Agree and disagree

Submitted by stuart teich (United States), Jul 5, 2011 at 08:46

Certainly, Islam is a very strong cultural and political force, both within and beyond the (ethnically) Arab world. Certainly, Islam spread far beyond the Arabs to the Turks, Persians, Kurds, the Pacific Islanders, etc. There certainly is also a world within which Islam is PART of being an Arab. Why else would there be pan-arab as well as pan-islamic organizations?

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