Reversal of Fortunes in Somalia: Mogadishu Siege

Threatwatch ^ | December 27, 2006 6:15 PM | Steve Schippert

[livius]

Yes, I agree, it has to do with that "Mother Africa" thing. But the reality is that Muslims despised subsaharan Africans, captured them and sold them into slavery the way they did with any "infidel" group. (The great majority of those captured by the Muslims where Europeans, btw, who were sold into slavery throughout North Africa and other Muslim territories.)

Most Africans who were brought here were animists. In certain parts of the US, African slaves were forbidden to receive religious instruction and Christian missionaries were prohibited, so they weren't even Christianized until fairly late in some cases.

But I think blacks perceive this as a way of "getting back" at whitey, although it's a pretty self-destructive way of doing it!

[zimdog]

I think you're mistaken about the people of Darfur. They're black Africans who I mistakenly thought were mostly anamists and Christians, I am wrong apparently.

I don't understand your first sentence but I appreciate that you're willing to admit when you are wrong.

But I also think that slavery is still practiced in the Muslim world, especially the Arab Muslim world, that Muslim slave traders continued to harvest black African slaves long after Americans and Europeans stopped, and that most American Muslims either don't know this or don't care.

All this is lamentably true.

And since so many black Muslims leaders have taken their anti-US show on the road to places like Africa, I'm thinking they should be more attuned to the plight of black Africans.

I'm thinking we all should be more vigilant in fighting slavery, but yes, Black American Muslim leaders should not be apologizing for it or sweeping it under the rug.