It was good to hear a caller reading from the Spotlight. (The American Free Press is its successor.)
Tom in Florida seemed to be saying that Moslems tried to conquer Spain but failed (because of El Cid).
Anyone who knows some history knows that Moslems from North Africa did conquer Spain and occupied it for hundreds of years. I think that the last ones were finally driven out in the year 1492.
He also said that only 40% of the people in Iran are Moslem and that a lot of the rest of them are Persian.
Persia is another name for Iran. To say that a person is Persian says nothing about his religion.
The name Iran is related to the word Aryan. The people of Persia or Iran used to be Aryans, but they were conquered and occupied by two groups of non-Aryans: first the Huns and later Moslem Semites. So I think that today they are a mongrelized people.
From the Persian poet Omar Khayyam (translated by Edward FitzGerald):
27.
Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same door where in I went.
28.
With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow,
And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow;
And this was all the Harvest that I reap’d—
“I came like Water, and like Wind I go.”
29.
Into this Universe, and Why not knowing
Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing;
And out of it, as Wind along the Waste,
I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing.
81.
O Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make,
And ev’n with Paradise devise the Snake:
For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man
Is blacken’d—Man’s forgiveness give—and take!
57.
Ah, but my Computations, People say,
Reduced the Year to better reckoning? — Nay,
‘Twas only striking from the Calendar
Unborn To-morrow, and dead Yesterday.
It was good to hear a caller reading from the Spotlight. (The American Free Press is its successor.)
Tom in Florida seemed to be saying that Moslems tried to conquer Spain but failed (because of El Cid).
Anyone who knows some history knows that Moslems from North Africa did conquer Spain and occupied it for hundreds of years. I think that the last ones were finally driven out in the year 1492.
He also said that only 40% of the people in Iran are Moslem and that a lot of the rest of them are Persian.
Persia is another name for Iran. To say that a person is Persian says nothing about his religion.
The name Iran is related to the word Aryan. The people of Persia or Iran used to be Aryans, but they were conquered and occupied by two groups of non-Aryans: first the Huns and later Moslem Semites. So I think that today they are a mongrelized people.
Some poetry from
Persia
or
Iran
will follow.
From the Persian poet Omar Khayyam (translated by Edward FitzGerald):
27.
Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same door where in I went.
28.
With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow,
And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow;
And this was all the Harvest that I reap’d—
“I came like Water, and like Wind I go.”
29.
Into this Universe, and Why not knowing
Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing;
And out of it, as Wind along the Waste,
I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing.
81.
O Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make,
And ev’n with Paradise devise the Snake:
For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man
Is blacken’d—Man’s forgiveness give—and take!
57.
Ah, but my Computations, People say,
Reduced the Year to better reckoning? — Nay,
‘Twas only striking from the Calendar
Unborn To-morrow, and dead Yesterday.