Doug Metzger
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2,647 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Doug Metzger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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To medieval Persia, including Arabia, Rome, China, Pakistan, and other places still.
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The Bundesjan describes how the races of humanity included men with bat wings, one-legged men, men with eyes and ears on their chests, giants, little people, and underwater people.
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Africans, the Bundeshan tells us, were a mixture of
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of aquatic people with earth dwelling people, and they sprang from a young man having sex with a witch and a young woman having sex with a demon.
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The Bundeshijan has a bit more to say about Africans.
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The book laments that, quote, with the overrunning of the Arabs, Africans have again mixed in Iran.
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Just to offer you a bit of history behind this quote, the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates, following the great conquests of Islam's first century, were no longer acquired.
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As many slaves from military conquests.
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During and after the 700s, Muslim entrepreneurs purchased African slaves from traders in Ethiopia, and as various Islamic sultanates appeared in Central and East Africa, a preponderance of slaves were coming from pagan African populations.
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Islam itself is racially egalitarian and
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The biographical literature about the Prophet depicts Muhammad and his companions as indifferent to race.
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However, when several generations of Umayyad and then Abbasid Muslims began associating slavery with Africans, racial prejudice billowed throughout the early Islamic empires, surely in part to excuse slave owners and others complicit in
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the institution from the quotidian crimes against humanity being perpetrated throughout the caliphates.
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To return to the book, following this section on Africans and how various races were created, the Bundeshion offers us an account of how the beneficent god Ormaz felt about the creation of women in general.
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Ormazd was, it seems, displeased with the fact that women had been brought into existence.
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Ormazd told women, just after creation, quote that
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You too are my creation, you who belong to the adversary's race of whores.
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I have created a mouth near your anus, so that sex seems to you like the sweetest taste of food in your mouth.
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You are my helper, since man is born from you, but you are also my tormentor.
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I am Ormazd.
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