The Qur'an says that Islam is the religion of the Arabs only

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Feb 11, 2015 at 07:58

This is a quote from "Quranic Studies" written by the great historian of early Islam John Wansbrough: "That Quranic imagery underlining the ethnocentric position of prophets is both uniform and consistent" In other words an Arab prophet for the Arabs only

Oh the Quranic evidence? Read Q14:4, Q10:47, Q13:8, 35:24, 28:75

And google the Islamic الولي والموالي or al-Wali wa al-mawali or the master (The Arab) and his clients (non Arabs) and here is the meaning of the word الموالي or the clients (potential converts to Islam)

http://www.almaany.com/ar/dict/ar-en/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A/

In early islam the Arabs realized that the Qur'an really says that Islam is the religion of the Arabs only and indeed conversion to Islam was not encouraged (the Arabs also would lose the mafia tax called al-Jizya) but again like anything in Islam there is a way out and the way out was الولي والموالي where non Arabs that wanted to convert to the religion of the Arabs only they were told that they have to become Arabs first and this can happen by changing ones name to an Arab name (and this is why converts to Islam change their names) and then they must be sponsored by an Arab master or الولي or al-wali and the potential converts are called الموالي or al-Mawali in other words the non Arab convert joins the Arabic tribe of his Arab master et voila he becomes an Arab and then Muslim

This very sinister idea of الولي والموالي was abandoned when Muslims invaded places like India and Spain where there were too many Mawali (non Arab potential converts to Islam) and too few Wali (Arabs)

So much for the bogus claim that Islam is not really the cultural imperialism of the Arabs

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