If Islam was calling to end slavery, why did it take until 1963 to end slavery in Saudi Arabia?
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This has nothing to do with Islam, you don't judge a religion by looking at people but by reading its teaching. I don't judge Christianity or Judaism or any other religion by looking at our society.
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One of the biggest factor that most people aren't aware of is that in 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwaiit they weren't going to stop there.  They had plans on continuing the invasion and invading Saudi Arabia as well.  That is the only reason Saudi decided to let troops occupy Saudi soil during Desert Shield.  Because we swooped in and held Iraq at bay as well as using patriots to stop the scud missles directed at Saudi governement relations were good.  Although many Saudi citizens did not like our forces on their soil, they wanted the US to leave after Iraq was driven out of Kuwaiit.  They were afraid US troops would influence their country.  Saudi was very strict on what troops could bring into their country.  No bibles, alcohol, etc.
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because Saudi Arabia doesn't understand that at the time of Muhammad and his companions people were allowed to have churches. go and tell them this. they won't listen to you. it's not the people it's the gov. i am a Muslim and i lived there and it really annoys me how they pretend to follow Islam while they are not following the simplest basics of Islam.
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The slave trade has been going on since before written history and continues to this very day.In days of old it was common practice to enslave a defeated enemy, in some civilizations you could even enslave someone for owing a debt. Civilization as we know it was built by slaves, ancient Eygpt, Persia, Geece, Rome, all built by slaves, at one point or another every group has been both the slave and the master. The african slave trade is by no means unique, slavery has been a fact of life in Africa since the beginning, slaves were always valued spoils of war among fighting tribes,Anyone that thinks the slave trade started because a boatload of europeans sailed down to Africa and started rounding up peaceful natives is sadly mistaken, at the time when european nations were getting involved in the slave trade there exsisted on the \nafrican continent a number of very large and powerful kingdoms, each with a large and powerful army, slaves were just one of a number of traded commodities, it should be noted that at the time when europeans were trading for slaves to sell in the americas, arab and african pirates were raiding european coastal villages for white slaves to sell in northern africa. There is no innocent guilt-free party here, everyone has blood on there hands. The slave trade in Africa continues to this day, why doesn't anyone talk about that? Slavery in america is a disgrace this country has to deal with, as are the segregation years that followed. This is still a fresh wound for america, slavery exsisted for three hundred years before the civil war and it's only been fifty years since the civil rights movement, we still have a long way to go, but giving away money doesn't solve anything, if you want to throw money at the problem throw it at education, health care, job training, things that actually do some good.I am not responsible for the sins of my forefathers, I cannot affect the past, only the future,personally, I think we need to spend more energy working on tomorrow than crying about yesterday.
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Islam did not exist back then. There was no Islamic Empire until the second millennium A.D. when they conquered middle Eastern lands which were at the time predominately Christian.
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Not exactly from the modern country of Saudi Arabia. In fact, Jews are not allowed to enter Saudi Arabia, since Jews are seen by the Saudis as being unclean and not worthy of setting foot in the Arab homeland. However around the time of Mohammed there were many Jews living in the Arabian Peninsula. Mohammed was likely angry at the Jews for not accepting his new religion, and he set up laws (Sharia) that relegated Jews as an oppressed minority. Jews who lived in Arab/Muslim lands suffered from oppression until Jewish independence was declared and most Jews from Arab countries were able to move to the State of Israel.
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About 1500 BCE at Mount Sinai in Arabia (Jabal Al-Lawz). Read Exodus 20.
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It attempted to free slaves in the South, but since the South was technically a different country, it didn't work too well.  It would be like Canada trying to set a minimum wage in Kenya.  It was little more than political posturing.
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Good link check it: http://www.iabolish.com/slavery_today/\n\nHistory\nAlthough it is commonly held that slavery was rare among primitive pastoral peoples and that it appeared in full form only with the development of an agricultural economy, there are numerous instances that contradict this belief. Domestic slavery and sometimes concubine slavery appeared among the nomadic Arabs, among Native Americans primarily devoted to hunting, and among the seafaring Vikings. Some ascribe the beginnings of slavery to war and the consequent subjection of one group by another. Slavery as a result of debt, however, existed in very early times, and some African peoples have had the custom of putting up wives and children as hostages for an obligation; if the obligation was unfulfilled, the hostages became permanent slaves.
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ISLAM  because it is difficult to change their system of operation
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Difficult to answer; here is one view (2nd link looks like better example):\nThe evolution of slavery is crucial to understanding the importance of currently standing issues. Slavery began in 1440 when Portugal started to trade slaves with West Africa. By the 16th century, Western Europeans developed an organized system of trading slaves. However, the slave trade did not run as smoothly as expected. Slaves were revolting and tried to flee the hardships of labor. Regardless of these attempts, slavery expanded, leading to the "Triangle Trade."   This trade, between Europe, Africa and the Americas, is held responsible for the dispersal of Africans in the Western hemisphere. This organized system lasted until the 1800's. Shortly after the War of Independence there was an intended law to abolish slavery. This law was stalled when the United States allowed the slavery to continue until 1800. A federal law, which was passed in 1793, allowed for the Fugitive Slave Act, which continued the slave trade and prohibited the freedom of the Africans.
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10 years is an extremely short period of time when discussing history so it would take something rather significant to greatly change life in the middle east and I don't see that happening.  The middle east and its people are going through a situation very similar to Europe in the 1500s and 1600s - Governments ruled by religious law.  It took hundreds of years for Europe to change their attitudes and beliefs about the role of religion in government.  I believe that people of the middle east will continue to be ruled by Islamic law for the most part and if this is the case, not a lot is going to change.
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Islam means submission. They are not free because they force submission from their followers while killing those who do not follow Islam.
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Civil War and the End of Slavery in West Florida  \nThe Civil War and the End of Slavery in West Florida. Copyright - Duke Vickrey 1999. The Civil War brought an end to slavery in America. Of course, it would have ended in time without the War. No civilized nation today still allows slavery.www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/3010/slavery.htm - 16k - Cached - Save -
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One of the largest industries in the middle east is terrorism and Saudi Arabia is the number one exporter. The people of these countries are very poor and the regimes are afraid that the people might rise up and strike against them, so they use the West as a scapegoat for all their problems. If you had a child, and you taught the child from day one that all the problems he/she faces is because of the West, the child would know of nothing else and blame these countries for everything that is wrong in the world. This is also why it is so easy to recruit people to become homicide bombers. If these countries stopped teaching hate this second, it would take a generation or more for the hatred to dissipate.
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Many of the slaves that came to America were sold into slavery by other Africans.  Slavery went on long before it was a part of American history, and still goes on today in Third World countries.  \n\nIt goes to show that skin color doesn't matter, that we're all human, and as humans we can be pretty un-evolved and low if we choose to be.  People around the world are greedy and uncompassionate and will do almost anything to each other for money.  \n\nOf course what will stop slavery is when human rights, civil rights and economic power are granted to everyone, and that means men and women equally, and also to all races equally.  Those who are lower on the power scale have to keep fighting for their rights, since power is always taken, never given.  \n\nHope this helps.  Cheers, K (teacher and traveler who has yet to go to Africa but wants to)
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Not much at that time....that took MANY years.\n\nNT was tried and hung for that.\n\nBut it galvanized the Abolitionists....and later would be the Dread Scott Case...SC decided that slaves were not free even in free states , they could not be citizens and that Congress could not bar slavery from a territory. Though some states had passed laws to abolish slavery...I believe Illinois.