Arabic identity

[xcoder]

if we like it or not. the whole world sees us as arabs.
and it doesn't matter of we are arabis or not eventhough i believe we are.
but that won't help our nation.

[WiseCookie]

You can relate this to the jews. They're not a race, they're a religion. Yet, the entire world sees them as a race. If some one asks u, what are u ? Do you say ur Lebanese or do u say ur arab ?

[General]

Originally Posted by Patriotic

Mr. hammerguy, before saying is that is silly or not, look at the fact that all the Arabic countries are controlled by Islamic Governors, and the main point to reach the presidency there is to be Muslim.
Since that time you can find that they all are Islam exept Lebanon, and that's why the Lebanese (especially the christian side) refuse to say that they are Arabs.

except lebanon...

ba3den being arabian is not at all something bad, when u know deep inside that arabians are the greatest people ever...

wht's destroying arabian's community image is terrorism and that war on terror... c.a.d arabians became terrorists according to some ethnocentric countries... due to al ka3ida and similar stuff too bad for us, for our image and community and culture...!

[hammerguy]

Originally Posted by WiseCookie

You can relate this to the jews. They're not a race, they're a religion. Yet, the entire world sees them as a race. If some one asks u, what are u ? Do you say ur Lebanese or do u say ur arab ?

that's because they made themselves a race, walaw did u forget what they say
"sha3eb lallah l mokhtar". I think that the arab/islam stuff is different, if others see
muslims as arabs, as a race, that's because they r ignorant.
if u ask what's my country, i say lebanon,
if u ask what language do i speak, i say arabic.

[hammerguy]

Originally Posted by LAU FPM

ba3den being arabian is not at all something bad, when u know deep inside that arabians are the greatest people ever...
wht's destroying arabian's community image is terrorism and that war on terror... c.a.d arabians became terrorists according to some ethnocentric countries... due to al ka3ida and similar stuff too bad for us, for our image and community and culture...!

right, that's because we let others draw our image in the world, i think if we surrender to
this image, we destroy it more then they do.

[General]

Originally Posted by Patriotic

Mr. hammerguy, before saying is that is silly or not, look at the fact that all the Arabic countries are controlled by Islamic Governors, and the main point to reach the presidency there is to be Muslim.
Since that time you can find that they all are Islam exept Lebanon, and that's why the Lebanese (especially the christian side) refuse to say that they are Arabs.

except lebanon...

ba3den being arabian is not at all something bad, when u know deep inside that arabians are the greatest people ever...

wht's destroying arabian's community image is terrorism and that war on terror... c.a.d arabians became terrorists according to some ethnocentric countries... due to al ka3ida and similar stuff too bad for us, for our image and community and culture...!

[Patriotic]

Personally, and i might be wrong, but i do not find any reason that link us to the arabian world.

The location could not be a reason to be Arab, otherwise Israel will be the first arabic country.

[hammerguy]

Originally Posted by Patriotic

Personally, and i might be wrong, but i do not find any reason that link us to the arabian world.

The location could not be a reason to be Arab, otherwise Israel will be the first arabic country.

patriotic u have just proved that israel do not belong to our world
salam

[WiseCookie]

Originally Posted by hammerguy

patriotic u have just proved that israel do not belong to our world
salam

The current jews are not the real jews that lived in Israel. The real jews were people who would look like us Lebanese and palestinians. I'm not sure about this, but i believe that a european person revived judiasm.

But just to add somethng, I believe and this is an opnion, that when the Lebanese people speak they speak Lebanese since it's a mixture of syriac,arabic,and turkish. I completely can't understand what a morrocan says or an algerian says, yet we both speak the same language ?

[Patriotic]

Originally Posted by hammerguy

patriotic u have just proved that israel do not belong to our world
salam

Tell me how did you make your conclusion?