At 16, Ganesh got a job in Qatar. Two months later he was dead

Re:At 16, Ganesh got a job in Qatar. Two months later he was... by waps on Thursday September 26, 2013 @01:25PM (#6452204)

Black gold used to mean the slave trade towards America and within the British Empire and the Dutch. What does that have to do with Islam : simple. Who did they buy the slaves from ? The Ottoman empire.

Most kidnapped slaves never did end up in the western slave trade by the way, but were instead kidnapped into north africa and the middle east (which was the effective center of the muslim empire, they even relocated mecca into africa). Almost none of them survived, and today with a few small exceptions no significant numbers of those slaves survive.

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Re:At 16, Ganesh got a job in Qatar. Two months later he was... by gjm11 on Thursday September 26, 2013 @02:51PM (#6452803)

What is your source of information?

I am not an expert on the slave trade, but my understanding is that most of the slaves in the western slave trade were bought in West Africa, which was never part of the Ottoman Empire.

(I'm not saying that the Ottoman Empire was never involved in the slave trade. It was. So was the British Empire.)

> they even relocated mecca into africa

????

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