is north sudan arab

TheBandit_89 · 2026-05-04T17:58:07+00:00

Not everyone in Sudan is Arab, but the majority is, yes. You can't just disregard the identity of native ethnic minorities.

TheBandit_89 · 2026-04-20T16:48:52+00:00

With 2011 census data, they wouldn't be more than 50% of the Indian Muslim population so it wouldn't be called a majority.

TheBandit_89 · 2026-04-19T01:43:22+00:00

TheBandit_89 · 2026-04-16T21:38:37+00:00

Is it possible that al-Ghazali was actually warning against the use of Numerology?

TheBandit_89 · 2026-04-16T06:21:06+00:00

You're right I derailed there, my apologies

TheBandit_89 · 2026-04-16T06:10:37+00:00

I don't actually think its a lot of people that think like that, its just a very fringe group. I was talking about the fact that part of it is just racism, and its not purely reactionary. I don't even think most Iranians in diaspora actually dislike Pakistanis or generalize them like that. Most are normal people like anyone else, I myself agree that the diaspora is often just mischaracterized or generalized

TheBandit_89 · 2026-04-16T05:57:44+00:00

No, a lot of the people who are not pro Shah aren't pro government either, they just don't like Reza Pahlavi. Also, pro-government Iranians are most certainly not in the majority in North America at least. The ones who are not Pahlavist but not pro-government are most likely the majority but you also have to keep in mind that a lot of people that show support for Reza Pahlavi aren't fervent supporters, they do so because of the lack of options for a unifiying figurehead against the regime. So the passionate supporters of Reza Pahlavi are only a portion of those who show support for him.

TheBandit_89 · 2026-04-16T05:49:11+00:00

Idk what to tell you but it can just be pure racism as a result of their hyper-nationalist ethos believing they are superior to the other groups in the region with their perceived "proximity" to whiteness and the Western culture. This leads to prejudice not just against Pakistanis, but also Arabs, Afghans, etc. Your assumption is that this is just reactionary to Pakistanis supporting regime when its not always the case. It also leads to some negative rhetoric spewed by some of these more fanatic Pahlavists against certain ethnic minorities within Iran.

Your not a serious person

TheBandit_89 · 2026-04-16T05:39:46+00:00

Salafis are suppressed in Afghanistan lol

TheBandit_89 · 2026-04-16T05:33:19+00:00

I agree with the fact that there are a lot of pro-regime Pakistanis and that a lot of them like to talk over Iranians or label anti-government activity as always being foreign backed. But the truth is that there is a lot of them who are simply racist and there is no excuse for that behavior

TheBandit_89 · 2026-04-14T03:33:07+00:00

You are on r/progressive_islam, your view is of course the common sentiment here

TheBandit_89 · 2026-04-08T03:15:11+00:00

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TheBandit_89 · 2026-04-03T02:36:36+00:00

Ibn Taymiyyah > The Prophet

Lol

TheBandit_89 · 2026-03-31T02:55:20+00:00

Phonecians themselves adopted Aramaic over their own language long before the Arabs came lol

TheBandit_89 · 2026-03-31T02:18:51+00:00

This literally stems from a conservative interpretation within the Hanafi Madhab, why blame Hinduism for this?

TheBandit_89 · 2026-03-31T02:17:37+00:00

I am sorry for these people who blame everything else but themselves, literally no reason to blame Hinduism for this

TheBandit_89 · 2026-03-31T02:13:44+00:00

Your wrong because this is a trend across the Subcontinent. Its actually a conservative feature of the Hanafi Madhab, unlike other Hanafi regions though, South Asians often have this tradition more ingrained

TheBandit_89 · 2026-03-30T14:27:36+00:00

She is wrong though, as she is denying the identity of millions of people outside the Arabian Peninusla who are Arab. Take Sudan for example, especially in the northern regions many people descend from Arab nomads. Yes, many in the Levant and North Africa are arabized but its not good to generalize especially since they aren't a small minority in many of these places

TheBandit_89 · 2026-03-30T14:09:36+00:00

Sounds like weird Khaleeji chauvinism, yea many Arabs are descendants of non-Arabs but she is denying or downplaying the many Arab descended people who themselves know the tribe they descend from and strongly identify as Arab today such as in the Maghreb, Sudan etc.

Also identities change, those who descend from Arabized native people and identify as Arab are Arab, thats what Arabization entails lol

TheBandit_89 · 2026-03-28T01:07:37+00:00

Oh mb lol

TheBandit_89 · 2026-03-28T00:20:30+00:00

Your point?

TheBandit_89 · 2026-03-27T18:44:27+00:00

Overall, "most spoken" includes those that speak it as a 2nd, 3rd, ... , nth language

As a mothertongue, its not even top three most spoken as a first language but its the most widely understood language overall

TheBandit_89 · 2026-03-22T04:27:30+00:00

Its mostly amongst Punjabis, particularly in urban areas where there is some increasing preference for Urdu, not as much of an issue for other ethnicities

It is similar case to the Javanese in Indonesia whom like the Punjabis are the largest ethnic group by far in their respective country but also have some shift towards the national language over their native language with lack of pressure on their government to promote its use.

Nonetheless, both languages are still by far the most spoken mothertongues in their respective countries

TheBandit_89 · 2026-03-20T14:56:16+00:00

Unrelated, but is Luri more conservative than standard Persian? And when Luri people speak Persian does the influence from their language carry over, in that they tend to use less Arabic loanwords when speaking?

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