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...
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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.