16/08/2021
This picture is as warm and colorful as the true people of Afghanistan's heart.
Always sharing and caring.
As different as we might look, it was easy for me to connect with afghans. They always do their best to make strangers feel welcome. I have no words to described what I've heard from friend stuck there, what I saw on social media and what I read on various articles. It's painful, they don't deserve this. Actually nobody deserve this. The suffering and the sadness is indescriptible.
Talibans are some of the worst terrorist there is on the planet. And not all of them are actually from Afghanistan.
Bear with me:
There are mainly four peoples in Afghanistan: the Tajiks, the Uzbeks, the Hazaras (of Mongolian origin, but speaking a Persian dialect with a Shiite majority), and the Pashtuns. The Uzbeks are present in the north as well as in Uzbekistan, the Tajiks speak an Iranian language and are in majority Sunni, living in the West, the North-East and in Tajikistan. The Taliban are mainly from the Pashtuns, estimated at 15 million inhabitants. The "hard core" of the movement comes from the southern Pashtun tribes, who supplied much of the refugees to Pakistan. Depending on their vicissitudes, the Taliban will gain and then lose the support of most of the Pashtun tribal leaders.
Originally, the Taliban were students of Deobandi religious schools established in refugee camps in Pakistan. During the Soviet withdrawal, they expand their activity on Afghan territory. They went left and start use guns early after they invaded Afghanistan. The regime imposed by the Taliban was based on a strict and literal respect for THEIR VISION OF Islam. They took over the country from 1996 to 2001. But got beat in 2001 the country never fully recovered from this nightmare were almost 500k people died. The army of the taliban at one point went up to 30k wannabe soldiers...
May Allah protect them🙏🏾
