I can provide you the specific Sahih Al Bukhary and surah’s in private if you like. Don’t think mods would allow for it on here.
You can say and write many cute things in a book. But what does that matter when Mohammed sold slaves and had sex with them against their will. Basically they had no freedom. Nor does Islam ban slavery. It just gives you a structure on how you can keep slaves the best manner. But best manner for who exactly?
there is also this odd narrative that slavery was a normal thing during those times. For which culture? Maybe the Arabic culture. Whilst I won’t deny that you see feudalism and captivity in African history. Slavery was largely focused on Africans conquered and converted to Islam in the northern regions of africa. When you look at western and southern history. That’s just not a thing. There were many opponents fighting against the idea of Arabic slavery during that time. So at what point did god forget to tell Muhammad to stop raping his slaves? How can he be the best example of mankind? And is it surprising that we have extremists following an extreme warmonger? You can’t just excuse religion and say, bad people are using it as a tool for evil. Maybe there is something more inherently weak about the religious standpoint.
You may put those verses and hadiths here itself, the Qur'an is an open book, we need not take it to PMs. You have made so many points here, I would request making one at a time for the sake of brevity and not overloading.
What you belittle as "cute things in a book" was rigorously followed by the early Muslims who paid money out of their means to free slaves.
The claim that "Muhammad sold slaves" itself is arguable. I didn't contest this earlier because I didn't want to drag the discussion about authenticity of historical texts. For the record, there is no verse in the Qur'an that speaks of selling/purchasing slaves, whereas there are enough verses about manumitting them.
1. Freeing slaves was mentioned as an act of righteousness.
Qur'an 2:177 "
Righteousness is not that you turn your faces toward the east or the west, but [true] righteousness is [in] one who believes in Allah , the Last Day, the angels, the Book, and the prophets and gives wealth, in spite of love for it, to relatives, orphans, the needy, the traveler, those who ask [for help],
and for freeing slaves; [and who] establishes prayer and gives zakah; [those who] fulfill their promise when they promise; and [those who] are patient in poverty and hardship and during battle. Those are the ones who have been true, and it is those who are the righteous."
2. Asking slave owners to enter into a manumission contract for those slaves who want freedom
Qur'an 24:33 "And those who seek a contract [for eventual emancipation] from among whom your right hands possess -
then make a contract with them if you know there is within them goodness
and give them from the wealth of Allah which He has given you. "
3. Recommending Muslims to marry slaves thereby emancipating them
Qur’an 24:32 "Marry those among you who are single,
and the virtuous ones among your slaves, male or female: if they are in poverty, Allah will give them means out of His grace: for Allah is Ample-giving, and He knoweth all things."
4. To use the obligatory charity collected by the government on freeing slaves
Qur'an 9:60 "Zakah (alms-tax) expenditures are only for the poor and for the needy and for those employed to collect [zakah] and for bringing hearts together [for Islam]
and for freeing captives [or slaves] and for those in debt and for the cause of Allah and for the [stranded] traveler - an obligation [imposed] by Allah . And Allah is Knowing and Wise."
5. In hadith literature, we also find Muslims being asked to free slaves as a means of expiation for their sins
I never said Islam banned slavery(it was perhaps impossible), but I consider these laws in the early 7th century reformist in nature and understand the overall theme in the Qur'an to be about their emanicipation than about making slaves.
Slavery was there right from the time of Abraham(as). The majority of the Arab tribes trace their lineage to the first son of Abraham(as), Ishmael(as). We are talking about a society that has slavery existing for almost 2500 years.
There is no raping slaves. Qur'an asked to do good to the slaves and the prophet taught to help slaves in heavy tasks and not to even beat them.
Qur'an 4:36 "Worship Allah and associate nothing with Him, and to parents do good, and to relatives, orphans, the needy, the near neighbor, the neighbor farther away, the companion at your side, the traveler,
and those whom your right hands possess. Indeed, Allah does not like those who are self-deluding and boastful"
The idea that one can rape a slave is an ISIS interpretation. Masters are allowed to have conjugal relations with their slaves. Captives of war were taken as slaves. Both are pre-Islamic practices which were continued. Put these 2 together and voila "rape". Imagine if the prophet himself is a rapist, then how do you think people would even value him as a human (atleast the women folk) ? Instead you see his followers (both men and women) loving him more than themselves with a reverence that no other prophet received.