Long before the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, the first Arab caliphates had already opened the route for the slave trade.
In 652, the Treaty of Baqt between Muslim Egypt and the Christian Nubian kingdom of Makuria (present-day Sudan) formalized a monstrous pact: every year, Sudan had to deliver slaves, or else face "swords, fire, and savagery". This was no longer war; it was an economy of capture.
At the heart of the Muslim slave system lay a practice of such extreme barbarity that it defies comprehension: mass castration.
This often-deadly surgical procedure transformed millions of African black men into eunuchs.
The Egyptian capital housed some of the most lethal castration centers. Specialized "surgeons" performed the complete removal of the genitals. The patient was held down by four men while the "doctor" severed the testicles and penis in one swift motion. To prevent the urethra from closing, a bamboo tube was inserted, and then boiling oil was poured over the gaping wound. The mortality rate reached 90%.
In Baghdad (the capital of Iraq), a more "economical" method was perfected: castration by crushing. Ropes were tightened around the testicles until the tissue died from necrosis. Gangrenous infection claimed the lives of many black victims who died in excruciating agony. Only around one in twenty black men survived this ordeal.
Basra (a city in Iraq) developed its own specialty: cauterization with a red-hot iron. After the castration, red-hot metal was applied to the wound to stop the bleeding. The deep burn caused fatal infections in ~80% of cases.
Why this systematic practice? The answer is chilling: to prevent the reproduction of black people in the lands of Islam.
Castrated men could not start families, thus ensuring that no black descendants would exist. It was the Muslim final solution to the demographic problem.
The mutilated survivors became mere shadows of men, destined to guard harems or serve in the ranks of Muslim armies. Their high-pitched voices and lack of facial hair marked them for life as products of this death industry.
The figures are staggering: of the 17 million Africans enslaved by Muslims, an estimated 6 million died as a result of castration. Does that death toll sound familiar?