In article >,
George Shirley > wrote:

> On 3/27/2010 12:23 PM, Omelet wrote:
> > In >,
> > > wrote:
> >
> >>> I disagree with this somewhat. While Muslim is a religion only, not an
> >>> ethnicity, Jewish most certainly is:
> >>>
> >>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews>
> >>>
> >>> I guess you could switch the term to "Hebrew".
> >>
> >> And I disagree with you somewhat<eg>
> >>
> >> To quote your source: "Converts to Judaism, whose status as Jews within
> >> the Jewish ethnos is equal to those born into it, have been absorbed
> >> into the Jewish people throughout the millennia."
> >>
> >> So... if I decided to convert to Judaism tomorrow, for example, how
> >> would that change my *biological* race, may I humbly ask?
> >> --
> >> Cheers
> >> Chatty Cathy
> >
> > It's just that, Historically, Jews and Hebrews seem to be synonymous. :-)
> > I guess that no longer applies in modern times...
>
> You might better be able to explain it Om if you mention that the Middle
> Eastern people, before the Diaspora, were mostly all Semitic, the same
> folks for Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Nowadays there are people of
> each religion from all over the world. There are Ethiopian Jews, Chinese
> Jews, and there are Caucasian Muslims from the former USSR as well as
> Chinese, African, and other races that are Muslim. Even the oriental
> religions have converts from other races than the pure Asiatic strain.

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