Hakan was deeply unhappy with Brazilians after their natural history museum burned along with its artifacts. (H/T @heeresleitung)
Hakan took a dim view of nootropics
Long forgotten Christian heresy involving Jesus Christ’s visit to sub-Saharan Africa
YouTube comment missionaries
Irish contributions to mankind are greatly overestimated
Surprisingly, Hakan was a follower of E Michael Jones
Acronymic synchronicity
Environmental direct action suggestions from Hakan
European disturbances of Aboriginal sleep patterns resulted in collapse in numbers.
Certain male lines responsible for a substantial fraction of modern problems
Anti-Bantu Supremacy advocacy by Khoisan
Wickedness of small diners, coffeeshops, and bookstores was a long term theme
The Uzbek Conversation
Inhuman power from unusual geometries
Celts made little impact on Ireland
Reversal of not just modern population movements, but all movements since the dawn the neolithic
Certain tragedies were considerably worse than commonly understood.
The Schopenhauer Prophecy
Legal Fiction
Forgotten but not faked
The Babylonian Captivity & Alexander the Great's support of miscegenation ended the Greeks & Jews centuries before Christ. Early Christians understood this.
Indo-European Expansion was just a small part of a much greater war.
The necessity of famine
The real powers in America are grocery conglomerates
The Queen of Sheba brought men from Ethiopia with her to Israel. Their lines are best preserved in the Beta Israel people, but also appear in the Ashkenazi.
Hakan's idea of proper political activism
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In line with archaeology, western & central Iberia were populated by hunter-gatherers distinctive from those on Mediterranean coast by their higher Magdalenian ancestry. Those hunter-gatherers had a resurgence over the EEFs as elsewhere during neolithic.
Steppe ancestry in IEs was diluted by the time that they reached SW Iberia at end of third millennium, in line with other studies. However, there are signs of an Eastern Mediterranean migration to Iberia in Bronze Age or earlier:
There was substantial migration to urban areas in Portugal during the Roman period from Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa. If these samples are representative, about half of the urban population was foreign-derived. Date of the site isn't provided, but was after 100 BC.
Safavids were, like Ottomans, born in obscurity in chaos of mid-13th century Mongol invasions - although as Sufi order rather than as tribal migration. Contrary to later propaganda, Sheikh Safi was not a sayyid or from a Shia background, but he became prominent in a Shia milieu.
Safavid Order had a waqf (charitable endowment) for its benefit by 1305 in Ardabil. Its network of followers expanded in Anatolia, Khorasan, & Mazandaran under aegis of Ilkhanate & some of its successors, but was forced to arm some of its supporters in at least Ardabil.
Timur, the greatest mystic of his era, liked the Safavid Order & granted it additional lands to financially sustain its missionary efforts. However, the Order was squeezed by his sons, who desires to centralize power in the realm.
Thread with excerpts from "Hezbollah: A Short History" by Augustus Richard Norton
Shia birthrates in mid-20th century Lebanon were higher than those of Sunnis & Christians.
from 1950s to 1970s Lebanese Shia typically supported secular parties led by Christians - whether rightist or leftist. Growth of armed Palestinian formations in Lebanon in 1970s drove formation of both coalitional & oppositional Shia organizations.
Thread with excerpts from "Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic" by Michael Axworthy
one reason to find the Iranian Revolution interesting is that it proceeded to follow a non-Western path of development, much like India & China, rather than following the Western path.
Iranian Shia Islam is a more organized & disciplined force than Sunni Islam in most of the rest of the world as the result of an enduring clerical hierarchy (the Sunni Caliphate was dissolved in 1924).