The Living Legacy of Jihad Slavery
Charles Johnson
Tue Apr 12, 2005 at 3:48 pm PDT • Views: 147
A fascinating piece by Andrew Bostom at The American Thinker examines the historic roots of slavery in the Islamic world: The living legacy of jihad slavery.
The fixed linkage between jihad - a permanent, uniquely Islamic institution - and enslavement, provides a very tenable explanation for the unparalleled scale and persistence of slavery in Muslim dominions, and societies. This general observation applies as well to “specialized” forms of slavery, including the (procurement and) employment of eunuchs, slave soldiering (especially of adolescents), other forms of child slavery, and harem slavery. Jihad slavery, in its myriad manifestations, became a powerful instrument for both expansive Islamization, and the maintenance of Muslim societies.
Frank says: