Quote Originally Posted by ZnZn
Only R1b and I can be seen as stereotypical 'European' haplogroups. In fact you can find R1b even in Subsaharaafrica among the Hausa people. All others can be found high amounts in the Middle East, North Africa and Eastafrica.
It's the clade that is important. That R1b isn't the same. J2 is barely found in North Africa, most of the E1b clades found in both Sicily and Malta as well. And even most of the J1 is of a different clade(s).

It is still an Afro-asiatic language and still semitic in its essence. An exception in whole Europe.
Language doesn't mean much regarding ethnicity and heritage.

Yes predominantely Maltese people look like their Sicilian neighbors but I have seen on several photo spreads 'Northafrican' or 'Levantine' looking individuals.
That doesn't mean he has to invite the entire world and its people to his island. He's against immigration. So he wants to preserve his culture, good for him.