10/30 Quote Of The Day

"For centuries, Arabs have been enjoying a free ride because the emphasis of human rights activists, policy-makers, historians and intellectuals has been on the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the crimes white people committed against blacks and Africans. President Obama recently compared the Atlantic Slave trade to the Holocaust. What about the brutal TRANS-SAHARAN slave trade that brought inhuman suffering to Blacks between Senegal and Zanzibar? It is time to address the Arab crimes against blacks starting with the story of the biblical Hagar, the trans-Saharan slave trade, the Egyptian exploitation of Nubia, the rape of black women and the imposition of their light-skinned bastard children as religious and community leaders of black Africans, the conflict in Darfur and South Sudan, the maltreatment of the so-called illegal immigrants in Arab states, the marginalized black populace of Arabia, to all the injustices you can think of. We do not hate the Arabs. We love Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana for making a reconciliatory gesture towards the Arabs by marrying an Arab woman. We love late Arab film-maker Mustapha Akad, we love Arab filmmaker Jihan el-Tahri, we love Arab intellectual Professor Bassam Tibi and we love Arab expert Lydia Khalil of the Council on Foreign Relations as well as all the Arabs fighting for Human Rights and the Secularisation of Islam. We love the Holy Prophet Muhammed (SAW) for freeing Bilal, the First Black and the First Muslim to call to prayer in Mecca. We love Islam because it treats Black People as equals. But we must differentiate between Islam and Arab culture and reject that radical petro-dollar Sharia being imposed on Africans as it makes us Africans slaves of the Arabs in the name of religion. Our sister Ayann Hirsi Ali is right with her call for an enlightenment and the liberation of Islam from barbaric traditions and interpretations. In Islam a black person is free and equal. In Arab culture however, a black person is always a slave, regardless of his/her status. Even the dog of a white man has more rights than the house maid of a typical Middle Eastern household. How many black people occupy key positions of politics, business, social and cultural lives of the Arab League or Gulf member states?" — African Council for Arts & Culture, a Germany-based Pan African cultural group