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Old 02-12-2007, 09:31 AM   #11
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His "Notes on Virginia" is what many have considered to really start it.
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I'm sure slavery wasn't absent in Islamic history, but I'm fairly sure it was a lot less common than in Christian history.
Not true - 1400 year history in Islam.
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Islam is not an Arab cultural invention but a religion born in a multi-racial Arabia; it was actually perceived as “foreign” by most Arab “tribes.”
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