Are Egyptians really Arabs?
Source : Internet
No. We are not Arabs. Although Egyptians have been brainwashed by multiple governments into thinking this way, with Sadat’s government going so far as renaming the country the Arab Republic of Egypt, this is simply not true.
There are many ways I can explain this. But I’ll choose three. Genetics, history and culture.
- Genetics. Multiple studies have been done on the genetic history of the modern Egyptians. And you know what they all concluded? Egyptians are not Arabs. Now you really should NOT take the word of a random stranger online when it comes to research, so I leave you with some links that can help you do some private research if you so choose.
- DNA analysis proves that Egyptians are not Arabs - Egypt Independent
- National Geographic's DNA Analysis Concludes that Egyptians are Only 17% Arab
- History. The Arabs that came to Egypt were soldiers. There was never a mass migration of Arabs into Egypt. There was never a mass exodus of Egyptians out of Egypt. Such an event would have been noted down in Arab history, Egyptian history, or any country that suddenly had a massive influx of immigrants from Egypt. Not to mention that the size of the Arab people was simply nothing in comparison to the size of the Egyptian people. Even if every single person who was living in the Arabian peninsula moved to Egypt, they still would have been a minority. And we know that didn’t happen. Egypt saw Arab soldiers move there. There was never a mass migration of Arabs into Egypt, there was never a mass exodus out of Egypt, there was never a mass holocaust of the Egyptian people.
- Culture. Some people will point to the fact that Egyptians speak Arabic as evidence that Egyptians are Arabs. Unfortunately, that’s not how genetics work. When I learned Spanish in college it did not change my genetic makeup and turn me into a Spaniard. I speak English as my native language - that doesn’t make me an Englishman. Egypt was forced to Arabize by the Ummayad Caliphate. That doesn’t make them Arabs, any more than how the Natives of Mexico were forced to learn Spanish. But don’t go telling any Mayans that they’re really Spaniards.
- More on culture, Egyptian culture is more influenced by Turkish culture than it is by Arab culture. Have you ever studied Arab culture? Compare the Gulf to the Egyptians. The culture is so different. From music, to dress codes. The way people talk, the social norms. Egyptians are nothing like the Arabs. However our culture was heavily influenced by Islam, although it wasn’t until I started learning about Turkey that I realized that our culture takes from the Turks, not the Arabs. And it makes sense. Egypt’s ruling family, the Muhammad Ali dynasty, they were Ottomans. And they founded Egypt’s modern state. The Ottomans/Turks made up, for a long time, Egypt’s ruling class. Movies, music, culture. It was influenced by them. The Arab were soldiers.
In short, Egyptians are not Arabs. Egyptians have been programmed to repeat that line “we’re Arabs” by successive governments vying for power and control. But it is a lie. It was based on the political aspirations of a military desperate to create a super power in the Middle East and North Africa - look up the United Arab Republic. It was a dream of a dictator. And the military used their dream of a superpower to brainwash a nation into forgetting who they are. But with the influx of information online today, the Egyptian people have started to reject this lie and are accepting themselves for who they are. Not Arabs, but Egyptians. Unique in their heritage. A people on our own. Not a part of any colonial Arab state. Calling myself an Arab would be like calling myself English or French. All three colonized Egypt. But we are not the descendants of any of them.
I hope that cleared that up.
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