Sura 2 is the longest Sura in Mohammed's totalitarian charter named compassionately, 'Recital'. Recite, memorize, obey. Most importantly for Muslims, obey Muhammad. This is the foundation stone for the Muslim cult. Sura 2 discusses at length, ‘slavery’. Slavery is not only accepted in Mein Koran, but applauded, supported, and encouraged. Enslavement of non-Muslims is a part of Jihad and can take many forms, including sex-slavery of Infidel women, slaves captured in war, or conquered populations supporting their Muslim masters through Jizya and the tax system, where male Muslims are not required to work.
The greatest Black-slave traders in history were of course Muslims. Sura 2 provides the compelling motivations as to why. 50 million or more Black Africans were shipped into Muslim-Arab heartlands as workers, sex-slaves, eunuchs or future soldiers. No Black culture exists in Muslims states. 25 million Whites were enslaved, worked to death, or used as soldiers and sex-workers. Mongolian and Muslim ‘Tartars’, Ottomans, various Arab Caliphates in the Levant, North Africa and Spain; all traded in white-slavery. No knees are bended by Muslims to Blacks and Whites of course. Only the White man must kneel.
Sura 2 makes it clear that ‘good’ Moslems should accept the existence of being a 'slave', as well as ‘owning’ Infidel slaves. Slavery as a theme in Muhammad’s cult has 2 main threads. The first, is that a Muslim is a slave of Muhammad and the moon-idol of Mecca Baal, or Al-Lah (the Lord). The second, is that owning slaves is a right inherent in Muslim supremacism. Muhammad owned 20 or so sex-slaves as well as Black slaves. He did free one Black slave (one of his earliest converts), but only if he joined his movement. A key motivation for the Muslim Jihad was slave ownership either for sexual gratification, or for labour and military conscription. It is estimated that just from the Balkans over 300 years, about 2 million Christian boys (slaves) were ‘converted’ starting at the age of 7, to serve in the Muslim armies as ‘Janissaries’, the most feared legions of Ottoman soldiers. Apparently modern-day Turks are not bending knees to those non-Muslims living in Balkan nations today.
The use of the nouns ‘slave’ or ‘slaves’, runs throughout the width and breadth of the Koran. There are about 420 pages in the Koran. The word 'slaves' appears on 226 of them. The word 'slave' singular, makes a guest appearance on 109 pages. Together 'slave' and 'slaves' are found in 335 pages or about 80% of the Koran. At the verse level these terms comprise 5% of the verses out the Koranic total of 6236. It does appear that this Al-Lah thing, idol, Hub'al, Muhammad, is rather preoccupied with supine submission. Witness the ravings in Sura 2 about slaves usually married with violence against the hated Unbelievers:
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How bad is that for which they have sold their ownselves, that they should disbelieve in that which Allah has revealed (the Qur'an), grudging that Allah should reveal of His Grace unto whom He will of His slaves. So they have drawn on themselves wrath upon wrath. And for the disbelievers, there is disgracing torment. |
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And when My slaves ask you (O Muhammad SAW) concerning Me, then (answer them), I am indeed near (to them by My Knowledge). I respond to the invocations of the supplicant when he calls on Me (without any mediator or intercessor). So let them obey Me and believe in Me, so that they may be led aright. |
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And of mankind is he who would sell himself, seeking the Pleasure of Allah. And Allah is full of Kindness to (His) slaves. |
Muhammad is referenced as the most important slave of the Al-Lah of course, with the usual and rather ridiculous refrain 'peace be upon him', whenever his hallowed name is invoked. This for a man who slaughtered, butchered, murdered, slave-traded, erected so to speak a large personal harem, and died fat and covered in gold, poisoned or strangled [or both] by his own men. See Sura 2:23. Sura 2:221 makes the startling revelation that being a slave of Muhammad or Al-Lah, is preferable to being a disbelieving free-man.
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And if you (Arab pagans, Jews, and Christians) are in doubt concerning that which We have sent down (i.e. the Qur'an) to Our slave (Muhammad Peace be upon him), then produce a Surah (chapter) of the like thereof and call your witnesses (supporters and helpers) besides Allah, if you are truthful. |
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And do not marry Al-Mushrikat (idolatresses, etc.) till they believe (worship Allah Alone). And indeed a slave woman who believes is better than a (free) Mushrikah (idolatress, etc.), even though she pleases you. And give not (your daughters) in marriage to Al-Mushrikun till they believe (in Allah Alone) and verily, a believing slave is better than a (free) Mushrik (idolater, etc.), even though he pleases you. Those (Al-Mushrikun) invite you to the Fire, but Allah invites (you) to Paradise and Forgiveness by His Leave, and makes His Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) clear to mankind that they may remember. |
Slavery is the new freedom in the Koran. Free yourself by submitting to Al-Lah and Muhammad and do not question what the Koran states. All the blessings of the Meccan moon deity will be bestowed upon your person in the male-Moslem heaven, with eternal delights to occupy your time. The Koran has nothing to say about what female Moslem 'slaves' will get from the Al-lah idol, Baal.
To be fair in 2:177 there is reference made to freeing slaves – as long as they join the cult of course. One of Muhammad's first converts was his personal black slave. Islam is famously racist, with those entering hell possessing 'black faces' and Kaffir originally designating a black slave – one of the lowliest life forms in the Moslem hierarchy. Free your slaves to join the cult of Al-Lah, and your 'Lord' will be pleased, as long as you know that you must fight for him or it:
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It is not Al-Birr (piety, righteousness, and each and every act of obedience to Allah, etc.) that you turn your faces towards east and (or) west (in prayers); but Al-Birr is (the quality of) the one who believes in Allah, the Last Day, the Angels, the Book, the Prophets and gives his wealth, in spite of love for it, to the kinsfolk, to the orphans, and to Al-Masakin (the poor), and to the wayfarer, and to those who ask, and to set slaves free, performs As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat), and gives the Zakat, and who fulfill their covenant when they make it, and who are As-Sabirin (the patient ones, etc.) in extreme poverty and ailment (disease) and at the time of fighting (during the battles). Such are the people of the truth and they are Al-Muttaqun (pious - see V.2:2). |
In Moslem jurisprudence the Koranic 'legal' ideal of an eye for an eye, is usually followed and believed by the more pious. If you commit a crime against a Moslem's slave than he has a right to commit a similar action against your slave. This 'Law of equality in punishment' is a pre-iron age code, which historically can be traced to neo-Babylonian times of 1700 B.C. It is crude and not a program of jurisprudence but one of simplistic reciprocation. Today of course the relativists accept this rather banal code as an alternative form of 'justice' embedded in the various implementation of Sharia or Koranic 'law'.
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O you who believe! Al-Qisas (the Law of Equality in punishment) is prescribed for you in case of murder: the free for the free, the slave for the slave, and the female for the female. But if the killer is forgiven by the brother (or the relatives, etc.) of the killed against blood money, then adhering to it with fairness and payment of the blood money, to the heir should be made in fairness. This is an alleviation and a mercy from your Lord. So after this whoever transgresses the limits (i.e. kills the killer after taking the blood money), he shall have a painful torment. |
Slavery was and is rife within Islam. The Islamic irruptions were in large measure the attack on sophisticated civilizations by barbarous desert peoples seeking wealth, booty, women and manufactured products. Slavery is accepted as a de-facto part of existence within Islam. Curious then, that a cult focused on pre-modern slavery and its attendant immorality, is deemed to be a religion.