The progressive media whitewashes the misdeeds of the Taliban, even as the good jihadis put a bullet in someone’s head, splattering blood all over. To say, however, that all their hate is targeted at non-Muslims would be wrong: the Taliban have slaughtered Muslims also, that is, the Muslims who were not Muslim enough for the Taliban’s liking.
Between the 4th and 5th of July this year, nine men from Afghanistan’s Haraza community were slaughtered by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Six of them were shot dead, while the other three were tortured to death. Thirty families fled and took shelter in their summer grazing land in the mountains. This brutality is just the latest example of the longstanding discrimination against this ethnic minority in predominantly Sunni Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan, as the Hazaras belong to the Shia Muslim group. “The cold-blooded brutality of these killings is a reminder of the Taliban’s past record, and a horrifying indicator of what Taliban rule may bring,” said Amnesty’s secretary-general Agnès Callamard.
The Hazaras, owing to their linguistic, cultural and moral differences, have eternally been the target of the Taliban. They bear somewhat Asiatic facial features that distinguish them from other Afghans. It is believed that they are descendants of Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongol empire.
Until 1880, the Harazas made up 67% of the total population of the region and owned lands that were collectively known as Hazaristan. They were a prosperous and self-sufficient community that grew their own food, fruits, and grains, and engaged in other farm activities. In 1889, Abdur Rahman Khan emerged as the Emir of Afghanistan. Though history books credit him with uniting Afghanistan after years of internal clashes, Khan was a Sunni fundamentalist with the firm belief that all Shia and non-Muslims must be given extreme punishment for the sin of simply existing.
Beginning in 1890, the Emir commended the well-deliberated massacre of the Hazaras; some were slaughtered while some were captured and turned into slaves. Officials were given permission to torture the Hazaras as they liked, which resulted in unspeakable atrocities being perpetrated upon the victimized community. They were banned from owning properties or weapons; their lands were systematically depopulated and its ownership transferred to the Pashtuns. Large portions of the Hazara demography disappeared from the face of the earth during this time. But in 1892, the community staged their first action against the Afghans, after a Hazara woman was raped by 33 Afghani soldiers. But the Afghans came down heavily in retaliation. Men and children of the Hazara community were captured and traded as slaves. In 1893, 47 Hazara women chose to jump off a cliff to their deaths than being taken away as sex slaves by the Afghanis.
This legacy of jihad against the Harazas has been inherited by the Taliban, who do not consider the Hazaras to be Muslims and therefore believe that killing them is not morally wrong. After the Islamic group seized power in Afghanistan in 1996, they again declared jihad on the Hazaras, who were subjected to subjugation and severe oppression in the years that followed. Thousands of them were compelled to flee their homes to save their lives after a series of mass slaughters in northern Afghanistan killed innumerable Hazaras.
On August 8, 1998, the Taliban entered Mazar-i-Sharif and carried out one of the deadliest Hazara massacres of recent times. They drove up and down the narrow streets of the city randomly shooting at shopkeepers, cart-pullers and pedestrians. Even goats and donkeys were not spared. They went from door to door hunting for young males, and killed them by shooting them or slitting their throats in front of their families. Some were shoved into trailers and left to die of suffocation or heat. World Hazara Council Chairman Akram Gizabi claims that close to 20,000 Hazaras were murdered by the Taliban in the genocide of 1998. The dead were denied a burial for days; the corpses rotted in the heat and street dogs feasted on them until the stench became unbearable and the jihadis started fearing an outbreak of epidemics.
Right after returning to power in 2021, the Taliban jihadis blew up the Hazara leader Abdul Ali Mazari’s statue in Bamiyan. Mazari was a Shiite political leader of the Hezb-e-Wahdat party who was abducted and tortured to death by the Taliban in 1995. His mutilated body was recovered in Ghazni.
Though the apologists of Islam swear by the principle of equality among their various sects, reports of gory incidents speak otherwise. The treatment of the Ahmadiyya in Pakistan is just another proof of the infighting within Islam, but that is a discussion for another day.
I AM THE INFIDEL YOUR IMAM WARNED YOU ABOUT says
One question I have to ask – “Is the above article posted by Ashlyn Davis his own work or was it plagiarized?”
I just found the very same word for word article on NIAJOANPOINT MEDIA authored and published by Fenderline Walter, today, September 2, 2021
See link below
https://www.naijaonpoint.com.ng/the-talibans-jihad-on-the-hazaras-for-not-being-the-right-kind-of-muslim/
gravenimage says
Many Jihad Watch stories originate from other sources.
commonsense says
I suspect that Ashlyn Davis is a nom de guerre.
Infidel says
I strongly suspect that: her description of things going on in the subcontinent strongly suggest that she’s an Indian, and not an Anglo one at that
gravenimage says
The Taliban’s jihad on the Hazaras for not being the right kind of Muslim
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The Taliban was committing genocide against the Shia Hazara last time they were in power. Their blowing up the statue of Abdul Ali Mazari’s statue in Bamiyan (that, and the fact that they hate statues, of course) shows that they are going to take up where they left off.
“Afghanistan: Taliban responsible for brutal massacre of Hazara men”
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/08/afghanistan-taliban-responsible-for-brutal-massacre-of-hazara-men-new-investigation/
And thank you for the information about Hazarastan and Abdur Rahman Khan. One bit of the bloody history of Islam I was not familiar with.
Kepha says
Or, could it be, that the Hazaras remind the Pashtuns and Tajiks that way back when, Hulegu Khan pacified their country by tactics that would get Western soldiers court-martialed?
gravenimage says
Could be, Kepha–except that Sunni Muslims also oppress and murder Shia Muslims elsewhere as well. They regard Shi’ites as heretics.
Infidel says
Genghiz, at Herat. Hulegu did his operations in today’s Iran and Iraq: Afghanistan was the job of Ögedei Khan, Genghiz’s second son who ultimately succeeded him, and Chagatai Khan, whose inherited empire included most of today’s Afghanistan
But yeah, the myth about Afghanistan being a graveyard of empires: it wasn’t the graveyard of the Chagatai empire, which imploded on its own
gravenimage says
+1
Infidel says
Also, the Mongols used tactics very similar to what the Arabs and Turks did before them in conquering that country
Renanah Goldhar-Gemeiner says
Afghan resistance fighters hold out against Taliban in Panjshir. Who are these people?. Are they – along with the Yezidi on Mt. Sinjar who say ” The Mountain will be our grave” (rather than surrender their last hold out of their 7000 year old indigenous land) , and the murdered Israeli soldier and Yeshiva student – part of the last stand agaist Islamic Jihad? Laura Logan said that if the US does not help these Afghans fighting totalitarianism – as they describe t Thier motive – there will likely be a bloodbath and American ideal will be lost. Who are these people? Do they have food? Are they frightened of the torture that likely awaits them? If they stand for what they say, if they represent opposition to Jihad totalitari sm – they WHY are we not supporting them? Is this the Warsaw ghetto uprising? How can we go about our daily lives without being stopped in our tracks, weeping for the and trying in whatever way we can to help?How can we help? Write letters like this? Conact Veternas groups in the US or Canada? Are there any Veteran or other groups trying to help these Afghan Jihad resisters?
gravenimage says
Renanah, I’m afraid this is *nothing* like the Yezidi on Mt Srinjar.
This is the National Resistance Front, a reincarnation of the Northern Alliance rebel group. These are all Sunni Muslims, like the Taliban, although some of them are ethnic Tajiks (the Taliban are Pashtun). They call themselves the “Mujahideen resistance”–in other words, they are rival Jihadists.
Here’s what a prominent member, Sediqullah Shuja, had to say:
….the reasons for the removal of the Taliban from the Andarab valley towns was the Taliban’s searching of private houses, which was perceived as a violation of the agreement by which the Taliban had been allowed to take military control of the towns. Shuja stated that the Taliban entered houses “and harassed people. In our villages, people are very traditional and Muslim. There is no reason for Taliban to come and teach us about Islam.”
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These are not Anti-Jihadists, I’m afraid. This is more just jockeying for power. None of these factions support any kind of freedom or democracy.