Islam and Slavery - Good together
A tip of the turban 
to Dymphna at Gates of Vienna for pointing us to this Power Point Presentation on the Early Native Americans Muslims. One of her readers says this presentation was given at an Islamic school in New Jersey.
The presentation conveniently ignores the fact that Islam institutionalized slavery:
Answering-Islam.org,
SLAVERY IN ISLAMHowever, few people in the west know about Islam and slavery. Most would be surprised that Islam authorizes the taking of slaves as spoils of war. From the days that Muhammad drew his sword to rob and conquer non-Muslims to this very day, Muslims have been taking non-Muslims, and even other black Muslims, as slaves.
Muslims were enslaving black Africans long before any slave ships sailed for the New World. Muslims were taking and making slaves all over the lands they had conquered. Later, when slave ships were loaded with black slaves, often, a Muslim slave broker had the human cargo all ready to go. American slavers rarely had to go into inland to capture slaves, they were already waiting there, courtesy of some Muslim ruler, and/or slave broker! In many cases, if the black slaves were not sent to the New World, they were sent to the Mideast to be enslaved by Arabs, or kept by other black Muslims as slaves.
Read the rest here.
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