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1. Why are African Americans Christians?

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   wait.. Ever heard of prophet mohammad (pbuh) doin’ his turn walkin’ beside a camel while his slave riding it? You need to do more research man. You’ll find how well he treated his slaves. He got his daughter married to his slaves. You need to know more about him. Slavery in Islam has got a different meanings not as you think.
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3. I am so tired of seeing your hateful and biased questions. All you do all day is copy and paste links…how can you rely on the Qu’ran from the internet?? I havent seen a DECENT question or answer given by you. Stop letting links answer for you. It shows you lack the knowledge to answer in an intelligent way, I wish you had an email address so I can teach you something. Have you also forgotten that Blacks were enslaved, beaten, raped and killed, all in the name of JESUS. But there are Black Christians.

4. I have to give you props for the information you disburse on here.

   If I were Muslim, I would likely not feel this way. I hope you are very careful. This kind of information is helpful. People are all too willing to disseminate anti-Christian sentiments and info b/c most Christians will not retaliate with death threats.

   But for most of us who do not practice Islam, we don’t know the dark side of the religion, the evil precepts, we have only seen the evil actions that have come from those precepts.

5. Where did you get your sources from?

6. Islam does not advocate Kanizes (Slave girls).

   Islam has always been against the very existence of the institution of slavery. Nevertheless, like most of the other social phenomena, slavery too, because of its deep roots in the society, could not have been abolished by a single stroke of the ruler’s pen. It needed not only the provision of settlement opportunities for these slaves but also altering the social attitudes towards them. Islam, from the very beginning aimed at altering the social attitudes of the people towards slaves and slave girls. However, we see that the roots of this institution were so deep that even after twenty-three years of education, it was still not possible to completely abolish the institution. The maximum that could have been done was to give the slaves the choice of freedom, and that is exactly what Islam did.

   During this process, it was necessary not only to better the social status of the slaves in the society but also to recognize the relationship between the slaves and their masters. It is in this context, that Islam has recognized the existing sexual relationship between a master and his slave girls. It must, however, be remembered that Islam has not promoted a new relationship but has accepted and recognized an existing one. In other words, Islam did not, for the first time allow sexual relations with slave girls but only recognized an already existing relationship between a slave girl and her master to be legal, for as long as the institution of slavery existed.

   You have asked whether such a relationship between a slave girl and his master could be termed as ‘Prostitution’ or not. I believe that this question can only be asked if a person either does not know what prostitution is or is unaware of the relationship that existed between a master and his slave girl.

   Prostitution has been defined by the Encyclopedia Britannica in the following words:

   the practice of engaging in relatively indiscriminate sexual activity, in general with individuals other than a spouse or friend, in exchange for immediate payment in money or other valuables.

   The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Encyclopedic Dictionary has defined a ‘Prostitute’ as:

   a person who offers herself/himself for sexual intercourse for money.

   Keeping these definitions in mind, nobody can term the recognition of the existing relationship between a master and his slave girls as ‘Prostitution’. The Qur’an has condemned those people who used to enforce prostitution upon their slave girls. We, therefore, cannot say that the Qur’an has encouraged or opened the doors for prostitution.

   However, on the other hand, one may feel that the Qur’an has opened the door for extra-marital sexual relationships (fornication/ adultery) by recognizing sexual relations between a master and his slave girl. I believe that this opinion would again evidence a person’s lack of true understanding about the concept of the allowed and the disallowed sexual relationships in the eyes of Islam.

   The only permanent relationship that Islam has allowed is the one, which is preceded by Nikah. The relationship between a master and his slave girl was recognized and accepted in the specific conditions of the Arab society at the time of the advent of Islam. As soon as the prevalent conditions of the society changed and the institution of slavery was completely abolished, the provision of this relationship also became redundant. However, till such time as this institution existed, the relationship, which it entailed was not considered as fornication or adultery by the society. A person could have sexual relations with his slave girl, as long as she remained his slave girl. This was not a hidden relationship. It was fully recognized and supported by the society. Because of this recognition and support, it was not and cannot be considered fornication or adultery. This relationship was given a status, which, in its roots, was not very different from the relationship between a husband and a wife. For example, both these relationships were legally and, to a great extent, morally recognized by the society; and both were declared, rather than hidden, relationships.

7. Yes, muslims are probably as creepy as christians, and muhammad is followed equally as blindly as jesus (who also condoned slavery)

8. About the Africans being slaves, there is a lot of poverty in that continent. Ppl suffer from various troubles. N more over muslims are not slaves, but they them selves don’t follow the quran n sunnah n because of it they reached to such condition. its nothing related to Prophet(pbum), its true that he used to buy slaves but as well he used to treat the salves as he used to treat him self. In islam, muslims are asked to treat the slaves properly, even if the slave did sum mistake the master is asked to forgive.

   about africa, its not related to islam, there’s nothing related to islam. acctually, there takes palce lot of robbries n mudders. these are the two things which make ppl slaves.

   Hope i answered ur question

9. thank you for the answers
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   but the devil has the better part of him and all he can do is spread hate.

10. Americans and British has slaves too in history. Ask the native Americans, African Americans and the Indians brought to Africa by the English. That’s how Islam got to southern Africa.