The History Of The Religious Holocaust Against African Slaves

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In Europe, Islamophobia emerged together with new anti-Semitism, where the targets are the new immigrants, Muslims, as well as Jews. The reason for that is in France and United Kingdom, Muslims and Jews for the past decade inhabit the poorest neighborhoods. Media, on the other hand, portrays this as an incapability of Muslim immigrants to integrate into European society and susceptibility to the imported Islamist ideologies (Silverstein, 367).

African slaves were brought to America from many tribes and they brought with them a variety of beliefs and practices. In some ways, the religion that many West Africans practiced bears a striking resemble to the practices of Christianity and Judaism. There are however several differences that make it clear that it is its own separate faith. On the plantations in America slaves were taught a “modify” version of Christianity so that they would obey their masters, and often times slaves would hold their own services. Other slaves believed in and practice what was called “conjuration” along with Christianity.

The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the American Slavery and the Holocaust, in terms of which one was more malevolent than the other. Research indicates that “the “competition” between African-American and Jews has served to trivialize the malevolence which both has suffered” (Newton, 1999). According to L. Thomas “A separate issue that contributes to the tension between blacks and Jews refer to to the role that Jews played in the American Slave trade.”

During a most dark and dismal time in our nations history, we find that the Africans who endured horrible circumstances during slavery, found ways of peace and hope in their religious beliefs. During slavery, African's where able to survive unbearable conditions by focusing on their spirituality.

Since the incident of 9/11 occurred, many people have debated over the Muslim faith and its practices. Muslim extremist groups such as Al-Qaeda and ISIS have affected the name of Islam causing majority of Muslims to be blamed. Recently, a tragic event that occurred in Paris killing over a hundred people left the people of France shaken with fear and anger. These events have lead to an increasing amount of hate and tension towards Muslims all over the world from protests at mosques, where Muslims go to pray, and anti-Muslim rally’s. Islamophobia is a massive issue that has steered European counties like France to enforce laws that ban religious garments that Muslims wear such as the niqab and burqa. Some people perceive these garments to be

For almost eight decades, enslaved African-Americans living in the Antebellum South, achieved their freedom in various ways—one being religion—before the demise of the institution of slavery. It was “freedom, rather than slavery, [that] proved the greatest force for conversion among African Americans in the South” (94). Starting with the Great Awakening and continuing long after the abolition of slavery, after decades of debate, scholars conceptualized the importance of religion for enslaved African-Americans as a means of escaping the brutalities of daily life. Overall, Christianity helped enslaved African American resist the degradation

One of the first things that attracted the African American slaves to Christianity was a way of obtaining the salvation of theirs souls based on the Christian’s idea of a future reward in heaven or punishment in hell, which did not exist in their primary religion. The religious principles inherited from Africa sought purely physical salvation and excluded the salvation of the soul. However, they did believe in one supreme God, which made it easier for them to assimilate Christianity.

Intolerance of others has been part of the human race for all of history and it is just as prevalent now as ever. Webster's defines intolerance as, “The quality or state of being intolerant,” but this isn't the best definition. To me, intolerance is not allowing others to live their lives because of the way they look, their religion, or where they're from. History is filled with cases of intolerance, and today it is happening all around us today, but we must realize this and see what we should change.

Slavery had also been present in New York from the earliest days of Dutch settlement. As their role expanded so did slavery in the city, 30 percent of its laborers were slaves. Most came from different cultures, spoke different languages, and practiced many regions. Slavery allowed different individuals who would never otherwise have encountered, their bond was not kinship, language, or even race, but the impressment of slavery. They eventually came together an created a cohesive culture and community that took many years, and it processed at different rates of speed in different regions.

Africans battled and treated like bovines and puppies in the midst of the convergence. On the slave ships, people were full stretching out over a boat. The glow was as often as possible shocking, and the air verging on unbreathable. Women were every now and again used sexually. Men were oftentimes attached in sets, shackled wrist to wrist or lower leg to lower leg. People were put assembled, typically constrained to lie on their backs with their heads between the legs of others. This inferred they every now and again expected to lie in each other's crap, pee , and, because of detachment of the guts, even blood.

“The African continent was bled of its human resource via all possible routes. Across the Sahara, through the Red Sea, from the Indian Ocean ports and across the Atlantic. At least ten centuries of slavery for the benefit of the Muslim countries (from the ninth to the nineteenth)…. Four million enslaved people exported via

French Jews have become aware of the threat against the French on a whole by Islamic extremists not only for being Jewish, but just for being French. Jewish communities have been asked to “break their routines” and not to hold meetings and gatherings so they do not become easy victims. They also asked people to carry small parcels and bags to hurry along security checks. It’s been said that a whole new situation has arisen, before terrorists targeted specific groups but now they’re indiscriminately killing all French people who will not follow sharia

France has recently been enforcing their ban of full-face veils in public places. The government claims it is for public safety, however, others feel it is the result of “Islamophobia”. Regardless of their reasoning, they are infringing on basic human rights. Most people believe that the ability to worship as they choose is a right given to them, not by any government, but by their deity. However in Venissieux, France a ban on the wearing of full veils in public places was formalized on April 15th, 2011. Thus, making it the first European country to violate what is, to some Muslims, an important religious conviction. Although the police cannot legally remove full veils, they are encouraged to punish those who continue to wear them with fines or required citizenship lessons. The new laws are a direct attack on Islamic culture, allowing the French government to strip its citizens of their history, their identity, and worst of all, of their ability to worship as their scriptures tells them to.

The conflict with radical Islam is persistent in European nations, especially in France. The Muslim population in France is the largest among European countries, with a total of 5 million. In fact, many immigrants are told “not to conform to western, liberal lifestyles - including traditions of religious tolerance and free speech” (Wyatt). These radicals see the attacks as a right to kill those who offend their religion. It is so persistent those living in the area can see “the battle within Islam itself between Sunni and Shia, so evident in the