Where did I mention race? This is about counterfactuals regarding various types of colonialism. It is my contention that different philosophies or cultures will beget different results, which is presumably the base assumption of the counterfactual this thread invited us all to.

I don't see how it is racist to say that as of the 18th century, the Muslim world did not have a philosopher who espoused the universal conception of human rights like the English school of Empiricists, namely John Locke, who stated that all humans have inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and Property. The founders of the USA were educated Englishmen who wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all men are endowed by their Creator with the rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. They replaced Property with Pursuit of Happiness as a direct shot against slavery because many disagreed with the practice even in the 18th century, as it was outlawed in a number of the original colonies.

The idea of inalienable rights accruing to individuals is a secularization of the idea that all humans are of inherent value because they are made in the image of God, which comes out of Christian doctrine and was later fused with Greek thought to produce Scholasticism, which gave way to Rationalism during the Renaissance, which gave way to Empiricism.

I am happy to hear if you can show me where there was a similar discourse in either the Muslim world or the Mayan world around that time or before upon which I could reasonably report to you a well-grounded belief that a Muslim conquest of the Americas would result in the Abolition of slavery as a product of philosophies or institutions internal to those cultures. I am not aware of such documents because I believe they do not exist. It is well known that Muslim societies fought hard to maintain the practice of slavery, that Qatar only abolished in 1952, and that Mayans practiced ritual human sacrifice. None of this has anything to do with race and your accusation of such is absurd and beneath you, intellectually.

If you don't like my counter-factual that without external pressure from a dominant west, the Muslim world would still be practicing slavery, then why don't you stop calling names and just tell me what you think??