During early conquests, "European blondes" were selectively shipped to the Middle East as slaves and concubines.
Ah, makes sense.
And also, weren’t the Turks and Barbary pirates constantly raiding northern European countries to take slaves for like centuries? Which would also explain the European look of a lot of the Middle Eastern peoples. It’s another reason why I can’t stand all the bellyaching about slavery in the US these days, white Europeans had to deal with centuries of enslavement too, a fact our media constantly tries to cover up or ignore all together. And it seems there was a lot of it.
Some picture examples a friend just emailed me— can totally see a European concubine somewhere in this Syrian girl’s history
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8318/8035325078_6131b7eca6_z.jpg
She looks a bit like the Syrian blonde girl I saw in Malmo Sweden, though the girl at the salad stall was even blonder than her, like I said she looked more Vikings that most of the Swedes. This woman too
http://i.imgur.com/0Uf75Uk.jpg
And these are Afghans
http://i0.wp.com/www.burqasandbeer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/haz2.jpg?w=875
http://i2.wp.com/www.burqasandbeer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/afghanman_arte.jpg?w=500
http://i2.wp.com/www.burqasandbeer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/pahuten-redhair.png?w=405
http://i2.wp.com/www.burqasandbeer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/kalash_1486002c.jpg?w=460
Sometimes I wish I studied history or anthropology or something like that in college, the background on this must be fascinating
