Resolution for Recognition and Reparations for Victims of Islamic Slavery of Black and Caucasian Peoples

 Draft Proposal for Congressional Bill

Title: Resolution for Recognition and Reparations for Victims of Islamic Slavery of Black and Caucasian Peoples

Submitted by: Bobby Darvish

Citizen Advocate, Iranian American Historian, Christian and Constitutional Conservative

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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE

This Act may be cited as the “Islamic Slavery Reparations and Accountability Act of 2025.”

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SECTION 2. PURPOSE AND FINDINGS

(a) Purpose:

To acknowledge the centuries-long enslavement of Black Africans and White Europeans by Islamic empires and states, to recognize the devastating legacy of this system on global populations, and to initiate formal reparations dialogue with the governments of Muslim-majority nations that are the political and cultural heirs of those systems.

(b) Congressional Findings:

 1. The transatlantic slave trade, while widely condemned, was significantly influenced and preceded by Islamic slave trading networks across Africa, Europe, and Asia for over 1,200 years.

 2. Arab-Muslim empires, including the Umayyads, Abbasids, Fatimids, Ottomans, and North African Berbers, enslaved an estimated 17 million Sub-Saharan Africans, as well as millions of White Europeans including Slavs, Greeks, Armenians, Circassians, and Georgians.

 3. The Barbary slave trade (16th to 19th centuries) alone captured and enslaved an estimated 1 to 1.5 million White Europeans from coastal regions through pirate raids.

 4. Enslaved women were frequently used for sexual exploitation in harems, and male slaves were often castrated, preventing the survival of their lineage.

 5. The Islamic concept of “raqiq” (slave) and institutionalized systems of concubinage and forced labor were embedded in Sharia law, which shaped centuries of violent oppression.

 6. African chieftains and Arab-Muslim slave traders in East and West Africa actively sold other Africans to European traders, laying the foundation for the later transatlantic slave trade.

 7. Muslim Ottoman and Arab slave markets operated legally until the 20th century in places like Saudi Arabia, Mauritania, Sudan, and North Africa.

 8. The legacy of this slavery continues to affect Black and White populations whose ancestors were dehumanized and exploited under Islamic regimes.

 9. Reparations have been demanded and discussed globally for Western involvement in slavery, while Islamic slavery remains largely unacknowledged and uncompensated.

 10. True historical justice requires global recognition and symmetrical accountability, not selective condemnation.

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SECTION 3. STATEMENT OF RESOLUTION

Congress hereby:

 1. Recognizes the enslavement of Black Africans and White Europeans by Islamic empires as crimes against humanity.

 2. Condemns the historic practice of Islamic slavery, including sex slavery, eunuch creation, and religious justifications for racial subjugation.

 3. Affirms that Islamic slavery played a significant role in laying the foundation for the global slave systems, including the American transatlantic slave trade.

 4. Calls upon the governments of modern Islamic nations including, but not limited to, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Morocco, Algeria, and Mauritania to acknowledge their role in this history.

 5. Demands financial reparations and formal state apologies to be directed toward the descendants of Black and White victims of Islamic slavery.

 6. Requests the United Nations and International Criminal Court to open historical inquiries and commission truth-and-reconciliation forums focused on Islamic slavery.

 7. Encourages the U.S. Department of State to prioritize religious and racial justice in diplomatic dialogues with Muslim-majority countries.

 8. Supports educational initiatives and museums dedicated to the victims of Islamic slavery, funded partially through international reparations.

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SECTION 4. FUNDING MECHANISM AND ENFORCEMENT

 1. A task force shall be created under the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to document lineages of Islamic slavery and assess reparations owed.

 2. The Department of the Treasury shall be authorized to negotiate, receive, and distribute reparations funds from international partners.

 3. The President and the Secretary of State shall jointly establish reparations diplomacy initiatives with Islamic nations.

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SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE

This Act shall take effect immediately upon passage.

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Respectfully Submitted,

Bobby Darvish

Iranian American Historian

Christian and Constitutional Conservative

Advocate for Historical Justice for All Peoples