A Day in the Life

[mojobadshah]

I call myself an Aryan because I descend from an Aryan homeland, I think like an Aryan, and I speak an Aryan language. Today my life was threatened because I claimed to posses knowledge that the vast majority of westerners out there posses. I claimed to know more about Zarathushtra than Zarathushtra was from Germany which isn't even accurate! But how many people actually know where Zarathushtra stems from (only the land the West is at war with!) or why it even matters (anyone who understands economics would realize that it would equate to trillions of dollars a year,not to mention it effects AUTHORITY STRUCTURES, Christian, Muslim, and Jewish)?

 

[radarmark]

You sound a trifle paranoid. The west is not at war with the Aryans (whatever they are). The west is at (a shooting) war with some fundamentalists who happen to live in what you say is Aryan country. The west is at war (more broadly) with exclusivism, tribalism, ignorance, and superstition since at least the time of Tom Paine and Tom Jefferson. That includes internecine warfare (not shooting) within the west.

Yes, I am a cock-eyed, good old-fashioned classical liberal if you heed a label).

 

[mojobadshah]

You sound a trifle paranoid. The west is not at war with the Aryans (whatever they are). The west is at (a shooting) war with some fundamentalists who happen to live in what you say is Aryan country. The west is at war (more broadly) with exclusivism, tribalism, ignorance, and superstition since at least the time of Tom Paine and Tom Jefferson. That includes internecine warfare (not shooting) within the west.

Yes, I am a cock-eyed, good old-fashioned classical liberal if you heed a label).

I wouldn't say that I'm paranoid. I'm just very VERY critical of the west and its attitude toward the other cultures. It is encouraging to hear someone say the west are not at war with the Irano-Afghans, but more exclusively with "fundamentalists" or the tyrants, but I don't get the feeling that that is the way the vast majority understand it. Also I've done some delving into who the west are at war with, exactly, in the Irano-Afghan zone and to me it just looks like the west is at war with a bunch of angry Afghan farmers whose country has been invaded, who managed to get their hands on weapons that were left over from the Cold War era, and they are not the Afghans who got the military backing and support of the west. The Taliban and Al Qaeda are just labels that we give to the various pockets of angry Afghans and Arabs, respectively, who have resorted to militant action. They never really existed as units. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mztfFdpd1Rk

But I've also come to the realization through my random interviews with westerners that there is a deep reservation and sometimes even aggression towards the sacred knowledge of the east or Zarathushtrian lore when there really shouldn't be. Catholic schools have been teaching Zarathushtra before my time. Secular schools must have started teaching Zarathushtra after my time because I went to one and Zarathushtra never came up. Nevertheless teaching Zarathushtra is now state sponsored. So westerners should be as familiar with Zarathushtra as they are with Homer or William Shakespeare. It's my firm belief that education is the key to resolving the problems the west has with the Irano-Afghan zone. If westerners were more embracive of Zarathushtra and Irano-Afghan (Aryan) culture in general (e.g. in pop culture), were more respectful of diversity, and spent 100 dollars a year on films that praised Irano-Afghan culture instead of demonizing it like 300 Spartans, relations between the west and the the Irano-Afghan zone would improve 10 fold.

 

[radarmark]

Anyone who does not appreciate the Irano-aryan contributions to the West is, I agree, a bit under-educated. Same is true of Indo-aryan contributions. One really should look at this (GWOT) as a continuation of acts like those of Godse, Ashu, and Amir (cold-blooded killers of Gandhiji, Abdullah I and Rabin). One should look at the actions of the individuals.

That being said, I believe that those who bomb Shia mosques, impose social ostracism on women (or commit other misogynistic crimes), destroy cultural treasures like the Bamiyan Buddhas, plant roadside bombs, let alone fly hi-jacked airliners into occupied buildings have only themselves to blame for their subsequent persecution.