Re: Documentary: Return of the Taliban
How can you call separate ethnic groups of Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras as PERSIANS?!
Here is a little lesson on our neighbors:
PERSIANS - Persians are the biggest ethnic group in Iran, but all Iran is not Persian. For example, Ayatullah Khamenei is actually Azeri.
Persians formed the first Iranian empire along with Medes, through their famed king Cyrus. Since Persians were majority in that state, so the whole state was named after them, and was called Persia.
Now here is an important point. The word 'IRANIAN' is not equivalent to 'PERSIAN'. Because Persians are considered one of many Iranian people (Iranian branch of Indo-Aryans). Other Iranian people are Tajik, Baloch, Pashtun, Kurd, etc.
TAJIKS - As we saw above, Tajiks are NOT Persians. Just like Baloch and Pashtuns, Tajiks are also not Persians. Tajiks speak a dialect of Persian language, called Dari (Tajiki?).
UZBEK - Uzbeks have absolutely nothing to do with Iran and Persians. Uzbeks are Turko-Mongol people of Central Asia. They speak Turkish language.
HAZARA - Like Uzbeks, Hazara also have no affinity to Persian people. Hazara are Mongoloid people, who speak Dari, a dialect of Persian language.
So you see that being 'non-Pashtun' does not mean being 'Persian'.
Now about Pakistan supporting Pashtuns for being 'pure Pashtun', well, that is what I am saying. Pakistan ISI supported Taliban for theire being 'Pashtun', and not necessarily for their religion. Because other non-Pashtun population of Afghanistan is Muslim as well. So there was no question of religion. Pakistani ISI tried to impose their favorite ethnic group over all Afghanistan.
Now what will be the reaction of those non-Pashtuns towards Pakistan? Off course, they will hate Pakistan, and that's what they do now.
So why do Pakistanis condemn them for their being anti-Pakistan? It is our own army who nurtured this terrible group called Taliban, and tried to conquer our own fellow Muslims in the name of JIHAD.
And while they were waging their Jihad against fellow Muslims based on ethnicity, I wonder where the talks of "Islamic brotherhood" were gone?
Hypocricy or what?