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Apologize For Slavery, Part I

I saw a man the other day while I was watching my TV, he angrily proclaimed we should, “Apologize for slavery!” Now this struck me as quite bizarre, for we did this long, long ago, we fought a war to kill that sin, the evil of it all do know. But somehow his words made me think, though not along with his intentions, other peoples’ have not said,”Sorry,” they should not go without mention. The Muslim world, the most of all has much to apologize for, a million Europeans they seized as slaves from ships and the shore. Bad as that is, what is worse yet was the Trans-Saharan slave trade, one hundred twenty million souls were scooped up by Arab slave raids. To put this into perspective, in the deep southern USA, four hundred thousand slaves came in during the colonial days. Now there’s black skin in America, but not much in the Middle East, since they castrated all the males, and took off more than just testes… nine out of ten would bleed to death, but the slavers didn’t much care, Africa was full of infidels, there would always be more flesh there. Eighty percent of slaves taken didn’t last through the desert sands, and two-thirds of them were women, sold as concubines to any man. And the Muslims kept doing this for about fourteen hundred years, it was only for two centuries that Europe’s interest did appear. Now the west admits to all of this, expresses regret all the time, but rarely do you see such thoughts arise from devout Muslim minds. The Saudis only banned the trade in the god-damned nineteen sixties! In Sudan, Libya, Isis lands, the practice exists presently! It’s not something the lefty types want most people to realize, yet why has nobody ever asked the Muslim world to apologize? CONCLUDES IN PART II.

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