Saudi sheik: 'Slavery is a part of Islam'

[MazloomyarMaseed]

Posted: November 10, 2003
5:00 pm Eastern

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A leading Saudi government cleric and author of the country's religious curriculum believes Islam advocates slavery.


"Slavery is a part of Islam," says Sheik Saleh Al-Fawzan, according to the independent Saudi Information Agency, or SIA.



In a lecture recorded on tape by SIA, the sheik said, "Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam."

His religious books are used to teach 5 million Saudi students, both within the country and abroad, including the United States.

Al Fawzan – a member of the Senior Council of Clerics, Saudi Arabia's highest religious body – says Muslims who contend Islam is against slavery "are ignorant, not scholars."

"They are merely writers," he said, according to SIA. "Whoever says such things is an infidel."

Al-Fawzan's best-known textbook, "Al-Tawheed – Monotheism," says most Muslims are polytheists, and their blood and money are therefore free for the taking by "true Muslims."

SIA said although the Saudi government claims religious curriculum is being reformed, Al-Fawzan's books are still in wide use.

Al-Fawzan is a member of the Council of Religious Edicts and Research, the Imam of Prince Mitaeb Mosque in Riyadh and a professor at Imam Mohamed Bin Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia's main center of learning for the strict Wahhabi interpretation of Islam.

SIA noted Al-Fawzan, a leading opponent of curriculum reform, opposes elections and demonstrations as Western influences, is against Arab women marrying non- Arab Muslims and has issued a fatwa forbidding the watching of television.
Al-Fawzan has threatened to behead a Saudi writer and scholar, Sheik Hassan Al-Maliki, for his criticism of Wahhabism, according to SIA. Al-Maliki was fired from his position with the ministry of education after writing a 50- page paper criticizing Al-Fawzan's book "Al-Tawheed."


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[MazloomyarMaseed]

Saudi Religious Leader Calls for Slavery's Legalization

by Daniel Pipes
November 7, 2003

http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2003...s-for-slaverys

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I wrote about slavery in discussing the future of Islam in July 2002, commenting that things can get better for Islam but this "requires that Muslims tackle the huge challenge of adapting their faith to the realities of modern life." By way of examples, I offered two:

Five hundred years ago, Jews, Christians and Muslims agreed that owning slaves was acceptable but paying interest on money was not. After bitter, protracted debates, Jews and Christians changed their minds. Today, no Jewish or Christian body endorses slavery or has religious qualms about paying reasonable interest.

Muslims, in contrast, still think the old way. Slavery still exists in a host of majority-Muslim countries (especially Sudan and Mauritania, also Saudi Arabia and Pakistan) and it is a taboo subject. To enable pious Muslims to avoid interest, an Islamic financial industry worth an estimated $150 billion has developed.

The challenge ahead is clear: Muslims must emulate their fellow monotheists by modernizing their religion with regard to slavery, interest and much else. No more fighting jihad to impose Muslim rule. No more endorsement of suicide terrorism. No more second-class citizenship for non-Muslims.

Well, I was wrong about slavery being a taboo subject. We learn today from the dissident Saudi Information Agency that a prominent Saudi religious authority recently called for slavery to be re-legalized in the kingdom. Ali Al-Ahmed reports on the views of Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan, the author of a religious textbook (At-Tawhid, "Monotheism") widely used to teach Saudi high school students as well as their counterparts abroad studying in Saudi schools (including those in the West).
"Slavery is a part of Islam," he announced in a recent lecture.

"Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam." He argued against the idea that slavery had ever been abolished, insulting those who espouse this view as "ignorant, not scholars. They are merely writers. Whoever says such things is an infidel."
Al-Fawzan is no maverick. He is:

• A member of the Senior Council of Clerics, Saudi Arabia's highest religious body;
• A member of the Council of Religious Edicts and Research;
• Imam of the Prince Mitaeb Mosque in Riyadh; and
• Professor at Imam Mohamed Bin Saud Islamic University, the main Wahhabi center of learning.

That such a viewpoint can be asserted by a card-carrying member of the Saudi religious establishment is a tragic commentary on the state of Islamic discourse today. (November 7, 2003)

May 18, 2010 update: More pro-slavery nonsense coming out of the Muslim world, this time Egypt: for details, see my weblog entry, "Praising Military Slavery

[شمله ور خراساني]

Yes. Slavery is part of Jihad. Pashtuns have enslaved the people of sub-continent for a centuries. The reason why there are so many dark skinned Pashtuns is because their forefathers enslaved dark skinned women of sub continent. And their offspring are now the dark skinned Pashtuns.

[شمله ور خراساني]

Saaleh Al Fauzan is a great scholar.

[MazloomyarMaseed]

Did you guys know Slavery in the Kingdom of Wahabis was only abolished in the 60's due to pressure from the International Community. This is clear Arab culture, slaves and arab Imperialism is very clear to us all.

[شمله ور خراساني]

Did you guys know Slavery in the Kingdom of Wahabis was only abolished in the 60's due to pressure from the International Community. This is clear Arab culture, slaves and arab Imperialism is very clear to us all.

Did you know about the same time slavery was abolished in Afghanistan too?

[MazloomyarMaseed]

But it was abolish in the 20's or 40's.

We are speaking of the 60's

Secondly Sangar, Again you make your Faith look like typical Arab Imperialism.

So you support slavery eh hahaha keep it up, I hope many people see your views and view Wahabism and Islam=Arab Nationalism truely means.

Kind Regards

[MazloomyarMaseed]

One side Islam preaches take over the world by force and war fare and enforce Islam onto non Muslims by the sword, then we have a influx of Muslims who come in containers and ships just to taste the life of a Secular system in Europe, then we have Muslims such as Sangar who promote and support Slavery and use pashtuns past as a an example, Islam is not at all Peaceful, Its a form of Arab Imperialism, where its acceptable to have women as sexual booty, as sangar says its acceptable to make people into slaves and he supports a Cleric who wants to legalise Slavery.

Iam glad I dont call myself a Muslim anymore. To hell with Hipocrites who promose 72 white virgins and milk rivers where Arabic will only be spoken.

Kind Regards

[شمله ور خراساني]

Iam glad I dont call myself a Muslim anymore. To hell with Hipocrites who promose 72 white virgins and milk rivers where Arabic will only be spoken.

Kind Regards

It is official! Mazloomyar Maseed is a Murtad!

I will notify the Taliban in South Waziristan.

[Levanaye Zalmaye]

The Saudi Salafis are the most ardent slaves of the United States. I won't be surprised if they make those Fatwas. Ibn Baaz (may he be granted white virgins) issued a fatwa in 1990 or 1992 saying that the employment of Europeans in the rich Gulf States went against the death-bed wishes of the Prophet. A year later, he didn't raise a finger when hundreds of thousands of American troops were stationed in the Kingdom. These people believe in slavery, that's why they are the biggest slaves on the planet.

[MazloomyarMaseed]

It is official! Mazloomyar Maseed is a Murtad!

I will notify the Taliban in South Waziristan.

I will notify Dutch Authorities that they have a Tajiki Taliban supporter on their soil.

Just because I oppose Arab Imperialism and Slavery in the name of al mighty Allah and Wahabism makes me a Murtad.

Well, Iam a proud Murtad in that case then.

Sangar you can do better than that.

[شمله ور خراساني]

The Saudi Salafis are the most ardent slaves of the United States. I won't be surprised if they make those Fatwas. Ibn Baaz (may he be granted white virgins) issued a fatwa in 1990 or 1992 saying that the employment of Europeans in the rich Gulf States went against the death-bed wishes of the Prophet. A year later, he didn't raise a finger when hundreds of thousands of American troops were stationed in the Kingdom. These people believe in slavery, that's why they are the biggest slaves on the planet.

Abdul Aziz Ibn Baaz was a palace scholar. The institution of state-scholars is an innovation.

Imaam Abu Haneefah was the greatest opponent of such state institution which issues decrees designed to suite the political interests of the rulers.

[MazloomyarMaseed]

The Saudi Salafis are the most ardent slaves of the United States. I won't be surprised if they make those Fatwas. Ibn Baaz (may he be granted white virgins) issued a fatwa in 1990 or 1992 saying that the employment of Europeans in the rich Gulf States went against the death-bed wishes of the Prophet. A year later, he didn't raise a finger when hundreds of thousands of American troops were stationed in the Kingdom. These people believe in slavery, that's why they are the biggest slaves on the planet.

This is why many people leave Islam after seeing the example these Saudis set to the world.

If a westerner objects to Wahabism or Arab and their followers. they raise the whole human rights issue.

They are Hipocrites and Iam glad they are must a small minority, they dont beleive in world wide peace, all they beleive in is to conquer and steal.