Benny Johnson said seven million people are enslaved worldwide, all of them in Africa, all in Islamic nations. That is Walk Free's regional figure for Africa alone.

The global estimate is 50 million, and the largest populations are in India, China and North Korea. Verdict: false. Truth score 0.08, confidence 0.88.

On 5 August 2026, hours after Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, Benny Johnson told his audience that "Islam is, in fact, the only institution on Earth that maintains the slavery practice to this very day" and that "all slave markets on earth are run by Islamists." The Benny Show, "Gunman STORMS Trump Speech Site With Body Armor, Illegal Guns, Jammer | FBI Deep State Plot Reveal," at 1:12:58.

We steelman it before we land on it. Mauritania's descent-based chattel slavery is real and ongoing: the l ...