Hazaras of Afghanistan support NATO and do not want the Taliban to return

[psyah]

Re: Hazaras of Afghanistan support NATO and do not want the Taliban to return

@khoji

psyah:

1. That may be your personal opinion. But Pakistan govt and intelligence agencies actually created and helped Taliban try to conquer Afghanistan.

2. Why do you think NA is anti-democratic?
   And why do you say Western democratic powers made them? No. NA was formed by people who were against Taliban, and it was created when there was no Western power in Afghanistan.

3. The example you gave tells that this guy joined Taliban to stop Taliban massacring Hazara. He didn’t join them because of supporting their policies.

4. They did kill a lot of Hazaras, sort of ethnic cleansing, but I don’t think anybody said it was due to racism. They selectively killed Hazaras because Hazaras are mostly shia while Taliban follow extremist violent brand of religion which allows killing of anyone disagreeing with their teachings.

Peace khoji

I’ve numbered your points above my answers are numbered accordingly:

1. What I said I said about whether it was right to accept America come in to Afghanistan heavy handed or to accept Taliban rule. Pakistan government who are somewhat misaligned to the public supported US quite a few years back to form the Taliban … that does not mean that today Pakistan government accepts them today … and on the whole the public realise that something has gone wrong. It was the meddling of the West that created Taliban and the meddling of the West that took them down. But alas it may be my personal opinion … I just wanted to say that my point was about the ethical justification for going in to Afghanistan by the West and that Pakistanis in general today will not agree with either option.

2. NA were put in power by displacing another regime by force hence anti-democratic

3. But the example I gave showed that even Hazaras constituted Taliban and I showed this to demonstrate that in reality many Hazaras who feature on western media use the term Taliban against their Pashtun neighbours not really criticising Islam but the practices of Pashtuns … I feel this is a tactic designed to play up to the West by many a reporter.

4. I was not talking about the reasons why the Hazara have been persecuted by the Pashtuns. In tribalism and tribal cultures it does not take much to start wars. To blame Taliban for that is wrong … to blame Shari’ah for that is wrong … even in the most harshest manifestation the Taliban ideology did not do that … Pashtun members of Taliban could have abused their power and orchestrated some dire actions, but I don’t believe it is correct to say Hazaras were persecuted because they were Shi’a … but rather because they were already being persecuted and for that matter they didn’t accept the rule of Taliban and hence were considered rebels. These reasons would be more accurate.