Mr Smokes Blunts.
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Actually, while the Qu'ran in no way condemns slavery, it sets down strict conditions regulating it. Two of the principal conditions are that only prisoners of war and the children of those born into slavery can be taken into bondage. Therefore Islam has nothing whatsoever to do with it.
If you'd said 'ancient Arab culture' then perhaps you'd have a point. Islam only embraced the prevailing social order to safeguard its own development. It didn't establish slavery, it actually reduced it considerably.
I am fully aware of the 'strict' regulations. The fact is that Mohammed himself kept slaves, so there has never been the huge anti-slavery movement in Islamic countries like what we saw in the West coming from the churches. What you're saying about Islam reducing slavery is bullshit. He took literally thousands of slaves whilst he expanded his empire in every direction. So, in fact, slavery expanded dramatically under Mohammed. Even if slavery did exist before Islam, it was certainly given a great big thumbs up by the unquestionable exhalted leader. Can you imagine if Jesus himself had kept slaves? We'd probably all have slaves today. Islam is also all gravy with less than consentual sex with slaves, so slaves are generally encouraged to have children and they are 'freed' i.e. chucked out on the streets to fend for themselves once they aren't as attractive as they once were. The best part? The slave owner gets extra bonus points in heaven for the manumission of the female slaves he only kept for rape purposes.