Omar Khayyam Lives. Are Pigs Our Nearest Relatives? The Irrefutable Evidence
Khayyam Lives:“They say the Lion and the Lizard keep
The Courts where Jamsheed gloried and drank deep:
And Bahram, that great Hunter--the Wild Ass
Stamps o'er his Head, and he lies fast asleep.”
Omar Khayyam of Nishapur, whose 961st birthday was on May 15
(Fitzgerald translation)
Even the fundamentalist government of Iran continues to celebrate the great poet (my favorite poet), mathematician, philosopher, among other things that he was.
The pigs and us, the pigs in us:
“With the advent of summer, as temperatures rise, chances improve to resist the swine flu and its effects on humans…The former director of the regional influenza center of the WHO in Cairo says that temperatures exceeding 83 degrees weaken and kill the virus. This explains why the virus speads faster in Europe than in the Middle East…He said that pigs carry the same viruses as humans and birds….Pigs are more dangerous too humans than other infected animals, because genetically pigs are similar to humans….” Taleea
There is evidence from everyday life that pigs are indeed our closest relatives. In many cases we can manage to out-pig the pigs. The evidence is more than anecdotal, and it can be gathered all over the globe.
Which doesn't explain the Egyptian war of extermination against our newly-found cousins. The War on Pigs was largely taken by the Christian Copts as a war on them, and rightly so, since everybody (everybody outside Egypt and the the Arab world, apparently) knows that pigs will not infect a person. Yet the government pandered to Muslim extremists (and perhaps to Wahhabi influence from across the Red Sea) and mobilized the armed forces to wage a war of extermination on swine. One might add: a war of choice not necessity.
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