We need to distinguish between East Asians (Orientals, Mongoloids) and West Asians (Semites, Iranians, Kurds etc)

It is possible that the Mulekites did not come to the Malay Peninsula by boat. I did a post on the Lost 10 tribes (click here to read it). There’s a really interesting video by a Jewish fellow named Simcha Jacobovici called Quest for the Lost Tribes. Simcha believes he has found the Tribe of Manasseh in Burma. He believes the Assyrians/Babylonians purposely moved the Tribe of Manasseh to Burma. If DNA evidence supports this claim, I think it would be a very interesting piece of independent evidence for Dr. Olsen.

I think you might also enjoy this post I did on the Lemba Tribe of Africa. They have been able to trace their DNA back to Jewish roots.

There are some things I really like about this Malay theory.

If all three of those groups could find the same landing so easily without maps etc. then the answer should be much more evident to us. We should be looking for a more obvious solution, a location that would have been easily found by all three groups.

I am not a linguist, so I can’t provide much insight into your question. However, the names I mentioned (Teincun/Teancum, Manoron/Moron) would be Jaredite, a language we don’t know much about. So it would be difficult to find linguistic connections.

Similar place names would be just a curious way to support the more evident cultural and geographical relationships.

But perhaps the most interesting parallels are with the local tribes that inhabit these hills. The Karen people claim that there was once a family of seven brothers in their land. This family later divided into three tribes which were led by three brothers. The older two brothers with darker skin represent the Karen people and the Burmese people respectively. The younger brother was somehow white.

All seven brothers were given a golden book of life containing the wisdom of the God Y’wa. The older brothers were preoccupied with mundane affairs and neglected the books, so the pale-skinned younger brother took the last golden book and sailed off to the West. The Karen people still wait for their fair-skinned younger brother to bring back the golden book.

Many prophet cults such as the Lehkai based on these legends still thrive in these hills, and still await the return of the white brother and the golden book from the West. It is said that this event will restore prosperity and freedom to their land and will lead to the return of their savior Y’wa.

I would say that these parallels merit consideration, especially when considering that the Mala Theory also resolves all Book of Mormon anachronisms (i.e. elephants, horses, chariots, metallurgy etc.) as well as DNA, linguistic and geographical inconsistencies. If all this was found anywhere in the Americas there would surely be interest. So why would we ignore it just because its all found in Burma?