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The Islam part is relatively straightforward. The real problem is trying to pin down what we mean by slavery. Maria "Those are only a few passages you got out from Google. When you become fluent in Arabic and actually finish reading the whole Quran come back and comment". In other words, you don't know what you are talking about, but you are willing to lie to us as a good Muslim and expect us to believe your nonsense.
Muslim means "Submit to God". I am creating a new religion of the "Programmed by god" to insist that we are already programmed by our creator and would act right according to our creator if award of science and not perverse by the bible or the Koran. Okay I guess I am going to hell for not killing people then. I am such a good person. Ugh why must Islma be so evil and send a peaceful Muslim like me to hell D:.
Muslim — " He the Messenger of Allah did that and said: There is another act which elevates the position of a man in Paradise to a grade one hundred higher , and the elevation between one grade and the other is equal to the height of the heaven from the earth. He Abu Sa'id said: What is that act? He replied: Jihad in the way of Allah! Jihad in the way of Allah!
Have you even gone to the trouble of looking up the meaning of "jihad"? Or are you simply dumbly accepting the American movie definition? I suspect the latter or you wouldn't sound quite as stupid!
And no, I'm not Muslim but I do try to understand our differences No need for definitions. Everyone can see for themselves what ISIS jihad looks like. Oh, and by name calling you will really make a valid argument. Go back to school and learn some manners. Sounds like you already know everything. Glad you're so worldly. Do you even know where Syria and Iraq are located on a map?
Yes, as a matter of fact I am geography expert. Look, you trying to put people down will not make your claims any more valid in such a discussion. And Joline is obviously not going by any movie definitions as you claim, she quotes that 'holy' book of theirs Furthermore, have you ever read the bible? Do a comparison sometime. I don't need any religious book to tell me what's wrong or what's right. Why are you bringing another religious book into this? This is not a comparison. I care about the bible as much as I care about any other religious book my level of caring for all those is close to zero.
Again she quotes that one religious book, and you keep claiming some delusional movie references. You should reread her post again and this time let it sink in, please. Maria, you do not understand Arabic, you pray in Arabic by rot, why are you telling others to learn Arabic to understand Islam? This debate needs an ending with my final words. The fact is Islam gives rights. In islam poors all colors all races stand in a row to bow before Allah thats the greatness of Islam. What more the atheists the ignorant need to know?
Yeah right, and then you woke up with your thumb in your mouth and a sweaty pillow It is very different from what you describe. Yeah and then u woke up with a cross on your shoulder mr ripwanwinkle! Ikramuddin Akbar — great response, just one I would expect. Why are you bringing Serbs into this? What they have done is of course terrible and not justified, but here we talk about islam and isis perpetrated crimes in the name of islam.
All religion is just trouble, but islam seems to lead in this way. ISIS — doing exactly as written in you 'holy' book to the word. Your 'religion of peace' is the cancer of today's world. Every rational being can see that.
No I was not being born an islam hater, but seeing what ISIS does in the name of islam, and responses such as yours make me really question your lunatic propaganda. You start like a sane man then you dive into a sordid pool of hatred against islam, and go insane ,you are an atheist i know,so you have the rights reserve to spew on islam whatever it comes out of your mouth.
I wonder why God didn't ask you before sending abrahmic messengers to this world. Man you are here to talk against brutality by isis now if they stop and regret for their bad deeds and continue their works gently would that be acceptable to you.?
Tell this to the Christians in the middle east who are continually persecuted i. Tell this to Pastor Saeed Abedini stuck in an Iranian prison for the last two years because of his faith in Jesus Christ. You can't tell me that only radical jihadist muslim groups are enslaving, it is rampant and the evidence is too abundant to ignore. Muslims are terrorist they don't want live to other he want i am good i am Allah what r u do..?
But Jesus is good Hindus, Buddha, jains are Good. Modi must have written your comments as i can guess. Muslims brought you from darkness to the light. You should not criticize other's posts when your own grammar and syntax need revisions. Maybe you should hire someone to type your responses for you properly. You are judged by the fruits. The muslims are stuck in the middle ages, where are your scientific innovations today, you can pray all you want, but is the Arab God listening?
You can bow all you want to the black stone and to Saudi Arabia and pray in Arabic, but how is that going to improve your standard of living? Look at the gdp of the 57 muslim nations and compare them to the progressive nations in the world.
The non-muslim nations are controlling and rule the world today. Look at Christianity, since the death of Jesus Christ and his resurrection, christian's have been blessed and the christian civilization has consistently ruled the world and are leading in the prosperity and scientific innovation's.
The civilization that believes in christian Jesus not muslim Jesus ; is the most successful in numbers 2. Even the chinese are now accepting christianity in large numbers in the last some 30 years christian's in china have grown from 10 million to now about 65 million because the chinese feel that progressive nations are mostly christian.
The first lady of America Michele Obama comes from a slave family. The 18 million slaves that went from East Africa to the muslim countries, what is their status? Why are only these people defined as fruits of Islam? Would be interesting and fair if you have number of religious muslims who are not part of any of the above. Professor Bernard Freamon does not seem to know that the "people of the book" he mentioned, condemned for "seeking lordship over another human being" by the Koran, are non-Muslims, not Muslims.
The "people of the book", according to Islamic definition, are Jews and Christians, mainly. Not Muslims. So the one verse in the Koran that seems to demand the abolition of slavery only does so for non-Muslim masters? If Professor Freamon does not know this, he is not competent to be writing on this subject, and if he does, he looks like a liar, in my opinion.
And why didn't CNN's editors see this mistake? It's brainwashing at its most basic form. Back when it was being put together, the Quran had so many grammatical fallacies and errors it had to be revised again and again. Since Muslims are not permitted to critique the Quran for fear of death, they are trapped in this never ending void of uncertainty and perverted interpretation by those wishing to fulfill their own selfish interests.
The author engages in wishful thinking. Throghout the history of Islam, there was never an abolitionist movement as in Christianity. As lately as there was slavery in Saudi Arabia and today the Saudis don't call their "maids" slaves but they treat them as such. There is still slavery in Mauritania and Sudan. The slave trade towards the Muslim world was worse than anything seen on the Atlantic slave trade and it was only when the abolitionist movement in Great Britain made abolition of slavery a priority that the slave trade was curtailed by the British Navy.
As a historian, the author of this piece is a joke. The small fine print of Islam is this, in Islam it is forbidden to kill, to lie, to take slaves, to steal, to rape, to sodomize anything with a butthole including animals and children. But this is only applied towards other Muslims. Now if you are a Kafir, non-Muslim, nonbeliever, also known as an Infidel, then none of those rules are applied and the Muslim can do whatever the heck they want to non-Muslims. That is the truth of Islam and that is what they are not telling you.
Muslims cannot be reasoned with, or negotiated with, if you do make a treaty with them they will break it sooner or later as it is forbidden to make contracts with non-Muslim countries. The only way for you to rid yourself of Muslims and their bullies BDSM ideology, is to fight them, to run them out of your country by whatever means that you can do, intimidation, harassment, bullying, kicking their butts, property damage , what ever you can possibly do.
If sharia law is so darn great, the perfect law, the divine law, why hasn't it work in their war-torn hell-hole countries? Why must all these Muslims seek asylum and refuge in non-Muslim countries? Because they want the same rules applied in our country, they want to turn our peaceful country into a war-torn hell-hole. The meaning of jihad is to struggle, and in order to get to their heaven all Muslims must struggle. What better way to struggle then to turn our peace-loving and respectful country into a war torn hell-hole.
That is why Islam is pure evil. In Islam there is no diversity. Had it not been for the Crusades, all of Europe and America would be under Islamic law. Islam is trying to take it all away again.
What is needed now is another Crusade. This can be done either with a large group of people like government controlled or military, or can be done by each and every non-Muslim that comes in contact with a Muslim in there neck of the woods.
Deal with them in your own way. Whenever you hear Muslims in the west say that ISIS "doesn't represent true Islam," you need to understand one very important thing: that's the extent of their effort. Exactly zero. Have you ever wondered why Muslims in the West aren't spearheading campaigns for free speech in the Muslim world, for religious pluralism, for women's rights, for gay rights, for artistic freedom?
There are no major organized movements where Muslims in the West are teaching against violent jihad. There are no significant "not in our name" protests by the Muslim community over the horrors of ISIS. The highest value taught in Islam is the supremacy of Islam itself, and that's how a Muslim defines what is right and wrong. If Muslims are beheading and raping Christians, and it advances Islam, then it's good. If Muslims are beheading and raping Christians and it becomes bad publicity and hurts Islam, then it becomes bad.
That's all they care about, because that's the morality that Islam teaches. Then, if they turn away, say: "Bear witness that we are Muslims. Come to an agreement the agreement is: there is no god except Allah between us and you: that we shall worship none but Allah we shall declare Allah as the only One God, and that we shall ascribe no partners unto Him from among created beings, and that none of us shall take others for lords beside Allah that none of us shall obey another person in that which involves a transgression against Allah.
And if they turn away and refuse to accept Allah's divine Oneness, then say: Bear witness know that we are they who have surrendered unto Him and acknowledge His divine Oneness and worship Him. It's covered under 'what the right-hand possesses' is halal i. Islamic law is based on the words and example of Mohammad. Mohammad beheaded prisoners by the hundreds and took non-muslim female prisoners as s-x slaves, See e. He and his men even discussed in very specific detail how best to r-pe them in case they decided to hold them for ransom instead of as permanent s-x slaves.
ISIS are simply practicing salafi islam according to the rules of jihad, which permit such actions. Muslims were not in an "era of jihad" in the past hundred or so years. With the creation of the Islamic state and the designation of the a new Caliph, the rules of jihad now apply, including the taking of Quranically sanctioned "Right hand Possessions".
Form the author of the Saudi curriculum:. Oh, and by they way. If it's the one I think it is, I read that "Letter by prominent scholars" that you mention. If you know how to understand what your reading, you will see that they take great pains to argue that the Yazidis are not true pagans but "Medeans" — a specific subgroup that are discussed in Islamic literature who qualify as "People of the Book.
Thus, the "Scholars" weren't arguing contesting or arguing against the s-xual enslavement of pagans during jihad, they were arguing that the Yazidis had been wrongly classified by ISIS and should have been given the third choice. THAT'S your modern day scholarship, my dear. The Koran and Mohammed are both one big fraud.
Quoting what is false to begin with, or some ancient scholar of fakery, or the fact that people have been fooled for over 1, years, doesn't make it true. Mohammed was a psychopath, and Islam is the path of brutality, ignorance and oppression.
But then, so is conventional Christianity. Now, what to do about the license given, quite specifically, in the "eternal and uncreated" Quran? Islamic law means what ever the imam interpreting the Koran, the Hadith, or previous interpretations says it means.
Islam has no hierarchy of order or authority or responsibility. Its not only decentralized but its anarchy. An imam is like a preacher, but not like a priest or minister and an imam is any man who gets some other men over on Friday afternoon for prayers. Lest we forget power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. As long as imams continue to use sharia to broker political power, which means the sole legitimate use of violence, there will be continual violence.
Is that why the author of the Saudi Curriculum, one the most prominent authorities on Sunni islam, has ALSO justified the taking of slaves during jihad?
Search Sheik Fawzan, "slavery is part of jihad. It's just amazing that in people read the quaran or bible and believe all the dogma in them. It's an indication that we have not progressed in rational and analytic thought since caveman days. All of the monotheistic religions condone slavery But only the Muslims still practise it.
You are creating a false Islam so that it will lessen criticism. On the contrary, it is ISIS that insists on adhering to true Islam and not to any modern interpretations. ISIS and other fundamentalists are not buying it. It is not important what Islamic law says, it is important what the Koran says. After all, Sharia is a human interpretation by males, of course of what they believe or want to believe the Koran says.
Muslims need to admit that their law is not that of Mohammad, it is one of man and then move on. For example, the calls for women to cover themselves head to toe is nowhere in the Koran, which merely says one should dress modestly.
They're called "right hand possessions. If the story is fact and the comments also then why is it that Moslems adhering to the Quran as anti-slavery and all the other acts of the radical Islamist do not condemn such acts and rise up en-masse to fight against the fanatics? Could it be they silently approve? They may or may not approve. What they DO know, beyond all doubt, is that they cannot win the theological argument.
Not with these men, or any other Salafi. That is why they stay silent. If this professor is correct, how is it that so many adherents an imams, some with PhDs in Islamic studies, misunderstand their religion? It seems all the wrongs in the world of organised religion come from books written hundreds and thousands of years ago when none of us were around to debate the contents. The contents could just as easy be a fantasy just out of somebody's head or a dream some nutter had one night and thought God was talking to him.
When I die I will either get the truth or just rot Cant wait But when you start to study other religions besides your own it become clear: Each god behaves and thinks exactly like the specific culture it came from. If god, in whatever name you wish to say, was truly omniscient and omnipresent shouldn't rights, "'like the rights to be free from genocide, torture, racial discrimination and piracy,"' have been preempted in all holy scriptures.
Instead we are left with stories in holy books about rampaging believers who have authority given to them from on high to commit great atrocities. Maybe, and fingers crossed it's true, people shouldn't be deriving their ethical and moral principles from books that view the world as it was thousands of years ago.
Lastly, if these scriptures are the word of god and they no longer conform to accepted moral principles, perhaps we should ignore the scriptures completely instead of trying to rework them to fit our current lifestyles.
It is amazing how less you know about pakistan, yemen and sudan and iran, there is no Islamic Shariah in these countries to begin with, well you have to know your world better, that is what i will suggest you do. They belong in the 7th century and Western countries should do everything to accommodate their wish. Well written article and I applaud the author for a well established argument that differentiates between the religion of Islam and some practices of Muslims in different eras.
What ISIS is doing is shameful and does nothing but justifies rape and torture for a dominating male fantasy. You cannot rebut my comments, so you steal my name and write what you wish I had written, rather than what is true. He personally oversaw the beheading of more than jewish prisoners. He assassinated his critics e. ISIS and every other group engaged in similar actions are following the words and example of Mohammad and the instructions in the Quran to a tee.
Continuing to accept Mohammad as a moral example — or worse still, ignoring the truth while attempting to disclaim any connection — provides cover and support to people like ISIS.
This is the reason countries in this region struggle so with civil society and careen back and forth between viciously islamists civil wars and brutal, more secular minded dictatorships.
Churchill was right: ". The scholar who wrote this article finds a few verses in the "glorious" Koran that are anti-slavery and conveniently ignores the many verses that allow, even require slavery. He is therefore guilt of the same sort of "cherry-picking" as ISIS.
Fortunately, anyone interested can look it up. Even though out of millions or billions of muslims, the former way outnumber the latter. When people tell you of verses in Qur'an prohibiting violence, you remind them there are verses encouraging violence.
When people tell you of verses in Qur'an encouraging violence, you keep silent about the opposite. Haha whatever.. Though I wonder how many muslims you personally know who have tried to kill you.
If you want to follow your religion exactly then you see so much violence and killing in your books, Qoran and Hadith , it is not normal. The arrogance of hate towards unbelievers etc. Another strange thing is that on one page you see one thing and on another page another. Very confusing.
I don't think that God would change his mind from one moment to the other. So if it is God inspired? There are one and a half billion muslims in the world. Obviously not every single one of them wil be acting out what is said in their books. Even if you are a so called moderate moslim you will not be terrorising people. That is left to a group who does not mind getting killed.
One thing is certain is that the great majority of the left over ones do support the smaller group. For the simple reason that they are doing jihad in the name of Allah and for their religion. This is the greatest danger. Islam is the one and only religion that is making war ALL over the world in the name of Allah and Mohammad. Does that not say enough?
Its actually awesome piece of writing, I have got much clear idea on the topic of from this paragraph. It the author is to be believed, that the Koran provides guidance for the eventual freeing of slaves, then why did it take so long, until , for the country which provides custodianship of the Two Holy Mosques, Saudi Arabia, to pass a law which effectively emancipated their slaves? If the statement " Women may not be able to avoid menopause:DO keep related information together,I could see how she might have thought this because her Hermes Online.
Unfortunately there are always those apologists who try to find a line here and there to disclaim this or that. The truth of the matter is that wherever muslims reigned, there were slaves and other misery. In the Qoran and in the Hadith there are so many things that are contradictory. Therefore one can say anything and therefore it cannot be the word of God. Muslims pride themselves on the words , where it says that if you kill one person you have killed all of mankind.
This proves to them that Islam is Peace. How do they explain that their god also tells the muslims to kill all infidels and much more. For those of us who do not know the Qoran, we have to be careful not to be manipulated. If you do like mohamed, you are doing the work allah. You cannot be in the wrong in the eye of islam. The story is not of a mad man, pillaging, illing, rapping and enslaving in his younger year.. No, mohamed life become more and more violent and oppressive as he grew older.
Also, he was poisoned to death before he had the chance to inflict more horrible pain on human kind. Beside mohamed hatred of Jews, his murder is another reason many muslim have no love for Jews. Most under the sword of the prophet mohamed himself. And Islam is based on the emulation of this man mohamed and all his horrible deed of violance.
Also as a general his order where brutal and without mercy. If this man lived today he would be put to death, or spend his life in jail, for crimes against humanity And it seem many here also have a selective reading of the books of islam and the oppression the world was under each caliphate. Specially the millions that endure slavery, and the countless genocide for allah over the centuries. Like the author, reading all books is necessary to fully understand islam.
Something the Islamic State clearly did. Thats why many of the atrocities we see are lifted, word for word, out of the life of mohamed. Ask ANY mulsim if mohamed did wrong, or that mohamed didn't live a life that allah fully approved of. ISIS is not radical or extreme, they simply follow islam and the teaching of mohamed. Religions brainwash individuals -especially Islam — especially low IQ Muslims. You'll find them everywhere. They're not educated, were never raised properly.
Never met foreigners in their lives and so are closed minded. Teaching these people Islam is like giving an M16 to a chimpanzee. I guess the fault is both in Islam and the type of Muslims who try to understand it.
Religion is a very dangerous weapon, because it is made up by humans, who just want control. Problem is, that if even the highest authority in Islam in Al Azhar in Cairo says exactly the same thing, it means it has nothing to do with low IQ. It is the low IQ's who will not contest these verses. Other high IQ's will follow them because they are excited about being in a religion which will conquer the world and they will be the leaders.
Subjugating all the "unbelievers" etc. This religion is not "acting" as a religion, it is a political ideology , with a brainwashing method. In Communism it was the same , even the most intelligent people were brainwashed to believe in the communist ideal. The problem is with these ideologies is the fact that they are totalitarian, and therefore if you are living in their community, you HAVE to agree with them and follow their rules, otherwise there is grave punishment awaiting you.
Marital and nonmarital unions strengthened the links among men; women legitimized the succession of men to power, and women's property ownership added to the overall wealth, prestige, and power of a household. And later in the same article the writer describes the inevitable tension inherent in the status of harem women in that society:. However, the harem was not a prison; it was instead the family quarters of an upper-class home which became exclusively female space when men not related to the women were in the house and whose entry into the harem was forbidden.
Women, heavily veiled, could and did leave their homes Women were not imprisoned in the harem or in the veils and cloaks that concealed their bodies and faces on the street, but both customs were important signifiers of women's lack of sexual autonomy and of men's control over the selection of women's sexual and marital partners.
Therefore, the eighteenth-century Egyptian household should not be seen as the site of unrelieved oppression of women but rather in terms of asymmetries of power between men and women. Slavery remained part of the fabric of Islam for over years although the Druze, a group that sprung from Muslim roots, abolished it in the 11th century. While slavery was in theory greatly limited by Islamic law, in practice it persisted on a large scale in Muslim lands.
During the 20th century attitudes to slavery changed radically and in The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam stated that:. Human beings are born free, and no one has the right to enslave, humiliate, oppress or exploit them, and there can be no subjugation but to God the Most-High. The Declaration also includes a number of other articles that are incompatible with slavery, although "All the rights and freedoms stipulated in this Declaration are subject to the Islamic Shari'ah ".
Since slavery is permitted by Islamic law, Muslim countries have used secular law to ban it. Some countries outlawed slavery only comparatively recently:. The idea that slavery should be abandoned began to be seriously discussed in the 16th century. The Mughal Emperor Akbar banned the slave trade in his Indian territory. The Muslim leader and reformer Nasr al-Din denounced slavery to the people of Senegal in the s and banned the sale of slaves to Christians there, undermining the French trade in slaves.
In some countries, slaves who held high rank demonstrated that slaves were perfectly capable of playing any role in society if they were freed. Egypt had even been ruled by a slave dynasty for more than a century. These traditions slowly changed some Muslim thinking about slavery, and gradually created a climate in which the pressure for abolition could build.
Because slavery was accepted by Islamic law it would have been difficult or impossible to forbid slavery itself, so the abolition pressure was concentrated on the transportation of slaves, including the slave markets, which was where the worst cruelties were to be found.
Islam forbade raids to gain slaves, making a slave out of a free person and other cruelties. So Muslim abolitionists focused on showing slave trading was illegal under Islamic law, knowing that if they could stop the trade in slaves, slavery itself would slowly die out from lack of supply.
For the same reason, colonial powers attacked the trade in slaves as much as the institution of slavery. The slave trade in Muslim societies ended not so much through a single act of abolition but by withering away as the result of external and internal pressure. The outside pressure came from colonial powers that had only recently abandoned slavery themselves:. From the s, radical and gradual rationalists, together with moderate literalists and progressive ulama, could all be placed in the broad category of opponents of slavery, despite their manifold disagreements.
William G. Clarence-Smith, Religions and the abolition of slavery - a comparative approach. Initially, it was a source of great hostility that the West dared to intervene in Islamic affairs in contradiction to what was allowed by the Koran.
But as Western influence, or modernism, became more and more [widespread], it became less fashionable as well as profitable in Islam to own slaves. And it became illegal over much of the area. The pressures against slavery were extremely great from Western powers. It was the moral issue. It became more scandalous because the conditions of procurement and transport became more and more horrendous. The Ottoman Empire was the major Muslim slave society of the abolition period, and it abolished the slave trade in stages.
Although the Ottomans never abolished slavery itself, their policy of restricting the slave trade and increasing opportunities for slaves to get their freedom greatly reduced the number of slaves in its territories:. Slavery was harder to outlaw in areas far from central government where tribal traditions had been less influenced by the factors above, and where the military power of the centre was much weaker.
The slavers retreated into these areas, and moved their slaves to market more secretly. Quite a few of the anti-slavery military initiatives ended in victory for the slavers rather than the forces of abolition. Some other Muslim countries passed laws allowing for the prosecution not only of the sellers of slaves but the buyers too. The Indian Slavery Act of made slavery illegal there, and Egypt in implemented laws with very severe penalties for slaving activities.
The British felt that they had a mission to do this - as can be seen from this Foreign Office document of Captain Hamerton should take every opportunity of impressing upon these Arabs that the nations of Europe are destined to put an end to the African Slave Trade, and that Great Britain is the main instrument in the Hands of Providence for the accomplishment of this purpose.
That it is in vain for these Arabs to endeavour to resist the consummation of that which is written in the Book of Fate, and that they ought to bow to superior power, to leave off a pursuit which is doomed to annihilation, and a perseverance in which will only involve them in losses and other evils. The British action did not gain universal support. The Sultan of Zanzibar wrote to the British Consul:.
If I put a stop to the traffic in slaves it will ruin these countries, and it will ruin my subjects; and I am sure that the British Government would never agree to this; my friend, it is in my wish to comply with all the desires of the British Government but these countries cannot do without slaves.
For the British Government is far off, and does not know the circumstances of these countries. Search term:. Read more. This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets CSS enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience.
Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets CSS if you are able to do so. This page has been archived and is no longer updated. Find out more about page archiving. Slavery in Islam Last updated Encyclopaedia Britannica - Slavery. Malise Ruthven, Islam in the World, Slavery and Islamic law Law and slavery Islamic law and custom provided no basis for the abolition of slavery or even for the curtailment of the slave trade.
Nevertheless, slavery is lawful under shari'a to the present day. Muhammad and slavery Muhammad and slavery The Prophet Muhammad did not try to abolish slavery, and bought, sold, captured, and owned slaves himself. There are two different ways of interpreting this: some modern writers believe that Muhammad intended his teachings to lead to the gradual end of slavery by limiting opportunities to acquire new slaves and allowing existing slaves to become free.
This idea doesn't appear in early writings. The Prophet also married a Coptic Christian slave girl.
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