North African History (Excluding Egypt) In many cases, the demographic history of North Africa closely parallels that of the United States: In that Europeans, and in this case Turks also: first colonize, and then the descendants of the colonizers fight a war of liberation from their original homelands, for sole claim to the conquered territories. And as in the Americas, the native populations were massacred, marginalized, impoverished, and relegated to the hinterlands. The difference being that Americans dont claim to be the native and original people. Thus one of the oddities of modern times is found in North Africa: where the Mulattoes, Quadroons, and Octoroons of the White invaders, and even the White invaders themselves: proclaim themselves BERBERS and the INDEGENOUS inhabitants of North AFRICA!!! To make the ridiculous even more ridiculous; many of these people also practice racial prejudice against Africans IN Africa! In North Africa, many of these people declare themselves Berber under the banner of Amazigh possibly meaning free people or free and noble men (the word has probably an ancient parallel in the Roman name for some of the Berbers, Mazices). From: Mr. Mansour Mohamed Ali Ag Hudyata his capacity as Chairman of the Assembly of Mali called Youth Society North of the Republic of Mali, rejects the allegations of the World Amazigh Congress, that the Tuareg people are Amazigh. The Assembly of the Republic of Mali Youth North strongly rejects such nonsense and false stories claimed by Congress Amazigh World through the media that the Tuareg of Mali and Niger, are Amazigh, and stresses that this claim is false is not based on a scientific basis. And that Mr. Belkacem Lyons specializes in chemistry who viewed this trend shameless does not have any historical background to prove this myth, but proven by all history books, trusted that the Tuareg are of Arab descent, and crafts Targi has to do with Arabic calligraphy, this is the asset Targip known since a long time immemorial, and we believe such stories would fall within the Tuareg of the elements of client-related third-party suspicious. And thus confirm and strongly that we will not allow the Congress of the World Amazigh has nothing to do with us as an intervention in our affairs and talk about our origins, this we, children of the Tuareg in Kidal, Gao and Timbuktu, we are proud Bootanna (Mali and Niger) to which we belong, and our religion, Islam, and declare that our is to achieve security and stability, peace and development in the Sahara for the happiness of our peoples and coexistence with the sons of the tribes of the Sahara, and that this is the position of all the Tuareg, who are struggling to achieve, and to work strenuously for it in every time and place. Mansour Mohamed Ali Ag Hudyata President of the General Assembly (There is no telling what will happen when the Touareg find out that the very SAME type of invader descends people, are in the north and Arabia, also proclaiming themselves to be ARABS). Before going on, let us first investigate another term for Berbers - MOORS! Moor is problematic because of its shifting significance. Isidore of Seville, who died well before Islam came to Iberia, follows Roman usage in referring to northwest Africa as Mauritania (from which maurus/moro is derived) on account, he says, of its inhabitants blackness. Similarly, the Visigothic chronicler John of Biclaro refers to the inhabitants of pre-Islamic North Africa as Moors (Wolf 1990: 64). The so-called Mozarabic Chronicle of 754, written by a Christian living in al-Andalus under Muslim rule, and the earliest surviving account of the events of 711, speaks of the invading force of Muslims without racial animus as Arabs and Moors (Wolf 1990: 131). These texts suggest that early on Moor signified Berber. African origin is clearly marked in this usage. Later documents authored in the Christian kingdoms of Iberia attest to the complete transformation of Moor from a term signifying Berber into a general term for Muslims living in Iberian territory, lands conquered recently by Chrisitans, and secondarily, for Muslims residing in what was, or was since left of al-Andalus. For example, the Chronicle of Najera (twelfth-century Leon) refers to Abd al-Rahman I, the Umayyad amir of mid-eighth century al-Andalus, as King of the Mauri, and to Abd al-Rahman III, the tenth-century Umayyad Caliph, as the (consummate) Maurus. An elegiac passage from the thirteenth century Primera cronica general (Chapter 559 General Chronicle of Spain) recounts the events of 711 for what is construed as the (temporary) downfall of Spain in that year. The text testifies that semantic transformation of Moor was not nearly as benign as some readers have assumed: their faces were black as pitch, the handsomest among them was black as a cooking pot, and their eyes blazed like fire; their horses swift as leopards, their horsemen more cruel and hurtful than the wolf that comes at night to the flock of sheep. The vile African people... (Smith 1988: 19) Here the historiography sponsored by Alphonso X of Castile shares a vocabulary developed across the Pyrenees in the early twelfth-century Chanson de Roland, wherein the Saracen Abisme is stigmatized as brutish on account of his race (In all that host was none more vile than he, With evil vice and crimes hes dyed full deep and black is he as melted pitch to see. Better he loves murder and treachery Than all the gold that is in Galicie... [Song of Roland, 113; Sayers 1975: 108]. All of the above gives us good examples of how the word Moor was used, but not what the word Moor originally meant. Logically, the word Moor could not possibly have meant Black because that would make no sense. We know that the original Iberians (Spain/Portugal) were Black people. We know without a doubt that North Africans (including Egyptians) were Black people. We know that at the earlier times mentioned, the people of the Levant (Phoenicians and others) were purely Black people. Question: If Moor, Maure, and the other words mean Black, then how would that differentiate anyone from anyone? Obviously Moor meaning Black doesnt work. Also it should be obvious that the Berbers didnt call themselves Moors, that is what others called them. From - Etymological Dictionary of Modern English: MOOR - waste ground, Old English mor morass, swamp, from Proto-Germanic *mora- (cf. Old Saxon, Middle Dutch, Dutch meer swamp, Old High German muor swamp, also sea, German Moor moor, Old Norse mörr moorland, marr sea), perhaps related to mere (n.), or from root *mer- to die, hence dead land. In the languages of the people who called the Berbers Moors: we see a common thread that the word Moor relates to a Topographical feature of the Earth - i.e. Wasteland Dead Land . BEING MINDFUL THAT NORTH AFRICA IS MAINLY DESERT: It would seem that Moor originally meant People of the North African Wastelands/Deadlands (Deserts).
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