Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Sunday, February 23, 2014
ARAB/MUSLIM AND EUROPEAN/CHRISTIAN @ AFRICANS
Predecessors to Western Europeans/Christians in the study and appreciation of the arts and sciences, Arabs/Muslims also preceded them in the massive centuries-old, African enslavement and exportation. Sadly, Africans lagged behind both Muslims and Christians in the arts and sciences, which earlier African people had invented centuries earlier, and taught to the ancient Greeks, who studied it in Africa itself. If there is a moral here, it is this: mastery of the arts and sciences is essential to freedom. Enslaved are those without it, it seems!
Godfried Wiafe
Published on 17 June 2012
Muslim Arabs hunted, enslaved, tortured and killed over 140+ million ethnic Africans for a millennium. Middle Eastern Muslim Arabs have a history of over 1400 years of human slavery, which even continues today in the Middle East. Arab Muslims controlled, maintained, initiated slavery of ethnic Africans. Islams Arab prophet Muhammad himself brought, kept and sold African slaves. Over 90% of these slaves died in transport, while slaves were killed in Arabia when they became aged, pregnant or useless, to avoid a population growth of slave offspring on Arab soil.
To Learn more read: THE LEGACY OF ARAB-ISLAM IN AFRICA by John Allembillah Azumah.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Legacy-Ar...
Sahih Muslim Book 10 Number 3901
"Jabir (Allah be pleased with him) reported: There came a slave and pledged allegiance to Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) on migration; he (the Holy Prophet) did not know that he was a slave. Then there came his master and demanded him back, whereupon Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: Sell him to me. And he bought him for two black slaves, and he did not afterwards take allegiance from anyone until he had asked him whether he was a slave (or a free man)."