Shame on you

Submitted by Rahman Patel (United Kingdom), Mar 26, 2006 at 12:54

Submitted by Roy Weinberg, Mar 25, 2006 at 17:37

How can you be so dishonest as to intentionally distort what the Qur'an says. First it shows that you are a racist because you seem to suggest that African Americans can't read or understand for themselves and are therefore easily duped.

Islam initiated the end of slavery by condemning it to gradual extinction. Many of the Sahaba were Black of which Bilal is the greatest example.

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