The Arabs had trade relations from Mesopotamia to the Levant to East Africa and the Indus valley and lots of intermarriage long before Islam so most conversions we're not violent. They sold frankincense and myrrh to Herod and the pharaohs.
Nothing to do with who is indigenous. But it is proof that they were not of the region, they came into the area as traders, etc.
Jews went around trading all around Asia and Europe. Would that make them also indigenous of the places where they ended up staying, be it in Europe or anywhere else in Asia. Do they claim indigenous status to those places ?
The same with Chinese and Hindus, etc who moved around doing trade, and then settled somewhere else in Asia or Europe.
Lots of intermarriage, according to what sources? Most tribes everywhere remain secluded from others. Individual ones, maybe. But where is
Did the Chinese and Hindu traders intermarry with Europeans. Does that now make their descendants Indigenous Europeans with rights to Poland, or Belgium, England, etc?
Roudy was referring to post 7th century Muslim invasion, not people who migrated here and there before that.
There weren't enough Arabs who moved to Canaan or married with any of the Canaanite Nations in order to turn most modern Arabs into Indigenous.
Simply because most Arabs moved into the area at the end of the 19th century or early 20th century, and ended up in a Mandate called Palestine, those Arabs know that they are not indigenous of the land, but moved into it only recently.
But the Arab leaders of today borrowed and are now using the word Palestinian to keep the Indigenous people ( the only ones who are still recognizable and recognized, the Jewish People .).....and only because of a religion founded in the 7th century......that religion, and those leaders have decided that the Indigenous people cannot hold sovereignty over their ancient homeland.
That is the only reason why there is a false dispute as to who is Indigenous to the Land of Israel, to any part of the Jewish Homeland which now is 80% in the hands of people who only 100 years ago moved to the area and got the land because another foreign power gave it to them, against the Mandate they had for that Mandate to be for the Indigenous Jewish People.
Not one other Indigenous people of the area have shown themselves to claim any other part of the area. The Moabites, Ammonites, etc.
And the Arabs have clearly not called themselves descended from any of the other Canaanite Nations, but started by saying that they were descendants of the Philistines, who were Greek Foreign invaders, and not locals. With no proof, as usual, as there is none.
The Palestinians cannot prove indigenous status because they have none.
Al Husseini clan moved to the area in the 10th, 11th century. It does not make them Indigenous of the area, even though Al Husseini himself is the one who became the leader against any Jewish rebuilding of their ancient Nation on their ancient Homeland.
The same goes for all others who call themselves Palestinians, whether they came with the Muslims in the 7th century invasion, or any time afterwards.
Born in the USA is not the same as being Indigenous of the continent.
Enough said.