Hindus in Mesopotamia?

 

Some interesting speculations in the above videos, but ChatGPT is skeptical. Perhaps rightly, since the channel seems to be Greater Hindu nationalist (Hanuman founded a kingdom in ancient Honduras yeeeeah bruh). 

Is there any truth to the claim that Yazidis are actually Hindus or at least that their religion is Hindu-derived? For instance, the peacock angel (peacocks are not native to Kurdistan)?

The claim that Yazidism is derived from Hinduism or that Yazidis are "actually Hindus" is not accurate in a direct historical or theological sense, but there are some interesting parallels and shared motifs that have led people to make such claims.

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🔹 Origins of Yazidism

Yazidism is an ancient, syncretic religion practiced by the Yazidi people, primarily in northern Iraq, with diaspora communities in Turkey, Syria, Armenia, and elsewhere. Its roots are indigenous to the Kurdish region and influenced by:

• Pre-Islamic Mesopotamian religions

• Zoroastrianism

• Islamic Sufism

• Possibly early Gnosticism or Manichaean currents

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🔸 The Peacock Angel (Tawûsê Melek)

• The central figure in Yazidi theology is Tawûsê Melek, the Peacock Angel.

• He is considered a manifestation of the divine, a being of light who was cast down but redeemed, similar to the story of Lucifer, Prometheus, or even Shiva in certain interpretive stretches.

• The peacock is not native to Kurdistan but was known in ancient Mesopotamia and the Near East through trade and royal menageries. It's native to India and Sri Lanka.

• This has led some to draw a connection with Hindu deities, especially:

  • Kartikeya/Murugan/Skanda, who rides a peacock

  • Saraswati, who is also sometimes associated with peacocks

But these connections are symbolic rather than historical.

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🔹 Hindu-Yazidi Parallels: Real or Reaching?

Element	Yazidism	Possible Hindu Analogy	Reality
Peacock Angel	Tawûsê Melek	Kartikeya/Murugan	Only symbolic similarity
Seven angels	Divine beings under God	Sapta Rishis or Lokapalas	Common in many systems
Reincarnation	Present in some Yazidi beliefs	Central in Hinduism	Yazidi belief is not systematic
Sun veneration	Yes, prayers toward the sun	Surya worship	Found in many ancient cultures

So while some archetypes and symbols overlap, no direct descent or influence from Hinduism has been demonstrated. Both systems draw on older Indo-European or West Asian mythic patterns that may share a distant cultural ancestry, but Yazidism evolved locally in the Fertile Crescent.

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🟡 In Summary:

• Yazidism is not Hindu and did not derive from Hinduism.

• Some symbolic parallels exist (especially the Peacock Angel), but they are coincidental or archetypal rather than proof of a direct connection.

• Claims that Yazidis are Hindus in disguise or should be "brought back" to Hinduism are often political or ideological, especially in the context of Hindu nationalist narratives.

Let me know if you’d like a deeper comparison between Yazidi cosmology and Vedic or Shaiva theology.

What about "Kartikstan"? The term is used at a YouTube channel called Inspiring Science, but it´s in an Indian language I don´t understand. The video is titled (in English) "How Turkey & Iraq Yazidis Are Trying To Create New Hindu Country Kartikstan”.

It appears that the claim about Yazidis and the creation of a "Hindu homeland" called “Kartikstan” primarily originates from viral videos, reaction channels, and fringe narratives, rather than any substantiated movement or credible policy initiative.

Here’s what the information suggests:

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🎥 The Source & Title Nuances

• Multiple YouTube videos (e.g. by Inspiring Science or other channels) carry the title:
  "How Turkey & Iraq Yazidis Are Trying To Create New Hindu Country 'Kartikstan'", or variations like “Yazidis Will Create a New Hindu Country 'Kartikstan'” youtube.com+9youtube.com+9youtube.com+9youtube.comyoutube.com+7youtube.com+7youtube.com+7.

• These titles and content appear to be sensational, and often stem from ideologically driven or speculative online communities, not mainstream scholarship or political discussion.

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❓ What Does the Title Actually Suggest?

• The phrase "Turkey & Iraq Yazidis" likely intends to reference Yazidi communities located in Turkey and Iraq, rather than imply a coordinated Yazidi alliance with Turkey.

• The notion of a new Hindu country seems to come from a fringe ideological narrative, often connected to certain Hindu-nationalist or spiritualist movements.

• The name “Kartikstan” itself appears to be fabricated and not recognized by any Yazidi groups or official sources.

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🔍 Credibility and Evidence

• No credible Yazidi group or leadership has advocated for the creation of a Hindu-identified state.

• Turkey has not supported such an idea—in fact, its military actions in Yazidi areas tend to be contentious and security-driven, not supportive of Yazidi autonomy or religious framing kurdistanobserver.comkurdistan24.net.

• Yazidism is deeply rooted in ancient Mesopotamian, Iranian, and Kurdish traditions, not Hindu theology en.wikipedia.org.

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✅ Bottom Line

• The claim that Yazidis (in Turkey or Iraq) are creating a Hindu homeland named “Kartikstan” is not supported by any scholarly or political evidence.

• It appears to be a misinformation or sensational interpretation, possibly arising from online ideological or religious groups rather than genuine Yazidi intentions.

If you come across any official statements or reputable reporting on this, I’d be happy to re-evaluate them!

Mission accomplished?

 

What an evening and night (local Swedish time). First, Iran attacks US bases in Iraq and Qatar (sic). Now, Iran and Israel has agreed on a ceasefire, to begin in six hours?! In other words: instead of a prolonged war, the whole thing is more like the Israeli attack on the Iraqi nuclear power plant Osirak in 1981. 

If this works, the fallout within "MAGA" might be interesting. Many on the far right of the Trump movement freaked out. Others left the Trump train (for the nth time in some cases). And Trump, you know, doesn´t like disloyalty...

The ride never ends. 

Duly noted

 

The Kurdish SDF in northern Syria are trying to reach an accommodation with the new Syrian government, while still jockeying for US support. Good luck with the latter! Apparently, the genocidal terrorist cult ISIS are still around at the Syrian-Iraqi border...   

Kurdish coalition warns ISIS exploiting Assad regime´s collapse

Den heliga yttrandefriheten

 

- Yttrandefrihet, vasa? Komma ICKE på fråga!

Det här är bara en annan form av svensk naivitet. Linderborg missuppfattar dessutom poängen med yttrandefrihet. Den har *aldrig* primärt handlat om några dadaistiska avantgarde-konstnärers "rätt att utmana den fina smaken". Bara en gammal kulturredaktör kan uttrycka sig så! 

Självfallet handlar det om politik. I allmänhet om att olika elitgrupper vill lösa sina inbördes konflikter på ett "civiliserat" sätt. Vanligt folk kan genom kamp tilltvinga sig en plats vid förhandlingsbordet. Det kan även handla om geniernas rätt att säga geniala saker utan att gamla mossiga dogmatiker kan stoppa dem. Alltså genier som filosofer, vetenskapsmän, och så vidare. Vilket gynnar vissa moderniserande elitgrupper. Och i bästa fall samhället i dess helhet. 

Den korkade dadaisten och dennes puerila provokationer är det pris samhället betalar för yttrandefriheten. Den är inte yttrandefrihetens kärna, mål eller syfte. 

Dessutom kan yttrandefriheten aldrig vara total. Är det ens önskvärt att så är fallet? Om inte staten har rätt att under vissa omständigheter reglera yttrandefriheten kommer vilken provokatör som helst att kunna sabotera viktiga politiska beslut eller äventyra rikets säkerhet. Vill Åsa Linderborg ha total yttrandefrihet i krigstid...för motståndarsidan?     

Får Salwan Momika skylla sig själv?

What kind of freakin´ moment?

 

From the short piece linked below: 

>>>On Friday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow said that if officials in California believed their own rhetoric on climate change, they would have been better prepared for the recent fires.

>>>Marlow said, “This needs to be the Abu Ghraib of the climate change movement. … [T]here were no firebreaks, there wasn’t enough brush cleared out, there was no water conservation done, there was nothing done to make sure the hydrants were working. … All of this should have been mitigated against if you really took climate change seriously.”

Not sure why he makes the bizarre comparison with Abu Ghraib, or what it´s even supposed to mean, but there is no contradiction between "activists" (not to mention politicians) pointing to a real problem (in this case climate change) and then doing shit about it. Indeed, isn´t this SOP for both Democrats and Republicans? As for problems which don´t even exist, both sides play that game, too...

Maybe realizing *that* would be the real "Abu Ghraib moment". 

The Abu Ghraib of the climate change movement

Ultra MAGA or just neocons?

 

Liberal gadfly and independent reporter Michael Tracey (once considered something of a MAGA "asset") continues his crusade against the incoming Trump administration, arguing that it isn´t really isolationist. 

The pro-Trump cliques in the GOP establishment are just as bellicose and interventionist as the neoconservatives (many of which became Never Trumpers back in 2016). And what about the Donald himself? At what point will MAGA realize that their Messiah, too, is one of the dreaded RINOs of the GOP-e? If you pardon my, ahem, MAGA lingo.

The idea that Trump is somehow fighting the "neocons" is true only in the extremely narrow sense mentioned above: many of the original neocons refused to kiss Trump´s ass and de facto (and sometimes even de jure) regrouped around the Democratic Party instead. But Trump´s actual policies are barely distinguishable from those associated with the neocons.

Here is a key paragraph of Tracey´s essay (linked below):  

>>>One of the few permitted critiques of Trump in MAGA/LaLa Land had previously been that Trump was a political novice in the first term, and was beguiled by the wily “neocons” who exploited his youth and inexperience. As facile as that argument was, it at least had the benefit of reflecting some partial reality: Trump indeed had no governing record or long-established political operation. But in 2024, that argument is comically absurd. 

>>>Trump singularly dominates the Republican Party more than perhaps any figure in American history, as evidenced by his unprecedented thrice-consecutive presidential nomination. He can pick winners of Republican congressional primaries with a single Truth Social post, and even ousted the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus earlier this year for no apparent reason other than the poor sap’s initial endorsement of Ron DeSantis. He installed his own daughter-in-law to run the Republican National Committee. 

>>>By now, he’s had over eight years to assemble a personnel roster that best represents whatever his policy preferences may be — and he has largely assembled a team of “neocons,” if that term had any cognizable meaning, which it doesn’t. 

Tracey predicts that the Trump Administration will end up having a worse foreign policy than even the current Biden Administration (which he doesn´t particularly fancy either) by escalating the war in Ukraine, permitting Israel to annex the West Bank and Gaza, and perhaps even launch a bombing campaign against Iran. At least his take on Ukraine is hardly standard orthodoxy. 

I suppose we will see soon enough...if we dare looking!  

Is Donald Trump a neocon? 

No comments

 

The Shia-dominated government in Iraq wants to legalize sex/marriage with 9-year old girls. In other words, they promote paedophilia. Imagine supporting these mobs when they attacked the Swedish embassy in Bagdad, somehow thinking that was a good thing...

Or supporting George W Bush´s "liberation" of this shitty nation back in the days. Maybe we could storm some of *their* embassies? 

Iraq lowers age of consent to 9 years

The Liz Cheney situation

 

I used to be a great fan of Michael Tracey in a previous life, but his constant gadfly contrarianism was visible even back then, and went haywire when Russia attacked Ukraine, Tracey becoming some kind of pseudo-Russian asset. Oh, and then there´s his World War II revisionism...

That being said, his comments on the recent fracas between Trump and Liz Cheney is interesting.

The first link goes to X and can be seen as a kind of introduction to the essay in the second link (to Substack). At least the Substack article should be visible for everyone.  

Michael Tracey on Trump-Cheney (from X)

Who agrees with Liz Cheney?

So if Tracey is right, both Trump and Harris are really neo-connish war hawks, with Liz Cheney switching her loyalty from the one to the other due to J6. Note the speculation that Harris might appoint Cheney to a position in her administration! 

Come right at me

 

Iran is planning an attack on Israel with drones and missiles from Iraqi territory. Once again showing that Dubya and the Straussian Neo-Cons didn´t know what they were doing when they invaded Iraq back in 2003. The liberated Shia Muslims don´t seem particularly grateful and mostly support Iran...

In hindsight, the US should simply have bribed some Baathist general to stage a coup against Saddam Hussein, and then accepted some kind of neutrality from the neo-Baath regime. Instead, the adventurism of the Bush admin led to the Iranian mullahs extending their influence all over the Middle East.

I´m sure *nobody* saw this coming back in 2003, naaah.

Iran preparing major strike against Israel from Iraq 

Kultureliten just nu

Kultureliten just nu: "Att som SD kräva att svenska staten med hjälp av Israel avrättar, AVRÄTTAR säger jag, Rawa Majid i Iran är heeeeelt oacceptabelt och oförenligt med rättsstatens PRINCIPER. Har vi inga PRINCIPER längre??? Men att utvisa den där jävla Koran-brännaren till Irak, där han riskerar avrättning för blasfemi, är helt okej. Det ÄR fan blasfemi också. Litar blint på Centerpartiet i denna fråga!"

Ondskan

 

Inga särskilda kommentarer...

Historiskt åtal mot IS-kvinnan Lina Ishaq, 52

Great is Diana of the Ephesians?

 

Maverick Assyrian Christian preacher Mar Mari Emmanuel has achieved a certain level of (herostratic?) fame on the proverbial internets, due to his broadly Alt Right messaging. But while Emmanuel might be generally popular on the far right, his theology creates controversy among the more religiously orthodox. 

The two clips above argues that Emmanuel is a Nestorian (just as other Assyrian believers), which should be anathema to both Eastern Orthodox, Monophysites, Catholics and Protestants! Interestingly, Emmanuel´s small Church in Australia, Christ the Good Shepherd Church, has an ecumenical slant and allows Catholics and Orthodox to partake of its holy communion.

For an even more critical look at the based bishop, see here: 

Dark Halo

Objective history?

 

”De kristna i Mellersta Östern” (The Christians in the Middle East) is a book by Ingmar Karlsson, published this year. The author is a Swedish diplomat who used to work in Syria. He published a classical book on religious minority groups in the Middle East already in 1991, “Korset och halvmånen” (The Cross and the Crescent), which is available in many Swedish public libraries. In his new book, Karlsson tries – the best he can – to retell the history of Christianity in the Middle East (here also including Egypt) as objectively as possible. I think he succeeds remarkably well, except in the last chapter, where he retells his mostly negative experiences from Syria. He also touches upon the more general history of the region.

Thus, Karlsson points out that Monophysite Christians played a leading intellectual role in the medieval Muslim world, collecting ancient Greek or Roman manuscripts, and then translating them into Semitic languages. In the “multi-culturalist” pro-Muslim propaganda, this is often credited to the Muslims themselves.  The Catholic crusader states were multi-ethnic and multi-religious (except for the city of Jerusalem, where only Christians were allowed to live). Medieval Muslim historians considered the crusades to be a minor nuisance, instead viewing the Mongols as the larger threat. When a German emperor during the 19^th century wanted to pay homage to Saladin, it took considerable time to locate the tomb of the legendary Muslim leader, since it had been almost forgotten! Muslim obsession with the crusades is mostly a 20^th century phenomenon, a kind of counterpoint to the *modern* Western encroachments on the Middle East (and, of course, Israel). It works in tandem with Western obsessions about the same thing, positive or negative. The roots of the present situation in the Middle East are in any case to be found in the aftermath of World War I, and has nothing to do with the Middle Ages.

Karlsson does consider the Turkish/Kurdish massacres of the Armenians to have been a genocide, but also points out that the Armenians supported Russia during World War I (which technically made them traitors, since the Ottoman Empire was allied with Germany), that Armenian terrorist groups existed long before the genocide, and that they often targeted Kurdish civilians. One Armenian group even massacred Kurds in the hope that they would retaliate and the ensuing chaos provoke a British intervention (which never materialized). The Turks are often cast as evil oppressors by liberals and leftists in the West, but were just as often on the receiving end of violence and ethnic cleansing, for instance in Greece and Bulgaria during the 19^th century Balkan wars. The Greeks began their liberation struggle against the Ottoman Empire by large scale massacres of Turks in the Peloponnese. I get the impression that Karlsson has a (perhaps involuntary) admiration for Kemal Atatürk, the authoritarian Turkish nationalist who managed to stop the dismemberment of Turkey in the aftermath of World War I.

More recent alliances in the region are often extremely confusing. Thus, the pro-Israeli South Lebanese Army (SLA) during the Lebanese civil war was led by an Eastern Catholic and mostly consisted of Shia Muslims?! The Armenian Churches outside Armenia are part-Arab, since affiliating with these Churches gives you a higher social standing. In Iraq, about half of the Christians belong to a Shia-dominated pro-Iranian coalition. The Iraqi gentleman who spent most of last year burning Qurans in Sweden have a background in this milieu. One thing not mentioned in the book are the weird alliances of the Druze, a peculiar minority religion found in both Israel, Syria and Lebanon. Maybe the next edition can fill us in?

The most controversial chapter is probably the last one, in which Karlsson makes negative comments about the “Assyrian” immigration to Sweden from Syria during the 1970´s and 1980´s. He wonders why nobody was surprised about the fact that a people who disappeared from history 2,600 years ago suddenly re-appeared…in the Swedish town of Södertälje! Most of the “Assyrians” were members of the Syriac Orthodox Church and hence didn´t identify as Assyrian. Mass immigration of Syriac Orthodox from Syria to Sweden mainly took place from the Qamishly district, where no Syriac were persecuted by the Assad regime, many of the regional officials and officers were Syriac, and a Syriac church stood next to the building of the secret police. One of the first persons from Qamishly to get political asylum in Sweden as a refugee was a local boss of the ruling Baath party! Many of the “refugees” regularly returned to Qamishly (even greeting the Swedish “refugee coordinator”), forged and strangely uniform documents proving “persecution” were legion, one of the “banned Assyrian organizations” was actually legal and complained about the exodus, and so on. Delegations of “refugees” often visited Syria in order to construct new “native languages” which were then taught in Swedish schools (at the tax-payers expense) to Syriac children. The Syriac Christians referred to Sweden as “Ammo Djebbo”, a naïve and stupid character who tries to become popular by giving everyone money, while people laugh behind his back…

Karlsson claims that the political parties in Sweden each had their own favorite refugee/immigrant group during the 1970´s and 1980´s. The Social Democrats promoted Latin Americans, the Left Party the Kurds, the Center Party the West Saharans (!), the Conservatives anti-Communists from the Soviet bloc, and the Liberal Party “Christians from the Middle East” – actually, mostly the Syriac Orthodox. However, at the end of the book, it becomes obvious that Karlsson doesn´t really oppose immigration. *Today* the Christians in the Middle East are more persecuted than ever (he blames one George W Bush for this), and presumably wants the Western world to give them asylum. Instead, Ammo Djebbo has suddenly become jaded and cynical, and now doesn´t want to let anyone inside.

With that, I end this little review.

Krig via ombud

 

Börjar bli dags att sluta använda silkesvantarna. Två andra länder som borde utredas är Irak och, givetvis, Turkiet...

Shoot to kill policy nästa? 

SÄPO: Iran använder kriminella gäng som proxy

Israels Mossad: Rawa Majid nu i iransk tjänst

When the unhanged vote for the undead

 

Is this some kind of sick joke? Bolton (who was fired by Trump for being too bellicose) is going to write-in Dick Cheney in the presidential elections. That is, the guy who got us into this bloody mess in the first place...

The irony is that Bolton probably was too belligerent even for the Bush Administration. But I suppose that depends on whether or not you think Cheney was behind 9/11!

John Bolton says he will write-in Dick Cheney

Dark halo

 

On April 15, Assyrian bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel in Australia was attacked and stabbed, apparently by a self-proclaimed Islamist. Emmanuel already had a large social media following, probably because he often preaches in English and sounds broadly "Alt Right". 

Canadian hypnotherapist and cult-buster Henri Jolicoeur is *very* critical of Mar Mari Emmanuel in the above clip, just uploaded. Some of the information is also available at the relevant Wikipedia page. 

It turns out that Mari Emmanuel doesn´t belong to the Assyrian Church of the East, despite previosuly using their moniker. He has been a bishop in the Ancient Church of the East, another Assyrian church polity, but they eventually suspended him, making his "Christ the Good Shepherd Church" an independent group. Of course, this *could* be a case of intra-mural envy between different Assyrian Churches in Australia, but I wouldn´t be surprised if Mari Emmanuel´s aggressive preaching style, political remarks and use of social media made him controversial among the old-timers.

Apparently, Emmanuel also saw Jesus in a vision, and therefore knows exactly how He looks like in bodily form! Also, Jesus showed him heaven and hell, et cetera.

Jolicoeur is often very, very scathing of people he considers spiritual frauds and cheats, and this video is no exception. The proposal that Mar Mari Emmanuel suffers from "Jerusalem Syndrome" is the nicest part of the upload. Also read the comments below the video.

Linked for discussion purposes.  

  

 

Bush & Brianna

 

Anti-Gamergate hero(ine) Brianna Wu seems to have been disavowed by the left. 

The main reason is presumably her support for Israel against Hamas, but perhaps there are deeper disagreements in the background. 

In the unlikely case that you like flame wars that will be forgotten next year... 

It´s on

 

Credit: Iranian Army (!)

Iran and its proxies in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon are attacking Israel with drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. Ongoing. 

Questions in a world of blue

 

Me, discussing the irrationality of US foreign policy
 at a local café in Boomtown 

The far right Republicans say that it´s more important to secure the US southern border, than to defend Ukraine´s eastern border. But the very same conservatives also consider it extremely important to defend Israel´s southern border! They would never use aid money ear-marked for Israel to defend the borders of Texas. 

The war in Ukraine is called "never ending", but in truth, the conflict between Jews and Muslims has been going on since time immemorial. How the fuck is that *not* never-ending?!

Oh, and why can´t we criticize mass immigration unless we get permission from the Jews first? And do the far right GOP-ers have such a permission?

And why the heck did we invade and liberate Iraq, when the Iraqis just turned on us and went with Iran? 

Questions...questions... 

Att utlova hämnd

 

Varför säger både Aftonbladet och TV4 att USA och/eller Joe Biden "utlovat hämnd" för drönarattacken i Jordanien som dödade tre amerikanska soldater?

Joe Biden har nämligen inte alls utlovat hämnd. Han sa att USA tänker "svara" på drönarattackerna. Inte "hämnas". Det är två helt olika ord på engelska. Och det vet både AB och TV4.

Och nu har USA svarat, genom att bomba pro-iranska grupperingar i Irak och Syrien. Och mycket riktigt skriker Aftonbladet om "USA:s hämnd"...

Är svenska journalister fredsskadade, eller vad? Eller stödjer de faktiskt den iranska regimens kampgrupper?

Men okej, om ni insisterar. Nästa gång kanske Biden borde säga "revenge" istället för "response". För att visa var skåpet ska stå, så att säga.