Since AOC has mindlessly embraced this notion of Jews as “white supremacists,” we should ask her to take a look at the Muslim Arab record on “white supremacy,” or rather, at what celebrated Arab and Muslim figures have written about black Africans over the centuries. These include hair-raisingly contemptuous remarks about blacks by many Islamic worthies, such as Ibn Khaldun, and even statements by Muhammad himself in the hadith. AOC should be asked to learn, too, about about the history of the Arab slave trade in Africa, especially that involving African boys who were castrated on site, with a mortality rate of 90%, a slave trade that began earlier, ended later, and claimed many millions more victims, than did the Atlantic Slave Trade. The Arab slave trade ended only because of pressure from Western Infidels. Saudi Arabia and Yemen officially ended slavery only in 1962, and several other Muslim countries ended it even later. Mauritania officially ended slavery in 2007, the last country to do so, but in fact, the Arabs continue to have black slaves, and the estimate of the anti-slavery groups is that there are now 600,000 black slaves in Mauritania, 200,000 black slaves now in Mali, and as many as 875,000 slaves in Niger. Hundreds of thousands of black Africans were enslaved by the Arabs during the civil war in the Sudan. In Libya, a slave market selling Africans has been operated by Arabs during the last two years; the slaves are black Africans who ran out of money while trying to get to Europe. All this deserves the attention of AOC. She needs to learn, too, that there never was an Islamic William Wilberforce, because Muhammad himself, the Perfect Man and Model of Conduct, bought, owned, and traded slaves. That might give her pause.
In the Hadith, we find remarks about blacks such as these:
“Narrated Anas bin Malik: The Prophet said to Abu-Dar, ‘Listen and obey (your chief) even if he is an Ethiopian with a head like a raisin.’ And this: Ahmad ibn Abi Sulayman, the companion of Sahnun said, ‘Anyone who says that the Prophet was black should be killed.‘” (Ibn Musa al-Yahsubi, Qadi ‘Iyad, p. 375)
And there is this from the celebrated Arab historian Al-Tabari: “Noah prayed that the hair of Ham’s descendants [Africans] would not grow beyond their ears, and that whenever his [Ham’s] descendants met Shem’s, the latter would enslave them.” (Al-Tabari, Vol. 2, p. 21, p. 21)
There is a long history of anti-black remarks among outstanding figures in Islamic history:
Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) was, among other things, an Islamic jurist, Islamic lawyer, Islamic scholar, Islamic theologian, and hafiz (one who has memorized the entire Qur’an). He is one of the most important figures in Islamic history. Here are two (among many) remarks he makes about black Africans in his Muqaddimah:
Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.
Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings.
Ibn Sina or Avicenna (980-1037), was another celebrated figure in Islamic history: a hafiz, an Islamic psychologist, scholar, and theologian and, by our lights, a racist: “[Blacks are] people who are by their very nature slaves.”
Ibn Qutaybah (828-889), was a renowned Islamic scholar from Kufa, Iraq: “[Blacks] are ugly and misshapen, because they live in a hot country.”
Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī (1201-1274), was a Shia Muslim Scholar and Grand Ayatollah:
“If (all types of men) are taken, from the first, and one placed after another, like the Negro from Zanzibar, in the Southern-most countries, the Negro does not differ from an animal in anything except the fact that his hands have been lifted from the earth –In no other peculiarity or property – except for what God wished. Many have seen that the ape is more capable of being trained than the Negro, and more intelligent.”
“The Zanj (African) differ from animals only in that] their two hands are lifted above the ground,… Many have observed that the ape is more teachable and more intelligent than the Zanj.”
Al-Muqaddasi (945/946-1000) was a medieval Muslim geographer:
Of the neighbors of the Bujja, Maqdisi had heard that “there is no marriage among them; the child does not know his father, and they eat people — but God knows best. As for the Zanj, they are people of black color, flat noses, kinky hair, and little understanding or intelligence.” [Kitab al-Bad’ wah-tarikh, vol.4]
Al-Masudi (896-956), was a Muslim historian and geographer, known as the “Herodotus of the Arabs”:
“Galen says that merriment dominates the black man because of his defective brain, whence also the weakness of his intelligence.” (Al-Masudi, Muruj al-dhahab)
Ibn al-Faqih was a Muslim historian and geographer:
“A man of discernment said: The people of Iraq … do not come out with something between blonde, buff and blanched coloring, such as the infants dropped from the wombs of the women of the Slavs and others of similar light complexion; nor are they overdone in the womb until they are burned, so that the child comes out something between black, murky, malodorous, stinking, and crinkly-haired, with uneven limbs, deficient minds, and depraved passions, such as the Zanj, the Somali, and other blacks who resemble them. The Iraqis are neither half-baked dough nor burned crust but between the two.” (from his Mukhtasar Kitab al-Buldan, 903 AD)
There is much more in this disturbing vein, but what I’ve quoted here should be enough evidence of the deep racism of Muslim Arabs. These views justified the enslavement of blacks by Arabs that began in the 8th century and continued uninterruptedly until it formally ended, under Western pressure, in the 20th century. But in fact the enslavement of blacks by Arabs has continued, despite its official prohibition, in Mauritania, in Mali, in Niger, where a total of 1.5 million black slaves exist at present. There is also that new slave market, in Libya, where black Africans who became stranded in their attempt to make it to Europe by boat, and could not pay their smugglers, have then been sold into slavery by those to whom they owed money.
One hopes AOC will want to reconsider her charge that some Jews are “white supremacists.” Mere repetition of that accusation does not constitute evidence. And perhaps she could do something that would surprise and please many of us. Once having read what has been posted above from Muslim Arab writers about blacks, she would — I am sure — be properly appalled. And if so, AOC could make the cause of freeing the hundreds of thousands of black slaves who still exist in several Afro-Arab lands her very own. Let her introduce a resolution calling on the U.S. government “to apply economic pressure on the governments of Mauritania, Mali, and Niger, so as to end their practice of slavery, and to free the 1.5 million black slaves in those countries.” Surely every member of the House will gladly support it, save for three Defenders of the Faith — Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Andre Carson. As for those three, they will have some explaining to do to the Congressional Black Caucus. I can’t wait.
Me says
She’s Insane !!!
mortimer says
Symptoms of Histrionic Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
◾Is uncomfortable in situations in which he or she is not the center of attention
◾Interaction with others is often characterized by inappropriate sexually seductive or provocative behavior
◾Displays rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions
◾Consistently uses physical appearance to draw attention to themselves
◾Has a style of speech that is excessively impressionistic and lacking in detail
◾Shows self-dramatization, theatricality, and exaggerated expression of emotion
◾Is highly suggestible, i.e., easily influenced by others or circumstances
◾Considers relationships to be more intimate than they actually are
Porky The Crusader (@PorkyCrusade) says
Jeffrey Epstein has hanged himself inside his New York City jail cell.
The billionaire pedophile was found in cardiac arrest shortly before 7am on Saturday at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Manhattan.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7344181/Billionaire-Jeffrey-Epstein-dies-suicide-inside-Manhattan-jail-cell.html
They must have a lot of people relieve,LOL
Shield Bossman says
Technically, they would more likely be Jewish supremacists.
Brother Mark:) says
WOW! SOUNDS LIKE DONALD TRUMP TO ME!
That IS who you were referring to…. wasn’t it?
Brother Mark:) says
In case anyone was wondering….that last comment of mine was a response to Mortimer.
WOW! SOUNDS LIKE DONALD TRUMP TO ME!
That IS who you were referring to…. wasn’t it?
Western Canadian says
It’s a load of crap, whoever you were responding too.
Emilie Green says
“a slave trade [viz., the Muslim one] that began earlier, ended later, and claimed many millions more victims, than did the Atlantic Slave Trade. The Arab slave trade ended only because of pressure from Western Infidels.”
Don’t tell Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. It’d spoil his Guilting-the-Liberal-White gig at PBS and at Harvard.
jayell says
Surely they’re still at it? Reports from North Africa (Tunisia? Algeria?) have been quoted as noting that black Africans who have paid muslims to traffic them into Europe have been seen on sale in markets there. Clearly the pressure from Western infidels has dropped because of the weakness of ‘liberal’ political correctness, aided and abetted by the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar in the USA and all the nauseating liberal apologists in Europe (too many to number these days!).
Me says
Wake up People… Islam is DANGEROUS… It’s NOT a peaceful Religion. !!!
CRUSADER says
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com
Antiislamicman says
Islam is a threat to the whole non Muslim world. This woman is insane.
underbed cat says
Is she insane…or just politically motivated, who knows if she may have converted……to get support and collude on outcome. Conspiring with the religion of no peace….shows her intent that would lead to ruin.
rbla says
‘And perhaps she could do something that would surprise and please many of us.’
Here it is. From a stopped clock is right twice a day. BTW is this not reminiscent of the strange death of Jim McDougal in prison twenty years ago?
The Hill:
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) led public calls Saturday demanding answers after disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell due to an apparent suicide.
“We need answers. Lots of them,” Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, tweeted.
Wellington says
This woman knows nothing of importance, is filled with bad ideas and has power. Terrible combo.
Westman says
You’re right Wellington. AOC is like cotton candy. It looks large and important but there isn’t much of substance when pressure is applied. It will be interesting to see what comes out of her mouth now that Chakrabarti quit.
James Lincoln says
Absolutely true, Wellington.
She certainly knows nothing of importance, except perhaps how to mix an “Old Fashioned”.
Very sad, she just “doesn’t know that she doesn’t know”…
mortimer says
120 million Africans died because of the Islamic slave trade, thus making Islam the most racist, genocidal force in history.
AOC is no doubt unaware of the Holocaust and unaware of the lessons learned from the Holocaust about the sort of propaganda that justifies and then leads to actual genocide … propaganda like hers. It’s time for the B’nai Brith Society to hold AOC to account.
No one should ever again vote for this histrionic anti-Semite.
SaneHumanity says
Please Mortimer, can we have the source of the statement above about Muslim Arabs enslaving 120 million black people and how those slaves were treated?
libertyORdeath says
“[Blacks] are ugly and misshapen, because they live in a hot country.”
This is my favorite quote, coming from a guy who lived in Iraq where it routinely reaches 100+ degrees.
Kesselman says
The Mohammedan ideology is some of a race ideology, intolerable to others and devaluing all but Moslems—preferably pure Arabian.—That the unbelievable ignorant AOC isn’t updated on the history is not a surprise.
gravenimage says
Fine points from Hugh Fitzgerald.
Dean says
The hit squad are examples of people you do not want on your team. They will sell you out, put you down, provide secrets to the opposite team to damage you, will take the maximum in terms of resources for themselves and then leave you a broken loser. In short, do not vote for them unless you want people to hate each other, be at war, tell lies and use propaganda to get what they want at your expense. They are the spoiled brats who will destroy family and community and then laugh like little con artists who love themselves for creating havoc.
Mike says
Every time someone ask her to go further on her saying, she was left speechless. Alexander S. don,t have the time to feed her with content , only the slogans . Anyway , her hard drive can’t take it , it seems .
Yasmyn says
WOW!!!!!!! I lived among Muslims … Ate with them…. But never read the Koran …. never thought it necessary because I assumed there was mutual respect. They clearly classed blacks as less than or equal to animals. I will invest in a Koran to see for myself what is written. It’s interesting though, our hypocrisy… How we dont hold browns and blacks accountable for their roles in the past as we hold the whites….
don carlos says
A previous poster referenced the inimitable Harvard pseudo – scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Used to like the guy and learned a lot from his black history blog, especially about the Zanj revolts in Iraq back in the 8th century. Then came “The Great Civilizations of Africa” on P.B.S. a few years back. Mr. Gates’ intro was all about how the (American) trans – atlantic slave trade undoubtedly retarded African development for all time. I changed the channel real quick and lost all respect for this so called academic. As a representative example of the flagship of “Poison Ivy League” academia and his self – conscious and selective disparagement of America and exoneration of the Islamic slave trade, Mr. Gates set a new low in intellectual dishonesty.
Tom W Harris says
Clearly her re-election campaign will be a real horse race.