I'm saying that there is a strong group of people whose families have lived in that area for many many generations, who possess a common identity and who are being fucked over by people who try to argue away their existence and rights based on lawyerly parsing of dubious minor points of history instead of actually looking at the real families on the ground that really exist in a real place today.
I like learning history, I love seeing the changing boundaries on maps, of tribes and nations, wars and truces. Cool stuff. In this case, however, the arguing over details like "protectorate" versus "country" is being used to take focus away from actual real people who are alive today. And that is an injustice. Figure out the problems of the actual people in the region, then everyone is welcome to go back to debating the intricacies of empire building and collapse. Cheers, Judah On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:19 AM, LRS Scout <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Are you claiming they are a separate ethnic or racial people? > > From my understanding they are Arabs. > > As to India, I was wrong, guess that's why the Pakistan/Kashmir stuff is so > heavy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:349974 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
