Yes it does, in Muslim and non-Muslim countries. Nevertheless, outlawing slavery does help, and is a good thing. Do you agree?
In some places, it's as good as prohibiting the drug trade. Would it be a good thing if slavery was outlawed? Sure. Is it legal in any country? Not that I know of. Has that stopped the slave trade? Of course not.
Actually, that would be your job.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#cite_note-1
Wikipedia said:
The number of slaves today remains as high as 12
million[3] to 27 million,
[4][5][6] though this is probably the smallest proportion of the world's population in history.
[7] Most are debt slaves, largely in
South Asia, who are under
debt bondage incurred by
lenders, sometimes even for generations.
[8] Human trafficking is primarily for prostituting
women and
children into
sex industries.
[9] It is the fastest growing
criminal industry and is predicted to eventually outgrow
drug trafficking.
[9][10]
Slavery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That was actually pretty easy, you know. If it wasn't accepted, except by Muslims, why does the trade continue all over the world?
Sudan is the only place where
chattel slavery is not just surviving but experiencing a great revival. This renascence of the
slave trade began in the mid-1980s and resulted directly from an upsurge of
Islamism in
Sudan at that time, and especially from the
Islamist emphasis on the renewal of
jihad. After gaining the upper-hand in
Khartoum by about 1983, the Islamists' immediate goal was to transform the multi-ethnic, multi-religious population of Sudan into an Arab-dominated Muslim state, and to do so through jihad. Under
Turabi's powerful influence, the ruler of the time,
Jafar an-Numayri, declared himself to be (sounding like a
caliph of old), the "rightly guided" leader of an Islamic state.
My Career Redeeming Slaves
by John Eibner
Middle East Quarterly
December 1999, pp. 3-16
In terms of Mauritania:
Although the Africans in Mauritania converted to Islam more than 100 years ago, and the Quran forbids the enslavement of fellow Muslims, in Mauritania race seems to outrank religious doctrine.
Mauritania is going against the Qur'an. Need I say more?
In terms of Sudan:
Anti-Slavery researchers describe a revival of a racially-based slave trade where armed northern militias raid the southern civilian villages for slaves. Reports to the UN Commission on Human Rights have underscored the racial aspect of such practices as victims are exclusively persons belonging to the indigenous tribes of the Nuba Mountains (darker-skinned Africans). Government-armed Arab militias are known to kill the men and enslave the women and children as personal property or to march them north to be auctioned off and sold.
It seems militias take it upon themselves to raid civilians. If the slave trade was widespread amongst civilians, you might have a point, but I don't take militant groups like the Taliban, for instance, to represent the ideals of the Qur'an or all Muslims.
Source:
Chattel Slavery
Muslim countries have lagged behind non-Muslim countries in ending slavery.
In ending it in word but not in deed? Sure.
I didn't make a claim; you did. I know very little about it. And that makes the qur'an great how?
You claimed it was propoganda. If you don't know much about it, you aren't in the position to make that claim. And how does that not make it great?
And yet it does. Islam fails again.
I wonder, why do you expect people to follow Islam's finer points in lieu of seeking power for themselves or following their own traditions? Muslims are not magical creatures that always follow the Qur'an. They're human. Atrocities are commited by humans, regardless of race or creed.
Anything can be argued. The question is, is the argument correct? In any case, it doesn't speak very well for the perfection, the glory, the actual word of God, does it?
Because it would be better to completely outlaw slavery, expect people to free the slaves key to their businesses and livelihoods, and join Islam in waves? Odds are they'd stick with their faiths, since those faiths don't seem too bothered. And those Muslims threatening my livelihood? They're threatening our way of life! They want us to starve and be conquered! Let's get rid of them!
Many did, but not every single person.
Especially if there isn't the slightest pronouncement against it or effort to do so.
BBC said:
Prohibiting slavery in the context of seventh-century Arabia apparently would have been as useful as prohibiting poverty; it would have reflected a noble ideal but would have been unworkable on an immediate basis without establishing an entirely new socioeconomic system.
Jacob Neusner, Tamara Sonn, Comparing Religions through Law: Judaism and Islam, 1999
BBC said:
Islamic law clearly recognises that slaves are human beings, but it frequently treats slaves as if they are property, laying down regulations covering the buying and selling of slaves.
It encourages the freeing of slaves, which has the good effect of diminishing the slave population of a culture and, paradoxically, the bad effect of encouraging those whose livelihood depends on slave labour to find new ways of acquiring slaves.
BBC - Religions - Islam: Slavery in Islam
Freeing slaves was encouraged. How is that not an effort?
And he'd be wrong, as history as shown. Certainly, had slavery not been ended in the U.S., we would not have a Black President today.
If not for the Civil War, he might have been right. I'm also quite sure that man would not have advocated rights for blacks, and would probably have spoken out against those who did. He might even have been one of those fellas who helped hang blacks on trumped-up or nonexistant charges. Had he lived in a tribal society where warfare was the norm, you can be darn well sure he may have considered going to war against people who threatened to free his slaves.
Yes, and the first step was ending slavery. Islam never took that first step.
No, the first step was considering the amazing notion that blacks were human beings. Islam had taken that first step.
I did. The context was, Muhammad expected the Jews to welcome him as a latter-day prophet. When they failed to do so, he declared war on them and conquered them.
No, Muhammad expected the Jews (and everyone else) not to try to kill him, or at the very least hoped so. When they did, he declared war.
Are you deliberately missing my point, or did it really escape you?
Yes, women are treated worse in Saudi Arabia. Would you like to live in parts of northern India where, while they might not be Muslim, they might treat women even worse than in Saudi Arabia?
If you want to equate Islam with the guarantee that women will be oppressed, I can't agree.
Nope. Not to mention he was the aggressor and raider.
So he couldn't have fought a single battle in self-defence? The Jews were never ever the aggressors? Other tribes never raided the Muslims?
Not from the qur'an I don't think.
Really, so people can be total nutjobs without reading the Qur'an? Wow.
If a nutjob converts to Islam, he won't cease being a nutjob; he'll just find new rationalizations. If that nutjob becomes atheist, you can be darn sure he'll find rationalizations then as well.
But should their holy books encourage and provide them, or guide them away from such evil thinking? Does God want us to hate Jews? Or love all people?
Have a look at the quotes I posted earlier in the day.