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The Truth About Slavery
by Abdul Kareem Ibraheem al Salih

It is ridiculous to believe that Arabs
overruled and enslaved African people
on a wholescale colonialist, type
mission, as proposed by today's socalled Afrocentric movement.

The most popular Afrocentric
perspective of Al Islam is basically the
same as the Eurocentric view of man,
history, and reality. The Afrocentric
movement has with some degree of
success, analysed, critiqued and
revised the biased and most certainly
racist presentation of Africa by so
called European historians. However
when it comes to Al Islam and the
Muslims, it [the Afrocentric
movement] embraces it [the

Eurocentric view], wholeheartedly.
Particularly as it relates to Al Islam
and it's usefulness among African
Americans / Caribbean and its major
role in African history. In fact, in
some cases Europeans have been
much fairer in their writings, analysis
and projections of Islam than many of
the leading advocates of
Afrocentricity.
The most popular Afrocentric
perspective of Al Islam is that it, like
Christianity, led to the destruction of
African civilization; and that Islam is
a religion /way of life/philosophy
created by Arabs for the advancement