tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post8034943637358011543..comments2024-03-29T05:13:18.992+00:00Comments on UK Commentators: New Liberal Myth Gets Half Way Round WorldLabanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031578024191117985noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-47897836386376038402007-09-29T04:05:00.000+00:002007-09-29T04:05:00.000+00:00I meant, "vestiges of our coloring", otherwise tha...I meant, "vestiges of our coloring", otherwise that sentence doesn't make any sense. Sorry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-39664320671737505242007-09-29T04:04:00.000+00:002007-09-29T04:04:00.000+00:00Caucasoid people migrated to India eons ago and mi...Caucasoid people migrated to India eons ago and mixed with the darker skinned locals -- that's why they look like us -- except they are brown. Some of them still have vestiges of our looks, i.e. non-brown eyes, like the actress Ashwaraya Rai.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-7238400146462575192007-09-28T13:00:00.000+00:002007-09-28T13:00:00.000+00:00The Greek Kingdom of Bactaria covered what is now ...The Greek Kingdom of Bactaria covered what is now called afganistan. It was a successor kingdom of Alexander's empire. It lasted a couple of hundred years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-86586747632794530562007-09-28T02:30:00.000+00:002007-09-28T02:30:00.000+00:00European looking people in Syria:This can be expla...European looking people in Syria:<BR/>This can be explained easily.<BR/>The Vikings used to rape and pillage very far-afield and its known they had trade routes to what is now Turkey, which ofcourse is near Syria. Also a lot of Europeans went through Turkey & Syria on the way to the Crusades.<BR/><BR/>Afghanistan:<BR/>There are a group of people in Pakistan who speak a Europeanish language and its been suggested they are something to do with Alexander the Great. He spread himself about right across the middle east so its certainly possible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-31481447076653449402007-09-27T19:51:00.000+00:002007-09-27T19:51:00.000+00:00I think that a much more recent event accounts for...I think that a much more recent event accounts for many blonde Berbers:the Second World War.<BR/><BR/>Millions of European men spent years in North Africa. Perhaps they donated DNA to the local gene pool.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-33651468353645434812007-09-27T13:18:00.000+00:002007-09-27T13:18:00.000+00:00Vandal origins for Moroccan blondes seems unlikely...<I>Vandal origins for Moroccan blondes seems unlikely to me</I><BR/><BR/>Possibly.<BR/><BR/>Wikipedia has <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_people" REL="nofollow"><I>Amongst the people who had entered and settled with the autochthonous people of North Africa, are the 80,000 families of Germanic Vandals also referred to as "The Barbarians" by the Romans and the Mediterraneans in general who neither perished nor returned to Germania</I></A>JohnMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05696206173235574775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-37837031125698678742007-09-27T11:45:00.000+00:002007-09-27T11:45:00.000+00:00Vandal origins for Moroccan blondes seems unlikely...Vandal origins for Moroccan blondes seems unlikely to me, because the Vandals themselves were a coastal elite whereas the Berbers have traditionally lived further inland. Furthermore the Canary Islands which were first settled around 3000 years ago from North Africa also had a lot of blond haired and blue eyed natives when the Spanish first discovered them, despite the fact that they weren't invaded by the Vandals and weren't launching slaving expeditions overseas.Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02263275229285861236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-84926702607562673152007-09-27T09:59:00.000+00:002007-09-27T09:59:00.000+00:00According to the Daily Mail many Berbers are blond...<I>According to the Daily Mail many Berbers are blonde. I wonder why? Is North Africa close to Scandinavia?</I><BR/><BR/>Berbers are the aboriginal inhabitants of North Africa west of Egypt. They preceded the Arabs and if you like were conquered by them. There is discrimination by Arabs against Berbers in countries like Algeria. <BR/><BR/>There were contacts between the Berbers and the Roman rulers of the coastal regions but only a few Berber areas became part of the Roman Empire. It is known that Vandal (Germanic) tribes settled in North Africa and eventually evicted the Romans. They seem a likely source of blonde hair.JohnMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05696206173235574775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-23711715947609585422007-09-27T09:52:00.000+00:002007-09-27T09:52:00.000+00:00"You get a lot or red-headed Syrians"Iraq's former...<I>"You get a lot or red-headed Syrians"</I><BR/><BR/>Iraq's former deputy President Al Douri, who is currently the most senior Saddam official still on the run, is a ginger. You would have thought that it would make him easier to catch.Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02263275229285861236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-51868456268807768042007-09-27T09:51:00.000+00:002007-09-27T09:51:00.000+00:00Anon wrote: Also over a million europeans were tak...Anon wrote: <BR/><BR/><I>Also over a million europeans were taken as slaves into the Arab world, particularly north africa.</I><BR/><BR/>This is misleading. Giles Milton writes in "White Gold" (p304):<BR/><BR/><I>The subject of the white slave population of North Africa has been addressed most recently and comprehensively in Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800 by Robert C. Davis, 2003. Davis has made a detailed study of corsair activity between the 16th and 18th centuries and has also compiled a list of all the available slave counts for this period. Furthermore, he has looked at the death rate of captives - whether through torture or 'sickness -and the numbers redeemed by padres and ambassadors. He concludes that between 1530 and 1780, 'there were certainly a million, and quite possibly as many as a million and a quarter white, European Christians enslaved by the Muslims of the Barbary coast.' See part one, chapters one and two.</I><BR/><BR/>Thus there were one million in the North African area alone. The rest of the Muslim world would have had more. Indeed given the role of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans and southern Russia, many more.JohnMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05696206173235574775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-67850127927358085672007-09-27T09:33:00.000+00:002007-09-27T09:33:00.000+00:00Are you sure about your comment Britain was never ...Are you sure about your comment <I>Britain was never allied to the Ottoman Empire</I> back in your 2004 post - surely we were allies in the Crimea?JohnMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05696206173235574775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-87597230763989261132007-09-27T08:17:00.000+00:002007-09-27T08:17:00.000+00:00Several reasons why you might get blue eyes and bl...Several reasons why you might get blue eyes and blond hair. For example when the muslims had to be expelled from Spain this included any native converts. Also over a million europeans were taken as slaves into the Arab world, particularly north africa.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-41094704091510432212007-09-27T08:06:00.000+00:002007-09-27T08:06:00.000+00:00There are some remarkably Ruropean-looking people ...There are some remarkably Ruropean-looking people outside Europe. You get a lot or red-headed Syrians, for example, and blond bue-eyed types in NE Afghanistan.<BR/><BR/>I blogged about them a couple of years ago.<BR/><BR/>As for ancient China - google "Tocharian mummies" or search this blog.Labanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12031578024191117985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-49567027179210962552007-09-27T07:55:00.000+00:002007-09-27T07:55:00.000+00:00Jockney, although we don't normally assume north a...Jockney, although we don't normally assume north africans to be blond, some of them are.<BR/><BR/>In the 4th century Vandals, originaly from Germania headed first to Spain and then crossed over to north Africa, where they then settled.Fidothedoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13588552210424845667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-65107520753804848212007-09-27T07:42:00.000+00:002007-09-27T07:42:00.000+00:00Given that there are a couple of policeman ensurin...Given that there are a couple of policeman ensuring "community cohesion" outside the Chatham primary school Trev and the Ministry of Truth will have to rewrite an "inclusive" history whereby if it wasn't for the Slovenians we would all be talking Chinese now.<BR/><BR/>Excellent point about the galleys btw. I gather that the purpose of the Armada could not have been fulfilled anyway as the draught of their ships was too deep, they did not have a deep water port in Flanders, and Parma's army would have have been vulnerable to attack by the Dutch "sea-beggars" during embarkation.<BR/><BR/>Though obviously it doesn't fit the drivelling PC agenda to claim that the Dutch saved us.<BR/><BR/>Not that it would have been true anyway. Drake put fireships into Calais Roads, the Armada came out in panic and the English ships were able to get in amongst them, raking them with fire at close range(Battle of Gravellines - a fine victory). The Armada was beaten off to the north to its destruction.<BR/><BR/>Another thing about the drooling lib-left is that they will maintain that Drake was a "pirate". He wasn't, he was a privateer, operating under letters of marque from the government.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-91742289476676426772007-09-26T23:56:00.000+00:002007-09-26T23:56:00.000+00:00The Moroccan girl who was mistaken for Maddy McCan...The Moroccan girl who was mistaken for Maddy McCann is the daughter of a Berber farmer.<BR/><BR/>According to the Daily Mail many Berbers are blonde. I wonder why? Is North Africa close to Scandinavia?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-13494678666000588162007-09-26T23:48:00.000+00:002007-09-26T23:48:00.000+00:00Also,If this was wouldn't the Turks have mentioned...Also,<BR/><BR/>If this was wouldn't the Turks have mentioned somewhere down the line?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-6482077487277444402007-09-26T23:45:00.000+00:002007-09-26T23:45:00.000+00:00Laban,'Not a sheep' blog, has something to say on ...Laban,<BR/><BR/>'Not a sheep' blog, has something to say on this. <BR/><BR/>I would love to hear what Bernard Lewis thinks of Phillips' proposition.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-31461198335851497552007-09-26T23:30:00.000+00:002007-09-26T23:30:00.000+00:00You spotted that all the way back in 2004! That's ...You spotted that all the way back in 2004! That's impressive, do you have any predictions for what nonsense they'll be spouting in 2010?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com