Ah! Sure, everyone knows that Irish is the oldest language 'cause it was spoken by God himself, besides which it's got a short alphabet.

Here's some DNA gene stuff which I'm ignorant about but seems to link Persian Scythians with Lithuania:

"Time to have a look at the Scythian steppe warrior from the Mathieson et al. dataset. This is the first Scythian individual to be genotyped.

He comes from the Volga steppes of 380-200 cal BCE and belongs to Y-chromosome haplogroup R1a, which is the dominant Y-haplogroup in Scythian and related remains tested to date.

His genome-wide data puts him closest to Northeast and Northwest Europeans from among present-day populations,.

Identical-by-State (IBS) similarity

Lithuanian 0.645247
Estonian 0.645233
Latvian 0.645024
Russian_Kostroma 0.644946
Norwegian 0.644754
Belorussian 0.644727
Swedish 0.644667
Polish 0.644664
Austrian 0.644639
Danish 0.644587
English_Cornwall 0.644556"

iftikhar posted this topic and adding .uk to his link gives an article he wrote. He won't discuss it , just posts and that's all.
great.
He wrote " There will be hardly any difference between future Multifaith schools and present state schools because British teachers have no respect for Islamic faith and Muslim community.
.. There are no shortages of state schools where Muslim pupils are in majority, such schools may be designated as Muslim schools under the management and control of Muslim educational Trust or Charities. . State funded Muslim schools need Muslim teachers. Highly qualified teachers can be recruited from Muslim countries for the teaching of National Curriculum, Islamic Studies, Arabic and Urdu languages so that Muslim children do not find themselves cut off from their cultural and linguistic roots. The study of Comparative religions is not required because Islam teaches respect, tolerance and understanding of those who are different from them."
That's it , good night and shut up.

Speaking of schools, and while we are on the subject of integration, this quote from Peter O'Brien about refusing to shake hands with women, from a Quadrant article, goes a long way:

"Many would argue that respect for this particular religious practice is vastly outweighed by the need for Muslims to adapt and accept the mores of the societies in which they wish to live — the equality of women being not merely one of them but a key element.

In this regard a little backbone on the part of educators might go a long way toward promoting such integration. Of course,  before they do that, the initial step would be to recognise that equality is a rather more valuable concept than the exaltation of identity politics."

Yes, from Quadrant, that right-wing rag - you might have to wait a bit longer to see anything like this in a left-wing rag. But what does he write which is contestable ? Isn't gender equality far more crucial than some misogynistic aspect of identity politics, than some craven caving-in to the bigotry of some small religious sect within Islam ?

Doesn't 'integration' require the recognition by newcomers of gender equality ? Yes indeed, the concept is hostile to Shari'a and most other backward and thoroughly out-dated religious beliefs, but that's us, here, now, Austalia - surely gender equality is part of being Australian in 2017 ?

I look forward to the day when feminism is awakened in Australia, when women stand up for their equality before all misogynists. I'llstandwithyouthen#

Joe

Dear Joe,

Gender equality in Australia?

The ABS link is interesting:

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject/4125.0~Aug%202015~Media%20Release~Still%2

cont'd ...

I'll try again:

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject/4125.0~Aug%202015~Media%20Release~Still%2