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To: SolidWood
Iran (previously Aryanam), meaning "Land of the Aryans" has been the natives' name for their country since ancient times, long before Islam appeared.

Really? I didn't know that. How is this related to the apparently fictitious "Aryan race" that Hitler dreamed up?

7 posted on 06/18/2007 1:09:35 PM PDT by The Blitherer (What would a Free Man do?)
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To: The Blitherer
The "Aryans", Hitler and other racists talked about, refer to 19th century race-theories of various European "scientists" who mis-used the name "Aryan" to make a distinction to "Semites" (Jews).

The "Aryans" of Hitler and Co., as you know where imagined to be blond, blue-eyed Nordics... total nonsense.

Aryan actually refers to a linguistic family, stemming from the Northern Caspian region, who settled what is today Iran, Afghanistan, India etc.

9 posted on 06/18/2007 1:15:45 PM PDT by SolidWood (Muslims: If they cant eat it or have sex with it they destroy it.)
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To: The Blitherer
How is this related to the apparently fictitious "Aryan race" that Hitler dreamed up?

The real Aryans were not a race, but a group of tribes.

The structural resemblance between Persian and Hindi and Latin and Greek and German led to them being called "the Indo-Aryan languages" and, due to Hitler, they are now called the Indo-European languages.

The Aryan tribes were a group of Caucasian peoples that raided and conquered modern-day Iran, northern India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Their descendants are the Persians, Punjabis and Pushtun peoples.

These peoples have lighter skin and are generally taller and lankier than other regional ethnic groups, have a large number of green and blue-eyed individuals in their groups, and have a strong military tradition.

The racial nationalists of 1930s Europe saw these peoples as fellow members of their imagined master race - cousins of Europeans who could be used as a puppet master race for Asia.

The RSS in India was a neo-Nazi organization that agitated against British rule and for Hitler.

12 posted on 06/18/2007 1:25:58 PM PDT by wideawake ("Pearl Harbor is all America's fault, right, Mommy?" - Ron Paul, age 6, 12/7/1941)
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