I've felt compelled to make this thread because of the ethnic/national pride that plagues our Ummah. Proponents of this disease often claim that beyond religion, most Muslims don't have any similarities. However, if they actually bothered to get out of their little echo chambers, they'd realise how incorrect they are.
First of all, the overwhelming majority of the Muslim world writes using either the Arabic alphabet or an alphabet that is derived from it:
A large portion of the Muslim world is also situated in the same region, i.e the Greater Middle East:
Take a look at the boundaries of these famous Muslim empires, and just how much of the modern Muslim world is contained within each of them:
The Rashidun Caliphate
The Ummayad Caliphate
The (early) Abbasid Caliphate
The Seljuq Empire
Tamerlane's empire
The Ottoman Caliphate
Haplogroup J is very common across the Muslim world:
The majority of the Muslim world is also Caucasoid by skull type (blue/grey = Caucasoid skull type):
Many different Muslim populations have (vaguely) similar phenotypes, and can easily be mistaken for each other (e.g I've been mistaken for various different ethnicities/nationalities):
Many different types of food are also common across the Muslim world, such as kebabs, naan, yoghurt drinks, etc:
Muslims around the world also have a lot in common in terms of other cultural aspects too, e.g a lot of us come from nomadic backgrounds, we are very hospitable, we hold our honour dearly, many of us maintain facial hair, many of our languages contain plenty of Arabic loanwords, many of us have traces of Arab ancestry, we pretty much all greet each other with 'Asalamu Alaikum' (or just 'salam'), we wear similar clothes, etc.
List of nomadic groups (many of them come from the Muslim world, in fact, the countries with the largest nomadic populations are all Muslim majority)
So, yes, it's pretty clear that beyond our religious beliefs, many Muslims still have a lot in common. And even if some of us don't, that doesn't matter. We're still all Bani Adam (peace be upon him), and our core ideas are the same.
Re: Similarities between Muslims (beyond religion)
Islam is not a self-centered religion that focuses on only self enlightenment. This is a social religion one of whose achievements is to build a world wide community that is called ummah. Ummah was once limited to the regions those empires reached but today it is borderless with the help of modern communication and transportation technology. There are muslims from Australlia to Alaska. We are different as much we are same. However as much we put our differences forward, we fail to achieve this union. You are not even same as your actual brother but you feel in need of keeping your ties with him. Love your brother as much you love yourself.
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