The Arab Slave Trade of Israelites

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What Part did Islam play in the Trans Sahara slave trade?

Israelite woman suffering at the hands of a Muslim

Many Arabs own slaves(Israelites) in East Africa. The death toll from 14 centuries of the Islamic slave trade in Africa is estimated at over 112 million.

About 80% of those captured by Muslim slave raiders died before reaching the slave markets.

The slave market in Zanzibar sold an average of 300 slaves every day.

Deuteronomy 31:17,18 On that day I (Yah) will become angry with them and forsake them; I will hide my face from them, and they will be destroyed. Many disasters and difficulties will come upon them, and on that day they will ask, 'Have not these disasters come upon us because our Yah is not with us?'- And I will certainly hide my face on that day because of all their wickedness in turning to other gods.

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Much is said of the European involvement in the Trans Atlantic slave trade to the Americas. Although it lasted for just over three centuries in large,not to make mention the length peonage lasted in the United States, the Arab involvement in the slave trade has lasted fourteen centuries. Also in some parts of the Muslim world is still continuing to this day.

A great number of slaves that the Arab Muslims have put under captivity has always been Israelites. Because Israel still resides in Africa today they are mistaken to be Africans and not true Israel.

          In contrast to the Trans- Atlantic slave trade which had two Israelite men to every one woman, the Arab Muslim slave trade had two women Israelites to every one man. To add to this contrast those Israelites that went to the Americas were use as farming and domestic labor and the women that went to the Muslims were used as concubines, in harems, and the men were for military service.

          As stated earlier on the page entitled, "The Scattering of Israel", It is estimated about 10 to 12 million Israelites was transported to the Americas. Only 5% came to the United States and about 95% went to South and Central settlements of the American continent.

          At least 80 to 90% of Israelites that went into the Muslim Trans Sahara slave trade did not survive the trip are the harsh treatment and conditions by the hands of the Arabs.

Domestic female Israelite slaves at Zanzibar

Isaiah 42:22 But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder, with no one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no one to say, "Send them back."

Isaiah 5:25 Therefore the Most High's anger burns against his people(Israel); his hand is raised and he strikes them down. The mountains shake, and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

The Trans-Sahara Slave Trade

Micah 5:8 The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which mauls and mangles as it goes, and no one can rescue.

Psalm 18:41 They cried, but [there was] none to save [them: even] unto the Most High, but he answered them not.

Psalm 50:22 Repent, now consider this, ye that forget Yah, lest I tear [you] in pieces, and [there be] none to deliver.

Micah 3:4 Then they will cry out to the Most High, but he will not answer them. At that time he will hide his face from them because of the evil they have done.

As Ronald Segal in "Islam's Black Slaves" documents: "Female slaves were required in considerable numbers for musicians, singers and dancers. Many more were bought for domestic workers,and many were in demand as concubines. The harems of rulers could be enormous. The harem of Abdal Rahman III (912 - 961) in Cordoba contained over 6000 concubines! And the one in the Fatimid Palace in Cairo had twice as many."

By the Middle Ages, the Arab word "abd" was in general use to denote a black slave, which manly was Israelites, while the word "mamluk" referred to a white slave. Even as late as the 19th Century, it was noted that in Mecca "there are few families that don't keep slaves,they all keep mistresses in common with their lawful wives."

Portrait of a Israelite domestic slave

Many are unaware that it was very common for Muslim slave masters to castrated their male slaves, which most were Israelite males.

Ibn Khaldun (1332 - 1406) the preeminent Islamic medieval historian and social thinker wrote: "The Negro(Israelite) nations are as a rule submissive to slavery,because they have attributes that are quite similar to dumb animals."

" In Baghdad, Calipha ,at the beginning of the 10th Century had 7000 black Israelite eunuchs and 4000 white eunuchs in his palace." It was noted that there were widespread "homosexual relations" as well. Islam's Black Slaves notes that Islamic teachers throughout the centuries consistently defended slavery:

It was noted that Israelites slaves were castrated "based on the assumption that the blacks had an ungovernable sexual appetite."

Israelites suffering at the hands of Arabs