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- From: abde@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Tamer A. Abdelgawad)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.arabic
- Subject: Re: Arab U N I T Y
- Summary: We are sooo different!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.023350.10156@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 02:33:50 GMT
- Article-I.D.: galileo.1992Nov19.023350.10156
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- Sender: Tamer Abdelgawad
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- In article <1edu1iINN1kc@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cl056@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Hamaza H. Salah) writes:
- >
- >One note about your name Abdelgawad should be written as AbdelJawad,
- >if you are a true muslim!
- >
-
- I was going to respond by saying: "I pronounce my name AbdelGawad, my parents
- pronounce my name AbdelGawad, all my friends in Egypt call me AbdelGawad, and
- every Arab, Muslim, Christian, Jew and Bhuddist I know call me AbdelGawad! So
- why should I listen to a presumptuous idiot like you telling me I am not a
- true Muslim?" but then I thought, it's not worth it!
-
- >>You rule out race, language, and political stance. I agree. By similar
- >>arguments, I rule out religion (otherwise, we would have to include muslim
- >>republics in the former USSR, muslims in Afghanistan, Bagladesh, India,
- >>Iran, ...). Do you agree?
- >
- > *** W h y N O T ? ***
- >
- >If you look back in history, all the western Arab countries were not
- >Arabic speaking countries, i.e. Algeria, Marraco, Tunisia, Moritania,
- >even Swdan and Egypt. Egypt was ruled by Qubts who were not speaking
- >Arabic. And after Islam came to these countries, people started to
- >speak Arabic language as it is the language of Islam and Quran. Arabic
- >language was the original language of the Arabian peninsula. An Arab was
- >whoever talked Arabic and lived in arabia desert.
- >
- >When Islam spread, people changed their mother toungue language to
- >Arabic and later on were called Arabs not because they were from the
- >Arabian penisula but rather because they speak ARABIC. A christian
- >or jewish arab are people who lived or live in arab countries.
- >
- >Therefore if I find a muslim from USSR who speaks Arabic better than
- >somebody who is from any where in the middle east, I, as an arab,
- >would say I have much more to share with the one from the USSR.
- >Therefore there is nothing worng to get all muslims any where in the
- >world to be united under one government.
- >
- >The point is it doesn't matter what the people race is, what matter is
- >what their common grounds are.
- >--
- > ___________________ cl056@cleveland.Freenet.Edu _____________
- > (______ _ | _ |_
- >_____ H A M Z A ________) |-| |_ |-| | |
-
- Are you aware how different Muslims in Russia are from Muslims in Egypt, and
- how different those are from Muslims in Morrocco, or the USA? Are you aware
- how different Sunni and Shi'aa are? Can you imagine the Pan-Muslim congress:
- "The distinguished gentleman Mr. Gamal Gouda can now speak"
- "Jamal Jouda you westernized infidel! Why I oughta'..."
- We are simply too different.
-
- Tamer Abdelgawad
-
- P.S. I thought Egyptians spoke Arabic since the days of the pharoahs, at
- least that's what they show on T.V.! But wait, in the Ten Commandments
- they were speaking English, and so were the Jews.... Now I'm confused ;)
-