Just who are the Arabs...

In this discussion, we will be discussing the contraversial topic of race and culture , as well as Nationality within the Arab World, and By no means do intend any offense towards my fellow arab and or muslim.

Who is an arab?

There is a Simple anwser, an Arab is any one who claims to be arab, Or whos Nation with the exception of somalia is in the arab league.


What is an arab really?

An Arab is a decendant of those peoples who inhabited the Arabian Peninsula, and have been sometimes erroniously refered to as Semetic.


What race are arabs?

Arabs racially would be categorized as a racial admixture of Caucasian and Negroid, as the Arabs origin is from the red sea area of africa.

Are you saying arabs are Black?

No , Arabs are neither black nor white  there has been so much mixing over  the millenia  it is impossible  to sepparate.

What is the Arabs History?

The Ancient arabs  left the  red sea of africa and settled Yemens Lush Valleys, This is why many Arabs call Yemen their motherland, as it is the common denomimator between us all.

As Competition for space and water took place for the valley's of Yemen, the Arab Cast himself out into the desert and Fought with his fellow arab, Many of the ancient nomads of the middle east were arab, and were either forced, or left yemen searching for better places.

Just who are these people you are talking about?

Ad  (biblical city of the plain)
Thamud  (biblical cities of the plain)
Efalaq
Adnan
Qahtan
Qahtaban
Midinites
Edomites
Palmyran
Syriac
Assyriac
Akkadian
Chaldean
Dedan
Amorites

Himyarite (yemen)
Shaban (yemen)
Sheba (yemen)


What is a Pure Arab?

A pure arab does not exist however, In arabic it refers to the Qahtani, who represent the truest arab culture, they are the arabs of the gulf, where as Hijazi,Syrian and Maghrebi arabs represent Arabized arabs known as Adanians.

Are Arabs semetic?

No, This term was coined by protestant evangelists in the 1870s, and later addopted by ashkenazi jews in europe, It is an attempt to link all of the people of the middle east to a common ancestor, The Correct name of the "semites" should be Himyarite, as this is the most common link between Arab and Jew.

The Arab of yesterday and of today is one part Himyarite and One Part Hamitic.

What is an Assyrian?, I know one who gets highly offended at being refered to as an Arab.

Assyrians are a Proud lot, they are directly related and due to ignoble archeologist attempts to divide them, They should correctly be called Syriac Arabs, The Syriac Arab is.

The
assyrians
Chaldeans
syriacs
Hijazi

The Arabic script of today is from the Naubtanean script, Many Syriacs claim them but ironicly the naubtaneans much like the kings of old syria came from an arab root.


What is a Phoenician?

Phoenicians are nOT arabs, they are invaders from a greek isle that pillaged ancient egypt and enslaved the local syriac peoples.
Phoenicians and peoples derived from the phoenicians are

Phoenician,Carthaginian,Cannanite,Philistine.


What is the difference between the Aramaneans and Armenians?
Aramaneans are Arabs of Syria, the Armenians are a Aryan people who have allways been the best of merchants and best of friends with the Arabs, History has misrecorded their name, because of a Greek error they assumed that the cloth merchants of Aram were the same as the local people, the correct name of Armenians is Hayq.

Why dont you use the word semetic?

Because no people in history have ever recorded themselves or been recorded by others as Semetic, untill the zionist congresses in europe in the 1800s


Isnt arabic indo european?

No

Arabic along with hebrew belongs to the afro-asiatic lingustical branch

other afro asiatic languages are
Dogmatic
Coptic
amizegh
ambric
tigare

I know a Palestinian or Lebanese Or Syrian with Blue eyes and blond hair, He seems to take offense to your racial cattegorization of the arab.

These are not arab features, he is probably a Circaucassian a person whos ancestors came from Chechnya/Dagestan and were soldiers in the middle east under the Turks, These people Like Armenians are found in arabia and are generaly welcomed and appreciated.




Edited by Al Bedawi