Like the Bangladeshis, the Persians, and the Javanese, they CONVERTED. That does not make ANY of these people ETHNICALLY and CULTURALLY Arab. Mohammed Ali converted to Islam, but that did not make him an Arab, anymore than my converting to Buddhism (highly unlikely) would make me Tibetan.
Arabs are an ethnic group. Islam is a religion. The two are not one and the same. Capice?
56 posted on 12/19/2009 7:43:56 PM PST by Clemenza
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