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by cpursley 2115 days ago
> This is you asserting a colonialist's supremacy on a culture

Isn't this the history of Islam (colonization and expansion)? Were the people in those places who got conquered not forced to comply with Islamic law?

I live in former Ottoman Empire territory where slave trade of women and young boys was rampant until the Russian Empire put an end to it.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Me...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_slavery#Ottoman_slave_...