The average Muslim would make a Klansman look tame:
"We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least
discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the
consequences of actions." Jahiz (d. 868 AD), _Kitab al-Bukhala'
"Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj for they are the worst of
men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament."
Jahiz, _Kitab al-Hayawan_, vol. 2
"[inhabitants of sub-Saharan African countries] are people distant from
the standards of humanity" "Their nature is that of wild animals...."
Persian geography _Hudud al-`alam_, 982 AD
"They [the Shu`ubiyya] maintain that eloquence is prized by all people
at all times -- even the Zanj, despite their dimness, their boundless
stupidity, their obtuseness, their crude perceptions and their evil
dispositions, make long speeches." Jahiz, Al-Bayan wa`l-tabyin, vol. 3
"Galen says that merriment dominates the black man because of his
defective brain, whence also the weakness of his intelligence." Mas`udi
(d. 956 AD), Muruj al-dhahab_
"As regards southern countries, all their inhabitants are black on
account of the heat of their climate... Most of them go ****d... In all
their lands and provinces, gold is found.... They are people distant
from the standards of humanity." Hudud al-`Alam_, Persian geography,
982 AD
"The Zanj are so uncivilized that they have no notion of a natural
death. If a man dies a natural death, they think he was poisoned. Every
death is suspicious with them, if a man has not been killed by a
weapon." Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, _India_, 1030 AD
About the Zanj: "Their nature is that of wild animals. They are
extremely black." About the Sudan: "Among themselves there are people
who steal each other's children and sell them to the merchants when the
latter arrive." Hudud al-`Alam_, 982 AD
"If (all types of men) are taken, from the first, and one placed after
another, like the Negro from Zanzibar, in the Southern-most countries,
the Negro does not differ from an animal in anything except the fact
that his hands have been lifted from the earth,--in no other
peculiarity or property,--except for what God wished. Many have seen
that the ape is more capable of being trained than the Negro, and more
intelligent." Philosopher-theologian Nasir al-Din Tusi (1201-74),
_Tasawwurat_
"Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery,
because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have
attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have
stated." Ibn Khaldun, _Muqaddimah_, 14th century AD
"A man of discernment said: The people of Iraq ... do not come out
with something between blonde, buff and blanched coloring, such as the
infants dropped from the wombs of the women of the Slavs and others of
similar light complexion; nor are they overdone in the womb until they
are burned, so that the child comes out something between black, murky,
malodorous, stinking, and crinkly-haired, with uneven limbs, deficient
minds, and depraved passions, such as the Zanj, the Somali, and other
blacks who resemble them. The Iraqis are neither half-baked dough nor
burned crust but between the two." ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadani, _Mukhtasar
Kitab al-Buldan_, 903 AD
"beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no
civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer
to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and
caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each
other. They cannot be considered human beings." Ibn Khaldun,
_Muqaddimah_
"[Blacks] are ugly and misshapen, because they live in a hot country."
Ibn Qutayba (828-89 A.D.)
"The Zanj are slight-witted (_kam 'aql_), and God, most high, has
created them stupid, ignorant, and foul (_palid_)." anonymous,
Iskandarnamah, 1343 AD
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