[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.

[john drake]

Who cares. Maybe if they learned English and Christianity instead, they'd quit wandering around the desert, or do something more industrious than making rugs (or bombs.)

[Cronos]

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.

Quite true -- and to continue with my post above, even people in Pakistan who are overwhelmingly of Indian origin, potray themselves as Arabs and try to push themselves as being part of the middle-east, a complete rejection of their culture. They also try to deny their past: saying that the Harappan/Indus valley culture was actually Islammic (?!! it doesn't make sense to me either, but that's slam -- totally nonsensical).

Maybe if they learned English and Christianity instead, they'd quit wandering around the desert

Actually quite a few of the Berbers WERE Christians in the first centuries after Christ, the most noted being St. Augustine -- one of the main Church fathers and whose influence is seen in Protestant and Catholic Churchs, and to a lesser extent in the EAst and who is revered in all Churchs as a wise and holy man.

It would be great if the North Africans toss off their yoke of submission (Islam means to submit in Arabic) and rejoin humanity.