Prophet Muhammad & Slaves

[Khandro]

With the current craze for the historical discrediting of many people of the past, many of whom had only a rather tenuous connection to slavery, why is the name of Muhammad never mentioned, his connection to slavery was far from tenuous, personally owning them in large numbers.

[Khandro]

Mozz, try the estimable, Hamad Abdel- Samad, someone who knows Islam inside out;
https://www.memri.org/tv/hamed-abdel-samad-on-slavery-in-islam

[Mozz71]

I'll have a gander a little later Khandro. Thanks.

[Canary42]

He does seem to be a nasty bloke, but there again God in the OT was a right *** at times too.

The real evil is in folk who still follow/preach these outmoded ideas.

[archibaldy]

Well, there's no statues of him.

[jno]

we mustn't criticise British slavers because other countries had them too? Righto!

Needless to say, the Bible has no problems with slavery.

"Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling"

“When a man sells his daughter as a slave..."

Thank heaven for Britian's Judaeo-Christian traditions.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah 'famously' a slave was a 'companion' ( original convert)

slavery was er common in the Roman Empire ( no connection) but it is going back rather far.

does account for the slowness to condemn slavery in the East. Sultan Qaboos now dead was notoritous for importing boy slaves from the Sudan.

The Ethiopian that Philip converts in Acts 8 was clearly a slave and there was no free-the-slaves movement really until the 1899s

( o god TUS will start yarting I know I shdnt have let on : bring out your blank canvasses o usual suspects and foo! )

[Spicerack]

jno //we mustn't criticise British slavers because other countries had them too? Righto!//

Who said that, jno? (apart from you, of course)

[sevenOP]

"Thank heaven for Britian's Judaeo-Christian traditions."

Or, as Jordan Bernt Peterson would never have the chutzpah to say, Judeo-Crustacean values?