For those who swallowed the post modern historical narrative without reading the ingredients, they may want to know that colonialism started, to put an end to this. As colonial influence fades from the Islamic world, well we can watch the results right before our eyes in breath taking real time.
H/T Tundra T
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Slavery:
banned in Saudi Arabia as late as 1962 but only because of pressure from the West. Still continues illegally.
banned in Mauritania in the 1980s. Still continues.
continues in Mali and Sudan where Blacks are often enslaved by Arab Muslims. Many slaves are Christians.
From Muslim holy scripture:
Narrated by Jabir bin Abdullah:
A man decided that a slave of his would be manumitted after his death and later
on he was in need of money, so the Prophet took the slave and said, “Who will
buy this slave from me?” Nu’aim bin ‘Abdullah bought him for such and such price
and the Prophet gave him the slave.
Sahih Bhukari Volume 3 34:351
and more:
64-year-old Filipino Leonora Somera was discovered to have worked 18 years
without pay, partly as a shepherd in Al-Baha, about 275 km south of Jeddah. Her
situation was exacerbated by the fact that the son of her sponsor, who had passed
away, was also not providing her with sustenance. Somera is still in a women’s
shelter in Jeddah, run by the Philippines Consulate, fighting to recoup nearly 20
years of back pay.
Extracted from an article by Mohammed Rasooldeen – Arab News August 2007
Here’s another one:
from the Senior Council of Religious Clerics, Saudi Arabia’s highest governing religious body:
“Slavery is a part of Islam… Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long
there is Islam… [Those who argue that slavery has been abolished are] ignorant,
not scholars. They are merely writers. Whoever says such things is an infidel.”
Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan 2003
Finally:
Mrs. L.T. Ariyawathi (49), a mother of three has returned from Saudi Arabia after
less than five months of employment.
Within a short time of her return she was hospitalized for an operation to remove
24 nails from her foot and a needle implanted by her employer. Doctors who x-rayed
her at Kamburupitiya hospital have identified these items and are preparing
to operate in order to remove them.
Mrs. Ariyawathie explained to the doctors about the manner in which husband and
the wife of the family she went to serve as a domestic helper punished her after
some house hold glass items fell from her hand. While the wife held her tightly the
husband implanted the burning hot iron nails in her foot. On a separate occasion
the wife implanted a needle in her forehead.
After this inhuman treatment she was able to send messages to her family who
intervened with the Sri Lankan authorities who assisted the family to bring her
back. Mrs. Ariyawathie went for employment in March this year and returned on
August 21, a period of less than five months.
Sri Lanka Guardian – August 2010
It even has a sleazy, 50s Soho stripper-Jazz soundtrack at 4.50. Appropriate.
We shouldn’t be surprised by the silence of organisations like Shamnesty International. An “advanced” google search allows one to search a single website for all documents mentioning a key phrase. Searching Amnesty’s website for “Cairo Declaration” turns up 1 document, a document which only mentions in passing the Declaration in which the muslim world asserts that sharia law supercedes the UN Declaration.
Unlike the UN Declaration of Human Rights, in sharia law slavery is legal. See Sultan Tabandeh’s “A Muslim Commentary on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”.
The muslim world has said it rejects the illegality of slavery. And all the organisations that are supposedly monitoring this thing keep quiet. I’ve been told by a high profile ex-employee of Shamnesty International that internally Shamnesty employees readily state that Universal human rights only apply outside the muslim world, that they are “a colonial imposition”.
Shamnesty should be closed down.
Every where there are Moslems there is slavery.
My biggest issue with the clip above is that it’s from a 1964 shlockumentary called Slave Trade in the World Today. The cheesy 60s soundtrack, excitable narration and obligatory stripper with pasties sort of gave away to me that it wasn’t quite what it purports to be.
I considered checking out the whole ‘documentary’ courtesy of Amazon but can’t justify $1.99.
I have come across this claim that colonialism in Africa began in order to stop slavery.As someone who has studied this period at degree level could someone tell me how ?
I would not say begun. But English men from Egypt certainly went to Sudan in the later part of the 19th century to put an end to it.
@Ohhh God!
I don’t really believe that colonialism came about just to stop slavery. It was all about profit and expansion just like most imperialism was. However, the colonialists were strongly opposed to slavery and abolished it wherever they could. Otherwise the British (for example) would have had a slave trade in India or the Far East (which they didn’t). West Africa was unfortunate because it already had a slave trade and regrettably the Brits, Portuguese and French were also guilty of exploiting slavery there, much to their shame!
However, slavery was eventually abolished in Britain because decent Christian human beings, ashamed of their own atrocities eventually stopped it. The United States eventually abolished slavery too, because of their own consciences and their own Christian values, which led to a war where many died.
Islam has never willfully abolished slavery of its own accord because Muslims do not have a Christian conscience. To them, slavery is justified and right. They cannot turn to their own scriptures as a guide to human rights, because their scriptures contain no such things!
That is why Islam still endorses slavery whereas people of Judeo-Christian upbringing are against it.
Thanks softly Job. My question really was more of a sarcastic ‘really?’. I agree with most of what you said I just think the original statement was slightly misleading .While I agree that a christian fervour for human justice has been a marked feature of western civilisation, one that many on the left seem to forget as no culture on earth has attempted to be so fair with other races on a historical level, I do not agree that the American civil war a ‘fair’example.