Arab racism and some of its forms

  There are undoubtedly significant problems within Arab societies, including racism among Arabs themselves and towards others in all entities of the Middle East region, Arab racism is based on illusory and hypothetical considerations such as the concept of being the best nation, in addition to other sacred concepts such as the right to paradise and God’s love for Arabs, despite the fact that He has starved them, deluded them, and even encouraged them to enslave, plunder, and slaughter those who do not believe in His presence according to their interpretation of Muhammad’s teachings,In short, He has placed them at the bottom of the nations in all aspects of life, Despite this, they feel that He has honored and favored them over others, They consider their misfortune to be nothing more than a divine test of the strength of their faith in Him. This test continues forever, without a defined timeframe like other tests in life, It is open-ended, like their eternal religion, Even the test that accompanies their impoverishment and humiliation is considered a divine miracle, like other miracles whose origins we do not understand, such as the miracle of the Arabic language, which Ataturk abolished and which subsequently disappeared automatically, In many regions between the ocean and the gulf, the language has proven to be flabby due to its abundance of obscure vocabulary and the multitude of names for a same thing,What is the miracle in giving the camel a thousand names? What is the benefit of this, except for the difficulty people have in understanding each other? Does a specialist in the Arabic language know all the thousand names for the camel? For these reasons, colloquial Arabic has largely replaced it,Do the Arabs have anything to be proud of other than this worn-out language, which is difficult to understand and is therefore considered incapable, not miraculous? If it were not incapable, thousands of scholars would not have been unable to provide a unified interpretation of any verse that came in the six hundred-page book, Even the six hundred-page book is not something to be proud of, and if it were not revered, no sane person would have read it! 

 We return to the racism born from the womb of lies and falsification, How can we understand the racism of Arabs towards each other, sometimes less or more than their racism towards strangers, such as the racism of the Quraysh regarding the conditions of the Caliph? Are there any non-Arabs among the Arabs? Knowing that their only source is the largely homogeneous Arabian Peninsula desert, and thus the people of the Peninsula desert should be considered largely similar, with no giants or dwarfs among them, as the environment has a great influence on the behavioral, moral, and even ethical characteristics of a person, They are all similar in ignorance and addiction to violence, and then in physical form!

The foundation of similarity cracked after the conquests and after the nihilistic mixing with the rest of the peoples, on whom the jizya(tribute), religion, and language were imposed, and who were bound by the shameful restrictions of the Pact of Umar, Despite the difficulty of the invaders interacting with the peoples of their colonies, there was contact that produced what are called Arabized people, who were distinguished by their corruption, fabrication, and charlatanry, which was necessary to obtain favors, The Arab or the Arabized person does not live by the sweat of his brow and by gains, but rather by favors, which he obtains by flattery and sycophancy, as is the case now, Whoever wants to live and have enough bread must rely on favors and give up dignity!

There were Arabs before Islam, and there remained Arabs after Islam. Information about the Arabs’ situation before and after Islam is scarce, and most of it is fabricated and influenced by tribal conflicts, Furthermore, the lack of written history, due to the absence of a written language, meant that the Arabs were illiterate, and later documentation relied on chains of transmission (from so-and-so, and so-and-so, and so on), Even pre-Islamic poetry was afflicted by this chain-transmission, The first Arabic-Aramaic text was written in 328 CE, Even sacred texts were subject to falsification, The scribe of the revelation, Ibn Sarh, wrote what he wanted with the approval of Ibn Abdullah, Oral transmission allowed for the spread of many different, often mythical, accounts of specific events, The discrepancies in these accounts stemmed from a lack of contemporaneity with the events, the interests of influential figures, and the limitations of memory, The compilation of pre-Islamic poetry began in the Umayyad era, and what we know of this poetry is undoubtedly fabricated, according to Taha Hussein, because it was presented in the language of the Quraysh tribe and not in the local languages ​​of the various tribes scattered across vast areas of the desert, Even the hadiths narrated by Ibn Abdullah was a forgery because it was written at least one hundred years after his death! 

What befell pre-Islamic poetry befell Ibn Abdullah’s book with countless problems, such as the different readings, then the attempt to repair the defect and contradiction with the abrogating and abrogated, then the difference regarding the creed between Mecca and Medina, and the story of the mice that ate the verses, knowing that in the era of the mice eating the verses according to Aisha’s narration there were no written verses, and the first verses were not dotted, so their meaning changed after the dotting and diacritics in the Umayyad era under the supervision of Al-Hajjaj Ibn Yusuf Al-Thaqafi.

The source of the word “Arab” was Mesopotamia, specifically the cuneiform tablet attributed to the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III eight centuries BC, The term then appeared in Persian and Greek texts before Christ, The intended meaning of the term was the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula, not the inhabitants of the Levant, as the inhabitants of the Levant are not Arabs, As for the division of the Arabs into extinct ones, meaning those who no longer exist, then the original Arabs with their Arabic language which was the language of their mothers, then the Arabized Arabs, meaning those who acquired Arabic later, this division was done by the Arabists, There are other divisions that need not be mentioned because they are not important, According to the Arabist division, Ibn Abdullah should be considered “Arabized” and not from the original Arabs, Everything mentioned in this regard was pure myth.

The Arabs expressed their arrogance and racism in several ways, including their belief that they were superior to other peoples because of their Arabic language, which they considered different from the languages ​​of non-Arabs, According to the Arabs, the language of non-Arabs is characterized by ambiguity and lack of detail, to the point that non-Arab languages ​​were considered to be unpronounceable, obscure, and not eloquent by nature.

 The term “Ajami” primarily referred to Persians and Greeks, despite the fact that the Persians and Greeks were far more advanced than the Arabs in terms of civilization,While Greek philosophy was flourishing and thousands of books were being written about it, the Bedouin of the Arabian Peninsula were illiterate, unable to write a single word or even know the script invented by the Syrians, Despite this, the Arabs considered them “Ajami,” backward, and their language unintelligible, Here, we find no justification for Arab Bedouin racism, arrogance, or conceit other than madness, intellectual deficiency, or racism in its most absurd form, The Arabs’ lack of proficiency in the languages ​​of those they called “Ajami” is not evidence of the Ajami’s backwardness, but rather evidence of the Arabs’ own shortcomings and weak culture, Therefore, they relied on the Iraqi Nestorian Christian translator Ishaq ibn Hunayn and Hunayn ibn Ishaq for translation, whom Caliph al-Ma’mun appointed as head of the House of Wisdom! (To be continued)