India's 'lost Jews' wait in hope

BBC News ^ | August 18th, 2003 | Geeta Pandey

[Cronos]

dadgummit...are you sure none of them became Angles or Saxons....maybe Picts or some Goth outfit?

Pretty definitely these tribes didn't "become" Angles or Saxons -- those groups were part of the GErmanic mass. Certain members of the tribes could have merged with these groups -- like the later Jews merged with Europeans such that 3% of Euros have the priestly DNA strang.

[Cronos]

I personally knows Italians,who are darker than either of these people;yet you would call an Italian "WHITE". :-)

I wouldn't call an Italian "white", I'd call him Bianco and I'd call her Bianca...... ;-P

[Cronos]

here's a good site listing Arab Americans. I'm pretty sure she's Lebanese. I know for certain that Shakira is Lebanese.

[Cronos]

orry, silly moi -- I read that as Northern Africa!

[Cronos]

I dated an Indian (Monsoon brand)

lol!!!

[Cronos]

My understanding of the 144,000 concerning End Times Prophecy has to do with those 12 lost tribes of Israel...

Well, unlike what George Lucas thinks, the force is NOT exclusive to those sports Metozomes (or whatever).....

I mean, beign descended from Israel does NOT automatically qualify you for salvation as a Christian....

[Cronos]

No way are Dravidians related to any Caucasians - they are the extremely dark peoples of sourthern India.

Dravidians ARE Caucasians. They may be dark skinned, but they are racially Caucasians.

[SirLurkedalot]

bump, thanks for the ping

[wardaddy]

the skinheaded look is very popular amongst white kids here in Nashville in the lower economic strata but ...lol...it hasn't a thing to do with racism....quite the contrary , they are The White Gangsta Wannabe Class....The W-Word.....they are black thugs in everyway possible except skin tone.

The're quite the plague here.

Kids..go figure.

*what do the t-shirts say?

[wardaddy]

Waco anniversary....that and Ruby Ridge are Holy Days for them.

I must not that many hard righters includiong myself take a dim view of those two episodes as well but not as part of that "struggle".

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[wardaddy]

Thank You...great stuff.

I need to read more.

[wardaddy]

Brit Israelism.....circa late 1800s or so.

It was innocuous as opposed to CI.

It sounds fine to me....stands to reason that no one knows exactly where ALL the northern kingdom dispersed to so what the heck....one could surmise Europe looked green and temperate to the wanderers anyhow.

I'll say one thing....it all has a providential ring to it no matter how ya slice it.

[wardaddy]

i should keep my "how to at least sound diverse" little red handbook close

[wardaddy]

Is Shakira's hiney Lebanese as well?

(yep..it is...lots of Lebanese there...my ol stomping grounds)...

she is from Cartagena I think.

[Cronos]

I would refer you to http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/ancient/aryan/aryan_frawley_1.html

[Cronos]

You can choose to convienently ignore it to suypport your bliefs, but if you spend some time outside of the country, you'll find it the cosmology of western religion to be a tad bit narrow.

I would strongly disagree with that -- I've lived in the Middle East, US, India and South East Asia and am currently in England.

[Cronos]

My daughter's friend looks like Padma Lakshmi,or however Salman Rushdi's wife's name is spelled.

Googled that.......WOW!!! When can I meet her????

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Ainu are the outcastes in Japanese society. BTW, those guys are the most racist folks I've ever met -- they call all foreigners "gaijin" and consider themselves the master race!

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I found Davinci Code to be the best novel I have ever read - History and classical art mixed with adventure and the quest for the holy grail and puzzle solving... What more could you ask for. Excellent read.

You're joking right? The most convoluted garbage purporting to be historical that I've ever read. If ever made into a movie it would rival Gladiator in historical inaccuracy.

It takes early Christian heresies that folks who have never heard of them would think coooo, they may have had something.