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2006-03-28 Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2006-03-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I believe that Taliban and Al-Qaeda formed an integrated entity. Pashto are the most slavishly Arabist peoples in the World. We should look at them as voluntary beasts of burden, for Arabs. Where I live, Arabs compete with Pakis for taxicab jobs. The master race in action.

Posted by Listen to Dogs 2006-03-28 01:52|| 2006-03-28 01:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Listen to Dogs

You know nothing about Pashtouns so shut up. Mullah Omar could have been in awe when he saw an Arab but he was more or less the only one to feel like this.

I have visited Pashtoun sites some of them visited by Islamists and even between them the majority had little esteem for the Arabs. A recurring sentence was: "Pashtouns adopted Islam voluntarily. An Arab invasion would had not gone ten miles in Pashtoun land". In fact during the war against teh Russians most Pashtouns guerrillas would not allow Arabs to fight.

That is for the Islamists, then you have the traditionalists who basically say "We want Pashtunwali and not Shariah. This is Arab" (textual excerpt from a nationalist website).

And then you have Pashtouns who dream about democracy and talk about how the Hadj allows Arabs from Arabia to make Ze Big Bucks.

For the Taliban, these were Pashtoun boys who had been brainwashed since childhood in madrassas in Pakistan (often located out of Pashtoun areas). Even between them there was resentment about Mullah Omar's kneeling in front of Arabs.

BTW: Yesterday you also said stupid things about France's judiciary system. Cound you please turn seven times your tongue, or still better your keyboard, in your mouth before posting? Thank you in advance.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-03-28 04:25|| 2006-03-28 04:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Of course the sample I am basing for my harsh words about "Pashtouns are the most Arabist people in the world" is composed exclusively of Pashtouns with some class of net access and being able to write a minimum of English (even if at times is very broken English and interspersed with some Pashto), so you could argue that my sample is not representative. I agree about that but allow me to be sceptical about Pashtoons being in awe about Arabs.

Oh, while we are at it, while scanning archives I stumbled upon a post of none other than Golbodin Hekmatyar (posted before teh fall of the Taliban).

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-03-28 07:27|| 2006-03-28 07:27|| Front Page Top

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