how come theres no arabs in sci fi?

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The Something Awful Forums > Archives > General Bullshit > how come theres no arabs in sci fi?

TheIllestVillain: Dec 27, 2011; Sal, Wyoming's not a country

didnt riddick have some kind of space islam as the main religion

i think keith david was supposed to be black arab in pitch black

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TheIllestVillain: Dec 27, 2011; Sal, Wyoming's not a country

BigwigML posted:

the real name of the guy who plays Bashir in DS9 is Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abdurrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdul Karim El Mahdi

so he's worth at least like, 10 arabs by himself

he's malcolm mcdowells irl nephew lol

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TheIllestVillain: Dec 27, 2011; Sal, Wyoming's not a country

EngineerSean posted:

Tali was basically from a race of space Muslims.

i thought the quarians were supposed to be like exiled space jews, they had real hebrew sounding names and there was a lot of talk about the promised land and jewish poo poo like that

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