320 Years of History
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I've been COMPLETELY clear about the difference between Arab culture/politics and practicing the Muslim religion.
That, unlike the list, is indeed something I missed. Please do show me where you've been clear about "the difference between Arab culture/politics and practicing the Muslim religion."
I see NO DIFFERENCE between the socio-political-religious fabric of a CLASSICAL Arab country and Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran. Pedigrees are not exciting me here. They ALL contain the same distasteful elements of Arab culture that I clearly laid out.
That you see no difference is precisely the problem with your line of reasoning.
The two emboldened statements above together form a clear indication that Arabism and Muslimism aren't the same things, yet you conflate them. Indeed, you even included Indonesia in your castigation of Arab cultures when that is a society that isn't remotely Arabic.
Have you ever been to Indonesia, India, or Nigeria? You should go. If you do visit any one of the three, you'll have to look very hard to find anything Arab about it, so hard, in fact, that you may not even find it. Indonesian culture is decidedly Eastern Asian and not Arab, and Indonesia has the greatest number of Muslims of all countries on the planet. There's no way at all to view Indian culture as being Arab; I don't know of anyone who thinks of India as an Arab place, socially, culturally, politically, or in any other way.
Look at the chart below. About 46% of the world's Muslims live in places that are decidedly non-Arab.
I've worked in India and Indonesia, but I've never been to Pakistan. I'm aware that there's a meaningful segment of Pakistani society that wish they were Arab and would like nothing more than for others to perceve them as such. Nonetheless, you'll need to provide some sort of credible evidence that Pakistan is indeed Arabic and that its culture is effectively Arab in nature rather than, well, Persian/Pakistani in nature. I can find plenty that says it is not at all Arab or Arabic.
- My name is Pakistan and I’m not an Arab - Newspaper - DAWN.COM
- We're Pakistanis first, Muslims second - and Arabs, never
- Pakistan and the Arab-Muslim Culture of Denial (This discussion also addresses the point of the second sentence in the paragraph just above.)
- How India's strategic partnership with UAE will hit Pakistan where it hurts - Firstpost
"Pakistan’s Parliament chose not to intervene militarily in the Yemen crisis and rejected Riyadh’s invitation to join the Saudi Arabia-led 10-nation military alliance. The decision, although well received in the Pakistani media, evoked a caustic response from the UAE’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash, who accused Islamabad of taking an 'ambiguous stand'."
“ 'The vague and contradictory stand of Pakistan… (is) an absolute proof that Arab security — from Libya to Yemen — is the responsibility of none but Arab countries', stated Dr Gargash, adding that Pakistan would have to pay a “heavy price” for taking this position."
As far as the geography lesson -- I'll give you the Maldives
??? What does that mean?