There are some misleading points in the article. First of all, Ajam doesn't mean foreigner. It means "Mute". The story goes back to when Arabs invaded Persian E

There are some misleading points in the article. First of all, Ajam doesn't mean foreigner. It means "Mute". The story goes back to when Arabs invaded Persian Empire in the 7th century. Iranians (Persians) called the Arabic language "Tazi", which means dog barking (since a simple conversation in the Arabic language sounded like a dog barking to them). Arabs, in retaliation, called Persians Mute since they couldn't pronounce Arabic sounds. Since then, to this day, Iranians still mention Arabic texts and language as Tazi, although Arabs already gave up calling them Mute (Ajam)! The second point is about "Islamic evangelists" spreading the religion. The writer forgot that the Islamic evangelists were also actively burning books and scrolls all over their newly invaded territory because all books were apparently useless except one book! (You know which book I'm talking about, I don't want to lose my head, I'm not name-dropping). As a result, in almost all Muslim countries (except Iran and Afghanistan), the written languages were lost forever and replaced by Tazi. So, whose fault was it? Who made hundreds of local written languages vanish? Local people themselves since they didn't bother to fight back against Arabic culture? Arabs since they shoved their holy book and unholy culture in every corner of local cultures? Europian who knew about all of this, but they lied and hid it to have their own exploitation plans? Or all of the options?