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Originally Posted by raytri
It wasn't *all* indentured servitude. While the Bible might not have said "slavery is just dandy", the chosen people owned slaves, and did for a thousand years.
And anyway, do you think even indentured servitude would fly today?
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The Bible is very specific on how the indentured servants were to be treated, and it was kindly. Slavery was common in the area...The entire Jewish people were slaves in Egypt, people were kidnapped and sold into slavery (Joseph)
According to this site:
http://www.iabolish.org/modern_slavery101/ 27 million people are enslaved in the world today.
Slavery is widespread in Saudi Arabia:
http://gvnet.com/humantrafficking/SaudiArabia.htm
In Sudan and Mauritania and Pakistan :
http://www.gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Pakistan.htm
From Daniel Pipes 2003:
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We learn today from the dissident Saudi Information Agency that a prominent Saudi religious authority recently called for slavery to be re-legalized in the kingdom. Ali Al-Ahmed reports on the views of Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan, the author of a religious textbook (At-Tawhid, "Monotheism") widely used to teach Saudi high school students as well as their counterparts abroad studying in Saudi schools (including those in the West).
"Slavery is a part of Islam," he announced in a recent lecture. "Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam." He argued against the idea that slavery had ever been abolished, insulting those who espouse this view as "ignorant, not scholars. They are merely writers. Whoever says such things is an infidel."
Al-Fawzan is no maverick. He is:
* A member of the Senior Council of Clerics, Saudi Arabia's highest religious body;
* A member of the Council of Religious Edicts and Research;
* Imam of the Prince Mitaeb Mosque in Riyadh; and
* Professor at Imam Mohamed Bin Saud Islamic University, the main Wahhabi center of learning.
That such a viewpoint can be asserted by a card-carrying member of the Saudi religious establishment is a tragic commentary on the state of Islamic discourse today. (November 7, 2003) http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/123
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