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Old 02-06-2015, 03:57 PM
 
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But they're OLD divisions for a reason.
Apparently anything goes. You can never get more than two people to agree on more than 1 or 2 topics anyway including Geneticist or Anthropologist. Look at Bill John Baker, he's 31/32 European and he's still enough Cherokee to be the Principle Chief of the tribe.
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Old 02-06-2015, 03:58 PM
 
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How is Islam a "White man's religion"? It started in Saudi Arabia, which is a brown, West Asian country!

For that matter, Christianity also began in the same part of the world, even if Europeans really adopted and took control of it.
None of the three monotheist religion are 'white man's religion' according the American race definition.
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Old 02-06-2015, 05:57 PM
 
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Perhaps if majority means 15-30%. But the real definition is above 50%. You provided no evidence that Africa is majority muslim.
No need to be condescending. Just add the numbers from the countries I mentioned, and add the numbers from majority christian nations, and it is easy to see that Africa is already majority muslim. But I know you wish real hard it wasn't.
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Old 02-06-2015, 08:06 PM
 
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Actually since forever.
No, NOT since forever.

Since foreigners showed up, bringing white man's religion, racist subjugation, and border drawing that made a basketcase of the continent.

Before that, they were going about their lives no different than people in the rest of the world.
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None of the three monotheist religion are 'white man's religion' according the American race definition.
They all are. Every one of them.
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Old 02-06-2015, 08:13 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia
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No, they're not. Brown people started all three faiths, and they weren't started in Europe, i.e., the White man's continent.
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Old 02-07-2015, 06:31 AM
 
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No, they're not. Brown people started all three faiths, and they weren't started in Europe, i.e., the White man's continent.
Well I know this much...

Christianity as practiced by African Americans is white man's religion.
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Old 02-07-2015, 07:12 AM
 
Location: West Coast of Europe
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No, they're not. Brown people started all three faiths, and they weren't started in Europe, i.e., the White man's continent.
That is the misunderstanding. White is not same as European. There lots of white people outside Europe. And even within Europe some natives, for instance here in Portugal, are about as dark as if not darker than most Arabs. If it weren't for their traditional clothing and ridiculous beards, Arabs such as Saudis might as well be southern Europeans.
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Old 02-07-2015, 10:17 AM
 
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@desertdetroiter, yes I agree with your most recent post on this matter.

Neuling, again, this is not true. Most Americans do not see people from West, Central, or South Asia (nor people from North and East Africa)--all of whom are Caucasoid--as "White", regardless of what the census says. In fact, our census is considering adding a MENA option to the race question, just as many other countries already have. As someone who's part Middle Eastern and has grown up knowing a few Middle Easterners, I can tell you that most Saudis and other people from that region don't look like Greeks, Italians, Spanish, etc. Skin tone, sure, sometimes it's the same. But there's more to "looking White" than just your skin. The features of many people from that part of the world are very different from southern Europeans. And most Middle Easterners I know either consider themselves to be Asian (just as Indians, Pakistanis, Tajiks, or Afghans would be considered Asian--Asian doesn't always mean you have to be from the Far East) or their own race. People in North Africa and West Asia are very mixed--they are descended from the natives of those regions, sub-Saharan Africans that they either traded with or had as slaves, Asians they interacted with (be it from trading with places like India or China, or being conquered by Mongols and Turkic tribes), and later, Europeans via colonialism.
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Old 02-07-2015, 10:27 AM
 
Location: Barrington
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Well I know this much...

Christianity as practiced by African Americans is white man's religion.
Christianity as practiced by native Hawaiians is white man's religion.

Christianity as practiced by native Americans is white man's religion.

Religion has been used as a cover for land grabs since forever.
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Old 02-07-2015, 10:30 AM
 
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Christianity as practiced by native Hawaiians is white man's religion.

Christianity as practiced by native Americans is white man's religion.

Religion has been used as a cover for land grabs since forever.
Yep. Religion is a huge part of irredentist policies.
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