And who benefits?
"Dispute over Afghan election continues to fuel tension; Pashtun majority takes hit, minority Hazaras get a boost" by Pamela Constable, Washington Post / December 26, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan — Ethnic chauvinism, which has long bedeviled this fiercely tribal country and fueled a destructive civil war in the early 1990s, is erupting again in a tense dispute over recent parliamentary elections.
That easily describes Israel, too.
The election, held in turbulent wartime conditions, disenfranchised several hundred thousand voters from the ethnic Pashtun majority and unexpectedly empowered the long-persecuted Hazara minority.
The fight has brought the political system to a standstill, pitted fledgling democratic institutions against one another and raised the specter of sectarian strife.
Seems to follow in the wake of AmeriKan occupations, doesn't it? Intermarrying and worshiping for centuries without mosques and shrines blowing up -- until we get there.
It has also further weakened the grip of President Hamid Karzai, a Pashtun, whose ethnic support is splintering under the combined pressure and persuasion of Taliban insurgents based in many rural Pashtun enclaves.
Related: The Secret History of Afghanistan
Why Obama Went to Afghanistan
Beginning to understand where the pressure may be coming from?
Who validated the results of the election again?
The Hazaras, meanwhile, are feeling their oats. Highly organized and motivated, this fast-rising Shi’ite Muslim group has essentially become a political party. It is eagerly embracing Afghanistan’s imperfect new democratic system as a steppingstone to power while larger, Sunni Muslim ethnic groups remain caught up in personality-based politics and warlord rivalries....
Sunni politics sound like our own, Americans.
Related: Iran Interfering in Afghanistan
And when Iran starts making ties with a Shi'ite political party we can accuse them of interfering again!
Of course, 100,000+ troops invading and occupying over lies is not interfering.
It is a remarkable sign of progress that the contretemps has not come to blows, and that both winning and losing candidates are politely waiting for an official decision....
Yeah, you know those Muslims! Honestly, readers, I am glad the Globe is cutting me off.
I'm tired of page after page of Muslim-hating propaganda.
The Hazara-Pashtun conflict is especially enduring. It parallels both the latent tensions between Afghan Sunnis and Shiites and the regional struggle for influence between Sunni-dominated Pakistan and Shiite Iran.
Now the war-promoting press is trying to turn them into enemies.
Un-flipping-believable.
Historically, the more numerous and warlike Pashtuns oppressed the meeker Hazaras, driving them from farmlands and forcing them into menial jobs such as pulling cargo carts.
But that's okay if you are an illegal servicing the rich elite anywhere in the world, politicians and bankers destroying the American manufacturing base, or generous Israel offering Palestinians work.
Prejudice is still rampant....
Yeah, those narrow-minded Muslims (says the Zionist War Daily).
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I'm sorry, readers; however, I am no longer buying western intelligence operations disguised as sectarianism and their mouthpiece media regarding Muslims and the western/Zionist attempt at world domination. I've had it.
