Re:Viking ‘Allah’ textile actually doesn't have Allah on it
by empath75 on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @12:33PM
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Yeah, I don't think people in the US worry about white supremacy in Sweden so much. But racists in the US like to play up their so-called "pure" heritage by co-opting Scandinavian culture.
Re:Viking ‘Allah’ textile actually doesn't have Allah on it
by vixen99 on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @11:47AM
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Slavery has been a characteristic of almost every human grouping at some time or another. It seems you are not aware of the large number of Europeans and Africans (and in East Asia) who were enslaved by Muslims in the 18th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_the_Musl...
Re:Viking ‘Allah’ textile actually doesn't have Allah on it
by vim_wannabe on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @11:49AM
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We don't talk about that.
Re:Viking ‘Allah’ textile actually doesn't have Allah on it
by Brakenshire on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @12:22PM
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Speak for yourself! I've had quite a few conversations about this in the last year, about the Barbary slave trade in the late middle ages, or the treatment of black slaves in the Arabic slave trade. I saw a European TV programme about the latter. I also saw some artifacts related to it in a museum. If you're hoping to get a reasonable coverage of history from reading newspapers or watching tv news, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.
Re:Viking ‘Allah’ textile actually doesn't have Allah on it
by lostboys67 on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @11:46AM
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Um no one of the busiest slave markets in that time was Dublin only Constantinople was bigger.
Re:Viking ‘Allah’ textile actually doesn't have Allah on it
by pluma on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @11:55AM
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Is that Dublin, Sweden or Dublin, Ireland?
Re:Viking ‘Allah’ textile actually doesn't have Allah on it
by sampo on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @12:00PM
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Ireland. There is no Dublin in Sweden.
Sweden is historically inhabited by europeans who happened to settle there over the course of centuries, and then to their amazement later discovered they are "white". They probably just thought they were people back then.
I haven't heard about Swedes participating in slave trade (vikings aside) and there was nobody else for them to oppress (vikings aside), so it's kind of strange idea that Swedes now has to make up for centuries of white supremacism ("people supremacism"?)
A lot of things which make sense in context of history of USA (when european colonists overran the land and then imported black people agains their will to exploit them) doesn't extend on Northern Europe.