Talk:Berber Jews

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Algeria, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Algeria on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please join the project.
Start This article has been rated as Start-class on the quality scale.
??? This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.
WikiProject Berbers

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Berbers, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Berbers. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article or you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks or take part in the discussion. Please Join, Create, and Assess. The project aims for no vandalism and no conflict.

??? This article has not yet been assigned a rating on the Project's quality scale.
??? This article has not yet been assigned a rating on the Project's importance scale.
After rating the article, please provide a short summary on the article's ratings summary page to explain your ratings and/or identify the strengths and weaknesses.

[edit] Changes

I changed this: "Berber Jews are the ancient Jewish communities inhabiting the region of the Maghreb in North Africa." => to: "Berber Jews are the Berber Jewish communities inhabiting the region of the Maghreb in North Africa." The first statement was not accurate becasue there are many jewish berber in the present, if that article goes on the ancient berber jews, it should then be called "ancient berber jews".Read3r 13:47, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

The author stated that Dihya was a jewess. That is speculation. No historical proof is provided to proove that. The sources that claimed her jewish origin were arab-islamic sources. The old arabs called many people "jews" because "jew" sounded negative to the early arab-muslims. If someone can provide a source about her jewish origin. I would be greatful and i will agree to call her jewish.Read3r 14:04, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

The author stated this: "In post-colonial North-Africa, Judaism, as well as Christianity and other local historical belief-systems were banned, and their practitioners persecuted by the newly formed pro-Baathist regimes" I believe Baathism was restricted to Syria and Iraq, and had little influence in North Africa.