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It's worth mentioning that the Transatlantic Slave Trade wasn't even the largest: http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/slavery_1.shtml http://
by thrwy00001 11y ago
It's worth mentioning that the Transatlantic Slave Trade wasn't even the largest:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/slavery_1.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/slaver...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/white_slaves_01.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/white_s...
Taking millions of Africans and even one million Europeans as slaves doesn't quite mesh with the popular perception of Arabs as poor, helpless victims of Western imperialism.
- s_baby 11y ago>Taking millions of Africans and even one million Europeans as slaves doesn't quite mesh with the popular perception of Arabs as poor, helpless victims of Western imperialism. Even in the bbc article you posted they're being apologetic and trying to convince the reader that Islamic slavery was somehow exceptional. Great example of why Western narratives are essentially tone-deaf to Eastern Europeans. Can you imagine a respectable publication taking such a tone towards Southern slave owners and not getting into hot water for it?
- dang 11y agoThat's actually interesting, but immediately invoking some racial/political agenda spoils your comment. HN is for intellectual curiosity, not ideological wars.
- thetruthteller 11y ago>HN is for intellectual curiosity, not ideological wars. /s?
- dang 11y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
- s_baby 11y agoDo you find it intellectually curious that Eastern European and Balkan women are still being trafficked by the thousands into the Middle East using many of the same traditions and rationalizations?
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