Libyan Slave Markets and Jumping into the Fire – Da Tech Guy Blog

Libyan Slave Markets and Jumping into the Fire – Da Tech Guy Blog
"A few people are still talking about slave markets of Libya. 
...they’ve been around for a long time and black Africans are the primary product. 
Again. 
And the African migration to Europe — along with Libya’s anarchy — has made the trade much more lucrative.

We all know that Arab Muslims have been buying and selling black Africans for centuries, right? 

Scratch that. 

I know that some of us don’t or won’t acknowledge this.

It reminded me of something I wrote in 2003. A slightly edited excerpt:

I know many black people who are Muslim converts. The standard rationale goes along these lines: they want to shake off the “chains” of the American slave master, starting with the name(s) and the religion. Thus, a black Christian man named Joseph Green becomes a black Muslim man named Malik Muhammad, eschews pork, makes his wife, Anita, become Ayesha; makes her cover herself from head to toe, begins to pray five times a day, etc. Hallelujah! (Oh wait. Malik can’t say that anymore.) The chains of the (long-dead) slave master are broken!

But because Joseph/Malik hasn’t opened a book and done his homework, he doesn’t know that Arab Muslims were/are the biggest slavers of black Africans in history, bar none. Because Joseph/Malik doesn’t pay attention to what is going on around him in the world, he doesn’t know that Muslims are still brutally enslaving black Sudanese Christians and animists..."

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