Carlos Khalil Guzman: Islam Rejects Racism? (Part 2)

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When last we looked at the plans of a convert to Islam, Carlos Khalil Guzman, to publish a book of photographs of young American Muslims, with each being asked to choose a single favorite verse from the Qur’an, or a single saying of the Prophet, and explain why he/she chose it, we were left with his remarkable assertion that “Islam is against all types of oppression…It’s against racism, homophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism.”

Sounds good. But is it true? Let’s take those claims one by one Islam is against “racism”? But what of the many Hadith that tell us otherwise, such as this: “Narrated Anas bin Malik: The Prophet said to Abu-Dhar, ‘Listen and obey (your chief) even if he is an Ethiopian with a head like a raisin.'” And this: Ahmad ibn Abi Sulayman, the companion of Sahnun said, “Anyone who says that the Prophet was black should be killed” (Ibn Musa al-Yahsubi, Qadi ‘Iyad, p.375).

And there is this from the celebrated historian Al-Tabari: “Noah prayed that the hair of Ham’s descendants [Africans] would not grow beyond their ears, and that whenever his [Ham’s] descendants met Shem’s, the latter would enslave them” (Al-Tabari, Vol. 2, p. 21, p. 21).

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Many of the most famous Arab writers and Islamic scholars were certainly “racists” in the full meaning of that word.

Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) was, among other things, an Islamic jurist, Islamic lawyer, Islamic scholar, Islamic theologian, and hafiz (one who has memorized the entire Qur’an). He is one of the most important figures in Islamic history. Here are two (among many) remarks he makes about black Africans in his Muqaddimah:

“Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.”

“Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings.”

Ibn Sina or Avicenna (980-1037), was another celebrated figure in Islamic history: a Hafiz, an Islamic psychologist, scholar, and theologian and, by our lights, a racist: “[Blacks are] people who are by their very nature slaves.”

Ibn Qutaybah (828-889), was a renowned Islamic scholar from Kufa, Iraq:

“[Blacks] are ugly and misshapen, because they live in a hot country.”

Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī (1201-1274), was a Shia Muslim Scholar and Grand Ayatollah:

“If (all types of men) are taken, from the first, and one placed after another, like the Negro from Zanzibar, in the Southern-most countries, the Negro does not differ from an animal in anything except the fact that his hands have been lifted from the earth –In no other peculiarity or property – except for what God wished. Many have seen that the ape is more capable of being trained than the Negro, and more intelligent.”

“[The Zanj (African) differ from animals only in that] their two hands are lifted above the ground… Many have observed that the ape is more teachable and more intelligent than the Zanj.”

Al-Muqaddasi (945/946-1000) was a medieval Muslim geographer:

“Of the neighbors of the Bujja, Maqdisi had heard that ‘there is no marriage among them; the child does not know his father, and they eat people — but God knows best. As for the Zanj, they are people of black color, flat noses, kinky hair, and little understanding or intelligence.'” (Kitab al-Bad’ wah-tarikh, vol.4)

Al-Masudi (896-956), was a Muslim historian and geographer, known as the “Herodotus of the Arabs”:

“Galen says that merriment dominates the black man because of his defective brain, whence also the weakness of his intelligence.” (Al-Masudi, Muruj al-dhahab)

Ibn al-Faqih was a Muslim historian and geographer:

“A man of discernment said: The people of Iraq … do not come out with something between blonde, buff and blanched coloring, such as the infants dropped from the wombs of the women of the Slavs and others of similar light complexion; nor are they overdone in the womb until they are burned, so that the child comes out something between black, murky, malodorous, stinking, and crinkly-haired, with uneven limbs, deficient minds, and depraved passions, such as the Zanj, the Somali, and other blacks who resemble them. The Iraqis are neither half-baked dough nor burned crust but between the two.” (From his Mukhtasar Kitab al-Buldan, 903 AD)

These are just a small sample of the racist remarks made by outstanding figures in Islamic intellectual history. All of them have apparently escaped the notice of Carlos Khalil Guzman. And I have the feeling that even if he were made aware of them, he would prefer not to bring them to the notice of Unbelievers, lest they think ill of his beloved Islam. Perhaps I underestimate him. Perhaps, if he became aware of the racism that all the most important figures in Muslim Arab culture exhibited, he might begin to question Islam.

Carlos Khalil Guzman takes no notice of the Arab Slave Trade, where Arab cruelty toward black Africans was so obviously in evidence. That trade began earlier, and ended later (and only under Western pressure), and claimed many more victims, than the Atlantic Slave Trade. That Arab trade consisted mainly of capturing black boys in the bush and castrating them on site, then herding them to the slave markets of Islam. Only about 10% survived both the castration and the difficult journey, according to Jan Hogedoorn in his study “The Hideous Trade.” Estimates of the numbers involved are that 17 million made it alive to be sold as slaves; if we take the estimate of Jan Hogedoorn that that represented 10% of those originally seized, that would mean, if only black boys were taken, 170 million black Africans were captured by African slavers. But while the boys made up the greatest number of slaves, some women and girls wee also among those seized. They would not have undergone castration, and thus a greater percentage of them would have survived.

It is likely, then, that fewer Africans — say 100-120 million — might have been involved in the Arab slave trade. The latest estimate of the number of slaves who died en route to the Islamic slave markets was made by John Alembellah Azumah in his 2001 book, The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa; he estimates that over 80 million Black people died en route to the slave markets, with about 20 million surviving, for a total of100 million. In the Atlantic Slave Trade the scholars agree that about 12.5 million slaves were taken, and 10.7 million survived the Middle Passage. In other words, the Arab Slave Trade involved at least eight times as many slaves as did the Atlantic Slave Trade. Are we to conclude that this largest and cruelest of slave trades had nothing to do with how the Arabs thought of blacks (see the many quotes above)? Nothing to do with “race”? Or is Guzman insufficiently aware of the dimensions of that Arab Slave Trade, and with the rampant anti-black racism among Muslim Arabs that both justified and promoted it?

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Voytek Gagalka
Voytek Gagalka
6 years ago

The most stinking notion from them all is that “Islam is against… Islamophobia.” Of course that they are against it, for the same reason any criminal is against criminal-phobia: to “promote and protect” their self-interest. Actually, in law, it is called the conflict of interests and should be dismissed on sight if we would live in sane society. Unfortunately, we’re not…

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
6 years ago

Trump wins again – Scares the heck out of Iran
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Rouhani vows Iran never to breach nuke deal
Source: Xinhua| 2017-09-06 23:37:44|Editor: Mu Xuequan
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-09/06/c_136589691.htm
TEHRAN, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) — Iran will never breach the nuclear deal it signed with major powers, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani vowed on Wednesday.

Rouhani made the remarks in a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister’s Special Envoy Masahiko Koumura, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

The Iranian leader said the nuclear deal, also known as Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed in 2015 by Iran with the U.S., Russia, Britain, China and France plus Germany, was an important international accord.

“Today after the implementation of the JCPOA, we should not allow violating the deal,” Rouhani said. He pointed out that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has verified Iran’s commitment to JCPOA for several times, while the U.S. has not been fully committed to the deal.

“The U.S. is trying to make a media campaign against international cooperation,” Rouhani said. Iran spares no efforts in establishing stability and security in the region, he added.

In the wake of the economic sanctions imposed recently by the U.S. government led by President Donald Trump, there have been worries about possible U.S. termination of the nuclear deal with Iran.
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State Department: Iran Deal Is Not ‘Legally Binding’ and Iran Didn’t Sign It
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/427619/state-department-iran-didnt-sign-iran-deal-joel-gehrke

felix1999
felix1999
6 years ago

They liked the WHITE European women they captured for sex. They have NEVER thought much of blacks. They still don’t today. Blacks are quickly converting to Islam. Our prisons are loaded with it. Muslims are using blacks, again, for violence and their hate campaign.

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JenniferMFrazier
6 years ago
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Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

guzman is a typical muslim, totally clueless about what the qur’an says about anything, another tool of islam in its continual destruction of everything, including itself.

Straight from the Quran and early Islamic sources

Narrated Anas bin Malik: Allah’s Apostle said, “You should listen to and obey, your ruler even if he was an Ethiopian (black) slave whose head looks like a raisin.”

Sahih Bukhari 9:89:256

Qur’an 39:60

And on the day of resurrection you shall see those who lied against Allah; their faces shall be blackened. Is there not in hell an abode for the proud?

Ishaq:243 “I heard the Apostle say: ‘Whoever wants to see Satan should look at Nabtal!’ He was a black man with long flowing hair, inflamed eyes, and dark ruddy cheeks…. Allah sent down concerning him: ‘To those who annoy the Prophet there is a painful doom.” [9:61] “Gabriel came to Muhammad and said, ‘If a black man comes to you his heart is more gross than a donkey’s.’”

Al-Tirmidhi Hadith – 38

Narrated AbudDarda’

Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said: Allah created Adam when He had to create him and He struck his right shoulder and there emitted from it white offspring as if they were white ants. He struck his left shoulder and there emitted from it the black offspring as if they were charcoal. He then said (to those who had been emitted) from the right (shoulder): For Paradise and I do not mind. Then He said to those (who had been emitted) from his left shoulder: They are for Hell and I do not mind.

Mohamed Diputs
Mohamed Diputs
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

¨We Moslem’s are no racist! we only kill (after a good torture) non moslims; black, gay, yellow, red, white even our own children if they love they wrong people we kill without a blink of an eye ¨ and you dare to call us racist!

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Mohamed Diputs

Thank your for clearing up that your are nondiscriminatory murderers.

notislam
notislam
6 years ago

Guzman probably was aware -but he chose to ignore the TRUTH -There was a show on Ch.6 PBS -THE ARAB AMERICANS and these were people who escaped from the brutal Islam – It sounded like they weren’t all islamic and came here to practice their own religions with out fear. Now there are more islamics in the USA and they are nasty and “racist” .

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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
6 years ago

“ALLAHU AKBAR !!”
“ALLAHU AKBAR !!”
“ALLAHU AKBAR !!”
…………… Is protected and ‘harmless’ speech ?!!
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Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
6 years ago

This Filipino is not a too bright minded fellow. Filipinos are much like Negroes in they don’t invent or build anything, but at least they grow their own food and work a little harder.

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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
6 years ago

Here’s a photo series of Muslims that the Media refuses to publish !!!

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