From the video that follows description: In 1842CE, the British Consul General in Morocco wrote a letter to the Sultan to ask him if he had taken any measures to stop slavery or at least, slave trade. The sultan replied that he will not do anything about it because it has been the norm since the time of the sons of Adam and no sects of Islam are against it. Hence, he will not permit anything the Qur’an forbids and will not make unlawful anything that the Qur’an has allowed. In the Sultan’s reply, we see the simplest justification or at least, excuse, for almost 1300 years of slavery in the Islamic world.
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“To the memory of all the victims of the West’s assault upon the rest of us, and of the following especially: The Amerindians and the Aborigines of Australasia who were exterminated and expropriated; The millions of Africans who were enslaved in the Americas; The countless Africans who died resisting European invasion and occupation of their homeland; The soldiers from the Third World-who were conscripted to fight and die defending the very western empire that victimized them; To all Third World liberation fighters and martyrs who have struggled or died for a better future for their peoples; To the people of the West, to the extent that they refuse to tolerate western control over the rest of us; and To all of us, that we may achieve a just, non-imperialist and enduring peace, with prosperity for all humankind.” (pg. vii)
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