Slavery has an infamous history in the United States because it contradicts the history the American struggle for democracy, equality and justice for all in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It contradicts the American struggle against British domination, taxation without representation. Our Founding fathers saw no rights, justice and equality for Black people. They saw no freedom and voted across the board for the continuation of slavery; a system that imprisoned in bondage of laboring for whites for the duration of each Black persons life. It subjected blacks, to constant violence, murder, rape and imprisonment, for slavery was a cruel and inhumane system, which people like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and all those other great men shouldve never supported; but they did! History shows that Blacks, abused, kidnapped from Africa, enslaved, rights taken, forced to labor for free until death; stood and fought with their enslavers, against the Indians, throughout the frontier during Colonial history, also in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnamese War, and the War in Iraq and the War in Afghanistan. Blacks fought gallantly but this history has been invisible in most American History books, not told, and denied throughout the history of America. I wish to expose that history give people a glimmer of the truth that though slaves, Blacks like the White colonist too wanted freedom, justice and democracy in America as citizens!
A fascinating journey into Islam's diverse history of ideas, making an argument for an "Islamic Enlightenment" today In Reopening Muslim Minds, Mustafa Akyol, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and opinion writer for The New York Times, both diagnoses “the crisis of Islam” in the modern world, and offers a way forward. Diving deeply into Islamic theology, and also sharing lessons from his own life story, he reveals how Muslims lost the universalism that made them a great civilization in their earlier centuries. He especially demonstrates how values often associated with Western Enlightenment — freedom, reason, tolerance, and an appreciation of science — had Islamic counterparts, which sadly were cast aside in favor of more dogmatic views, often for political ends. Elucidating complex ideas with engaging prose and storytelling, Reopening Muslim Minds borrows lost visions from medieval Muslim thinkers such as Ibn Rushd (aka Averroes), to offer a new Muslim worldview on a range of sensitive issues: human rights, equality for women, freedom of religion, or freedom from religion. While frankly acknowledging the problems in the world of Islam today, Akyol offers a clear and hopeful vision for its future.
The biographical indexes, part of the World Biographical Information System (WBIS) and used as indexes for the biographical archives, serve as an independent biographical research tool, with each index containing short biographical entries on individuals relating to a certain biographical or cultural region, and each entry including names, biographical data, professions and evaluated sources. The Arab-Islamic Biographical Index contains summarised information on around 80,000 individuals from the pre-Islamic period until 1918. It includes not only individuals who were born in the region, but also foreigners who were active within it.
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