Aneirin
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H'mm, towelheads, well not much changed there, for it was rag heads when I was out in SA, but how stupid is it to derogatorily define a people by what they wear on their head as protection from the sun, and the sand blaster that is the wind. When in Rome do as the Romans do, interesting how many Western military units have adopted the towelhead headwear when operating in those regions, and I even believe the Shemagh is now on Nato stock issue.
But remove the towel/rag from the head and what do you have to define a people via their appearance, oo, I know, skin colour, is it that anything other than white is black or are different shades recognised and given an order of acceptance ?
Is the west still largely racist ?
But of the Ayran people, Ayran being where the word Iran comes from, people whom I believe prefer the archaic term of Persian and that because of what the German Nazi regime did to their identity, to be Ayran is not too pc these days despite the fact that the nazi ideal of Aryan and the Persian Ayran are two very different things.
But who are the Indo Europeans, well in their current homelands the political enclaves would be Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, they largely speak Farsi not Arabic,and the religion of Iran was Zoroastrian before the conquest of Islam, Islam being a religion not an identity, an identity the Persians despite conquest rejected in favour of their own ;
A short but insightful article on the Persian difference to the Arab
But can anyone tell the difference between the Arabs and the Iranians from their physical features ;
http://youtu.be/o73bjaMxqzo
I don't know about anyone else, but the Persians look very much like Europeans, their looks we see every day in the street.
But one thing that does perplex me about western interference in the Middle East, is why such support for Saudia Arabia and it's barbaric regimes, when it is the Iranians are not Arabs and even could be rejecting Islam and they also have vast reserves of that black evil we desire so much, but instead the western interests threaten the Iranians no doubt on behalf of the Saudis who wish to be the ultimate controllers of the oil. Or is it the American desire to protect Israel causes Iran to be an enemy ?
Furthermore, the lands where our countrmen spill their blood, Afghanistan, is yet another Persia type country country that has vastly different ethnicities, yet they are also yoked by Islam. Islam's fear I understand is dilution of belief via external influences and that is why it is the way it is, and there is some evidence, the hard line that it is now was not such in the past.
Islam and it's advocates I see very much like Christianity and it's advocates, they wish to keep the title and power they have been given, not give it up via evolution, they forget of course evolution evolves, so they try to remain in the past or even turn back time, no religion is immune from that ideal.
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