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Spreading the word!

| Posted by Masura Daichi at 3:49 PM

Okay party people I now have a Twitter account. Yes yes I know, it's stupid and sucks to no end but I had to do it in order to set some things off in my life. I'll probably get into that later BUT I have posted a link to my new page that directs users to my blog! Clever yes?

So this is what you need to do:

1) If you don't have a twitter, GET ONE! (I only recommend it for bringing traffic to my blog, selfish yea I know lol).

Sign up here

2) Follow me once you get one.

3) Tell your friends, family, coworkers, etc. about my blog.

4) Spread the word! Post my url and get me some notoriety.

4) Follow me here on the blog.

5) Subscribe to my blog via email or feed or both lol.


This is my twatter, I mean twitter page

So basically my twitter is: http://twitter.com/rodmcgee

And since these blogs get imported to my I will provide the link to my blog <------ click that =)

If you do not have a facebook then I shall slap you!

Sign up here...smh

And for those of you who don't have a myspace sign up here


And that is all for now brothas and sistahs in the knowledge

Peace!
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The Un-Rest


I get a little tired sometimes you know?

Sometimes I just want to sit back and relax and stop caring so much about everyone else. I have spent so much time trying to enlighten others back and forth. Debate here, debate there, argument here, argument EVERYWHERE!

It is distressing. My contributions of intellectual fortitude seem to go unpunished.

"No good deed goes unpunished. No act of charity goes unresented. No good deed goes unpunished. That's my new creed!" - Elphaba (Wicked)

That's the way I feel right about now.

But as always, the fight ensues.

This is the Un-Rest
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Lesson #2

, , , | Posted by Masura Daichi at 3:55 AM

"Don't be the burden that weighs her down. Simply give her space and be the man and not the child. Stop hanging from her arm asking her for attention every 10 seconds. If you call or text her too often then she will start to like you less and less. Instead stay away and give her the gift of missing you.If you display that you are the man and that you can be fine without her, then she will come to you, naturally.Prove me wrong. Be the man not the child."
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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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