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[QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [QB] In Maimon's time period the world was divided into zones. The mid-zones were superior in material technology. The extreme northern and southern zones were mainly unknown but the people of these zones were sold by their own people to the Muslims. So many whites were selling their own kind their very own people that the name Slav was given to them. The English word slave is derived from Slav. The Jews called the white European Slavic peoples Canaanites because it seemed they were cursed to be slaves. Maimon, a Spanish Jew who migrated to Morocco and then to Egypt, held both the blacks and whites from the outer zones as irrational peoples because to him they "have no religion, neither one based on speculation nor one received by traditon." He also included some peoples of the mid-zones in the same category. Maimon was not a racist. He never denied his medical services (sometimes for free) to whites nor blacks. In his Mishneh Torah when he writes of proselytes he says that nowadays all are admitted including whites and blacks. Commenting on Deuteronomy 23:4 & 23:9 which delineate which peoples cannot become converts, Maimon writes: [i] When Sennacherib, king of Assyria, arose, he mixed up all the nations, intermingling them one with the other, and exiled them from their homelands; the result was that the people who now dwell in Egypt are not the original Egyptians, nor are the Edomites now in the plain of Edom the original ones. Therefore, once these four forbidden nations have become commingled with all the other permitted nations, they all became permitted. For whosoever seperates himself from them in order to become a proselyte is presumed to have issued from the majority, consequently, when nowadays a person becomes a proselyte anywhere, whether he is an Edomite, an Egyptian, an Ammonite, a Moabite, [b]an Ethiopian[/b], or of any other nation, and whether male or female, he is permitted to enter the congregation at once.[/i] The editor of the Yale Judaica Series translation notes that,[URL=http://www.][i] "Maimonides, living in Egypt, where Ethiopians were plentiful, includes them, although they are not mentioned in Scripture in this connection."[/i] In other words[b] Maimon went out of his way to ensure that "sub-Saharan" African blacks could not be discriminated against by any who would not want to accept them as converts.[/b][/URL] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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