“Mohammedanism arose in the Arabian deserts, starting from Mecca which was in that part of the world which the Greeks called Ethiopia and regarded as part of the African Ethiopia. It must from earliest time have had a large population of Negroids.” - W.E.B DuBois

“The Arabian peninsula, first inhabited more than 8,000 years ago, was early populated by Blacks. Once dominant over the entire peninsula, the African presence in early Arabia is most clearly traceable through the Sabeans.” - James E. Brunson/ Runoko Rashidi

“We know today that the beautiful turbans and clothes of the Sudanese folk were already used in Africa before Mohammed was even born or before Ethiopian culture reached inner Africa.” - W.E.B Dubois

“The remains of actual South Arabian settlements have been found periodically at Yeha, Matara, and Haoulti. The resulting co-mingling of Ethiopian and Sabean cultures led to the development of the powerful African kingdom of Axum.” - James E. Brunson/ Runoko Rashidi

“Perhaps all the original population of southern Arabia, and even of the Semetic lands, generally was once African.” - Edward G. Balfour

“We have to begin with the Negroid or Negrito people of prehistoric India who were its first human inhabitants. Originally they would appear to have come from Africa through Arabia and the coastlands of Iran and Baluchistan...” - Bharatiya Vidya

“The classical home of the ancient Ethiopians was the Eastern Sudan, although Homer and Herodotus mentioned other Ethiopians dwelling in Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, Western Asia and India.” - John G. Jackson

“When Mohammed was born, Arabia was a Negro colony with Mecca as its capital.” - Cheikh Anta Diop

“The entire Arab people, including the Prophet, is mixed with Negro blood. All educated Arabs are conscious of that fact.” - Cheikh Anta Diop

“All Semites (Arabs and Jews), as well as the quasi totality of Latin Americans, are mixed breeds of Blacks and Whites.” - Cheikh Anta Diop

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“It has been said that slavery among the Muslims and slavery among Catholics had important differences.” - The Golden Age of the Moors

“Great differences persisted between slavery in the Western and Christian societies and slavery in Islam.” - Black Marxism, Cedric J. Robinson

“Owners did not possess the power of life and death over them nor could they inflict excessive punishment. Slaves had rights and they could actually seek assistance if they were exceedingly maltreated.” - Joseph O’Callahan, The History of Medieval Spain

“Slavery, regardless of these qualifications, can never be condoned or forgiven. But it was not central to their system: it was marginal.” - The Golden Age of the Moors

“I think it should also be pointed out, contrary to myths about the Muslims, that they did not force their religion down the throats of the Christians.” - The Golden Age of The Moors

“It is certain that many of these (African) tribes have received the religion of Islam without its being forced upon them by the overpowering arms of victorious invaders.” - Christianity, Islam and The Negro Race by Edward Blyden, p. 199

“The Arab/Moors in Spain were strikingly benevolent after their victory. The natives were not beset by Moors to change their customs, language or religion.” - The Golden Age of The Moors, Wayne B. Chandler

“The slave trade in this time was not a state institution. It was like the lucrative drug enterprise of today — a large but lawless thing, sometimes indulged in by bad rulers but not a keystone of the system, as it was later to become in the Euro-Christian world.”