In Reply to: Two latest talking points I'm seeing posted by DSCBruin on March 06, 2026 at 23:46:01
There's no question about that. But the "Aryan" part is interesting. They are indeed Aryans in the sense that Indians use the term: Their linguistic lineage goes to Indo-European rather than something else (Dravidian in the case of Indians). This is not true in the sense that the term "Aryan" has come to denote the in the western world, however. In our parlance, the term refers to Northern and Western Europeans. Not Slavs. Not Southern Europeans. Not anyone else -- most certainly no Iranians, Kurds, or Pakistanis, Afghanis, or Indians (all of whom speak an Indoe-European language).
So I suspect that this is Iranian expats pushing this narrative out, trying to change the perspective of the American right.
Sure. Islam was imposed on many nations initially. But then subsequent generations grew up in the tradition and fully embraced it as their heritage. So much that the Iranian people chose to side with the Shia side of the divide. They've had centuries of spiritual investment in Islam. They can't act like that was just pretend.