(CAUTION – GRAPHIC) Racism in the Arab world is….
Slavery and the Arab culture are intimately intwined. And many, when they hear these facts for the first time, are visibly shaken.
The video of the Palestinian-American gal may be fake? But I have not seen anything to show that… and … the Left is this dumb and unaware of their statements.
But the racism that Muslims have towards blacks are real. This is what she said about her trip with some black to the West Bank:
- A Palestinian-American took her Black friends to the West Bank to volunteer. Palestinians called them “monkeys” and “slaves” during the trip. When they complained, she defended it, saying that they should just accept the abuse. (See TWITCHY for more)
Robert Spencer noted this in a short paragraph:
- “Arab communities are still fighting remnants of anti-Blackness. Last month, a number of Arab celebrities in the Middle East donned blackface in a failed and grotesque attempt to support George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement. Blackface originated in the U.S., but it is still used as a caricature in Arab film and television. In countries such as Lebanon, an employment framework known as the ‘kafala’ system ties the livelihoods of African, Afro-Arab, Asian and other migrant domestic workers to an Arab sponsor — a system that critics call modern-day slavery. In everyday life, some people still use violent language to label Black people as slaves, and beauty businesses still promote skin-bleaching products.” — Rowaida Abdelaziz, “Arab and Muslim Communities Need To Talk About Anti-Blackness,” Huffington Post, July 3, 2020
AMERICAN THINKER has a good portion of their post in response, below:
… The Muslim Arab world also got its “cut” of black African slaves. Indeed, the internal Islamic slave trade in black Africans equaled or even exceeded the Transatlantic Slave Trade, with 10 to 15 million Africans kidnapped from Africa and sent into Muslim territories from North Africa to the Middle East to Turkey and the Balkans.
The slave trade only ended in the early 20th century. This contrasts with the Transatlantic passage, which was shut down 100 years before, and American slavery, which ended half a century before in a welter of blood, as hundreds of thousands of white Americans fought to end the immoral scourge on their land.
Despite the millions of blacks who were sucked into the Arab and Muslim world, few left behind descendants. ChatGPT even volunteered to explain to me how castration caused the difference between the internal Muslim slave trade and the Transatlantic Slave Trade:
…the contrast between the Atlantic slave trade and the Islamic/Ottoman slave trade on this point [castration] is striking, and it helps explain why African-descended populations remain large in the Americas but are relatively small in the Middle East today.
1. Castration in the Islamic World
- In the Ottoman Empire and other Muslim regions, many black male slaves were castrated, especially if they were destined for harems or high-trust roles.
- Mortality was extremely high: anywhere from 50–90% of boys died from the procedure.
- This meant:
- Few African males left descendants.
- Enslaved Africans were not “self-reproducing” populations; constant new imports from Africa were required.
- Even though millions of Africans were trafficked into the Islamic world over centuries, their genetic and cultural impact was muted because few lineages survived.
2. The Atlantic Slave Trade (Europeans → Americas)
- In contrast, European traders and plantation owners in the Americas did not generally castrate enslaved men.
- Enslaved Africans were used primarily for agricultural labor, and plantation owners had a strong economic incentive to allow them to reproduce — because children of enslaved women were also enslaved, creating a self-reproducing slave population.
- Over time, this produced large, permanent African-descended populations in Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America.
- Example: The U.S. slave population grew from roughly 400,000 imports to 4 million enslaved people by 1860, due largely to natural reproduction.
3. Demographic Consequences
- Americas: Today, there are hundreds of millions of people of African descent across North and South America and the Caribbean.
- Middle East / Ottoman legacy regions: Despite centuries of slave imports (comparable in scale), only small communities of Afro-descended peoples remain — e.g., the Afro-Turks, the Zanj in southern Iraq, Afro-Iranians, Afro-Saudis, and the Sidis of India/Pakistan.
- The relative scarcity is largely due to:
- Castration of male slaves,
- Social marginalization,
- And cultural assimilation over generations.
This Muslim Arab disdain for blacks, including black Muslims, has not diminished over the centuries, with Sudan as Exhibit A. During the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005), the Muslim Arabs in the north didn’t stop at slaughtering black Christians. When they were done, they turned their attention to slaughtering black Muslims. This slaughter blurred into the Darfur Genocide (2003 to the present), which saw the Arab Janjaweed troops ruthlessly exterminate non-Arab (i.e., black) civilians. ….