That quotation comes from an Islamic discussion board (thanks to Susan). I’m all for clearing up misconceptions, too, so here is a bit of the discussion: :sl: some muslims have the misconception that slavery is abolished. certainly if this was an evil thing that had no benefit the righteous caliphs would have been the first […]
Al-Sadr’s aide: keep captured female soldiers as slaves
In full accord with traditional Islamic laws governing warfare, a top aide to Muqtada al-Sadr has told Iraqi jihadists that if they capture female soldiers, they can keep them as slaves. From AP: BASRA, Iraq – A senior aide of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr told worshippers during a Friday sermon in southern Iraq that […]
Sudan: 56 Boy Slaves Freed from Cattle Camps
A press release from Christian Solidarity International: Abyei Mou (Sudan), Nairobi, May 3, 2004. 56 boy slaves were liberated at the end of April from the cattle camps of Arab nomads in the borderlands between northern and southern Sudan. Their liberation was a joint action undertaken by CSI and the Arab-Dinka Peace Committee based at […]
In Sudan, A Modern-Day Story of Slavery
Charles Jacobs of the American Anti-Slavery Group writes eloquently about modern jihad slavery in Sudan in the Forward. It is during Passover that we Jews are most sharply reminded that we walk the earth as redeemed slaves. But while human bondage may for us be a thing of the distant past, for many others slavery […]
374 Freed Slaves Arrive in Southern Sudan
Ali Osman Taha (AP) 374 victims of jihadist slavery have been freed. From Christian Solidarity International, with thanks to Freedom Now News: WARAWAR, Sudan – Today, 374 slaves safely reached the market town of Warawar in SPLA-controlled Southern Sudan after a long and sometimes harrowing exodus from bondage in Northern Sudan. After crossing the Bahr-Al-Arab […]
Reparations, anyone?
The prevailing cultural paradigm, ably exploited by Muslim spokesmen, casts Westerners as the perennial culprit — colonialism, slavery — and “non-white” people as the perennial victims. This construction, of course, glosses over the sorry history of Islamic dhimmitude and slavery. It is useful to note these things today because of the political uses that to […]
Twenty-first Century African Slaves – In the Land of Islam
Slavery, a state of life closely akin to and intertwined with dhimmitude, is alive and well in the Islamic world. This report comes from Sandro Magister in Chiesa: “Sudan’s first saint, Iosephina Bakhita, was canonized by John Paul II in the year 2000. From an early age she was made a slave, sold and resold […]
A ray of hope in Sudan
Charles Jacobs, president of the American Anti-Slavery Group, and John Eibner, assistant to the international president of Christian Solidarity International, report in the Washington Times on a ray of hope in Sudan, where Christians have been enslaved and brutalized by Muslims for years: “For the first time in 20 years, Southern Sudan stands on the […]
“Slavery is a part of Islam. Slavery is part of jihad”
“Slavery is a part of Islam,” says a leading Saudi government cleric. “Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam.” And he is the author of textbooks that are used to teach Muslim students in Saudi Arabia and the United States. The Saudi Information Agency reports that leading government […]
Slavery in Saudi Arabia
In Islam Unveiled I explain the theological and legal reasons why slavery persists in some Islamic societies — notably Mauritania and Sudan. I had a little bit of information on slavery in Saudi Arabia in there but for reasons I don’t recall it didn’t make the final draft. Still, slavery was only abolished in Saudi […]