goldensnake

Muslim ☪️ Palestinian-American

[Mohammed Hijab @mohammed_hijab]

Slavery Is Ancient. The Racial Slave Caste Was Built, and We Know Who Built It.

Most civilisations had slaves. The Atlantic world built something no one had built at that scale: a legal system where African descent meant you were presumed a slave, and so were your children, forever.

Portugal pioneered the trade in enslaved Africans. Spain, Britain, France, and Holland turned it into one of the largest forced migrations in history. In 1662, English settlers in Virginia made it permanent: a child is slave or free "according to the condition of the mother." Over the next decades Virginia stacked law on law until slave and black meant the same thing.

Two centuries later that logic reached America's highest court. In 1857 Chief Justice Taney wrote that Black people had been regarded as having "no rights which the white man was bound to respect." And when slavery died, the idea didn't. In 1906 the Bronx Zoo put a Congolese man, Ota Benga, in a cage in the Monkey House. He wasn't a slave. He was just black.

The Muslim world had slaves too, on a vast scale. But it enslaved people of every origin: Africans, Europeans, Slavs, Turks, Greeks, Circassians, and Arabs. Slave-soldiers from the Caucasus and the steppes ruled Egypt for centuries. An Ethiopian ex-slave, Malik Ambar, became regent of an Indian kingdom. Prejudice existed, and some Muslim rulers acted on it. But Islam is not its rulers. Islam is the Qur'an and the law built on it, and there, nothing racial can be argued. Nothing. The Qur'an asks what the hard, uphill road to God is, and answers first: freeing a slave (90:13). Put simply, if you want to know what God counts as goodness, start by setting someone free. Al-Sarakhsi and al-Kasani taught that every child of Adam is born free and slavery must be proven. Al-Subki put it in one line: the law is bent on freedom. When Sultan Mawlay Ismail of Morocco tried in the 1690s to enslave free Black Muslims for being black, the scholars condemned him as a lawbreaker.

Wherever race entered, it entered against Islam, and Islam's own scholars said so.

The Bible openly allows slavery for life, passed to your children (Leviticus 25:44-46). Even that drew its line between Israelite and foreigner, not black and white.

So Europe did not invent slavery. It did not invent hereditary slavery. What Europe and America built, with a thoroughness no one had seen, was a caste: African blood as the mark, property as the status, inheritance as the sentence, and law as the lock.

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@KrimsonKroc @OurSf49ers pearsall got shot in the chest and had a bad knee injury last season. give the guy a break

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@OurSf49ers jake moody is gonna cost us an nfc championship game i swear to god

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@new_era72 @FoN9ne Wishing an injury on a player. Seacock fans are really trash

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@bassie_hd @49ersSportsTalk Robert is a Christian
Or Jewish name. No muslim is named Robert

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@bassie_hd @49ersSportsTalk Wikipedia got it wrong. Saleh is not Muslim.

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@bassie_hd @49ersSportsTalk Why? He’s not Muslim.

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@49ersSportsTalk Yalla is an Islamic term. Arabic is the language of Islam. Arabic is the language of the Quran. Arabic is exclusive to Islam. You Christian’s need to stop appropriating our words and culture

[Caltrain @Caltrain]

The @SFGiants - @Dodgers series is back in the Bay Area this week! Wondering how to get to the games? Make Caltrain a part of your journey, and ride with us July 11-13th!

Go Giants, Go Caltrain! ⚾️

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@KevinRogersAZ @TheBBallSage Lacob is one of the best owners. Kerr is the problem

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He’s not getting suspended dumbfuck

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@LombardiHimself Nothing like starting the season with a 4 game suspension..

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@Go_HAM_EDA @OurSf49ers @TMZ White people rednecks have guns all
The time

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@mccaffreyformvp @OurSf49ers @TMZ Stfu bitch. Call yourself a niner fan and you’re glorifying a seacock chump. Fuck outta here bitch

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@OurSf49ers @TMZ You have a right to own a gun. LAPD clearly racially profiled a group of black men hanging out in a car. Lenoir did nothing wrong.

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@Mcanales9er @thewaynebreezie @TMZ_Sports Cops shouldn’t have pulled them over. You’re allowed to have a gun this is America.

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@JoeT_831 @49ersSportsTalk @TMZ To what? He got released and didn’t get charged with a felony. The peace officer shouldn’t have stopped his group. Right to bear arms

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@tywentmissin @49ersSportsTalk @TMZ Lapd on some bullshit. Stopping a group of black men.

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@BoreyD1 @49ersSportsTalk @TMZ He did nothing wrong. Police
Shouldn’t have stopped his group

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@chizzybala @49ersSportsTalk @TMZ Not a big deal. He didn’t get charged with a felony.

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@49ersSportsTalk @TMZ Lenoir did nothing wrong.