[aruanan]

It means when Muslims, Jews or Christians claim to be children of Abraham, they are all bound to be right.--from further in the article.

According to studies of mitochondrial drift, Jews with a Middle Eastern (as opposed to Ashkenazi) background are more closely related to certain populations in Iraq than to so-called Palestinians. Not surprising since Abraham came from Mesopotamia. The Arab Muslims are certainly not descendents of Abraham. That story was just Muhammed trying to appropriate to his own Smithoid religion some of the mojo of the most advanced religions and societies of the Arabian peninsula of his day, Judaism and Christianity.

[muawiyah]

BTW, there were several different large Jewish populations in the Middle Ages. One was in Spain. Another was in Egypt. Yet another was in Baghdad (and earlier in Babylon).

[muawiyah]

Ishmael was, of course, a descendant of Abraham. The story is in the Bible.