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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima]

False!One of the fundamental teachings of Islam is that non-Muslims are guaranteed freedom to practise their religions and customs without any restriction as long as non-Muslims reciprocate by not being insensitive to the Muslim community. The Constitution, too, categorically restricts Most Islamic laws to Muslims. And one more time, Muslims are not required to live under sharia law, they are required to follow the law of the land they live in. In Islam obedience to the law of the land is a religious duty. The Qur'an commands Muslims to remain faithful to not only Allah and the Prophet Muhammad (saw), but also the authority they live under.[/quote]

Not all non-Muslims. Only Christians and Jews.

[quote=Muslima]
But as it aimed at putting an end to such issue, Islam laid down rules which would eventually lead to eradicating the practice. So it allowed Muslims to have intercourse with slave women taken as captives of just and legitimate wars. In so doing, the woman would automatically become free if she got pregnant. What's more, her child would also become free. Not only that, Islam also ordered a Muslim to treat the slave woman in every respect as if she were his wife. She should be well fed, clothed and given due protection. In the family environment, she had the opportunity to learn about Islam and was free to accept it or reject it. She also had the opportunity to earn her freedom for she could be ransomed. [/quote]

There is absolutely nothing in the scripture about the wars having to be just to qualify for slave-making.  In describing the beautiful life of female slaves of Muslims, you neglected to mention one thing: a female captive had no choice in whether to have sex with her owner. That is, slave owners had unrestricted rights to have sex with their female captives. There is no scriptural support for the female captives having free choice in the matter.  In that regard, she is very different from a wife who at least theoretically consented to the marital union.

Furthermore, Islam may have introduced rules on slavery, but it never eradicated it, and never sought to.  In Muslim societies, slaves were bought and sold.  That's a fact.

There is nothing in Islamic scripture that ties slave-making to reciprocity; nowhere does it say "take slaves if slaves were taken from your own people." You  made that bit up.

It's very disingenuous of you to say it was Islam's beauty that attracted slaves to it.  What attracted slaves to it was the path to freedom it offered. If I was captured and became a slave, I'd sign up for Satanism if it made me a free woman.  Furthermore, it is historically inaccurate to say that slaves who became Muslims were automatically freed since Muslim slaves were abound, all until 1960s in Saudi Arabia and to this date in Mauritania.

[quote=Muslima]
Islam recognises no distinction of race or colour, black or white, citizens or soldiers, rulers or subjects; they are perfectly equal, not in theory only, but in practice. [/quote]

But it most certainly recognizes the superiority of Muslims over non-Muslims. That's the fact of Sharia.[/quote]

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