September 26, 2008
Barack Obama and Slavery
Slavery still stalks the American consciousness, its wounds yet
festering in many hearts. If Barack Obama were to set his mind to it,
he could heal much of the damage this peculiar institution wrought on
our national soul. This great and tragic error that must be given
justice. Obama is the best person in the world who can recognize,
remember and honor the deaths of 125 million and the enslavement of
tens of millions of people.
His unique qualifications can be found in his names. Until he was 20
years old, he went by the first name Barry. Then he decided to be
called Barack Hussein Obama, his original birth name.
Many people seem to the names "Barack" and "Obama" are African names.
They are not.
Baraq [Barack] was the name of the winged horse-like creature that
took Mohammed to Paradise in the Night Journey. Baraq can also mean
God's blessing. Obama is Swahili for Osama, who was one of Mohammed's
chief warriors. Osama also means lion. Hussein reminds some Americans
of Saddam Hussein, and Obama's supporters get upset if it is used.
Hussein was the name of Mohammed's grandson. So Obama's entire name is
based upon Islamic mythology and African conquest. Barack Hussein
Obama means [Allah's blessing] [Mohammed's grandson] [One of
Mohammed's finest warriors].
Obama's name reveals a part of history that is unknown or hidden about
America, Africa and slavery. It also reveals a history of the
destruction of native African civilization. His name came from his
father, a so-called Arab African. The word Arab is the clue to the
hidden history.
Kafirs (non-Muslims) rarely refer to Islam, but call it by an ethnic
name whenever they can. When Islam conquered the Middle East, the
conquerors were not called Muslims, but Arabs. In Eastern Europe the
Muslim invaders were called Turks. In Spain conquering Muslims were
referred to as Moors. Thus it is that the Islamic culture in Africa,
Arab African, is referred to with an ethnic name, Arab Africans, like
Obama's father, are Muslims who leave behind their African culture and
adopt the Arab culture.
The Arab African Muslim has always been associated with slavery
because Islam is the driving force in the history of world slavery.
Islam's connection with slavery starts with Mohammed. The exact
details of how slaves are taken are described in detail in the Sira,
Mohammed's biography. The Sira is a sacred text since it relates
Mohammed's words and deeds, called the Sunna. Everything he did is the
perfect pattern of behavior for all Muslims.
Mohammed was involved in every single aspect and detail of slavery. He
bought and sold slaves both retail and wholesale. He gave them as
gifts, used them for sex, received them as gifts, stood by as slaves
were beaten, attacked. He enslaved tribes, and owned black slaves.
Indeed, his rise to political success was financed, in part, by the
profit of his slave trade.
So the sacred pattern of Mohammed and Islam is the enslavement of non-
Muslims, kafirs. For 1400 years Islam has enslaved all races and
cultures including Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, Zoroastrians,
animists, and atheists. Only Muslims are free of being enslaved.
What Obama could do
Obama could tell us that there is only one way to understand Africa
and slavery and that is to understand political Islam. For 1400 years
Islam has steadily been at work in Africa. The easiest place for
Americans to see Islam's annihilation of kafir civilization is in
North Africa and Egypt. Egypt used to be a Christian and Coptic (the
descendants of the Pharaohs) country. North Africa was a Greek and
Christian culture, and at one time a part of the Roman Empire.
The first Islamic assault on African culture was the jihad that
annihilated Coptic Egyptian culture and Greek culture in Northern
Africa. Today these areas are Arabic and Islamic.
That was just the thin end of the jihad wedge. Over the next 1400
years, Islam took approximately 25 million slaves out of Africa. An
Arabic word for African is abd, the same word that is used for black
slave. Arabic has about 40 words for slaves. White slaves are mamluk.
Islam took more than a million European slaves into slavery. The
highest priced slave in the Meccan slave market was a white woman.
There is great deal of collateral damage when a slave is taken. A
warring party attacks a tribe and when enough of the protectors are
killed, the rest will surrender and become slaves. All of those who
were strong enough to work were taken away in a forced march for days.
But there are many who are left behind -- the young, the old, and the
sick and injured.
Estimates vary, but from 5 to 10 people left behind died as the result
of taking one slave. So for 25 million slaves, we have the deaths of
125 million Africans over a 1400-year period.
When the story of slavery is told in America, as in the movie Roots,
the sailors get off the boats and capture the Africans and make them
slaves. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
When the white slaver showed up in his wooden ship, he made a business
deal with a Muslim wholesaler. Jihad was the machinery that Mohammed
used, and his model worked well in Africa as slavers filled the slave
pens for the same reason that Mohammed did it: profit. Whites only
traded slaves with Islam for about 200 years. Islam was in the slave
trade before and after selling to the West.
If you would like to learn about the Arab African slave traders that
came from the same area of Africa that Obama's father came from, read
Tippu Tip and the East African Slave Trade (Leda Farrant,
Northumberland Press, 1975). Tippu Tip looked African, but he was 100%
Arab and Muslim. By the way, Arab is not a racial term, but a cultural/
language term.
But the slave trade had another effect. Africa slowly became Islamic.
Jihad worked in many ways to bring about conversion. Sometimes trade
introduced Islam and a hybrid Islam/native African religion evolved.
Then jihad was used to purify and remove the African culture to result
in a purer Islam. But in the end, half of Africa fell to Islam.
The oddest thing is that many people have the idea that an Arab
African is the same as African. When the Arab culture replaces the
native African culture the culture is not African. African culture is
no more Arab than Hindu culture is Arab. Sharia law is just as foreign
to native African culture as it is to ours.
The magnitude of this problem is seen in Darfur, where Arab Africans
are destroying Africans who are not yet Arab enough. This is a
centuries-long jihad to annihilate the native African culture. This
process is no different than the process by which Coptic Egypt became
Arab Egypt. Islam is not a religion but a complete civilization whose
stated goal is to replace all other civilizations. There has never
been a historical example of a country that kept its native culture
after Islam entered. So Africa is an ordinary historical example.
The ignorance about the history behind Obama's names is the root of
why he can achieve such an impact. Obama represents the chance to help
heal the curse of slavery in America by revealing its complete
history. He is a descendant of a white woman who had slave owners in
her ancestry. His African father descended from those who enslaved the
Africans. Obama is descended from slave owners and slave traders, but
he does not have a single drop of slave blood in him.
Since race trumps all, everyone sees him as being representative of
America's slave descendants. It becomes true simply because in a race/
culture-obsessed society, some want it to be true. Obama's slave
ancestry is a fiction and not reality.
So Obama is half enslaver, by ancestry, and half slave, by choice. He
is the most uniquely positioned to tell the truth, the complete truth
about Islam, Africa, America and slavery.
Now here is the last little twist to Obama's name. He called himself
Barry, an Irish name, for many years in America. He changed what he
wanted to be called after he went to Pakistan for a three-week stay.
He left America as Barry and returned as Barack.
Some whites may have bought slaves from Islam for 200 years, but after
that, their culture was first to outlaw slavery. So Obama changed his
name from a culture that abolished slavery to a name from a culture
that has enslaved others for 1400 years and has a highly detailed
doctrine of slavery.
This is the world that Obama spans: from slavery abolition to the
eternal enslaver. He represents hope to many American descendants of
slaves, but his ancestors were never enslaved. No one else could tell
the story that Obama knows. He could tell the story of how 125 million
Africans died. He could tell the story of how 25 million Africans
became slaves. There is an enormous irony that descendants of the
slaves that his ancestors created now look to him for justice. And he
could give them real justice by telling the complete truth of their
enslavement. Only he has the power to make others listen.
Obama has shown himself to be a world citizen with his speech in
Berlin, and his speaking the truth of the complete story of slavery
would be historic, and could reverse centuries of ignorance and lies.
He can stand up and tell the world the true complete story of slavery.
It would change history far beyond the election cycle.