Dark secret of Islam: slavery of black Africans

[swiftlouie143]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMGjJJhHvqY

Letter from the Author:


When doing research on African slavery I came across this video and was surprised about the slave trade in the Middle East, especially around North Africa.

This explains the current genocide that is going on in Darfur and the Sudan. I could see the link with the past that this has been going on for 14 centuries.

This person wrote this book about slavery in Islamic states.

John Alembillah Alembillah Azumah

The book is called Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa: A Quest for Inter-Religious Dialogue.

This book reveals the dark secret of Islam and slavery of black people in Africa and the history of how Arab Muslims went to war on and captured black men, women and children and turned them into slaves.

While slavery only lasted 3 centuries in the west, it has lasted 14 centuries in the Middle East and exists today in many Muslim countries.

He explains the book in this short video and it is very interesting.

It explains that when Arab slave traders would raid black villages to the south they would kill the adults and kidnap the children.

The boy children were indoctrinated into an Islamic army for the Arabs and the girls were taken as household and sex slaves.

The reason their were not that many black descendants in the middle east is because the black male children were castrated so they could not reproduce.

There were a few black Africans who grew up and because they curried favor with their masters were allowed to also be slave traders.

A very interesting history of black African slave trade and the Muslim Arab world.

People need to know this history, BUT instead sadly people will never get enough of watching Souljah Boy dance dude, 50 cent, old Tupac Shakur Rap videos, Britany Spears and other videos and never know the truth.

This is part of the legacy of slavery that most African American people should know.

[white horse]

This is quite true and was the reason behind the explorations down the West coast of Africa begun by henry the Navigator.

They were seeking the source of the Negro slaves to cut out the North African Muslim traders who were selling Negro slave to the Europeans through Iberia.

At first the Portugese just plundered a few, but as they realised there were slaves to be had for free, a huge private enterprise grew up transporting negro slave directly to Europe cutting out the middle men. (Also related was the attemptes to find a direct route to the east to cut out the Muslim middle men who controlled the spice trade).

By the time the US was taking shape the industry was vast and was already well established to switch the huge opperations to deliver manpower to the new West. This was an established industry.

(Incidentally, why are the West Indies populated by Negro types? Ever wondered?

a) The Islands in the Gulf of Mexico used to be populated by Indians; but the Spanish worked them all to death, or disease killed them. The population was replaced with black slave labour.)

[kasalt]

I once saw an autobiographical movie of the life of boxer Muhammad Ali called "The Greatest". In one scene, we see Ali make his decision to become a Muslim using logic along the following lines: "The white man is the exploiter of the black race, and Jesus is the white man's god; therefore, I refuse to worship Jesus." So he decided to become a Muslim on that basis. This is ironic to me because as far as I'm aware, the Europeans originally learnt the practice of African slavery from Muslim slave traders. We never hear from the likes of the Nation of Islam's "Minister" Louis Farrakhan or any other black Muslim group about the extent of Muslim involvement in the history of the African slave trade. Re:

"Black Africans were transported to the Islamic empire across the Sahara to Morocco and Tunisia from West Africa, from Chad to Libya, along the Nile from East Africa, and up the coast of East Africa to the Persian Gulf. This trade had been well entrenched for over 600 years before Europeans arrived, and had driven the rapid expansion of Islam across North Africa." (Source (http://africanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa040201a.htm))

"Africans had been traded as slaves for centuries -- reaching Europe via the Islamic-run, trans-Saharan, trade routes..." (Source (http://africanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa080601a.htm))

In fact, the northwest African country of Mauritania--which is a Muslim country--only technically abolished slavery about 30 years ago, and it is still being unofficially practiced there today. Re:

"Slavery Lives on in Mauritania"
http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/racism/010828.mauritania.html


The practice was not actually criminalized untill August 2007:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery