My Palestinian friend (Christian) tells me that most Muslims have some Jewish blood, just as most Americans have American Indian blood somewhere in their backgrounds.
OK, quibble withh the "most," but you know what she means: It's common.
Most Americans have American Indian blood in them from somewhere? I think you just tossed off the word "Most".
The actual percentage, although I'd have to check the books, is almost certainly much, much lower than "Most", which implies a majority. Kind of a silly statement.
Although I'd be proud to have Indian blood, my mother-in-law (85) won't even talk about it (I'm doing her genealogy on behalf of my kids); generational differences are interesting, I'll tell ya.
Actually now it's become so "Cool" to be part American Indian that people are claiming it when it does't exist. Interesting shift over time from trying to hide that ancestry.
It's even worse for being Irish (the officially sanctioned "cool" ethnic derivation); a lot more people claim Irish ancestry than actually are Irish these days.
The other neat angle is a lot of people who consider themselves "white," particularly in the South, are a fairly substantial % black African (10% or so.)