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HISTORICAL EVIDENCE FOR ISLAMIC ORIGINS OF
RACIAL COLOR PREJUDICE LAY VERY OPEN IN
ARABIC. IT WAS AMPLY ENDORSED BY THE
QUR'AN
FICTION IN ADROIT HANDS OF THOSE SKILLED IN ARABIC CAMOUFLAGED FACTS. ISLAMIC CHARIENTISM FOUND A WELCOME REFUGE IN TRANSLATIONS FROM ARABIC TO ROMANCE LANGUAGES. COLOR PREJUDICE WAS DEEPLY SEEDED IN ARAB MUSLIM CULTURE WITH THE ADVENT OF ISLAM. AFTER THAT, AFRICAN NEIGHBORS VIEWED THEIR TOO BROWN AND BLACK NEIGHBORS AS LEADERLESS, GODLESS, CURSED BENIGHTED CREATURES—UGLY BY FORM AND COLOR. THEY WERE BLACK BEASTS, ANIMALS, CATTLE, BRANDED ON THE SNOUT, HAVING KINKY HAIR (note: the Arabic term for man, rajul, means having straight hair), AND THEY KNEW NO ARABIC. THEY WERE 
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