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To: Always Right; 6ppc
"In England they lump arabs and asians into a single group called asians.

Yeah, not real accurate grouping."

This is not correct. 'Asians' as a designation tends to be used generically for Indians, Pakistani's and Bangladeshis (pretty much the bits we used to own). Arabs would be referred to as Arabs, I don't believe I've ever seen the designation 'Asian' applied to an arab.

"It is funny that muslim arabs don't even consider asian and black muslims are real muslims and there aren't too many black and asian muslims who commit terrorist acts."

All of the people involved in the London bombings last year were of Pakistani-descent, rather than Arab, as were most of the people arrested last week.

54 posted on 08/15/2006 9:28:43 AM PDT by Canard
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To: Canard
All of the people involved in the London bombings last year were of Pakistani-descent, rather than Arab, as were most of the people arrested last week.

In my mind people Saudia Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afganistan, Syria are Arabs. But that is just me.

55 posted on 08/15/2006 9:41:57 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Canard

I stand corrected. I had some dealings with a muslim of Indian extraction a while back and encountered the term "Asian" to describe him. I didn't think to distinguish between asian and arab muslims, so I stand corrected.


58 posted on 08/15/2006 10:35:38 AM PDT by 6ppc
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