Timeline for Did Western "New Imperialism" actually free slaves in Muslim lands?
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| Nov 5, 2019 at 7:26 | answer | added | DP3 | timeline score: 1 | |
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| May 19, 2019 at 21:06 | history | edited | sempaiscuba | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 12, 2018 at 17:09 | comment | added | Luiz | jwenting, there are slaves in Mauritania today. It was outlawed recently but nobody enforces the law. There are living people which were enslaved in Sudan. The Islamic State also justify its slaves (specially sexual slaves) by islamic jurisprudence. Look for complete quotes about islamic law in Robert Spencer Jihad Watch page. More directly, babary pirates did not stop taking european slaves until french conquest. Look to the American Barbary Coast Wars, the americans were the first to go there in arms to stop ship raids. | |
| Jul 11, 2018 at 14:17 | comment | added | Random | My reading has only touched on this, but I can tell you with certainty that individual European colonialists, such as Charles Gordon, were strongly motivated by anti-slavery convictions. But how those individuals fit into the big picture of European colonialism in North Africa is not a question I'm prepared or able to answer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_George_Gordon | |
| Jul 11, 2018 at 9:51 | comment | added | jwenting | @SJuan76 sure, not just guest workers are abused in muslim countries, locals are too, especially women and those who aren't muslims. But guest workers who have to surrender their passports and visum documents to their employers, live in closed compounds they're not allowed to leave, and have most of their salary docked as payment for "accommodation and food" they could obtain cheaper elsewhere, is effectively slavery. I'm not talking just about the physical and sexual abuse of domestic servants in arab countries. | |
| Jul 11, 2018 at 5:55 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackHistory/status/1016923827702521856 | ||
| Jul 10, 2018 at 13:50 | comment | added | SJuan76 | Of course, that does not mean that every country is the same, and countries where racism is more prevalent and where immigrants are viewed with hostility and/or fear, and with a higher corruption level, give abusers a higher degree of impunity. | |
| Jul 10, 2018 at 13:47 | comment | added | SJuan76 | @jwenting It would be naive (let's give you the benefit of doubt) to think that migrants are abused only in Islamic countries, and trying to characterize it as a problem that only affects "them" seems to be rather missinformed. | |
| Jul 10, 2018 at 5:34 | comment | added | jwenting | @ClintEastwood and in islam even today. Many "guest workers" in islamic countries are little more than slaves. | |
| Jul 10, 2018 at 5:32 | comment | added | jwenting | @amphibient both sub Saharan blacks and Europeans were commonly used as slaves by muslims in both north Africa and elsewhere, with Europeans more seen in northern Africa and blacks more in east Africa and the middle east (logistics played a larger role in that than anything probably). | |
| Jul 10, 2018 at 4:23 | comment | added | Jos | That's absolutely correct. Slavery within islam was (grudgingly) abolished because Europeans demanded it. | |
| Jul 9, 2018 at 19:01 | comment | added | Clint Eastwood | Slavery was also fair game in Christianity until the mid 1700s | |
| Jul 9, 2018 at 19:00 | comment | added | amphibient | I was told they were often subsaharan africans | |
| Jul 9, 2018 at 18:58 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | Quite possible - as those slaves were often kidnapped Europeans | |
| Jul 9, 2018 at 18:52 | history | asked | amphibient | CC BY-SA 4.0 |