JAH - Islam and Rastafari

It is not your spelling that is doing that

You say that about ini Father, and all you can do is apologise to Ark I for "rude comment" ???

No, your spelling is the last thing you should worry about

Messenger: Erik Parker

Sent: 9/26/2007 4:34:34 AM

what more can I do but apologise to him?

Messenger: Erik Parker

Sent: 9/26/2007 5:01:52 AM

I would like to know what did I say about your father?

Messenger: Ras KebreAB

Sent: 9/26/2007 5:04:23 AM

If you really believe that that was a rude comment, then apologising to Ark I wont help you, because the rude comment was not about Ark I

You know what to do, clean up your meditation that you dont come under judgement

Messenger: Ten

Sent: 9/26/2007 5:08:21 AM

Greetings Ark I
Aya when I was speaking of Islamic rulers my generalisation was in terms of the number of people affected by this system as to a lesser scale. I know it doesn't make in any less brutal for those under this system of downpression. Its a dangerous claim to make I know and my statement came across as vague and incorrect and I was thinking of the early influences and comparing that to slavery. The Bantu in the East, the Soninke in the West co-existed with Muslims in 11th century, and to this point there were no violent clashes between Islam and Africans. (See I. Hbrek: General History of Africa vol. 3) But this period of co-existence did not last as Islamicrulers desired more control of Africans. At first Black Africans enslaved by Muslims were not forced to convert to Islam because then it would mean the slaveowners would have to treat them better as the principle of umma / humanity was practiced. But then holding onto one's ethnic belief became a mode of resistance and a way of protecting Africans wealth (as is the case in Mali among Mansa) the religion became enforced to strengthen their control over Black Africans. And this was what I was thinking of when I compared it to European systems - looking only at the populations affected, statistically and a very general look at systems of rule is why I said what I did. However I know the system of coloring was used in the religion to justify very harsh systems of enslavement of Black peoples and in Timbuktu, Zanzibar this continued for a very long time, way after European invasions and domination of Africa and even in this day of African independence cases of slavery on the small islands of Kenya and Tanzania are reported.
I hope that clears it up.
Blessed Love

Messenger: Ten

Sent: 9/26/2007 5:11:39 AM

Erik Parker just to refresh your memory you wrote

"I heard the wonderful emperer Haile Selassie had the savage muslims executed what a wonderful christ he is. his mother may have been a muslim but he still wasn't a big fan of the islamic bastards."

Read it again and you'll understand why your comment is offensive, ignorant, blasphemous and disrespectful.

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