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[LaBong]

I have noticed people tend to claim ancestry from Northern Arab countries like Syria, Iraq, Lebanan etc instead of more tropical countries like Saudi, Oman or Yemen! :s

 

[saleen_s7]

I don't wish to move off from the topic, but have you ever wondered, if any country has the right to remove Govts that they don't like on grounds that they are tyrannical dictators?

At that rate, half the world would see regime changes!!

Saddam was a hero to the US when he took on Iran and then he became a 'tyrannical dictator'! One wonders if Saddam was a 'quick change artist' or the US.

What moral obligation did US have to topple Saddam? How is it that the US failed to exercise it elsewhere, where genocide was on like Rwanda or in Zimbabwe?

Odd.

So, you would support Freedom and Democracy in China.

To argue the few incidents you mentioned in a few sentences will take pages of writing. One look at Iraq's history will show a direct relationship between American government supports for Saddam even before he came to power. There was a moral obligation for the West to throw him off power. It is said that the destruction he has caused through using WMD's can be seen even through satellite from space. And his genocidal record was well known and well documented. He's crimes by far exceeded than any of today's dictators or any regime, which caused tension to rise not only in America but also in the region. Which regime do you know now that has commited genocides which number in a million?
I am a critic of the US foreign policy, not because it praises democracies, but it directly funds and supports dictators and brutal regimes. Matter of fact, the US was fully aware when West Pakistan started committing genocides and turned a blind eye. USA was also fully aware when Saddam committed genocides against the Kurds. And one look at Irans history will show you how the CIA has overthrown the leftist regime back then, which still haunts Iran to this day. And it is no secret how the US have been funding dictators in the Middle east for Israels well being. Yes, the cynical reasons for the wars still persists, but it would be wrong to say if justice wasn't served.
Which brings me to India and Bangladesh. The atrocities committed by the AL is well known and India's love for Al is no secret. It would be wrong to say that the anti india stance of many bangladeshis here is only because of BNP Jamaati propaganda, which many Indians here to seem to think. India's intentions in Bangladesh are pretty much irrelevant, but supporting a brutal, corrupt regime only adds fire to the fuel. And the sensitiveness of the government when it is under criticism that too off a foreign, private organisation is a true picture of the current regime.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Please, give this to the Marines.

You are not even aware of scope of the genocide in Rwanda.

US had no grounds to attack Iraq.

It had no WMD then and the US could not find any.

Why the US attacked Iraq the rationale can be culled from Cheney's Defence Policy Guideline (for US after the Cold War).

Read and then come back.

Saddam was as brutal as any other Arab nations including the Sheikdoms!

And less brutal that Mugabwe or Rwanda head honchos!

I have no quibble if you are a staunch US supporter!

 

[Zabaniyah]

Iraq is in Arab Middle East.

It is for the very reason I asked Apocalypse if he thought Sheik Hasina (note Sheik) who claims to be a Baghdadi (and hence the connection) is stupid?

I can't stop her or others from claiming Arab descent, can I?

I have studied history, but true I am not an anthropologist, biologist or a zoologist.

Myself have a Persian heritage. There are people who have Turkish blood, Arab blood, Indian blood hell even Chinese. Any other questions?

 

[Roybot]

I have noticed people tend to claim ancestry from Northern Arab countries like Syria, Iraq, Lebanan etc instead of more tropical countries like Saudi, Oman or Yemen! :s

Bangladeshis remind me of Fillipinos. They claim to have Spanish blood too and feel superior than the rest of their South East Asian counterparts.

 

[Zabaniyah]

Bangladeshis remind me of Fillipinos. They claim to have Spanish blood too and feel superior than the rest of their South East Asian counterparts.

I don't know about South East Asia, but South Asia has a big gene pool if I am not mistaken.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Myself have a Persian heritage. There are people who have Turkish blood, Arab blood, Indian blood hell even Chinese. Any other questions?

I could have many bloods, but I prefer to call myself an Indian and not feel that my claiming some other blood, even though it maybe there, makes me any better or worse than what I am!

It is my opinion, and it need not be for all, that those who have some sort of inferiority complex and think that their present status is not adequately grandiose, crave to be different from what they are!

If you notice that none claim their blood is from monkeys, even though it is said that it is from the monkeys (apes) that man evolved.

 

[Roybot]

I don't know about South East Asia, but South Asia has a big gene pool if I am not mistaken.

+1 To what Tiki Tam Tam said. Is there no such thing as a true blue Bengali? How far back does one go to claim ancestry? And how many more generations will it take for people to start calling themselves of Bengali ancestry?

 

[Zabaniyah]

+1 To what Tiki Tam Tam said. Is there no such thing as a true blue Bengali? How far back does one go to claim ancestry? And how many more generations will it take for people to start calling themselves of Bengali ancestry?

Of-course, I would say that I am foremost a Bengali.

 

[TopCat]

Bangladeshis remind me of Fillipinos. They claim to have Spanish blood too and feel superior than the rest of their South East Asian counterparts.

When we defunct the hill tracs people as not aboriginal they counter claimed that Muslims are not aboriginal either.

Both are true. Muslims are the mix blood of Turkik, Afhgan, Arabs and local Buddhist (local buddhists are 50% or more). Even their physical appearances language seemed grew some differences from local Hindus who were mostly from south india.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

This contains a interesting commentary on Bengalis

Bengali people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[TopCat]

This contains a interesting commentary on Bengalis

Bengali people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

u mean West Bengali?

 

[Zabaniyah]

When we defunct the hill tracs people as not aboriginal they counter claimed that Muslims are not aboriginal either.

Both are true. Muslims are the mix blood of Turkik, Afhgan, Arabs and local Buddhist (local buddhists are 50% or more). Even their physical appearances language seemed grew some differences from local Hindus who were mostly from south india.

^^^My main point being more or less....

 

[Roybot]

When we defunct the hill tracs people as not aboriginal they counter claimed that Muslims are not aboriginal either.

Both are true. Muslims are the mix blood of Turkik, Afhgan, Arabs and local Buddhist (local buddhists are 50% or more). Even their physical appearances language seemed grew some differences from local Hindus who were mostly from south india.

Ah I see, so I guess Bangladesh is a migrant nation like America and Australia.

Although an average Bangladeshi looks like a mixture of Chakmas and the Santhals/Adivasis of Chota Nagpur plateau (to me at least). So not sure what you guys mean by this ancestry. Cause neither your race, nor you culture seem remotely Arabic/Turkic

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

u mean West Bengali?

Of course, I forgot that your history starts with Turkey, Arabia and not with the Indian subcontinent.

I love the way how you change the truth wherein you claim you all converted from Buddhism!



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