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To: expatpat

FYI, Somalis are not Arabs. They speak a Cushitic language more closely related to various Ethiopian and other African Horn languages. Most of them are Muslim, but this does not make them Arabs, as most Arabs are thrilled to point out.


23 posted on 07/19/2008 6:18:15 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; expatpat; Fred Nerks

Accurate posts.

But didn’t the whole Arab connection come from this notion that a grandmother (?) on his father’s side was Saudi?


71 posted on 07/20/2008 9:12:56 AM PDT by wardaddy (Myself and my ancestors take full responsibility for all racial discrimination here since 1607)
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