The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times July 2014 | Page 64

ISLAM WAS SPREAD BY THE SWORD: A very popular accusation. There is no truth to this expression. If Islam was spread by the sword, what did the non-Muslim army facing the Muslim army have in their hands? Did they have sticks or toothpicks? They too, must have had swords!!! The sword was the weapon of war at that time. Is it possible that the swords Muslims had in those days were sharper than those of Africans? Are you suggesting that the black man, with all his scientific knowledge and heavily melanated physique, is really just a wimp? And where is "the sword" of Islam in America, where the Muslims now number 6 million and 50% of them are African American? Did Arabs Attack Brooklyn, Bronx, Detroit, Washington, Brixton, Manchester, London, Birmingham and Leeds? OF COURSE NOT !!! SO WHO DID ENSLAVE AFRICANS? Africans are physically the strongest of all the nations/tribes on the earth when it comes to ground or one on one combat. Pale Arabs are not only physically weaker than Africans but far less numerically, both in modern and ancient times. SEE how the oil-rich Arab countries are totally dependent on military personnel (mercenaries) from Europe, America and Pakistan for their defence from fellow Muslims in Iraq and Iran! The only people who had the strength to take on Africans and enslave Africans were Africans themselves NOT the Arabs and NOT the Europeans. Many of the Africans who were enslaved were Muslim Africans. [Deeper Roots = Dr Abdullah Hakim Quick; African Muslims in the Atlantic slave trade = A.Austin ; Roots = Alex Haley; Christianity, Islam and the Negro race; E.W.Blyden; African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas; Sylviane .A.Diof ] Many of the Africans who did the enslaving were Christian Africans who had converted to the faith after relinquishing their own tribalistic spirituality. THE CHRISTIANS