so that means , Arabs in Asia are Asians and the Arabs in Africa are Africans?
And as for the onewho fears standing in front of His Lord and restrainsthe soul from impure evil desires and lusts, verily, Paradise will be his abode [79:40-41]
I suspect many of us are misunderstanding what is meant by nationality and are thinking in terms of national origin rather then citizenship. Looking at the members I know best it seems that at least 3/4 of the members live in the UK and most of them are of Asian Origin.
If most people are thinking in terms of National origin, the Asian choice should be very large and the American choice almost empty. as many Americans are either immigrants or children of immigrants and think in terms of their National Origin rather then in terms of American citizenship.
Just my opinion.
I know when I am asked my Nationality I answer Lithuanian and my race as being mixed, predominantly Oriental. (I'm roughly 50% Lithuanian Tatar (Lietuva Lipkas) of the Golden Horde(Mongolians)
When asked my citizenship I answer American, but that can be misleading as there are a number of countries in the Americas and technically all are Americans. (Even Chavez in Argentina. Argentina is in the Americas after all)
the middle east region is in both Asia and Africa....so there are Asians and African Arab
yeah I know , my memory was malfunctioning , my mistake.
I was curious whether Arabs also see themselves as Asians or Africans.
And as for the onewho fears standing in front of His Lord and restrainsthe soul from impure evil desires and lusts, verily, Paradise will be his abode [79:40-41]
Question and pool is a bit wrong as it is mentioned Asian, Europen etc are not nationalities but origins..I'm of the Turkish citizenship but I'm half turk half Northern Caucasian origin-Abkhazia. Not sure how Caucas nations are considered regarding origin..
yeah I know , my memory was malfunctioning , my mistake.
I was curious whether Arabs also see themselves as Asians or Africans.
immm..not really!
if you come to describe Arabs you will find
Those are Asian: Khaleeji Arab = Arabia Sub-Continent: Saudi, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Yemen, Oman, Bahrain, Iraq
Sham Arab= Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan
for the African:
we have
Arabian west (al maghrib al arabi) = Libya, Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Tunis
Egypt & Sudan...I am not sure if we can but those two under the same category
Djibouti & Somalia
Last edited by Danah; 04-16-2009 at 12:11 PM.
Reason: forgot to mention all countries...sorry
i was born in europe (in albania to a greek/albanian orthodox christian family) but now i live in the usa near D.C. so i put american though european might be actual.
WOW ,ma shaa Allah,the forum is full of deffrent nationalities ,that`s great .
format_quote Originally Posted by burdenofbeing
this is a faulty poll.
none of them except american (if it means USA) is a nationality.
as an egyptian would you consider yourself african or arabic?
I am sorry ,u r right, but alhamdolilah I get the answer I was looking for.
I liked to know who am I talking to when I post in this forum.
I think in this case I am talking to the world ,LOL.
Asia makes sense. Don't Asains make up a majority of the Muslims on this planet?
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godzilla
Yes, that is true. but the single country with the greatest number of Muslims is Indonesia.
Do you mean % wise? like it is 90% islamic or do you mean that the most ammount of Muslims live there x number of muslims is the highest their?
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godzilla
Yeah for Triva!!!!!!!!! but Mali is 100% for real? Come on. Maybe be 99.9% 100% how can that be?
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