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Tanngrisnir ago

Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to bash Islam exclusively on slavery. I was under the impression that the Quran said that a Muslim was not allowed to have another Muslim as a slave. I wasn't saying there were no Muslim slaves in general (there certainly are). The thing is that in both the early U.S. and Sharia law slave owners could have conjugal rights with their slaves which goes far beyond servant or part of the family. So no form of slavery was really benign. I'll try to find the book by Lewis about slaves rights in Islam though.