"I could've posted something anti-Muslim... "
So it's racist card, or racist slur, time.
So can I ask a simple question straight-up about those anti-Muslim racist posts you so dislike:
Which race is it you believe is being targeted by those supposedly racist anti-Muslim posters?
Is it Caucasian as in those Muslims from Chechnya, Turkey or other Eastern European countries?
Perhaps it's South East Asians like the huge Muslim pop. in Indonesia, Malaysia and also the Philippines.
So, maybe you mean the people of the second largest Muslim-populated country, the people of India?
So then, is it the Sub-Saharan African races? [where this Islamist cult is now expanding]
What about all the Arabs?
The Central Asian Islamic death cult tribes maybe?
Oh I know, it's the North African peoples [plural] that you believe are being racially abused here by so many.
And yet if the truth be known, most here wouldn't even know what the term Maghreb refers to or the out-dated term "Barbary Coast" or the "Maghreb Union" where Mauritania, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya are geographically; so it's unlikely that race, that people, are being targeted either.
So, surely
it is the medieval barbaric Islamic culture that posters are exposing here as bordering on subhuman and not a particular race of people.
It simply cannot be a particular race of people allegedly being targeted here because a large majority of
your supposed "racist" posters here would, themselves, belong to one of those above named races.
Surely there are not many anti-Islam HC political posters here of Central & South American ancestry; or first-nation North Americans; or Inuits; or Han Chinese; or Japanese peoples, and besides even if there were, they couldn't be racists because only Whites can be racists, hey!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maghreb#Etymology
The
Maghreb or the
Berber world or
Barbary or
Berbery, Tamazɣa or
Tamazgha, is a major region of northern Africa that consists primarily of the countries
Morocco,
Algeria,
Tunisia,
Libya and
Mauritania. It additionally includes the disputed territories of
Western Sahara (mostly controlled by Morocco) and the cities of
Melilla and
Ceuta (both controlled by
Spain and claimed by Morocco). As of 2017, the region has a population of over 100 million people.
In historical English and European literature, the region was known as the
Barbary Coast or the
Barbary States, derived from "
Berbers". Sometimes it was referred to as the
Land of the Atlas, derived from the
Atlas Mountains.
In some current Arabic media and literature it's referred to as the "Greater Maghreb". In current
Berber language media and literature, the region is known as "Tamazgha" or "Tamazɣa" which correspond to the English words "Barbary" and "Berbery".
The region is usually defined as much or most of northern Africa including a large chunk of Africa's
Sahara Desert, excluding
Egypt. The traditional definition of the region that restricted it to the
Atlas Mountains and the coastal plains of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, was expanded by the inclusion of
Mauritania and of the disputed territory of Western Sahara.
During the
Al-Andalus era in
Spain (711–1492), the Maghreb's inhabitants, the Muslim Berbers or
Maghrebis, were known as "
Moors".
[11] Morocco also transliterates into Arabic as "al-Maghreb" (The Maghreb).
Before the establishment of modern nation states in the region during the 20th century,
Maghreb most commonly referred to a smaller area between the Atlas Mountains in the south and the
Mediterranean Sea. It often also included eastern Libya, but not modern Mauritania. As recently as the late 19th century it was used to refer to the
Western Mediterranean region of coastal North Africa in general, and to Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia in particular.
[12]
The region was somewhat unified as an independent political entity during the rule of the
Berber kingdom of
Numidia, which was followed by the
Roman Empire's rule or influence. That was followed by the brief invasion of the Germanic
Vandals, the equally brief re-establishment of a weak Roman rule by the
Byzantine Empire, the rule of the Islamic
Caliphates under the
Umayyads, the
Abbasids, and the
Fatimids. The most enduring rule was that of the local Berber empires of the
Almoravids,
Almohads,
Hammadids,
Zirids,
Marinids,
Saadi and
Wattasids (to name some of those among the most prominent) from the 8th to 13th centuries. The
Ottoman Turks ruled the region as well.
Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya established the Maghreb Union in 1989 to promote cooperation and economic integration in a
common market. It was envisioned initially by
Muammar Gaddafi as a
superstate .
The union included
Western Sahara implicitly under Morocco's membership,
[13] putting Morocco's long cold war with Algeria to a rest.
However, this progress was short-lived, and the union is now frozen.
Tensions between Algeria and Morocco over
Western Sahara re-emerged strongly, reinforced by the unsolved borderline issue between the two countries. These two main conflicts have hindered progress on the union's joint goals and practically made it inactive as a whole.
However, the instability in the region and growing cross-border security threats revived the calls for regional cooperation – foreign ministers of the Arab Maghreb Union declared a need for coordinated security policy in May 2015 during the 33rd session of the follow-up committee meeting, which brings back the hope of some form of cooperation.
