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Reader comment on item: Berbers as Anti-Islamists and Anti-Arab Nationalists
in response to reader comment: Changing the name of Barbers to Amazighs does not change their history.

Submitted by Aksel (Norway), Mar 7, 2009 at 17:32

to M.D'Souza

Please try to understand that the town was colonised by turkish (ottoman) at that time. The turkish with their arab camarad were the pirates.
The country was inhabited by peaceful Amazigh.

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The Amazigh View: Let my people in [933 words]Atlas KahenaMar 27, 2009 03:26
A moroccan perspective [418 words]Farid H.Mar 25, 2009 05:01
I doubt it. [174 words]Peter HerzMar 19, 2009 15:21
Thanks to Daniel Pipes [12 words]AkselMar 7, 2009 17:42
Old civilizations are not conjured away [344 words]dhimmi no moreMar 7, 2009 08:46
Please see this debate between an Amazigh spokesman and an Arab sent to me by an Amazigh friend [7 words]Gerald A. HonigmanMar 5, 2009 22:21
↔ Thanks for directing us to that debate. [84 words]M.D'SouzaMar 9, 2009 08:57
Ancient Berber alphabet [51 words]paul reissMar 5, 2009 19:01
↔ The "original" Phonician alphabet [191 words]Stan GoodmanJul 15, 2009 06:15
Changing the name of Barbers to Amazighs does not change their history. [163 words]M.D'SouzaMar 5, 2009 13:37
↔ ⇒ Barbary coast and turkish pirates [32 words]AkselMar 7, 2009 17:32
↔ The logic of D'Souza [137 words]HamMar 7, 2009 21:00
For those wondering about where the Berbers live [9 words]Abu NudnikMar 5, 2009 11:46
The So-Called Arabs Who Built The Pyramids ?? [537 words]RebeccaMar 4, 2009 11:21
↔ Arab Semitic Whites of North Africa [13 words]CNJun 9, 2009 11:18
↔ Berbers [30 words]CNJun 13, 2009 04:30
Amazighs [200 words]Mohamed EljahmiMar 3, 2009 16:47
Berbers in History [52 words]Anglo-AmericanMar 2, 2009 23:01
↔ About moroccan Amzigh [55 words]Esther spinozaJul 10, 2009 06:21
The Amazigh which means "free humans" [177 words]YnnatchkahMar 2, 2009 03:11
Berber [12 words]Jon PurizhanskyMar 1, 2009 16:01
The only solution [110 words]Jurist Benedictos Mohamad AliMar 1, 2009 14:02
Factoring Out, Not In. [85 words]DavodMar 1, 2009 06:47
I also read that Berber-related MEMRI thing yesterday, and was intrigued by this:
[w/response] [72 words]		Charles MartelFeb 27, 2009 10:34
↔ Islam & Arab Colonialization go hand in hand [80 words]ASMar 4, 2009 01:03

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