Are the Arabs, Arab?

Fontpagemagazine ^ | 22-04 | David Yeagley

[camle]

many are descendants of the mongolg, who invaded and never left.

[camle]

many are descendants of the mongols, who invaded and never left.

sorry for the double post, my spelling is slower than my clicking, I'm afraid.

[SJackson]

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[Alouette]

Then they can have their own casinos, and leave Israel alone.

The Israelis built the Palestinians a casino in Jericho. The Palis destroyed it.

[tkathy]

A better question might be, "Are the Arabs human???"

[Happy2BMe]

Thanks for the ping.

Yassar needs mo money - he should start up an offshore casino - all the Arabs will come (especially the rich Saudis).

Now that Saddam and sons aren't paying suicide bomber's families to kill innocent Israeli children, the money has to come from somewhere doesn't it?

[ScudEast]

Great article! It does not, however, mention the Assyrians which is a bit of omission when talking about Iraq. The Assyrians ruled pretty much the whole region for a bit until they were supplanted by the Persians. Even more interesting to me at least is the fact that the Christian Assyrian Church of the East, formed by the Apostle Thomas was the first Christian church. According to this link they view this as their second "Golden Age" in which Assyrian culture, and the Christian religion was spread by their priests as far as China and Mongolia. Their culture was suppressed by the Arabs in the 13th century and their religion largely replaced but I bet there are still a whole bunch of Assyrians who do not consider themselves "Arabs" by any stretch of the imagination. The link, and the whole site is well worth a read although I have no info of the veracity of the facts on it.

[prairiebreeze]

Mohammad’s new religion of Islam sought world dominion through coerced unity, crushing cultural diversity.

This bears repeating.

Prairie

[stuartcr]

Why don't we just call everyone from that region, including the Israelites, middle-easterners?

[dennisw]

Just about the only real Arabs are the Saudis.Most of these other "Arab" clowns are called Arab because they speak Arabic and are Islamics. But they are not ethnically Arab. We call them Arab out of laziness.

[dennisw]

PING

[ScudEast]

Why don't we just call everyone from that region, including the Israelites, middle-easterners?

I recon that's a great idea.

[stuartcr]

If we quit referring to/stereotyping people by their religious beliefs, things might be a lot better in this world. I can't understand why people are so hung up on beliefs.

[SJackson]

Yassar needs mo money - he should start up an offshore casino - all the Arabs will come (especially the rich Saudis).

He had a successful casino in Jericho. It had to be closed, putting palestinians out of work. Killing the customers was bad for business. Who would have thought of that?

Not much different than the factories in the West Bank and Gaza that will be cloising due to EU boycots on products from the "territories". Puts the employed palestinians out of work. The Euros never thought of that either.

[Cronos]

Descendents of the mongols

Possibly in Iraq not south of that. I don't think the Mongols or the Turkic troops under Tamerlane managed to create any ethnic impact on the natives there. Also, the Turks in Turkey aren't mostly Turkic, they are Lydian, Hittite, etc. -- Indo-European mostly.
Mongols also invaded parts of Eastern Europe but they were never so numerous as to pass down their genes in any large quantities. in smaller quantities, nearly all of us whose ancestors come from Eurasia have some Mongol blood in us.

[Cronos]

Yosaarian (from Catch 22) was Assyrian!

[Cronos]

Yossarian (from Catch 22) was Assyrian!

[jveritas]

Great article my friend. As a Lebanese Christian I have never considered myself an Arab and this opinion is shared by the vast majority of Christians in the Middle East. However the Muslims in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt boast of being Arabs despite the fact that ethnically the majority of them are not Arabs. They want to be called Arabs in order to be associated with the ethnic blood of Mohammed who was an Arab from the desert of Arabia.

[Cronos]

middle-easterners?

That's a queer term. Until the start of the 20th centruy, the lands of Egypt, Arabia, Anatolia, Iraq would have been called the Near East with the Middle East being Persia and India and hte Far East being China and Japan. The Near West would have been Central & Eastern Europe and the Far West, Western Europe