Generally there are two ways to contextualize it. It is either a race of people stemming from the Middle East to populate Europe during the Middle Ages, and those decendants today (not white), or it's a religious group with ethnic roots in that region, but no specific racial requirement. For context, Hitler spoke of the first kind.
They exist. They're just not well known. I love my LG Velvet. It's as unobtrusive as a phone of this processing capability can get. Just about fully stock Android with a few minor apps from my carrier preloaded. It's about 5yrs old now and not a bit slower than when I bought it. Decent camera, too.
Fuck you. It's bad enough I gotta fix the damn fabricators! And don't get me started on the holo-deck! If I get one more ticket about rogue holoprograms or descretely clearing out the file-access logs of porn holos, I'm gonna make the user drink Ensign Crushers box of nanites!
strokes Mint soothingly shhhh shhhh you're a good gateway drug shhhh the bad man won't hurt you.