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13 posted on 10/24/2009 8:12:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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The early inhabitants of eh Canary Islands were long suspected of being Berbers. Berbers are a Caucasian group but they have had large influxes of sub-Saharan black blood due to Islamic slave traders.

One of the Berber groups are the Tauregs. Taureg means “accursed of God” in Arabic as they were originally non-Islamic and only converted to Islam fairly recently. The form of Islam they practice is very different from mainstream Islam. The men go veiled, not the women and they have a reputation of being fierce fighters.

Getting back to the Canaries, the Spanish exterminated the native population, the Guanches, to whom this article obviously refers in a particularly brutal manner.

The Guanches buried their dead by mummification and there were various different tribes of them speaking different dialects on each island. They were said to have blonde hair, like the ancient Libyans who were also of pure Berber blood.


14 posted on 10/24/2009 2:21:29 PM PDT by ZULU (God guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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