Oh, and another bit of Moorish trivia: We have a theater here in my neck of the woods (dead center of the Midwest if you hadn't already guessed) that is built in the Moorish architectural style. It is a seriously cool historical building and I hope it continues to be preserved as a national landmark. The irony is, the place is named after a famous Russian Jewish woman!
That's what's so ludicrous to me about the whole bickering over race/ethnicity. EVERYBODY STOLE SOMETHING FROM SOMEBODY ELSE! Religion included! Did the Jews steal some of their theology from the Aryan/Iranian Zoroaster or was it the other way around? Who the hell knows?! Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Well, I love KFC and omelettes, so I guess it don't matter to me...