Arab supremacy

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'''Arab supremacy''' is an [[ideology]] that promotes the "[[Racism|racial]]", cultural and ethnic superiority of Arab people over non-Arab [[Middle East]]erners such as the Black [[Africa]]n, Kurdish, [[Turkey|Turkish]], and [[Iran|Persian]] people.<ref>http://kurdishquestion.com/insight-research/analysis/arab-supremacy/422-arab-supremacy.html</ref> Arab Supremacy is a reactionary but toxic ideology that arose as a response to the [[Imperialism|colonization]] of the [[Middle East]] by [[European]] powers. The concept of Arab supremacy has been getting studied as more Middle Eastern [[feminists]] and other marginalized peoples in the Middle East are being emboldened to speak out on it now.<ref>http://www1.american.edu/faculty/singerman/enoughsilence/History%20of%20Sudan/arabsupremacy/arabsupremacy.html</ref>

Like [[white supremacy]], which promotes the assimilation, murder, and oppression of "non-whites", Arab supremacy simply ignores minorities and kills them if they resist being "Arabized."

==History==
Arab supremacy has a relatively short history. While ethnic prejudices between Arab people and the other ethnic groups were common in the past, the idea of Arab supremacy didn't arise until after the destruction of the Ottoman Empire.<ref>http://kurdishquestion.com/insight-research/analysis/arab-supremacy/422-arab-supremacy.html</ref>

==Roots==
Arab supremacy has its roots in various ideologies such as [[Pan-Arabism]]. Pan-Arabism is an ideology that promotes the creation of an Arab state that has a unified language, culture and ethnicity. Like all ideologies that preach ethnic unity in a multi-ethnic area, Pan-Arabism was used as justification for racism against non-Arab people in the Middle East such as the [[Kurdish]], [[Yazidi]], [[Persian]], Amazigh, [[Judaism|Jewish]], [[Turk]]ish and Black African people.<ref>http://science.jrank.org/pages/7944/Pan-Arabism.html</ref>

Other than the failed and brief union (1958–1961) of [[Egypt]] and [[Syria]] {{wpl|United Arab Republic|(United Arab Republic)|,}} Pan-Arabism has not become the basis of an entire nation for a variety of reasons. For one, despite the fact that these Arab nations were all Arab, many of them still pursued their own national goals at the expense of other Arab nations, which only inflamed tensions between them. The Arab losses against [[Israel]] in the {{wpl|Six-Day War}} and the subsequent {{wpl|Yom Kippur War}} also hurt Pan-Arabism, not helped by the death of the President of [[Egypt]] at the time, Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1970.

[[Ba'athism]] arose as another Arab supremacist ideology, as it preaches a non-Marxist form of [[socialism]] known as Arab Socialism.<ref>http://www.e-ir.info/2013/08/02/nasserism-and-bathism-modern-contingent-confused-and-instrumental/</ref> Much like [[communism]], Ba'athism had a bad tendency of becoming a military [[dictatorship]] when it came to power rather than a socialist state. Ba'athism wasn't really popular and the only two Ba'athist nations in the world ([[Iraq]] and Syria) openly despised one another. Ba'athism died during the [[Iraq War|2003 invasion of Iraq]], although Pan-Arabism is still supported by the current governments of Iraq and Syria.

Despite numerous attempts to create a pan-Arab nation, all have failed, mostly due to political infighting, the rise of [[Islamism]], and the rise of [[nationalism]] within Arab nations.<ref>http://www.e-ir.info/2013/08/02/nasserism-and-bathism-modern-contingent-confused-and-instrumental/</ref> Despite this, Arab supremacy remains a powerful force in the Middle East.

==Examples==
Much of the oppression of minorities in Middle Eastern nations is increasingly being called [[racism]] by outside scholars as it supersedes the authoritarianism that already oppresses all the citizens of these nations.

*Darfur: Arab [[Sudan]]ese are killing the Black Sudanese people for a mixture of racial and religious reasons. The "race" section of this conflict is a great example of how the racial aspects of Arab supremacy are fluid. Despite much intermarrying between Arab and African people, Sudanese politicians still promote a [[Segregation|separation of Arab and African people]].<ref>http://www.pri.org/stories/2011-02-07/racism-sudan</ref> This is known as the Darfur genocide, which is labeled as such by the UN.<ref>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=24063</ref>

*{{wpl|Operation Anfal}} (more accurately as the Anfal genocide or the Kurdish genocide): The 1988 genocide of the Kurdish people by [[Saddam Hussein]]. Saddam planned to recolonize the Kurds' land with Arabs after he killed them all, not unlike the [[Native American Holocaust]] or [[World War Two|Hitler's Operation Barbarossa]].<ref>http://uk.krg.org/genocide/pages/page.aspx?lngnr=12&pnr=37</ref> He used chemical weapons against the Kurdish city Halabja, killing thousands. His forces then demolished the city.

*Black Egyptian people report being victims of open racism by Arab people.<ref>{{wpa|Racism in the Arab world}}</ref>

*[[DAESH]]: Sunni Arab people killing Kurdish, Yazidi, and Assyrian people. DAESH has attacked many Kurdish areas in Syria and Iraq with the purpose of ethnically cleansing the Kurdish people and "replacing" them with the Arab people. They encouraged Arab people living under their rule to go to Kurdish areas, loot towns, and take household appliances, [[money]], and other goods. DAESH also [[Slavery|enslaved]] thousands of Yazidi women and children, killing the men. This is more accurately known as the Yazidi genocide. Finally, it has kidnapped and killed hundreds of Assyrian people and other [[Christian]] people with the purpose of forcing them to leave. DAESH has taken a softer stance towards Turkish people, allowing them to join and fight with DAESH.

==See also==
*[[Racism]]

==External links==
*[http://kurdishquestion.com/insight-research/analysis/arab-supremacy/422-arab-supremacy.html Breakdown of Arab supremacy by a Kurdish writer]
*[http://www1.american.edu/faculty/singerman/enoughsilence/History%20of%20Sudan/arabsupremacy/arabsupremacy.html Examples of racism against blacks in the Arab world]

==References==
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