Slavery is acceptable in Islam. The Qur’an has Allah telling Muhammad that he has given him girls as sex slaves: “O prophet, indeed, we have made lawful to you your wives to whom you have paid their dowries, and those whom your right hand possesses of those whom Allah has given you as spoils of war.” (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.
“Indian workers kept in ‘slave labour-like’ conditions in Qatar: Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh,” by Nistula Hebbar, The Hindu, June 14, 2022:
The RSS-affiliated trade union, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), on Tuesday said it had taken up the “slave labour-like” treatment of Indian workers in Qatar with the government and trade union delegates of that country during the 110th International Labour Conference being held in Geneva. Significantly, Qatar was the first country to register its protest with the Indian government over objectionable statements made by now-sacked BJP spokespersons Nupur Sharma and Naveen Kumar Jindal on Prophet Muhammed and Islam.
In a statement, the BMS said that since the hosting of the FIFA World Cup was awarded to Qatar , Indian workers had been kept in “slave labour” conditions. The statement also deplored the Kaafla system of managing labour, currently on in Qatar. “The Kaafla system has caused severe trauma not just to Indian workers but also to workers from other south Asian countries”, said the statement. The system, according to the statement, involves seizing of passports of workers, bad living conditions, overtime work, sexual abuse and forcibly making people work in areas where they have no skills.
The BMS said 1,611 Indian migrants had died in Qatar since 2014 but getting their bodies back was a Herculean task….
Infidel says
Modi is right now in a groveling mode, otherwise he’d have read Qatar the riot act. So the BMS is barking up the wrong tree: they need to move to replace Modi as the prime minister within the BJP itself, so that these issues w/ Qatar and other Gulf countries can be brought to the fore
Devasur says
Unless you are a arab regardless if you are Muslim or not. You will be a slave in Qatar. I find it funny that wannabe arabs aka Indian Muslims think they will be accepted lol.
gravenimage says
Often true, Devasur. Islam not only sacralizes slavery, it is rabidly Arab supremacist.
Michael says
Some Arabs treat other Arabs as slaves. There were around 1 m. Egyptian ‘slaves’ in Egypt during the Iran – Iraq war.
Passports held by their masters, treated like dirt.
The Umma is a group of gymnasts, who contrive to look down their noses at each other.
gravenimage says
Qatar accused of keeping Indian workers in ‘slave-like’ conditions
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This is horrifying but should surprise no one. Many World Cup facilities in Qatar were built by slave labor. All moral people should boycott the Qatar World Cup.
OLD GUY says
You would think BLM and all the Activist against slavery in Americas history would be demonstrating against the ISLAM the religion of slavery here in 2022. Must not be profitable for the leaders of these anti -slavery groups.
gravenimage says
Yes, you’d think so–but most of them would *much* rather focus on slavery over a hundred and fifty years ago than slavery going on *today*.
‘After All, Didn’t America Invent Slavery?’
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomlindsay/2019/08/30/after-all-didnt-america-invent-slavery/?sh=35b5f3797ef6
Kundan says
After all, Muslims consider the Arabs as the father of their whole Umma.
Infidel says
Actually, the Turks somewhat contest that, since islam made its greatest gains – be it the Balkans or the Indian subcontinent – courtesy the Turks. The Arabs just did the first wave from Spain to Turkistan