The history of Islamic Slavery

Racism and religious status assertion is worthy of investigation

THE ULTIMATE in status differentiation is the slave relationship. The slave has no agency, while the slave-owner has full agency for two. Leaving aside the special case of contract slavery, the general point about enslavement is that it reduces human freedom to the point where only death can exceed it in terms of general freedom reduction.

The anti-slavery movement is one of the very, very few good causes which the sane majority in civilised countries almost unanimously supports. The mystery for most people is that we are told the worst slavers were the Europeans who transported slaves from Africa to America for three hundred years when in fact slavery in the Islamic world has lasted since the time of the Prophet, which was fourteen hundred years ago. Over the piece, many more people were enslaved by Arabs and Turks than by Europeans. So why have we heard so little about Islamic slaving?

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The full article is here:  https://thinkscotland.org/2025/09/why-is-islamic-slavery-so-often-ignored/ 

Refugees - who wants them and who doesn't - lessons from Europe in 1945 (after the war)

Interesting book on he subject of how all the displaced people in Europe as the Second World War ended were disposed of, and migrant fever brought to an end.

Read article about it here: https://thinkscotland.org/2025/09/is-there-room-at-the-inn-or-not/

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