[GaltMeister]

I'm stuned!

[Lekker 1]

I'd be surprised if the Muslim powers-that-be will squash this. They don't want indigenous peoples to realize there was life-before-Mohammud...it leads to questioning whether Islam has actually benefited them or not.

[Verginius Rufus]

It's like the English keeping their language during the Norman domination. The Berbers have outlasted the Phoenicians, the Romans, the Vandals, the Byzantines, the Turks, and the French...why shouldn't they outlast the Arabs too?

[Cronos]

What is interesting is the Arabization of whole swathes of peoples -- the Moroccans, Tunisians, Libyans, Algerians are still ethnically Berbers not Arabs. Ditto for IRaqis -- they are still mostly descendents of Assyrians and Babylonians. Ditto for Syrians -- mostly Aramaics. Ditto for Egyptians -- Copts to the largest part.

We see it happening even now in the Sudan where people who are ethnically black Darfurians are made to think of themselves as Arabs.

The first case of the yoke being thrown off was/is in Iran where people are revolting against the forced arabization and realise that by doing so they rejectIslam as well. Once Iran turns, the dominos will fall