Firenze Sage: slavery for real… [legal under Islamic Sharia law]

Currently, there are half a million Black slaves in Islamic Mauritania …

In Mauritania, the anti-slavery group SOS Esclaves estimates there are about 500,000 black African slaves among the countryâ€s population of 3.1 million.

Their masters are Arab and Berber Mauritanians, who share only the same Islamic religion with their chattel.

Unlike in Sudan, where the Arabs get their African slaves from old-fashioned, brutal slave raids, the Mauritanian slaves are the product of a system that has kept them in a state of bondage for generations, going back, in some cases, several hundred years.

A larger problem is that the abomination of slavery in Mauritania and other Arab countries will be difficult to eradicate.

Slavery is an ingrained, centuries-old institution in Islamic countries. It is also legal under Sharia law.

According to historian Bernard Lewis, slavery is “elaborately regulated.” As a part of “Godâ€s law,” slavery will be difficult to abolish, as one Egyptian Islamic theologian, Dr. Abu Zayd, discovered. When Zayd contended that “keeping slave girls and taxing non-Muslims” was contrary to Islam, he was declared an apostate, and an Egyptian court forcibly divorced him from his wife, since a Muslim woman cannot be married to a non-Muslim.
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