6) They are not Moslems so it is ok to enslave the infidel * common
throughout North African and Middle East.
Paul, there is an interesting book by Ronald Segal called "Islam's Black
Slaves" where he shows that many if not most of the 14 million slaves taken
from Africa in the Muslim slave trade over eight centuries of trading were
actually Muslims. In the 1960s the East African port authorities were still
checking Dhows for slaves from the coastal areas (where most people are
Muslims), and in the 1980s the Saudis were kidnapping Muslims from West
Africa who came for the Haj.
Paul