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Re: Reexmining The Genetics of Modern Assyrians Article
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Thursday, February 23 2012, 11:48:16 (UTC)
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...this might all be true if Assyrians had ever been "pure"...like the Aboriginals of Australia or some other isolated population...but the ancient Assyrians had no prejudice against marrying non-Assyrians....and that region had been a mixing ground for thousands of years...at what point would you break into the long mixture of genetic material and say, "stop here, these are PURE Assyrians"?

Besides which countless numbers of assyrians have been intermarrying with "forbidden" peoples from the beginning of time...and continued doing so right up to the Muslim Conquests and even more beyond...but all those "Assyrians" are lost to history because their DNA and genetic markers dried up the minute they converted to Islam, right? or married a Muslim,,,,,or a Turk....or a Qurd...that's what Aprim tells us anyway.

Besides the whole thing is given the lie when you consider that no one is claiming Babylonians survived to the modern era, or Sumerians, or Amortites or Kassites or Hurrians etc. Where did they go to...where are their "genes"? At the same time the pointy-headed assyrian nationalist says that it is ridiculous to claim that ALL Assyrians were wiped out, he turns right around says , "but we know everyone else WAS."....or, "they all became Muslim and forgot who they were and wouldn't count anyway because we all know Christmas and Easter etc., are integral parts of Assyrian culture", so if Muslim Assyrians want to be "Assyrian" they have to practically convert to Christianity.

This whole DNA-waltz strikes me as very poor science and more of the old Fascistic "blood purity" we thought was discredited once and for all....I mean they finally dumped the Standford-Binet IQ tests and then the dumBELL Curve nonsense and yes, even the Duke University study of the thickness of Black skulls vs White skulls...we are all related, we are all ONE race....let's everybody get over it.



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