Racial Discrimination & Islamic Slavery

Muhammad was a slave owner.[1] Racially derogatory[2] language in the Quran cannot have any basis in a just legal system. Muhammad's disparaging remarks regarding Ethiopians[3] and hereditary description[4] of blacks[5] as having raisin heads,[6] with unkempt hair,[7] and babies with big hips and fat legs[8] is wrong and discriminatory. Moreover, Islamic slavery of Africans in countries like Sudan is unjust.

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[1] Hadith Bukhari 60:435; 78:698.

[2] Hadith Bukhari 62:41.

[3] Hadith Bukhari 44:668; 52:309; 67:406.

[4] Hadith Bukhari 63:225.

[5] Hadith Bukhari 59:399.

[6] Hadith Bukhari 89:256.

[7] Hadith Bukhari 87:161-63.

[8] Hadith Bukhari 60:269.