It was inevitable that the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would denounce America for its “racism” – meaning, as far as he was concerned, the entire country should be held responsible for the actions of four policemen, one of whom (according to the autopsy, accidentally) asphyxiated a black man they were attempting to subdue.
The story of Khamenei’s exaggerated and highly selective outrage is at the Jerusalem Post:
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei responded to the US race protests, tweeting that “if you’re dark-skinned walking in the US, you can’t be sure you’ll be alive in the next few minutes.”
In a tweet appealing to the American Left, Khamenei spoke about the US economic issues and the killing of 46-year-old George Floyd who was choked to death by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
“Slavery, said Khamenei, “is one of the tragic events in history. They used to sail ships from the Atlantic Ocean and anchor on the coast of West African countries, such as Gambia and other countries on the continent.”
The Ayatollah seems only to know about the transatlantic slave trade, from Africa to the Americas. He completely ignores the slave trade conducted by Muslim Arabs in East and Central Africa. This slave trade consisted of Arab slavers seizing blacks in the bush and bringing them by slave coffle and then dhow to the Islamic slave markets in Jiddah, Muscat, Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, and other cities. This Islamic Slave Trade began long before, and ended long after, and claimed many more victims, than the Atlantic Slave Trade that the Supreme Leader focuses on exclusively.
Slavery is part of Islam. Muhammad himself bought, sold, and owned slaves. Since Muhammad was the Perfect Man, and the Model of Conduct, it was impossible to denounce a practice that he clearly engaged in himself. Thus there were no Arab abolitionists, no Muslim William Wilberforces. It was Western pressure that ended Arab slavery. It was the Royal Navy that, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century patrolled the coasts of Arabia and intercepted dhows carrying slaves. Slavery continued to exist, however, in several Muslim Arab countries in the Middle East until well into the 20th century. And in several African states, even now hundreds of thousands of black slaves have Arab masters.
It was only in 1962 that slavery was officially abolished in Saudi Arabia and Yemen – and only under terrific Western pressure. Just before abolition, there were half a million black slaves in Saudi Arabia. Despite that abolition, there are still black Africans held in “slave-like conditions,” even if slavery no longer exists officially, in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and some of the sheikdoms of the Gulf. In the Sudan, northern Arabs continued to enslave southern blacks, especially during the Second Sudanese Civil War, until that war ended in 2005, when as many as 200,000 black Africans were finally released from slavery. Arabs continue to this day to keep 600,000 black slaves in Mauritania, 200,000 in Mali, and 43,000 in Niger.
The Arab slave trade was particularly gruesome, for much of it involved castrating black boys in the bush, with the most primitive of implements, in order to supply eunuchs for the Muslim harems. Many of the boys died during the surgery; many others died in the days afterwards from infections, or during the long trek by land and sea to the slave markets of Islam.
The historian Jan Hogedoorn, in his study of what he called The Hideous Trade, estimated the mortality rate for those castrated slaves as high as 80-90%, meaning only 10-20% of those African boys originally seized arrived alive at the slave markets. While the consensus estimate of 28 million black Africans who made it to the Islamic slave markets at first sounds like a lot, over 1300 years (650-1950 A.D.) this amounts to an average of a little more than 20,000 black slaves brought annually from Central and East Africa all the way to those slave markets, which is perfectly plausible.
Assuming, then, the lowest mortality rates for both the castrated boys (80%), and the women and children (20%) enslaved, we arrive at a figure of 68 million Africans originally seized by Arab slavers.
Now compare this with the Atlantic Slave Trade. Between 1525 and 1866, that is the entire history of the slave trade to the New World, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. Of those, 10.7 million survived the Middle Passage, to disembark in South America, the Caribbean, and North America. In the Atlantic Slave Trade, no boys were castrated – the slaves were intended for agricultural use – and the mortality rate, for the Middle Passage (the trip across the Atlantic) was far lower, from 10-15%. Nor did slaves in the Atlantic slave trade have to suffer a long trek across the Sahara, or from Central Africa to the Indian Ocean, as did the victims of the Arab slave trade.
This means that the Muslim Arab slave trade involved almost five times as many Africans — 68 million instead of 12.5 million — as did the Atlantic Slave Trade.
The slavers were Arabs, but the slaves they brought from Africa to market were sold not just in Arab lands, but also in Ottoman Turkey, and in Iran. Black slavery in Iran began even before the Islamic era, and continued until the early 20th century. Ayatollah Khamenei surely knows the history of these black slaves of Iranian masters. Why did he not take the occasion, even while deploring the hated American “racists,” to do the handsome thing and deeply, sincerely apologize for the past practice of slavery in Iran?
Instead, we do not hear a syllable of sorrow or remorse from Iran’s Supreme Leader, about the slave trade conducted by, and for Muslims, or about the African slaves held in Iran itself.
It is not just the Arab slave trade that deserves to be more widely known; Arabs and Muslims have been remarkably successful in keeping information about that trade from much of the world. We also need to make known the full extent of Arab (and Islamic) racism.
Dude says
Clown hates everybody, ready to murder, rape, rob, enslave everybody, but now claims to take offense when America treats some as less than equal.
CLOWN !
Rarely says
It’s impossible for him to take the moral high ground. He doesn’t care what the rest of the world thinks because he’s talking to a select audience who are easy to outrage and are without functional IQs.
FYI says
@Rarely{ Logical}
I’m sorry, the”The high moral ground”?
Come again?
Do you know what “the high moral ground “actually is:I mean, lawyers are not great for understanding the concept of NOT bearing false witness are they?
And do you have mind-reading skills too: “he doesn’t care what the rest of the world thinks..”Why,have you spoken to him personally in Farsi?
In fact,may I ask you a rhetorical question?
Did God go on vacation and put you in charge Mr Rarely Logical?
As for having a “functional IQ”:you would need that to see the IRONY of your statement when you virtue-signal others about morality!
How do YOU know what the “high moral ground “is Mr virtue-signalling Lawyer?
Are you…..God?
You would also need a “functional IQ”to understand the concept of a Checkmate.
You appear to have difficulty understanding Logic and Irony.
LOL as you like to say.
LOL:Lawyers outed by Logic
gravenimage says
FYI, Rarely said it is *impossible* for the Ayatollah to take the moral high ground in this case. This may be milder language than I would use, but I don’t see how Rarely is wrong here.
FYI says
Mr Rarely himself is the one i’m talking about:he always, laughably,talks about being the one who is on the moral high ground.He sits in judgement as an arbiter of morality.
Morality and a Lawyer?Are you kidding me?
The two things don’t go together..like
oil and water
islam and logic
the koran and science
militant atheism and intellectual humility
the Democrats and Patriotism
Lefties and Good mental health
and
Lawyers and “the high moral ground”
Mr Rarely is a member of a profession that constantly twists the truth with their sophistry and pretended righteouseness and he has no business lecturing us on being
“on the moral high ground”
I’m sorry but I find it absolutely laugable for Mr Rarely the Legal whiz to be talking about “the high moral ground” when his profession has no concept of what exactly constitutes “the high moral ground”
I will take advice as to what constitutes “the moral high grounds” from a criminal ,a prostitute or a thief long before I take advice on that matter from the likes of Mr Rarely.As for his reference to ‘functional IQs’ I’m sorry but his profession is not associated with such a thing.
Lawyers and “moral high ground” don’t ever belong in the same sentence.
Btw my moral code is based on the belief that I am no better than a prostitute.A criminal or a prostitute most likely has a better concept of what constitutes a “moral high ground” than hypocritical Lawyers like Mr Rarely.
Mr Rarely the lawyer’s sophistry i am familiar with:that’s what lawyers do.They fiddle the facts and then pretend their sophisty is erudite,reasonable and logical.Mr Rarely does it all the time.
Lawyers like Mr Rarely talking about “the high moral ground” is just laughable…i’m sorry: in fact I just have to go off and do what Mr Rarely does and…LOL
Westman says
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah – “if you’re dark-skinned walking in the US, you can’t be sure you’ll be alive in the next few minutes.”
If you’re an unbeliever walking in a no-go section of London or walking without escort in Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, can you be sure you’ll be alive, unmolested, and not raped?
I had the personal experience of walking down a Chicago street with a black gentleman engaged in a pleasant conversation when he suddenly said, “We need to cross to the other side of the street because there is a dangerous project housing complex by the next corner.”
Apparently, this black gentleman thought, and the statistics support it, “if you’re dark-skinned walking in a large black US neighborhood, and not from that neighborhood, you can’t be sure you’ll be alive in the next few minutes.”
Perhaps the most important question is, “Ayatollah Khamenei, How many Muslims deaths have you ordered and how many have you killed through your terrorist proxies?”
Ray Jarman says
++++++1 “Ayatollah Khamenei, How many Muslims deaths have you ordered and how many have you killed through your terrorist proxies?” Great question Westman and I doubt if he can count that high.
E T says
This charmer hung and imprisoned many of his supporters in the first weeks when he took over. Had gallows built right on the prison grounds and hung thousands in days.
I have a tendency not to listen to men who marry 10 year olds.
James Lincoln says
Westman,
Well put.
There are parts of Chicago that I wouldn’t go near without a fully armored vehicle – and a half dozen fully armed Navy SEALs…
FYI says
What about centuries of islamic racism ,ayatollah:and what about your African slave selling ‘holy’ prophet muhammed{pbuh purveyor of butchery and unholy horror}?
muslims never get Irony.
{Imagine being a dark skinned African in the days of Mo the Arab “prophet” and had the misfortune of being in the Arabian peninsula..sahih muslim 3901…}
muhammed’s racism:the white Arab owner,buyer and seller of black africans…
{on You Tube
acts17apologetics muhammed:the white prophet with the black slaves}
James Lincoln says
FYI says,
“muslims never get Irony”
Absolutely true, they are unable to be introspective…
Templer says
If your a dark skinned chirstain or white dark skinned jew or white in Iran you would be jailed and executed how can this pighead lier talk about racism Islam and iran is the most racist countrey on earth pig ? head bs from the cult off islam
paul budrunas says
Rather ironic…a Muslim P>O>S> calling out American “racism” out of the same P>O>S> mouth that wants to destroy Israel and to “kill all Jews wherever you find them” as directed by his P>O>S “prophet” Muhammed! Typical of an inbred Muslim!
CogitoErgoSum says
Who is Haji Faruz? The computerized voice in the narration of this video clip is a bit annoying but still it tells an interesting story that I’m sure the Ayatollah would prefer to ignore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DB5TyRFBkM
So Iran didn’t officially abolish slavery until 1928 and the Iranian version of Santa Claus wears blackface. Wow!
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gravenimage says
Thank you for that important link, CogitoErgoSum.
I’m sure most Westerners have no idea about this history in the Muslim world.
Giacomo Latta says
To be specific it was the state of Iran that abolished slavery. The documentation that is the strongest defender of slavery is still the koran.
Merri-joy says
By his own words Kharmeini is a HYPOCRIT and LIAR! Islam is the POLITICAL IDEOLOGY of RACISM, HATE & EVIL which joined with Hitler in WW2! ISLAM &NAZISM are bedfellows
gravenimage says
Ayatollah Khamenei Outraged at American “Racism” (Part 1)
…………………….
This hypocrite has been flogging this for years now.
Here’s one such, from over two years ago:
http://english.khamenei.ir/news/5551/Enslaving-Africans-is-one-of-the-most-tragic-historical-events
Note that he does not acknowledge that slavery was not abolished in Iran *until 1929*–and then, only because of pressure from the United States.
mortimer says
The Ongoing Fight To Free Thousands Of African Slaves In Yemen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVuQTiQNJOE
gravenimage says
Thanks for posting this, Mortimer.
Jezzup says
“accidentally asphyxiated”, according to the autopsy report…really? After 9 minutes of pressure? I thought autopsy reports indicated how someone died, not the intent. The Minnesotta Medical Examiner said that the cause of death is “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.” Cardiopulmonary arrest means Floyd’s heart failed. No mention of it being caused accidently.
E T says
Tragic death and many tragic deaths of police and other innocent people of late.. Tragic that the old couple who went to their sons gravesite were beaten to death. Everyone should stop flogging this man’s death — nobody else should be killed.
Khomeini is a racist monster who calls Jews descendants of apes, pigs and monkeys.
gravenimage says
I think it is quite right that this officer is being charged with 2nd-degree murder–but I do not believe that he went out that morning intending to kill anyone. The idea that this was deliberate makes no real sense.
OLD GUY says
Khomeini is the face of racism! Slavery and racism are a main part of islam now and for centuries in the past. What a jerk.