[ April 19, 2024 ]
As far as NBA immortal Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is concerned, asking football players to stand for the National Anthem is tantamount to locking them in leg irons and enslaving them. But where is his concern for the actual slavery that still continues in many Islamic countries?
Abdul-Jabbar wrote in the Hollywood Reporter that “to the slave owners, singing slaves would drown out their own cruelty and oppression, clothe them in a coerced choir of decency. But it wasn’t enough that the slaves had to sing, they had to sing their oppressor’s feel-good songs that are summed up in the Porgy and Bess refrain of ‘I’ve got plenty of nothin’, and nothin’s plenty for me.’ Yay, nothin’. Currently, the song being demanded is the national anthem during football games.”
Comparing coddled, lionized, Leftist millionaire athletes with slaves forced to work in the fields in the scorching heat is obscene enough in itself, but Abdul-Jabbar looks even worse when one considers the fact that this famous, high profile convert to Islam has never said a word about the slavery that persists in the Islamic world.
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Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, owned slaves, and slavery is taken for granted in the Qur’an. Throughout Islamic history, the great caliphates and other Islamic political entities were slave societies. In my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, I show that even Muslim Spain, much-lauded today as a paradise of multicultural harmony, was a center of the Islamic slave trade.
In Islamic al-Andalus, Muslim buyers could purchase sex-slave girls as young as eleven years old, as well as slave boys for sex as well, or slave boys raised to become slave soldiers. Also for sale were eunuchs, useful for guarding harems. Blonde slaves seized in jihad raids on Christian nations north of al-Andalus were especially prized, and fetched high prices. Slave traders would use makeup to whiten the faces and dye to lighten the hair of darker slaves, so that they could get more money for them.
A twelfth-century witness of the sale of sex slaves described the market:
The merchant tells the slave girls to act in a coquettish manner with the old men and with the timid men among the potential buyers to make them crazy with desire. The merchant paints red the tips of the fingers of a white slave; he paints in gold those of a black slave; and he dresses them all in transparent clothes, the white female slaves in pink and the black ones in yellow and red.
If the girls did not cooperate, of course, they would be beaten or killed. The Andalusian slave market became particularly important in the eleventh century, when two of the other principal markets from which the Muslims drew slaves, Central Asia and southeastern Europe, dried up. The Slavs by this time had converted to Christianity and were no longer interested in selling their people as slaves to Islamic traders. In Central Asia, meanwhile, the Turks had converted to Islam. The primary market for slaves among Muslims was for non-Muslims, as enslaving fellow Muslims was considered a violation of the Qur’an’s requirement to be “merciful to one another” (48:29); hence Muslim slave traders had to look elsewhere for merchandise.
And what about today? Slavery persists in many Muslim countries in North Africa, notably Mauritania and Niger. Mauritanian human rights crusader Boubakar Messaoud asserted that in that country, people are born and bred as slaves: “A Mauritanian slave, whose parents and grandparents before him were slaves, doesn’t need chains. He has been brought up as a domesticated animal.” Messaoud explained: “It’s like having sheep or goats. If a woman is a slave, her descendants are slaves.”
Likewise in Niger, which formally abolished slavery only in 2003, slavery is a long-standing practice. Journalist and anti-slavery activist Souleymane Cisse explained that even Western colonial governments did nothing to halt the practice: “The colonial rulers preferred to ignore it because they wanted to co-operate with the aristocracy who kept these slaves.”
Islamic slavery has not been unknown even in the United States. When the Saudi national Homaidan Al-Turki was imprisoned for holding a woman as a slave in Colorado, he complained that “the state has criminalized these basic Muslim behaviors. Attacking traditional Muslim behaviors was the focal point of the prosecution.”
What does Kareem Abdul-Jabbar have to say about these “traditional Muslim behaviors”? Nothing? Now, why is that?
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His new book is The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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41 Comments
5 years ago
These jihadis must be crazy. when they are allowed to immigrate , get freebies as jizya why do they need to do violent jihad ?
But this Moderate jihadi at Huff post uses some Al-taqiya about Jesus and wants you to give “al your money and home to those in need (muslims)” https://tinyurl.com/ybxxx2q4
what do you think ?
5 years ago
Abdul-Jabbar is going to lead a crusade of hundreds of NFL and NBA all stars to end sex slavery and muslim genocide against Christians where it still exists, …Africa and the Middle East!
Then they will all change their muslim slave master names to honor those that freed them. …………….Abraham-Jabbar has a nice patriotic ring to it!
Soo, hang on Nigeria, Egypt, and Syria! Help may at last be on the way!
But sadly, a severe shortage of HD battery operated wine coolers, Grey Poupon Dijon Mustard and Russian Beluga Caviar has delayed their departure.
5 years ago
Mr. Spenser.
I think you should explain a bit more about eunuchs
I always thought it was just castration.
Nu-uh.
EVERYTHING down there is lopped off, and the fatality rate was 90% fatality rate just from blood loss, and those that survived that, still had to worry about infection. And if the tubes inserted for urine to flow didn’t work, the victim died a slow death from dysentery.
FGM is barbaric, but its “fatality rate” is rarely, if even brought up.
Here’s a website on the matter, and apparently Geert Wilders described the process in his book “Marked For Death.”
https://madworldnews.com/what-muslims-did-to-male-slaves-makes-female-genital-mutilation-look-minor/
5 years ago
no one ever accused lew alcindor of being smart….it’s one reason he was attracted to islam
5 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
Yep an older Wilt Chamberlain had better stats than Kareem in the few games they played. I think Chamberlain was playing for the L.A. Lakers at the time.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rocinante44
I would have to agree completely. I think one of the first prerequisites to becoming a muslim is to have the IQ of a retarded prawn!
5 years ago
Instead of living comfortably in retirement, either by collecting rare cars, or relaxing on a yacht somewhere, this idiot must make himself relevant by pushing this garbage. Who listens to him, anyway. He obviously cares nothing about the millions of victims Islam creates. So that makes him a particularly vile person. I’m sure his next move will be to open an Islamic school for young children in the U.S.
5 years ago
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santashandler
I used to be a fan of Kareem, I even developed my own sky hook to use against my friends in basketball games. That was long before I knew islum and muslums for the evil they are.
5 years ago
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santashandler
For only 69 cents a day, nineteen dollars a month you can support a poor black child in Africa with big eyes and a wide smile. Certainly you big multimillion dollar sports figures can afford that???
5 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Or, he could be like LeBron James …. open a school, that the TAXPAYERS fund for OVER 95% ….. and have the world herald him for paying for a special school. If it’s such a big deal … why are the taxpayers on the hook for OVER 95% of the costs … Not to mention furnishing the building, infrastructure and bussing?
5 years ago
5 years ago
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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
It’s true: https://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/03/shaquille-oneal-shaq-earth-flat-kyrie-irving-podcast
And this guy went to a college/university… Is Shaq a muslum?
5 years ago
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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
Some of these people really do have the brains of a rocking horse, don’t they?
5 years ago
5 years ago
F#@K Abdul Jabbar and his pedo child raping prophet Mohammad
5 years ago
Bloody hypocrite. Islam is and always has been the world’s biggest marketer of slaves. They’re still doing it today
5 years ago
Kareem Abdul Jabbar owned a home in Chicago I believe that was the site of a famous gun battle between police and some sort of black supremacist islamic group.
5 years ago
How many Africans were forcibly subjugated, enslaved and converted after the Arabs conquered North Africa? The answer is quite a lot, at least as many as the Europeans did, maybe even more.
5 years ago
Funny all these stupids comments come from a moslem convert whose name abd-ul in arabic means both: slave and negro.
Also he should explain the 1 million of black slaves held in moslem countries today.
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5 years ago
Jabbar is a Abeed as his low IQ is perfect to be indoctrinated into the religion of the Devil.
5 years ago
Looks like a Zombie that just popped up from the crypt.
5 years ago
Africans were/are complicit in the international African slave trade. But since slavery is illegal for everyone except 1 religion, they must convert.
5 years ago
Another Negro with WHITE ENVY. Forgetting we spilt blood and treasure to FREE NEGROES. No other country ever done that for Negroes.
No other country made a Negro “President” just to satisfy the waycist Negro. Because obama was NEVER qualified for that office and also unconstitutional for him to be up there. In another words we committed treason on ourselves.
Yet, Negroes show no gratefoolness seeing this as weakness of the white man. They still claim we are waycist. They still hate your guts and they are always one day from rioting again.
5 years ago
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Alleged-Comment
About 1998 the Saudi king in an Arabic broadcast boasted that he would place a muslim in the American White House by 2008.
5 years ago
They are all just a bunch of attention seeking spoiled babies and has beens who think they know things, but don’t. If they did they would be grateful for the opportunities they have/had. But it’s easy to talk, kneel, raise fists or lock arms. Do something worthwhile with your great wealth, provided to you by fans that are sick of your insults.
5 years ago
Americans, using the petro-dollar islam has corrupted the educational system. Look at the propaganda lies your kids are being indoctinated with!
This is outrageous, those who promoted it should be imprisoned! This is a NY high school test from the university regents:
http://www.nysedregents.org/globalhistorygeography/Archive/20100817-gh-examw.pdf
This is from page 13 of the test ” . . Wherever they went, the Moslems brought with them their love of art, beauty, and learning.
From about the eighth to the eleventh century, their culture was superior in many ways to that
of western Christendom.
Some of the finest centers of Moslem life were established in Spain. In Cordova, the streets
were solidly paved, while at the same time in Paris people waded ankle-deep in mud after a rain.
Cordovan public lamps lighted roads for as far as ten miles; yet seven hundred years later there
was still not a single public lamp in London!
Some Spanish Moslems had homes with marble balconies and courts with lovely waterfalls.
Bedrooms were vaulted with stained glass and speckled with gold. And metal pipes carried water
into marble baths.
Nearly every mosque had a public school in which the children of the poor were taught. Many
Moslem libraries were excellent; the catalogue of one caliph’s library filled forty volumes. In
addition, the followers of Mohammed achieved much in science, particularly in chemistry,
astronomy, mathematics, and medicine. . . .
Source: Daniel Roselle, A World History: A Cultural Approach, Ginn and Company (adapted)”
5 years ago
So how did blacks become slaves? They were the war booty of victorious tribes. In other words, BLACK victors sold the BLACK vanquished foes to Muslim traders. So, Lew Alcindor, are you awake of that? Are you still proud of having adopted a Muslim name? Hypocrite!
5 years ago
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is so vain that he had some of his cells cryogenically preserved (frozen in nitrogen) so his person can be reproduced as his clones at a future date.
The project has been named, “Ice Kareem Clone.”
5 years ago
Not Only the Knee . . . !
The knee is not the only problem . . . 68 children by 52 women! 7 players!
Children raised in fatherless homes, especially black children, are far more likely than children raised in two parent homes to engage in criminal behavior and thus, have contact with police.
Ergo when they father a child with a woman to whom they are not married—or at least living with—they are contributing to the problem against which these football players are taking a knee
If you look at many of these players’ records on out-of-wedlock children, you find that they are contributing significantly to the problem against which they are protesting.
For example, Antonio Cromartie has 12 children by 9 different women. Apparently the NFL had to shell out $500,000 before he could even play football for them. Travis Henry has 11 children by 10 women, Willis McGahee has 9 children by 8 women, Derrick Thomas has 7 children by 5 different women, Bennie Blades has 6 children by 6 women, Ray Lewis has 6 children by 4 women and Marshall Faulk has 6 children by 3 women.
They forgot to include Adrian Peterson: 11 kids from 7 different women.
Before these guys take a knee they should take a good look in the mirror.
It appears that their problem is not the knee
And I bet they are all collecting welfare and crazy checks.
All should be deported to Liberia where they can live in happy black freedom!!!!
5 years ago
Liberia would be the perfect country where they can live in FREEDOM
5 years ago
If any blacks in America feel they were forced here, they have had the freedom to return to their homelands. Of course, none do because all this talk is self-serving poppycock to try to get freebies from soft brained, self-loathing whites who pretend to be morally superior as a sop to hide their ignorance.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mark Huber
Most Africans would probably not accept them though, their two communities are very…different.
5 years ago
WHEN THE ONLY HISTORY YOU KNOW IS WHAT YOU SEE AT THE MOVIES,THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE YOU ARE A MORON.
5 years ago
This goon needs to be defrocked. Essentially he’s an Islamonastie, which makes him an Islamist and a Nastie.
No branded material. No endorsements. Nothing. Hope he starves.
He needs to renounce his Hate-ideology and rejoin the human race.
5 years ago
Every voice wants to be heard. Especially when they feel they are not heard. The problem is that not everybody is qualified to discuss their own shortcomings. They are usually invisible to us.
Athletes think in terms of power. Who uses it, and for what purpose? I was never a slave owner, and he was never a slave, nor treated like one. We don’t have “White Privilege,” but we do have “Wealth Privilege.” He has that, and along with entertainers, think that is enough to make us listen.
If a child has a fit of rage, we know enough to wait till he has cried his eyes out before we comfort him. Until he realizes his cries are futile, he won’t change his line of thinking. Somebody needs to stomp on his ego and let him know that if he chooses to live in a ghetto, he will have that ghetto mentality. He must learn that many in his community are law breakers, and white people can’t be held accountable for that.
He has also learned to master the English language. This is a feat most in the ghetto won’t understand, but by deliberately misusing the common language, they are distancing themselves from the rest of the world. The only thing holding black people back is themselves. If they want to step up, they re more than welcomed. If they want to live on the Plantation, it is their choice, and not my fault. I won’t encourage it.
4 years ago
Reply to
boocat
This is a full size Amazon of mixed breed. She is over 40 years old and gets passed around the family when the owner dies. I will be trying to outlive her, but it will be hard.
