These days, it’s hard to find images of anywhere more blatantly opulent than the United Arab Emirates’ Dubai. For the most part, the aesthetic that springs to mind when one imagines the “Middle East” is one of war torn deserts, but Dubai seems to be a true exception to the rule. Held lofty as a …
We can come to an estimate of how many Islamic slaves existed in ONE YEAR of Islam just by choosing something random. Let’s take 1650, the apogee of Islamic power: OTTOMAN EMPIRE By the year 1650, in Istanbul, it is estimated that approximately 20-25% were slaves, with Istanbul’s population being around 750,000. 175,000 were slaves. …
Slavery in Islam was never limited to foreigners nor was it ever just practiced on those outside of the Islamic core. Endless Arab slaves dot the pages of the Qu’ran in the first place. There is a long-running myth, often affirmed by Western scholars, that Arabs themselves were never subjected to slavery and barbarism under …
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INDIAN/ASIAN SLAVES حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيل بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ، قَالَ: أَنْبَأَنَا هُشَيْمٌ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سَيَّارٌ أَبُو الْحَكَمِ، عَنْ جَبْرِ بْنِ عَبِيدَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ: وَعَدَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ غَزْوَةَ الْهِنْدِ، فَإِنْ أَدْرَكْتُهَا أُنْفِقْ فِيهَا نَفْسِي وَمَالِي، وَإِنْ قُتِلْتُ كُنْتُ أَفْضَلَ الشُّهَدَاءِ، وَإِنْ رَجَعْتُ، فَأَنَا أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الْمُحَرَّرُ It was …
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Some black Americans and others have duped themselves strongly into believing Islam is some sort of ‘anti-racist’ sect. The enemy also pushes Islam as some broad tent of racial equality before ‘God’ where all of the atrocities of the western world are simply absent. Stories like that of Bilal, the Ethiopian slave and first muezzin, …
One major thrust of Islamic terror with slavery was against white people from the beginning. Islamic scholars even attribute incidents of this from Muhammad’s mouth. “حدثني محمد بن عمرو قال : حدثنا أبو عاصم قال : حدثن عيسى ، عن ابن أبي نجيح ، عن مجاهد في قول الله : ( ائذن لي ولا …
A common lie one hears from Muslims is that Islam doesn’t condone slavery. The truth is, Islam has always mandated slavery. In the Qu’ran, Allah even says it as a precondition of existing! وَٱللَّهُ فَضَّلَ بَعۡضَكُمۡ عَلَىٰ بَعۡضࣲ فِی ٱلرِّزۡقِۚ فَمَا ٱلَّذِینَ فُضِّلُوا۟ بِرَاۤدِّی رِزۡقِهِمۡ عَلَىٰ مَا مَلَكَتۡ أَیۡمَـٰنُهُمۡ فَهُمۡ فِیهِ سَوَاۤءٌۚ أَفَبِنِعۡمَةِ ٱللَّهِ …
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