know this because there are records of the earliest slave revolts by Africans in what is present-day southern Iraq, dating from 689-90 and 694, both quickly supressed. The Zanj revolt of 869-883 – “Zanj” being the word the Arabs used to describe black Africans – in southern Iraq was a much bigger rebellion. It lasted fourteen years, and took a great effort by the Arabs to put down. The slaves who revolted had been used in backbreaking work as agricultural labor, forced to remove nitrous topsoil to create arable land, and treated brutally by their Arab masters. Ellison ought to be made aware of the Zanj Rebellion, and what conditions prompted it, and what methods were used to suppress the revolt by the black slaves.

The Arab trade in African slaves began much earlier than the Atlantic trade – the 7th rather than the 15th century — and it also lasted longer. There were no Arab abolitionists, no Muslim William Wilberforces. Western pressure ended Arab slavery. It was the Royal Navy that patrolled the coasts of Arabia and intercepted dhows carrying slaves. Slavery continued to exist, however, in several Muslim Arab countries well into the 20th century. Though officially banned in Mauritania in 1961 and again in 1981, it still continues to this day, with half a million black slaves held by Arabs. In Saudi Arabia, as recently as the 1950s, 500,000 black Africans, or 20% of Saudi Arabia’s population, were held as slaves. It was only in 1962 that slavery was officially abolished in Saudi Arabia and Yemen – and only under terrific Western pressure. There are those who claim that there are still black Africans held in “slave-like conditions,” even if slavery no longer exists officially, in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and some of the sheikdoms of the Gulf.

In the Sudan, northern Arabs continued to enslave southern blacks especially during the Second Sudanese Civil War, at least until 2005, with as many as 200,000 black Africans taken into slavery.

The Muslim Arabs held slaves for more than 1300 years, while the Atlantic slave trade lasted for only four centuries. We have estimates from historians as to the number of blacks who were seized by Arab slavers in Africa, and how many of them – women, children, and castrated boys – made it alive, during those 1300 years, to the Islamic slave markets. It turns out that about 28 million black Africans — a consensus estimate — were brought, either walked across the Sahara in coffles to the slave markets of North Africa and Egypt, or by dhow across the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean to the slave markets of Arabia and the Gulf. The Arab slave trade was particularly gruesome, for much of it involved castrating black boys in the bush, with the most primitive of implements, in order to supply eunuchs for the Muslim harems. Many of the boys died during the surgery; many others died in the days afterwards from infections, or during the long trek by land or sea to the Islamic slave markets. The historian Jan Hogedoorn, in his study of what he called The Hideous Trade, estimated the mortality rate for those castrated slaves as high as 80-90%, meaning only 10-20% of those African boys originally seized arrived alive at the slave markets. While the consensus estimate of 28 million black Africans who made it to the Islamic slave markets at first sounds like a lot, over 1300 years (650-1950 A.D.) this amounts to an average of a little more than 20,000 black slaves brought annually from Central and East Africa all the way to those slave markets, which is perfectly plausible.

Historians have extrapolated from these figures the total number of blacks who must have been originally seized. Given the estimated 80-90% mortality rate for the castrated boys, who made up one-third of the total Arab slave trade, even if we were to assume a much lower mortality rate for the women and children — say 20%-30% — who made up 2/3 of that slave trade, the numbers of blacks seized in the bush must have been many times the 28 million who survived to make it to Arab markets. Some estimates run as high as 140 million, consisting of the 28 million believed to have survived the journey added to another 112 million who did not. (This seems too high to me, for it assumes an 80% mortality rate not just for the castrated boys, but for the women and children). We might, for the purposes of rough calculation, say that 27 (rather than 28) million slaves made it to market, one-third of whom, or 9 million, would have been castrated boys, and 18 million women and children. If the castrated boys had a mortality rate of 10%, it would take 90 million boys seized in the bush to yield 9 million arriving, over 1300 years, at the slave markets. Even if we were to take the lower mortality rate of 80%, that would still give a total of 45 million boys seized in the bush. As for women and children, if 18 million ended up in the Islamic markets, a 20% mortality rate meant that the slavers started out with about 23 million women and children. Assuming, then, the lowest mortality rates for both the castrated boys (80%), and the women and children (20%), we arrive at a figure of 68 million Africans originally seized by Arab slavers.

Now compare this with the Atlantic Slave Trade. Between 1525 and 1866, that is the entire history of the slave trade to the New World, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. Of those, 10.7 million survived the Middle Passage, to disembark in South America, the Caribbean, and North America. In the Atlantic Slave Trade, no boys were castrated – the slaves were intended for agricultural use – and the mortality rate, for the Middle Passage (the trip across the Atlantic) was a mere 10-15%. Nor did slaves in the Atlantic slave trade have to suffer a long trek across the Sahara, or from Central Africa to the Indian Ocean, as did those in the Arab slave trade. This means that the Muslim Arab slave trade involved almost seven times as many Africans — 68 million instead of 12.5 million — as did the Atlantic Slave Trade.

The Arab slave trade was all about sex, the Atlantic Slave Trade all about agriculture. Men made up 2/3 of those taken by the European slavers, for use as agricultural labor. Women and children made up 2/3 of those taken by the Arab slavers, for use as concubines, with the remaining 1/3 being the castrated boys who, as eunuchs, guarded the harems. The Arab slavers began using the women and girls as sex slaves as soon as they had been captured. The famous Swiss explorer Johann Burkhardt, who travelled in Nubia and Egypt, reported in 1814 about what he saw: “I frequently witnessed scenes of the most shameless indecency, which the traders, who were the principal actors, only laughed at. I may venture to state, that very few female slaves who have passed their tenth year, reach Egypt or Arabia in a state of virginity.” In other words, girls as young as ten were routinely raped by the Arab slavers. Those familiar with the example of little Aisha, Muhammad’s youngest and last wife,, with whom he had sexual intercourse when she was nine, will not be surprised at how the slavers treated girls even before “their tenth year.” Muhammad remains, after all, the Model of Conduct (“uswa hasana”).

David Livingstone, the celebrated missionary and explorer who was in East Africa a half-century after Burkhardt, described the barbarity of the Arab slavers in the African Great Lakes region:

To overdraw its evils is a simple impossibility … We passed a slave woman shot or stabbed through the body and lying on the path. [Onlookers] said an Arab who passed early that morning had done it in anger at losing the price he had given for her, because she was unable to walk any longer. We passed a woman tied by the neck to a tree and dead … We came upon a man dead from starvation … The strangest disease I have seen in this country seems really to be broken heartedness, and it attacks free men who have been captured and made slaves.

All of this abridged history lesson is by way of background. For clearly there is a mission here, for someone who bestrides the two worlds – of Islam and black Africa – to undertake. That someone is Keith Ellison.

If Keith Ellison were to start a campaign to obtain justice for black Africans from Muslim Arabs, he might begin by using the many media outlets available to him to educate the American public about this Arab slave trade in Africans. He could deliver heartfelt speeches in Congress, with the kinds of facts and figures offered here, being sure to keep it simple, startling his audiences with a one-sentence summary that “this Arab slave trade began earlier, ended later, and claimed tens of millions more victims” than the Atlantic Slave Trade. He could mention the castrated boys, and the phenomenal level of mortality, because of the primitive operations, and the long treks to the slave markets. He could bring the matter to the attention of the Congressional Black Caucus, and then to Congress as a whole. He could interest 60 Minutes in doing a segment on “The Other Slave Trade.” He could appear with Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer, Charlie Rose, to reach tens of millions, about the need for the Muslim Arabs to recognize their responsibility to Black Africa, and to make substantial reparations to black Africans, especially those in East and Central Africa, where the Arab traders seized almost all of their slaves. He could enlist George and Amal Clooney – she with her human-rights background, and he Hollywood’s foremost mediagenic liberal – to take up the cause. For the rich Arab states of the Gulf, that is Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Emirates, Dubai and Qatar, such reparations, even if in the tens of billions, would be only a line-item hiccup, given the amounts they take in annually, but for the African recipients, those sums could be, as so many now like to say, “transformative.” No one can accuse Ellison of being “islamophobic.” His campaign will help to educate African-Americans as to the treatment of black Africans by Muslim Arabs, causing a stir, and raising resentments that, Ellison can tell the rich Arabs with whom he is negotiating, can only subside – possibly — when the Arabs demonstrate, through the payment of reparations to the states from where most of the slaves were seized, their deep and genuine regret over their slave trade and the damage it did to black Africa.

Ellison would be the perfect middleman for this transaction, between Muslim Arabs and black Africans, for he is welcome in both camps. As America’s first Muslim congressman, he has been made much of in Al Jazeera. He has met with leading (and unsavory) clerics in Saudi Arabia. He has addressed the Islamic Society of North America, which has ties to Hamas, has accepted $13,350 to make the hajj to Mecca from the Muslim-American Society, a Muslim Brotherhood organization, and accepted aid from CAIR for his first political campaign. All of that has given him status and power within the Islamic world, and he is similarly situated, as an Afro-American and a Sanders-camp “progressive,” as a political force to be reckoned with (after all, he barely missed out on becoming chairman of the D.N.C.) in the United States. He can exploit that power and status in order to obtain justice for black Africans. Until now he has not paid the slightest attention to the persistence of African enslavement in Arab lands, no doubt wishing to protect the image of Muslim Arabs. Nor has he ever discussed the long history of the Arab slave trade. It’s time for him to think less about Islam’s image, or that of the Arabs, and more about the sufferings of black Africans. He needs to give the world a history lesson that, coming from him, can’t be dismissed as bigotry or Islamophobia. And of course – I hope Ellison will have a chance to read this bit of friendly advice – he should be compensated handsomely, given a fixed percentage of what he manages to exact as reparations from the Arabs. It would be he, after all, who will have brought this matter so spectacularly to the world’s attention (Jihad Watch can remain in the wings) and by doing so put pressure on the rich Arabs to make amends. And it is Keith Ellison, with the help of historians of African slavery, who would decide from which present-day African countries the slaves must have been taken, and in what numbers, and what damage was done as a consequence both to those seized, and to those lands and peoples they left behind. And then, Ellison should be in charge of determining the size of the reparations and how they ought to be allocated.

The Muslim Arabs of the Gulf might at first refuse to pay any reparations. But the sums involved are so small, compared to what the Gulf Arabs take in annually (the Muslim Arab members of OPEC have received nearly $30 trillion in oil revenues since 1973 alone), and the damage that would be done, to the image of Muslim Arabs — and to Islam — potentially so great, that even if initially they might reject any notion of reparations, Keith Ellison could get them – he’s on their side, after all, he only wants what’s best for Islam, he can insist – to reconsider his entreaties. He could explain that he wants only to protect the image of Arabs and Islam. And he can explain, too, that the size and duration and unusual cruelty of that Arab slave trade, especially the mass castrations, are wreaking havoc with that image. Ellison’s committee of experts could attempt to calculate the damage done to East and Central Africa by the loss of more than 100 million people to Arab slavers. It would be wonderful to see Ellison, with the full support of the Black Caucus, and of Congressional Democrats, and for quite different reasons, even of the Congressional Republicans, sponsoring a Congressional resolution calling upon those Muslim Arabs whose ancestors were involved in any aspect of the trade in black African slaves to make “suitable reparations” especially if they “are in a position to do so” (i.e., the rich Gulf Arabs, not impoverished Egypt or Jordan) to the black African states of eastern and central Africa, the territories from which Arab traders seized almost all of their slaves.

Ellison would have given the Western public, on behalf of Black Africa, a useful History Lesson. He would also have exacted from the richest countries, per capita, in the world, the Arab Gulf states, that became, and remain, fabulously wealthy purely as a result of an accident of geology, significant sums for some of the poorest people on the planet. He would have helped attain a kind of rough economic justice from the deep-pocketed descendants of those who had been involved in the trade in black slaves, after centuries of inattention and continuing injustice to the African states affected.. And Keith Ellison would have found a way to exploit his Muslim identity on behalf of his African one. He won’t be turned away by the Arabs, but as not just a fellow Muslim, but the highest-ranking Muslim politician in the United States, he’ll find that he’ll be given a hearing in Riyadh, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Qatar… And his argument to his fellow Muslims will be that now that the world has started to pay close attention to the history of the Arab slave trade in black Africa that particular genie can only be put back in the bottle, if at all, by the Arabs doing right by black Africa, by agreeing to these reparations. These payments would ideally be made not all at once but continue over many years, so as to avoid a sudden influx of vast wealth that would unhinge the recipients, and possibly encourage corruption. Furthermore, payment over a long period can help ensure that the African side keeps its part of the bargain, that is, ceases to disseminate information about the Arab slave trade, so that attention is again focused on the Atlantic Slave Trade. And during that time Keith Ellison could be the man in overall charge of the program, the one to oversee the transfer of sums from Arabs to black African states, to remind the Arabs that if they fail to come through with what they promised, they should expect to be hammered, without end, in the American and world media. He is the one who should make sure the monies received are not wasted in profligate projects but carefully husbanded, so as to have a lasting beneficial effect on the peoples and polities that receive them. Should some Muslim Arabs grumble about the money, Ellison can be the one to remind them of the importance, even the necessity, of getting the world’s attention off the subject of the Arab Muslim slave trade – it’s not good, he can truthfully and, as a fellow Muslim, sympathetically explain — for the image either of the Arabs or of Islam. And that appeal, coming from someone so wrapped up in his Muslim identity, will carry weight. He can also keep reminding the Arabs of the Gulf that the sums involved may be large for the recipients but, for the donors, are perfectly manageable.

And what’s in it for Keith Ellison? He will have a new undertaking, to replace his Congressional calling, as overseer of these reparations. He will become a hero in black Africa, not just in those states that will receive reparations from some of the richest people in the world but elsewhere, too, among those who, like the Christians in Nigeria, have long felt resentment at the forces of Islam. And many Muslims, especially non-Arabs, will be grateful to him for finding a way to rescue the image of Islam – unaware of his role in focusing widespread attention on the very subject, the Arab slave trade, that he then will attempt, as reparations are paid, to minimize. Given the size of the program he will be administering, and the sums to be transferred from Arabs to Africans, he will certainly have a right to compensation far above what he now earns as a Congressman. It will be much more rewarding, in every sense, for Ellison to take on this new role. Keith Ellison will find there’s no need for him to regret having lost out on the cat-herding that Thomas Perez has now signed up for, as the just-elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Ellison should welcome this task of obtaining justice for black Africans from Muslim Arabs, and we should do nothing to discourage him from this, surely his highest and best use.

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  1. concerned canadian says

    Feb 28, 2017 at 3:27 pm

    way to fuel the fire of republicans and isolate jews !
    man o man the DNC are their own worst enemies lol

    • jihad3tracker says

      Feb 28, 2017 at 6:44 pm

      HELLO C-C ! Please let me parachute into your yard with a path to Henry Louis Gates — mentioned by Hugh Fitzgerald in another one of his superb posts here on Jihad Watch: gates@harvard.edu

      And, as a cherry on the sundae of Ellison’s black hypocrisy ignoring the immense African slave trade, this is one of Dr. David Wood’s best videos:

      http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2016/02/muhammad-white-prophet-with-black-slaves.html

      It runs less than 10 minutes, with citations to establish David’s claims — and. of course, his impish mordant humor.

      So for those of us with motivation and time, email H. L. Gates with a link to Mr. Fitzgerald’s item (above) and a hotlink to the video above.

      • maghan says

        Mar 1, 2017 at 8:15 am

        What Fitzgerald writes about there about the East African Arab slave trade is true in essence but wildly exaggerated. There was indeed slavey of Africans in Zanzibar and Pemba .

        And much of that slavery was under the watch of African slavers like Tippu Tib–but Arabs were so backward and primitive that there was little need for all that unfree labor as was the case in the Americas.

        Why would a mostly illiterate tent-dwelling bunch of lazies who who knew nothing about large-scale agriculture or real business as Adam Smith described want to import all those millions of workers as Fitzgerald describes it?

        In fact. most of the slaves transported to the Muslim areas were Eastern European females enslaved by lascivious Turks–and used mostly as breeders.

        Why would a primitive population of sand-trekkers need all those slaves? To do what? They already have all the slaves they need. Their females. As Churchill put it, every Muslim female is owned–by a man.

    • Polk1970 says

      Mar 1, 2017 at 3:23 pm

      Mr. Fitzgerald,
      You’ve OUTDONE yourself
      You’ve placed Ellison in a BOX
      A Public Social Media and Petition Campaign BASED on THIS directed at Ellison
      And an UNBELIEVABLE FIRST Shot in the Battle to Liberate African Americans from the Democratic Party
      Front Page, Jihad Watch, and Pamela Geller could make it HAPPEN Online

  2. Papa Whiskey says

    Feb 28, 2017 at 3:38 pm

    This calls to mind Jonathan Swift’s “Modest Proposal.”

  3. Diane Harvey says

    Feb 28, 2017 at 4:09 pm

    Henry Louis Gates, winner of the Nobel Prize for Affirmative Action.

    This guy is even less than a nothing. He’s a POS who’s got this gig going that’s the world’s biggest fraud. And all because the guilt-ridden lefties throughout Harvard think that they can make it all good by giving this Gates character, who has no substance whatsover, a place at the table.

    And you expect this POS to mention the role of Islam and Muslims in the History of Slavery?

  4. Tetvet1968 says

    Feb 28, 2017 at 4:22 pm

    I wrote this and posted it about 7 years ago and almost got run off the internet.
    In 1973 I was walking down the Quay on the Dira Creek in Dubai. I was with my translator. I was a young guy and was fascinated by the Arabs and their culture. My translator spoke 8 languages and he was perfect for me, as I was trying to learn to speak Arabic. We were near the Dows (old Arab boats powered by sail and diesel engines) and I could hear many different languages and I was always asking him what it was. He would tell me it was this or that. We came abreast of one Dow and there was a chattering of a very strange language and I asked him what it was. He said it was Swahili. So, I got closer to the Dow and looked aboard and there were at least 40 chained up black Africans. I asked him what this was all about and he said the Dow was going to Iran and they were slavers. Now understand this is 1973 not 1873. The Arabs and Persians have been the biggest slave traders on earth. Africans sold Africans to other Africans and their best customers, hold on hold on that’s right Arabs.
    New flash for all the black converts to Islam.
    As I started to learn about Islam and Arabs, true Muslims have looked down their noses at every black Muslim and they will forever. I was told by a senior Saudi Wahhabis theologian that said there is no blood of the prophet running in the veins of black African Muslims, so they will never be true Muslims in the eyes of Arabs, nor will they have the any level of respect of a true Arab Muslim. But Islam now caters to black Americans because they know they need their numbers in America to enact an internal Jihad overthrow-caliphate. But I can guarantee you one fact; there will be no seat at the power sharing table in the New World Order or Agenda 21 for Islam or American black militants. Welcome to Islam all you dumb black African-Americans that think that becoming a Muslim will save your or spiritually enrich your life or your soul, it will enslave you and eventually kill you. Plus, all black African friends of mine think all you American blacks are nuts for wanting to tie your birthright to a continent that has continually massacred, slaughtered and sold each other as soon as they come under the power of a black dictator or tribal leader. Plus, every black African friend of mine would have been proud to be called an American, not African-American.

    • Eric Jones says

      Feb 28, 2017 at 8:42 pm

      Sad, but true.

      Eric

    • maghan says

      Mar 1, 2017 at 8:43 am

      A bit emotional there. First, Muhammad, the so-called Prophet was an illiterate killer, rapist, plunderer, pedophile, bandit, etc.–just name the crime and that vile and disgusting character did it. So why would any normal person wish to have such a murdering pervert in his/her bloodline? And the vast majority of Arabs have no direct lineage with Muhammad. Those who say they do, are just low-grade liars.

      Second, slavery was practiced almost everywhere. There was slavery in Greece and Rome. And the Roman Empire imported slaves from Britain in large numbers–their preferred status due to their “docility and dim-wittedness”.

      In fact, once a civilization becomes large and is divided along class lines with an aristocracy, there is bound to be a slave class. Thus India and China had large amounts of slaves. The more technologically advanced Aztecs, Incas and Mayas in the Americas kept many slaves and serfs.

      In fact, serfdom in Europe was just another name for “slavery”–given that “serf” derives from the Latin “servus” meaning slave. The cry of the anti-feudal revolutions in Europe was “Free the serfs”. Read Dostoevski to learn about the abject slave status of the Russian serf.

      The basic point to made here though is that it is very stupid for Africans in Africa and African Americans to embrace a primitive and badly plagiarized religion as Islam. Sheer ignorance and stupidity. And why should African Americans turn their backs on Africa. After all, their ancestors did not leave Africa willingly. The opposite is the case with European migrants to the Americas. They were so exploited and pushed into poverty in their home countries that their only salvation was to leave Europe and migrate to the Americas. The Irish plight and the Irish famine. The cruelties of Soviet Communism. Germany and the plight of its citizen Jews. Spanish, Portuguese, and Eastern European poverty. The Pilgrims and their flight from Britain. All examples of the economic and religious plights of Europeans as they fled their homelands. Yet Americans of European descent are umbilically tied to their European homelands.

      Point: people like Ellison just became Muslims in a huge error. But only less than 2% of the AA population have made that error.

  5. Tjhawk says

    Feb 28, 2017 at 4:23 pm

    There are images of Nubians (black) chained at the neck on the walls of the tombs in Egypt. Maybe Kieth could go after them too.

    Off Topic: what’s Kieth’s muslim name?

    • billybob says

      Feb 28, 2017 at 5:00 pm

      Keith Muhammad Ellison Abdul

      • billybob says

        Feb 28, 2017 at 5:01 pm

        …or maybe that last one should be Abeed

        • james cavalieri says

          Mar 1, 2017 at 9:49 am

          Appreciate how ready you and hugh are to condemn a radical like Ellison!!! (Of which I agree with) Are either one of you as quick, and ready, to condemn radicals like the steven tag team of bannon and miller??? Or, does only one side deserve all the bashing and trashing????

        • Custos Custodum says

          Mar 1, 2017 at 1:16 pm

          Please take your trolling elsewhere.

          This site is jihadwatch.org WHICH YOU ARE CLEARLY TRYING TO DISRUPT with off-topic diversions.

  6. terry says

    Feb 28, 2017 at 6:29 pm

    Yesterday, on (well, I saw it on Yahoo news, but I think from a newspaper)- Ellison’s supporters saying that he lost BECAUSE JEWS CONTACTED OTHER JEWS IN THE DNC, AND SAID THAT HE WAS AN ANTI-SEMITE, DUE TO HIS (EARLIER) DEALINGS WITH THE NATION OF ISLAM.

    Ellison supporters were saying this, and Ellison supporters were saying that they were never contacted, and he was a bad loser. (sort of like the entire Dem party and their snowflakes).

    The finishing touches-as per the Ellison people- when Derkowitz said that eh would quit the Dem party if Ellison became chair. Supposedly, that (along with the mythical letters from the Jewish officials on the DNC. That is why he lost.

    Like Clinton- the leaks; or the headlines in The National Enquirer, or, or or

  7. vlparker says

    Feb 28, 2017 at 7:13 pm

    Well, I won’t hold my breath.

  8. common sense says

    Feb 28, 2017 at 8:31 pm

    A mouth piece for procrastination and non motivation. Ellison teamed up with Sanders will equate to greater numbers of inner city blacks on welfare and frothed up Muslims.

    Telling blacks that they were treated much worse by Arab Muslims than whites would be way too daring, Ellison knows he’d just piss off 2 minority groups that the dnc needs.

    Hollyweird libs are too wimpy to make a film about this, maybe Mel Gibson could pull it off independently. The cruelty and historical backdrop is right up his alley. I gotta say I had no idea it was that bad, appalling cruelty and the amount of people destroyed.

    Remember 12 years a slave? Yeah try 1200 years and more.

    • common sense says

      Feb 28, 2017 at 8:37 pm

      And a heck of s history lesson Hugh, I know Arabs still hold sex slaves like ISIS and others this however is an eye opener.

    • Angemon says

      Mar 1, 2017 at 8:18 am

      “Telling blacks that they were treated much worse by Arab Muslims than whites would be way too daring, Ellison knows he’d just piss off 2 minority groups that the dnc needs.

      If he actually believed it, he would do it, I guess, regardless of who it’d piss off.

  9. Eric Jones says

    Feb 28, 2017 at 8:36 pm

    Good article. Gruesome history.Only one Arfican American historian mentioned the Arab Slave Trade, John Henrik Clark.

    Ellison made a speech in the past where he stated that ‘ Saudi Arabia needs to be builte up, got to build it up.’ Ellison is a toady for islam and wil not follow the suggestions in this article.

    There is no slavery I would wish to live under. In a better world slavery will be in the dust bin of history. We have a lot of work to do.

    Eric

    • Custos Custodum says

      Mar 1, 2017 at 1:28 pm

      Not even Henry Louis Gates, it seems, is fully cognizant of how widespread and damaging that Arab slave trade was to black Africa.

      Gates no doubt knows all about the Arab slave trade, but he knows even better which side his bread is buttered. Offending Leftist totalitarians and criticizing THE NARRATIVE is far above his pay grade.

      Black activists have a well-defined and limited role within the Leftist ecosystem: to support THE NARRATIVE. The fate of African-Americans, collectively or individually, is of concern only if and to the extent that it supports THE NARRATIVE and ultimately the acquisition of totalitarian.

      To the Left, designated victim groups – African-Americans, women, gays, Hispanics, working class (ditched in the 1950s), etc. When their usefulness ends, they are ditched without a moment’s hesitation, as happened to the working class in the 1950s.

  10. abad says

    Feb 28, 2017 at 9:43 pm

    A very simple solution to the Ellison problem:

    American tax dollars pay his one-way plane ticket to Syria where he can live with his Brothers in Allah in Palmyra for a month or two.

    He loves Islam so much he can stay on their turf and get off of mine.

  11. Kathy Brown, Esq. says

    Feb 28, 2017 at 9:48 pm

    Marvelous article from Robert!

    I was thinking that it doesn’t matter that commie alinskyite Perez was elected. I mean, he’s exactly as pro-muslim terrorist as Ellison is. In fact, all of the obama-bots are.

    • Custos Custodum says

      Mar 1, 2017 at 1:29 pm

      Mr. Spencer deserves our ongoing thanks as the host of this site. The article was written by Hugh Fitzgerald.

  12. LB says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 3:20 am

    Mr. Fitzgerald, while I admire your passion about this topic, I feel the need to remind you (but you must know this already) that all stealth jihadis, regardless of their race, will NEVER EVER say anything which would put Arabs — and therefore islam — in a bad light. They are even rewriting history by saying that islam brought science and prosperity (the “Golden Age”) to Europe during its medieval conquest.

    In Keith’s mind, he doesn’t see himself as black (except when he pulls a race card to propagate white slave trade), he sees himself as muslim and therefore a spiritual brother to arabs. Even if he knew about everything you wrote here, he wouldn’t care because islamic conquest of Dar-al-Harb from within takes priority. Any mention of arabic slave trade would set back his (and many other stealth jihadis in the DNC) efforts. That’s how badly islam erodes one’s mind.

    • Islam the religion of killers says

      Mar 1, 2017 at 6:16 am

      “by saying that islam brought science and prosperity (the “Golden Age”) to Europe during its medieval conquest.”

      Does anyone know how many “science & prosperity” achievements the Arab muslims brought to the world ???
      Any inventions ??
      Any nobel peace prizes ??
      any litreal genius ??

      Any good idea’s ???? ………………………………………………………………… I didn’t think so

      • Terry says

        Mar 1, 2017 at 5:11 pm

        Arafat won the Nobel peace Prize, for Camp David- which never really got off the ground.

        I don’t know of any Muslim contributions in medicine, science, or of value to humanity.

    • Custos Custodum says

      Mar 1, 2017 at 1:35 pm

      True – the Arabs are desperate to hide the REAL history of Islam and did not hesitate even to destroy the grave of Muhammad’s mother – “1984” anyone?:

      The Wahhabis live in fanatical fear that places of historical or religious interest could give rise to alternative forms of pilgrimage or worship. Their obsession with combating idolatry has seen them flatten all evidence of a past that does not agree with their interpretation of Islam.

      Irfan Ahmed al-Alawi, the chairman of the Islamic Heritage Foundation, set up to help protect the holy sites, says the case of the grave of Amina bint Wahb, the mother of the Prophet, found in 1998, is typical of what has happened. “It was bulldozed in Abwa and gasoline was poured on it. Even though thousands of petitions throughout the Muslim world were sent, nothing could stop this action.”

      http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/shame-of-the-house-of-saud-shadows-over-mecca-6103414.html

  13. frederick King says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 4:23 am

    I have often wondered why so many Black choose to be muslim. I’m well read on the arab slave trade. Many areas of africa were not converted to islam because of the slave value.
    This would be the perfect job for Ellison. He won’t take it though. He after the white mens.

    • maghan says

      Mar 1, 2017 at 9:07 am

      North Africa was invaded and Islam imposed by force and violence. Ancient Ghana, Mali and Songhay adopted Islam because their kings saw some value in adopting that religion.

      Witness Mansa Musa(Emperor of Mali) and his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324–laden with gold and thousands of slaves(Google this). Islam was resisted in many places but eventually succeeded mainly because of its simplicity and rituals. Plus the fact that it grew out of the religious traditions of Judaism and a universalist of Christianity.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Mar 2, 2017 at 5:56 am

        You need to read Mark Durie, “Which God” and learn that Islam did NOT ‘grow out of’ either Judaism or Christianity.

        It seems rather to have been quite deliberately concocted as their absolute antithesis: a mockery, caricature or ‘foe-fic”.

        Muslims state that Jesus was not crucified. Muslims claim that Isaac was not offered, but rather, Ishmael. These are ‘rewrites’ that are intended to *gut* the original; to *destroy* it.

        The great Jewish theologian and philosopher Franz Rosenzweig placed Judaism and Christianity together; but Islam he classified as a subspecies of ‘paganism’ (that is: of nonbiblical religion).

        Moshe ben Maimon called mohammed “ha-Meshugga” – The Mad One. And he is very scathing about the nonrationality, the all-pervading nonreason or unreason that pervades Islam. Its god is absolutely capricious and absolutely amoral. And that, I would remind you, is NOT a characteristic of the Biblical God, who is the Word, the Logos.

        If one fully understands Jewish and Christian theology, one *cannot* state that Islam is in any way ‘derived’ from them. It *mimicks* them, it plagiarises (but then creates a ghastly parody of what it has plagiarised), but that mimickry is a surface thing. At the core of Islam is nothing but Thanatos deified, or, as William Palgrave observed way back in the 19th century – “a pantheism of Force”. NOTHING could be more different from – and not only different from, but antithetical to – the God of the Jews and the Christians.

  14. John A. Marre says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 9:29 am

    That would require a Muslim to admit that Muslims did wrong. Never happen. There is too much to be gained from blaming all the world’s problems on White Christians.

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