A Reminder of the Other Black Genocide (UPDATE)

In 2008, I posted the following video via YouTube. It had been part of a series which exposed the truth about the Islamic Civilization with special emphasis on the horrors of the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade.  My intent was to counter the exhortations of Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, and the like-minded who continue to excoriate America and the rest of Western Civilization for past sins against black African Slaves and Americans of African descent.

The owners of YouTube, however, have blocked the account of John Alembillah Azumah--the man interviewed in the series and the author of the book, The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa: A Quest for Inter-religious Dialogue. One can guess that some people were offended by the series--a state of affairs which often occurs when the truth is told.

This particular copy of the video, entitled "Muslim Black Slavery - Islam Slave History of Black Africa," is now posted at MetaCafe by a third party.

Here's Azumah's preamble:

The success of Mohammedan Islam in deceiving, misinforming, deforming and contorting both history and reality over a period of almost fourteen hundred years has been astounding--that is, until now.

The greatest tragedy about this particular subject is that most of the descendants of African slavery--the black people in the Americas, around the world, as well as among the African blacks--are totally ignorant of the actual facts.

Before we lose the concentration of our visitors, I would like to make the following statement and then prove it: that the worst, most inhumane and most diabolical of the black African Slave Trade was initiated, refined, perpetrated and implemented by the Mohammedan Arabs and, later, aided and abetted by the black converts to Mohammedan Islam.

I predict that, as usual, the two subcultures--those of denial of facts and of Political Correctness--will attack us without once disproving a single statement and/or conclusion that we make.

And here are some pertinent excerpts:

While the European involvement in the African Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to the Americas lasted for just over three centuries, the Arab involvement in the African Slave Trade has lasted fourteen centuries and, in some parts of the Mohammedan world, is still continuing to this day.

(...)

It should also be noted that black slaves were castrated based on the assumption that the blacks had an ungovernable sexual appetite.

(...)

A comparison of the Islamic Slave Trade to the American Slave Trade reveals some extremely interesting contrasts.

While two out of every three slaves shipped across the Atlantic were men, the proportions were reversed in the Islamic Slave Trade: two women for every man were enslaved by the Muslims.

While the mortality rate of slaves being transported across the Atlantic was as high as ten percent, the percentage of slaves dying in transit in the Trans-Sahara[n] and East African Slave market was a staggering eighty to ninety percent.

(...)

While many children were born to slaves in the Americas--the millions of their descendants are citizens in Brazil and the United States of today--very few descendants of the slaves that ended up in the Middle East survived.

While most slaves who went to the Americas could marry and have families, most of the male slaves destined for the Middle East were castrated and most of the children born to the women were killed at birth.

Azumah pronounces the denial of the facts concerning the on-going Islamic Slave Trade as 'obscene.'

To those whose male ancestors survived American Slavery long enough to ensure that the former would be alive in the twenty-first century and, therefore, be able to refer to me as a House Negro for suspecting the motives of the putative builders of the "Ground Zero" Mosque, I feel pity.

That pity is mixed with a sense of astonishment, however, at this conclusion: that so many black people are so well indoctrinated with perpetual anger at the sins of America's past, that they would ignore the more egregious sins of Islam's present and desired future.  Hurling epithets and pretending that the opponents of the "Ground Zero" Mosque want to stifle freedom of religion is a lot easier than gathering the pertinent facts, connecting them, analyzing them and coming to a cogent conclusion, it seems.

On the other hand, perhaps such people have indeed concluded that Islam would like to expand its near destruction of those of African descent--with black men being the special and specified targets for annihilation.  Perhaps the slinging of epithets, etc. is merely a smokescreen--an insurance for the future.  Such people will be able to say to their future masters, "see? I stood up for the Ummah against that infidel, Ochieng."

Maybe such people are merely trying to protect their own testicles--such as they are.

Enslave a man's mind and the rest of him--including his testicles-- will follow; no more need for physical chains.

UPDATE: John Alembillah Azumah's bonafides: he is the Director of the Centre for Islamic Studies at the London School of Theology.  I would imagine that he has competent security and, no doubt, he is in need of our prayers.

UPDATE 2014: I can't find a link to this, but if I remember correctly, Dr. Azumah has long fled the UK.

Comments

[Rick]

If the facts about Islamic slavery got out, Liberals would be forced to defend it somehow.

[Ric Locke]

Say to them: "Well, hey, bro, you a Black Muslim. It was Muslims that captured you, Muslims that put you in chains, Muslims that marched you to the coast and sold the survivors to white slave traders, and they still doin' it right today. White people knew that the best gang-bosses and overseers were n--s, if they could be made to not kill the workers. You ain't against slavery, you just want the butt-end of the lash in your own hand."

Nasty. But true.

Regards,
Ric

[lowly]

There is a copy of this video on youtube.

[baldilocks]

Link?

[NSangoma]

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The root of Islam, Judaism, would have to disavow the enslavement of Ham, before Islam can disavow the enslavement of Ham.

Judaism has never disavowed the Ham story.
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[baldilocks]

That's because Ham was never enslaved. (Refresh your memory on the story before responding.)

[NSangoma]

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Here you lose, in the original version of the story, Ham not Canaan is cursed.
Hebrew myths: the book of Genesis
R Graves, R Patai - 1966 - McGraw-Hill Companies

http://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks%3A1&tbo=1&q=hebrew+myths&btnG=Search+Books

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Hebrew+myths%3A+the+book+of+Genesis&hl=en&btnG=Search&as_sdt=400000001&as_sdtp=on

Canaan was the nexus of west-east trade routes:
(The Greek word for Canaan is Phoenicia)
... As the book of Judges opens, the land of Canaan is the scene of tremendous political instability, with many groups vying for supremacy. The once-great empires of the Egyptians and the Hittites have been trying to control Canaan because of the importance of its trade routes, but their dominance has started to wane, and a stalemate between them has created a virtual free-for-all among the lesser nations. A group of "Sea Peoples" -the Philistines in particular-are moving from west to east, trying to dominate the lands between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. The tribes of Israel, having received their allotments of land from YHWH are pushing from east to west toward the Jordan, claiming the land for themselves. Caught in the middle are the indigenous Canaanite population, who are unwilling to accept a wholesale takeover of their territory. Much of the Book of Judges details the conquest and, frequently, eradication of the Canaanites by Israel. ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=Qr5W4IrVKSMC&pg=PA139&dq=Judah+isreal+canaan+canaanite+trade+routes&hl=en&ei=-lAFTNyNBYKC8gbW893bDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6wEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
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[Constructive Feedback]

Baldilocks:

If you want to grab a copy of the video for yourself - go to www.real.com and get the "Real SP" player.

It can capture streaming videos and download them to your hard drive for safe keeping.

Best of all - its free!!

Don't ask NSangoma for any money - he has some issues with Black conservative females.

[baldilocks]

I "lose?" Why can't I merely be 'mistaken?' At any rate, I will look at your source material and reply in a bit.

[baldilocks]

24And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son [Ham] had done unto him.

25And he said, Cursed be Canaan [Ham's fourth son]; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

26And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

27God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

Genesis 9:25-27 (KJV)

Assuming that the curse is true, in effect and that all black people are the descendants of Ham, are all black people cursed, or just those descended from Canaan? (Ham had many children besides those listed in Genesis 10.) The ultimate source material has naught to say about this and you would not be the first to infer things not implied.

[baldilocks]

Sort of related: Moses was one of the few men of his time and tribe who had only one wife. That wife, Zipporah, was the daughter of a Midianite priest, Reuel ('Jethro' was his title of office.) The Midianites were Cushites--progenitors of the Ethiopians--and, therefore, black.

After the Exodus from Egypt, Moses' siblings Aaron and Miriam, in an attempt to undermine Moses' leadership, began to speak against him for marrying a black woman (Numbers 12). What did God do? He smacked Miriam with a case of leprosy, as if to say, "since you like white so much, how do you like this?"

Moses prayed for her and she was healed after seven days.

Those who have use the Bible to rail against interracial marriage always seem to ignore that little vignette. Not saying that you're do this, but it is an example of how scripture has been used (or ignored, as the case may be) to justify personal prejudices.