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To: philly-d-kidder

You are right. Something like 3/4 of the world’s Muslims aren’t Arab.

However, there has always been a strong strain of Arabocentrism in Islam from its very beginning. Muhammad and his immediate successors had great difficult in accepting non-Arab converts as more than clients of Arab Muslims. To some extent this ethnocentrism has continued till now. The Arab language, for example, is portrayed as the one the Koran existed in prior to the creation of the world. IOW, Allah speaks Arabic.


9 posted on 06/06/2008 7:47:09 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: Sherman Logan

But Your Headline screams Jews versus arabs its like saying a Singaporean that speaks English is British!


10 posted on 06/06/2008 8:44:13 PM PDT by philly-d-kidder (Contractor From Arifjan Kuwait where the Weather is over a 120 F and we don't sweat it!!)
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