EXHIBIT SIGN:

WHAT WASN’T SAID:

 That the Arab ship was heavily laden with human cargo.

FACTS:

1. Islam Watch: “The Arab slaved trade began and flourished around 800 CE, when it was virtually non-existent in Europe and female slaves often became wives. The Quran, hadith and sire support that Muhammad took, purchased, sold, and gave away both male and female slaves.” Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya – a great scholar, astronomer, chemist, philosopher, psychologist, scientist, theologian and Islamic historian – says – “Muhammad had many male and female slaves. He used to buy and sell them, but he purchased more slaves than he sold. He once sold one black slave for two. His purchases of slaves more than he sold.” [Zad al-Ma’ad, part 1, p.150] (Ibn Quayyim Al Jawziyyah’s (1292-1350 CE] Zad al-Ma’ad, translated as Provisions of the Hereafter, is rated as one of the finest books on the biography of Muhammad.)

2. Muhammad had a number of black slaves. One of them was named ‘Mahran’, whom Muhammad forced to do more labor than the average man. Whenever Muhammad went on a trip and he, or his people, got tired of carrying their stuff, he made Mahran carry it. Mahran said, “Even if I were already carrying the load of 6 or4 7 donkeys while we were on a journey, anyone who felt weak would throw his clothes or his shield or his sword on me so I would carry that, a heavy load.” Tabari and Jawziyya both record this, so Islam accepts tis as true.” (Behind the Veil)

3. On one occasion Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law Ali whipped a female slave of Aisha’s in front of Muhammad to make her speak out about the adultery charges brought against Aisha. Muhammad did not say a word to protest Ali’s beating of the slave-girl. On another occasion, Umar beat a slave-girl for wearing the veil (veil is for free Muslim women only). It has been said in the previous article that Muhammad massacred 800 male Koreiza Jews and took their women and children, about 1200 heads, as slaves. He kept at least one Jewish female, named Rihana, as his concubine, and gave the rest away to his companions. He sent his disciple Sa’d bin Zayd with a portion of the captive women and children to Nejd to sell them for horse and weapons for organizing future jihad-raids.

4. All these incidents bear testimony to the fact that Muhammad was an enslaver and slave-trader. The names of many of Muhammad’s slaves are given in detail in Muslim writings and they can be found in “Behind the Veil.” Moreover, even under Muhammad, slaves were treated brutally as above examples make it clear, although some Muslims groundlessly claim that slaves under Islam were always treated fairly and kindly.

5. These may also bear testimony that Muhammad’s entourage and followers may not have traded honestly, but raped and looted.

EXHIBIT SIGN:

WHAT WASN’T SAID:

That it was an age of inhumane servitude for Jews and Christians, the People of the Book.

FACTS:

1. Jewish communities had always existed in the Middle East and were called People of the Book (the Bible). The Golden Age for Jews and Christians meant large-scale discrimination. They were given the status of Dhimmi, and afforded the ignominious honor to live in shame under Islamic rule.

2. Dhimmi is the Arabic term that refers to its non-Islamic-embracing population, as a distinctly subjugated, second-class, almost-slave non-citizen, who is subjected to dictatorial deprivation of any legal and human rights since he is a non-Muslim permanent resident in a Muslim state. Bat Ye’or’s book, Dhimmi (1971), describes the basis for development of dhimmitude in Islam, and its relationship to the jihad, the war to conquer territory for Islam.

3. Throughout the earliest Islamic history, the people conquered by Muslims were given the choice of conversion, death, or servitude to despotic masters. Jews and Christians had to pay taxes and tolls and give deference to Muslim neighbors and frenzied mobs.

4. Jews and Christians were allowed to continue cultivating land, but cede half the produce, with threat of expulsion at any time. Making and breaking agreements was the hallmark of the Muslim armies.

5. As the Muslims grew more powerful, their holy wars spread beyond Arabia. The jihad became a war of conquest subject to a code of eliminating infidels. Truces were made, but never a lasting peace, as happens today.

6. The jihad became a concept of dar al harab, territory of war, and dar al Islam, territory of Islamic reign. Jihad is a normal state of dar al harab that can only end with conversion of the world. Therefore, jihad became conquest of the world for Islam – forced conversions, killings, taking slaves, seizing property. This enriched the jihadists and brought wealth to Arab nations; participation was/is obligatory either by force or by betrayal from within.

7. The current ruler provided tolerance and security or fanaticism and pogroms.   Communities could be evicted, women raped, exorbitant ransoms paid on them, children abducted for conversion, mass murders of the dhimmis was condoned. There was no due process.

8. Discriminatory and restrictive dress and behavior codes were enacted to identify the dhimmi and severely enforced to reduce dhimmi into a state of despair and poverty. Dress codes included not wearing shoes or sandals, not using certain colors, wearing stars on their clothing, prohibitions against certain occupations, and even rules on how to ride a mule. Dehumanization was generally the rule, as were various forms of physical abuse. Non-enforcement of rules could result in severe beatings, even mortal wounding.

9. Islam was not a Golden Age for non-Muslims; Islam is intolerant, and it fosters and condones belligerent and aggressive actions toward people who choose not to embrace Islam.

10.  There were pogroms against the Jews since the 11^th century: 1066 Granada massacre, the razing of the entire Jewish quarter in the Andalusian city of Granada. In North Africa, there were cases of violence against Jews in the Middle Ages, and in other Arab lands, including Egypt, Syria, and Yemen. Jewish population was confined to segregated quarters, or mellahs, in Morocco, walled-in ghettos, beginning from the 15^th century. The Almohads, who had taken control of much of Islamic Iberia by 1172, treated the dhimmis harshly. Jews and Christians were expelled from Morocco and Islamic Spain. Faced with the choice of either death or conversion, some Jews, such as the family of Maimonides, fled south and east to the more tolerant Muslim lands, while others went northward to settle in the growing Christian kingdoms. In 1465, Arab mobs in Fez slaughtered thousands of Jews, leaving only 11 alive, after a Jewish deputy vizier treated a Muslim woman in an offensive manner. The killings touched off a wave of similar massacres throughout Morocco.