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Moral Progress and the Problem of Slavery

Zealots at the Gate

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The Importance of Slavery in Islam

Shadi Hamid: I wrote a book on Islam and slavery in the end of 2016. He says it was written after ISIS had been taking sex slaves and reintroducing slavery. But when he tried to talk about this, people would get upset at him for saying things like "the Koran prohibited slavery" Hamid: And even if it weren't an official statement that would make you not Muslim, why would any of us take religious advice from somebody who thinks who thought slavery was okay?

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