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Aura7541 on 22 July 2016
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Acevil said:
Aura7541 said:

Not defending BakaAka, but Muslims aren't a race since by definition, Muslims are people who practice Islam. There is no prerequisite on what skin color you have or what ethnicity you are.

Any word for group of individuals who have the same belief system?

I don't think so, but religions/philosophies that end with -ist, -ian, or an entirely different word altogether are defined as people practicing/following said religions/philosophies.

Examples:

Confuscianism -> Confuscianist
Christianity -> Christian
Taoism -> Taoist
Marxism -> Marxist
Judaism -> Jew
Buddhism -> Buddhist
Hinduism -> Hindu
Sikhism -> Sikh

Race has more to do with categorization of humans based on physical (and sometimes genetic) characteristics that are common in one group, but not the other. The biological defintion of a race (also known as subspecies) is a genetically distinct population of interbreeding individuals within a species. This cannot be applied to Muslims because the definition of what a Muslim is is not based on genetic distinction or distinct phenotypes.