eric/anna/dianne/cardikel, page-75

olive & gyro --parsee-history Olive, you posted

"if we (including the average arab) were better educated we would know that jewish and arab and persian people were from the same source and the term 'anti-semitic' would be of a different meaning".


Unfortunately the "we" who should be better educated, are not. Therefore the term ant-semitic means what it does.


Gyro you posted,

"As I understand it Snooker, you are saying the being Jewish or Semite is a family tree first and a religion second.

Is that a fair simplistic explanation?

Yes, to the first part that "being Semitic is a family tree first."

No to the second part. Before Mohammad, the non Jewish inhabitants of Arabia were not Muslim. They were "religionless" (basically pagans) at the time, yet were deemed semitic.............