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Still, your point is worth taking. While American Muslims are far from
being the homogeneous group you'll find in France (I presume they're
most Algerian-French, or at least with ties to North Africa),

North African: either Arab or Black.

The word Arab refers to people that speak an arabic language. Not to a so
called "race".

North-Africans are not "Arabs". Irakis, Saudis, Kuwaitis, Omanis are what
you call "Arabs". Algerians, Tunisians and Moroccans are Maghrebians.



Black American Islam is odd (judged by middle eastern norms) and in
some of its forms would be considered herectical in the middle east,
not that the Black American muslims are concerned with that
disapproval. They are afterall americans by ethnicity.

The situation is not as France in which there are possibly 14 million
muslims of Nth African/Arab decent (someting equivalen to raical
privacy laws prevents proper data).

14 million. Yeah right. 1 out of 4 frenchmen is north african?
Divide it by 3 and you'll be getting closer

Most of the S11 attackers were
based in France at one point.

And in Germany. And in the USA.


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