[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 21:59, 20 August 2007 (EDT)
[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 21:59, 20 August 2007 (EDT)
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:It is nothing I'd wrestle to the mat over, I understand it is more a "civilizational" idea, although sooner or later in several articles I'd like to make some of the points outlined above. But as to slavery in Islam, this article may need a whole subsection on it, (this is why I like just referring to it as Islam, and not "Islamic countries") because a very, very strong case can made that the annual worldwide pilgrimage to Mecca for the past 1400 has been intimately bound up with the slave trade.
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:So, we have some nice controversies to look forward to, when I get the time. [[User:RobS|Rob Smith]] 23:18, 20 August 2007 (EDT)