(March 27, 2020 at 7:39 pm)Mr Greene Wrote: Yes, Barbary Corsairs ultimately made European occupation of North African ports inevitable
"Inevitable" from whose perspective?
Quote:, the depredations of Arabian pirates forced all non-Islamic trade from Indian Ocean till Da Gama presented them with something they couldn't contend with and slaving in sub-Saharan Africa was the basis of the wealth of Zanzibar. It was Islamic ports that sold slaves to the Spanish starting the Transatlantic slave trade.
The US was built by slaves on land stolen from natives.
Is there some reason you're pointing to horrible things done by Muslims, and not by others?
