The Muslims and the Arabs
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright, 1964, JTA, Inc.)
I was reading in a Hebrew news-
paper of a reception in Israel
given the president of one of the
new African nations and then I
read in a New York paper about
the Muslims.
The American Muslims favor
"black nationalism" and when one
sees the respect with which the
Negro nationalism in Africa is
accorded. it is not hard to under-
stand the black Muslim point of
view. But the Muslims go beyond
a new nationalsim. They have em-
braced the Moslem church.
Back in slavery days, the Ne-
groes sang in their spirituals,
"Go down, Moses
Tell old Pharoah,
Let my people go.
But now the American Muslims
have turned away from the Bible
to the Koran. One can understand
this also as a protest against the
Western religions under whom
they have suffered and still suffer
oppression and discrimination. But
is Islam really more of a friend
to them?
My mind goes back to an old
story, part of which at least, is
familiar to everyone who has even
an elementary acquaintance with
American history.
In 1872, slavery in America was
as dead as the proverbial door
nail. James Gordon Bennett, pub-
lisher of the New York Herald,
sent for Henry M. Stanley, who
had shown that he was a first
rate reporter and investigator. "I
want you to go to Africa," he
said, "and find David Livingstone.
Find him,. I don't care what it
costs."
Livingstone was a Scotch mis-
sionary and explorer, who had
gone to Africa, which was an un-
known world at the time as far
as the whites were concerned.
Some believed Livingstone dead,
others thought he was lost.
The whole world seemed in-
volved in Stanley's search for
Dr. Livingstone. Finding the
needle in the haystack seemed
simpler. To find one little man
in an immense uncharted con-
tinent — a massive area un-
touched by telegraph, roads,
communications and its natives
speaking a half thousand dif-
ferent languages!
But Stanley found him in the
town of Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika.
"Dr. Livingstone, I presume."
These words with which Stanley
first greeted Livingstone went all
around the world and are still
echoed today.
What was Livingstone doing in
Africa?
As before said, he had gone
there as a missionary but he
had turned to something else—
to fighting the Arab slave
dealers. Despite the war, which
had put an end to slavery in
America, the Moslem Arabs, it
appeared, were still carrying on
a brisk trade in human flesh
in Africa.
Horrified by the atrocities of the
slave dealers, Livingstone had
abandoned the making of what he
called "doubtful conversions" to
concentrate on fighting slavery.
Livingstone had the experience of
seeing blacks tremble when they
saw him approach. They mistook
him for an Arab slave dealer. He
saw mothers and children being
separated from each other and sold
into slavery. Livingstone ,ceased
his missionary activity and de-
voted himself to trying to end the
Arab slave traffic.
Stanley shared Livingstone's
point of view. "So long," he wrote,
"as the slave trade is permitted
to be kept up, so long will these
otherwise enterprising people, the
Arabs, kindle against them the
hatred of the natives throughout
Africa! The blacks, he said, would
drive the Arabs out, but the bow
and arrows is no match for the
gun which the Arab has.
In the whole story of human en-
slavement, others than Moslem
Arabs of course have been in-
volved. The Moslem Arabs are not
worse, but they are not better.
And right now, Islam is worse. The
one country where blacks are en-
slaved today is Saudi Arabia, a
Moslem country.
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UMNS OF YESTERYEARS . . .
NOV. 14, 1947 . . . If he never
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come what may . . . Had ticket for
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take . . . crashed in Utah, killing
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APRIL 4, 1952 . . . Shoe man
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Friday, May 1, 1964
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