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Slavery persists in North Africa and elsewhere in Muslim countries

Oct 18, 2019 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

Slavery is acceptable in Islam. The Qur’an has Allah telling Muhammad that he has given him girls as sex slaves: “Prophet, We have made lawful to you the wives to whom you have granted dowries and the slave girls whom God has given you as booty.” (Qur’an 33:50)

Muhammad bought slaves: “Jabir (Allah be pleased with him) reported: There came a slave and pledged allegiance to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) on migration; he (the Holy Prophet) did not know that he was a slave. Then there came his master and demanded him back, whereupon Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: Sell him to me. And he bought him for two black slaves, and he did not afterwards take allegiance from anyone until he had asked him whether he was a slave (or a free man).” (Muslim 3901)

Muhammad took female Infidel captives as slaves: “Narrated Anas: The Prophet offered the Fajr Prayer near Khaibar when it was still dark and then said, ‘Allahu-Akbar! Khaibar is destroyed, for whenever we approach a (hostile) nation (to fight), then evil will be the morning for those who have been warned.’ Then the inhabitants of Khaibar came out running on the roads. The Prophet had their warriors killed, their offspring and woman taken as captives. Safiya was amongst the captives. She first came in the share of Dahya Alkali but later on she belonged to the Prophet. The Prophet made her manumission as her ‘Mahr.’” (Bukhari 5.59.512) Mahr is bride price: Muhammad freed her and married her. But he didn’t do this to all his slaves:

Muhammad owned slaves: “Narrated Anas bin Malik: Allah’s Apostle was on a journey and he had a black slave called Anjasha, and he was driving the camels (very fast, and there were women riding on those camels). Allah’s Apostle said, ‘Waihaka (May Allah be merciful to you), O Anjasha! Drive slowly (the camels) with the glass vessels (women)!’” (Bukhari 8.73.182) There is no mention of Muhammad’s freeing Anjasha.

“Thousands Of Black People Are Still Slaves. So Why Haven’t You Heard About Them?,” by Charles Jacobs, The Federalist, October 14, 2019:

Every day across the African continent, black men, women, and children are captured, bought, and sold into slavery with the Western world paying scant attention. Human rights groups have marched and battled against abuses noticeably less cruel and evil than human bondage, yet no major organization has attempted to free today’s black slaves, much less taken meaningful steps to raise awareness about their plight.

For instance, in Mauritania, although slavery has been legally banned five times since 1961, it nevertheless persists with tens of thousands of blacks continuing to be held in bondage. While it is forbidden in the Qur’an for Muslims to enslave fellow Muslims, in Mauritania, racism trumps religious doctrine — as it did in the West — as Arab and Berber Muslims enslave African Muslims.

Twenty-five years ago, Mohamed Athié, a political refugee from Mauritania, and I broke the story of a modern-day black slave trade in The New York Times. Our nascent American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG) mobilized the public, and piqued media interest. In Sudan, tens of thousands of African women and children from mostly Christian villages were being enslaved during the jihad raids of the Second Sudanese Civil War.

Americans heard stories of abduction, rape, beatings, forced conversions, and genital mutilation. Between 1995 and 2011, Christian Solidarity International, a grassroots human rights group, liberated more than 100,000 of these slaves in European- and American-funded slave buy-backs.

President George W. Bush, moved by the plight of the slaves, helped the black south split off and eventually form South Sudan, the world’s newest nation, in 2011. It was estimated then that as many as 35,000 blacks remained enslaved in the north. Nobody knows how many are there today.

The AASG, which led abolitionist campaigns from 1995 to 2005, ceased its activist work when South Sudan won its freedom. But today, the enslavement of black Africans has spread as a result of the growth of violent Islamist movements and anti-black racism. The need for human rights groups’ intervention and efforts has never been greater.

Americans first heard about Islamist slave raids in Nigeria when Michelle Obama made it a cause célèbre with her “#BringBackOurGirls” hashtag, but interest quickly faded, and Boko Haram continued to kidnap hundreds of Christian girls into jihad slavery. So cruel are the events of their captivity that some girls prefer death as suicide bombers to the life of a slave. Today, Fulani Muslim herdsmen raid Christian villages, massacring their inhabitants. President Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim, has done relatively little to stop the assaults, even in the face of demands for action from the White House.

In Algeria, sub-Saharan Africans fleeing violence and poverty are enslaved by Algerian Arabs as they attempt to cross the Mediterranean into Europe. According to the Global Slavery Index (GSI), 106,000 black Africans are estimated to be enslaved in Algeria. Migrant women and children of both sexes risk being forced into sexual slavery, while men perform unskilled labor….

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  1. Keya says

    Oct 18, 2019 at 9:18 am

    Muslims will forever live in the 7th century.

    • Herb L says

      Oct 18, 2019 at 9:42 am

      Unfortunately as long as the great Quran exists mankind will never be free.

      • elee says

        Oct 18, 2019 at 11:51 am

        +1

      • mortimer says

        Oct 18, 2019 at 11:54 am

        “Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam.” – Sheikh Sheikh Saleh Ibn Fawzan Ibn Abdullah PhD

        His religious books are used to teach 5 million Saudi students, both within the country and abroad, including in the United States.

        Dr. Al Fawzan – a member of the Senior Council of Clerics, Saudi Arabia’s highest religious body, – says Muslims who contend Islam is against slavery “are ignorant, not scholars.”

        “They are merely writers,” he said, according to SIA. “Whoever says such things is an infidel.”

        Al-Fawzan’s best-known textbook, “Al-Tawheed – Monotheism,” says most Muslims are polytheists, and their blood and money are therefore free for the taking by “true Muslims.”

        SIA said although the Saudi government claims religious curriculum is being reformed, Al-Fawzan’s books are still in wide use.

        Al-Fawzan is a member of the Council of Religious Edicts and Research, the Imam of Prince Mitaeb Mosque in Riyadh and a professor at Imam Mohamed Bin Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia’s main center of learning for the strict Wahhabi interpretation of Islam.

        – – Sheikh Saleh Ibn Fawzan Ibn Abdullah PhD, was member of the Council of Senior Scholars, Saudi Arabia’s highest religious body, which advises the king on religious matters. He is also currently a member of the Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Issuing Fatwas, a committee of the Council of Senior Scholars.

        SLAVERY IS OFFICIAL IN ISLAM, rather than an aberration.

  2. revereridesagain says

    Oct 18, 2019 at 9:26 am

    If I recall correctly the United Nations — including, of course, the OIC — opposed the slave buy-backs on the flimsy ground that the money would be used to finance more armed conflict.

  3. Antiislamicman says

    Oct 18, 2019 at 9:36 am

    Islam is all about enslavement, Islam never left the 7th century. Their false prophet was a slave trader and owner of black people. What an evil ideology this is.

  4. elee says

    Oct 18, 2019 at 10:24 am

    Hey abolitionists, our work wont be done while there is Islam abroad.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 18, 2019 at 11:58 am

      Slavery in Yemen

      The Ongoing Fight To Free Thousands Of African Slaves In Yemen

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVuQTiQNJOE

      Slavery in Yemen – Al Jazeera World
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCVCKAC8WHo

      Africans Are Still Being Enslaved By Arabs Today A Former Slave Speaks Out On The Arab Slave Trade
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1pNBJFk48Y

      Saudi Arabs Are Still Selling Castrated Black Slaves TODAY
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XzThnFyjG0

      The Ongoing Fight To Free Thousands Of African Slaves In Yemen
      “A slave owner with four slaves can have sex with any of them”-Yemenese man

  5. SAFI says

    Oct 18, 2019 at 10:27 am

    The traditional medieval islamic worldview was(is?) that Black Africans are the descendants of Ham whose skin turned black after he was cursed by Noah and for that reason the descendants of Shem (Arabs) are justified to enslave them…

  6. mortimer says

    Oct 18, 2019 at 11:48 am

    TO JW-READERS WHO HAVE HEARD THAT ISLAM IS NOT ‘RACIST’ … well … GUESS AGAIN !

    SHARIA LAW MANUAL = BLACK SLAVES ARE CLASSIFIED AS “ANIMALS”

    Sunan an-Nasa’i Book 44 Hadith 4625 – Selling ANIMALS for ANIMALS of Different Amounts or Quality (Classification Sahih)

    4625: The prophet said: ‘Sell him (a slave) to me.’ So (Mohammed) bought him for two black slaves…”

    Note: a white slave is worth 2 black slaves in Islamic law. That’s official Islam

    The Koran refers to slaves as a ‘what’, rather than a ‘who’.

  7. Sun says

    Oct 18, 2019 at 11:56 am

    I’ve worked in North Africa for several years and have seen first-hand that even in ‘moderate’ countries like Morocco slavery still persists. I saw very young women working up to 18 hours a day as domestic staff for wealthy families, sleeping on the bare kitchen floor.

    They don’t call it slavery, they call it mercy towards the poor.

    • Hugo says

      Oct 18, 2019 at 12:11 pm

      I have seen the same thing in Saudi Arabia on countless occasions – they are often from poor countries like Somalia – as you say they sleep on the floor in the kitchen. The Saudi families make no attempt to cover it up – it is just normal

      • Hugo says

        Oct 18, 2019 at 12:13 pm

        NB Countless is hyperbole – half a dozen occasions, but I haven’t been into that many Saudi’s homes.

        • Sun says

          Oct 18, 2019 at 1:15 pm

          Thank you for sharing your experience. For me, it is terrible that most people do not want to be bothered with the truth and close their eyes to reality.
          Islam is simply not compatible with our philosophy of life in the 21st century.

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Oct 18, 2019 at 2:04 pm

    Slavery is a heinous part of Islam is a topic that the apologists for that religion don’t like have people bring up .Nevertheless one writer revealed that “The senior clerics of Saudi Arabia’s highest body declared “Slavery is part of Islam and whoever wants it abolished is an infidel.” [1] Likewise, a former Muslim had exposed in his book that “Slavery is recognized as an institution and slave is considered both a thing as a person.” [2] In addition, two Christian writers in their book had also informs their readers that “Islam has enslaved more people than any other culture.” [3] Therefore Islam regardless of what the apologists for this religion do claim has no regard for human rights

    [1] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel page 187
    [2] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 85
    [3] Jesus and the Jihadis, by Craig A Evens and Jeremiah J Johnston page 125.

  9. Wellington says

    Oct 18, 2019 at 2:41 pm

    Gee, how many Western Leftists care about this? Two? One? None?

    I vote for none.

    • Infidel says

      Oct 18, 2019 at 9:55 pm

      I’ve seen Bill Maher occasionally care. Also Sam Harris. I don’t think much of either of them, but to be fair, they have made it a point to note the evils of Islam

  10. FireFox says

    Oct 18, 2019 at 11:10 pm

    Islam was not compatible with any other philosophy or any other culture even in the 7th century.
    It was the most repugnant and oppressive expansionist and genocidal threat to all mankind back then, and it remains so until today.
    Why? Because Mohammad was.
    Barbaric. Ignorant. Misogynist. Supremacist. Hateful. Inhumane. A Deceitful Thieving Murderous Terrorist & Warmonger.
    And so was his sex-obsessed god of hate and death.
    And followers aspire to that model today, …believing it righteous to be like Mohammad.
    Why have we imported this backward, anti-freedom, anti-Christian, Jew-despising, infidel-hating, eternally-offended, anti-assimilating cult into our free-world??
    What terrible void existed in our freedoms and culture that this cult was best suited to fit??

  11. Angemon says

    Oct 19, 2019 at 7:10 am

    Thousands Of Black People Are Still Slaves. So Why Haven’t You Heard About Them?

    Because it’s not being done by Western whites.

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