If you would study islam and slavery in general, and if you can stand to study the truth of it, look up the Barbary Wars while your at it! Ironic isn’t it when one reads up on THAT subject, that here we all are in the world today STILL fighting against piracy by Somali muslims?? sick –

The writer of this article sadly has it wrong when he says “Islam in Africa has traditionally co-existed comfortably with other religions”, and the above poster blithly states that islam has nothing to do with it is also sadly mistaken… ask any South Sudanese Christian if islam has anything to do with ‘it’- why such a long horrible war there and now a DIVISION of the country into a muslim north and a christian south? Then ask any other educated black african of ANY OTHER RELIGION or even of NO RELIGION that is NOT a muslim if they think Islam has been good for Africa and the African people in general.

One of the saddest events in islamic history that certainly wasn’t good for some other people, was when the Persian people of Iran entrusted their GLORIOUS country’s well being to a religious fanatic of a man who wrote “guidelines” on the proper way to treat an animal after a person has had sex with it! (no joke people!!google ‘sex with animals islam’) THIS was the ‘father’ of the islamic revoution of Iran! Sad!! Interesting to note that an underground poll was taken by some young Iranians and when asked if they would support the revolution today knowing what they know NOW about what it has brought to them as a people and a nation – they said NO in OVERWHELMING NUMBERS!! SO – if the Iranian people could change their world – they WOULD! Which is a VERY SOBERING thought to ALL PEOPLE OF THE ARAB SPRING!!ALL EGYPTIANS AND TUNISIANS AND LIBYANS that want PROGRESS and ECONOMIC STABILITY should take a hard look at IRAN and take notes! They could easily become the next Iran or Pakistan – ruled not by just ONE tyrant – but by MANY tyrants in religious robes and mired down by RAMPANT corruption in its infrastructures and politics!! The only success story in ALL islamic countries is Turkey and its only because all citizens are protected by a separation of mosque and state – and today even THAT is being challenged there…

If this ‘religion’ is going to survive as the world progresses, it indeed as the comment above stated, needs to have its own religious ‘reformation’ just as the Jewish and Christian religions have. But I don’t think they can accomplish this because to do so will force it to admit it needs change and that its religious “laws” and human rights issues needs to come OUT of the past of 1,400 years ago and that the doctrines of hadith and sunnah of enslaving people, and spousal abuse, and FGM, and the mantras from islamic clerics that say murdering unbelievers or atheists or people that are homosexual is justified and right – is just WRONG. Hate speech is just hate speech – whether its from an islamic cleric, a christian preacher, Luis Farakhan, or the grand dragon of the KKK!!

All I know for sure after studying the history of this fascist type political religion with its dogmas of politics and war and sharia human rights abuses and oppressions even in TODAYS TIMES – is that wherever the so called “religion of peace” rules people in its sharia law governments, or is in mass populations among other mixed minority denominations –

then there is no peace…

In ISLAM, there is absolutely NO room for political pluralism. None!

This is why you can’t have nice things.

I mean really, we ban drugs for similar reasons. Why not this drug? It changes peoples perspective and make them unable to reason for their beliefs. It’s a major problem.

I have nothing against small practice religion, but when you waste money on churches and try to enforce it (jehovas witnesses included here) or push it onto others you’ve gone too far.

…No doubt Europeans have a lot to answer for… but Arab slavers had the biggest part in taking (or assisting tribes in taking) slaves from their villages and marching them to the coast… leaving a long trail of bones bleaching in the sun…
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…The Sudan *still* has slavery in places (Google it along with info on slavery around the world including remote backwaters of China…) which did not keep it from serving on the U.N. Human Rights Commission… along with Libya…

Trying to demonise islam and blame it for the problems the african continent is facing is really pathetic. you judge over billion muslims by few extreme sects?? i do not think muslims had anything to do with WW1 or WW2, Iraq was destroyed by christians (and thier allies).

What about american evangelical priests in places like Uganda and other african countries spreadin anti-gay hate, lots of gays were killed and tortured because of their teachings.

Arabs and muslims lived in peace side by side with africans for centuries, colonisation is what brought the continent to its knees not islam.