Reply To: Islam Fulfilled G-d's Promise To Yishmael That He Would Become A Great Nation

The only Muslims who are “Yismaelim” are in the Arabian penninsula. The rest are descended of those who lived there before the Islamic conquest. While some Arabs resettled in the conquered countries and took (not necessarily with their consent) local women as wives, most Muslims are descended from whomever was living their before with at most a small bit of Arab DNA. That many speak Arabic doesn’t mean they are of Arab descent (just as the fact that we write in English doesn’t prove we are of Anglo-Saxon descent – in fact only a small percentage of English-speakers worldwide have biological roots in England).