Posted on 09/10/2008 3:37:11 PM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
Or, you can go on the net and use a pen-name.
The United States is the world's greatest repository of people whose ethnicity differs from their names. For example Todd Palin, Sarahcuda's "first dude", is of mixed ancestry ~ part Eskimo, part Finn, part some other things ~ maybe 30 or 40 other things, really, and that "Todd" part of his name does not turn him into a member of Phi Psi!
you mean as you did: muawiyah
Muawiya ibn Abu Sufyan (died 680) was the founder of the Umayyad dynasty of caliphs. His clan, which had resisted Mohammed and his message longest and most vehemently, eventually won political control over the Islamic community. As son of Abu Sufyan, one of the leaders of the Meccan opposition to Mohammed, Muawiya did not adopt Islam until the conquest of Mecca in 630. Muawiya at this time was made secretary to the Prophet...
Thus someone with 'baraka' is blessed...but the poor fools who follow him are cursed. The expression is used in the book to describe the 'mahdi' :
When Mahommed Ahmed, a Dongolese, proclaimed himself the long-looked-for Mahdi (guide) of Islam, he found most of his original followers among the grossly superstitious villagers of Kordofan, to whom he preached universal equality and a community of goods...
“His father comes from an Arab line of Arab slave traders...”
That’s a lie. You need to educate yourself. Ignorance is not a virtue
Many Caucasions, and all Armenians, speak Indo-European languages in fact.
Today, one hears the delibrate or ignorant misuse and abuse of the word Arab for political purposes unconnected with the real history of the people and culture. Arab now represents a diversity of which the pale-skin type lays claim to predominance. Yet, it can not be forgotten that the original authentic Arabs were Black men and women from Africa. The children of Kush and Nimrod; the Ethiopians who emigrated to the lands of Yemen and Hadramut and Mesopotamia.
Even in these days of rank misinformation, the black skin Arabs still maintain a numerical edge over the Arabized pale skin types of today (mixed blood descendants of the Kurds, the Persians and the Turks with African Arabs). When the African Arabs (most of who claim a legitimate link to Black Yemen) are factored in with the remnants of the Black skinned Arabs of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman, Yemen, and Kuwait, the Black Arabs of today still predominate in number and in importance, in the Arab world. That predominance is not accidental. It is a historical thread which remains valid even in these inauspicious post-modern times. Yes, but times come and times go, and yet the Black Arabs will remain.
Today, one hears the delibrate or ignorant misuse and abuse of the word Arab for political purposes unconnected with the real history of the people and culture. Arab now represents a diversity of which the pale-skin type lays claim to predominance. Yet, it can not be forgotten that the original authentic Arabs were Black men and women from Africa. The children of Kush and Nimrod; the Ethiopians who emigrated to the lands of Yemen and Hadramut and Mesopotamia.
Even in these days of rank misinformation, the black skin Arabs still maintain a numerical edge over the Arabized pale skin types of today (mixed blood descendants of the Kurds, the Persians and the Turks with African Arabs). When the African Arabs (most of who claim a legitimate link to Black Yemen) are factored in with the remnants of the Black skinned Arabs of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman, Yemen, and Kuwait, the Black Arabs of today still predominate in number and in importance, in the Arab world. That predominance is not accidental. It is a historical thread which remains valid even in these inauspicious post-modern times. Yes, but times come and times go, and yet the Black Arabs will remain.
sorry - duplicate post.
The fact is plenty of white folks are black. Don't mean nothin'.
That’s Afrocentric Nation of Islam type stuff. They claim everyone was originally black & stole the heritage of blacks. Jews, Arabs, Whites, Chinese, etc.
Original Arabs are from the peninsula. Now many other people adopted Arabic as their language & are also Arabs: Syrians, Palestinians, Egyptians, sometimes Nubians & Berbers depending on how they feel like answering. Black Arabs are scattered across the Middle East, descendents of slaves &/or migrants. Sudanese black Arabs are Arabs from the peninsula mixed with Africans & Nubians.
Black Palestinians: http://members.tripod.com/yajaffar/african.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XbxeEgCNtY
Black Iraqis:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A6645-2004Jan10¬Found=true
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4271003
& of course, in North Africa & Oman/Yemen (mixed with Somali especially). In Israel the Yemeni Jews are stereotyped as having frizzy hair - obviously because of their mixture with Somali just like all the other Yemenis.
You can see some black features in “real Arabs” sometimes too. My boyfriend (from the Gulf) sometimes looks vaguely black even though he has no known black ancestry.
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