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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (272528)	1/6/2010 2:19:56 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Well no the Christian converts part is what I disagree with in the general sense.. hence my comparison to Muslim conquest by the sword.. Odd how this is the exact opposite of Arab culture. Interestingly that apparently Arab culture pre Mohammed afforded lots of rights to women.. like the right to divorce a lousy husband and keep the assets.. Women apparently had fair amount of power.. Mohammed remedied that ... it seems :o( BTW.. lots of research indicates that Mohammed simply entrenched existing inequalities.. which may be more accurate. In either event a power play.. against rich women.. As today.. rich and poor are not in the same world..

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (272528)	1/7/2010 12:38:10 PM
From: Sun Tzu	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

It is more likely that all or most of Ashkenazi Jews are of Khazaria origin and have little if anything to do with those delivered by Moses. Go ahead and look it up. There is this persistent rumor going around that Jews are a race. To date no evidence of strong racial link across the entire Jewish population has been found. Ashkenazi Jews (to state the obvious) have greater genetic links to Khazaria and Eastern/Central Europe than to Mizrahi Jews. A while back I posted posted the analysis by a respectable scientist who who showed that the so called "Cohen" dna simply indicated being of middle eastern origin and that it was more widely present in the general population of the ME than in the general Jewish population. Unfortunately I can't find that post. But given that it was posted to Nadine, you can be sure that if there was a good answer, she would have raised it ;) This throws the whole land grant from God argument out of the window...at least as it relates to the majority of Israeli Jews. You can dig through these for starters, if you are interested: khazaria.com scs.uiuc.edu commentarymagazine.com ST