American and British travellers in the 1800s and 1900s, like Malcolm X, were surprised at the lack of racism among Arabs.
Ali Rattansi in “Racism: A Very Short Introduction” (2007) says of Arabs:
Disparaging conceptions of other peoples and a colour symbolism associating whiteness with goodness and blackness with negative qualities are evident in many Arab and Islamic texts and practices. But no consistent conflations of colour, culture, and physiology have been found to exist.
The Koran sees different skin colours as a good thing. Having a certain skin colour is not one of the duties of Islam.
Yet:
- Libya: Mass violence against blacks in 2000 and 2011.
- Sudan: Genocide against blacks in South Sudan in the 1990s, Darfur in the 2000s.
- Saudi Arabia: Had black slaves – slaves! – till at least 1962.
As we are constantly reminded by white commenters on this blog, Arabs sold…
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