Argentina is a very large country on the southeast of South America, running from the polar south to the tropical north. The population is very European in ancestry, with roughly half being pure-European in background, and another large section being mostly European in background.
It has a large Arab population (9±%), but which is intermarried and assimilated into the country’s larger demographic This is because it is heavily Maronite (Catholic) Lebanese who assimilate well.
Interestingly, Argentina has around 180,000 Jews – the seventh largest Jewish population in the world – and they can be politically active.
3) Click – for a second time – to turn on: Subtitles/CC(1) Spanish (auto-generated) .
4) Click auto-translate.
5) Choose English – THIS CAN BE TRICKY – I suggest using up and down arrows to chose English, and then press Enter.
This can be very touchy, and you may have to play with it, but it works. Once you get the hang of it, you can turn the option on in a few seconds.
Salta is in Argentina’s interior, yet the Arabs have been in the area for roughly 143 years.
Again, remember that almost all Arabs in Argentina are now Christian of one flavor or another. A lot of them were Christians fleeing Muslim persecutions.
The Muslim community in Argentina likes to brag of its size, but most Muslims in Argentina are non-practicing, and many either convert or intermarry into Christianity.
In fact, Islam came close to dying out at one point in Argentina. Still, it is there.
Raíces árabes means Arab roots
Posted on YouTube in 2013
1) Click Settings Wheel and choose Subtitles/CC.
2) Click to turn on: Spanish (auto-generated) .
3) Click – for a second time – to turn on: Subtitles/CC(1) Spanish (auto-generated) .
4) Click auto-translate.
5) Choose English – THIS CAN BE TRICKY – I suggest using up and down arrows to chose English, and then press Enter.
This can be very touchy, and you may have to play with it, but it works. Once you get the hang of it, you can turn the option on in a few seconds.
This is a video from Live in Argentina. It showed Mario Kirlis (1957-2023), who was a famous Argentine musician. Jf you listen to him speak, he was the Argentine-born son of Greek immigrants to Argentina.
The areas he grew up in were a mix of Greeks, Arabs, and Jews. He got along with all of them. However, the third largest ethnicity in Argentina is the Arabs. And so, if he was going to play music for a living, he would make more money playing Arabic music.
He became a world famous maestro of Arabic music, playing and composing, he toured all over the world, even to Arabic countries themselves.
The video was from 2013, but it shows the penetration of Arabic culture in Argentina.
Islam Channel fined £40,000 over ‘antisemitic’ conspiracy theory documentary
A UK-based TV channel for British muslims has been fined £40,000 after airing an “antisemitic” documentary that claimed Israel was trying to take over part of Argentina and Chile.
In February 2021, the Islam Channel broadcast an hour-long film titled The Andinia Plan, which alleged there are plans to create a new Jewish state in Patagonia – a sparsely populated region at the bottom of South America.
The conspiracy theory first appeared in a magazine published by a group of Argentinian neo-Nazis led by the sons of Holocaust architect Adolf Eichman.
Big deal. We had a post about this documentary (Click Here) over a year ago.
The whole claim is preposterous, but it is believed by some in South America.
(Click Here) to see the backgrounder on this documentary.
In the original The Jewish State by Theodore Herzl, the Patagonian area of Argentina was considered as a possible area for Jewish settlement. However, the Zionist Congress shot down that idea immediately.
