Every interesting. There was a Christian OG came to my house today to talk to me about God, and he accepted that Hmong actually came from Iraq. He even argued that toj kab ntsig dawm kab no is just over at the boarder of china and Vietnam and daus xib daus npu is just somewhere in Russia. Furthermore, he said that the taw kev only drop the hmong soul half way, somewhere in Russia, and doesn't take the soul all the way to Iraq. Seems like Hmong Christians accept this notion that hmong came from the Middle East and was one of the lost tribe ofIsrael.
I'm a simple man, and I like to put this hmong origin issue in a simple way once and for all. I believe within the last seven thousand years, hmong have been where they are today, south and central china, and that's where hmong originated from. The genetic theory confirmed this. It lacked all the evidences suggested that Hmong came from Siberia, Mongolia, or Middle East. I don't think a single people can trace its root further than five thousands years old. Even the chinese don't know where they came from beyond that period of time. Since nobody knows beyond that time, who cares!
I also believe the taw kev is simply something for the soul, and its physical path does not exist on any physical land on this earth. Interpreting the taw kev for a physical reality is simply impossible as interpreting dreams.
Not until science can prove that homo sapien sapien evolves in the Middle East, I will never accept that Hmong came from there, even though I know that some scholar such as Zacheria Sitchen had some convincing information that human being was created my alien, the one we call God, in a laboratory in Mesopotamia some 40,000 years ago to be their slave.