abd,

i am surprised that you would make such a statement like you did in the last post. do you really think that 13 million slaves don't really matter simply because as you say 100s of million were taken by the west? please tell us that you were carried away and mistated here.

if a ship brought one or ten slaves from their native land to any place this is unacceptable.

now i will agree on this point, that arabs can not be held as muslims necessarily. because not all arabs are muslims and not all muslims are arabs. so the arab slave traders are not a stain on islam exclusively.