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dreamer_easy ([personal profile] dreamer_easy) wrote2009-01-15 03:25 pm
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Geography quiz!

I received this JPG in email:



Eighteen nations are named on the map. How many are "Arab lands"?

Only nine of the eighteen countries named are Arab nations: Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Sudan, and Yemen. None of the others identify themselves as Arab nations, belong to the Arab League, or have a majority Arab population.

[identity profile] browneyedgirl65.livejournal.com 2009-01-15 08:14 am (UTC)(link)
The good ol' muslim=arab conflation. Meh.

[identity profile] kateorman.livejournal.com 2009-01-15 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
Looks that way. Although what Armenia (98% Christian) is doing on the map remains a mystery.
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[personal profile] hnpcc 2009-01-15 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
*eye roll* I didn't even notice Armenia (font's too small) but that looks like "all those ex-Soviet republics are Muslim!"

Sudan would have to be a bit 50:50 though to be a member of the Arab nations though surely - according to this site it's only 39% Arab, although it is 70% Muslim.

[identity profile] kateorman.livejournal.com 2009-01-15 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Yah - that does point to it being a map of Islam, not Arab, er, Arabianness? Arabosity?