Moors: On the history channel tonight.

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Thanks for the Youtube link!

Interestingly, this book http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Moor-Jo...9221289&sr=8-3 and the comments posted about it suggest that I'm not alone in this confusion and it appears the enthnic/genetic history of the Moors is a bit of controversial issue.

You're linking to a book written by a man who also put forth the argument that Sub-Saharan Africans explored and colonized the New World before the Vikings or the Spanish?!?

I hate to cite Wiki but its entry on the Berbers is damn impressive, and goes so far as to include recent results from genetic testing which helps a great deal in determining who the Imazigh were and where their real origins lie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berbers

Edit - Sorry, didn't mean to come across as belligerent or accusatory in my initial response but it is the 'scholarship' of individuals like Van Sertima that can taint serious academic research on this subject or worse, lend credence to revisionistic thinking and skew the public perception of reality.