Sent: 26 February 2013 09:11

Subject: FW: A note on Historic Origins  
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Muslim Arabs hunted, enslaved, tortured and killed ethnic Africans for a millennium. Middle Eastern Muslim Arabs have a history of over 1400 years of human ... (I've known this for years. Of course, it will never be taught in our politically correct schools (government indoctrination centers), for fear of "offending" Muslims. Slavery in America would probably not have been possible without Muslim/Arab slave traders. Or, for African chiefs selling their own people to the slavers. In my opinion, most of the problems of the world have always been caused by, and are the result of Muslims. Even the United States ' first "war" was a military operation against the Barbary Pirates (Muslims), hence the "...to the shores of Tripoli " in the Marine's Hymn. –LLW. Yes. Of course, as often, the Africans raided rival tribes for slaves to sell. In his excellent essay, “The R eal history of Slavery,” (from Black R ednecks and White Liberals), Dr. Thomas Sowell points out that every people were at some point enslaved, that only the western world eventually turned against slavery, and that in the same period when 500,000 African slaves were brought to North America, a million white European slaves were kidnapped by Muslims and taken to north Africa, often living and dying in far worse conditions.

At the Battle of Lepanto, 1572, one of several key battles that saved Europe from Muslim conquest over several centuries, the victorious Christians liberated 12,000 Christian galley slaves from the defeated Muslims. A good account is linked below. ~Bob.