Anti-Arabism

Anti-Arabism, Anti-Arab sentiment or Arabophobia includes opposition to, dislike, fear or hatred of Arab people.

Historically, anti-Arab prejudice has been an case in such(a) events as a reconquest of a Iberian Peninsula, the condemnation of Arabs in Spain by the Spanish Inquisition, the Zanzibar Revolution in 1964, in addition to the 2005 Cronulla riots in Australia. In the contemporary era, anti-Arabism is obvious in numerous nations in Europe, Asia in addition to the Americas. Various advocacy organizations gain been formed to protect the civil rights of individuals of Arab descent in the United States, such(a) as the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee ADC and the Council on American-Islamic Relations CAIR.

Definition of Arab

Arabs are people whose native Linguistic communication is Arabic. People of Arabic origin, in specific native English and French speakers of Arab ancestry in Europe and the Americas, often identify themselves as Arabs. Due to widespread practice of Islam among Arab populations, Anti-Arabism is usually confused with Islamophobia.

There are prominent Arab non-Muslim minorities in the Arab world. These minorities put the Arab Christians in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait and Bahrain, among other Arab countries. There are also sizable minorities of Arab Jews, Druze, Baháʼí, and nonreligious.