These captives - men, women, and children - would be distributed among the warriors (mujahideen), who would then sell whatever they needed in the “slave market”.
The preacher stressed that this is more merciful to them and better than killing them. What is the purpose of raising such controversial and imaginary issues?
What useful knowledge can come from such nonsense? Isn’t this rhetoric a clear reflection of the backwardness and superficiality of those who promote it?
Why do our governments allow these semi-ignorant individuals to mislead the public instead of educating them?
They truly make a living by keeping their followers ignorant, speaking of worlds of slaves and masters, and markets for buying and selling men and women. The end of slavery and the prohibition of human ownership were not a sudden process. Rather, it was gradual, historical, and long-term. Despite its horrific colonial history, Britain played a major role in this change. British warships intercepted ships transporting slaves from Africa to the New World, particularly America. Britain abolished slavery as an institution in 1833, followed by several European countries. Approximately 800,000 people were freed, most of them from the Caribbean.
The Ottoman Empire abolished slavery and the slave trade by decree in 1857, although slavery persisted until the founding of the Republic of Turkey in 1924. Slavery also continued in the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf region until the early 1960s. Our very existence is at risk of extinction. A day will come when we will deeply regret our silence on these issues.
Egyptian writer Adel Noman states, “We do not need countless bodies issuing thousands of fatwas day and night. The answers are readily available on every phone andˆ website. Relying solely on clerics stifles initiative and critical thinking. At the very least, fatwas based on superstitions, miracles, myths, and jinn, as well as those irrelevant to the modern era, which contradict science and reason, and fatwas exploited by people to violate laws, customs, and values, should be rejected. Here, I also hope that His Highness the Prime Minister and His Excellency the Deputy Prime Minister will intervene to put an end to this chaos and the quasi-official mental destruction it causes. Concluded
