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I don't think the quote in my original comment was (or was intended as) anti-Arab. The diversity of Muslims can be seen as a compliment to Arabs. Love or hate

by vba616 4y ago

I don't think the quote in my original comment was (or was intended as) anti-Arab. The diversity of Muslims can be seen as a compliment to Arabs. Love or hate something, the objective fact that it appeals to people all over the world from many different cultures is significant.

mrwnmonm 4y ago
It is not a compliment to Arabs, and it is not the point. I commented specifically because of this sentence "Islam is more Persian than Arab" (which wasn't by you). Arabs don't have a special place, and the role that Persians played is very well known, BUT, a sentence like this usually comes from people who want to dismiss Arabs completely. And the problem feels undecidable too. There were a lot of scholars. A lot of them spoke Arabic better than most Arabs today. You could find a lot of them have mixed parents and were raised in Arabs culture. How will you decide exactly? It is a useless debate.