Hodja genudsender derfor en postering om islams slavehandel, som overgår alle andres med flere hestelængder.
Murray Gordon’s expressed purpose in writing Slavery in the Arab World was to raise awareness about an issue which has been neglected in academia in recent years: the vast arab slave trade, which for millenia dwarfed any other slave operations in the world.
The book contrasts arab slavery, which granted some minimal rights to its slaves, to european slavery, which, although it lasted briefly compared to arab slavery, was arguably harsher in its treatment of slaves. the book traces the history of slavery from the dawn of islam, to the 1960’s, when it was abolished in the gulf states, noting that slavery still persists in some african nations. it is fairly easy to read, and contians a great deal of information on the topic.
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Læs også om 1 million europæere som slaver i Nordafrika, i en ikke så fjern fortid.
Og læs om danskeren Hark Olufs, som var islamisk slave fra 1724-1735.
Og her kan du læse om institutionaliseret slaveri i koranen.
Slavery, Christianity, and Islam By Robert Spencer
Og her kan du se DR’s patetiske information om serien, der angiver Danmark som slavenation nummer ‘nr. 7 – efter USA som nr. 6’. Hvor står de islamiske lande på listen? Jeg vil tro det er som nummer 1. Og hvorfor er det netop USA, der skal nævnes? De sydamerikanske lande havde langt større del i slavetrafikken end USA.
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“arab slavery, which granted some minimal rights to its slaves,”
Ifølge hans egen bog kastrerede araberne de sorte drenge (eunukker indbragte en højere pris), hvorved 90% af drengene døde under operationen. Alligevel nægter Murray, at araberne skulle have været “rigtigt” slemme.
Jeg kan forveksle bogen med en anden, men jeg læste engang en anmeldelse, hvoraf det fremgik, at Murray var fra Sydafrika, og at han derfor var så farvet af sin afsky for det hvide apartheidstyre, at han simpelthen nægtede at indse, at de arabiske slavehandlere kunne være værre end de hvide.
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One particularly brutal practice was the mutilation of young African boys, sometimes no more than 9 or ten years old, to create eunuchs, who brought a higher price in the slave markets of the Middle East. Slave traders often created “eunuch stations” along the major African slave routes where the necessary surgery was performed in unsanitary conditions. Gordon estimates that only one out of every 10 boys subjected to the mutilation actually survived the surgery.
Du har ret:
http://hodja.wordpress.com/2006/04/11/slaveri-i-perspektiv/