Betzalel:
I think you are correct that “There were Jews in Yemen before there were any Muslims there” BUT the term “simanim” that they use for their peyot IS because of the reason mentioned above.
“helpful”:
Do you feel better now that you got in your daily dig at the terrible Zionists? Of course I agree that what you referred to WAS a very terrible thing, so should I now mention a thousand wonderful things done by Zionists? The point is that what you wrote about is NOT what this thread is about.
How about if all the vicious anti-Zionists try to, at least, keep their comments for articles and CR threads that have to do with Israel.