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How could we...?

| Posted by Masura Daichi at 6:29 AM

I can be serious with you. I can take the time out just to be completely honest and tell you everything that you need to know. The things on your mind that become the burdens on my heart which in turn become the basis of our problems will be the result of our blindness that our love for one another has caused. You seem to be so receptive to my words... to my ramblings. You talk yet you speak with your eyes. You listen yet you hear with your mouth. When we first looked into each others eyes, you and I both knew that we were going to be more than just friends, lovers... what have you. We knew that this wasn't going to be easy, yet we both agreed to go on and continue to do our part in contributing to the battle that is maintaining a relationship with boundaries. Boundaries that have attempted to foreclose our establishment of trust, honor, commitment, loyalty, love (needless to say), perseverance, etc, but we held stead-fast, strongly and willingly through the crises.

Bankruptcy threatened our account, our emotional investments made, our hearts being the chambers of which our monetary value lie. It stayed there open, and shut at the same time, those who passed by could see it but could never grasp it, for it was too strong to break open and steal. Our finances were increased by our advertisements and our promotion. We displayed our products and showed the world how we could make it better... make them better. We gave them a model of which they could look upon and emulate. They stared strangely, some in awe, and attempted to proceed with the Q&A and there was nothing we could not answer. "How long did it take for you to finally become wealthy?" one person asked, and we both said confidently, "It took only that first night when we made our deposit and realized that our little nest egg would grow into a fine gentlemanly profit in the long run." He looked disparagingly up at us as if we were both high on the cheapest crack on the planet, but we were serious. How could we be so serious? How could we be so in love? How could we...be? How?

We both cry when we are sad. We both yell when we are mad, but for some reason the feeling within me, you and I, never leaves. It's presence is ubiquitous. It's poignancy is consistent. Why must we continue to destroy what is already being rebuilt? Is it because it was meant to collapse on both of our heads, leaving us comatose until we could bear the burden of a loveless life? That would be impossible to say the least. Inequality isn't something that you choose. If someone(s) are compatible then it isn't by chance. It's usually meant to be and because of that, it will NEVER end. True love NEVER ends.

Stab me. Shoot me. Punch me. Kick me. Cheat on me. Lie to me. Do all of this and I will still love you. You will still love me. We will still be in love. To love or be loved are respectively two essential things that must be present in order this to work. I must show my affection and my dedication by using words and displaying gestures of kindness. You must accept and return the favor and be domicile and not difficult. Diffi - cult? Diff - I - Cult? Di -If - I - Cult. Di'e only 'if' 'I' don't 'cult'ivate this love. This might not make any sense but my intention is valid.

What am I saying?

We must give this more time to grow. This is still too young, too immature, too clumsy... we would die at the hands of jealousy and deceit. We need to build up our body of trust. Our love is ignorant and curious like a nervous child playing with matches. WE shall not burn, at least not a bad burn, but like a Phoenix, we will burn, turn to ashes, and within those ashes a new love will be born.


The only trick is getting the bird to lay the egg.


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Arab Slave Trade

While Europeans targeted men in West Africa, the 'Arab' trade primarily harvested the women of East Africa to serve as domestic slaves, wet nannies and sex-slaves in the infamous harems. This trade trickled over millennia is estimated to have taken 10 million Africans via the Eastern route to India, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, and also via the Trans-Saharan route to North Africa and the Mediterranean, where in slave markets such as Ceuta, Morocco, Africans were purchased to work as servants in Spain, Portugal, and other European countries.


This trickle trade really only boomed in the 18 th and 19 th century, prior to this period the trade between Arabia and Africa was more focused on iron, ivory and animal products. There is very little evidence in the sources to support the claim that slaving was ever a major enterprise of any significance prior to the 18 the century boom.



LEGACY AND DIFFERENCE

Arab enslavement of Africans was radically different from its European counterpart. It was more complex and varied depending on time and place. Thus the slavery seen in Iraq with the zanj was not similar to slavery in Zanzibar. Also 'Arab' is not a racial group, some Arabs are African and some are White and Jewish.

One of the biggest differences between Arab slaving and European slaving was that slaves were drawn from all racial groups and they were rarely used as a means of crop production; slaves were not the economic engine behind Arab economies. Arab slavery generally lacked large droves of sugar plantations where slaves toiled to the crack of a whip in the hot sun . Unlike the European trade in enslaved Africans the physical remnants of this trade are very hard to measure. There are no Ghettos, mental institutions or prisons holding African people. Many women stolen from Africa were stolen to serve the infamous Arabian harems; their children were thus born free to Arab fathers and thus would have been heirs to wealth and status, fully and equally assimilated into the population. Many African people thus rose to great stations by virtue of their Arab fathers. The infamous eunuchs were infertile, and the other men who were enslaved would have gradually married non-African women, hence facilitating the absorption of African culture and lineage into an Arab one. The contrasting differences between racial definitions on the Arabian continent as oppose to Europe assist in blending the majority of Africans stolen from Africa into the general population of Arabia. However, in the West there was no transcending “racial stigmas.”

ISLAM AND SLAVERY

When Islam arrived, war and servitude were features of African and Arabian life. Judaism existed among certain Arab tribes as well as Christianity, and like them Islam did not blatantly out law slavery; Islam did however blatantly outlawed chattel enslavement. The Qu'ran with every reference to slavery ask the believer to free the slave as atonement for sin, the term "emancipating a slave and feeding an orphan" are repeated constantly throughout the Qu'ran as acts which gain God's favor. Also there were regulations which enhanced the pre-Islamic laws with respect to the treatment of enslaved people. They were entitled to good care, to the same clothing and food as their masters. These enslaved people were more akin to indentured servants in Europe than Chattel slaves in the Americas.

They are your brothers whom Allah placed under your hands. Feed them with what you eat, clothe them with what you wear and do not impose duties upon them which will overcome them. If you so impose duties, then assist them.

Whoever kills his slave, we will kill him.

Whoever slaps his slave or strikes him, his atonement is to free him" (narrated by Muslim by the way of ibn Umar).

It became a fundamental principle of Islamic jurisprudence that the natural condition, and therefore the presumed status, of mankind was freedom. Despite this, there were the greedy and the vindictive that sought to make slaves of their Muslim brothers and sisters as well as other Africans. There were also many Christian and Jewish Arab tribes and well as other indigenous Arabs that continued their tradition of slaving. Because Islamic Sharia had laws pertaining to slavery it was seen by the opportunist as a natural God sanctioned feature of life. Conveniently, the numerous laws of manumission were given a social back seat.


Overzealous Europeans have always over-documented the Arab trade in enslaved Africans to alleviate their guilt concerning their own trade. "Well the Arabs did it too " became the common tone of contemporary historians. Sadly, many African-American historians who have only these European sources to infer history from have taken these second-hand guilt-massaging accounts as gospel. However, it is a well-known fact that Europeans in their artistic depictions of slave raids have always intentionally portrayed slave raiders as Muslim Africans or Arabs .

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