(Comment to a misleading CNN report, part XII.)
What are you telling are the feverish claims repeated in different forms by ethnic cleansers throughout the globe. They are always the true natives and others are somehow alien to the land from which they must be driven out.
The great poet and mystic Mawlana al-Rumi was, to translate his name, Mawlana the Roman. He was from Balkh, in Afghanistan. He happened to spent most of his life in the sultanate of Rûm - the sultanate of Rome aka the Western Seldzuk Empire in eastern Anatolia.
In same manner, an American Jew with a last name of Berlin doesn't necessarily have to do much with the German capital or an American with a last name Washington doesn't have to be connected to either the US capital or the US state.
Names, as it happens, tend to lie quite often, especially as most people until very recently didn't have any true, set last names.
The great poet and mystic Mawlana al-Rumi was, to translate his name, Mawlana the Roman. He was from Balkh, in Afghanistan. He happened to spent most of his life in the sultanate of Rûm - the sultanate of Rome aka the Western Seldzuk Empire in eastern Anatolia.
In same manner, an American Jew with a last name of Berlin doesn't necessarily have to do much with the German capital or an American with a last name Washington doesn't have to be connected to either the US capital or the US state.
Names, as it happens, tend to lie quite often, especially as most people until very recently didn't have any true, set last names.
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