Hamed Abdul-Samad is right. Slavery is commonplace in Islamic history. Generally there were throughout history Muslim believers who believed themselves entitled to enslave non-Muslims, and did so, as I show in detail in my book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS.
“German-Egyptian Scholar Hamed Abdel-Samad: The Arabs Enslaved the Africans More Than Any Other Nation Did,” MEMRI, May 27, 2018:
German Egyptian scholar Hamed Abdel-Samad dedicated an episode of his Box of Islam show to slavery in Islam. Abdel-Samad said that 29 verses in the Quran endorse slavery and that “the Arabs enslaved the Africans more than any other nation did.” He added that while Abraham Lincoln led an army of white men to fight other white men in order to liberate slaves, but no similar initiative was taken by Muslims. The show aired on May 27.
somehistory says
What threats has he received for telling the truth?
Sun says
Mr. Abdel Samad received countless death threats and needs 24/7 security.
gravenimage says
Grimly true. This Muslim apostate is a very brave man.
Baucent says
Yes he is. I’ve seen other video of him airing other unpopular truth about Islam. His life must be in danger.
The European says
The well-known Al-Azar University has even issued a fatwa against him, requesting other Muslims to kill him for apostasy.
J D S says
If the apostasy law had been thrown out Islam would have died long ago.
gravenimage says
Here are some of the Fatwas against Hamed Abdel-Samad:
“The fatwa delusion of the sheikh”
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.fr.de/kultur/fatwa-gegen-hamed-abdel-samad-der-fatwa-wahn-des-scheichs-a-698093&prev=search
(The original story is in German. I put it through Google Translate–a bit clunky, but entirely intellegable)
lasslax says
He will die of lung-inflammation. Caused of a cold knife.
gravenimage says
I want this brave man to stay safe.
Sun says
Me too.
We are lucky to have people like him and Robert Spencer with their tireless dedication to educate the Western world about Islam.
Notmoron says
North, west and some East Africa countries are muslims because it was the first place in Africa where slavery started.
More blacks were/are killed by Arab muslims than all others continent combine.
gravenimage says
German-Egyptian scholar: Muslims “enslaved the Africans more than any other nation did”
……………………….
True stuff from Hamed Abdul-Samad. Check out his excellent “Box of Islam” series.
Sun says
I lived in moderate Islamic countries for several years. Very young girls, many barely older than ten, are still working as domestic servants. They work very long hours and sleep on straw mats on the kitchen floor.
People claim to support poor families by taking their kids as cheap servants.
elee says
That white devil Lincoln thwarted the will of Allah, didn’t he? Well no wonder he died. Can’t the damned kafirs read? They benefitted from slavery per Allah’s order for a mere century and then rejected it with a fierce and bloody war, now Muslims are dying to reestablish the Prophet’s institutions in Libya and Mauritania and there is no Caliph in Istanbul to protect Allah’s institutions or the central slave market of the world, it’s all drowned in tides of occidental apostasy and perfidy. Muslims come to Allah and fight to reinstate the orders of the Prophet!
Peter WF says
That has to be tongue in cheek.
I had a good laugh – thanks.
Westman says
Aww, and we were hoping to see “mithraist” and “failing economy” included.
gravenimage says
elee is right–this is how pious Muslims think.
Terry Gain says
The first slaves were brought to America in 1619. This was about nine hundred years after Muslims began engaging in the African slave trade.
We need to get this news to Lou Alcindor ASAP. Too late to reach Cassius Clay.
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery
Guy Forester says
I think big Lew’s ears are full of wax and it seems to filter out certain things like the truth.
No Sharia says
Is Alcindor the guy known as Kareem abdul Jamal (or whatever?). If so, he needs to know about this. I heard Kareem on TV about 2 years ago say he adopted islam because the ties of slavery and Christianity bothered him. What a hypocrite.
PRCS says
No, not a hypocrite.
An idiot.
And a good Muslim:
https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/04/03/oppressive-view-of-women-came-with-kareem-abdul-jabbars-islam-conversion/
gravenimage says
Yes–I’ve read that article, PRCS. Important stuff from Pam Grier.
Charles says
Cassius Marcellus Clay was a staunch abolitionist who influenced Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
Mohammed Ali, ruler of Egypt, was probably the largest slave owner in history.
Guy Forester says
Let us not forget the estimated one million or more Europeans and Americans taken as slaves as well. Many, many thousands ended up as galley slaves. Not a pleasant experience. It seems that Americans are not the only ones getting filtered history and dummed down. Africa and Europe are rushing headlong right back into slavery.
China and Russia need to wake up and realize that while the Western countries are their competitors, we are not their enemies. The very people they seem to be courting these days despise them and will do anything possible to destroy China and Russia.
No Sharia says
Indeed, the author of Don Quixote ended up as a a galley slave.
PRCS says
I didn’t know that! So, I looked it up:
https://www.lookandlearn.com/blog/13446/from-galley-slave-to-renowned-novelist-cervantes/
gravenimage says
All true, Guy and No Sharia.
OP says
It was far far more than 1 million. Records in Poland shows that over 3 million in that country alone got captured into slavery on muslim slave raids. I would not be surprised if the figure would be closer to 50 million or more considering Europeans were targets of muslim and black african slave raids for more than 1000 years.
Guy Forester says
From what I have come across over the years, Europeans themselves may have sold each other off into muslim slavery when they had wars to see who was king of the hill. Poor Poland really got caught between various warring factions. Is it any wonder that Poland, Hungary, the Czechs, and some of their other neighbors are fighting the current invasion of Europe?
OP says
No, they didn’t but Europe was not united and therefore regions victimized by Islam suffered greatly while they should have united to fight them together. Islam was never viewed as a friend in trade in Europe. They came at night raiding and attacking.
OP says
Many people in the US, and even in Europe, forget that Europeans got attacked, ambushed, raped and captured into slavery less than 150 years ago by black Africans and Muslims dedicated to Islam. MILLIONS of people got enslaved in Europe over a 1,000 year period by muslims and many of them black Africans once Islam hijacked the African nations and declared slavery a law under Sharia. The Europeans struggled for that entire 1,000 years to rid the world of slavery. It was perhaps due to their own brutal victimization for centuries which made them less sympathetic towards Africans once they became enslaved. In spite of that, it’s Europeans who ended the African slave trade, not the Africans themselves nor the muslims.
Susan B says
Islam needs to be exposed over and over again. Sadly the MSM, Hollywood and the education system do all they can to stop this from happening. Thank God for sites like Jihad watch and other sites that put the truth out there. My biggest fear is the shutdown of free speech before more people learn the truth.
The internet is now a tool of the globalist and they are the ones who feed “their” googled information to the masses. This is scary stuff.
gravenimage says
Not entirely. Jihad Watch is on the internet, as well.
John says
No one should allow what this twisted book says.
WPM says
Hamed Abdel Samad wrote a good book on Islam called Islamic Fascism comparing Islam to 20 century Hitler Fascism in Europe to Islam .He speaks at least five languages including German, English, Japanese ancient Arabic ,modern Arabic and Egyptian. He was raise by his family in Egypt to be an Iman ,so he knows all the Holy books and can read them in the original languages .He is hated and hunt by Islamics because of his books, and internet shows on showing Islam in its true light. He became a German citizen and has live in Germany and Japan a good man fighting the good fight.
gravenimage says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
Yes, that German-Egyptian scholar is 100% right in that statement of his. The following information is also very also relevant to his claim, and a very valid and true claim it is.
On the topic of the real spirit of Islam toward black people, two Christians who are also authors revealed in the book about the prophet and founder of Islam, Muhammad, the person who all Muslims greatly admire and view and a perfect example for them to emulate was man that “He personally owned two ‘black slave…he endorsed sex slavery as a gift from Allah.. In the every next page of that same book I also informs the reader that “Islam had enslaved more people than any other culture.” [1]
Likewise , a scholar on Islam who is an Arab woman and speakers and reads Arabic and uses to live in one the those countries on the Middle East had exposes in her book that the prophet of Islam ,Muhammad referred to Blacks as “ ‘raisin heads’ several time in the hadith [1:663:9:256]”Her book also reveals that “Throughout the hadith blacks are also referred to as abeds, which means ‘black in Arabic and is also synonymous with the word “slave’ and filth.” In fact ,Arab Muslims have enslaved blacks for 1,400 years and the Black slave trade iss till thriving in Sudan and Mauritania.” Further in her same book the author reveals that “Most interesting, though, is the even though black slavery by Muslims began long ago , almost no descends of those slaves are alive today in the Muslim world. Why is there no black culture in the Middle East ? Most slaves were either killed or died from being worked to death.” [2]
[1] JESUS AND THE JIHADIS by Craig A. Evens and Jeremiah J Johnson , pages 125,125.
[2] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel , pages 82, 183.
boakai ngombu says
NETWORK ERROR
can’t see the MEMRI vid as the notice above showed up less than a minute in and all progress stopped
i’m thinking something else interrupted the program
gravenimage says
Boakai, this link seems to work fine:
https://www.memri.org/tv/hamed-abdel-samad-on-slavery-in-islam
Investigate Gov Corruption Now says
He’s still alive?
WPM says
yes he is still alive and making the box of Islam youtube on the internet updates