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Originally posted by Amuk
How about the Muslim slave trade that goes on today in the Sudan and other countries?
Or is this just another America/Israel suck thread?
Originally posted by truthseeka
If I hadn't mentioned Israel, you would have had nothing to say, right?
Originally posted by websurfer
On the other hand, you have child pornography and that is getting a lot of attention in ontario canada. check www.thestar.com for some articles. These are front page stories. So I would suggest that child pornography is getting a lot of attention. Then again there are places in the US where the police turn a blind eye to child porn since they are also active participants, and thats where the whole justice system cripples apart.
You may not want justice, but others do. And you don't speak for all of them.
Originally posted by Syrian Sister
Yes, Arabs had slaves BEFORE ISLAM came about, same as the rest of the world had slaves back then.
When islam came, it slowely abolished slavery completely.
That's why arab countries where free of slavery since about a millenia, but a thousand years later, the british/US continue to have slaves.
[edit on 13-5-2005 by Syrian Sister]
Gordon covers the Arab/African slave trades up until the mid-20th Century, noting that Saudi Arabia only abolished the practice in the early 1960s. Unlike the European nations and the USA, the Arab nations did not abolish African slavery voluntarily out of moral conscience, but due to considerable economic and military pressure applied by the great colonial powers of time, France and Britain. Slavery is still practiced in two Islamic nations: The Sudan and Mauritania.
but a thousand years later, the british/US continue to have slaves.
However, Islam does not encourage slavery, nor does it forbid it outright. Islam abolished slavery by
(1) improving the treatment of slaves by their owners,
(2) preventing taking free men into slavery,
(3) preventing the turning of the prisoners of war into slaves,
(4) giving inalienable right to slaves to buy back their freedom,
(5) giving rights to slaves to own personal wealth and property, and
(6) the concept of manumission of slaves to please God and to get amnesty from God for individual sins.
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Prophet came at a time when slavery was sanctioned by [christian/jewish] Holy Scriptures. For example, "ye, shall take them (the slaves) as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them (the slaves) for a possession, they shall be your bondmen (slaves) for ever . . . “
[LEVITICUS 25:46]. "When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it. And if its answer to you is peace and it opens to you, then all people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you. But if it makes no peace with you, then you shall besiege it . . . you shall put all its males to the sword, but the women and the little ones, the cattle and everything else in the city all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourselves; and you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies." (Deuteronomy 20:10-17)
“Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever" (Leviticus 25:44-46). “Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the forward" (1 Peter 2:18). "Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ" (Ephesians 6:5).
"That ones about why should I/we have to compensate others for something we had nothing to do with."
What about women who have had arranged marriages?
Originally posted by Amuk
Originally posted by truthseeka
If I hadn't mentioned Israel, you would have had nothing to say, right?
You only mention them because it suites your agenda.
I mention them all and condemn them all. But go ahead and use others pain to and suffering as a platform to preach hate much like those right-wingers you claim to hate but are so much alike
Go ahead and post your Nazi crap I will be there to point you out as the hypocrite you are
[edit on 13-5-2005 by Amuk]
You don't have to compensate them. The government does.
THe sex slave trade that is going on with the slav people of east europe and in bankok right now, that's what i call slavery.
This big fat cats and pimps who profited from slavery, should be made to pay back their due.