Generally there are two ways to contextualize it. It is either a race of people stemming from the Middle East to populate Europe during the Middle Ages, and those decendants today (not white), or it’s a religious group with ethnic roots in that region, but no specific racial requirement. For context, Hitler spoke of the first kind.
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