"Arab" is a racial and language subgroup. Not all Muslims are Arabs, and not all Arabs are Muslims. The number of ethnic-Arab and Arabic-speaking Christians worldwide is approximately 20 million.
"Muslim" is a religious designation, not a language and not a racial or national identity. There are hundreds of millions of non-Arab Muslims, including the vast majority of the populations on Iran (Persians) and Indonesia (Javanese, Sundanese, etc.) plus many millions of Asian, European, and African Muslims.
Barack Obama is absolutely, positively non Arab by ethnicity or language. Whatever affinity he has with Islam remain to be seen.
“Barack Obama is absolutely, positively non Arab by ethnicity or language. Whatever affinity he has with Islam remain to be seen.”
I strongly suggest that you do more research. You are making absolute statements without proper foundation.
you would benefit from a little research on the history of the Omani arabs in Kenya. Arab-muslim (rulers and slave traders) intermarried with the indigenous peoples, and as the female line doesn't count in islam, there are no lack of blacks in Kenya who claim arab descent - just as there are black arab muslims living in Oman itself. Most are descendants of black slaves but they identify themselves as arabs through the male line, none-the-less.
It's difficult for me to understand why you included the matter of laguage in your comment. obama learned the koran by rote whilst in school in Indonesia. The koran is written in an archaic arabic that even arabic speaking peoples do not fully understand.