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Australian Muslims need leadership : Comments
By Syed Atiq ul Hassan, published 23/1/2007It is time Australian Muslims unified as a community with responsible leaders who can competently lead the community in the right direction.
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Had I been alive in the times of your somewhat inaccurate rant, I would have been just as critical about slavery then, as I am now of Islam. Perhaps you should also be critical of your own "grant grant parents".
"Little knowledge is dangerous…. " Is that a threat?
The Arab slave-trade in black African slaves began centuries earlier than the Western slave-trade, and lasted centuries later. Indeed, it lasts up to now, in Mauritania, Mali, and Sudan, and even in Arabia. It was suppressed by the British in the late 19th century, through force and the threat of arms.
There is no Muslim Anti-Slavery Society. Slavery is compatible with both Qur'an and Sunna. That is a problem for Muslims. It would be interesting to see just how they explain -- with the usual taqiyya and tu quoque -- this matter. Possibly the "tu quoque" (you do it too) line of defense will point to how recently, in Western history, slavery was abolished -- barely 150 years ago.
Slavery was outlawed in Saudi Arabia officially only in 1962, and only because of Western pressure.
Of course, the Muslims also raided Western Europe, Persia and India for slaves. Muslim slave raiders also ventured into Eastern Europe, including the territories of the Slavs (Slaves), seeking more slaves. Finally, women were seized from Georgia and Circassia to fill the harems as sex-slaves.
Why should one be surprised at the existence of slavery under Islam? Slavery is part of Islam. The Qur'an, Hadith and Sira refer to slaves and slavery. If it was part of 7th century Arabia, it is part of the Sunna, and is sanctioned by Allah and by Mohammed. What more do you want? In order to denounce it as an offense, one would be attacking Mohammed, or Islam. In order to denounce it, one would be suggesting that Mohammed was not, in what he encouraged, the perfect man for all time. One would be hinting that the Sunna is not the perfect way of life for all time.
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