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Submitted by George (United States), Jul 5, 2006 at 02:13

The only Islamic states (as in having a majority Muslim country) with slavery are the third-world countries. The only reason they are third-world countries are because of their economy. The reason their economy is crap is because they don't have any goods to offer the world or some third party is taking the resources without paying to the government (Diamond Conflict). Not to mention most of these slaves are free men and not prisoners of war which is clearly forbidden in Islam: "There are three categories of people against whom I shall myself be a plaintiff on the Day of Judgement. Of these three, one is he who enslaves a free man, then sells him and eats this money" (al-Bukhari and Ibn Majjah). said by the Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w)

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