21 August 2009

Commencing...

..."Operation Shoot Myself in the Face" in... three, two, one...
The basic theme is that Islamic slavery — to the extent it was bad at all (and it's not really clear that Elmasry thinks it was) — was an enlightened, almost consensual, win-win exercise in regional multiculturalism.

In his characteristically absurd elevation of Islam over Christianity, he makes no mention of the fact that religious Christians led the abolition movement in the West — while slavery persisted wholesale in the Arab world until late in the 20th century, and still survives in parts of Islamic Africa, including Sudan.
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FROM THE COMMENTS:
This is coming from a moron who still thinks women should be personal property.

I'll take my western philosophy and human rights of the common man any day over middle ages twap.
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