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Daniel
Greenfield
Islam, the Religion of Slavery
Posted: 09 Nov 2011 08:07 PM PST
The slow collapse of
Dubai, a desert mirage built on oil money, human
misery and the greed of Western businesses, reminds us once again of
the fate of all slave economies in the end. But for all the
skyscrapers in Dubai, the glittering avenues built by slave labor and
the abundance of luxury American and European automobiles-- the story
of Dubai and
Saudi Arabia is very much an old story in a Muslim
Middle East, of fat prosperous sheiks clutching their ill gotten
gains to themselves and ruling over harems and companies of slaves,
until the end comes.
Like Muslim Brotherhood derived terrorists using the latest Web 2.0
social media as part of a quest to drive humanity back into the dark
ages, the
Gulf States are a very old story with the external gilt and
glitz of modernity. While the Muslim world may employ the tools and
utilities of the 21st century, even mimic its terminology, it has
never left its own dark ages... and its dominant religious and social
movements are all geared toward making sure that it never does.
And while above the skyscrapers gleam in Dubai's night sky, below are
the armies of foreign workers, some prosperous Western Dhimmis
driving luxury cars who come to do all the higher labor that the
native Emiratis lack the ability or will to do, and outnumbering them
are the labor gangs of Asian, Indian and Middle Eastern workers who
erect the edifices designed by Western architects to fool Western
investors into believing that the backward totalitarian sheikdom is
actually a modern free republic.
As with any fairy tale, behind the glamour lies an ugly truth. A
truth that goes back to the dates back to Mohammed. That stretches
from slave caravans to slave ships. From
England to America and
through Turkey to
Russia, the roots of slavery can be found in the
Muslim slave trade.
The
African continent was bled of its human resources via all
possible routes. Across the Sahara, through the
Red Sea, from the
Indian Ocean ports and across the
Atlantic. At least ten centuries of
slavery for the benefit of the Muslim countries (from the ninth to
the nineteenth)... Four million slaves exported via the Red Sea,
another four million through the Swahili ports of the Indian Ocean,
perhaps as many as nine million along the trans-Saharan caravan
route, and eleven to twenty million (depending on the author) across
the
Atlantic Ocean.
The Impact of the Slave Trade on
Africa, Elikia M’Äôbokolo
The silent genocide is little spoken of, because it is an
inconvenient interruption of the modern liberal historical narrative
in which industrialized European powers exploited the unfortunate
peoples of what is now the Third World. But Muslim slavery was indeed
a genocide, one that stretched on for a thousand years of horror,
misery and cruelty. That helped lead into the European era of slavery
as well... but what is often forgotten is that before Europeans were
slaveholders, they along with Africans, were slaves of Islam.
Many centuries before European slave ships began raiding African
coasts, Muslim slave ships were raiding European coasts and sending
their armies deep into the heart of Europe. While it is European
slavery that is best known, it is Muslim slavery that came long
before it and lasted long after it into the present day. The guest
workers who labor on Dubai's mirage of skyscrapers and luxuries die
by the thousands with no civil or human rights, cheated out of wages,
imprisoned at a whim and viewed as subhuman by their Emirati
masters-- are the latest extension of a tradition of Muslim slavery
stretching for over a millennium.
Without slavery it is likely that Islam would have never survived
long enough to become the worldwide menace that it is today.
Mohammed, himself a slaveowner, exploited slavery to gain power in
two ways.
First, Mohammed attracted men to join his cause by allowing them to
raid caravans and towns, seizing goods and carrying off men, women
and children into slavery. The men would be sold to labor, the women
would be raped and then perhaps taken as concubines or forcibly
married, as Mohammed himself did on more than one occasion. The
children would be raised in slavery.
By treating non-Muslims as subhuman property, Mohammed was able to
create an important financial incentive for men to join him in his
wars to conquer the region-- as well as demonstrating to those who
refused to convert and join him just what would happen to them and
their families if they refused to bow to him. By invalidating the
marriages of captured women, Mohammed simultaneously legalizing both
rape and adultery under the banner of Islam.
Back when Mohammed was essentially running a biker gang with a
religion, his dehumanization of non-Muslims turned anyone who had not
become a Muslim into human loot to satisfy their greed and appetites.
Had Mohammed not done this, he would have ended up as nothing more
than another nomad cultist with delusions of grandeur. But by trading
in human chattel, his religion gained "followers" who wanted loot and
slaves, more than they wanted "Allah".
Second, Mohammed promised freedom to slaves who came to join him.
This allowed him to expand the ranks of his followers further, while
posturing as morally being opposed to slavery. This cynical maneuver
in which Mohammed and his followers turned non-Muslims into slavery,
yet promised freedom to slaves who agreed to become Muslims is often
cited by Muslims who are looking to promote Mohammed as being opposed
to slavery.
In fact Mohammed very much favored slavery, he simply understood that
turning his army into a magnet for escaped slaves whom he could
transform into free men through his omnipotent religious impramptur,
would swell his ranks and diminish those of his enemies. Mohammed
himself owned slaves, and raped and abused them. And today slavery
remains far more widespread in the Muslim world, while it has become
extinct in Christian and Jewish countries.
Of all these slave routes, the "slave trade" in its purest form, i.e.
the European Atlantic trade, attracts most attention and gives rise
to most debate. The Atlantic trade is the least poorly documented to
date, but this is not the only reason. More significantly, it was
directed at Africans only, whereas the Muslim countries enslaved both
Blacks and Whites.
The Impact of the Slave Trade on Africa, Elikia M’Äôbokolo
While the European slavery was more labor oriented, with racial
justifications used to maintain a slave economy-- Muslim slavery has
traditionally been more luxury oriented. The Europeans may have seen
slavery as a convenient means of production, Muslims traditionally
saw slaves as a luxury in and of themselves. That is why slavery in
the European world was more limited to developing economies with a
labor shortage and high transportation costs such as the
Americas,
while in the Muslim world it is traditionally the most prosperous
countries with a surplus of the wealthy who collected the most slaves.
The Zanj Rebellion in 9th century
Iraq in which half a million slaves
rebelled against the Muslim Empire of the Abbasid Caliphate virtually
prefigures the state of affairs in present day
Dubai and
Saudi
Arabia. And indeed Dubai and
Saudi Arabia may well face the same if
enough of their abused workers ever turn a riot into an outright
uprising, that will likely have to be crushed with borrowed US troops
acting on behalf of the Saudis and Emiratis.
Unlike European slavery where the number of slaves related to
production, Muslim slavery places no limits on slavery because it is
as much a luxury as a means of production. That is also why slavery
became extinct in European colonies, as much on economic as on moral
grounds, but can never go extinct in the Muslim world, because the
moral grounds and personal example for the maintenance of slavery was
provided by Mohammed himself, and Muslim slavery is not rooted
exclusively in the rationale of production, but in the sense of
Muslim superiority.
Slavery may be odious in the free world, but the Muslim world is by
no means free. And the social nature of an un-free world is a world
of masters and slaves. In a society of masters and slaves, the best
way to demonstrate your freedom is by owning slaves.
While the prosperous citizens of a free nation demonstrate their
accomplishment through hard work, in a master-slave society the
prosperous demonstrate their prosperity through public laziness and
self-indulgence. In a master-slave society, freedom means the freedom
to do nothing, the freedom to have a slave do it for you instead. And
that is Dubai,
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in a nutshell... in which
foreign workers make up much of the population and do everything. A
Briton to manage your investments, an American to pump your oil, a
Filipino maid for your second wife to boss around, a Ukranian to
include in your harem and a Thai to work at your construction site.
That is a Muslim's idea of paradise and the dream of Dubai. It is the
mindset behind Muslim slavery and it is why Muslim slavery continues
into the present day.
One cannot reform Islam, without first reforming Muslims. Yet where
does one begin reforming the culture of slavery, the ethos of the
master and slave that is so deeply embedded into Islam that it in
fact is Islam? Muslims describe themselves as the Slaves of Allah,
because that is the deepest form of loyalty they can imagine.
Islam is the Master-Slave dynamic of the
Middle East writ large into
a religion, with Muslims viewing themselves as the slaves of Allah,
and everyone else as their slaves. Within Islam, the higher status
Saudis who style themselves the keepers of
Mecca and the birthplace
of Mohammed, feel free to enslave other Arab Muslims. Arab Muslims in
turn enslave African and Asian Muslims, whom they consider racially
inferior. And these in turn move to
Europe where they view Europeans
and other resident non-Muslims as inferior to them, as slaves.
Islam in short is nothing more than slavery in religious form,
relying on the sort of crude punishments you would dispense to a
slave, and the sort of crude rewards you would offer to a slave--
namely the chance to enslave and abuse others, and sample forbidden
luxuries. Islam is a religion of slavery for a religion of slaves.
It is no wonder then that the modern day Jihad in built on slavery,
funded by the royal families of the
Gulf States, using the oil
revenues produced by the oil pumps that they would never sully their
own fat fingers with, with the aim of destroying and enslaving the
civilized world that stands between them and world power. The Wahhabi
mosques rising up across the world, their minarets and crescents, are
the banners of a worldwide call to slavery. For mankind to fall to
its knees and bow toward Saudi Arabia, to the Masters of Mecca, the
paymasters of Al Queda and a thousand other Muslim terrorist groups
around the world all clamoring for their own states and territories
as part of a new Muslim Empire.
The question is will we dare to resist them?
