Understanding African History? One.

Islam and Arabic Slavery!

Very few black people outside of North-Africa know that before white European slavery began, there was nearly one thousand years of Islamic slavery in the Sahel region and some of it continues to this day through the Tuareg desert tribes and the newly established Islamic State militants in Mali, southern-Algeria and Libya, apart from N-Nigeria, Chad and Burkina Faso.

The Prophet Mohammed said that before he was enlightened and afterwards he kept a few slaves to serve him and that Muslim could continue in the will of Allah (God) doing so!

From the 65th Century to the arrival of the Portuguese in the 16th Century, the Berber tribes of Morocco were the main players in slavery and many African tribal leaders got rid of enemies and problematic people in this way! But by the time of the Europeans arriving and that of the English, the Berbers were being overwhelmed by the numbers being provides so another new outlet became available?

This is not to undermine the horrors of European slavery, but just to let people know that black people are not innocent of these customs and crimes and the wealth of the Islamic world too was built on forced labor!

1 Corinthians 7:21-22,  9:19,  12:13. 

Knives! Two.

Islam and Paganism!

This is the one time that the bible mentions something that is still practiced today across the Middle-East, the acknowledgement of justifying self slashing! For them it means the shedding of sins, but this is a false idea and has nothing to do with faith in God!

The cutting of the flesh is as old as men were on the Earth and it probably started in the days of Tubal-Cain before the great flood, but like all sins it has continued! Today we see it in tattooing and many have tried to justify it, but we must not run against God because He wants the best for all of us!

1 Kings 18:28,  Leviticus 19:28,   John 3:3,  15-21,  Romans 3:23,  6 :23.