Reddit mentions of Beyond the Exotic: Women's Histories in Islamic Societies (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)

How much of my response did you read? I thought I made it clear that 1) I am not the author 2) I don't think these similarities definitively prove anything 3) I make no claims, I simply take issue with your "rebuttal" which accuses the blogger of "grasping at straws."

Again, my point is this: parallels are being drawn between diverse cultures and civilizations on account of similar symbolic imagery all the time. This doesn't prove anything as far as the Book of Mormon is concerned, but connections are there and some may be worth exploring for other reasons.

Scholarship:

For starters, I already referenced the mythologist, Joseph Campbell. In "The Mythic Image," Campbell briefly examines parallels between this "Rattlesnake Disc" and Tibetan imagery.

Amira E. Sonbol is a professor of Islamic history at Georgetown. She wrote a book called, "Beyond the Exotic: Women's Histories in Islamic Societies" where she links the Hamsa to the Hand of Fatima, to the Mano Pantea (which I referenced before) and other ancient representations of the symbol from remote cultures.

Charles Orser explored the connections between the Spanish "figa," Victorian good luck fists, and plantation slave charms... arguing that they are likely descendants of the hamsa or Hand of Fatima.

Dagmar Painter, the curator of Gallery Al Quds at the Jerusalem Fund in Washington DC, has discussed hand iconography in the Middle East and even in Native American cultures. See a video of her discussing these links.

Again, this doesn't prove anything. But given some of the examples I provided above, I think it's safe to say that your dismissal is too heavy-handed. So the hand in the "Rattlesnake Disc" doesn't hold the Eye in its palm... The Mano Pantea often doesn't hold the Eye at all... the Figa is merely a fist, and the hamsa (which is undoubtedly an earlier form of the Hand of Fatima), often looks nothing like a hand... but by your standards and lack of expertise, these connections would be disregarded on grounds of "pseudoscience."