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

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 “God’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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