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To: TimF who wrote (414019)	9/5/2008 1:18:16 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1576949

Thanks for making it clear that neither side were saints. The great colonial powers that subjegated and exploited whole continents were the Iranians, the Egyptians and the Saudis The Arabs and Turks and other mostly Muslim groups conquered vast territories, and that conquest was very often more explicitly and directly religious (although it is true that there was a religious part to a lot of the Western conquests as well) The slave traders were not British and Portuguese but Morrocan and Tunisian. Arabs and black Africans where slave traders, both of black slaves, and of Europeans that they captured. The Europeans did at time raid and capture, but more often they purchased from Africans who sold their captured enemies, and slaves that where given to their leaders as tribute by the leaders of weaker tribes or nations. The Barbary pirates captured European and Americans as slaves (and they where not alone in this practice, they where merely among the last to do it on a large scale, as Europe and America became more active in preventing this practice), and justified it based on the fact that the captive people where not Muslims.

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