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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] ^ There is obviously a confusion some folks have between Moors and [i]Muslims[/i]. Not every Muslim in the Medieval Islamic world was a Moor and not all Moors were Muslims, though the vast majority who were in Europe at that time were. [/qb][/QUOTE][IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Escudo_de_Alcanadre-La_Rioja.svg/338px-Escudo_de_Alcanadre-La_Rioja.svg.png[/IMG] Coat of arms of Alcanadre. La Rioja, Spain. Depicting slayed heads of the Moors [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Santiago_Matamoros%2C_18th_century.jpg[/IMG] this painting is called Santiago Matamoros (Saint james the Moorslayer) Someone could say that the painters of paintings like this have incorrectly suggested that the people being slain are Moors and that people that look like that are not Moors. People who appear to have some non-African ancestry like the slain people in the painting look had lived in Africa for many hundreds of years before the invasion of Iberia. Since "Moor" throughout the centuries, a word first applied by Europeans has been applied to various including people like those in this painting and "black" is open to interpretation calling them Moors or not is up to whatever a person feels like. Same thing with "black". Somebody might say that term is only for Africans. Others might say a dark Indian person is black. Since "black" is not a precise term it is up to whatever a person feels like and Europeans historically have applied the term Moor to a variety of ethnic combinations. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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