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Kerry descended from Mohammed?
The arch-druid of British paleo-snobs, Harold Brooks-Baker of Burke's Peerage, certainly thinks so:Walking U.N. Perhaps Sen. John Kerry does have an advantage after all over President Bush in understanding the complex political issues of the Middle East. New research by Burke's Peerage reveals that Mr. Kerry is the only presidential candidate in U.S. history who has genealogical descent from Muslims, Jews and Christians. "Senator Kerry ... is a virtual walking United Nations," says Harold Brooks-Baker, publishing director of Burke's. (We would be accused of an infamous calumny if we said that, and justly so.) Mr. Kerry is kinsman of the Shi'ite shahs of Persia (the most famous was Shah Abbas I, who reigned from 1587 to 1629), as well as the Muslim kings of Tunisia, all of whom — Democratic presidential nominee included — descend from the prophet Muhammad. Brooks-Baker has been hyping Kerry's blue blood credentials for quite a while, connecting him to King Harald of Norway among others. My dad converted to the LDS church late in his life and did quite a bit of research on our geneology. It turns out that we descend from a long line of horse-thieves, highwaymen, mercenaries, and barmaids (also the Stuart kings, but that is a bit redundant.) Posted by: 2004-10-02 |
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