Re: black salafi imam: arabs are the 'master race'
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What do you mean? The Arabs were booted out of North Africa by Arabized native North Africans. They were booted out of Iran by the Persians. They were booted out of Central Asia by the natives of those lands. And ultimately, the Arabs themselves came to be ruled over by Turks.
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so if they were booted out like that why do these places have such profound arab influence even today ...cuz if what i understand by your statement you are refering to mamluks , seljuks , safavids era who replaced ethnic arab armies ....these dynasties had hundreds of yrs to erase arab influence like visogoths did in spain] so why do these places still follow "arab" religion and culture?
again i dont defend everything that arabs did in the name of islam ...but its fair to say that by and large the first generation of muslims who settled and spread islam in these lands were probably the best examples of practical islam
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The Arabs were imperialists who conquered **other nations, and **imposed **their language on these **subject nations. The Iranians and the North Africans didn't join up with the Arabs by choice. On the other hand, immigrants to the US, or any other country for that matter, come of their own free will, and adopt American culture by choice. There's a huge difference.
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but many persians and north africans did willingly adopt arab customs/culture long after their initial occupation , in abbassid times the persian for example had considrable influence ....infact berbers and persians were largely the army recuriting grounds for arab empires
many scholars also came from these nationalities expert in islam AND arabic . it dosent seem that they had such a resentment to everything arab
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I have no problem with your individual inferiority complex. Feel free to forget all your Siraiki, wear a thawb everywhere, and tie a keffiyeh on your head...its no different to me than kids in India/Pakistan/the Middle East blindly aping American culture.
Just don't try to pretend that Islam demands that you (and everyone else around you) behave like that, or that your actions are somehow more religiously meritorious
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okay assuming I do adopt arab culture totally ....that is according to you an "inferority complex" even though no occupation army forced me to do it, its my choice maybe i am influenced more by beduoin austerity and repelled by the decadence and ignorance of my north indian origin ...yet when people adopt anglo-saxon culture its "out of their own free will" and u see no wrong in that
AND i never said simply adopting arab culture makes u more holy or religious ....refer to my very first post ...u r assuming everyone who is defending arab culture that too only parts of it] is from a tableegi jamat