Those are not "Christian" nations. There's no official national religion in any of them. It's not codified. So no... No "Christian" nation abolished chattel slavery.
Not to mention chattel slavery (under the Atlantic Slave Trade) has differences with Arab Slave Trade. As a slave, any child you had was born free. And you could gain your freedom by converting to Islam. Not to mention it didn't usually mean lifelong and generationally handed down slavery. You had rights under the Arab Slave Trade and none under chattel slavery. Both were horrific but you could gain your freedom and you children were born free in one.
The crusades weren't the only wars fought under Christianity (as a Christian, war is evil to the Lord) ... the Crusades, the Reconquista, the Thirty Years' War, and the Hussite Wars. Not to mention the KKK terrorizing black and brown citizens under the guise of Christianity.
And where did you get those stats about polling Muslims? What were the questions? What country(ies) was it conducted? What were the percentages? Who created the poll?
There is a clear anti-muslim bias from some posters... And the person I was responding to never said "but not all Muslims are terrorists"... It's not implied, either.
No! Don't give Christian nations credit for anything! They just HAPPENED to be all Christians that ended slavery first. Just a coincidence!
You can try to diminish the Arab slave trade if you wish, the Arabs wound up killing much more during the Saharan transit, castrated the men, and African women were given forced abortions because in Islamic law they can potentially claim property if a child was involved. The Arabs started taking slaves in the 600s, quite the head start!
There is zero Muslim bias here. Facts are now bias? Ha.
Let's just go by the teachings. Christianity says love your neighbor and turn the other cheek.
Islam says you deserve death if you leave the religion. And when you ask them, they agree!
Btw, Islam, like any other religion, is just a collection of ideas. We can criticize ideas, at least we still can here in the USA. Not sure if the de facto blasphemy laws (but only for Islam) have gone into effect in the UK yet.
The Reconquista and the Crusades were just trying to reclaim lost lands to Muslim invaders. Or is allowing the Arab invasion of the Middle East and North Africa ok because they're not Europeans?
And do you have any examples that are not from at least as far back as the Middle Ages? You know we've had something called the Enlightenment since the 17th century. Did this information ever reach the Muslim lands or does information need more than 400 years to travel across the globe?
Bringing up the KKK btw is just embarrassingly bad. They have nothing to do with anything.
I think YOU sir have the bias, but in favor and playing defense for a collection of ideas that make people either do bad things or at minimum, support those who do.
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