What does Allah say about racemixxing? Didn't God separate the races in the Tower of Babel story? Do Muslims have a similar story to that?
i don't remember the Tower of Babel appearing in the Quran or Hadith, it might appear in some tafsir because they basically just take Christian/Jewish tradition so its expected.
Quran and Hadith doesn't say anything about race unless you count the jinn; it speaks of nations and people groups, they're not really the same thing as race.
but if you apply anachronistically the concept of race, Muhammad says in his
Final Sermon:
All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over black nor does a black have any superiority over a white except by piety and good action.
But I'm not a muslim, so what do I think?
I don't really care what you believe by the way not trying to change your mind just curious what makes you deny race. I think it can make sense not to care about race-realism for personal reasons imo but denying it outright is kind of stupid, it's obvious the races have differences on average and there are real world implications due to this.
I don't deny differences of averages between population groups btw; that would be ridiculous.
the question is where does one race end and one race begin? there is something arbitrary about that, and the boundaries are drawn by outsiders.
race removes the gradient, putting a cutoff; if this was just a convenient classification that would be fine, but its treated as something more serious. race realists tend to treat races as units that follow their self-interest; this is only true in places where race is made into a social reality -- codified.
I did not grow up in a multi-racial country, but a multi-ethnic one, most people identify with an ethnic group and not a racial one. A race realist would say that the people of this country are the same race, but what do we have in common? well, its a gradient, more geographical proximity, more in common -- but what glues all these ethnic groups? a constructed national identity and not race.