I guess its hard for muslims to deny that their history and ideology - even to this day encourages enslaving and trading in kafir slaves (that's you and me - unless you are 'one of the faith') - how do we know this? - because Mohammed the prophet always encouraged the practice, because he took and had and sold many slaves himself - some just as sex-slaves - which is all allowed and substantiated in the Q'uran and Haddith -
I observed this practice recently in 2014 when the Islamic state started kidnapping Yazidi women in Iraq to be used - passed around and sold as sex slaves...because it is written.
Slavery is a part of this faith - and a VERY big part of their history - just research back in this thread about it - where I put up some of the history about the Moghul Empire.
Because this practice is written about and encouraged in their holy books - and is said to be the unequivocal word of God (Allah) - it is kinda hard for them to exclude that bit of their beliefs - and deny it is still practiced and encouraged by their holiest of holy men, since for 1400 years it has been widely known as the un-challenge-able - and un-changeable word of Allah.
* Not to say that everyone that identifies as muslim is looking to take a slave - but there is still an active slave market out there run by people who are of this faith - and they don't consider it morally repugnant at all.
I observed this practice recently in 2014 when the Islamic state started kidnapping Yazidi women in Iraq to be used - passed around and sold as sex slaves...because it is written.
Slavery is a part of this faith - and a VERY big part of their history - just research back in this thread about it - where I put up some of the history about the Moghul Empire.
Because this practice is written about and encouraged in their holy books - and is said to be the unequivocal word of God (Allah) - it is kinda hard for them to exclude that bit of their beliefs - and deny it is still practiced and encouraged by their holiest of holy men, since for 1400 years it has been widely known as the un-challenge-able - and un-changeable word of Allah.
* Not to say that everyone that identifies as muslim is looking to take a slave - but there is still an active slave market out there run by people who are of this faith - and they don't consider it morally repugnant at all.
I would replace Vatican with NATO in that assessment but its fascinating either way how many times over the centuries that's been the case. Chattel slavery is another example; The Arab slave trade was the largest in human history, and many ports like Tripoli were financed by Jewish financiers, supplied with slaves by Muslims, and the slaves were distributed by Spanish and Portuguese Christians who in turn sold the slaves to buyers all over the known world and took them to the new world as well.
I mean its more complex than just that, because Muslims took enslaved every type of people they ran across who didn't immediately bow before them and take up Islam, but the trade of sub-Saharan Africans in particular was very "multicultural". Muslims love to pretend none of the above is true and also aren't keen on reminding anyone that some Arab countries were still openly owning slaves into the 1970's. Revisionist history is very common in this world.