[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Plethon

This may be beginning of the new subsection on Stromfront, maybe Stormfront Morocco.

Stormfront Maghreb? Sure. Just don't tell them where the Maghreb is located. Some here might remember one of Skadi American nordicists asking if it was in Central Europe.

But seriously: I haven't seen anything so stupid for ages. First of all, Moors (los Moros) is not any conglomerate of three or God know how many Arab tribes, but was simply a generic name for Muslims is Spain for centuries, as far as I know, later extended to the inhabitants of Morocco (isn't it so, Mynydd?). Those Moors were a mixed lot: converted Hispani, pure Arabs, Berbers...

Well, the origin is in the Latin voice maurus, which referred to North Africans in the region of modern S. Morocco and Mauritania.

But you are right. In Middle Age Spain a moro could be anyone who dressed in the Arabic way or adept to Islam, regardless of race. I would speculate that a Spaniard from any of the Christian kingdoms would even call moros to Christian Spaniards in the Muslim dominated areas (so-called Mossarabs), since they had adopted many of the customs of the Muslims.

In Catalonia, however, it was more common to call them sarraïns (Sarracens). In Portugal, mauros.

How can, for God's sake, Alhambra be related to the mitochondrial analysis of this or that.

Well, the truth is that you don't find "alhambras" in the Arab world or in Northern Africa. You do find high architectonic art in regions like modern Iran, which is not genetically related to Arabs.. less so Northern Africa.

And some old genetic study pointed to "Spanish admixture" in a population of Morocco, which coincides with the area where the Nasris (the dinasty of the Moorish Kingdom of Granada) are known to have gone in exile after the Conquest of Granada.

I would like to see the reaction of real Moors, when they would be told that they are "white" and that "whites" from Texas are their brothers.

Ah, brodas they are, aren't they?