The overwhelming majority of Afghanistan's people are Muslim, around 99.7%, with between 85–90% Sunni and 10–15% Shia. The final one percent includes about 20,000 Baha'is, and 3,000–5,000 Christians. Only one Bukharan Jewish man, Zablon Simintov (born 1959), remains in the country...
Sunni jihadis bomb Shia children at school. 85 dead. The majority of the casualties were girls between 11 and 15 years old. Poisoning school children (apparently): Taliban campaign of attacking girls' schools with poison gas. These animals even gas little girls at primary school. Afghan ...
Hi , their main difference is their root to their sunni sects which Taliban roots back to Hanafi school but on the other hand Daesh and al-Qaida roots back to Hanbali school which in their history both sects have been enemies of each other which both sects have common enmity toward Shia ...
ReligionsMuslim 99.7% (Sunni 84.7 - 89.7%, Shia 10 - 15%), other 0.3% (2009 est.)Muslim 93%, Christian 6.4%, Buddhist <1%, folk religion <1%, Jewish <1%, other <1%, unspecified <1% (2020 est.) HIV/AIDS - deaths<1,000 (2020 est.)NA ...
Pashto is the primary language spoken, with Dari being used as well. The majority of Kandahar’s residents are Sunni Muslims, though there is a small minority of Shia Muslims. Economy of Kandahar Kandahar’s economy is primarily based on agriculture, trade, and services. The surrounding regi...
then against various Sunni and Shiite insurgencies, and now against the Islamic State. Given the paradigm — a threat to our way of life — pulling out is never an option, even though it would remove the “American Satan” card from the IS propaganda deck. To pull out means to leave beh...
There is a reason why the Taliban keeps the Sunni Hanafi tradition paramount and does not flaunt its majority Pashtun aspect too much. 2. ||| “This is where strategic good sense needs to inform India’s Afghanistan decisions. Delhi can play the old game of tightening the pincer on Pakis...
In Iraq, theUS unleashed Shia death squad unitsagainst “the Sunni population as well as the insurgents and their supporters and anyone else who was unlucky enough to get in the way.It was a classic counterinsurgency,” the Guardian reported. “It was also letting a lethal, sectarian genie ...
Uzbeks are another important tribes living in the Northern Afghanistan, along with the Tajiks. Their dialect is known as Uzbeki. Just like the Pashtuns they are also Sunni muslims. There are a variety of occupations that the Uzbeks practiced, some are engaged in farming or herding while some ...
written and taught by the winners, we would end up seeing a Shia narrative against a Sunni narrative in Iraq and a Pashtun narrative against one of Tajiks or Hazaras in Afghanistan. This is indeed the case in contemporary Bosnia-Herzegovina, where each of the three ethnicities--Bosniaks, Se...