Slavery

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Slavery is deeply embedded in Islamic law, texts, and tradition, and has been since its beginning. **Muslims actively engage in slavery to this day.** They buy, sell, trade, rape, and otherwise abuse other human beings as slaves. Slavery exists wherever Muslims live - not only in Islamic countries, even [here in the U.S.,](http://archive.is/WcyU2) right under our noses.

A large portion of Sharia (Islamic law) is dedicated to slavery. Mohammed captured slaves in battle, owned slaves, traded slaves, raped slaves, and instructed his soldiers to do the same (Sahih Bukhari 34:351, 34:432, 59:637, 62:137, 72:734; Sahih Muslim 3371, 3901, 4112; Abu Dawud 2150; Ibn Ishaq 693; and more). *Muslims are taught to emulate Mohammed in every way.*
* Muslim men are restricted to four wives but are allowed to have any number of rape slaves, following the example of Mohammed (Koran 33:50).

* The human value of a slave with a Muslim owner is less than that of a free person (Koran 2:178).

* Slaves are property and can be used to pay off a debt (Sahih Bukhari 41.598).

* Muslims are even allowed to breed their slaves (Koran 24:32).

* In Saudi Arabia slavery was "officially" abolished; [unofficially it lives on.](http://archive.is/flgWx) Women and men travel to Saudi Arabia lured by promises of work as domestic servants or other low-skilled laborers. When they get there, they face life as slaves including restrictions on movement, threats, physical or sexual abuse, withholding of passports, and non-payment of wages.

* Women, primarily from Asian and African countries are [trafficked into Saudi Arabia for commercial rape slavery;](http://archive.is/flgWx) others are kidnapped and forced into prostitution after running away from their slave owners.

* Girls as young as seven years old are ["married" to Muslim men to become rape slaves, forced into domestic labor and prostitution.](http://archive.is/flgWx)

* An Indonesian woman living in Saudi Arabia had her [fingers, toes and part of her right foot amputated because of gangrene after being tied up for a month in a bathroom](https://web.archive.org/save/http://www.arabnews.com/node/264158) by her Saudi owner who also beat her severely, injuring her eye and knocking several of her teeth out.

* A Muslim family living in Colorado [sneaked in an Indonesian woman as their slave](http://archive.is/WcyU2).

* A Muslim family in England forced an [impoverished Polish couple into slavery.](http://archive.is/zoTqg) Police found the couple huddled together in a filthy, damp, and moldy 10'x7' shack. The Muslims paid them $4.82 each day and charged them $8.45 for rent, a tactic often used in Islamic countries to "legally" keep slaves.

In Islam, slaves have zero human rights. Islamic courts have established that a master may treat his slaves however he chooses without fear of punishment. The fact that only non-Muslims may be taken as slaves is evidence of Islam's supremacist doctrine.

There has never been abolitionary movement within the Islamic world. Muslims only give up their slaves when the West forces them to. In 2003, a cleric in Saudi Arabia's highest religious body [declared,](http://archive.is/bhY2N) "Slavery is part of Islam. Slavery is part of jihad and jihad will remain as long as there is Islam. Those who argue that slavery has been abolished are ignorant, not scholars. They are merely writers. Whoever says such thing is an infidel."

Slavery in Islam has included [millions of white Christians.](http://archive.is/nXU9p) Islamic slave raiders operated as far north as England. Muslims also enslave Indians, Africans, and Persians.

Far more Africans have been swallowed up in the 1400 years of ongoing Islamic slave trading than in the three centuries of European practice. An estimated 17-20 million Africans have been taken from their native land to the Muslim world. With a transport survival rate of less than 1 in 3, 50-80 million more have died in route.

[That's 100 MILLION slaves taken out of Africa by Muslims - so far...](http://archive.is/wjdeX) but I guess [those black lives don't matter.](https://pasteboard.co/IPuDyCH.jpg)

* Number of times the Koran tells Muslims they can have rape slaves: **FOUR** (Koran 4:24, 23:5-6, 33:52, 70:29-30)

* Number of times the Koran tells Muslims to pray five times a day: **ZERO**

\#JustMuslimThings