[Sca-cooks] Middle Eastern oversensitivity?

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

I have a Near Eastern persona. My persona is Muslim. I'm am not
changing or hiding that fact. While i am cooking a mostly German Boar
Hunt Feast featuring pork, my primary food interest is historical
Near Eastern food. I say Near Eastern because North Africa is not in
the Middle East. I am also interested in modern Near Eastern food
(and many other aspects of Near Eastern cultures).

Not all Near Easterners are Muslims: there are Christians in Egypt
and the Levant, among other religions and places.

Not all Muslims are Arabs - there are Muslims who are Indonesian,
Berber, Turkish and Persian; none of these groups are Semitic/Arabic.

Not all Near Easterners are Arabs - the Near East contains a number
of different ethnic groups. (BTW, Afghanistan is not in the Middle
East. It's in Central Asia.)

And I know that the majority of Near Eastern people and the majority
of Muslims oppose what happened.

I see nothing wrong with discussing Near Eastern food on this list.
I'm certainly not going to censor myself.

Sayyida Anahita bint abd al-Karim al-Fassi, amina al-maktaba al-Qurtubiyya

Dar Anahita, A Maghribi domicile
http://witch.drak.net/lilinah
Information for SCA Near Eastern personae,
with a focus on costuming and other textile arts