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The Eternal Arab?

I wonder if any of those who have wrapped themselves in a St George banner and chanted objectionable, racist slogans, ever realised that the man himself was a Turkish Arab? ~Jack Straw A “Turkish Arab”? In the third century? Over 300 years before the birth of Mohammed, and the Arab conquest of the Byzantine Empire? […]

I wonder if any of those who have wrapped themselves in a St George banner and chanted objectionable, racist slogans, ever realised that the man himself was a Turkish Arab? ~Jack Straw

A “Turkish Arab”? In the third century? Over 300 years before the birth of Mohammed, and the Arab conquest of the Byzantine Empire?

Are the Armenians “Turkish Arabs” too…

Don’t these people have editors? ~Mr. Eugenides

Via The Debatable Land

Leave it to the pathetic Jack Straw to take two somewhat sensible points (1) there are Christians in Palestine who should not be ignored; 2) St. George is not only an English saint) and completely spoil them with a level of ignorance that seems surprising even in a politician.

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