Title: sick of being mischaracterized
Product review: I am not surprised to see any of these reviewers on this page. They are clearly conservatives who laud any book that demonizes islam.Generally I could care less what people say but this statement has forced me to act: we have been told that the `bad' West invented slavery, racism and imperialism and that because of these terrors the world's problems must all be blamed on western colonialism. As someone who is on the left, I have *never* stated that the west invented these conditions. However, the system of slavery that brought Africans to the "new world" was different than any form ever known before. The systemic oppression Europe brought into being was different because of the vastness of it. It changed the world forever. Yes, colonialism, slavery and imperialism had occurred before but never to this extent.
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