The history of Arab and Islamic cooperation with Naziism and admiration of it since the 1930’s needs to be focused upon. As to the Arabs: seldom have so many had so little to be racist about. As to Iran, it’s name was changed from Persia to be “land of the Aryans,” as Joe Farah has pointed out.
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You know, shu3ubiyya was a movement to dethrone Arabs as the leaders of Islam that has involved Berbers & Arameans, but in Iraq it’s meant to refer to the Persian shu3ubiyya. It was a very serious issue at the time, but wasn’t heard of much again until Arab Nationalism. Then the term was revived & applied to Iraqi Shi3a in general & every Shi3i was under suspicion of being shu3ubi & conspiring with Persians against Arabs until he proved otherwise. Many Shi3ia were deported from Iraq with claims that they had Persian or Indian blood.
& there was a real obsession with ta2ifiyya (sectarianism). Anyone who objected to discrimination was denounced as being ta2ifi, a traitor to Iraq, & probably a Persian or a Zionist.