Kashmiri genetics

With all that mixture perhaps should call yourself Kosher instead of Koshur! You are being serious? How on earth can a blood test tell you all that? It doesn�t sound right to me. I will stick my neck out and give some relevant information, but am wondering why you don�t already know about the connections. 

Let�s keep on going and add in another religion. Mohammed, the prophet, came over 500 years after Jesus, He said Christ did not die on the cross, another person, Barrabbus, had died in his place. Yuz Asaf (Jesus) and his mother Mary went to India

This traveling Jesus, whether the real person or a disciple, went to the Kashmir valley. One "lost" gospel claims this was the brother of Jesus called James. This prophet died among a community that once made the claim of being a lost tribe of Israel. Another �lost Gospel� here is the Gospel of Thomas. This other brother is ignored by Christians. He definitely did live, went to India and is buried in Goa. His tomb has been on display for the last two thousand years. However his writings show that instead of converting the natives they mostly converted him to vegetarianism, ahinsma and all that sort of thing. He always was the doubting one! 

Meanwhile up in the north, in the capitol of Kashmir, Srinagar, a house has become a temple, revered by the locals as the tomb of this reputed Jesus. In 1741 an Arab historian told of this miracle, "There was a window in the western wall of the tomb out of which the smell of musk used to emanate. A woman and her child came to pay their respects. The child passed urine into the hole, and the woman became insane."

Outside the capitol is a town called Murree (a corruption of Mary) lies the stone grave of Mary. His mother had traveled with him. In 1898 a British officer, Captain Richardson, smashed the tomb for it rested against the wall of a British defense tower. The local women had a tradition of putting flowers around it. He was killed in a riding accident the next week; the locals said inshalla, he was punished by God. 

Traditional Hindu literature like the "Mahabharata" tell of Kashmir and describe it as "the gardens of heaven". The notes of the Greek, Hekataios, who lived between 549 and 486 B.C, refer to this country as the home of an ancient race. The people wore shawls with long tassels, woven from goat hair and wool, first mentioned in 300 B.C. then in 1100 A.D.

The language spoken is distinct from other part of India. Some claim the speech is closer to Hebrew than any other language. Kash-ir (of Kush) is the Kashmiri name for Kashmir and they call their language Kashir (Hebrew for "right"). It has been claimed not a single inscription could be read on the ancient monuments of Kashmir for the ancient language had died out long ago and could not be deciphered. The ancient Kashmiri language and writing is not related to the local Sanskrit but is Semitic in origin. How true all this is I don�t know, perhaps others can provide more information.

After looking through the evidence for and against Koshur�s blood test I can honestly say he got taken for a ride. To test people for a �religious� blood type is a repugnant idea in the first place and that a company should charge so much is outrageous.

Quotes from Wikipedia:

�The Cohen hypothesis was first tested by Prof. Karl Skorecki and collaborators from Haifa, Israel, in 1997. In their study, "Y chromosomes of Jewish priests," published in the journal Nature, they found that the Kohanim appeared to share a different probability distribution compared to the rest of the Jewish population for the two Y-chromosome markers they tested (YAP and DYS 19); and that furthermore the probabilities appeared to be shared by both Sephardi and Ashkenazi Cohens, pointing to a common Cohen population origin before the Jewish diaspora at the time of the Roman empire. ..

The finding led to excitement in religious circles, with some seeing it as providing some "proof" of the historical veracity of the Bible or other religious convictions, but there was also criticism that the paper's evidence was being overstated. One source of early confusion was a widespread popular notion that only Cohens or only Jews could have the Cohen Modal Haplotype.

It is now clear that this is not the case. The Cohen Modal Haplotype, whilst notably frequent amongst Cohens, is also far from unusual in the general populations of haplogroups J1 and J2 with no particular link to the Cohen ancestry. These haplogroups occur widely throughout the Middle East and beyond. So whilst many Cohens have haplotypes close to the CMH, a far larger number of such haplotypes worldwide belong to people with no likely Cohen connection at all. Critics of the theory point out that the Cohen Modal Haplotype has also been found in significant numbers in groups of non-Jews, notably Italians.

Although membership in the Jewish community is traditionally passed maternally, membership in the group that originally comprised the Jewish priesthood ("Kohens" or Kohanim), is patrilineal, and modern Kohens claim descent from Aaron, brother of Moses.�