Book XXXV: The Aryan Forgery
The Reich's Search for a Religion. Book XXXV of the Foundation of Asha's Codex, The Library That Does Not Burn. A linguistic category converted to a race by forgery; the private hostility, the eastern expeditions, and the Four Tells run on the theft of this volume's own philology.
Read Book XXXV in full at foundationofasha.com → These lines are its claims, one sentence each; the argument behind each one is there.
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1Ārya is a self-designation of Indo-Iranian speakers, linguistic and cultural, never biological.
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2The "Aryan race" is a forgery.
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3The discipline objected while it was happening.
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4The standard alibi is false. There was never a settled scientific consensus equating language families with races that was later corrected.
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5"Positive Christianity" was a legal formula, not a theology.
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6The English Hitler's Table Talk is contaminated evidence and this Book will not use it.
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7The case for private hostility survives without it.
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8The weakness thesis is a confession.
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9Nietzsche was looted too. The text most often used to make him a proto-Nazi is a compilation assembled from his notebooks by a sister married into the antisemitic movement.
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10Nazi policy toward Islam was instrumental and it failed.
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11Muslims were not a target category of Nazi racial policy, they were courted and exempted, and hundreds of Muslim prisoners of war were shot anyway by mistake.
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12The Ahnenerbe was chartered with its conclusion.
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13The regime refused to declare Iranians Aryan.
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14The Roma and Sinti are the proof that the criterion was never the criterion.
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15The four tells fire at maximum on the Aryan myth.
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16This Book publishes what it refused.
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17Comparative Indo-European linguistics predates the abuse, survived it, and is practiced today by the scholars this Codex cites.
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18The Codex's Persian thesis runs opposite to the Nazi one.
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19The Reich never found a religion. Ten attempts in twelve years produced not one doctrine, not one rite, and not one believer who kept faith with it after 1945.
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20A regime can seize a state, a canon, and a symbol and still fail to manufacture a religion.
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