Re: False and a great lie, Muslims sanctioned slavery.
This is also a response to rafh27 and minsboy.
who is guilty of slavery?
Romans, Persians, Mongolians, Vikings, Greeks, Pharaoh, up to
10th to nearly 20th century, Spain, Japan, America, Britain
conqueror.
teka halos lahat ata ah,
alam mo kasi sir 7shadows noon it was someting usual before
lalo after war.
Proof that Religion including Islam WAS used as an excuse to do slavery. This is very simple case - premise was about Islam, my refutation is about Islam.
Today Muslims like Christians, especially under the auspices of the United Nations declaration on human rights would quote the Holy Scriptures against slavery.
I am pointing to a hypocrisy of religion, it just so happen (was it Fate or God's Will?) that it was Islam on the hot-seat right now. So someone presented a modern anti-slavery formula composed from the Holy Quran.
I am here proving that words are mere words, the deeds of men are what counts. Actions are the true witness to the faiths held by men. And sorry to say, they did base their slavery authority on the Holy Quran.
That is historical truth documented and resulted into a conflict even commented on by significant third parties such as the great Admiral Nelson of the British Empire and Pope Pius VII of the Catholic Church.
mathed1925 said:
but here try to know how the Prophet Muhammad, the 4 Khalifa; Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, Ali treated their slaves.
and also worth to mention those former slave sooner became scholar of Islam and earned thier high status.
1. Bilal Al-Harith - one of the companion of prophet Muhammad
2. Salman Farasi - slave from persian until he meet prophet Muhammad.
3. Zayd Ibn Harith - a slave then adopted by prophet Muhammad as his own son, died on the battle to the Romans.
4. Salim Mawla Abu-Hudhayfah - a freed slave, where the sahaba commanded by prophet Muhammad to learn the recitation of the Qur'an from him, he was one of the Huffaz...
In a hadith narrated upon the authority of Abd-Allah ibn 'Amr (May Allah be pleased with him)
Individual Charity vs. Practical Policy of an Islamic Dominion
Well the bad news is this was an official policy of not only a nation, but an entire dominion; the Ottoman Empire. Sure an individual's charity is divine (as what you listed above) but an empire's wrath which draws authority for slavery from the Holy Quran is just pure atrocity.
mathed1925 said:
ngayon pinagmalaki mo pa ang america with the involvement of the Agnostic?
who is this people, can you give me your source...
The founding fathers' Deistic and irreligious beliefs have many common links to Agnosticism. Some background,
The Pilgrimage from Deism to Agnosticism by Moncure Daniel Conway. Real book here
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Moncure_Daniel_Conway.
1.
George Washington
For George Washington said:
The first president of the United States, never declared himself a Christian according to contemporary reports or in any of his voluminous correspondence. Washington Championed the cause of freedom from religious intolerance and compulsion. When John Murray (a universalist who denied the existence of hell) was invited to become an army chaplain, the other chaplains petitioned Washington for his dismissal. Instead, Washington gave him the appointment. On his deathbed, Washinton uttered no words of a religious nature and did not call for a clergyman to be in attendance.
Source: George Washington and Religion by Paul F. Boller Jr., pp. 16, 87, 88, 108, 113, 121, 127 (1963, Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, TX), real book here
http://www.amazon.com/George-Washin...0210/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338297132&sr=8-1.
2.
Thomas Paine
For Thomas Paine said:
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of...Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all."
Source: The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine, pp. 8,9 (Republished 1984, Prometheus Books, Buffalo, NY), real book here
http://www.amazon.com/Age-Of-Reason...sr_1_sc_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1338297480&sr=8-3-spell.
3.
John Adams
For John Adams said:
"the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion."
Sources: The Character of John Adams by Peter Shaw, pp. 17 (1976, North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC) Quoting a letter by JA to Charles Cushing Oct 19, 1756, and John Adams, A Biography in his Own Words, edited by James Peabody, p. 403 (1973, Newsweek, New York NY) Quoting letter by JA to Jefferson April 19, 1817, and in reference to the treaty, Thomas Jefferson, Passionate Pilgrim by Alf Mapp Jr., pp. 311 (1991, Madison Books, Lanham, MD) quoting letter by TJ to Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, June, 1814. Real book (only one to save space)
http://www.amazon.com/Character-Joh...8568/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338297925&sr=8-1.
4.
Thomas Jefferson creator of the "Jefferson Bible"
For Thomas Jefferson said:
The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ levelled to every understanding and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticisms of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from its indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power, and pre-eminence. The doctrines which flowed from the lips of Jesus himself are within the comprehension of a child; but thousands of volumes have not yet explained the Platonisms engrafted on them: and for this obvious reason that nonsense can never be explained.
Sources: Thomas Jefferson, an Intimate History by Fawn M. Brodie, p. 453 (1974, W.W) Norton and Co. Inc. New York, NY) Quoting a letter by TJ to Alexander Smyth Jan 17, 1825, and Thomas Jefferson, Passionate Pilgrim by Alf Mapp Jr., pp. 246 (1991, Madison Books, Lanham, MD) quoting letter by TJ to John Adams, July 5, 1814. Real book (only one to save space) here
http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Jeffer...8339/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338299415&sr=8-1.
mathed1925 said:
mussulman? ano yan turkz language tapos gusto ipaalam sa
english speaker or like us who undestand english na ang Islam
love the slavery.
doubtful ang source mo sir? nagquote tapos mali pa yata.
wag kang mag-alala di naman sayo galing yan eh.
Mussulman? from reliable source kuno.
hinanap ko kung ano ang Mussul, nagsuggest si google na instead Mussul eh Muscle na lang.
pero di nagtagal nahanap ko rin,
sa bandang Northern ng Iraq may lugar doon tinatawag na Mosul.
so, pwedeng ang ibigsabihin ng nagquote ay from Mussulman
to Mosul Man meaning taong taga bandang Norte ng Iraq.
Simply lang naman, taga saan ba yang nag quote na yan taga
Kweba ba? siguro di nya alam na may word na Muslim siguro
sa kweba pinanggalingan nila Mussul ang tawag nila doon
tapos kinakausap si 7shadows e di mas lalong nagkagulo.
I am not the type who will invent anything, unlike religions.
It is from the English language, specifically, an older version.
Proof:
1.
The Barbary Treaties 1786-1816
Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli November 4, 1796
From The Treaty of Tripoli said:
ARTICLE 11.
As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,-as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen,-and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
2.
Musulman, "Muslim" in a number of languages (also used archaically in English as Mussulman, Musselman)
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mussulman
3.
MUSSULMAN
Definition of MUSSULMAN
: muslim
Source:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mussulman
It is ironic, maybe fate or God's will, that later the United States will engage the Ottoman Empire in a war that will end a slavery trade.
This is history, and that is the reality. It just strengthens the argument against religion.