Episode 27. The social unrest and racial riots in the US and elsewhere triggered by the brutal killing of George Floyd, has shown that social unrest and tension has nothing to do with religion but everything to do with politics, social injustice and racial discrimination and in many cases outright oppression. Prejudicial attitudes have existed between races for thousands of years, but systematized racial oppression first arose in the 1600s along with the introduction of capitalism. European traders discovered that their superior technology gave them a tremendous advantage in Africa, including firearms and their sailing ships, they began to plunder Africa's wealth and take slaves. White Europeans and Americans who participated in the slave industry tried to justify their economic exploitation of black people by creating a "scientific" theory of white superiority and black inferiority. The message of Islam is for the whole of humanity and when this message was delivered in the form of the Holy Quran by the Prophet of Islam, God Almighty made it absolutely clear, that all of mankind share their origins and are part of One Humanity. The Holy Prophet of Islam went out of his way to “free slaves” and instructed his followers to do the same.
