And, as we read recently bobad, the indigenous people of the UK were probably dark skinned and builders of stone circles before they were colonized by the Beaker people. Countries in North Africa have been free of colonization by people from the Middle East since the end of the Ottoman Empire. And the Ottomans were not Arabs. The Berbers assumed the religion of the invading people, much as the British did with that of successive waves of Christian invaders.