Slavery is a constant throughout 1,400 years of Islamic history. Everywhere Islam went up to modern times, there were Muslim believers who believed themselves entitled to enslave non-Muslims, and did so, as is shown in detail in The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS.
But for the BBC, the highest priority is to make sure that no one thinks ill of Islam in any way. What is behind this agenda that the BBC and other establishment media outlets pursue so indefatigably? What are they softening us up for?
“‘How Islam moderated slavery’: BBC blasted for piece explaining the ‘nice’ way to treat humans as property,” RT, July 10, 2020:
In the current climate of heightened racial tensions, marked by worldwide protests and the tearing down of colonial-era statues, it has emerged that not all slavery was created equal – at least, according to the BBC.
As celebrities, politicians, and the public at large parse their social-media histories for any evidence of untoward or potentially racially offensive comments, jokes, memes or otherwise, it appears the BBC is the latest institution to have views expressed in the past come back to haunt it.
In an archived article from 2009 discussing slavery and Islam, critics highlight how the BBC included such grim subheadings and points as “How Islam moderated slavery,” including “Islam treated slaves as human beings as well as property” and how, mercifully, “Islam barred Muslims from enslaving other Muslims.”
Though the BBC writer does acknowledge that Islam“made freeing slaves a virtuous act,” and makes several other concessions in the piece, it still apparently strayed too close to apologetics for slavery, in the eyes of many irate tweeters, becoming an exercise in whataboutery and deflecting blame on to Christians and white people.
Many were particularly irked, given the plight the Yazidi suffered at the hands of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) jihadists in the so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria….
jca reid says
Tend to for.get they enslaved over 100Million souls. Males were castrated & some 80% didn’t survive the process. The Scottish Missionary in his diaries stated that some 80% of slaves didn’t survive the journey to the holding pens on on the African coast. Then their was their ‘adventure’ into the Indian sub – Continent. Enslavement & murder there. Some 300 – 800 Million Indians killed. There was an incident there where this senior Muslim commander had around 100,000 souls ready to march back to the Arabian Peninsula. A higher ranking commander approached him & asked what he was doing. He explained. The senior guy said to forget it, I need your troops, we’re marching on. Result, the 100,000 captives were slaughtered in under an hour. Really benign & benevolent. Talk about lying propaganda bilge
Coralyn Bowd says
Great ciomment!
owensgate says
…and the Moon is made of green cheese. Truly, the World is ready for the BIG Lie, and will believe it until the End. The BBC has certainly changed since the days of Churchill and the Battle of Britain.
Jayell says
And give it a few more years and the BBC might well be no more. They’re already in the process of firing over 20% of their staff because they can’t afford them, and they’re whingeing that they’re going to lose £1 billion (yes one billion pounds) over the next 5 years if the Government decriminalise non-payment of their licence tax – which is now very likely to happen before the end of the year. The BBC has been warned time and time again that it’s not doing what it’s being paid to do, it’s taken absolutely no notice at at all, so it’s probably heading for the scrap heap. Good.
maria says
Stop using BBC It is a muslimo-communist organization that should be closed for ever.
And don´t forget to close and forbide Al Jazeera which is a terrorist propaganda created by BBC
Jayell says
I know that Al Jazeera hired some former BBC people when it created its ‘Al Jazeera International’ English language network, but I haven’t seen any mention of it actually being a BBC creation. That said, it would not surprise me to discover any behind-the-scenes skulduggery going on between the two corporate scoundrels.
gravenimage says
It was the Qataris who created Al-Jazeera.
Using BBC talking heads adds superficial credibility to the English-language version. In the US, it was Al Gore who sold his Current Network to Al-Jazeera English in 2013–just appalling.
But Al Jazeera America had such low ratings that they folded in 2016. I just watched them sometimes to see what Taqiyya they were slinging around.
DH says
There’s an underlying, unspoken insult to all of the BBC’s viewers when they distort the truth to fit their narrative, namely that their audience is ignorant, won’t fact check, believes everything they report, and by and large will buy their propaganda. And then they criticize other people for similar or identical behavior, but in a restrained tone.
James Lincoln says
+1
James Lincoln says
50 – 60 years ago, the BBC was one of the top news sources in the world. Fair and balanced journalism, etc.
No more – over the years it has become like the current CNN, totally controlled by Leftists.
Westman says
Worse yet, PBS buys and airs BBC’s agenda. Perhaps it is the King’s English that fools them into thinking that such speech patterns are the adornment of a superior intellect. Somehow they forget that the King or Queen has their position due to a sucessful military campaign and not by any act of God. They simply speak with the speech pattern they heard as a child.
Capitalism must work; PBS can buy leftist content for less than their own cost of producing it.
James Lincoln says
Thanks for the info, Westman.
prebangian says
https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/descent-based-slavery/
in Mauritania today and for past centuries…..
Isaac Marshall says
I try to get in contact with them all the time via legitimate contact methods for specific writers and never hear back. I would love to go on and settle some of their awful mistakes. It’s getting a bit tiresome seeing no-one refuting these people on the TV or radio.
Isaac Marshall says
It’s a travesty and disgrace that the government banned Robert; I hope soon someone can be his voice on mainstream UK television or radio.
gravenimage says
+1
Krishna says
some one must make arab slave trade documentary for these idiots
Rob Roy says
Estimated 500 million slaves form Africa, another 120 slaves who did make it…
Blond virgins from Spain for Bagdad…
Treated as Human? The word or the concept of human does not exist in Islam in the first place. Plus a black muslim when dies, will not arrive black in the paradise… Oh, not racist enough?
Jaladhi says
Looks like BBC is slave to Islam and appreciates how well Muslims treat BBC! Morons!!
Reziac says
Before Islam:
— Slaves weren’t generally castrated (unlike Islam’s slaves).
— There were rules of treatment and behavior, such as no sleeping with the property (unlike Islam’s slaves); a Roman could lose his citizenship for having sex with a slave.
— Slaves were often paid (unlike Islam’s slaves) and could typically buy their way free (without having to embrace the master’s religion).
— Slaves were usually supported in their old age (unlike Islam’s slaves) even when they could no longer work.
— Slavery was historically seen as the humane alternative to just killing a people defeated in war, rather than actively pursued as the end goal (unlike Islam, which went raiding specifically to take slaves, and especially for sex slaves).
Yep, Islam moderated slavery, all right… made it vastly more onerous, and FAR more of a risk for peaceful peoples, than it had historically been. Kinda like ‘moderate’ Islam that way!
Mike says
the left useful idiots
it will not end well when the sleeping giant wakes up
Giacomo Latta says
This is for you, Beeb. If you want to praise Islam for its involvement with slavery, just do an internet search on Tippu Tip. As a trader in ivory first he found a herd of elephants and, of course, killed them. But how to get the tusks to the Indian Ocean when there was no railway? Not a problem! He would enslave the locals and each one would carry one tusk to the coast. Then what to do with the slaves when the tusks arrived on the coast? Easy, sell them at the local slave market run by Tip! Islam is nothing if not economically efficient. That’s all you can say about it, though, unless your Ph. D.s in Political Science can dream up something bizarre and abhorrent.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
I don’t think most Brits can now remember a time when they WEREN’T being lectured by the TV about how wonderful and misunderstood Islam is… BBC is a total farce now.
Also, I dunno if any other British are here reading this article but I’m sure they would agree when you watch Channel 4 News at 7PM, watching that is like being magically teleported to Iranian TV, such is their Israel-hating and their endless fawning over Islam.
I think BuzzFeed UK used to have similar articles (before ironically the UK version was shut down, which makes sense because I don’t see how their frothy “list”-based stuff could have a place in such a dour Islamified country as ours).
BBC is utter crap, it is only still “revered” here by the most gullible and the aging who fail to update their views with reality. The coverage of the coronavirus on their TV and website has been dreck and we have had very very little info about what is going on in other countries (I have to go on the internet, read CNN, Drudge and other websites to find out)
They are lazy and smug and it’s clear that as far as the average BBC employee is concerned, once they’ve posted some leftie Islam-loving crap on their website, then their work is done.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
Also I should have added, if you’re going to delve into the history of slavery and bring religion into it, why not point out that nearly all abolitionists in the US were god-fearing Christians (just like here in the UK).
Of course we know why not, because as I said above, all these news organisations are run by loony Islam-loving whackos who are uninterested in acknowledging any other aspects of life or history…
gravenimage says
Good point, Rob.
OLD GUY says
Slavery and Islam go hand in hand and have caused millions of deaths and brutal suffering around the world.
The sad thing is they continue the slave trade today with little repercussions. WHY?
Igor Slamoff says
A description of slavery in 17th century Algiers:
The theoretical basis for slavery in Christian Europe was that for the slave, slavery represented an improvement in life. Black slaves in Golden Age Spain [17th century] did not long to return to their homelands. The Algerian practice when selling European slaves, of separating them from their families, taking them where they did not want to go, making prostitutes of maidens and married women, did not at all match the European concept of slavery.
Savage punishments and martyrdom of some Christians at the hands of their Moorish owners …
Many Christians had their ears, noses, or arms cut off, or they were simply killed.
Source: ¿Por qué volvió Cervantes de Argel? [Why did Cervantes return to Spain from Algiers?] by Daniel Eisenberg
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/por-qu-volvi-cervantes-de-argel-0/html/ffd75d74-82b1-11df-acc7-002185ce6064_4.html#I_1_
gravenimage says
*All* slavery is hideous, and cannot be condoned on moral grounds.
But yes–some slavery has been even worse than others. Islamic slavery has been hideously brutal, both slave raids in Europe and those in Africa, where most boys and men were castrated, and up to 90% died before they even reached the slave markets.
Antiislamicman says
Islam has enslaved millions of black people, Islam is evil on earth.
gravenimage says
BBC enthuses about how Islam “moderated” slavery and “treated slaves as human beings”
………………
*Just sickening* apologia for slavery.
And Islam enslaved more people than any others in history–including most slaves who made the middle passage to the Americas. The only “moderation” Muslims made of slavery was spreading it further.
Muhammed himself enslaved huge numbers of victims, traded slaves, and used sex slaves.
And Islam has not stopped–it is still enslaving people to this day, mostly in Africa. It is notable that one of the very first things the Islamic State did was reinstate slavery.