Take Islam's role in facilitating the transatlantic slave trade - which is otherwise almost always presented as an exclusively European enterprise.
Centuries before the coming of Islam, Europeans - Athenians, Spartans, Romans - were fully engaged in the slave trade.
As usual, it was only natural for those near and in constant contact with Islam to be infected by the same vice of dehumanizing - and taking advantage of - the "Other." After all, the few instances of Christians in Europe buying and selling slaves are largely limited to the long war with Islam.
According to Muslim records, astronomical numbers of Africans - in the millions - were enslaved in the name of jihad. By the time seafaring Europeans reached the coasts of West Africa, the Islamic slave trade was bustling.
In West Africa, the jihad's period of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries involved massive slave raiding and slave trading; and many of the slaves that were captured and sold and sent to the transatlantic slave trade ; most of those who were doing the slaving at the time were Muslim communities.
More to the point, if today, when slavery has been formally abolished around most of the world, Muslims groups are still subsisting on the slave trade all throughout Africa - "Slavery Prevalent in Africa 400 Years After Transatlantic Trade Began" is the headline of one report - the role Muslims played in facilitating the transatlantic slave trade should be evident.
Unfortunately and as mentioned, if the obvious things of history - such as more than a millennium of unprovoked Islamic attacks on Europe - have been revised in a manner that presents the antithesis is truth, surely, Islam's more insidious or subtle role throughout history, such as its facilitation of the transatlantic slave trade, will remain unheard of.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/islams_hidden_role_in_the_transatlantic_slave_trade.html
Centuries before the coming of Islam, Europeans - Athenians, Spartans, Romans - were fully engaged in the slave trade.
As usual, it was only natural for those near and in constant contact with Islam to be infected by the same vice of dehumanizing - and taking advantage of - the "Other." After all, the few instances of Christians in Europe buying and selling slaves are largely limited to the long war with Islam.
According to Muslim records, astronomical numbers of Africans - in the millions - were enslaved in the name of jihad. By the time seafaring Europeans reached the coasts of West Africa, the Islamic slave trade was bustling.
In West Africa, the jihad's period of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries involved massive slave raiding and slave trading; and many of the slaves that were captured and sold and sent to the transatlantic slave trade ; most of those who were doing the slaving at the time were Muslim communities.
More to the point, if today, when slavery has been formally abolished around most of the world, Muslims groups are still subsisting on the slave trade all throughout Africa - "Slavery Prevalent in Africa 400 Years After Transatlantic Trade Began" is the headline of one report - the role Muslims played in facilitating the transatlantic slave trade should be evident.
Unfortunately and as mentioned, if the obvious things of history - such as more than a millennium of unprovoked Islamic attacks on Europe - have been revised in a manner that presents the antithesis is truth, surely, Islam's more insidious or subtle role throughout history, such as its facilitation of the transatlantic slave trade, will remain unheard of.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/islams_hidden_role_in_the_transatlantic_slave_trade.html
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