When I was in public school, the education industrial complex was well on its way to becoming the cistern it is today, and every now and then, I am reminded of the stench. Yesterday, I stumbled upon this bit of history, which I cannot recall anyone in all the years I was subjected to it – teaching.
After watching it, I can see why we were never taught this bit of history.
“The Quran gives us permission to do so because you’re infidels”
Hitch is needed now more than ever.
Also useful history lesson here on slavery for the slavery-obsessed, intergenerational trauma crowd.
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) October 29, 2023
To be clear, I knew the Quran gave them permission, and I’ve read histories of Islamic conquest. And slavery was common everywhere, no less so in lands occupied by the followers of Isalm. The culture demands classes of citizens with no rights who are not technically slaves.
But centuries of white slavery running parallel to the black Atlantic slave trade might be one of the most underreported or undiscussed facts of history…in history.
The Barbary pirates were known to have demanded tributes or ransoms from American and Swedish vessels in the Mediterranean Sea or attack European and American ships, especially in Baltimore, Ireland, and Devon and Cornwall, England. Their captives ranged from fishermen, sailors to coastal villagers and were mostly Christian and from impoverished families. But historians are careful to note that, “slaves in Barbary could be black, brown or white, Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Jewish or Muslim”.
Slavery has, of course, existed everywhere among every race, where they enslaved each other. There has been no period of human existence on Earth without it. Even today, there are nations with slaves. A term softened in some instances and repackaged as human trafficking and sold as property.
And slaveholders have sold slaves to anyone who wanted to buy them, then or now. That has not changed, nor have the efforts of Western intellectuals to insist that European slavery of Africans in the Americas was somehow unique. A ploy whose only purpose is to redistribute wealth. Western intellectuals do not care at all for the plight of slaves or their descendants. They only care about their ideological leanings, not that this would protect them from the ultimate goal of progressivism. To turn all of us into slaves of a tyrannical state. One where neither our labors nor our accomplishments are our own (you didn’t build that). Where we exist only to support the whims of our political masters.
No one dares call it slavery, but if what you do can never be yours, and your life is forfeit at their discretion, what else is it?
