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  • In Tawergha, a village of black Libyans that has been "cleansed" by the rebels, someone had scrawled the word "abeed" - a slur for blacks that means "slave."

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • The fact that many people easily describe colored people as 'abeed', even if innocently, shows you that there is a problem.

    360east | design, media, technology 2008

  • One writer has noted that in Turkey black people were referred to as abeed, (slaves (also abid) i.e. the plural of 'abd (masculine) and' abdeh (feminine.) "

    Australian Islamist Monitor Geoff Dickson 2010

  • One writer has noted that in Turkey black people were referred to as abeed, (slaves (also abid) i.e. the plural of 'abd (masculine) and' abdeh (feminine.) "

    Australian Islamist Monitor Geoff Dickson 2010

  • As reported on BBC: No. 2 Al Qaeda guy calls BHO a "abeed al-beit," or house slave, though that was apparently translated as "house negro" in the English subtitles that AQ so helpfully provides for its non-Arabic fans.

    Archive 2008-11-01 2008

  • As reported on BBC: No. 2 Al Qaeda guy calls BHO a "abeed al-beit," or house slave, though that was apparently translated as "house negro" in the English subtitles that AQ so helpfully provides for its non-Arabic fans.

    Al-Qaeda: Obama is just the HNIC 2008

  • And the abeed, the black slave, is a very derogatory term, which means ...

    CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2009 2009

  • Whereas in Arabic, even though he developed on that, the word he used to call him was "abeed."

    CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2009 2009

  • You know, the root of abeed is the root of being a slave, even a slave to God, even, but a slave in general.

    CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2009 2009

  • Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term "abeed al-beit," which literally translates as "house slaves."

    Al Qaeda No. 2 Calls Obama Racial Epithet 2008

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