What’s your origin?
Posted on March 31st, 2006 by Tariq Nelson
Anyone who has visited the Muslim world, particularly the Arab world knows that an important question is “What is your origin?”
Many Arabs when asked this
Filed under: Race
Anyone who has visited the Muslim world, particularly the Arab world knows that an important question is “What is your origin?”
Many Arabs when asked this
Filed under: Race
I think this is a good technolgy and this is just not African-Americans.Most white Americans do not know their orgins or anyone beyond a few generations.
Well, I can trace mine back to like the 1600s, but no big deal. My ancestors were the crusaders, so I am sure that wouldnt help me much.
Lineage will help none of us, but it is good to know it.
For along time, I’ve been told that my bloodlines I consisted of African( Ghanian, I think), Native American, and Dutch-English ancestry. Although I was always told that I was also of Arab ancestry, my grandfather corrected it as he introduced to a relative and said that he was a racially mixed man ofSouth Indian/ African-American descent. I wanted to take one of those tests during an arts festival, but I was being rushed to go home by others.
My great-great grandfather actually married his master’s daughter in Mississipi of all places. The white side of the family is actually poor and not well educated. Mississipi went from having more millionares than New York during slavery to the mess it is today. I lived in Africa before I’m just a tourist there. I did see some similarities with Africans and southern blacks from my grandfathers generation.
My brother, it looks like might be the descendant of the proud rulers of the Holy Roman empire, the Hapsburgs. They too fought against Muslims.
I’m chuckling about this for a number of reasons.
salam alaikoum
I think it is helpful to know genetic lineage. I recently heard the story of someone of African origin who was diagnosed with a hereditary “white disease” that went undiagnosed for several months because the doctors erroneously thought someone who wasn’t white couldn’t get it.
One of my mother’s friends is African-American, but Lou Gehrig’s disease(ALS) runs though her family. Similarly, it took the doctors almost 2 years to find her brother’s illness. The doctor also told her that the reason that the ALS skipped her and will possibly go to her kids or one of her siblings kids.
My grandfather told us about our family lineage after curiousity got the best of us. Old pictures of people who seemed to appear that they were in India, then seeing a couple of old pictures of an Indian family and another where and Indian woman in New York holding the hand of kid , which I would later found out that it was him and my great aunt.( My grandfather’s parents died when he was four years old). I got to be re acquainted with that same great aunt in 1980 before she died in 1983.
I have looked at PBS documentaries about African-American and British Blacks using that same DNA to trace their African roots. Though I’ve been told that I’m of Ghanian ancesty( unsure), I just want to be sure of that. My Indian bloodlines was confirmed by grandfather, but I would like to learn more about my African ancestry. It all sound like fun and at last I would know where I came from.
I’d like to see the test done on the Queen of England. As one blogger pointed out, the Queen is related to the Prophet Mohammed distantly because of the blood she shares with Spanish royalty.
The point was made by the blogger to point out that Obama might have the middle name Hussein, but that it isnt unusual, even the Queen is related to Mohammad and probably has relatives and ancestors named Hussein because it is such a common Muslim name.
Superiority Comes from TAQWA, Not Blood
Mankind! We created you from a male and female, and made you into peoples and tribes so that you might come to know each other. The noblest among you in Allahs’s sight is the one with the most piety (who best performs his duty to Allah). Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware. (Surat al-Hujurat: 13)
In Allah’s sight the only superiority is a person’s character, his avoiding all types of sin and rebellion, degeneracy and deviation, and the superior morality deriving from his piety. Apart from his piety no human can have any superiority to any other deriving from any of his features.
Remember abu jahl was a blood relation to our Nabi(s.a.w)
P.S Abu Sinan this was not directed at you just a reminder
to all readers
You stand corrected..some African Americans can go very far back..
AFRICAN MUSLIMS IN HAITI FATHER A REVOLUTION
http://thoughtmerchant.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/african-muslims-in-haiti-father-a-revolution/
Some of us can even find our tribe..
Thought Merchant
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Politcs and Commentary for the thinking person of color.
Better to sell an idea than to buy a lie!
I agree with Ibn Deen, that “Superiority Comes from TAQWA, Not Blood.” But DNA testing does not pick-up all branches of ones family tree. My father was of African, Scott and Native American ancestory. I recently took a DNA test, and it only revealed my fathers African ancestory, which is Yoruba (Nigeria) and Bakola (Cameroon).
One must keep in mind there is a lot of lore involved in one’s supposed family. Much of which turns out not to be true when investigated.
The style of writing is very familiar to me. Have you written guest posts for other blogs?