Slaves?

Reader comment on item: If the King of Pop[, Michael Jackson,] Converts to Islam
in response to reader comment: Why would an African-American convert to islam ?

Submitted by Pixel (Canada), Nov 22, 2007 at 00:25

Since when the prophet keep black slaves? stop giving wrong information. I ain't Muslim but planing to convert and I am black and read the Koran and he saved so many black slaves like Abu Baker Sadiq I think he was called .. he free slaves in the time white people used to buy slaves!

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