Jagina
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The historyof the Church allowing and promoting Slavery:
...It was this Church that initially ordered the slavery of Africans - the Africans who were enslaved were Muslims!
In 1457, the Council of Cardinals met in Holland where they sanctioned, as a righteous and progressive idea, the enslavement of Africans for the purpose of their conversion to Christianity and exploitation in the labor market as chattel property.
This satanic scheme speedily gained the sanctimonious blessing of the Pope and became a standard policy of the Catholic Church, and later of the Protestant churches, enduring for three centuries: thus the ghastly traffic in human misery was anointed with the oil of pontifical righteousness in Jesus' name.
A bull of Nicholas 5th instructed his followers to `attack, subject, and reduce to perpetual slavery the Saracens, Pagans and other enemies of Christ, southward from CapeBojador and including all the coast of Guinea'.
In fact, most of the Africans who were caught up in the Atlantic slave trade came fromWest Africa, an area roughly from Senegal River in the north to the Congo River in theSouth.
But why were West Africans specifically targeted ? Because they were Muslim.
Following the destruction of Baghdad in 1258 by Christian-backed Mongols, the onlyremaining intellectual Islamic states were in Africa. Africa was home to several Islamicuniversities, namely Fez, Timbuktu, Jenne and Al-Azhar, with many Faculties including Law,Medicine, Grammar, Building, Crafts, Manufacturing and Geography, and they attracted scholars from all over the Muslim world. Even though, two-thirds of the world's supply of gold came from West Africa during the Middle Ages, more profit was made from the sale of books [Pg. 73, 24]. Arabic was not only the language of religion and learning, but it was also the language of trade and commerce [pg.220, 40].
On his way to Mecca in the 1320s,Mansa Musa of Mali stated that his brother, Abu Bukhari, had sent two expeditions, one of four hundred ships and the other of twothousand, across the Atlantic.
This is not surprising because Islam is a universal religion. Allah Almighty is the Lord of the East, and the West [73:9].
Furthermore, the Last Prophet (saw) had come for the whole of mankind, the Last Message had been delivered and Islam had been completed [5:4]. Muslims were inclined to do: trade, missionary work to the whole of mankind, defendborders; expand the Islamic State, migrate (the Islamic calendar reminds of Migration),etc.
In addition, Muslims were sailors, geographers, astronomers, scientists. For example, itwas reported in part 3 of the Weekend Section of Financial Times November 16 / November 171996, that in 793 AD, Al-Biruni, an Afghan scientist in the Punjab had calculated theearth's circumference [54]. Thus, Muslims had already ascertained that the earth wasround, 700 years before the Europeans. More importantly, Muslims traveled using the starsand
the winds as the following Ayats (Verses) from the Holy Quran reveal:
6:97. It is He Who maketh the stars (as beacons) for you that ye may guide yourselves withtheir help through the dark spaces of land and sea. We detail Our Signs for people whoknow.
10:22. He it is Who enabled you to traverse through land and sea; so that ye even boardships they sail with them with a favourable wind...
30 46. Among His Signs is this that He sends the Winds as heralds of Glad Tidings givingyou a taste of His (Grace and) Mercy that the ships may sail by His Command and that yemay seek of His Bounty in order that ye may be grateful.
Furthermore, Ancient Egyptians knew the world was round and one of the first countriesthat the Arabs brought the Last Message to, was Egypt in 641/2 AD. One of the firstIslamic universities was built in Egypt, namely Al-Azhar. Furthermore, it is alleged that Muslims studied Greek works including Ptolemy who wrote the world was round.
Unlike Christians then, Muslims faced few obstacles to trade and spreading Islam throughout the world. When the Church discovered that Muslims from West Africa were actually doing so, they launched the Naval Crusade and the brutal slavery of West Africans.
We also find that during the Scramble for Africa / colonization of Africa, two countries were totally unaffected - Liberia and Ethiopia. In fact Ethiopia doubled the size of its empire during European colonization.
Why ?
They were CHRISTIAN countries!
