so they are not white but a mix of mongolian, turks, and other arab descendants . plus they were conquered by lots of other tribes,VMI77 wrote:K.Mooneyham wrote:I guess that liberal-progressive/leftist writer from Slate needs to turn on the TV, or perhaps take a look at some Internet news and see who the bombers really were...as it appears they were Chechens, not "white guys" in the standard use of the phrase...and perhaps Islamists, too.
White enough for media purposes.
a blurp from wiki for what its worth
"Outside Russia, countries with significant Chechen diaspora populations are Turkey, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and the Middle East (especially Jordan and Iraq, where they are mainly descendants of people who had to leave Chechnya during the Caucasian War (which led to the annexation of Chechnya by the Russian Empire around 1850) and the 1944 Stalinist deportation in the case of Kazakhstan."