Why do many people think that Spaniards are the same as Moors?

The Moors people of mixed Arab-Berber ancestry ruled Spain and Portugal for about 700 years,they brought many Jews along with them

People mistake an Islamic invasion for the Arabian people that live today in Arabia. All of Europe is related to the Levant people from the northern part of the Sinai peninsula from 50,000 years ago. Northern African Berbers were Germanic Vandals, Levant people, Phoneticians and some northeast Africans from the Nile Delta. I did the National Geographic testing, where they test 150,000 markers and I learned a lot about all of this. They educate you. Their latest paper talks about how Europeans in the south do not group with Arabs. This includes Spain and Portugal. The Portuguese may have more Berber than Spanish people, being near Gibraltar. That does not mean anything since northern Africans group with Europeans. At most some people have up to 8% Berber, but that doesn't mean anything if Europeans are related to these people anyway. I'm from the north of Italy. My last African ancestor was 70,000 years ago and I had no markers in common with Arabs. What the study shows is that northern Africans group with Europeans and even the Levant people do. We also can group with the northern Middle East from 30,000 years ago. Even the Scandinavians countries have this old DNA... upward of 30%. The Arabians stand out, because they still group to an extent with sub Saharan Africans. The word Moor should be done away with. Real Arabians are a different group of people than the ones that entered Spain. I posted a recent study that looks at this.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.137...

there is not any such component as "Moor blood". The Spanish expelled the Moors out, in basic terms like the Italians. The Moors have been muslims, and the Spaniards Christians. there became no interracial, if there became, it may be the comparable as betraying the order of Christ, in no way the fewer, the pagans could finally end up awesome by making use of a rope. permit me wager, you're an Arab attempting to get exceeded an ecu. Europeans are white and white in common terms. in case you observed somone no longer white in Europe, then he became an immigrant, claiming to be son of previous Europa.

The Moorish/Semitic influence in the Spanish gene is considerable.They controlled the country for over seven centuries,during which they fused together little by little.After conquering the last Moorish enclave,the Spanish Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella forced all Arab/Moors and Jews to convert to the Catholic religion.Most comply and lost their identity.So,the likeness between Moors and Spaniards,especially the southern Spaniards,is strikingly similar.