The war continues
The Enemy of the People

The kinder, gentler slavery

This paragraph was very poignant:

A poignant paradox of Islamic slavery is that the humanity of the various rules and customs that led to the freeing of slaves created a demand for new slaves that could only be supplied by war, forcing people into slavery or trading slaves.

Under Islamic law: 

Keeping Muslims as slaves = VERY BAD.

Keeping non-Muslims as slaves = TOTALLY COOL!

End result: Perpetual war against the non-Muslims. Poignant!

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