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   From: ixnayamspay_klaatu@earthops.net   
      
   Amanita, Private Dancer wrote:   
   > Tiny Human Ferret  slid from beneath the   
   > satin sheets of the bed of iniquity and whispered:   
   >   
   >   
   >>The closest thing you're going to find to "Aryans" are the related   
   >>tribes of Afghanistan, Persia, and the non-Slavic people of the Balkans.   
   >>   
   >>They're generally believed to be the people who never quite made it into   
   >>India, headed up north generally to present-day Afghanistan, migrated   
   >>west and north into the "Fertile Crescent" and along the way   
   >>domesticated wheat, peas, horses, cattle, pigs and goats, and from there   
   >>migrated farther north and west, eventually replacing most of the native   
   >>peoples except for the Basque and probably the Lapps, etc.   
   >   
   >   
   > and here I thought they were just nazi skin-heads who were very prejudiced   
   > and racist   
      
   Nope. You can always point out to that sort of idiot, one of the   
   official titles of the (late, deposed, criminal) Shah of Iran was   
   "protector of the Aryan Race". The very name "Iran" is a transliteration   
   to the Roman alphabet from the Arabic alphabet of a Farsi word that   
   could as easily have been rendered "Aran", inhabitants of the land of   
   "Aran" would be "Arian" or "Aryan".   
      
   So, next time you hear some skinhead calling an Iranian a "rag head" you   
   can ask the skinhead what he's got against Aryans.   
      
      
   --   
   The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may   
   often assume the appearance, and produce the effects,   
   of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy.   
                      --Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire   
      
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