Blacks in Islam

Submitted by Zeena (United States), Nov 27, 2011 at 01:11

I'd like to add that when Ayaan Hirsi Ali was attending school in Saudi Arabia, the teacher would whip her for no reason and call her "black slave". She hated living in Saudi Arabia because of the prejudice and the bad treatment she suffered in the hands of the " tolerant ones in the land of the prophet.". I also read that in Islam when the angel Gabriel tapped Adam's right shoulder he created the white people who went on to populate paradise . When he tapped Adam's left shoulder, he created the black people who were sent to hell to feed its fire, something like that. There is the idea of right and left which has significance, plus the idea that whites go to paradise and blacks are sent to hell to keep its fire on. That is the view of Islam about black people. I am sure that if more blacks really read the Koran they would not embrace Islam as they do, especially in the US and other western countries. Islam supports slavery and still has slavery, especially Saudi Arabia.

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