| Niemand 2005-08-21, 8:34 pm |
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Catalan wrote:
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> Muslims are a Semitic people.
No, Muslims can be of any cultural background, any ethnicity -- there
are Muslims of every color, from practically every country on earth.
Islam is a religion anyone may join, not a matter of language or
biology.
It is true that Arabs, the majority of whom are Muslims, are a
Semitic people, which Webster defines as "speaking Semitic languages"
including Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic and others. But the term
"anti-Semitism" is a bit of a misnomer -- it means *only* hatred of or
prejudice against *Jews*. If Sam Sloan is not a Jew, he cannot be
considered a target of anti-Semitism, any more than an Italian is the
target of "No Irish need apply."
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