In attacking America for its “racism,” the Supreme Leader would no doubt like us to remain unaware of the virulent racism to be found in the works of Arab and Muslim Qur’anic scholars, jurists, historians, and theologians. We need not do his bidding, but can take a look at the extensive evidence for Arab and Muslim racism. It’s hair-raising.
Let’s begin with the many Hadiths with racist implications, such as this: “Narrated Anas bin Malik: The Prophet said to Abu-Dhar, “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 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)
Why was it so terrible for the Prophet to be called “black”? Because for the Arabs, blacks were unquestionably inferior. And therefore Prophet Muhammad could not possibly have been black. Such misidentification, according to Ahmad ibn Abi Sulayman, was an insult to the Prophet, and deserved death. Blacks, as descendants of Ham, are fit to be slaves (Shem’s descendants “would enslave them”).
Many of the most famous Arab writers and Islamic scholars were certainly “racists” in the full meaning of that word.
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 deep-dyed 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.”
Nasr al-Din al-Tusi (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).
These are just a small sample of the racist remarks made by those whom Muslims regard as outstanding figures in Islamic intellectual history.
“If you’re dark-skinned walking in the US, you can’t be sure you’ll be alive in the next few minutes.”
Yes, let’s take another look at this charge by the Supreme Leader. Palpable nonsense, of course. It would be far truer to note the risks to life and limb you run, if you are identified as a Christian or a Jew or a Hindu, in any of a dozen Muslim countries.
According to Khamenei, US slave-traders “used to go and capture hundreds of thousands of men and women, old and young people with guns and other weapons which were not available to the people at the time.” These people, he said, “were taken to the US on those ships for slavery.”
The slave-owners “captivated [sic] free people who were living in their houses and in their own cities,” he continued, adding that the past of African-Americans is as evil as their present.
Khamenei has a most imperfect grasp of history. The slavers (they were not all Americans) who conducted the Atlantic Slave Trade did not seize people “who were living in their houses”; they purchased African slaves from other Africans, who roamed the interior –where the Americans and Europeans never penetrated – kidnapping fellow Africans, in order to sell them to the trans-Atlantic slavers.
Appealing to African-Americans, Khamenei said the “question of racism has not been solved yet in the country that claims to support freedom and human rights. A human, for his black skin, has no reassurance to live in society, if indeed, a police officer can beat him to death because of his colored skin.”
African-Americans, claims the Supreme Leader, have “no reassurance [sic] to live in [American] society.” Really? When the radio and television nation-wide have nonstop coverage of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, when politicians compete to declare their sympathy for the victim and their anger at the police involved, when spokesmen for Black Lives Matter are all over the media and protesting noisily in the streets, when the policeman whose knee was on Floyd’s neck has been arrested for murder and rioters lay siege even to his Florida vacation home, all this doesn’t sound like “a police officer can beat [someone] to death” with impunity.
A police officer did not “beat him [George Floyd] to death because of his colored skin”; there was no “beating” but the wrongful, because unnecessarily prolonged, application of pressure to his neck to keep him subdued. Certainly such an application of force, while the victim for several minutes kept saying “I can’t breathe,” is unacceptable and will be punished – the police officer responsible has been arrested — but Khamenei is attempting to tar with the same absurd brush all 800,000 of the sworn police officers across America.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, has denounced the Atlantic Slave Trade carried on by Americans and Europeans, with nary a word about the other, much larger, longer lasting, and much crueler trade in African slaves, a trade marked especially by the castration of young boys in the bush, conducted by the Arabs. Fewer than 20% of those castrated survived both the operation and the trip to the slave markets of Islam. He, and we, deserve to know more about that slave trade and why it lasted so long.
Since he has raised the issues both of “slavery” and of “racism” in his indictment of America, we are entitled to pay him back in kind, and to examine the Arab slave trade, the Muslim slave-owners, and the virulent anti-black racism found in the works of so many notable figures in Arab and Islamic history. And that is what, in the paragraphs above, we have done. Under the circumstances, the Supreme Leader left us no choice.
Rhiannon says
Islam is very anti semitic and very anti black so this hypocritical ayatollah can shove it!
gravenimage says
+1
Kesselman says
“Racism,” the shithead said “racism?” He, who represents racism par excellence and even structural racism! The moron ayatollahs are more fuc**d up than ordinary idiots. Inbreeds for sure.
Tony Naim says
There is no more an ideology of hatred, prejudice, discrimination than DHIMMITUDE, which is the vehicle of Islamic supremacy. Muslims enjoy equal rights in the west, while Jews and Christians live as subhumans under Islam, TODAY.
White Christian America elected a black president twice. Where is the equivalent event in Islam????
Khamenei is a bitch – preaching morality.
prebangian says
“The slavers (they were not all Americans)…” Were there any American slavers (slave traders)? Wasn’t the purchasing/capturing of slaves performed by Western Europeans (English, Dutch mainly) while 4% of those slaves were sold to the English and others living in colonized North America? Who bought the other 96% of slaves and how do they escape criticism? Also see David Wood’s videos on utube regarding Muhammad being a slave owner and trader and his being white. Muhammad was a white supremacist!
gravenimage says
Yes–there was *far* more Islamic slavery than there ever was in the Atlantic slave trade (which included South American and the Caribbean as well as the US).
And even there, most of those who captured the slaves and brought them to market on the West coast of Africa were Muslims.
mortimer says
Muslims have no credibility when they lecture the West about discrimination. Muslims conducted the greatest racist and religious genocides in the world: 1) in India, 80 million Hindus were killed by Muslims 2) in Africa, 120 million black Africans were killed in the Islamic slave trade.
Mohammed is called ‘the white man’ in the hadiths. There are many references to Mohammed’s black slaves.
The Ongoing Fight To Free Thousands Of African Slaves In Yemen
gravenimage says
+1
jerome henen says
Telling the truth will just get you labelled an islamophobe! What you say is accurate but because media and social media shuns facts and refuses to expose true islam their atrocities and their hateful ideology just never sees the light of day. They are seen as the victims of oppression , not the perpetrators. And now they commit stealth warfare against the west to destroy it from within and the west – the left leaning leader majority – aids and abets them! Islam uses the west’s own system against it. It is evil but diabolically brilliant. god forbid anyone like Geller or Spencer or Darwish points this out – they are shunned , banned and minimized in every way possible. Here in Canaduh , Truly dumb is their biggest ally! In the USA it was BHO ,now it is the democrat – socialist party helping them! The infiltration is nearing completion , demographics and an insane left will do islam’s job for it. 100 years from now most of Europe will be islamic , maybe the USA too. Jews will be expelled , Israel will be facing nuclear armed nations in Europe controlled by islamic theocracies.
mortimer says
The over-generalization of brutality and misconduct thrown at all police is unfair and malicious. The majority of police are moral and are trying to help the downtrodden. One sadist among so many fine police officers is shocking, but every profession has people who have low ethical standards. The constables who looked on and did not stop the sadist failed to do their duty. We should all tell the police we appreciate them especially at this moment of unfair overgeneralization.
Wellington says
Seconded.
gravenimage says
+1
James Lincoln says
Very well put, mortimer.
FYI says
abdool:The prophet was FAT
muslims:Yeah,in fairness that’s what it says in Abu Dawud 40:4731.He certainly did not look like Hercules.haha.
Abdool:The prophet was ILLITERATE
muslims:Well ,that’s in allah’s “perfect” book the koran- in koran 7:157 “the prophet could neither read nor write”.No disputing that.
Abdool:The prophet was a self-confessed TERRORIST
muslims:hmm..Sahih Bukhari 4:52:220.can’t argue with that..”i have been made victorious through TERROR”
Abdool:The prophet was a CROSS-DRESSER
muslims:well ,some “scholars” say it was a blanket ,Aisha’s “blanket”
{Sahih Bukhari 54:7:2442}
Abdool:The prophet sucked the boy Hasan’s tongue
muslims:yikes!…{Musnad Ahmed 16245}admittedly yes some folk might call that a nonce
Abdool:The prophet had sex with a little girl
muslims:Oh come on!aisha was his ‘wife’ and in the days of mo when the sun used to set in a muddy pool ,9 year old doll playing girls were very
mature in those days and had child-bearing capabilities despite their small size…
Abdool:The prophet was BLACK
muslims:allahu akbar! allahu akbar!kill him..he has crossed the line..That is what it says to do in Ibn musa al yahsubi qadi ‘lyad pg 375:
“Anyone who says the prophet is black should be killed”
gravenimage says
Ayatollah Khamenei Outraged at American “Racism” (Part 2)
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What crap from the Ayatollah–he doesn’t care about racism.
Then, given the absolutely horrifying level of police brutality and torture in prison in Iran, this whole thing is just utterly cynical.
Wellington says
+1
Colin Broughton says
Strange that this leader should be opposed to racism, given that the name of his country, Iran, means ‘Aryan’.
OLD GUY says
He’s a dictator therefore America is his natural enemy, because we stand for freedom of humanity. What a DOG or maybe I should have said PIG.