Mamaluke And Mamluk

The media has been atwitter with Al-Qaida’s Ayman al-Zawahri’s insult of Obama http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D94I1LA80&show_article=1 by calling him the house Negro. What he actually said was abeed al-beit. Abeed is not just a slave, but a black slave. Islam’s refined doctrine of slavery includes over 40 words for slaves, including the slave’s race. If you were white, you would be a mamluk, a white slave.

Al-Qaida’s #2 al-Zawahiri Calls Obama “the House Negro”.

I found it interesting that the Italian slang for “idiot” is mamaluke, and the Arabic term for a white slave is “mamluk”. I don’t know if they’re related, one being a derivative of the other, but it’s quite coincidental.

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