Hello everyone, this is my first post in this forum
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I'am actually in hollidays in my native country Senegal ( West Africa)
If you ask why most of people are muslims here, they all have the same answer:
''To fight against french colonisation, people turned to religious authorithy establiblished by soufi brotherhood . ''
Today, 94 percent of the population are muslims.
But here in Senegal, this religion is special because muslim communities are rallied in 2 main Suffi orders : the Tijaniyyah, the Muridiyyah or Mourides.
Something that you can't find in others countries.
Muslims here mix Animism, Religion and culture in the same bag.
According to the Coran, they are worst than kuffars because they associate.
Most of people here wear a talisman to avoid jiinns and to avoid bad luck.
When you are an apostate in a muslim country like Senegal , it's kinda akward.
For me, a Senegalese muslim is not an authentic muslim.
And The fact that people here are so intolerant when they see that you are not enslaved by this religion
bafles me because they are very mediocre in the practice of their own religion.
First of all to pretend to be a muslim you have to know to read (57 % of the population are illeterate)
They only memorise the book (Coran) pretending to understand what is islam.
Even among people who read, a lot of them are so lazy or coward ,they just pick and choose.
Unfortunately , the real reason why they are ''muslims'' is that their ancestors had no choice , become a slave or embrace islam.
Even if they embrace islam they were not necessarely spared:
- 20 million people were enslaved by Arab Muslims slave traders
- They were delivered through the trans-Sahara route alone to the Islamic world.
- Dr. John Alembellah Azumah in his 2001 book, The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa estimates that over 80 million Black people more died en route.
- The Arab Muslim slave trade typically dealt in the sale of castrated male slaves
- Enslavers Targeted Women For Rape
According to my sources, the facts above proove that our ancestors did not have choice to convert in islam. And today what a shame that Africans (the muslims one) denie this painful part of our history.
Unfortunately as Lazarus Long said, ''A generation which ignores history has no past: and no future. '' ( from the works of Robert Heinlein).
Have a nice day
PS: English is not my native language, so don't be so harsh on me
Topic: Islam in a subsaharan Country